Thank you!

I'm officially tenured!!! I'm deeply grateful to everyone who supported me through it all. I'm humbled and honored to continue this work as an Associate Professor. 🎉🙏🤩

Cover of fall 2025 issue of MELUS

First page of article “The Lack of Coherence is a Powerful Disobedience” convo with Ocean Vuong and Joey Kim

The fall 2025 issue of Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the US (MELUS) is out, and my conversation with Ocean Vuong is included in it! If you’d like a pdf, let me know! academic.oup.com/melus/articl...

A guy asking ChatGPT to review a series of fart sound effects and getting a serious kiss ass response that calls it atmospheric

I can't stop laughing at this post. It's perfect.

We're delighted to announce the 4th CAALS Virtual Conference which will be held on June 22-23rd, 2026! We have 2 CFP’s: “West Asia in the Asian/Asian American Imaginary" and Writing Right Now: Approaches to Asian American Literary Studies Dissertations and Book Projects." See photos for details!

Highlighted section of the Copilot ToS which says "Copilot is for entertainment purposes only"

www.microsoft.com/en-us/micros... is it good to build an entire economy and software infrastructure on this

WNBA Players Had an Ace Up Their Sleeve in Pay Negotiations: A Nobel Laureate Harvard economist Claudia Goldin helped WNBA players win a nearly 400% raise. Starting this season, players’ average salary will top $580,000.

After Claudia Goldin became the first woman to win a solo Nobel in economics, she got hundreds of invitations.

She accepted three.

One was advising WNBA players on a labor deal. She helped players land the biggest % raise in US sports history.
www.wsj.com/economy/wnba...

📢 Fully-funded PhD scholarship: Living with Print in the Eighteenth Century

Based at the University of Sydney (supervised by me) and the University of Glasgow (supervised by Matthew Sangster), with time at both institutions.

Applications due 21 April

More details: www.gla.ac.uk/scholarships...

Google Has a Secret Reference Desk. Here's How to Use It. 40 Google features to find exactly what you need, the alternative search engines that do things Google won't, and the reference desk framework underneath all of it.

I know this has circulated with alacrity recently, so you may have already seen it, but if you haven't... WOW BOY HOWDY it's the most useful thing.

Thank you cardcatalogforlife.substack.com -- this is a very very very helpful public service:

cardcatalogforlife.substack.com/p/google-has...

Headed to my present my paper on the Aenikkaeng Koreans of 1905 at the C19 conference! Part of an awesome panel on the Latinx-Asian Commons of the Long Nineteenth Century with other papers on Chinese, Punjabi, and Mexican relationalities in print and literature! Co-chaired w/ @ayendy.bsky.social!

Congrats on this gorgeous, important book, @nancyhelicopter.bsky.social! 🤩🥳🎉

Our small team is growing!
Apply to be our Social Media & Media Relations Coordinator! This is a part-time, hybrid position, and the pay is $30/ hr.

Submit your resume and samples by March 13, 2026 to the link in our bio and below.

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You busy April 9-10? There's going to be an amazing conference at Rutgers celebrating the (beta) rollout of the Black Bibliography Project database. Here's the agenda: globalracialjustice.rutgers.edu/sites/defaul...
Registration can be found here: globalracialjustice.rutgers.edu/event/networ...

English Debates TL; DR Is it important to read long texts? All the way to the end? Yes, cries of the chorus of those who bemoan the decline of reading. No, shout the techno optimists, who have their reading done for them. . .. Join us for a debate on the culture of reading with English professors Maurice Lee (Overwhelmed) and Deidre Lynch (Loving Literature). February 25th, 5 p.m. Fong Auditorium, Boylston Hall Curated by Martin Puchner

Boston-area Bluesky, I will be in dialogue next Weds at 5 w/ Maurice Lee (author of the wonderful #19thc studies bk _Overwhelmed_), on a topic of interest to all of us who teach or wonder about our capacity to read texts exceeding a 300-character limit.
TL; DR
Here's the poster--please join us.

oh hell yeah they made a korean reality competition show with shamans. it’s like culinary class war but with mudang.

