Assistant Prof of Nineteenth-Century Literature at Louisiana State University, formerly at the University of Hong Kong and University of East Anglia
Baton Rouge, LA
Joined August 2009
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Jessica R. Valdez retweeted
.@uniofeastanglia has announced a programme of compulsory redundancies that will see 170 staff members lose their jobs, amid an ongoing financial crisis across the UK higher education sector. @JulietteRowsell reports
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excited to read this!
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Jessica R. Valdez retweeted
Our latest #RSVPDigEv talk "Publishing Academic Research" is now on YouTube. This was such a wonderful discussion, and our most well-attended digital event to date! Many thanks to our guests from @EdinburghUP and @C19thNewshound for moderating! youtu.be/XwGWpGUBiIQ
Hey 19th century friends, don't forget to submit your abstract to RSVP (Research Society for Victorian Periodicals) for 2025's conference in Chicago: rs4vp.org/rsvp-conference/
Jessica R. Valdez retweeted
If you had to miss our September book launch of @teja_pusapati's *Model Women of the Press* and @marylshannon's *Billy Waters is Dancing*, you're in luck! Check it out on our YouTube channel at your earliest convenience: youtu.be/4R2axeUUEWQ
Jessica R. Valdez retweeted
RSVP is hiring! Check out this paid, part-time position on our newly revamped website: rs4vp.org/rsvp-is-hiring/
I'm late in sharing this news, but I'm thrilled (chuffed, as some might say) to have my essay -- "The Memetic Form of Bret Harte's Ah Sin: From the American West to The Way We Live Now" -- in the most recent issue of Victorian Studies (muse.jhu.edu/article/931277).
Jessica R. Valdez retweeted
Novel: A Forum on Fiction is now soliciting submissions for volume 58 (2025)!
We are looking for article-length pieces on novel history and theory, approx 6500-9000 words.
Please send submissions to [email protected] or see dukeupress.edu/novel for more information.
Jessica R. Valdez retweeted
More books to launch! Join the #RSVPDigEv team next Friday, Sept. 13 to hear from RSVP's own @teja_pusapati and @marylshannon about their recently published work!
As always, this is a *free* virtual event! Read more and register here: rs4vp.org/september-book-lau…
Jessica R. Valdez retweeted
Pls RT: @HakluytSociety Essay Prize 2025 for essays by ECRs in humanities/social sciences on history of travel, exploration & cultural encounter, their effects, or critically engage with the Society's work. 1st prize £1250, 2nd prize £250; deadline 1/3/25 hakluyt.com/hakluyt-society-…
Jessica R. Valdez retweeted
Early career colleagues reading this: this doesn’t apply to the humanities. At least not literary studies. Ignore and carry on.
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Jessica R. Valdez retweeted
#BREAKING Dentist Lee Ying-chi, one of the first persons arrested under #Article23, was taken away by police after two rounds of closed door search in Wan Chai Station.
Dentist Lee Ying-chi , one of the first persons arrested under #Article23 over allegation of sedition , was stopped at Wan Chai Station by a number of men. She was just now taken into a room next to the station control room by a group of ppl including some uniformed police.
When people refer to Eliot and don't mean George Eliot, I generally have to re-read the sentence and remember there is, indeed, another Eliot that might simply be called Eliot.
Are you a CHASE award holder, and would you like experience working for a journal? We're hiring a new assistant editor -- applications due 16 May chase.ac.uk/placements/edito…
check out this conference on "urban mediations" scheduled for next December -- it looks great urbannarrativesnetwork.com/u…
Jessica R. Valdez retweeted
Durham English is hiring an Associate Professor in the Long Eighteenth Century! Details here: durham.taleo.net/careersecti…
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I've almost completely lost my voice. When I try to speak (squeak) at the cats, they look at me like I've grown another head.
