“All of the top 10 books on Libby were by women. 3 of the top 10 titles for the country's biggest public library system were by Rebecca Yarros. Other female authors on most-borrowed lists across the country included Freida McFadden, Holly Jackson and Emily Henry.” www.npr.org/2025/12/29/n...

Excited to read a paper on computational postcolonial literary analysis! More please 🤲🏻🤲🏻

Wrote about my admiration for Sarah Chihaya's BIBLIOPHOBIA for this year's Public Picks, a sort of "Best of" list, at Public Books. Amazing to see CLOSE READING FOR THE 21C on there from both Nick Dames and Leah Price, scholars whose writing I love very much ❤️ www.publicbooks.org/public-picks...

My little book will be available for pre-order in January 2026. Please consider ordering a copy for your library. I'll be eternally grateful if you would like to review the book. Happy reading! 😊 www.routledge.com/Irish-Writer...

Das Teilprojekt B06 startet das Jahr mit einem Workshop zum Thema „Multiple Raumbezüge“. Am 8. und 9. Januar diskutieren sie mit internationalen Wissenschaftler*innen die narrative Rekonstruktion erinnerter, imaginierter und (wieder-)gesehener Orte in Fluchtnarrativen von Verfolgten des NS-Regimes.

Very happy to introduce a new tool, BookReconciler! You can take spreadsheets with book data and add subject headings, descriptions, ISBNs, HathiTrust IDs, & more. You can also cluster editions & variations of the same "Work." Led by @thisismattmiller.com and supported by @post45data.bsky.social.

Books in brief 📚 Living water and whispering rocks go.nature.com/4p1SWRZ

Honored to be on this list with some of the true greats—Patricia Lockwood, Parul Sehgal, Namwali Serpell—for my review of John Guillory's ON CLOSE READING in The Nation lithub.com/the-10-best-...

NEW EPISODE: Acclaimed fiction writer and long-time creative writing professor Elizabeth McCracken joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and @sugi.bsky.social to discuss her ninth book and first volume about craft, A Long Game: Notes on Writing Fiction. @literaryhub.bsky.social lithub.com/elizabeth-mc...

Some of my favorite books of 2025, including criticism by A. S. Hamrah and the diaries of Helen Garner, for @commonweal.bsky.social www.commonwealmagazine.org/books-domest...

In der neuen Ausgabe der Heidelberger Heimat(en)-Anthologie analysiert unsere Postdoktorandin Valentina López Liendo @vlopezliendo.bsky.social (C05), wie Konzepte von Heimat und Zugehörigkeit im Videospiel Hades und seiner Musik ausgehandelt werden:

📨 You are invited to our annual conference. BAAS 2026 will be held at the University of Glasgow in April 2026 🎉 Proposals are welcomed for papers, panels, & roundtables. Creative departures from the traditional panel format are encouraged. These should be shared by 28th November. buff.ly/xAdQJB8

Delightful detail from the Roman “unswept floor” mosaic by Heraclitus, showing a mouse nibbling a walnut. Superb use of darker tiles for subtle shadow effect! 2nd century AD. Vatican Museums www.museivaticani.va/content/muse... #MosaicMonday #Archaeology

Consider submitting and please share with your network this CFP for a Society for the Study of American Women Writers panel at the American Literature Association conference in Chicago in May www.cfplist.com/CFP/46130

Why did Sarah Hall stamp her new novel with a “human-written” maker’s mark? On AI and “creative larceny.”

CFP: Translation und Transformation als operationale Formen von Vermittlung und Ordnung https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-158647 Mainz, 18.06.2026-19.06.2026, Georg Forster Forum an der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Bewerbungsschluss: 15.01.2026

"Stevenson-Yang narrates in a detached tone, dark tales of fissure and falsehood, cruelty and crime, alienation and apathy." Minjie Chen on "Hello, Kitty and Other Stories" by Anne Stevenson-Yang: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/hello-kitty-goodbye-illusions-a-journey-through-chinas-shadowlands/

These titles in translation from university presses include works originally written in Uzbek, French, Arabic and more!

City Lights has long been a beacon of bookishness for me. It was a thrill to do CITY LIGHTS LIVE!: a conversation about close reading with Yael Segalovitz and my co-editor on Close Reading for the 21C, @johannawinant.bsky.social moderated by @samantharhill.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehZ0...

