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06/11/2025

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06/11/2025

The latest issue of Scholarly Editing is available now. https://scholarlyediting.org/issues/42/

The latest volume of Scholarly Editing highlights the rich diversity of textual scholarship today. From archival recovery to experimental digital editions, Volume 42 presents a vibrant range of critical editorial work engaging deeply with issues of race, gender, and textual form. This issue celebrates collaborative, community-centered approaches to editing and highlights projects that push boundaries—both technically and intellectually.

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02/25/2025

Check out this!!

It’s a story 100 years in the making. Graphic novelist and Afrofuturist Tim Fielder is adapting W.E.B. Du Bois’ work “The Comet”, first released in 1920, for...

02/25/2025

Check out this great video adapting "The Comet" by W.E.B. Du Bois featuring Tim Fielder and Julian Chambliss.

It’s a story 100 years in the making. Graphic novelist and Afrofuturist Tim Fielder is adapting W.E.B. Du Bois’ work “The Comet”, first released in 1920, for...

02/24/2025

The 2025 Punta Gorda Florida Conference of Historians meeting is now in the history books. The FCH, founded by Florida State Univerity History Professor Thomas Campbell in 1962, brings together history faculty, independent historians, graduate and undergraduate history majors, and K-12 history teachers for scholarship and camaraderie. See everyone next year in Gainesville! Onward History!

02/23/2025

Another great conference. Punta Gorda was fabulous. See you next year in Gainesville!!

09/06/2024

Afrofuturecon is coming to Atlanta on October 12th. Excited to be a part of this event and hope to see you there!!!

12 October 2024 ATLANTA, GA

07/30/2024

You should read this.

JD Vance’s rise as a Silicon Valley investor shaped his ideas about tech, an industry that stands to gain if he wins the White House.

07/11/2024

I put together a reader on Afrofuturism. If you are teaching a course and want a resource to teach about Afrofuturism, I think you will find this useful!

Mapping Afrofuturism: Understanding Black Speculative Practice addresses the multifaceted domain of Afrofuturism—a cultural, political, and intellectual movement that uses African diaspora concerns to reshape how we understand technology and culture. This

07/08/2024

I had a chance to talk about Pulp Heroes and Superhero Comics for Ever Single Sci-Fi Film Ever. I learned a lot being in conversation with Jess Nevins!!

Listen to this episode from Every Single Sci-Fi Film Ever* on Spotify. Whilst researching the Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers film serials of the 1930s I was delighted to find far too much information about the pulp and comic book origins of these heroes. So we are taking a detour to speak with people...

06/23/2024

I was interviewed about monuments for History Colorado: Lost Highway Podcast. All the guests were contributors from the edited volume Controversial Monuments & Memorials (2018, 2nd edition 2023). Give it a listen! https://open.spotify.com/episode/1f6XQl5FizYaAZuhHA3pPC?si=p1hcTM85SrqEq7eu-_cBpg

Listen to this episode from Lost Highways: Dispatches from the Shadows of the Rocky Mountains on Spotify. Since the racial justice protests of 2020, when most people think of monuments being torn down, they think of confederate statues in the south being toppled from their pedestals. But a Civil War...

06/04/2024

Doing some research on Captain America and came across this newspaper story from the Tampa Tribune from August 30, 1970. It could have been written yesterday.