Such an honor to include Steve Mentz in the ASAP/Journal "Mermaid Craze" cluster--his work on Blue Humanities has been an inspiration to my own mermaid research. Check out his lovely essay that sutures canonical and contemporary #mermaidlit . #bluehumanities

Michael Davidson's contribution to "Our Mermaid Craze" cluster for ASAP/J: 'Like a Fish Out of Water: Cripping the Mermaid" explores disability culture & the watery, reads work by Christine Sun Kim, Sue Austin, Petra Kuppers. #mermaidlit ASAP/Journal asapjournal.com/cluster/our-me…

Check out Dayleese's powerful essay about "the occasions on which the stories we need to tell require mermaids who repel and frighten us rather than lure us to them"--in "Our Mermaid Craze" cluster. NEW! ASAP/Journal. @MoniqueRoffey rivers riverssolomon.bsky.social

"We are in a Black mermaid renaissance." Check out Dr. Jalondra A. Davis's brilliant essay, which models a synthesis of personal & scholarly hybridity to explore being a Black mer-scholar & experiencing Mermay. See "Our Mermaid Craze"-- a NEW cluster online ASAP/Journal #mermaidlit

Teaching Stephanie Burt (Taylor's Version) 🥥✨ "We are Mermaids" in my "Mermaids: Literature & the Environment" course, and a student's blog response opens: "This week’s poem was super epic." Yep!! #mermaidlit. SDSUECL

Check out "Fishy Feminism" in "Our Mermaid Craze" cluster at ASAP/Journal, where E. L. McCallum asks "Are mermaids feminist?" & uses Agnieszka Smoczynska’s 2015 Polish mermaid horror musical _The Lure_ to explore! #mermaidlit asapjournal.com/cluster/our-me…

Still reading and loving contemporary merfolx lit #mermaidlit. Most recently, these two great & very different novels: _Out of the Blue_ by Jason June (like Mary-Kate) & _The Magic Fish_ by Trung Le Nguyen (not here anymore). Love. Now I just need to get to writing about them!

“We should be kind / while there is still time.”

So damn proud of what we built at SDSU- a digital humanities community, showcase, and electronic literature student competition. What a way to end the semester! ⁦San Diego State University⁩ ⁦Digital Humanities⁩ ⁦SDSUECL⁩ congratulations & massive thanks to ⁦@VisualizingPam⁩

Happy to share my new article on 21st Century mermaid narratives as a rich site for eco-criticism and Environmental Humanities… with Siren as my main example! SDSUECL #mermaidlit @ASLE_US #BlueHumanities

Happy to be part of this collection on Love, etc. Sharing thoughts on loving books, post publication of #Bookishness cup.columbia.edu/book/bookishne… Columbia University Press SDSUECL

Honored to see that my book, _Bookishness_ (Columbia University Press 2020), has inspired a special issue of a scholarly journal: The New Americanist- "Print Cultures and Bookishness in Contemporary Life" (May 2024): euppublishing.com/toc/tna/3/1. #bookishness

Kamala Harris We’re gonna win this damn thing! — Let’s go!

This has a million likes on TikTok

And this is your guy, huh? Thank you Seth Meyers

Happy to be part of this one!

This.

Ok, I am now over at BlueSky. New year, new hopes for a better social media world. Jessica Pressman.bsky.social