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A podcast featuring an interview with Prof. Asha Jeffers discussing her new book, *Against!
Rebellious Daughters in Black Immigrant Fiction in the United States*!

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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Today was challenging at work, but then I learned my Broadview Anthology of Science Fiction is on the website & ready for pre-order! You can see the contents!

I really hope people find this useful in the classroom, but also just enjoy exploring the stories—& poems! @broadviewpress.bsky.social #SFF

Hi! We're the Halifax Humanities Society, a non-profit organization that offers free, non-credit, university-level humanities courses to adults who are facing barriers to traditional education. Visit us at www.halifaxhumanitiessociety.ca to learn more about this life-changing initiative.

We’re big fans of Halifax Humanities @halhum101.bsky.social! Check them out!

Applications for Halifax Humanities 101 are now OPEN! If you love reading and discussing big questions, and are based in the Halifax Regional Municipality then this FREE 8-month great books course might be for you! Visit our website to learn more or to apply: halifaxhumanitiessociety.ca

August 1st marks Emancipation Day, a day to learn about and reflect on the contributions of people of African descent to Nova Scotia’s development, while recognizing the continuing legacies of historical enslavement and anti-Black racism.

we’re so ready

“The Shadow of Some Kind of Form”: Woolf on her Diary In my previous post I wondered whether we knew what Woolf’s wishes were for her diary: whether she imagined it as something others would someday read, or thought of it as—and hoped it would r…

"The shadow of some kind of form which a diary might attain to": in a wonderful passage, Woolf reflects on keeping a diary and learning "what it is one can make of this loose, drifting material of life."

Due to the forecasted rain, the flag raising and BBQ will now take place in the Weldon Law Building Atrium. See you there!

Call for Papers - Monster Fest 2025 Sun 31 Aug [ADT]: Call for Papers!! The Department of the Study of Religion and the Women and Gender Studies Programs at Saint Mary’s University are holding their first Monster Fest! We invite proposa...

Have you sent in a proposal for Monster Fest yet?
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Our Important Dates calendar has been updated to reflect the 2025/2026 academic year: buff.ly/l97hAaP

The newest blog posts from our 2025 OpenThink cohort are now available to read — covering everything from the hidden cost of AI conversations, to why your family cancer history matters: buff.ly/2QPL2eR

A drawing of a creepy looking kid sitting on the ground under a tree opening what looks like a metal machine contraption of some sort.

Going through my collection to do some image scanning for the Broadview Anthology of Science Fiction, and thought we could play a game: Can you ID the story from the image? #ScienceFiction #SF @broadviewpress.bsky.social

“Doubtful Against the Gulf”: Rumer Godden, Black Narcissus The flimsy walls did not shut out the world but made a sounding box for it; through every crack the smell of the world crept in, the smell of rain and sun and earth and the deodar trees and a wind …

"It's no place to put a nunnery," the nuns are warned as they are moving into the "House of Women" - and that turns out to be true. At my blog, some thoughts on Rumer Godden's 'Black Narcissus,' a novel about struggles between faith and feeling, desire and duty.

a framed painting with a pigeons nest built on top of it and holding an egg

throwback to a couple years ago when pigeons snuck into the building and made art

A few must haves for any Atari 8-bit home computer book collection. So much fun! #atari8bit #atari #retrocomputing

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Post your reading recommendations for Dal Reads 2025-2026! What should the Dal community read together? @dalhousie.bsky.social @dal-english.bsky.social

This spring, we marked a historic milestone as the first graduates of our Black and African Diaspora Studies major cross the Convocation stage. Meet James Dixon and Portia Wright: buff.ly/0P8JGxH

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“I asked chatgpt” yeah well I caught this morning morning's minion, king-
dom of daylight's dauphin, dapple-dawn-drawn Falcon, in his riding
Of the rolling level underneath him steady air, and striding
High there, how he rung upon the rein of a wimpling wing
In his ecstasy!

"Today has been, as Anne herself would say, 'an epoch in my life.'" – L.M. Montgomery

Friday the 13th | Superstition, History, Religion, Mythology, & Facts | Britannica Friday the 13th is a date that signifies bad luck in many Western cultures.

Today is Friday the 13th which, despite the many visual and film adaptations which have popularised the date as unlucky and filled with tales of horror, originates from within nineteenth century literary superstitions on bad luck.

Calling all English majors (and everyone else… you know, potential English majors…)!

What book would you like to see as the Dal Reads selection next year?

We wonder what @dalhistory.bsky.social thinks?

… Yes. Let’s do this.

Students, faculty, researchers: What’s your academic-presentation walk-on song?

A photo of the beginning of a Blue Jays game inside the Rogers Centre, with the dome open.

Dal English graduate students, postdocs, and faculty enjoying an evening out in Toronto while at the Congress of the Federation of Humanities and Social Sciences. As a bonus, we were pretty sure we could see Nova Scotia from our seats! :-)

Congratulations to Dal English PhD grad and @msvuenglish.bsky.social prof Dr Krista Collier-Jarvis @lnuonhorror.bsky.social for receiving one of the inaugural Association Canadian College and University Teachers of English’s BIPOC Caucus Research and Community engagement awards!l

Dalhousie University is seeking visionary scholars for the 2026 Canada Excellence Research Chairs (CERC) program – one of the country’s most prestigious and well-funded research opportunities.

Apply now: www.dal.ca/CERC-2026

Acadiensis is looking for submissions to the journal, and we have a newly updated website. Check out the announcement's in:

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Carceral Futurity: An Interview with Jason Haslam < ACCUTE A #PresentingACCUTE interview With the upcoming 2025 ACCUTE Conference at George Brown College from 30th May- June 2nd, we have been having interviews with some of the presenters in conversation with ...

And another interview, this time with Dal English professor Dr. Jason Haslam @jasonhaslam.ca, about his upcoming ACCUTE paper: accute.ca/2025/05/19/c...