Calling all novel people! With my amazing colleague Thom Dancer, I am co-organizing an ACLA 2026 seminar called "The Craft of Fiction." Link below. Please consider submitting a proposal. www.acla.org/seminar/6892...

The ICCIT is hiring! Our faculty is inviting applications for an Associate or Full Professor position in Organizational Studies, with an anticipated start date of July 1, 2026. jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Mississa...

FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION. Think about this @nortonlibrary.bsky.social edition for all your 2025-26 teaching needs! wwnorton.com/books/978132...

Come be a postdoc @uoftmississauga.bsky.social! If you're in the field of novel studies, or literature and philosophy, or Victorian studies, and this opportunity interests you, please be in touch with me directly about a potential application. www.utm.utoronto.ca/research-inn...

Trying to start a new thing!

A beautiful and generous review from Talia Schaffer that puts THE GROUNDS OF THE NOVEL into conversation with Adela Pinch's THE LOCATION OF EXPERIENCE. (And stay tuned for my own review of Pinch's incredible book, coming soon in MLQ!) muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...

My textbook is finally available! 'Writing on Fire: A Fierce Yet Friendly Guide to Writing Humanities Essays in College.' There are chapters on close reading, thesis statements, all the good stuff. If you teach writing via a humanities subject, check it out! broadviewpress.com/product/writ...

I have dutifully shared several positive reviews of The Grounds of the Novel. This one is extremely un-positive (backhanded compliment about "ambition" notwithstanding), but I will share it anyway on the principle that all publicity is good publicity?

THE GROUNDS OF THE NOVEL reviewed by Anna Henchman for NCL online.ucpress.edu/ncl/article-...

Discount alert! THE GROUNDS OF THE NOVEL is part of the @stanfordpress.bsky.social Virtual Exhibit for MLA and you can get it for 30% off with code S25MLA between Jan 9 and Feb 12. www.sup.org/books/litera... And check out the full exhibit while you're at it! www.sup.org/virtual-exhi...

1/2: I won’t be at MLA this year for the first time in years, but if you are, I hope you’ll check out the Post*45 books at the Stanford UP booth! We had three great titles come out in 2024, by Adrienne Brown, Adam Kelly, and Shane Boyle.

My edition of Great Expectations for the Norton Library series now has a webpage, a delightfully purple cover, and a projected publication date of July 1, 2025. Think about it for your Fall 2025 syllabus needs. (Or just because it's a pretty colour!) wwnorton.com/books/978132...

Please help spread the word! The English Department at Harvard is hoping to hire an assistant professor of post-45 Anglophone literature. I'm not on the committee, but would be happy to answer your questions. academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/14143

So much fun to see THE GROUNDS OF THE NOVEL put into surprising and illuminating conversation with @annakornbluh.bsky.social's IMMEDIACY in service of some big thinking about The Function of Theory at the Present Time. www.publicbooks.org/whats-a-theo...

I’m so honoured to be read with such generosity by the brilliant Deidre Lynch.

Timothy Gao reviews @dannybwright.bsky.social 's The Grounds of the Novel for Review 19, " For Wright, the strange ontological foundations of novelistic worlds become a "resource" (6) for thinking through our own ambiguities and ethics of being": www.review19.org/view_doc.php...

Paging George Eliot! www.nytimes.com/2024/05/21/s...

Parents of small children everywhere cursing the Oscars for the early start time on the first post-lost-hour evening. Bedtimes are *complicated* tonight Academy!

I am *so excited* for this book, and not only because it is authored by a fellow Daniel W. I've been lucky enough to get to know snippets of Daniel's brilliant work over the years, and am so eager to get to know more of it!

✨The Art of Uncertainty: Probable Realism and the Victorian Novel✨ is out with Cambridge UP! Available in US/UK (cambridge.org/9781009436113), 20% off w/ TAU2024 Huge thanks to all who shepherded it into print and to Kate Flint & Clare Pettitt for including it in their series!

Days later, still have not recovered emotional equilibrium after watching Andrew Haigh’s remarkable ALL OF US STRANGERS. Double whammy of impact as both a gay man and a parent!!

