Jack Love

📢 Hope our colleagues across the country recognize—just as with Texas’s ban on DEI in higher education—this will NOT remain in Texas. What is happening here is a blueprint for the rest of the country.

14.11.2025 00:39 — 👍 16    🔁 12    💬 0    📌 0

🚨🚨 Texas A&M Board of Regents is meeting next week and set to approve a new policy requiring pre-approval of courses on race and gender. This is a blatant violation of academic freedom.

08.11.2025 20:06 — 👍 54    🔁 40    💬 3    📌 11

That’s okay! Technically, I followed you before we met at the conference

12.06.2025 15:46 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

The 19th century abolitionist movement utilized a diversity of tactics and engaged in constant critical internal debate in the mission to end slavery. The movement needed speeches, lawyers, lawbreakers, newspapers, and armed resisters. History teaches us that freedom requires all of the above.

09.06.2025 14:27 — 👍 41    🔁 14    💬 3    📌 0

Excited to be part of this event next week!

06.06.2025 16:42 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Willa Cather’s Nebraska: The Divide, Geologic Deep Time, and Indigenous Erasure in O, Pioneers! by Jack Love Introduction Willa Cather’s O Pioneers! is a unique novel that employs environmental language prevalent in American Literature of the...

Check out my post on Hypotheses, the grad student blog for the Heidelberg Center for American Studies. The article highlights some of the research I plan to present this summer. Give it a read!

#americanliterature #willacather #hca #heidelberg #americanstudies #literarystudies

21.05.2025 18:06 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Laidlaw Fellowship Scholar to study O’Connor’s agricultural writing The Flannery O’Connor Institute for the Humanities awarded the 2025 Laidlaw Fellowship to Jack Love of Texas A&M University. The Jean M.

I was recently featured in the Baldwin Bulletin, a local paper in Baldwin County, Georgia, for the fellowship I received to study Flannery O’Connor in Milledgeville this upcoming summer. (The article is behind a pay-wall).

19.05.2025 17:24 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The boundaries between humanity and nature: Rainfall in Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts | Intellect Virginia Woolf’s final novel, Between the Acts, is often described as the culmination of her own eco-philosophy. ‘Nature’ clearly plays a part in Miss La Trobe’s pageant. The entire performance takes ...

JAWS Journal published an article of mine on Virginia Woolf. You can check it out at the link below.

09.05.2025 02:04 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Living With Water: Agency, Materiality, Narratives – International online seminar series, May 2025

Hello new followers! (Except the bots, no hello for you.) Reminder that our Living With Water online event series (conference, festival, multiday extravaganza, call it what you will) starts next Thursday! Details here livingwithwater.hcommons.org

28.04.2025 09:44 — 👍 2    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

Reading Flannery O’Connor’s “The Barber” in 2025 - Slant Books Flannery O’Connor’s 1948 short story “The Barber” opens with this line: “It is trying on liberals in Dilton.” The fictional town of Dilton is set in O’Connor’s native state, Georgia, where the conserv...

I recently wrote a short piece for Close Reading Blog about Flannery O’Connor’s short story, “The Barber.” Check it out here.

22.04.2025 20:58 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Hello everyone! Living With Water: Agency, Materiality, Narratives is a series of online conversations from scholars, artists and thinkers across the world and beyond disciplinary boundaries, coming in May 2025. We look forward to sharing more details soon!

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Living With Water: Agency, Materiality, Narratives – International online seminar series, May 2025

livingwithwater.hcommons.org pleased to share our website, which has all the essential links and info

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