Stacy Burton
20th/21st C literature + theory, University of Nevada, Reno (emerita)
Travel Narrative + the Ends of Modernity (Cambridge UP)
Pro: democracy, the public good.
Oregonian based in Reno since 1990.
- Reposted by Stacy Burton"It may take time to prove you're right, but you have to stick to it." - Fred Korematsu Jailed for refusing to abide by FDR's Exec Order 9066, he took his case against internment all the way to the Supreme Court - and lost. Remember him on Korematsu Day, January 30th. 1/
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- Reposted by Stacy BurtonThe American Federation of Government Employees, which represents border patrol officers at the National Border Patrol Council, calls on Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller to resign or be fired
- Reposted by Stacy BurtonWe’re supposed to believe this is a domestic terrorist attacking ICE with a gun
- Reposted by Stacy BurtonDavos, Switzerland, the World Economic Forum.
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- Reposted by Stacy BurtonA neat tool I just came across: Viabundus, a digital road map of northern Europe 1350-1650, that lets you calculate contemporary travel routes/times. In 1500, going Amiens → Köln by horse took almost 7 days and 13 toll payments. #medievalsky www.landesgeschichte.uni-goettingen.de/handelsstras...
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- Moments from the history of the road trip…. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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- Reposted by Stacy BurtonThe shortlist for the Ilse Schwepcke Prize has now been announced. Congratulations to Kapka Kassabova, Ursula Martin, Viv Groskop (@vivgroskop) and Victoria Whitworth, It is an annual award, administered by the SoA, for women’s travel writing in the English language.
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- Thomas Swick’s perspective on English-language travel writing of the last 50 years….
- Reposted by Stacy BurtonWe're delighted to share that the CFP for the joint @modernistudies.bsky.social and @moderniststudies.bsky.social 2026 conference, Weird Modernisms, is now live! 1-4 July, Loughborough University @lborouniversity.bsky.social More info here: moderniststudies.org/conference/MSA2026/CFP/
- On the extraordinary Balkan quartet by Kapka Kassabova: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
- Sunday evening, Reno.
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- Reposted by Stacy BurtonThe first planned migration of an entire country due to climate change is happening! Tuvalu, a Pacific island nation, is at risk of being submerged under rising sea level, so it has signed an agreement with Australia to allow 280 Tuvaluans to settle in Australia as permanent residents each year.
- Reposted by Stacy BurtonThis is very bad. Although entirely predictable. Once more the humanities are being cut back to prop up STEM and, increasingly, AI investment (including at the expense of bench science). In the past, cuts to humanities were promoted on two separate logic streams that do not hold true: /1
- Reposted by Stacy BurtonResearchers have been sneaking secret messages into their papers in an effort to trick AI tools into giving them a positive peer-review report Read the full story: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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[This post could not be retrieved] - Samuel Diener on “what might be learned about early modern and modern cultural practices of imagining the self by examining accounts of maritime travel and exploration that (in contrast to…lyric poems, novels, and paintings…) are narrated in the first-person plural.”
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- Did Meta steal your work to train its AI? Probably. Check and see.
- Reposted by Stacy BurtonNew travel-writing prize for women writers! Deadline is end of the month... www.ilseschwepckeprize.co.uk
- Moving Identities: Constructing the Self and the Other in Travel Writing, ed. Winfried Eckel and Sandra Vlasta. Essays on travel writing in English, French, German, Polish, and Spanish from the 18th to 21st century. New from Universitätsverlag Winter, Heidelberg.
- Reposted by Stacy BurtonIt’s usually bad news if scholarship on free speech becomes timely, so I am pleased/dismayed that I have a timely new paper, forthcoming in U Chicago Law Review, about one of the Trump admin’s most powerful tactics of censorship: jawboning 🧵https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5162523
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- Reposted by Stacy BurtonMy review of Charles Forsdick, Zoë Kinsley and Kathryn Walchester eds., Microtravel: Confinement, Deceleration, Microspection (Anthem Press,2024) for Viatica is now online. journals.openedition.org/viatica/5098
- Reposted by Stacy BurtonRubio terminated 5800 USAID contracts – more than 90% of its foreign aid programs – in defiance of the courts. Here’s a list of just some of the lifesaving awards that were terminated. Nearly all were Congressionally mandated. They’ve saved millions of lives. 🧵
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- Reposted by Stacy BurtonThe 1923 Oregon legislature was colloquially known as the "Klan legislature" because the majority of members were either Klan members or sympathizers. One bill they passed required that history education be suitably patriotic, outlawing materials that spoke "slightingly" of the founders.
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- Opportunity in ocean sciences + humanities/arts: fhl.uw.edu/courses/trai...
- Reposted by Stacy BurtonCuts to NSF expected to be at 50% reduction in force for an independent agency that fuels discovery and innovation. "The NSF budget was $9B, or 0.13% of the total [budget]." This is not about fiscal prudence. This is about killing universities. nanoscale.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-...
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- “I’m … we are the federal law,” saith the would-be dictator.
- Reposted by Stacy BurtonNEH introduces new prohibited categories to comply with executive orders. This is an infringement of academic freedom plain and simple, and also nonsense: what is “discriminatory equity ideology”
- Reposted by Stacy BurtonThis is a five-alarm fire 🔥 for US science 🧪. (We keep saying that, but it keeps being true 😭.) Trump and Musk are blocking *ALL* NIH grants ‼️ by "exploiting a loophole in the process"—stopping study sections & council meetings. Every biomedical researcher in the country should be screaming. 1/
- NEW: The Trump administration is exploiting a loophole to keep funding frozen at the NIH - a move that some legal scholars say is illegal. Federal Register notices are blocked, so no grant-review sessions can be scheduled. All the gritty details here, and a short 🧵: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
- Reposted by Stacy BurtonSCOOP: The National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, arguably the nation's most powerful scientific organization, is bending to political pressure and removing terms like "health equity" from pending reports. Members are not happy. Story by me: www.statnews.com/2025/02/20/n...
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- Reposted by Stacy BurtonSCOOP: For 25 years, FEMA has helped develop building codes that help homes survive floods and hurricanes. Now, FEMA is pulling back on that work, taking its name off recommendations its experts have written. On @npr.org www.npr.org/2025/02/20/n...
- Reposted by Stacy BurtonGreat letter from my colleagues @sbagen.bsky.social, @mjschlanger.bsky.social and other legal scholars across the country explaining why it is not necessary to start eliminating university programs because Trump