Have you heard about our new Archie L. Dick Research Grants? If not, take a look and see if you qualify! Even if you don't, maybe someone you know does? Deadline to apply is December 1, 2025. sharpweb.org/grants-prize...

Love this piece by Laura McGrath, who finds an important question for the book industry—“What if we’ve been over-estimating the role that genre plays in the life of a reader?"—in a recent paper I wrote with James English.

A user’s guide to the fundamental practice of literary studies, providing context, examples, and practical exercises. @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social and @johannawinant.bsky.social's Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century is out now! Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

📘 New JCA article by Matt Erlin et al. culturalanalytics.org/article/1429...

Postdoc in the new @dfg.de Research Training Group 3064 “Technologies of Witnessing: Media and Cultural Practices“ at the University Mainz – Deadline Oct 17 The (RTG) examines technologies of witnessing in contemporary media cultures in transformation. stellenboerse.uni-mainz.de#/jgu/job/50726

📢Registration is now open for the 7th International Conference of the #CRC1265! "Designing Refiguration - Refiguring Design" will explore the role of design in socio-spatial change and its potential to address societal challenges. 📆6./7. Nov. 📍TU Berlin Register here 👇 sfb1265.de/veranstaltun...

Jetzt online: Der Forschungsüberblick der Transfer Unit zum Thema Emotionen in der #Wisskomm! Emotionalisierende Inhalte können das Verstehen fördern und zum Handeln anregen. Doch welche Emotionen wirken wie? Welche Chancen bieten sie? transferunit.de/thema/emotio... 1/3

With media such as “28 Years Later” and “The Last of Us,” 2025 has been a bacchanalia of zombies. Katy Waldman writes about our cultural fixation on the walking dead.

"After a pilot was written and slated for production, the broadcaster asked for a rewrite. The Italian backdrop, they said, was too unfamiliar. Why not set it in Ireland?" www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

UPDATE: 10 of the 24 longlisted authors have now withdrawn from the Polari Prize. First Book: Jason Okundaye, Sacha Coward, Sanah Ahsan, Amy Twigg, Mae Diansangu, Ciara Maguire Main award: Olumide Popoola, Robert Hamberger, Andrew McMillan, Rhian Elizabeth Judging panel: Nicola Dinan, Bob Hughes

#Vortragsankündigung Am 18.06. ist Prof. Dr. Andrea Geier @andreageier.bsky.social (Uni Trier) im Rahmen der Vorlesung „Was sollen wir lesen?“ von @sigridgkoehler.bsky.social in Tü zu Gast! Sie spricht über Brigitte Reimanns „Die Frau am Pranger“ (1956). Wir freuen uns schon sehr auf den Vortrag!👇

📍🌎📚 Interested in the intersections of American literature and cartography? Our 2026 conference in Lyon, France, invites papers on map-text interactions. Deadline flexible upon request — don’t hesitate to reach out! Full CFP ➡️ maps2026.sciencesconf.org/resource/pag... Please share and repost!

More than 30 years worth of data on UK literary prizes (and their winners) goes live today @post45data.bsky.social! Bravo to researchers Katherine Binhammer, Kanika Batra, Theo Gray, and Maryse Jayasuriya for compiling and publishing this incredible resource! data.post45.org/posts/britis...

When a big @nytimes.com feature about #reeesesbookclub dropped in mid-May 2024, @astarre.bsky.social and I had just submitted our manuscript about - you guessed it - the club to @cl-journal.bsky.social. #Academicpublishing is slow, but here we are, 13 months later... (1/4)

I went clubbing - book clubbing that is - with @corinnanorue.bsky.social and you can read about it in the new issue of @cl-journal.bsky.social. open access! cl.uwpress.org/content/65/3... More in Corinna's🧵

🗺️🌎🔔CFP: Maps in American Literature, 15th–21st Century International Symposium | April 1–3, 2026 | ENS de Lyon, France Deadline: June 15, 2025 Keynote Speaker: Martin Brückner (U Delaware) Full CFP: maps2026.sciencesconf.org/resource/pag... @modernlanguage.bsky.social @officialbaas.bsky.social

Come check out our Leonard McCombe photography exhibition!👀📷 McCombe's impressive portrayal of the aftermath of war in Europe will be featured at the HCA until July 11th (Mo- Fri, 9 am - 5 pm, admission free).

