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Join in tonight at 6pm-7pm for a screening and discussion of the short film Mercy, based on Cornelius Eady’s song cycle for Phillis Wheatley. Eady and choreographer Szporer with us live. Sponsored by ASECS and English at University of Tennessee. All are welcome! tennessee.zoom.us/j/88479522010

@asecsgradcaucus.bsky.social ASECS weekend 2, Fri 4/4 from 6-7, a free screening of Mercy, a short ballet based on Cornelius Eady’s song cycle for Philis Wheatley, with choreographer Philip Szporer and Eady in conversation with us after. All welcome! The link is tennessee.zoom.us/j/88479522010.

Do NOT drop this story. Keep hitting it hard. They could have killed our pilots.

I’m already wondering—is it possible to pull a full time turner and attend two sessions at once? Digital temptations thanks to @asecstaps and the Women’s Caucus. Great looking panels!

Looking forward to seeing colleagues at Virtual ASECS 2025 and hearing from more international scholars. The work matters so much, folks. Tune in for the first session at 11 EST. Raffle for those who attend with free membership and registration for Philly 2026!

Web page about iconic Golden Girls actress becomes latest victim of DEI purge Bea Arthur, who served in the Marine Corps, has had her wartime contribution scrubbed from the Department of Defence (DOD) website. The URL now reads "DEIBefore".

Iconic Golden Girls actress Bea Arthur, who served in the Marine Corps, has had her contribution scrubbed from Department of Defence website

Register NOW at ASECS.org! Connect with old friends and be part of the conversation.

ASECS friends, we need each other in these trying times. Less than two weeks to the virtual meeting, with a TaPS reading 3/27, a peek at PAC’s Cato Remixed on 3/28, and great international panels both weekends that will remind you why this work matters more than ever.

Hello my ASECS friends! Just in from our ED @bcblessing.bsky.social that voter turnout for Board and presidential elections is at 39%. There’s still time—this week! Voting closes Friday Feb 28. Go vote!!!

@jentaub.bsky.social would LOVE to talk to you about speaking with the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies! Email coming!

This is powerful. What is the source of the data graphic?

Ok ASECS fam, you’ve already heard it from @nushpowell.bsky.social and your email, but a little giving Tuesday love for ASECS helps send grad students and NTT faculty without travel funds to share their work and be part of the conversation! asecs.org/giving-tuesd...

Amen!!

So grateful for all you’ve done on X, but even happier that you are over here now. Thanks.

So heartening to see people re/assembling here. Pro tip: if you are dealing with the sadness, eat a slice while pretending to be a manatee. You’re welcome.

Same. Want more!

Dammit. But remember, Covid means you get to watch/read whatever you want.

Hello ASECS colleagues. Time to vote for change! At last, bylaws that are more inclusive of our membership and our many fields of study. Give grad and early career members a seat on the board. Check your email, click on the ballot to vote, and watch the results at asecs.org/about/bylaws...

The ASECS Summer News Circular is here!
- Voting info for New Bylaws!
- Photos from 2024 Toronto Annual Meeting!
- CfP for 2025 Virtual Annual Meeting!
... and so much more!
asecs.org/publications...

The answer to every story about elite college admissions is to make sure every American has access to a low price high quality public education within a reasonable drive of their hometown.

The wild thing is we mostly achieved this. Then destroyed it.

Snowbound? Tune in for a great convo about Young’s 1721 The Revenge TONIGHT at 7:30 and then join the live broadcast next Monday Jan 22. Fascinating play with Zanga, a Black revenged, one of Ira Aldridge’s featured roles. www.redbulltheater.com

Which English dept admins out there have experience in getting good data OUT of Sympletic Elements? Asking for a friend whose department is undergoing a 10 year review. Ok. Me.

This exactly. As a STEM prof, I’ve advised so many STEM majors whose parents said they need to be doctors because they can’t get a job with a humanities degree. The actual job market is telling us a very different story. Humanities majors get all the skills employers say they want.

Last episode of Our Flag Means Death left me grateful for the experience and ready to reread The Undercommons. Higher Ed needs more good pirates.

Or, maybe we have enough? In this case, we’re dividing the proposition.

Deadline approaching—please share the news: Early American/18th and Medieval TT jobs in English at UT!

An 18th-century engraving, a portrait of Colley Cibber. He sits in a chair with his left elbow reading on a side table. He holds a paper in his left hand and a quill in his right hand. He wears a white curly wig on his head and a velvet overcoat with many buttons. A young woman stands on his right side and she has her right hand on the feather quill pen in his hand.

Abstract: While eighteenth-century actor and theatre manager Colley Cibber is most frequently discussed within the context of sentimental comedy, this article addresses the comedian’s writing for and about the tragic stage. The neoclassical establishment consistently argued for the propriety of tragedy; however, actor and manager Cibber in his 1740 autobiography makes a case for the ludic qualities of successful tragic performance which, he insists, produces pleasure not tied to moral improvement. Moreover, Cibber embraces, rather than bemoans, the destabilization of social hierarchies that attends confessed generic hybridity. In an analysis of the comic burlesque The Rival Queans, a parody of Nathaniel Lee’s earlier tragedy The Rival Queens, I show how Cibber’s tragic stage was less concerned with categories of masculinity and femininity than in the sheer fluidity of gender...

ECF publishes on theatre too!
Read ECF at Project MUSE online:
"A Comedian on Tragedy: Colley Cibber’s /Apology/ and /The Rival Queans/," by Vivian L. Davis muse.jhu.edu/article/550612
#18thCentury #C18th #18thC
#ReadECF #TheaterStudies
A Wayback Wednesday post to 2014.

TWO great tenure track jobs at UT in Knoxville! Medieval and early American, w/ some combo of DH, Medical humanities, environment, indigenous studies, global studies. Nov 1 deadline. english.utk.edu/2023/10/17/m...

Hello 18th folks! We have a fantastic early American job at University of Tennessee English. In addition to ample travel funds, you get colleagues like Katy Chiles, a great Humanities Center, and me as your boss. apply.interfolio.com/130790