--Interlude--I want to take atime out right here to share somethingfrom yesterday. As I was revisingthis paper yesterday, feeling the weight of the ways that ChLA treats some of us, I popped over to Twitter and saw thatMia Wenjen had tweeted and tagged Adam Rex about my critique of his Smekday books. In reply to her, he said he had this pinned to his Twitter page:Learning he had pinned it, quite honestly, brought tears to my eyes. That’s respect. That’s visibility. That’s taking ownership of your errors.

From one school to another, they’re asked to read books that misrepresent them. Forthose children, the images and words are wrong. To some, the images and words inflict harm, create scars, and nudge them along a path where they disengage, and drop out of school.

I’ve applied to positions at three of your universities. I didn’t get interviews at any of them. All I got was those form letters that say “thank you for appying, but...”

That, by the way, is call out #1.

antiracist mentors.

college, in fact, is too late. We should engage with education programs that train literature, history, and social studies teachers who work in secondary schools

As the general population in the United States continues to diversify, surely our fields’ recalcitrant homogeneity will result in the death, or at the very least the atrophy, of the fields themselves. If we wish to nurture faculty members of color in earlier periods of literary scholarship, then we need a concerted strategic plan.

The colonial project is stitched in and through the language and literatures of the pre- and early modern periods; the politics and economics that ultimately produced settler colonialism, chattel slavery, the forced migration of peoples, and the development of the British empire animate these early English texts.

First, a catastrophic decline in the number of majors across the humanities. Second, the assertion that studying medieval and early modern periods sheds light on the foundational texts of a so-called Western civilization has made the fields attractive to far-right extremists.

white (as Melisa Klimaszewski has suggested), or calling racist slurs, images, and figures of speech that appear in these novels what they are: racist

Our point is that postcolonial scholarship on the Victorian era has not been accepted as central to the field, though the Victorian era has been central to postcolonial scholarship.

postcolonial and feminist theory

“Undisciplining” is not quick or easy, nor is it work that is necessarily ever completed. Ours is an ongoing, careful, and deliberate effort

that unmake false universals and imagine new humanisms in their place.

disciplinary institution of the academic journal, would enable us to build broader coalitions — especially with those who may not have access to such institutionalized spaces.

We don’t have to turn away from the mainstays of Victorian literature to study empire and racialization, although it may be useful to set these works in new constellations.

“anti-racist reading list,” which, while serving an important purpose, nurtures the impression that books and literature could be marked off as either “about race” or not.