My second edited K-pop collection, The Cultural Politics of Transmedia Storytelling in K-Pop, officially came out yesterday from @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social. I am a day late to my own publication announcement, but very happy to finally have this one in the world. A thread! #CriticalKPop

The Cultural Politics of Transmedia Storytelling in K-Pop

Foregrounding the ways in which stories are created and circulated across media forms and cultures, this volume approaches K-pop as a narrative system rather th…

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My essay “Stillness in Motion: BIBI, Hongdae, and Flâneuserie Under Platform Capitalism” is out today! It looks at urban movement, platform capitalism, and what I call choreographed stillness: moments when stillness resists the systems shaping how women move. #BIBI #Hongdae doi.org/10.4324/9781...

Really proud of my kids and the lives they are starting to build: one diving into theater as they start high school, one getting their first college acceptances, one beginning an EMT program, and one who just got their first law school acceptance. The world is burning, but my children give me hope.

If anybody needs nearly 2,000 songs and 105 hours of K-pop girl groups and soloists, good news: I made you a playlist. I clearly have very normal hobbies, and this seems like a completely reasonable use of my time.

Well, That Escalated Quickly

K-pop girl groups and soloists: title tracks, B-sides, deep cuts, nugus, ults, and whatever came next.

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One unexpected side effect of cleaning up twenty-plus years of my online existence: finding a little poem on #LiveJournal that I apparently wrote for a class at MSU and then completely forgot about. Kind of fun to meet a much younger version of myself in the digital rubble.

I am SO excited for *Death Wish* to be out in the world this January. @lillyluwrites.bsky.social is a brilliant writer, and if you have read any of her short fiction, you already know this is one to preorder. Cannot wait! #DeathWish #BookSky #SapphicRomance

I genuinely was not sure I would ever publish another journal article after leaving higher education, so getting my first acceptance in years (with minor revisions!) feels surprisingly good. Apparently I missed this a little.

The pre-order page is now LIVE for *Futures of Cartoons Past: The Cultural Politics of X-Men: The Animated Series* with @upmississippi.bsky.social! I co-edited this collection with @jmcarnes.bsky.social and @margaretgalvan.bsky.social, and I am so excited to see it almost out in the world. #XMenTAS

Futures of Cartoons Past

Contributions by B Lee Aultman, Bryan Bove-Wimberley, D’Arcee Charington Neal, Gabriel A. Cruz, Phillip Lamarr Cunningham, Anthony Michael D’Agostino, Jay Eddin, Monica Geraffo, Eric Lewald, Julia Ewa...

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Farewell to #BonnieTyler. Nobody will ever face off against evil cowboys with neon whips quite like she did. Music videos have never been the same.

Bonnie Tyler - Holding Out For A Hero (Official HD Video)

YouTube video by bonnietylerVEVO

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I am happy to share that I have a chapter forthcoming in *The Flâneuse in Literature and Culture: Women Wandering Purposefully* (edited by Irina Gendelman and Jeff Birkenstein) this September!

The Flâneuse in Literature and Culture: Women Wandering Purposefully

The Flâneuse in Literature and Culture: Women Wandering Purposefully explores how women have navigated the freedoms and constraints of wandering through public spaces. Expanding on the traditionally m...

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Yesterday, I did something hard, and I am really proud of myself for it: I hit send on an academic monograph and sent it off to a university press that has shown interest. I have no idea whether it will pass peer review or eventually be published. But I wrote the thing.

AI has started blocking the Wayback Machine from chronicling the web. Considering that nearly 40% of websites disappear after 10 years, this will enforce a giant loss in collective memory.

AI’s biggest casualty could be history itself

The Internet Archive is a vital resource that has helped the search for truth in more than one global event, writes Anthony Cuthbertson, but it is in danger of becoming the latest collateral damage of...

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I feel like that Vanderbilt/WashU report exists almost entirely to be forwarded to the iPhones of trustees, who will in their turn skim the first few sentences before forwarding it triumphantly to chancellors. “FW: FW: FW: Food for thought?”

