and The Boarding School, two early American novels by Hannah Webster Foster, are now available in a Norton Critical Edition, edited by Jennifer Harris and Bryan Waterman.

I’ll be teaching at NYU Abu Dhabi during the 2012-13 academic year.

Students in my summer courses (Downtown Scenes & Age of Warhol) should be checking their NYU email for information about our first meeting. Follow these courses on Twitter using #dwntwn12.

Find them in Early American Literature 46:3, along with my long introductory essay. I’ve also included the full run of the letters in the Norton Critical Edition of The Coquette, co-edited with Jennifer Harris, which comes out this fall.

I’ll be delivering the introductory remarks for the Modernist Manhattan conference at New York Institute of Technology, Friday 2 March.

Television’s Marquee Moon is 35 years old this month. I posted a 35-track celebratory mix and spent some time chatting about the album with the WUGA Athens radio show Just Off the Radar.

As part of NYU’s Faculty Resource Network I’m teaching a faculty seminar, “Literatures of the Atlantic,” 9-13 January at the University of the Sacred Heart and the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras in San Juan. More here.

I spent a couple hours on WNYU talking to Jenn Pelly, one of my former students, & playing music that informed Television’s Marquee Moon. Stream the show here. (Here are some earlier sets on WNYC and WFMU.)

is in stores now. Support your local indies! Buy it from a real person. And don’t miss Cyrus Patell’s Some Girls: we really did conceive of them as companion volumes.

Cyrus Patell and I will be reading from our new 33 1/3 vols in Manhattan at McNally Jackson on June 20, and in BK at Word Brooklyn on June 28. Official party details still TK.