Alda Balthrop-Lewis

A sign reading “60% of contingent faculty in higher education make less than $50,000 annually.”

they could report about this, but it wouldn’t fit their scripted culture war narrative.

the greatest trick the right ever pulled was convincing mainstream journalists that an adjunct English instructor making $40K is an “elite” and a master plumber making $100K is “working class”

I've been waiting for this!

Thanks, @naomiwolfeau.bsky.social, it's very sad to leave.

Welcome, @jeffreylstout.bsky.social to the Next Thing. We're so glad you're here.

@lsideris.bsky.social @ecothought.bsky.social would be good in there!

There's a small one here: go.bsky.app/44Nip4g

go.bsky.app/44Nip4g

I can't go to #sblaar24, but I will be following it here!

Hey @ginbat.bsky.social, can I join your env ethics pack? go.bsky.app/44Nip4g

Thoreau's Religion Cambridge Core - American Literature - Thoreau's Religion

Hey new bluesky peeps! I wrote a book a while ago that is about Henry David Thoreau and environmental justice. Also religion. You might like it? www.cambridge.org/core/books/t...

Got ethics? Here's a starter pack of ethicists working in various religious & theological traditions addressing some of the most challenging moral problems of our time! (Send new accounts of trained ethicists for me to add to the SP)

go.bsky.app/AhTEByP

if i've learned one thing from doing union stuff while also doing other forms of organizing, it's that you're better off with people you disagree with who are nevertheless trying to do the same thing as you than with people you agree with who aren't trying to do anything

Responding to Peer Reviewers — Manuscript Works How should you respond to the reader reports from your academic book manuscript or book proposal after peer review? This post demystifies common misconceptions about the power of the reviewers and a...

Do you need to write a response to peer reviewers? Important things to consider + a template for your memo is here on my blog:

manuscriptworks.com/blog/reader-...

(An updated version is also in Chapter 13 of THE BOOK PROPOSAL BOOK if you happen to have that on hand)

"There are too many books in the place where I write books."

- Thomas Merton

Virginia Woolf on Henry David Thoreau:

"He seems to hug his own happiness."

Mary Midgley's Beast and man: the roots of human nature (1978): a re-appraisal

#philsky

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The Project Muse webpage for "'do your thing whale hive': A Roundtable on Melville Twitter" in Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies.

This mildly unhinged requiem for "Melville Twitter" is now online! feat. @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social @thecarie.bsky.social @jennifergreiman.bsky.social and me! Ideas explored: sperm jokes are ecocrit actually; Middlemarch doesn't have enough weird animals; Elon is annoying
muse.jhu.edu/article/913121

Some one dreamed the other night that he was living in the year 2023, and people were going on strike because they only got $125 a day, while the price of eggs had gone up to $10 a dozen. --Delta Independent, 19 October 1923

A dream from 1923 about the year 2023.

From the MLA-CCCC joint task force on *Writing and AI*, a new website intended to function as a community clearing house for assignments, syllabi, policy documents, and more. Take a look and please share (and contribute): exploringaipedagogy.hcommons.org/about/

Stipendiat i miljøhumaniora (252986) | Universitetet i Stavanger Stillingstittel: Stipendiat i miljøhumaniora (252986), Arbeidsgiver: Universitetet i Stavanger, Søknadsfrist: tirsdag 12. desember 2023

Job alert: The Greenhouse has a fully-funded, 3-year PhD position in envhist/envhum, connected to the Good Fire project. Norwegian/Scandinavian reading competency required. Deadline 12 December.

Climate defenders gathered on the beach in Newcastle holding their paddles and banners that read "TAX COAL PROFITS, FUND NEW JOBS"

I loved this amazing weekend planned by Rising Tide Australia. shorturl.at/lyBKQ

We want Australia to stand up to the fossil fuel industry and fund an urgent and just transition.

If you can support legal fees for those who were arrested you can do it here: chuffed.org/project/risi...

screenshot of the AAR program showing a session called "Women in Publishing" 3-4:40pm on Saturday at Grand Hyatt-Bonham C (3rd Floor) with Andrea Jain, Alda Balthrop-Lewis, Sarah Imhoff, Shenila Khoja-Moolji, and Keri Day.

heeeeey women and their gender diverse friends coming to AAR maybe you want to check out this awesome session where we talk together about publishing and it will be super fun.

My department at NC State is offering a tenure-track position in African American religions. Will also teach in Africana Studies, Gender Studies, or both. Supportive environment, collegial department. Please spread the word.

jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/190...

The best piece yet on the cuts ongoing at Australian Catholic University. #JoinYourUnion, please.

Podcast | Alda Balthrop-Lewis, "Thoreau's Religion: Walden Woods,… Alda Balthrop-Lewis, "Thoreau's Religion: Walden Woods, Social Justice, and the Politics of Asceticism" (Cambridge UP, 2021)

I had a great conversation with Ilana Maymind @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social about my book - *Thoreau's Religion* - and about what kind of readers it's looking for: folks wondering how to keep fighting for a future in a world that's gone quite mad #envhum #acrel newbooksnetwork.com/thoreaus-rel...

Solidarity but only among managers, or the future of the university sector - Overland literary journ... The process continued during Covid. Jobs were being cut due to the threats posed by the pandemic, yet more scholars were being recruited. Nice people, good at their job. But why are we doing this, we ...

"The intellectuals of neoliberalism transformed university governance university senate by university senate. Now, it is time that we approach the problem with the same determination, institution by institution, in the interests of a greater democracy." @hannahforsyth.bsky.social

My first newsletter of every month shares new books by Manuscript Works readers & clients.

If you have a scholarly book coming out in October and would like to get it in front of 10k academics & publishing professionals, email me with your cover jpg and any discount codes you want to share

Bluesky: A new place for us to campaign against ACU's unconscionable gutting of the humanities. See this petition for the background to the proposed cuts, sign it, and also send your personal remonstrances to change@acu.edu.au and senate@acu.edu.