Thanks!

Thank you!

Congratulations, Corbin. I’m really looking forward to this.

Thanks, Jeff!

Thank you for this! Noted!

Very excited to hear what you think!

Thank you, Nathan! I’m so grateful for your help.

#environmentalhumanities #modernism #infrastrucure #postcolonialliterature #climate #ecocriticism #novel #petrofiction #soundstudies

By tracing how literature and art encodes the chokepoints and jagged transitions where modes of production, communication, and energy regimes overlap and interfere, I unearth a counterhistory of the Anglophone novel as an
ongoing critique of flows comprising accelerative modernity.

I show that a range of modernist and postcolonial authors and artists from England, Germany,
Trinidad, Kenya, Somalia, and Zanzibar register the instabilities of oil, gas, wind, frontier ecologies
by upsetting and revising genres oriented toward closure.

I argue that writers and artists from the 1920s to the 2010s drew inspiration from experiences of
stalled and impeded mobility across atmospheres and skies, roads and highways, on oceans and at
littorals, and used these breakdowns to critique the accelerative impulses of the Anthropocene.

It is a truism that the last one hundred years have been defined by the accelerated and increased
propulsion of people and information across seas, land, and air, and that literature and art reflect
this enhanced mobility in their formal composition. Arresting Ecologies challenges these truisms.

Discount flyer for ARRESTING ECOLOGIES: Global literature across Air, Land, and Sea, 1926-2014 (Oxford UP 6/26), discount code AUFLY30

In this thread I describe the arguments of the book—10 years in the making!

🚨: My new monograph ARRESTING ECOLOGIES: GLOBAL LITERATURE ACROSS AIR, LAND, and SEA, 1926-2014 is available for preorder from OXFORD UP, with 30 percent discount.

The Publisher as Critic Drawing on my experience as an indie scholar and university press editor, I turn a critical eye on the conditions of scholarly production and consumption in literary studies and, more specifically, Victorian studies. From the “method wars” to “the institutional turn,” university presses, and scholarly publishing more generally, can be, if not a blind spot, then a practical stopping point of discourse about the state and fate of literature and literary studies—not to mention the state [End Page 70] and fate of the university.6 Nor do press workers much appear in spaces like Victorian Poetry, that is, journals and conferences devoted to literary studies. When we do appear, our primary mode is prescriptive.

It’s the weekend! You could touch grass OR read the new OA issue of @victorianpoetry.bsky.social on the material conditions of Victorian Poetry/humanistic knowledge production, incl my essay on “critical uni press studies.” Here’s a snippet. So honored to be included. 🖤
muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

LYRIC LOGIC is out in the world now!

We the Platform | Columbia University Press Web 2.0 gave us the online world as we know it today. Popularized in 2004, it redefined the internet as social, a “platform” for self-expression and data... | CUP

We the Platform is available for preorder with the discount code CUP20 if you order directly from the press! cup.columbia.edu/book/we-the-... A thread on the argument below:

this is today if you’re free and interested and it’s also today if you’re busy and uninterested

Poster for Georgetown Event: UNDERSTANDING THE PRESENT CRISIS I: WHAT IS AN INSTITUTION FOR? AN INTERDEPARTMENTAL TEACH-IN THE WORD "INSTITUTION" NAMES ANY SOCIAL FORM THAT PERSISTS ACROSS TIME. FOR MUCH OF THE TWENTIETH AND TWENTY-FIRST CENTURIES, COMMITTED ANALYSIS OFTEN FOCUSED ON THE CRITIQUE OF INSTITUTIONS --STATE, EDUCATIONAL, & CULTURAL-- SINCE THESE FORMS ENSURED THAT OFTEN-VIOLENT SOCIAL RELATIONS COULD PERSIST INTO THE FUTURE. THE PRESENT CRISIS IS CHARACTERIZED BY FRONTAL ATTACKS ON LONG-ESTABLISHED INSTITUTIONS AND THE SUSTAINED DESTRUCTION OF RULES, NORMS, AND EVEN WHOLE AGENCIES THAT TURNED OUT TO HAVE OFFERED DEGREES OF (LIMITED) PROTECTION AND EVEN FLOURISHING. WHAT IS AN INSTITUTION FOR? THIS TEACH-IN ADDRESSES THE DOUBLE-SIDED NATURE OF INSTITUTIONS, EVALUATES THEIR FUNCTION AND PURPOSE NOW, & ASKS WHAT TO DO IN- AND OUTSIDE OF THEM TODAY. THIS IS THE THIRD IN AN ONGOING SERIES OF TEACH-IN EVENTS. ANALYTICAL CLARITY AND COMMUNITY ARE THE GOALS. DISCUSSION WILL FOLLOW. ALL ARE WELCOME. GU Humanities GEORGETOHSY UNIVERSITY College of Arts & Sciences Department of English THURSDAY, JANUARY 22, 12-1:30 PM OLD NORTH 205 PIZZA SERVED: ALL WELCOME: BRING A FRIEND

If you’re near Georgetown on Thursday it would be good to see you for this.

The great @nicolerizzuto.bsky.social will be talking about ed-tech contracts & members of @guaap.bsky.social will be sharing results of a student survey of GU working conditions 💙

BlueSky: If you've started reading my new book, AESTHETIC IMPROPRIETY: PROPERTY LAW AND POSTCOLONIAL STYLE, and are enjoying it, please consider sending me a sentence or two explaining why.

It's for a thing I'm applying for (and a small monetary award for future research funds). Thanks!

I really don’t know what to say about this. Ricardo was probably the most generous and kind academic I have come across ever and I loved working with him. It is unfathomable that he is suddenly gone. Beloved and respected by colleagues and students in and beyond Georgetown. I will miss him.

Thank you for everything!Couldn’t have done it without you. So grateful, friend.

Thanks for these well-wishes, everyone! Majorly appreciate it.

I just submitted the book I have been working on for a decade to Oxford University Press, where it is under contract. I’ll be taking a nap til the semester starts.

❤️❤️❤️🎉🎉🎉🎉

Read this book and highly recommend. Meticulous readings of form and politics poco lit and drama and pairs very well with another stunner on eco politics and form, Aesthetic Impropriety by @rosecasey.bsky.social

Very excited for your new chapter, friend!

Out today: a must-read for anyone interested in po-co literature, law, including environmental law: AESTHETIC IMPROPRIETY: Property Law and Postcolonial Style, by @rosecasey.bsky.social. I loved this book and cannot recommend it enough. Get it!

A little warm in NYC. Hope people are staying cool.

It was the most rewarding experience. So grateful for your reading all my horrendous drafts and talking me off the ledge. 😂😂