Every single day I’m reminded of something @kfitz said on our panel about professional development at #MLA23: Your job will not love you back.

“universities are not meant to be profit centers, and shouldn’t be run that way. They are rather shared infrastructures dedicated to a form of mutual aid, in which those who have – in this case, knowledge – support those who need, with the goal of producing a more just and equitable society.” — Kathleen Fitzpatrick, from a talk at #mla2023 #mla23

https://kfitz.github.io/mla-23/

Thanks to everyone who came to see us at the book exhibit at #MLA23! Don't forget that our super secret special MLA discount code is active on our website until the end of the month 😉 #MLAdeals @litstudies #Litodons

@VCP I'm... not so sure. I saw a couple people with Mastodon handles on their slides but by and large, didn't notice anything like the various earlier waves during #MLA23.

So, uh, folks who went to #MLA #MLA23 #MLA2023: was there an influx of new Mastodon users? I was hoping there'd be...

RT @AyendyBonifacio@twitter.com

And that’s a wrap for #MLA2023! It was lovely reconnecting with new and old friends. Until next time! #MLA23

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/AyendyBonifacio/status/1612204848950415360

And that’s a wrap for #MLA2023! It was lovely reconnecting with new and old friends. Until next time! #MLA23

RT @joeykim@twitter.com

It was empowering speaking alongside scholar-practitioners fighting for transformative justice within and beyond academic institutions @berna18@twitter.com @acerift@twitter.com @nkrivera10@twitter.com @Professor_OMG@twitter.com, Monica Good, and Amy Shen. Moderated by Noreen Rivera ✊🏼#MLA23 https://twitter.com/ayendybonifacio/status/1612183086623752192

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/joeykim/status/1612194815638396928

It was empowering speaking alongside scholar-practitioners fighting for transformative justice within and beyond academic institutions @berna18@twitter.com @acerift@twitter.com @nkrivera10@twitter.com @Professor_OMG@twitter.com, Monica Good, and Amy Shen. Moderated by Noreen Rivera ✊🏼#MLA23

RT @AyendyBonifacio@twitter.com

The racial and social justice work that scholars on the “Racial Justice Work in the Humanities” panel are doing is inspirational and life-changing. ✊🏽#MLA23 #MLA2023

The racial and social justice work that scholars on the “Racial Justice Work in the Humanities” panel are doing is inspirational and life-changing. ✊🏽#MLA23 #MLA2023

RT @alnthomas@twitter.com

Graduate students attending #MLA23 #MLA2023: stop by the @UChicagoPress@twitter.com exhibit today 9:00-1:00 and select a free book—while they last! @MLAnews@twitter.com

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/alnthomas/status/1612129066676781059

Come to our awesome roundtable this morning: “Racial Justice Work in the Humanities: Public-Facing Scholars’ Projects, Lessons, Limitations, and Hope.” I’ll be speaking on my work fighting anti-Asian racism.✊🏼#MLA2023 #MLA23

RT @joeykim@twitter.com

Awesome roundtable, “Print Culture Studies and Modern American Culture” with @AyendyBonifacio@twitter.com @profworden@twitter.com @JesseWSchwartz@twitter.com @thisblueangel@twitter.com @DanicaSavonick@twitter.com @Kelley_Kreitz@twitter.com ! #MLA23 #MLA2023

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/joeykim/status/1611824560210612224

University of Minnesota Press offers 40% off of Humanities & Arts publications! http://z.umn.edu/mla23
Happy to see our Global Debates in the #DigitalHumanities on the list too! #mla23 #mla2023

Awesome roundtable, “Print Culture Studies and Modern American Culture” with @AyendyBonifacio@twitter.com @profworden@twitter.com @JesseWSchwartz@twitter.com @thisblueangel@twitter.com @DanicaSavonick@twitter.com @Kelley_Kreitz@twitter.com ! #MLA23 #MLA2023

😃 great to meet my editor @emilysharpeup@twitter.com! My book is out 9/2023 with @EdinburghUP@twitter.com! #mla23

RT @AyendyBonifacio@twitter.com

Meeting our fabulous editor @emilysharpeup@twitter.com at the @EdinburghUP@twitter.com booth. #MLA23 #MLA2023

Meeting our fabulous editor @emilysharpeup@twitter.com at the @EdinburghUP@twitter.com booth. #MLA23 #MLA2023

RT @RColesworthy@twitter.com

It’s been three years since I’ve set up one of these things but I’ve still got it, bb. 💅🏻 Come visit the @SUNYPress@twitter.com booth tomorrow through Sunday at #MLA23!! Now to *checks notes* go give a paper?? What is wrong with me? (Don’t answer that.)

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/RColesworthy/status/1611091425688682497

And I have posted my brief comments from the “Infrastructures of Professional Development” roundtable with @fritzsche, @janineutell, and @kfitz at #MLA23. https://samplereality.com/2023/01/06/four-points-about-the-infrastructures-of-professional-development/

My last #MLA23 plug: Roundtable on "Multilingual Romanticisms" Saturday at 8:30 a.m. Pacific Time. Link in MLA program; you do have to be registered. Speakers are Nicole Aljoe, Arif Camoglu, Pareesh Chandra, Ou LI, Marco Ramirez--I'll be joining them & Emily Sun will moderate. #academicmastodon