RJ Boutelle

Esteemed company indeed! So grateful to have my work considered alongside scholars and works I admire as much as these!

Getting my oil changed this morning and 7am is way too early for a “Leprechaun” marathon on SciFi in the waiting area

Alright going to start trying to use this app in earnest because I’m starting to think that all this screaming into the void isn’t working.

Assistant Professor of African, African American and African Diasporic Literature The English Department at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor position in African, African American, and African Diasporic litera...

Job opening in a wonderful department! Happy to answer any questions folks might have!

spartantalent.uncg.edu/postings/31113

Buy my book and lots of others from Penn today for 50% off! www.pennpress.org/978151282647...

There's a certain Slant of light,
Winter Afternoons –
That oppresses, like the Heft
Of Cathedral Tunes –

It’s great 👇👇👇

Pete Hegseth 🤝 Lady Macbeth

have some bad ideas for the
soldiers
weird handwashing thing

looks like the cable news anchors are finally asking minor questions like “what does a mass deportation actually look like” and “are you going to deport citizen children?”

Something small to brighten the darkness: Boo, the feral cat I care for, let me scruff her and put her in my lap today. Big progress.

My university sent me this certificate congratulating me on my promotion to “tenured full professor” (I was promoted to associate with tenure), so I can just submit this as my next promotion dossier, right?

Good morning. I recently created a starter pack called Mutual Aid for the Rebellion, which includes folks in immigration law, cultural historians, abortion access, and much more. It’s below, but following in a thread of other starter packs in kind—wave to be added to mine:
go.bsky.app/QRfTWhT

Would love to be added, thanks for organizing!

Organizing in the Housing Projects of Cincinnati's West End In 1948, the Cincinnati City Planning Commission published its “Metropolitan Master Plan.” It was an ambitious outline of the city’s future, promising “more health centers, more branch libraries, more...

One of my graduate students, Christian McCord, wrote this terrific piece on community organizing in Cincinnati’s West End based on his original research in my Black Archives grad course!

www.aaihs.org/organizing-i...

The Angelina Grimké diaries (from the Weld-Grimké Family Papers) are now online with full transcriptions and annotations by Anna Speicher. 🗃️ quod.lib.umich.edu/w/weldgrimke...

The G19 Collective - on The Race for America on The Race for America

In G19 Collective's most recent forum, Dr. @rjboutelle.bsky.social speaks about his first book, The Race for America: Black Internationalism in the Age of Manifest Destiny. Read the conversation here:
sites.google.com/view/g19coll...

Teaching Moby-Dick at the beginning of the spring semester is dangerous because sometimes the early chapters line up with a snow day and then you have to make clam chowder

Happy cats-on-heating-vents season to all who celebrate!

Two cats snuggled together on a couch, sharing a heated blanket

heated blanket is a big hit as we bunker down for the polar vortex

Ohio Woman Who Miscarried On Home Toilet Is Not Criminally Liable, Grand Jury Says The case sparked national attention for its implications for pregnant women as states across the country hash out new laws governing reproductive health care access.

The Ohio woman who was facing criminal charges after miscarrying in her bathroom will not be charged, a grand jury decided

Northern Kentucky University Reels in Special "Moby Dick" Art Collection NKU says it likely has the largest collection of art depicting the literary classic at any college or university.

Teaching the capstone on Moby-Dick this semester and TIL that we need to go on a field trip across the river…

www.citybeat.com/arts/norther...