Megan Ward

My new article in Public Humanities--"Public Humanities, Then and Now"--featuring John Henry Newman, W. E. B. DuBois, and (alas) Thomas Hardy's Jude Frawley: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Editors, producers, reporters: we've got SIX open positions at @propublica.org — take a peek, some have fast-approaching application deadlines: boards.greenhouse.io/propublica?g...

Last day till MLA! "Poetry defined the emergence of Romania's literary tradition": TRUE or TRUISM? To find out what's NOT true, read Andrei Terian and Maria Chiorean in 12 Truisms About the Novel. muse-jhu-edu.oregonstate.idm.oclc.org/issue/54034%... w/
@sarahdallison.bsky.social

Modernism breaks from realism with World War I: TRUE or TRUISM?
To find out what's NOT true, read
Claire Seiler in 12 Truisms About the Novel. muse-jhu-edu.oregonstate.idm.oclc.org/issue/54034 w/
@sarahdallison.bsky.social + @studiesinthenovel.bsky.social

Science fiction and fantasy are the province of white writers: TRUE or TRUISM?
To find out what's NOT true, read
Susana Morris in 12 Truisms About the Novel. muse-jhu-edu.oregonstate.idm.oclc.org/issue/54034 w/
@sarahdallison.bsky.social + @studiesinthenovel.bsky.social

@medinamora.bsky.social

Autofiction is writing about the self: TRUE or TRUISM?
To find out what's NOT true, read
Nicolás Medina Mora in Studies in the Novel: muse-jhu-edu.oregonstate.idm.oclc.org/issue/54034%20 w/
@sarahdallison.bsky.social
+ @studiesinthenovel.bsky.social

Also here, without a paywall: nmmp.substack.com/p/foreign-co...

5 Days to MLA! 12 Truisms About the Novel Debunked. Day 8: Free indirect discourse is the most important formal feature of the novel. To find out what's NOT true, read
Tara Menon in Studies in the Novel: muse-jhu-edu.oregonstate.idm.oclc.org/issue/54034%20 w/
@sarahdallison.bsky.social

6 Days to MLA! 12 Truisms About the Novel Debunked. Day 7: Freytag's plot pyramid is the deep structure underlying all narrative. To find out what's NOT true, read
@dallasliddle.bsky.social
in Studies in the Novel: muse-jhu-edu.oregonstate.idm.oclc.org/issue/54034 w/ @sarahdallison.bsky.social

w/ @sarahdallison.bsky.social + @studiesinthenovel.bsky.social

7 Days to MLA! 12 Truisms About the Novel Debunked. Day 6: The Anglophone novel is never sufficiently postcolonial. To find out what's NOT true, read @kavithaganesan76.bsky.social in Studies in the Novel: muse-jhu-edu.oregonstate.idm.oclc.org/issue/54034

Announcing our winter special issue: "Nobody Cares but Everybody Should: Toward a Shared History of the Novel." 12 short essays engage with truisms in novel studies. Thanks to Sarah Allison & Megan Ward (@sarahdallison.bsky.social, @megaplex.bsky.social) for guest editing & to all the contributors!

8 Days to MLA! 12 Truisms About the Novel Debunked. Day 5: The Victorian novel is an English novel. To find out what's NOT true, read Sierra Eckert in Studies in the Novel: muse-jhu-edu.oregonstate.idm.oclc.org/issue/54034 w/
@sarahdallison.bsky.social
+
@studiesinthenovel.bsky.social

9 Days to MLA! 12 Truisms About the Novel Debunked. Day 4: The bound commercial novel is a Victorian phenomenon. To find out what's NOT true, read Lindsey Eckert in Studies in the Novel: muse-jhu-edu.oregonstate.idm.oclc.org/issue/54034 w/ @sarahdallison.bsky.social + @studiesinthenovel.bsky.social

Two tenure-track positions in AI at the School of Information Sciences, UIUC. Artificial intelligence is broadly construed here to include AI policy, governance, ethics, AI for cultural heritage, &c. Review of applications will start Jan 6th. Please RT and share! #MLSky #NeurIPS

The health lessons of 19th-century literature Infectious diseases killed Victorian children at alarming rates; their novels highlight the fragility of public health today

Excellent OpEd in @inquirer.com by @aktange.bsky.social

www.inquirer.com/health/exper...

Going to #MLA2025? Dig plants? Don't miss our Victorian Plants Roundtable, co-organized with @aktange.bsky.social, also featuring Sarah Bilston, Amy M. King, and Lindsay Wells. Subtitle: Imperial Networks and Affordances of Care. 1/9, 5:15 pm. Hope to see you there!

10 Days to MLA! 12 Truisms About the Novel Debunked. Day 3: The author is a solitary creator. To find out what's NOT true, read @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social , @sdileonardi.bsky.social + @beccacohen.bsky.social in a special issue of Studies in the Novel: muse-jhu-edu.oregonstate.idm.oclc.org/issue/54034

So happy to have @sarahdallison.bsky.social as my co-editor and to work with @studiesinthenovel.bsky.social

11 Days to MLA; 12 Truisms About the Novel Debunked. Day Two: The typical Victorian novel was published serially. To find out what's not true, read
@3volumenovel.bsky.social
in a special issue of Studies in the Novel: muse-jhu-edu.oregonstate.idm.oclc.org/issue/54034

And with thanks to @studiesinthenovel.bsky.social

co-edited with @sarahdallison.bsky.social

12 Days to MLA; 12 Truisms About the Novel Debunked. Day One: The New Woman is White, cis-het, and imperialist. To find out what's not true, read @krbarrett.bsky.social in a special issue of Studies in the Novel: muse-jhu-edu.oregonstate.idm.oclc.org/issue/54034

With @sdileonardi.bsky.social and @beccacohen.bsky.social, I wrote a shortish essay on The Girl on the Train and how self-branding is changing authorship. For a fascinating special issue of Studies in the Novel ed by @megaplex.bsky.social and @sarahdallison.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

I don't know this one! Where is it from?

Wait till you read our special issue of Studies in the Novel coming out - there's a whole article on Freytag's pyramid!

Media archaeology in action at the Undermanches!

I don't know if she's on Bluesky, but Heidi Kaufman is also doing public-facing writing, though I don't think it includes personal elements

Yes, I'd love to know who else is out there!