Douglas Dowland
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Curious about affect in the contemporary US? Visit: https://www.upress.virginia.edu/title/5889/
Slowly working my way through converting a MLA talk on Joan Didion into a chapter. I gave the talk in 2023, two years before the now-infamous "Notes to John" was published, and in itself, a difficult read. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notes_t...
Notes to John - Wikipedia
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Just finished a remarkable article by @becimay.bsky.social on “The Last Line.” “And the hardest of all is to make them hatch”—a stellar (hatching!) last line of its own.
Two terrific articles in the latest issue of PMLA, one on creepiness by James Draney (who I don't think is on here) and another by @pdkindig.bsky.social on cruising, which has me thinking more about the potential erotics of closeness and distance in close reading.
Joanie took my spot while I was out of the room and expresses no repentance.
Do take @dem8z.bsky.social's advice--and mine! The folks at UVA Press are terrific to work with. They made my book all the better, right down to the title. www.upress.virginia.edu/title/5889/
We, Us, and Them
When Americans describe their compatriots, who exactly are they talking about? This is the urgent question that Douglas Dowland asks in <i>We, Us, and
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Deborah McDowell@dem8z.bsky.social · 2mo agoThe latest book in the Carter G. Woodson Series, an imprint of the University of Virginia Press. As you explore presses for your first (or next) monograph, consider UVA Press. The series and acquisitions editors actually read your manuscripts and provide extensive feedback.
My weekend reading. Adams’s opening axioms are worth a class in themselves. cup.columbia.edu/book/love-mo...
Love, Money, Duty | Columbia University Press
From birth to death, we care and are cared for by others. Yet we rarely acknowledge care except when it fails. In Love, Money, Duty, Rachel Adams examines th... | CUP
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Catching up on my reading, this book is a fresh and thoughtful reflection on why it's so much fun to read together. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Reading Together
A lively and thoughtful exploration of how book clubs change the way we read. In this engaging and vivacious memoir, college professor Katarzyna Bartoszyńska thinks back on various book clubs she has ...
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This is going to be great. For my part, I'll be talking about the multidisciplinary chair as bearer of radical hope.
An intriguing essay. The last paragraph might be the early twenty-first century's "A Room of One's Own." thepointmag.substack.com/p/classroom-...
Classroom Cope
Misplaced optimism in the age of AI
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If we're going to talk about brutal buildings at Iowa, the Boyd is a palace compared to the infamous (and easily floodable) EPB.
Cover, official page, Oct 6 2026 hardcover / late-June ebook release dates, ISBN-13 for my book, *Character Networks in Contemporary U.S. Fiction*... global.oup.com/academic/pro...
Scott Selisker@sselisker.bsky.social · 7mo agoNew book going to press: *Character Networks in Contemporary U.S. Fiction.* It’s about social networks as context for—and formal element of—the novel. For contemporary lit, novel/narrative theory, DH, lit and sociology, network analysis crowds. Here’s what it’s about: (1/n)
Some of the work of the department chair is political. Much of the work is ideational. And just a sliver of it is ridiculously capturing students attention at Honors Day so the campus photographer can take this awesome photo.
The reading list for next semester's Literature of Mental Illness course. I feel like I'm missing a book of poems or another play. Suggestions?
Have a friend or colleague who chairs a multidisciplinary humanities department? We'd like their abstract for MLA27! mla.confex.com/mla/2027/web...
Call for Papers: Chairing a Multidisciplinary Humanities Department (2027 MLA Annual Convention)
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Reading the pedagogy column at @mid-theory.bsky.social and finding it to be quite good! mid-theory.com/category/ped...
Pedagogy – Mid Theory Collective
Posts about Pedagogy written by Alec Abramson, John Downes-Angus, and Samuel P. Catlin
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A rather thorough review of my second book in the latest American Literary History Review. academic.oup.com/alh/article/...
Douglas Dowland, We, Us, and Them: Affect and American Nonfiction from Vietnam to Trump
Johannes Voelz; Douglas Dowland, We, Us, and Them: Affect and American Nonfiction from Vietnam to Trump, American Literary History, Volume 37, Issue 4, 1 D
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Thinking a little more about the disgust course. I have Swift, Kafka, Sartre, and Lispector on the reading list. I don't want to do "gross" necessarily, but I would be interested in potential literary readings!
