If you're an Americanist/Anglicist that has recently read a good MA student paper, consider pointing them to this graduate journal. It's a lovely team over there
Shayan Rahmanian Koushkaki
@srahmaniank.bsky.social
(er/they/them) | PhD Candidate and Research Associate @ FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg & RTG 2806 'Literature and the Public Sphere'
Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Americanist: The cup is equal parts white supremacy and settler colonialism.
Roland Meyer@bildoperationen.bsky.social · 3w agoOptimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Media theorist: The cup is a medium of transport and transmission, and its content is always another medium
The whole campaign against Arday by academia (and media) revealed that “the disaster of Black subjection” and its terror are “deeply atemporal” as Sharpe has said before. This scandalization of Black being and mis/conduct is a continuation of the pervasive anti Blackness that academia re/produces
Ordinary Notes@hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 4w agoYes. They hounded him to death. Days and days of breathless undoing. Damn them all.
It does. How to process 50000 people crossing a border. And not see the border as the violence.
Promovieren Sie noch oder Prompten Sie schon
It's officialll, and don't miss @guenterleypoldt.bsky.social 's Keynote on the first day!!
GRK 2806 »Literatur und Öffentlichkeit«@grk2806.bsky.social · 2mo agoOur doctoral researchers Emma Barbieux & @srahmaniank.bsky.social organize a conference on “Author Figurations in North American Literatures and the Public Sphere”, April 8 –9, 2027. See the CFP: www.literaturundoeffentlichkeit.phil.fau.de/en/2026/07/1...
I need a senior academic to hold my hand and lie to me that everything will be alright
Shayan Rahmanian Koushkaki@srahmaniank.bsky.social · 2mo agoSo distributing zines and protesting ICE can get people 30+ years in prison (while Jan6 terrorists get pardoned) and somehow I‘m expected to go to the Fascist States of America for research if I ever want to make it in academia? Maybe I should have kept baking pretzels at REWE
So distributing zines and protesting ICE can get people 30+ years in prison (while Jan6 terrorists get pardoned) and somehow I‘m expected to go to the Fascist States of America for research if I ever want to make it in academia? Maybe I should have kept baking pretzels at REWE
Ruth Mayer@profiprof.bsky.social · 3mo agoWe got the keynote speaker we wanted, what a rush!
Shayan Rahmanian Koushkaki@srahmaniank.bsky.social · 3mo agoWhy does writing a Call for Papers for a conference feel so embarassing? 'Oh look at me, I really wanna talk about this thing and I'd love it if eleven other nerds joined and explained it to me'
Why does writing a Call for Papers for a conference feel so embarassing? 'Oh look at me, I really wanna talk about this thing and I'd love it if eleven other nerds joined and explained it to me'
Sehe ich es richtig, dass die deutsche Forschungsministerin nachweislich nur ein einziges Mal außerhalb der Politik gearbeitet hat, nämlich als Praktikantin beim Axel-Springer-Verlag? taz.de/!6178492/
Das Studium der Dorothee Mantel
Studierende sollen mehr arbeiten, findet Forschungsministerin Dorothee Bär. Sie selbst habe schließlich auch gejobbt. Aber wie war das noch mal genau?
taz.de
German academia in a nutshell... und jetzt versuch mal sowas deiner Nichtakademikerfamilie zu erklären. Die denken doch wir sind alle bescheuert
Christina Meyer@chrismey2203.bsky.social · 3mo agoIch darf präsentieren. Eine Absage. Just so that you know:die Ausschreibung war 2021… . . . ich könnte zu diesem Verfahren einiges sagen. Aber für den Moment schweige ich.
Yay I'm prom queen
GRK 2806 »Literatur und Öffentlichkeit«@grk2806.bsky.social · 3mo agoHuge congratulations to Shayan Rahmanian, newly elected Postgraduate Officer and board member of the DGfA/GAAS! 🎉 #AmericanStudies #LiteraturePublicSphere @srahmaniank.bsky.social (also our official onsite photographer)
The big problems with this are that 1) it is up to university management (Präsidium etc) to decide what constitutes an offence. These extrajudicial committees can make decisions that ultimately lead to deportations. Why no independent council that is less bound by academic-management affiliations?
Ruth Mayer@profiprof.bsky.social · 3mo agoMachtmissbrauch in der Wissenschaft: wichtiges Thema, gut, dass hier in der Gesetzgebung NRW, NDS) was passiert. Aber Achtung, dass dabei nicht durch die Hintertür Aktivismus und politische Arbeit an Hochschulen kriminalisiert wird. Die geplante Ermächtigung von Unileitungen ist hoch problematisch.
Herzlichen Glückwunsch Arunima Kundu! Sie ist die zweite Kollegiatin der ersten Kohorte, die ihre Dissertation verteidigt hat 🤩🥳 Mehr zu Ihrem Projekt "Mediating Otherness in Cultural Discourse: the Planetary Posthuman Subject in Afrofuturist Science Fiction": www.angam.phil.fau.de/fields/amst/...
My colleague Emma Barbieux wrote a little column about writing routines for our RTG's newsletter and apparently Belgian novelist Amélie Nothomb has it all figured out
