My book, Realism after the Individual: Women, Desire, and the Modern American Novel, is now out with @UChicagoPress! Use discount code UCPNEW for 30% off. I'm so excited! 🥳 press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books…

Deadline today!

I’m looking to put together a panel on “New Approaches to Early American Fiction” for SEA 2027. Open to all but I especially want to highlight work by graduate students/early career folks working on early American fiction. Consider submitting a proposal and please share widely!

This open letter will be SUNY University Senate’s most-viewed doc in our SUNY Digital Repository when the new stats drop tomorrow morning. But with close to 1M possible signatories among SUNY and CUNY faculty, staff, and students, we need to accelerate the letter’s reach!

Hey! Is there a place where the dream of the 90s (sustained, ambitious scholarly attention to the fin de siècle American novel) is alive? Yes! In this @Ariz_Quarterly @JHUPress special issue that @raf_walk and I co-edited with intro by us & afterword by Jennifer Fleissner😎

NEW ISSUE OUT NOW Arizona Quarterly 82.1, Spring 2026 Special Issue: The American Novel at the Turn of the Twentieth Century Guest Editors: Rafael Walker and Nathan Wolff tiny.one/mr2pwhp2 CONTRIBUTORS Philip Ellefson Gary Totten Cameron Loftis Max Chapnick and more

NEW ISSUE OUT NOW J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists 13.2, Fall 2025 tinyurl.com/yjddkuey CONTRIBUTORS Kristin Moriah Rafael Walker Susannah Sharpless Rachel Conrad Bracken Alexandra Burgess Matt Sandler Sabrina Evans Koritha Mitchell and more

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And what an encouraging blurb it is! Thank you, and let us hope the book lives up to your kind praise for it. #grateful

We're hiring in black and/or latino queer studies and have extended the app deadline to 1/5. The terms are sweeter than HR will permit us to disclose in the ad; feel free to get in touch with me with any questions. Thanks for helping to spread the word! jobs.chronicle.com/job/37909…

Proofs for the Cambridge History of American Gay Autobiography, which includes my essay on Whitman! I'm sure it'll appeal widely—because who doesn't wanna read generations of gays talking about themselves, or, in Whitman's case, as I argue, artfully refusing to?!

Might not be as attention grabbing as what the administration is doing these days, but this kind of woke illiberalism is insidious. I was also told it was over (if it had ever happened): “In effect, [Junot] Díaz had been canceled, not just informally but in a final, official way. Removal from an anthology is far more consequential for a writer than ephemeral, even if viral, tweets or sensational feature stories. The Norton anthologies are one of the primary channels through which we establish and preserve literary canons. Assembled by the profession’s most influential scholars, they shape what instructors pass down to the next generations and what those next generations, in turn, will view as their cultural inheritance. In expunging Díaz’s work from such a high-profile anthology, the academy was conferring its imprimatur upon a smear campaign against a once-revered author based on reliably discredited rumors.”

I've been uneasy about Junot Díaz's treatment by the mainstream media for a while now, but seeing him get nixed from the Norton anthology was the last straw for me. I've put my thoughts down here. Thanks, as usual, to my editor, @GutkinLen! chronicle.com/article/junot-…

I could not be more excited about this book.

Elated to announce that my baby, "Realism after the Individual," has a stunning cover and is available for preorder! University of Chicago Press remains undefeated for making beautiful books. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books…

Ah, so it's not merely a coincidence that the two presidents recently co-authored an article on resisting the politicization of universities. chronicle.com/article/univer…

Last week, I received a request to extradite a New York doctor who provided life-saving abortion medication to a patient. Today, I’ve sent a letter to Louisiana with a clear message: I will not be signing the request. Not now. Not ever.