Hello friends, the postcolonial bildungsroman volumes are out now. Please consider checking them out, using them in your research, courses, reviewing them, ordering them for your personal or university libraries, and spreading the word. @ualbertapress.bsky.social @univnebpress.bsky.social

"The AI infrastructure build-out is so gigantic that in the past 6 months, it contributed more to the growth of the U.S. economy than /all of consumer spending/" - @mims.bsky.social My takeway is that The US has gone ALL IN BET OF THE 21st Century on AI, while China has gone all in on green tech

Our last issue of 2025, #29.5-6, is available online! This special issue is entitled "Environment and Empire in the Early Modern World." It begins with an introduction by Pratyay Nath: "Environment, Empire, & Early Modernity: Histories of Co-Constitution." brill.com/view/journal...

NEW @phenomenalworld.bsky.social @polycrisis Its a Plastic Planet. You are poisoned by plastic, the world is plastic. @katemac.bsky.social & I asked @vbivar.bsky.social to analyse the fossil fuel industry's latest trick. phenomenalworld.org/analysis/pla...

Periodizing the historical heyday of the heist film at the turn of the twenty-first century and marking its supplanting by the grifter docudrama series in the 2020s dukeupress.wordpress.com/2025/12/29/2...

THIS THIS THIS. ALL OF THIS THIS is why faculty resist technological strategies for teaching. There is no engaging with Edtech without this context

The Great Escape: Billionaires, Bunkers, and End-Times Fascism | Winter-Spring Courses 2026 | BISR NYC | buff.ly/ZVGo5A1

A round up of a few books I read and enjoyed from this past year. Academic books as well as general interest. Includes references to some Bluesky folks: @aearhart.bsky.social, @danicasavonick.bsky.social, @eve.gd, @annakornbluh.bsky.social... www.electrostani.com/2025/12/2025...

The new issue of @criticalai-journal.bsky.social (3:2) features a special series titled "Generative AI" and "Writing in Higher Education." View the full TOC: buff.ly/HslUNXA Critical AI is based at Rutgers University’s Center for Cultural Analysis, learn more & subscribe: buff.ly/MlIbMDB

Check out this year’s @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social ‘s Winter Playlist 2025: Host Picks—which features my interview with Tithi Bhattacharya on her brilliant book Ghostly Past, Capitalist Present. So thrilled that it is featured in this newsletter. shorturl.at/Nmzxd

Behold: the first-ever list of news outlets that have banned generative AI in their reporting. As of today, this is literally information that you cannot find on Google. My goal is to fill the starter pack, so please send over suggestions with supporting evidence! go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT

Look what arrived in the mail! Grateful to have collaborated with @somishmash.bsky.social & such a world-class crew of scholars and interlocutors. Stay tuned—an extended edition with Brill, featuring additional essays & interviews, is coming soon! Link to the issue: brill.com/view/journal...

Post-grading euphoria!

Publication alert. Folks have been requesting my new work, alluded to in my talks. This invited essay was quite hard to write. I delayed the entire project! Making a dent in 'abstract universal' eats up time. Free access. Engage it, critique it or trash it. journals.openedition.org/miranda/67304

Hi Sarah! Check out our bargaining resources guide that Lisa Kresge (on our AAUP AI team) helped develop based on the recommendations we developed in the report you linked docs.google.com/document/d/1...

The oldest journal in its field in the United States, Comparative Literature explores issues in literary history and theory. Issue 77:4 is now available, view the TOC: buff.ly/dc9N62X

So glad to see this piece doing well! Thanks for sharing it Hari. Read the entire post here https://open.substack.com/pub/yashicadutt/p/zarna-garg-and-the-myth-of-the-indian?r=4eny8&utm_medium=ios

"Our analysis shows that in the aftermath of extreme weather events, lower-income neighbourhoods are less likely to rebuild and do not return to their pre-disaster state, whereas higher-income areas rebuild and tend to improve...highlighting increasing disparities in their built environments."

Fordlândia.

Just received my copies of the Postcolonial Bildungsroman and the Character of Place! It looks fantastic! Many thanks to my co-editors, Paul Ugor and Simone Puleo, our wonderful contributors, and the fantastic folks at @univnebpress.bsky.social

I need to go through and update this, but if you’re looking for great gift ideas and the like I bet there are some great options in here go.bsky.app/DYxWmk1

AI is a climate issue. AI is a climate crisis.