Close Reading Is For Everyone Dan Sinykin and Johanna Winant Call for Pitches Based on our previous Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century, we are at work on a new version that’s shorter, slimmer, and aimed at a more general audience. We’re looking for a new set of contributors who would write excellent, brief, model close readings of texts that high schoolers might know and care about. Think: “The Gettysburg Address,” Macbeth, and Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave,” but also song lyrics, idioms, or even a visual image. What is your best, most instructive, most exciting, most welcoming example of how a close reading builds a real argument out from a tiny, perhaps overlooked detail? If you’re interested in pitching us, please send us your 250-word close reading of the text you propose. Your close reading should be mappable using our vocabulary of close reading: the five steps of scene setting, noticing, local claiming, regional argumentation, and global theorizing. (Our close reading of “The Red Wheelbarrow” in the early pages of our introduction is the sort of thing we’re seeking.) If we think we can use yours, we’ll ask you to expand it to a 1,200 word essay in which you explain how your close reading works step by step. We seek close readings both of texts that are canonical and also ones that aren’t. And so we invite contributors both from the discipline of literary studies, and other disciplines across the university, and the public humanities beyond it. Send your pitches—please include your name and contact info—to daniel.sinykin@emory.edu and jwinant@reed.edu by March 15.

CALL FOR PITCHES

@dan-sinnamon.bsky.social and I are at work on a new version of Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century aimed at a more general audience.

We’re looking for new contributions: your model close readings of texts, canonical and not, from literary studies and not.

Details below!

✨ Excited to teach @lenakt.bsky.social today in my poetry workshop ✨ 🇵🇸

By the brilliant Michelle Huang!

Thanks, dear!!

Excited to announce that I was awarded an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award for my poetry! oac.ohio.gov/home/news-an...

“I begin here, with this, because despite how it reads, I loved my father…I begin with this as an attempt to bear witness to the shadows of our suffering, and, most importantly, the love that shaped my anger.” Happy pub day to @ayendy.bsky.social!

🤩 so excited to dive into this, @zugenia.bsky.social! 👏🏼

Great!!!

¡Advanced copies of Dique Dominican are here!💜🥳🙏🏽🇩🇴🇭🇹

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Deadline extended to 1/26!

A Funny Thing | Cambridge University Press & Assessment

For your holiday shopping pleasure: A FUNNY THING is available in paperback, and you can get 20% off with the code ENGLITR26

Go get her!

Oh, wow! Thank you so much, Eugenia!!!! Your review led to me being shortlisted for the Marilyn Gaull book award, and I’m very very grateful to you!! 😊🙏🏼

Joey S. Kim, Romanticism and the Poetics of Orientation. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2023. x+182 pp. US$24.95. | The Wordsworth Circle: Vol 56, No 3

My review of @joeykim.bsky.social's wonderful book ROMANTICISM AND THE POETICS OF ORIENTATION is now out in The Wordsworth Circle from @chicagojournals.bsky.social. Read it here! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

College Lecturer in English; Eighteenth-century English literature at King's College, Cambridge Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a College Lecturer in English; Eighteenth-century English literature on jobs.ac.uk!

✨️Job Alert✨️ College Lecturer in English: Eighteenth-Century English Literature

📍King's College, University of Cambridge

📝Full-time, fixed-term. Closing date 19 January ('candidates are encouraged to submit applications as soon as possible').

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQA485/c...

Norwegian Wood: P. B. Shelley’s Palimpsestic Pines This essay explores the appearance of a distinctively Northern European tree, the pine, in Shelley’s works between 1814 and 1817. This period corresponds with the Shelleys’ continental travels and ...

🌲'Passing through [pine and fir groves], I have been struck with a mystic kind of reverence', Wollstonecraft, 'Letters from Norway'🌲

Excited to have my article on 'Shelley's Palimpsestic Pines', included in the 'British Romanticism and Europe' special issue of ERR 🍃 doi.org/10.1080/1050...