☀️ Guten Morgen! Ich bin auf der Suche nach weiteren #Steady- oder #Ko-Fi Abonnent*innen 🥀 Ich liebe meine Arbeit, aber die Situation für Kreative ist schwer ✍️ Ich würde gerne weitermachen. Ideen habe ich! Und eine kleine regelmäßige Spende von ganz vielen Leuten wird helfen 🫶🏾 Vielen Dank!

Alena Pfoser (@lborouniversity.bsky.social) and Sabine Stach (GWZO) analyse the production and circulation of memories in the arena of tourism and argue for a more systematic investigation of this tourism-memory nexus. valuepast.hypotheses.org/4362

Here's a long thread on an issue dear to my heart. This Tuesday evening I’m doing an Intellectual Publics with Macarena Gomez-Barris on publishing. Like last year’s conversation with Denise Cruz, or the prior year’s with Racquel Gates, we will talk about how to find a publisher, turn a thesis... 1/

On Thursday, Kyle William Bishop from Southern Utah University will talk about 👀 “The government as the true monster: the collapse of authority and trust in zombie narratives" Part of the Baden-Württemberg Seminar / GKAT Lecture series. 📍 HCA, Atrium 🕰️ June 5, 18:15

Hell yeah. Here's my manifesto: close reading for all. On Sigrid Nunez, and Karl Ove Knausgaard, and Erich Auerbach, and why close reading is an answer to AI. Thanks to @brandyjensen.bsky.social, rockstar editor, who rules. For @defector.com defector.com/close-readin...

#CfP The Moralization of Science 📍 International Conference | organized by @oeaw.bsky.social and @ghiwashington.bsky.social and others | contributions on the Role of Moralization in #Science 📅 September 17-18, 2026 in #Vienna Deadline: September 15, 2025 🔗 www.maxweberstiftung...

Patricia Lockwood joins Deborah Treisman to discuss her story “Fairy Pools.”

New paper out! "Geographical Sensemaking: Situating, Relating, and Positioning as Spatial Practices Between Self and World" #Sfb1265 members Ilse Helbrecht and @lucaspohl.bsky.social draw on international research to analyse geographical sensemaking⬇️ #openaccess www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Nature Marsilius Gastprofessur: Kommunizieren in Zeiten planetarer Krisen – Journalistin und Filmemacherin Verena Mischitz gestaltet Workshop- und Seminarprogramm an der Universität Heidelberg www.uni-heidelberg.de/de/newsroom/... #universität #heidelberg #uniheidelberg #wissenschaftskommunikation

Last Call für Einreichungen zum #fwk25! Nutzt die Chance, die größte Tagung für #Wisskomm im deutschsprachigen Raum mitzugestalten, eure Projekte mit der Community zu teilen, Formate auszuprobieren und Debatten anzustoßen. Wir freuen uns auf eure Beiträge! 🔜 wissenschaft-im-dialog.de/forum-wissen...

Our comparative literature issue is up on MUSE and currently open access! It includes a dossier on Singularity's Abilities (a festschrift in honor Sam Weber) + a discussion forum on Alisa Zhulina's marvelous Theater of Capital + general articles + book reviews. @hopkinspress.bsky.social

We are honored to host an 👀exhibition of Leonard McCombe's photographs from 1944-46 depicting the end of the war in Europe. Admission will be free. 🕰 May 6th - July 11th (9 am - 5 pm) 📍 HCA, Atrium

Digitale Spring School „Wissenschaft kommunizieren!“ @con-gressa.de für junge Forscher*innen: In vier kompakten Online-Sessions lernt ihr, wie ihr eure Themen verständlich vermittelt und passende Formate und Kanäle auswählt. Jetzt anmelden: wissenschaftkommunizieren.de/digitale-spr... #Wisskomm

📣Registrations are open for our free online conference: Digital Pasts & Futures: Internet Histories, Digital Interculturality & Reimagining Digitality 📆 23-24 June 2025 Keynotes: Valérie Schafer, @sesamescholar.bsky.social @ethanz.bsky.social, Ramesh Srinivasan 🔗 www.uni-jena.de/en/313137/re...