Jason Farr

#Newbook: Body Language: Medicine and the Eighteenth-Century Comic Novel by @katalves18c.bsky.social examines the intersections of British 18C comic fiction and medical discourse, adding "a vital chapter to the study of medicine, literature, and gender in the period."

To order: tinyurl.com/3vpz7crk

Contents | Eighteenth-Century Fiction 37, 2 Special Section: “Asian/Asia”: Provocations

The latest @ecfjournal.bsky.social is out today, with a special section edited by Mona Narain on “Asian/Asia.” Articles in this cluster by @shruti-jain.bsky.social and @kaushiktekur.bsky.social, a Reflections essay by @travisclau.bsky.social, and a response by me!

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Large orange tabby cat and skinny tuxedo looking skyward. In the foreground is Travis Chi Wing Lau’s poetry collection, WHAT’S LEFT IS TENDER

When Uncle Travis’s brand new poetry collection, WHAT’S LEFT IS TENDER, arrives, his kitty nephews celebrate. As for me, I’ll be teaching from this in my health humanities class this fall! @travisclau.bsky.social

this is a disgrace and a national shame

Mellon Foundation The Mellon Foundation makes grants to actively unlock the power in the arts and humanities that helps connect us all.

“American Academy of Arts&Sciences reports 96.3% of humanities grads age 23-32 fully employed. Earnings in humanitiess comparable to social/life sciences, job satisfaction levels too. A serious mismatch bw actual employment for hum grads +general perception."
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Blue book that is titled selected plays by Frank O’Hara, published by Full Court Press.

Wild to me that this is out of print! Just got my hands on a copy off of eBay. It contains an introductory essay by Joe LeSueur.

Out today, the Academic Council of the University of California issues the following statement:

“Higher education is under direct and sustained attack.

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Listen, other Jason Farr, there’s only enough room in this world for one of us. 😤

Protestor holding a sign that says FUCK RON JOHNSON

Is it really a protest in Wisconsin if there isn’t at least one sign that says “fuck Ron Johnson”?

Milwaukee showing up to protest Trump and Musk fascism.

Pour one out tonight not only for the thousands of fantastic scholars whose NEH grants were wrongly terminated, but also for all of the junior scholars who have never—and now may never in their lifetimes—receive federal support for their research

Novel Bodies - Bucknell University Press Novel Bodies examines how disability shapes the British literary history of sexuality. Jason Farr shows that various eighteenth-century novelists represent d...

Another favorite more recently is @jasonfarrjokes.bsky.social's Novel Bodies: Disability and Sexuality in Eighteenth-Century British Literature. I was so inspired by this book's care and thoughtfulness, and it was a delight to read.

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Kate, this absolutely made me day. Thank you!

I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent, when we must speak up.

LIVE: Cory Booker goes for floor speech RECORD YouTube video by Brian Tyler Cohen

Cory Booker is doing something incredible on the Senate floor. If you're not watching, you need to watch: www.youtube.com/live/Ej6locU...

White bespectacled bearded man wearing a green jacket with “I voted” sticker. He stands in front of a “vote here” sign.

Proudly casting my vote for #SusanCrawford and against Musk-Trump here in Wisconsin.

Been saying this. We need to find a way to keep him, Dawes, and Wahlin.

Here’s an essay I wrote about accessibility as an improvisational mindset that we can cultivate in our classrooms & communities, & as a principle that aligns uncannily with some strains of Romantic thought. #disability #disabilitystudies

A book standing upright on multiple copies, which are laying next to a 1920s Underwood typewriter. The book cover is a faded and blurry background, with a photo of a person’s ear horizontal on the bottom, and text emitting from it to represent sound. The text in large font says “Echoes of Care” followed by “Deafness in Modern Britain” and the author’s name, Jaipreet Virdi.

From an idea in 2008 to a book in 2025, ECHOES OF CARE: DEAFNESS IN MODERN BRITAIN has been published by @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social ! It explores how changing perceptions of deafness intersected with healthcare, disability, and eugenics in 19th-century Britain.

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Very disturbing anti-disability rhetoric here, where Trump blames the recent American Airlines crash on DEI efforts, specifically hiring disabled folks, into the FAA. thehill.com/homenews/adm...

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Oh shit, it’s Robert Wringhim from Private Memoirs & Confessions of a Justified Sinner, appearing in a Brocken spectre. 🫣😱

We don’t have to be stars exploding in the night / or electric eels under the covers / we don’t have to be anything quite so unreal / let’s just be lovers

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Manu is just very good at all of :waves hands:

With your permission, this will be my new introductory paragraph for all letters.

Dear colleagues,
In abject humility, I write to recommend ______, whose achievements are so monumental, so profound, as to leave me debased, worthless, by their measure. Do I “warmly” recommend them? Hell would seem an arctic tundra next the respectful inferno of my professional esteem

Yesss. Wish we could have a cigar hang!

They are submitted. The grades. 🥳

Any advice for a ten minute conference presentation? #BSECS25