Kate Marshall
@katemarshall.bsky.social
Director of Franco Institute, lit prof, and ass dean of research, Notre Dame. Editing post45 at Stanford UP. Novels by Aliens (Chicago 2023)
Colleagues and fellow scholars, here’s info on a special issue of Modern Fiction Studies that I’m coediting with Matthew Gannon and @katemarshall.bsky.social: “Long Modernism, Altered Natures,” cfp below—send us your abstracts! call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/09/...
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This weekend we dedicated the Franco Institute, a reimagined research institute at ND of which I am the founding director. Our mission is to fund great research, and to work both locally and beyond to make the case for the public good of the liberal arts. It’s a great time to be doing this work.
Great to see Francisco Robles’s Coalition Literature in my mailbox. This book puts together some broken shards of a US literary history fired in the kilns of the late thirties and helps me see how to embrace a “collective” dimension of our aesthetic politics. @franciscondine.bsky.social
Thrilled to be reviewed in CI, and grateful to John Williams for his thoughtful and generous read of my book.
1/2: I won’t be at MLA this year for the first time in years, but if you are, I hope you’ll check out the Post*45 books at the Stanford UP booth! We had three great titles come out in 2024, by Adrienne Brown, Adam Kelly, and Shane Boyle.
In the off-chance you’re interested in affect theory as a materialist theology and/or my book project on feminist an-aesthetics, you’ll find that and much smarter essays (by @sarahlwasserman.bsky.social, @katemarshall.bsky.social, & Thomas Constaninesco) in the pages of American Literary History.
The Affective Bind
Abstract. This essay considers the raucous ontology of the feeling body in relation to the expanding field of affect studies. It first shows how psychophys
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I got to write about things I like: Freud, 80s computers, and @katemarshall.bsky.social's treatment of genre. Plus one I dislike: academic trend. Check out the whole "interlocutions" cluster, also featuring @ericafretwell.bsky.social and Thomas Constantinesco. academic.oup.com/alh/article-...
Lost and Found: Alien as Object, Unconscious as Method
Abstract. In a little-known essay, Freud defines “transience value” as “scarcity value in time.” This essay draws upon this strange formulation to explore
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as of today, direct from Verso pre-orders available! paperback is $14.97 right now www.versobooks.com/products/303...
Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late Capitalism
Contemporary cultural style boosts transparency and instantaneity. These are values absorbed from our current economic conditions of "disintermediation": cutting out the middleman. Like Uber, but for ...
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I wish I could say each copy comes with its own mars globe
Joseph Rezek@rezekjoe.bsky.social · 3y agoEveryone read this book, it’s a banger. "beautifully argued" -Jen Fleissner "electrifying" -Patrick Jagoda "illuminates whole worlds" - Jed Esty "has the potential to transform novel theory" - Priscilla Wald press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book…
Ok so I legit hate podcasts but I make an exception for this one because it's honestly incredible work. Come for the surprising audio of a university president actually coming out in favor of learning, stay for the brilliant analysis linking shifts in literary criticism to the history of economics
Matt Seybold@mattseybold.bsky.social · 3y agoPlease listen to “The Chicago Fight,” if for no other reason than to be reminded that what’s happening to WVU has a century-long backstory & reactionary oligarchs have been attacking students & humanities faculty that whole time. But another thing… 2/3
Cross-posting non-sh*t news from the sh*t place: It's a beautiful day to pre-order some books! @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social @alexandermanshel.bsky.social @pdabashi.bsky.social @katemarshall.bsky.social
