“The Letter of the Law in J.E. Casely Hayford’s West Africa” is now available for Amazon pre-order! I will even paste the first two blurbs here to entice you, upping by about 100% my not-very-impressive marketing game. www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0691...

🚨🚨🚨 Back with another fantastic @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social episode! I chat with the brilliant @rosecasey.bsky.social about her book Aesthetic Impropriety: Property Law and Postcolonial Style (Fordham UP, 2025). Please listen in & check out this fantastic book newbooksnetwork.com/aesthetic-im...

Margarita Vaysman & I have been working on this for the past 5 (!) years, but it's finally done- the online version is up and the hardcover should be out later this month! Welcome to the Oxford Handbook of Global Realisms, feat. 41 chapters and beautiful cover art: academic.oup.com/edited-volum... 🎉

Full online publication of the Oxford Handbook of Global Realisms out now! I have a chapter on how The Global African Novel theorizes realism and the violence of global capitalism: academic.oup.com/edited-volum...

The TLS calls this lovely book by my lovely former colleague Lindsay Wilhelm "elegant and compact" doi.org/10.1017/9781...

Animist Poetics: Ancestral Trauma and Regeneration in African Literature is in print! The paperback will be out in Feb. Please request that your library order a copy. 30% off with the discount code SNWF25. @sunypress.bsky.social @rcolesworthy.bsky.social sunypress.edu/Books/A/Anim...

"The idea of a poisonous text" J. M. Coetzee’s “Disgrace” @ 25: A Roundtable - Public Books share.google/IYeXXJI7Hy6n...

Love a good mid-summer cover reveal!

What a gift of an album music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Remain grateful to @arnabdr.bsky.social for including my @edinburghup.bsky.social book in his excellent series at the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social ! newbooksnetwork.com/african-lite...

sometimes the hardest part is getting started! tell your friends, your students ✨

I talked with Nick Sturm (@nicksturm.bsky.social) about the brilliant Alice Notley, who died just three weeks ago, and her poem “At Night the States.” “making life, not explaining anything” I missed having these conversations. open.spotify.com/episode/6fLF...

#ACLA2025 explore how African literature redefines trauma through animism—linking self, ancestors, and ecosystems. Forthcoming in 8/25, ANIMIST POETICS is a bold revision of psychoanalysis and postcolonial theory through Indigenous ecologies. #LookItUP tinyurl.com/yc6tbb69 #AfricanLit #TraumaTheory

Worried the World Is Falling Apart? That’s OK. It’s Happened Before. A review of two new books www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/b...

What's that? A new @sunypress.bsky.social volume devoted to the metapsychology of Haitian-Canadian psychoanalyst Willy Apollon coedited by Lucie Cantin, Tracy McNulty, and Jeffrey Librett? Yes, please! As the kids say, we are so back. sunypress.edu/Books/A/A-Ps...

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o - a giant of African literature - dies aged 87 www.bbc.com/news/article...

Amazing work by an amazing former student. doi.org/10.2979/ral....

@safundi.bsky.social is looking for a co-editor. think.taylorandfrancis.com/editor_recru...

🚨 New Episode Alert 🚨 Check out this latest @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social episode, where I had the good fortune of speaking with Tithi Bhattacharya about her fantastic book Ghoshly Past, Capitalist Presence: A Social History of Fear in Colonial Bengal. newbooksnetwork.com/ghostly-past...

"one moves around with a sense that the world is at once intensely present and enigmatic" Berlant, Cruel Optimism

Thrilled to share this latest episode @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social, where I speak with @undonealready.bsky.social about her brilliant book. Tune in for a thought-provoking conversation that brings new light to the intersections of literature, empire & hope. newbooksnetwork.com/african-lite...

"While it is true that we expect to organize and make sense of our lives, we do not expect to write other people's novels for them and one of the resources we have for helping us to make sense of our lives...is our experience of *singular* authoritative voices, not our own" -Sontag, At the same time

So excited for an upcoming interview with @arnabdr.bsky.social for @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social. His fascinating work on the series engages such cool research in postcolonial theory. The provincial! The maximalist novel! Cognitive science! See here: newbooksnetwork.com/hosts/profil...

Amazing teachers and friends and colleagues have been affected by the devastating wildfires in Oklahoma. Way of supporting here: www.unitedwaypaynecounty.org/form/donate-...

Books that I am reading currently! All fulfilling and thought-provoking in their own unique ways!

Good to hear about this special "Theories & Methodologies" section of #PMLA on Mariama Bâ’s "Memories of Lagos", ed. by Tobias Warner. Essays by Tsitsi Jaji, Annette K. Joseph-Gabriel, Stéphane Robolin, Grace A. Musila, Merve Fejzula, Ainehi Edoro-Glines, Akua Banful bit.ly/4aej3ze #MariamaBa

Taught The Teaching Archive by Heffernan and @rbuurma.bsky.social as part of my lit criticism class this semester and students LOVED it and the way it values their contributions to the discipline

boundary2 just published a forum on the gordian knot of finance, where @stefeich.bsky.social, @aminsamman.bsky.social, @thisblue.bsky.social, Janet Roitman, Dick Bryan, and myself reflect on the infuriating hold of finance on economic policy (and how to break it) www.boundary2.org/the-gordian-...

One of my most anticipated year end lists!

"Dreaming exhausts, just as waking exhausts." --Marcelle-Anne Fletcher's necessary meditation on "Blue Dreams, Black Sleep" muse.jhu.edu/article/895492

A review of Lisa Hollenbach's fantastic book "Poetry FM: American Poetry and Radio Counterculture" by Amy Paeth in the new ALH "...this book joins an exciting and growing body of historically grounded and sociologically inflected approaches to poetry in the US." muse.jhu.edu/pub/8/articl...

Out now as a free Open Access E-book! edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-african...