@mikesoriano
Ph.D. Candidate. English and Writing Instructor. Media Studies (Seriality), Psychoanalytic Theory. I write on long C19 labor, anarchist, and black radical serials, as well as film and television. | Anthurium Research Fellow @ U of Miami
Awesome experience working with Fallon and the rest of the Insurrect team! If you want to read more of the scholarly inspiration for this piece, please check out Adam Syvertsen’s “I’ll Wait No Longer” in J19: doi.org/10.1353/jnc....
it is the oldest ideological trick in the book, one played by bosses and books alike, to take a realist investigation of real estate, race, and class mobility and neuter it into smut and THAT rather than “faithfulness” is the problem we experts have
Look for the people you admire, and tell them what you like about their work! No better way to connect with someone.
Save some of your Q&A questions to ask them at the coffee breaks! It is a good excuse for going up to people.
Any more tips on how to network at the 2026 C19 conference? Post them in the comments!
(2/2) Any more tips on networking at the #C19 Conference or at conferences generally? Post them in the comments!
Tips for the 2026 C19 Conference! 1. Networking
Look for other grad students on the program, and email them before the conference. They might be just as new and shy as you, so form a team in advance to know you will be in good company.
Be on the lookout for G19 staff! We can help you connect with other people.
(1/2) Here's the first in our series of tips for Graduate Students planning on attending the #C19 Conference in Cincinnati, OH, from March 12-14, 2026! Today we're looking at #networking!
You can find more info about the C19 Conference here: www.c19underground.com
Our latest #NewBookForum is live! Sarah Ensor, Associate Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, discusses her first monograph "Queer Lasting: Ecologies of Care for a Dying World," available now with NYU Press.
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Introducing our wonderful G19 New Book Forum Team. You can find more of their work at: www.g19collective.org
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Emma Thiébaut is a PhD student at Université Paris Cité (France). She specializes in nineteenth-century US literature, animal studies and queer theory.
Michael R. Soriano is a fifth-year English PhD candidate at the University of Miami. His research focuses on the serialized print production, distribution, and consumption among 19th-century US and Caribbean radicals in the labor, abolitionist, and socialist and anarchist movements. He is also the project lead for the Radical Periodical Index, an online archive that digitizes the Chicago-based anarchist peridoical, The Alarm.
Haley Garrelts is a fourth-year PhD candidate in American Literature at Texas Tech University. Her dissertation applies a sound studies lens to American Civil War poetry, exploring how authors create (and subvert) popular portrayals of the Civil War from the home front through their poetic soundscapes. Her work has appeared in Canadian Review of American Studies.
Meet the G19 Social Media Team!
Weimar? Shit. This is Thrasymachus back in Greece in the 4th century BC. These barbaric fools have been around for centuries. Always full of themselves thinking they have discovered The Truth, and still the wrongest of them all.
Mamdani says in his victory speech, “we will hire thousands of teachers.”
This, and not the proprietary chatbot classroom, is the future of education.
The city of Miami hasn't elected a Democrat as mayor in almost 30 years, and a woman has never been mayor, but Eileen Higgins is well ahead tonight and looks like the clear favorite in the run off next month (run off between the top two candidates bc nobody got above 50%).
Fantastic discussion! Seriously appreciated the brief conversation on the state of academia as a profession at the beginning.
high school teacher asks: "is there a site w short videos of people describing their professions+their college major, to help guide students, show them all the different things people do?" we made humanitiesworks.org and individual depts have alumni roundtables, but got video testimonials? please RT
Deportations are fundamentally cruel and inhumane.
There is no just or ethical way to involuntarily separate people from their families and communities.
signed, a historian of slavery
Just listened to this great discussion on Hegel’s Beautiful Soul. Especially Engley’s formula: “From beautiful soul to beautifully soiled.” But, I want to recommend this more so for the analysis of Michael Mann’s Manhunter—a sadly now underrated and overlooked film. open.spotify.com/episode/7Bm6...
Probably not the piece you’re looking for but Mark Fisher’s “The Weird and the Eerie” is a great little book!
Highly recommend Adam Syvertsen’s “‘I’ll wait no longer’: Emigration, Speculation, and Utopia in Martin R. Delany’s Blake” in J19. Great piece. “…Delany seeks to use speculative fiction to (re)craft a narrative of Black history in the Americas that is conducive to building an emancipatory future.”
The condiment
I’m also thinkin about salsa
To understand the wretched, absurd toxicity of Florida politics now spreading worldwide, a useful example is the NRA's top Florida lobbyist getting state pols to nix attempts to make the Florida scrub jay the official state bird FOR 25 YEARS because she thinks the jay exhibits a "welfare mentality."
Back on 9/20 @mitpress.bsky.social convened a meeting in DC to try to uncover the key questions about the future of research publishing that we need to answer. Yesterday we released a report covering the discussion points and opportunities for experimentation. mitpress.mit.edu/the-mit-pres...
MTM would be my go to pick but I’d also throw in 30 Rock and Space Ghost Coast to Coast as some out of left field options.
Great choice. Channel Zero was a solid program.
Saw this on Samantha Rose Hill’s account on Twitter.
Walter Benjamin’s Rules for Writing:
M+S currently holds three edited publications: The Rope and the Cross by Easton Lee, El Numero Uno by Pamela Mordecai, and Champagne and Sky Juice by Basil Dawkins! These three publications also include introductions from Tzarina Prater, Rachel Mordecai, and Mervyn Morris, respectively!
In the About page for the project, Dr. Josephs writes “Just as the manchineel and seagrape trees help to protect the coasts of the Caribbean and Florida, this project aims to safeguard Caribbean dramatic texts and make them available for scholars and students of the region.”
Excited to share Manchineel + Seagrape, an open-access journal dedicated to publishing edited scripts of Caribbean plays. I’ve been working with Dr. Kelly Baker Josephs on this project for over a year now, and we are excited to see it finally come to fruition! journals.flvc.org/MS/index
South Florida starter pack, mostly profs, writers, journalists, eco folks.
I'm sure I missed people! Let me know if you want to be added, or removed.
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