Thrilled to announce the 25/26 schedule at the American Literature and Culture Seminar at the Mahindra Center at Harvard. Please join us if you are in town for any of these events! Many thanks to my co-organizer @notsorry-sari.bsky.social, and to all our presenters!

🚨🚨🚨 The poet SANDRA LIM is giving a talk at the Mahindra Center at Harvard on April 9, called "Repetition, Repetition." Allison Adair, responding. It's the last meeting of the year for the Am Lit Seminar I run with @notsorry-sari.bsky.social. Many poets will be in attendance! Join us!

Excited that the next meeting of the Am Lit and Culture Seminar at the Mahindra Center at Harvard will be on 3/26, at 6pm, with Walter Johnson: "The Crime against Kansas: Indian Removal and Empire in the Life of John Brown." Aziz Rana will respond. mahindrahumanities.harvard.edu/event/walter...

People often assume the emotions associated with cruelty are hatred and anger, but it’s actually pleasure and joy. Fascists relish their cruelty. They roll it around on their tongue like a mouthful of full-bodied wine. They laugh as they harm.

very excited about this ✨

I wrote about Gloria Steinem's forgotten first book for @publicbooks.bsky.social! www.publicbooks.org/b-sides-the-...

"The depressing thing about the Christmas season - isn't it? - is that it's the time when all of the institutions are speaking with one voice." Eve Sedgwick, Tendencies never loses its force

I guess the era of the Jonathans is over... www.nytimes.com/2024/12/07/o...

We are so excited for Aaron Lecklider's talk--"Abnormal Forms: Seeing Voyeurism in the History of Sexuality"--with a response by Anna Lvovsky! Join us this Tuesday at 6pm. Details below.