Great chatting with @shreedaisy.bsky.social, International Booker Prize–winning translator/writer, about writing &translating across borders. This intervw appears in Constructing the Other:Empathy & the Ethics of Imagining Difference in Literature, co-edited with @somishmash.bsky.social, Brill 2027

MY PUBLISHED BOOK! Emmanuel Carrère says it "explodes all academic frames and expectations", so handle with care! manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526177766/

Save 30% on #NewBook "Inhabitants of the Deep" by Jonathan Howard, which undertakes a black ecocritical study of the deep (oceans, rivers, lakes) in African American literature. #BlackStudies buff.ly/ejHedv7

Just published: an excellent collection of essays on the cultural/material flows and interconnections between West Africa & India in 'Africa: Journal of the International African Institute', (volume 95, issue 3), ed. by Shobana Shankar + Oliver Coates www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Dialogue is a cornerstone of social life, and a democratic society cannot guarantee a good life for all if dialogue is corrupted. I wrote Resisting Dialogue: Modern Fiction and the Future of Dissent because I saw literature offers both a warning and a corrective. A short 🧵with two current examples:

Bong Joon Ho hit me up for the squad you legend deadline.com/2025/11/bong...

Against Settler Colonialism: A Reading List

My memoir-essay on growing up with Norman Rockwell Thanksgivings is up in Vogue this morning. Here’s a small extract: www.vogue.com/article/norm...

Three recent journal issues: [email protected] 129, feat. @breu.bsky.social @hennefem.bsky.social -Buildings & Landscapes 32.2 -Environment, Space, Place 16.2 via @iasesp.bsky.social feat. @trepping.bsky.social @seandlawrence.bsky.social All on @projectmuse.bsky.social (1/3)

Aww, you’re the best! Thank you so much, cuz! I hope it gets to you. Either way, I’ll save a signed copy for you when we meet! ❤️

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The newest issue of the Journal of Asian Studies features "Emerging Crossroads: The Intersections and Fissures of Black Studies, Asian Studies, and Asian American Studies," a special forum section. Read it online: buff.ly/X5puSiG Buy this issue: buff.ly/FW8xoFz

Join us in congratulating Ideas on Fire author Beth Robinson on the publication of Sweatshop Capital: Profit, Violence, and Solidarity Movements in the Long Twentieth Century, out now from @dukepress.bsky.social! dukeupress.edu/sweatshop-ca... #IoFAuthors

20th Nov 2025 at 2.00 pm (Paris time), I'll be giving a talk on queer & decolonial thinking & how it is evolving in our times. It's co-badged by Université Paris Cité & CLAGS, CUNY. Everyone is welcome. Image courtesy: Mario Patiño Hybrid event. Registration required: u-paris.fr/universite-o...

It’s that time of year friends! Thanks to @erinbartram.bsky.social and our friends at @contingent-mag.bsky.social, Laura and I are putting together a list of 2025 articles & books by contingent & indie lit critters. DM, reply, email me @ suny press. And spread the word!!

This book has been a labor of love! It's Linda Williams' final writing alongside brilliant essays by great scholars, examining the role of melodrama in current life and politics across the globe. Available for pre-order from the always-wonderful @dukepress.bsky.social

SOUTH ASIAN FEMINISMS IN DISAPORA and its compelling and original material will be of interest to scholars and leaders in the fields of Asian studies, critical race theory, gender studies, and Canadian history. https://bit.ly/4hnuhVH ##Decolonization #AntiRacism #DiasporaStudies #IdentityPolitics

These banger essays (and mine, banger or not you be the judge—the others definitely are) were made possible by a University Press @uminnpress.bsky.social Happy University Press week!

The Postcolonial Bildungsroman and Character of Place ( with @univnebpress.bsky.social) drop Jan 1! Get 40% off with code 6AF25 on the UNP site. If you’d like to review the book, let me know & I will arrange a reviewer’s copy. Thanks for the support! www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/978...

‘I think young writers starting out in India now might not feel what I felt, which is that I couldn’t actually start out there.’  Salman Rushdie on the evolution of Indian literature. granta.com/reclaiming-t...

Cool email to wake up to! 🙌🏼

One of the great antiwar poems, by Wilfred Owen, British veteran of World War I, ending with The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori. (Latin for “It is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country.”)

new special issue of South Atlantic Quarterly FILMING CAPITAL read.dukeupress.edu/south-atlant...

Now there really are no more excuses for not deleting my Academia dot edu profile. 🤔

I had some time today, so I revamped my website to make it a bit more accessible and user-friendly. Please check it out if you have some time. surl.lt/chgvxv

As COP30 is around the corner, a reminder that dialogue is only a spectacle as long as it's framed to stifle dissent. That's the main idea in my book Resisting Dialogue: Modern Fiction and the Future of Dissent. I discuss the issue more directly in "The Failure of Climate Dialogue" (see below)

... and read some more!

"Aestheticism Now!," a special issue of Genre, is now available: buff.ly/ADPYVfQ Read the introduction, "On the Politics of Aesthetic Detachment" by Aleksandar Stević, freely available: buff.ly/Ih5tHjD