The previous owner of this copy was a voracious annotator!

writing is saying no to almost everything and also backing out of your existing commitments

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! 🚨 (For a 30% discount, use code NEW30)

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

Gulsin Ciftci@gulsinciftci.bsky.social · 9mo ago

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 😍

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!

Claire Cazajous-Augé@clairecazajousauge.bsky.social · 9mo ago

@jenstemmen.bsky.social and I are happy to announce the publication of our special issue on Critical Outer Space Studies. Warm thanks to the contributors, the Caliban editorial team, and our student assistants for their hard work throughout the process! 🪐🚀🌌 journals.openedition.org/caliban/14586

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.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 9mo ago

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 🫶

Sarah Pyke@sarahpyke.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Had a good time talking about Nancy Garden's ANNIE ON MY MIND as part of our Banned Books in Conversation series last week, covering: lesbian love stories with happy endings, proto-queer YA, new PEN America data, Mahmoud v. Taylor, recent developments in Texas, Lori the Librarian, soft censorship,

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.

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 www.pagemasters.co/shop/seized-...

Seized Books!

LGBTQ+ books and censorship in 1980s Britain: A catalogue' describes the publications that were wrongly confiscated from the UK's first lesbian and gay bookshop, Gay's the Word, by Her Majesty's Custo...

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Welcome to Bluesky, COPAS! Please give the account a share, repost, etc. <3

COPAS@copasjournal.bsky.social · 10mo ago

New Issue Out Now! | COPAS Vol. 26 No. 1 (2025) With our first post on Bluesky, we’re excited to announce the release of the newest issue of COPAS, guest edited by Chiona Hufnagel, Arunima Kundu, Lisa Seuberth & Ruxandra Teodorescu. Read it here: copas.uni-regensburg.de/index.php/co...

Woke up today wondering what Sianne Ngai might be up to these days…

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....

Post45 Data Collective@post45data.bsky.social · last yr.

New dataset on bestsellers from 40+ countries, with consistent coverage for France, Germany, Spain, Italy, and the U.S. Congrats to the authors @sdileonardi.bsky.social, @beccacohen.bsky.social, and @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social on this major contribution! 🎉 🔗: doi.org/10.18737/386...

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

John Scalzi@scalzi.com · last yr.

Every time I read an article like this, I think, if male novelists are so endangered, how do I know so fucking many of them? Apparently the answer is, because we're all in "genre," which is the One Simple Trick for still getting published when you're a dude. www.the-independent.com/arts-enterta...

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

REPETITION: Looking for literary examples (21st c. American) of repetition. Also interested in knowing more theoretical works that are not the usual suspects directly coming to mind. (Today, I miss my academic Twitter)

close reading archive launch! “surveys sundry print, archival, and digital resources, concentrating on Anglo-American literary studies that overtly reflect upon the practice of “close reading”” www.closereadingarchive.org/acknowledgme...

Today I am revisiting this wonderful Forum publication since my before-sleep Google search activity (don’t ask) brought me back to it last night. Absolutely recommended! amst.winter-verlag.de/article/amst...

“A Meeting by the Archive– American Studies, History, and Literature” Mahshid Mayar & my CfP for the German American Studies Association annual conference is up—consider submitting an abstract ✨ Full CfP: dgfa.de/wp-content/u...

Marry my mind, Mr. Miller.