Hitchcock turns hospitality into suspense. Forthcoming in May HITCHCOCK AND HOSPITALITY explores crises of welcome—from REBECCA to VERTIGO and THE BIRDS—showing how he manipulates access to homes, trains, and even film itself.
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#ACLA2026 Explore post-9/11 cinema with NO JURISDICTION, where cowboys, femme fatales, and superheroes reveal how genre films shape law, culture, and collective trauma.
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#ACLA2026 #ReadUP on MICHEL FOUCAULT'S PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY!
Maddalena Cerrato uncovers a consistent, coherent philosophical itinerary where political analysis, history, epistemology, and ethics converge.
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Forthcoming in May: NEW RAPE STUDIES—14 essays showing why the fight against sexual violence needs the humanities. Literary criticism, film, art, and more shape a new generation of feminist thought.
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BROKEN RECORD documents bullying & abuse in academia — from classrooms to conferences — and shows how to resist, heal, and demand change.
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#ACLA2026 #ReadUP on art, crisis & survival.
AVANT-GARDES IN CRISIS traces minoritarian aesthetic responses to the long 1970s—living-wage scarcity, epidemics, infrastructural breakdown, & unevenly managed vitality across race, citizenship, gender, sexuality, class & disability.
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#ACLA2026 What if trauma is not solely a psychic wound within an individual, but a more-than-human process linking the living, the dead, and the ecosystems they inhabit?
ANIMIST POETICS rethinks trauma, regeneration, and the postcolonial condition from the ground up.
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#ACLA2026 dive into the reader’s role in shaping literary meaning with MODE OF ADDRESS (forthcoming in April), a fresh look at US literature and theory of the late 1960s and ’70s.
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#ACLA2026 How do the legacies of slavery shape modern Spain?
CULTURAL LEGACIES OF SLAVERY IN MODERN SPAIN brings together scholars, artists & activists to examine slavery’s cultural afterlives across literature, memory, music & film.
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#ACLA2026 #ReadUP on the global life of close reading!
HOW CLOSE READING MADE US by Yael Segalovitz rethinks the legacy of New Criticism by tracing the method of close reading from the US to Brazil & Israel, & revealing its powerful role in shaping global modernisms.
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And two more author photos from today's American Comparative Literature Association exhibit. @uchicagopress.bsky.social author John Lurz with The Barthes Fantastic & @yalepress.bsky.social author Joanna Fiduccia with Figures of Crisis: Alberto Giacometti and the Myths of Nationalism. #ACLA2026
#ACLA2026 Learn more about the SUNY series in Latin American Cinema, publishing innovative scholarship from early #film to contemporary media. From silent cinema to digital practices, it’s a vibrant platform for new research in the field.
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Happy Friday, literary scholars! 🖋️✨
The #ACLA2026 exhibit hall is open in Montreal! Come browse our latest titles and chat with our editor.
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#ACLA2026 #ReadUP how close reading across literature & film reveals the narratives of the urban underclass.
ASCETIC IMAGES explores social invisibility in postwar Italy through Anna Maria Ortese and Roberto Rossellini, from THE SILENCE OF REASON to JOURNEY TO ITALY
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This morning at our American Comparative Literature Association exhibit we met @uchicagopress.bsky.social author John Brenkman, pictured below with his book, Mood and Trope: The Rhetorical Poetics of Affect. #acla2026 #comparativeliterature
VIRALITY VITALITY brings deconstruction to the life sciences, showing how viruses unsettle the very concept of “life.” Drawing on Jacques Derrida, Jonathan Basile explores the unstable borders between virus and organism, self and other.
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Hello #ACLA2026 stop by and explore our virtual booth!
Browse our latest titles in #comparativeliterature, find new ideas, and save 30% with code SACLA26 through April 1, 2026.
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Is academic conference Bluesky a thing?!
If so and you‘re at #ACLA2026 #ACLA26, the most interesting place to be is surely the seminar I organized on oceans, or aquatics, as critical method.
We are a double seminar. Commit to us. You won‘t regret it.
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Tomorrow, February 25, 2026, COLA’s CEO Nancy Stratton, MBA, and Medical Director Cynthia Bruzzi, MD, will be in Washington, DC for ACLA’s Annual Meeting!
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Can't wait for the ACLA conference this Thursday in Montreal! Exhibits are in Foyer 510/511 of the Palais des Congrès. Visit our tables full of discounted books & journals from @uchicagopress.bsky.social @dukepress.bsky.social @princetonupress.bsky.social @stanfordpress.bsky.social & more #acla2026