There's still time to get a 30% discount on THE GROUNDS OF THE NOVEL, through the end of February (including Leap Day of course!) -- and while you're at it, buy some of the many exciting new titles from SUP: Fyfe, MacDuffie, Kasa, Wong, Marriott, etc. etc. etc. etc. www.sup.org/books/title/...

What grounds the fictional world of a novel? Or is such a world peculiarly groundless? In a powerful engagement with the latest debates in novel theory, The Grounds of the Novel by Daniel Wright investigates how novelists reckon w/ the ontological status of their works www.sup.org/books/title/...

Important thread.

The response to a revenue gap is not to fire instructors and reduce classes; this simply destroys FTEs and retention, which means you're taking in less revenue, which means you'll make cuts again. It's like an automaker saying they'll stave off bankruptcy by simply not making cars.

Today’s the day! THE GROUNDS OF THE NOVEL is out in the world. I’m proud of this book and eager to hear what you all think about it.

Practicing the most ancient of MLA rituals for us Canadians: extreme flight delay, bracing for likely cancellation, when I’m supposed to teach tomorrow morning. Pray for me.

En route to MLA. See you in Philly!

Buy Amy’s book, and since you’re getting such a great discount, get my book too!

Gordon Gee is still president of West Virginia University.

Two week countdown!!

Less than a month until the publication of THE GROUNDS OF THE NOVEL! If you order directly from Stanford UP, get a 20% discount with code GROUNDS20.

Would love to celebrate the publication of my book at #MLA24 but ... does anyone have recommendations of bars in Philly good for large groups?

It’s here!

did y’all know that bookstores make a third of their money between Thanksgiving & New Year’s, & most ship nationwide 💌 personally I find this to be an excellent way to figure out any holiday gifts

Ooo new lectureship in (early) medieval English literature studies here at St Andrews!

Just got my flu shot and my covid shot at the same time, please send thoughts and prayers.

Have deactivated my X account for the second (and last!) time -- all Bluesky all the time from here on out

The introduction to THE GROUNDS OF THE NOVEL is now available on the @stanfordpress.bsky.social website — have a read and tell me what you think! www.sup.org/books/extra/...

Only 100 pages in and already astonished by the brilliance, beauty, power of Kate Briggs’s THE LONG FORM, and thankful to this platform for alerting me to its brilliance. Perfect reading for Sunday toddler nap-time.

Why not cease? Thomas Hardy, “Why Do I?”

Custom portals should be completely abolished, or, at the very least, they should allow applicants to request a generic letter from a dossier service, which universities should pay for themselves.

Just a born-and-raised Torontonian still trying to understand why so many pedestrians in this town walk on the left side of the sidewalk and appear so confident in the correctness of this deeply incorrect practice.

U of T English is hiring an assistant professor of African American literature. Spread the word! joblist.mla.org/job-details/...

Sneak-preview of my in-progress review of Nancy Yousef's The Aesthetic Commonplace: mindblowing, utterly brilliant, the readings of Middlemarch in particular will forever change the way you understand and teach this novel (and I've thought about this novel SO MUCH). Brain currently electrified.

Working on intro to Norton Library edn of Great Expectations, a poignant reminder that we produce literary knowledge collectively and slowly. I feel strongly there are things that must be known in order to understand this novel, things I am compelled to repeat and expand upon, but did not invent.

Eek here it is, friends! My big debut In the Chronicle. In seriousness, I’m psyched to have this opportunity and hope I can do some good. (If you’re interested in reading but can’t access it, please just lemme know. Happy to help with that!) www.chronicle.com/article/why-...

Everyone read this book, it’s a banger. "beautifully argued" -Jen Fleissner "electrifying" -Patrick Jagoda "illuminates whole worlds" - Jed Esty "has the potential to transform novel theory" - Priscilla Wald press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book…

My smart friends Danny Hack and Rachel Ablow have asked me, Bluesky pals, to help them publicize their proposed ACLA 2024 seminar, "Fiction, Belief and Disbelief." They're especially eager to get grad students involved, so please share. Abstracts are due 30 Sept. www.acla.org/fiction-beli...