It’s infuriating how many people claim to care about fictitious “child trafficking” conspiracies about trans people and Wayfair and Democrats but will miss, ignore, and distract from actual government agents kidnapping children in front of their very eyes

It would appear I am now a columnist at Inside Higher Ed. My first piece focuses on McCarthyism, censorship, and our current moment in higher education. This is an essay I started nearly 6 months ago so I'm glad to finally share it with y'all. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

The Introduction, “What is the Future We Yearn For?,” to my book, *The Future That Was*, is now live and freely available to all on the book’s @princetonupress.bsky.social website press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

On a separate note, this isn’t even the most exciting development in the study of CLR James in my own household this week. news.uchicago.edu/story/lost-p...

There hasn't been a lot of empirical evidence yet -- here's a start from Kim + Hamilton. Faculty hiring of URMs decreases after state introduction (not passage) of anti-DEI legislation. Impact greater for teaching-focused schools, and increases with state revenue dependence. osf.io/preprints/so...

BlueSky: If you've started reading my new book, AESTHETIC IMPROPRIETY: PROPERTY LAW AND POSTCOLONIAL STYLE, and are enjoying it, please consider sending me a sentence or two explaining why. It's for a thing I'm applying for (and a small monetary award for future research funds). Thanks!

The cover for my book, The Future That Was, is now live! It features the MacArthur genius artist Shahzia Sikander's Infinite Woman (2021), where earth is surrounded by an infinite series of women marching around the globe who, from afar, become rays of the sun ☀️ press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

NEW — An estimated 40 people were taken by federal agents in an overnight raid in South Shore, a predominantly-Black neighborhood on Chicago’s South Side. A couple who live nearby said they were shocked to see the enormous militarized raid in their community. thetriibe.com/2025/09/feds...

Don't miss the first of this semester's New Faculty Voices Q&A series! This semester we were delighted to welcome Professor Farah Bakaari to UC Berkeley English. A scholar of 20th and 21st Century African Literature, you can learn more about her and her work in our Q&A - link in bio!

It's publication day for UNIVERSITY KEYWORDS. Across 27 sharp essays, the book offers a critical account of the political economy of US higher education, how it came to be structured this way, and how together we might build a better university together.

so fab! if you didn't see: against-a-i.com

Want to read about postcolonial literature that's contributed to anti-colonial legal change? Keen on Arundhati Roy, M. NourbeSe Philip, Zoë Wicomb, Ben Okri, or Chigozie Obioma? Buy my new book for only $24 (free shipping) from Fordham UP with code CASEY25-FI www.fordhampress.com/978153151063...

In a new article in Verge, @neelofer.bsky.social, Najnin Islam, and I offer iteration as the aesthetic logic by which contemporary visual culture connects Indian indenture to the labor systems that precede and follow it. Check it out in Verge (open access!) muse.jhu.edu/pub/23/artic...

Penn is due for reaccreditation. That requires a university to adhere to principles of academic freedom, shared governance, open expression, and diversity. Speak up and tell MSCHE: unelected trustees' and donors' recent actions put Penn's future at risk. Public comment ends 1/12 shorturl.at/giAOS

I'm glad this happened.

Unpopular opinion: the MLA convention somehow morphed into one of the better scholarly events out there. Plenty of complaints, sure, but I've been almost every year since 2017. And as all the tweets & texts are reminding me–a lot of good work is happening in those dim ballrooms!

For my first Bluesky post, some #mla24 promo: It's here! Wake up with "Jerks" this Friday at 8:30 am. We'll hear about Oscar Zeta Acosta's pugnacious leadership in the Chicano movement, Coetzee’s jerk poetics, dyspeptic dads, Larry David, and the valences of "nothing" in Naipaul's work.