Looking forward to this reading series! I loved the Erevis Cale trilogy (Forgotten Realms) enough to buy the original cover artwork back in the day.

sean guynes@guynes.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Who cares about D&D novels anyway? Some thoughts on why scholars of fantasy probably should, and a bunch more people, too. This is the first essay in my forthcoming Dungeons & Dragons reading series.

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Tobias Wilson-Bates@phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 4mo ago

A lot of digital tools are not about reducing work, but rather about redistributing it to a different set of workers. A handy rule of thumb when considering people embracing digital tools is to just see if that person is redistributing their labor or having labor redistributed to them.

Latest issue of @inkscomicsjournal.bsky.social includes an editorial by me on teaching comics in difficult times. Writing this openly felt a little unusual for an academic journal, but I wanted to be honest about where comics teaching is right now (for me). Open access: muse.jhu.edu/article/991716.

A big man’s guide to #CedarPoint: Do not go. Despite what you may read online, if you are over 6'0" and wear XXL clothing, you may not be able to ride most of the coasters.

One of the unexpected pleasures of publishing an edited collection is watching it pop up in the libraries of places where I studied or worked. Undergraduate me would have found it absolutely wild to see my own name in the MSU Libraries catalog like this. Still feels a little wild now, honestly.

Grateful to @andreastlane.bsky.social for this generous review of my forthcoming collection. It is a strange gift to have someone read a project back with such care. Her words mean a great deal, not only because I adore *her* work, but because she understands what the collection is trying to do.

One comment on my student surveys this semester read, "The feedback feels like it is AI-generated." It is not the first time I have heard that. We have barely entered the era of "generative AI," and already the default assumption is that anything polished or well-written must not be human.

If clean, well-structured prose is "clearly AI," then what exactly are we teaching people writing is supposed to look like? I did not spend decades learning and teaching this craft just to have basic competence dismissed as artificial.

My favorite genre of academic conference encounter is the simple, familiar: “It is so nice to finally meet you in person.” For all the benefits of remote communication, I keep coming back to that reminder that our work is not purely textual. It lives in bodies and voices, too. #SCMS26

If you are going to be at #SCMS26 this weekend, please stop by on Saturday morning to chat all things K-pop! I feel ridiculously fortunate to be presenting with two absolute icons in #KpopStudies on mediating difference across platforms and cultures.

Editing a volume of scholarship is intense work. Editing two volumes back-to-back is something else entirely. But I just finished reviewing copyedits for the second one, and I am genuinely thrilled with how it has come together. Well worth it! And well worth a pre-order! #KpopStudies #Transmedia

The Cultural Politics of Transmedia Storytelling in K-Pop

Foregrounding the ways in which stories are created and circulated across media forms and cultures, this volume approaches K-pop as a narrative system rather th…

bloomsbury.com

Guess what has now entered production? My second edited volume on transmedia storytelling in K-pop will be out this September and features another phenomenal roster of international scholars. Please consider pre-ordering and recommending it to your academic libraries! #Kpop #Transmedia #AcademicSky

The Cultural Politics of Transmedia Storytelling in K-Pop

Foregrounding the ways in which stories are created and circulated across media forms and cultures, this volume approaches K-pop as a narrative system rather th…

bloomsbury.com

Someday I want whatever chemical reaction happens in Haewon's brain every time she covers a Beyoncé song. #NMIXX

I do not want to make light of how dangerous this moment is, as I am genuinely frightened that Trump’s rhetoric is going to get Ilhan Omar killed. That said, there is something profoundly heartening about watching her walk purposefully toward her assailant, refusing to flinch.

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 9mo ago

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Man tackled to ground after spraying unknown substance on Rep. Ilhan Omar at town hall in Minneapolis.

I have often worried that I am desensitized to violence, especially state-sanctioned gun violence. The visceral, embodied experience of watching this latest execution proves otherwise. Realizing this feels less like relief and more like an obligation to stay attentive and be unwilling to look away.