Tom Koenigs

Done!

Toward an Oral History of Clarissa contributed by Stephanie Hershinow

I got to do a lightning round about my devotion to Clarissa with @sinsleyh.bsky.social, and she has honored me beyond measure by pairing it with one by Frances Ferguson. Swoon!

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This!

People in my phone!! I will be giving a talk at Harvard’s Mahindra center on Oct 23, at 6pm:

“Aphra Behn’s White Female Pen”

It’s about Oroonoko (1688) and the nominal emergence of the racial category “white” in the late 17th C.

(from my book, which I’m still revising, still eager for feedback…)

I’ve never read Dorothy Richardson and I’m thinking about diving in. Best complete edition of Pilgrimage?

What a bizarre, beautiful, brutal novel. I suspect that it will stay with me for a long time.

New issue of Legacy is out, and open access! 🗞️
Click right here to access Volume 42, No 1:
muse.jhu.edu/issue/55448 !
On the menu:

- "Leaving Giants Unslain: Idle Activism in Catharine Sedgwick's The Linwoods and Other Writings" by Jordan L. Von Cannon

1/3

I hear the of sounds of simpering university admin everywhere…
“If the University of Chicago can cut grad programs in the humanities, so can we!”

James.

poster for an event where me and Joseph Rezek talk about Poe's PYM!

One month from today! On 7/28 come celebrate the gorgeous new @sandtclassics.bsky.social edition of Poe's PYM by hearing me & @rezekjoe.bsky.social talk about Poe's PYM! And why not buy a copy which includes a lively conversational afterword wherein me & @rezekjoe.bsky.social talk about Poe's PYM!

syllabi looking more and more like online recipes that include the person's life story

A father screams for his child from a tiny interview room within a basement waiting room inside LA federal building. The space is not a holding area. No food. No water. No diapers. Those initially detained include a 2-year-old US citizen and a woman with high-risk pregnancy.

CFP: special issue of the Edith Wharton Review – Edith Wharton and Popular Culture (Due September 10, 2025) CFP:  special issue of the Edith Wharton Review – Edith Wharton and Popular Culture Due date for completed essays is September 10, 2025 Following the highly successful panels at ALA 2025…

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CFP: Special issue of Edith Wharton Review

This is so grim.

I’m co-organizing this proposed panel, “The Latinx-Asian Commons,” for @c19americanists.bsky.social 2026 conference with @ayendy.bsky.social! Please consider submitting, and please share widely! Due 8/1

Julia Fawcett’s first book!

It was a pleasure to engage with what I think is a really important volume. Congrats on a great book!

many thanks to @tomkoenigs.bsky.social for this deeply engaged review of Situation Critical @dukepress.bsky.social

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I’m getting a server overwhelmed message trying to access the Frederick Douglass Collection on the LOC website. Anyone know if this problem is specific to the Douglass papers or a more general issue?

Excited to get my copy of @laurelvhankins.bsky.social’s The Art of Retreat. A must read for anyone interested in the development of fiction in the United States!

Opened shipping box with copies of my book, The Art of Retreat: Domestic Romanticisms in the Early United States.

An exciting delivery from @bucknellupress.bsky.social. The Art of Retreat considers the aesthetic possibilities of domestic retreat imagined in the fiction of the early US. You can read more and order the book at the link in my profile.

Contents | Eighteenth-Century Fiction 37, 1 This article considers what kinds of ideas are produced for export by scholars of the eighteenth century—the assumptions or truisms that circulate about our period. Noting the common sense that there is a dearth of theory in the field and that the image ...

This special issue looks really fascinating—excited to dig in: utppublishing.com/toc/ecf/37/1...

Very excited about this!

Scripps is currently searching for a VAP in American Studies for AY 2025-26. Please share widely. I’m not on the search committee but I’m happy to answer any questions about the position: www.scrippscollege.edu/hr/faculty/v...

A person is standing in front of greenery. She is wearing pink and red clothes. She is carrying a banner on a stick that says the mountain is with us. She is also holding a lathe wood-and-paper model of a Curlew, a wading bird with a long thin beak. White clouds have been drawn over her face and other areas of the picture

My curlew and I will be walking, with students and banners and singing, through the campuses today (beginning at Scripps' Humanities Building, east side). Heads in the clouds, hearts on our sleeves. Join us if you're in Claremont! 11:30, ending at the Lenzner Gallery at 12:30 #alltogethernow

I hung up my DOGE termination letter near where I’m writing my book, as a reminder that the Humanities matters to a free and open society.

Far worse than the end of my NEH grant is the wholesale gutting of the NEH itself, an incalculable loss that we must fight to prevent.

Scripps is currently searching for a VAP in American Studies for AY 2025-26. Please share widely. I’m not on the search committee but I’m happy to answer any questions about the position: www.scrippscollege.edu/hr/faculty/v...

I’m really proud to be one of the coaches working with Princeton. If you’re in the humanities or social sciences, please consider applying.

Completely outrageous, totally enraging.