Excited for this book!

Gabriel Hankins@gabrielh.bsky.social · last mo.

20% flyer! so $23, which is about right

This is so smart and timely! And free! #lit

Nicole Rizzuto@nicolerizzuto.bsky.social · last mo.

Hi everyone. The introduction to my book Arresting Ecologies is available here without a paywall until July 22. Book is out now in UK, ships in the US this month. Hope you check it: academic.oup.com/book/62701/c...

Hi everyone. The introduction to my book Arresting Ecologies is available here without a paywall until July 22. Book is out now in UK, ships in the US this month. Hope you check it: academic.oup.com/book/62701/c...

It exists! Publication day in the UK of ARRESTING ECOLOGIES: GLOBAL LITERATURE ACROSS AIR, LAND, AND SEA, 1926-2014. Available everywhere for preorder with discount code AUFLY30 at Oxford UP WEBSITE; digital edition available now at all libraries with Oxford academic subscriptions.

less A quotas and more of this! THINKING remains the sine qua non

Nathan Kalman-Lamb@nkalamb.bsky.social · 3mo ago

UC Berkeley Law creates new AI policy that bans AI for "conceptualizing, outlining, drafting, revising, translating, or editing any work submitted for credit" or exams because "thinking remains the sine qua non of good lawyering (and of a quality legal education)." That's what I'm talking about.

For the Boston Review, I wrote about Somaliland and Israel, the consequences of imagining political freedom as a struggle for national sovereignty, and what growing up in and alongside Somaliland had meant for my political education.

Sovereignty’s End and Beginning

In Somaliland, the pursuit of statehood has come with a bitter irony.

bostonreview.net

Going on leave next year and what I’m most looking forward to is not having to debate the merits of AI in my university committee meetings. On the record: it sucks, it is terrible, I hate it.

🚨: 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.

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 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:

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

cup.columbia.edu

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

profchander@profchander.bsky.social · 7mo ago

apparently the zoom link is public, no need to reach out, come say hi if you’re free! it’s 12:30 eastern on 1/21 u-paris.zoom.us/j/8116387096...

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.

Nathan K. Hensley@nathankhensley.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Some of you know from FB or elsewhere already, but our wonderful, funny, & unfailingly generous colleague Ricardo Ortiz died suddenly over the weekend. It is the most brutal possible news, and so profoundly sad. He was a source of joy and love and was a committed mentor to so many of us here.

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

Ryan Topper@ryantopper.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Animist Poetics: Ancestral Trauma and Regeneration in African Literature is in print! The paperback will be out in Feb. Please request that your library order a copy. 30% off with the discount code SNWF25. @sunypress.bsky.social @rcolesworthy.bsky.social sunypress.edu/Books/A/Anim...

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.

I’ve posted about @nathankhensley.bsky.social ‘s new ACTION WITHOUT HOPE: Victorian Literature and Climate Collapse before, but just got the gorgeous book in my hands. Come for the stunning visuals, stay for the superb argument and analyses of literature and ecologies.

Grades in, no emails denouncing me for said grades, knicks hopefully about to clean the Celtics clocks. Good day.

Awesome if true. 😂

Nathan K. Hensley@nathankhensley.bsky.social · last yr.

this incredible work of art was spotted on campus and we are all basically sure it must have come from one of @nicolerizzuto.bsky.social’s students

Chartering an AAUP chapter at Georgetown. Please join AAUP, please join us to stand up for our profession, our colleagues, our students, staff, and rights. Email me if you need more info. Trying to end social media forever but needed to announce for colleagues interested.

Congratulations to one of the best to be doing it. Obviously Nathan’s scholarship is exceptional. What people might not know about is his absolute commitment to teaching and to service in all its forms in and beyond g-town. Proud to have @nathankhensley.bsky.social as a colleague and bestie.

Nathan K. Hensley@nathankhensley.bsky.social · last yr.

In the midst of late imperial collapse I got promoted to full professor. Thank you so much to everyone on here who's helped me, read my stuff, taught me things, & contributed more generally to the intellectual world that has enabled me to find this luck. I do not take it for granted. Solidarity.

I have had the honor of reading much of this book as it was being composed and it is truly a banger, and I cannot wait to get the final, beautiful version in my hands.

Nathan K. Hensley@nathankhensley.bsky.social · 2y ago

the blurb is probably a fatally corrupt modern genre, but when people you admire w your whole heart read something you struggled with & worked on for years, then say kind things—well, there's something moving about that. Deeply grateful to @lizmiller.bsky.social & @benjaminmorgan.bsky.social 🙏🌿

For those attending the MLA, the illustrious @bakaari.bsky.social and @lilysaint.bsky.social organized a great panel on the African historical novel and I’m thankful they included me. Come by, Thursday at 3:30.

In my grad theory seminar yesterday a student did a hilarious surprise PowerPoint presentation modeled on Spotify. He called it “critical theory wrapped.” He revealed he’d tracked, secretly, for 10 WEEKS who most mentioned theorist was in the course. Drumroll…..

Just awoke from a nightmare in which I had to take the GRE (currently, lnow, 11/2024), but I failed to charge my computer and battery died before I began. Consequences: very bad. Glad my unconscious is so secure this many years into my professional life. 😵‍💫

You too can read our collection of awesome essays on aesthetics of visual, sound, literary, and architectural infrastructures! I think there’s a link in my bio? Title is The Aesthetic Life of Infrastructure: Race, Affect, Environment.

Nathan K. Hensley@nathankhensley.bsky.social · 2y ago

I am reading my new copy of this badass collection at my daughter’s IG-ready dance studio and it matches perfectly @nicolerizzuto.bsky.social