holiday academic Bluesky (US version): here is a list of everything I accomplished this year plus I had some Thoughts about the humanities
holiday academic Bluesky (UK version): I’m 80% brandy butter, 12% brussels sprouts, 8% brisk walk, what’s a university again, also I’ve forgotten how to write
Framing Turkish American Literature
I am so, very happy to finally share this CfP for a special forum of the Journal of Transnational American Studies. It is a project dear to my heart & I would be grateful if you could help circulate it! Full CfP is here:
www.uni-muenster.de/Anglistik/Re...
💫 My book is finally in print! Immensely grateful to all my colleagues and to @emilysharp.bsky.social , @elizabethfr.bsky.social, and the whole team at @edinburghup.bsky.social for their support throughout the writing, revision, and publication process! 🚨
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Morgen (4.12.) in der #Studiobühne (Domplatz 23) @uni-muenster.de: Lesung & Gespräch mit Dichterin und Autorin Tracy Fuad. "Portals and Passages: Poetry Across Worlds", 18:30 Uhr, Eintritt frei. #AmericanStudies
One of the things that keep me going in this dreary winter is the poetry readings I am lucky to be part of. The first of these is with Tracy Fuad, and I am super excited for December to come & to be in convo with her 😍
Yay! Out now!! Thanks to @lmesseri.bsky.social @niiyokamigaabaw.bsky.social, Alexandra Ganser, Stefanie Dunning, Natalie Treviño, Matt Harvey and Frédéric Boone for their wonderful contributions and afterwords!
Congratulations! ✨
Man kann wirklich nur hoffen, dass die durchwegs zuversichtliche und positive Kampagne zur Inspiration für die deutsche Linke dient. Schon klar: New York ist nicht USA und auch nicht Deutschland. Aber: einfach mal machen! Schlimmer kann es doch eh nicht mehr werden.
Woke up at 4am to re-read Shockley’s Renegade Poetics intro for a class and prep to talk about queer hope and failure in another seminar—but instead, I spent the first two hours looking at Mamdani’s smiling face and rewatching campaign videos. Zero regrets.
🥺♥️!
Today is pub day for my third book: Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century. It is a handbook on how to read. It argues for the foundational importance of *caring* to thought. It offers an anatomy of close reading's five steps so we can hone the skills to perform them. It argues for why to read
& I hope you too are as happy as I am now <3
It was a brilliant talk & we were a lucky audience 🫶
Thrilled that my chapter on digital poetry is out in The Handbook of Poetic Forms! It’s in great company, and I’m humbled to have been invited to contribute. Huge congrats to the editors, who’ve done a majestic job.
Academy in Exile invites humanities/social sciences/law scholars at risk from any country - because of their academic work and/or civic engagement in human rights, democracy, and the pursuit of academic freedom - to apply for 12-month fellowships at @tu-dortmund.de and @kwi-essen.bsky.social.
This morning’s reading had me lol.
Preparing for tomorrow‘s class and thinking about bringing these three images to my students alongside Berlant & Warner‘s „Sex in Public“. I am curious to see what will unfold in the room.
Jaa!!! ♥️
Beautiful!
hello! I wanted to let you know that there is now a *second edition* of our Seized Books! catalogue, after @gaystheword.bsky.social put the first edition on their Insta and it promptly sold out
huge thanks to PageMasters for funding & producing it so beautifully
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Woke up today wondering what Sianne Ngai might be up to these days…
email from London Review of books with subject line 'what is an emotion'
not now London Review of Books
Writing my dissertation: oscillating between “I should rewatch the entire Lars von Trier filmography to fully feel something” and “Maybe Gilmore Girls will heal me.”
Making a CLEAN, SHAREABLE dataset is fucking hard! I'm super proud, then, to publish this one, on a team led by @sdileonardi.bsky.social and @beccacohen.bsky.social, with @post45data.bsky.social. It has more than a decade of 21C int'l bestseller data, revealing how popular world lit circulates....
There are a number of literary examples too, esp in the 21st-century lit. Earlier examples could also be relevant in the context of courtship, suitorship, etc. This is to say, I guess: whatever you include, it would be a fun class! I will try not to get excited on your behalf 😂
Ooo - yes! & also, YES!
Saw this yesterday, & loved the strange depiction of the dating economy.
Clicked the link to read and... well... can't say I'm surprised.
women: *publishing 50.45% of books*
men: *publishing 49.55% of books*
crying man: i am feel uncomfortable when we are not about me?
oh, and according to the author interviewed here, the worst thing for a man to do is...write genre
Amid all the idiot chatter about men and reading, men and writing, some of the best books I've read lately are by men about masculinity, and instead of baseless whingeing, we could be talking about these:
Mark Haber, Lesser Ruins
Tony Tulathimutte, Rejection
Andrew Lipstein, Something Rotten