New issue of CQ has landed! “Chaplinish”, edited brilliantly by @becimay.bsky.social

Reading is an irresistible invocation of all the breasts you’ve wanted more from 💕 🍸 🥛

My article on the last line has just been published over at Critical Quarterly. I’d ❤️ to know what you think 🤔 doi.org/10.1111/criq...

noBOdY cAReS ABoUt CRiTiciSM

hating Sexy Wuthering Heights will only make it stronger

It's here! I hosted a symposium on close reading at Emory in November. Matt Seybold recorded it for his podcast, American Vandal, and the first of three episodes is out today. Catch me, @johannawinant.bsky.social, @becimay.bsky.social, @bakaari.bsky.social + more podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

Don’t you wish this were a podcast? 😉

CALL FOR PITCHES @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social and I are at work on a new version of Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century aimed at a more general audience. We’re looking for new contributions: your model close readings of texts, canonical and not, from literary studies and not. Details below!

About to lecture about nits

So it looks as though you can access my new book already if you’re subscribed to OUP. Here’s the link :) 🎉✨ academic.oup.com/book/62228?s...

Really enjoyed this Q&A with @biblioracle.bsky.social, who pushed me to think about my work in terms of the somewhat amorphous, but not obsolescent principles of academic freedom.

Keats slamming his era’s riot police 👮🔥💪

Poetic rhythm vs AI 🔥

I got to write on Joyce below … doi.org/10.1111/criq...

Proofs of my essay on the last line ✨💕

Starting a new thread to collect critical perspectives on AI, as they are articulated dozens of times every day and appear repeatedly on my timeline. I can't read everything right away, but if, like me, you want to stay up to date, then this might help a bit:

"Now, a damning new study could put AI companies on the defensive. In it, Stanford and Yale researchers found compelling evidence that AI models are actually copying all that data, not “learning” from it." Ressourcenintensive Kopiermaschinen, die andere berauben. futurism.com/artificial-i...

I’ll be attacking the convention of critical sobriety at the even below, which is open to all. Come if you fancy it 😘

Am introducing the first years to what poems are tomorrow ✨💕

Oh wow, I feel so much safer knowing that some poor Vietnamese immigrant working in a nail bar is in detention.

Defoe’s Crusoe: ‘I had learned not to despair of anything’

I wrote about Serra’s Berlin Block & Chaplin’s secret double act with classical sculptures (in City Lights + The Great Dictator, but also early works His New Job, Work, Behind the Screen, &c.) This entire special issue—on “the Chaplinish”—is amazing! 🥾 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Chaplinish now exists in the world 🎩💛 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14678705...

closed out 2025 with my friend and comrade Emma Heaney's miraculous book, simply the Marxist feminist memoir and theory of gestation I've been waiting for: "What if it is this society that is mere and meager in the face of our projects to make each other?" @riislover667.bsky.social <3 <3 <3

Christmas Eve Proofs ❤️

Christmas Eve Proofs ❤️

Ron’s new book, Norwich Sonnets, just went to a reprint. You can buy it from Norfolk’s most interesting local interest publisher here waterlandbooks.co.uk/product/norw...

Real question, though it may not sound like it. What examples can you think of where an academic was profiled in the mainstream press (not field journal or para-academic pub) & it seemed to work out well for them?

‘consider not giving presents this holiday season’ 💀

My intro to a new special issue on Chaplin for CQ, along with a mounting pile of brilliant essay constructions. Here’s the link … onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1467...

Publisher of geniuses, #LastBooks, has just introduced a 20% discount on all their books. Type ‘20%2025’ when you get to the cart below … thelastbooks.org

Publisher of geniuses, #LastBooks, has just introduced a 20% discount on all their books. Type ‘20%2025’ when you get to the cart below … thelastbooks.org

Happy Wrong Thanksgiving to my neighbours in the melancholy republic to the south.

Sign my petition! 🙏 x

Sign my petition! 🙏 x

Against critical sobriety 🙃

God is dead, Charlie Brown

To mark the publication of my first book, join us online (or in-person) on 3rd Dec 2025 at 16:30GMT / 11:30EST Everyone is welcome 😊 Thanks @edinburghup.bsky.social @becimay.bsky.social @emmywaldman.bsky.social Info: bit.ly/3LZXc6w

Look at this gorgeous thing I got given 😍😍😍😍😍

‘What a night that was, on that soft-looking bed, encircled by sound, said the sky’ (Keston Sutherland, Jokes)

Scholars of Critical University Studies & related fields need to consider whether the Brandeisian "bigness is badness" formulation applies to schools, especially universities, & applies precisely because scale is what makes schools attractive to parasitical profit-seeking enterprises.

Keston Sutherland on being close read (in Jokes (2025))

Book skin

Proofs ✨✨✨

I think it's likely that I look back on the book launch symposium for Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century as one of the absolute highlights of my career thanks to @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social , our contributors, and all the participants -- this was so incredible

Speaking on Veriry Soott today, among these assorted geniuses 🤩

‘try to cope with a woman who is not tantalised, who is actually extremely annoyed’ Anna Mendelssohn 🔥🔥🔥

Just arrived and as orange as can be ❤️🧡❤️🧡❤️🧡 !!!!