This looks gorgeous! Thanks for sharing Michelle @mlobkowicz.bsky.social. Can’t wait to get my copy ❤️

Thrilled to give a talk at UCF on Oct 2 as part of the CHDR Presents talk series! This will also mark the launch of our new book (w Paul Ugor), The Postcolonial Bildungsroman (out with @ualbertapress.bsky.social on Sept 23). Grateful to Amrita Ghosh & UCF for the invitation & hospitality!

And yay! Got the first invite in France (well done babes) to speak on the Sage Handbook of Decolonial Theory. In French. Invite accepted, date noted. Please order for your libraries if you have institutional affiliation.

🚨🚨🚨 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...

In "Acoustic Colonialism," Luis E. Cárcamo-Huechante examines the role of sound in Chilean and Mapuche cultural production and struggles over colonialism and Indigenous agency. Read the intro for free on our website! #SoundStudies #NativeStudies buff.ly/JXrrr9r

I have a new essay in Journal of World Literature on empathy and the perpetrator of traumatic violence.

The JWL Special Issue, Constructing the Other: Narrative Empathy and the Ethics of Border-Crossing in World Literature, co-edited by @somishmash.bsky.social & myself, is out! A heartfelt thanks to my co-editor, the JWL staff, & our wonderful contributors. brill.com/view/journal...

Antonio Gramsci: Prison Notebooks | Fall Courses | BISR Online | buff.ly/6SZM9Pn

The stunning final cover of our book is ready for printing! Can’t believe that The Postcolonial a Bildungsroman is out in a month! Thank you @ualbertapress.bsky.social Please preorder/check out the book here: ualbertapress.ca/978177212770...

So happy that the Special Issue "Constructing the Other: Narrative Empathy & the Ethics of Border-Crossing in World Literature that @somishmash.bsky.social & I co-edited for the Journal of World Literature is now in production, to be out in September. Please check out the TOC & issue abstract 👇🏼

Looks amazing. "The Postcolonial Bildungsroman: Narratives of Youth, Representational Politics, and Aesthetic Reinventions" Edited by: Arnab Roy and Paul Ugor #Lit #BookSky @ualbertapress.bsky.social

New book! Check it out 👇

New endorsement of our book, The Postcolonial Bildungsroman (with @ualbertapress.bsky.social) just dropped, and it’s from none other than the wonderful & brilliant Prof. Ankhi Mukherjee. The book is out in September. Please consider pre-ordering & spreading the word! tinyurl.com/4ckuc86y

‼️MATCH ALERT‼️ In honor of Ghassan Kanafani's life, ALL proceeds from today's sale of his books through our online bookshop at @openpoetrybooks.bsky.social will be doubled (and, yes, if you've already purchased a book today, it counts!) 🌿 Links to the books below 📚📚❤️‍🔥

Anyhoo, this will be the last post preceding actual publication at the end of this month. Please order it for your libraries. It's been a long-drawn process but totally worth it. A preview is available on the site, under the rubric 'major work' in cultural theory. uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/th...

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...

Thrilled for Zohran, for New York City, and for some new voices and ideas in American politics! Some may know I wrote a book on Mira Nair's films (2018). In honor of Zohran's victory, I've posted an excerpt of my chapter on "Mississippi Masala" here: www.electrostani.com/2025/06/mira... 1/3

"Dimick’s writing is as rhythmical as the seasonal patterns for which she writes this elegy."-Sharon Ruston, British Society for Literature and Science. buff.ly/CZyrhDm ‪@thebsls.bsky.social‬ #Phenology #Envhum #Climate #LiteraryStudies #ReadUP

New endorsement of our book, The Postcolonial Bildungsroman, from the brilliant Sarah Townsend, co-editor of The Irish Bildungsroman. The book is out with @ualbertapress.bsky.social in Sept. If you want to review the book, contact us for a free reviewers copy. tinyurl.com/4ckuc86y

Feeling so lucky to be among the first few to hold a really slick & beautiful copy of this brilliant book! Can’t wait to read it and chat with @rosecasey.bsky.social about it later this summer!

🚨 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...

The proofs have arrived! Countdown to our summer of publication. Looking forward.

My interview with @siddharthadeb.bsky.social in Public Books. We talk about traditions of the weird, Walter Benjamin, Strugatsky brothers, the Anthropocene and a whole host of stuff: www.publicbooks.org/wings-angels...

It was such a fun couple of days in Miami at the Narratives2025 conference meeting old friends/ making new ones, learning about new cutting edge work in narrative theory, chatting with the great @amitav.bsky.social & listening to his amazing keynote address (what a brilliant yet humble & sweet guy)!

One of many books that have been on my tbr for far too long 😣

Arnab is such a wonderful, generous, and tireless advocate for the humanities and Kate Hallemeier's most recent book on postcolonial optimism, U.S. empire, and Nigerian and South African literature, is truly brilliant. Can't wait to listen!

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...

There is an academic job market / labor mobility if you're a tenured prof at an Ivy. The rest of us will have to suffer the end of the American university system as we know it.

If you teach or on staff at a college or university please consider joining the American Association of University Professors @aaup.bsky.social You need not be tenure track. But you can’t be an administrator (ha). Essential space to carry on the fight for education.

I am so, so excited to shortly share my wonderful conversation with Ken Liu, who is a truly brilliant and generous writer and thinker. His Dandelion Dynasty novels have stuck with me as much as his shorter works. Listen to him talk about technology, empire, imagination, and more on 3/27!

Thank you for the shout out! Can’t wait to chat with you about your brilliant book! ❤️

Shoutout to the incredible success of FGCU’s Humanities Symposium which featured thought-provoking student presentations on a wide range of topics in literature& philosophy.The event was beautifully attended by faculty& students showing just how vibrant & engaged our campus-community is at FGCU.

@niyerseattle.bsky.social and I co-edited a forum on "Palestine and South Asia" for South Asian Review with contributions by Tithi Bhattacharya, Ather Zia, Asma Abbas and Alia Yunis. Here's our intro: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Coming Soon!!

Just got an email from the Fulbright Association. As of right now, funding has been cut off to 12,500 US citizens currently abroad and and more than 7,400 foreigner scholars and students in the United States

Humbled! “This collection masterfully redefines the postcolonial bildungsroman, intertwining the personal &collective struggles of individuals in spaces fraught w ecological degradation, social stagnation& cultural upheaval…Essential reading…on the intersections of space, culture& power”-Imre Szeman

This is horrific. It has authoritarianism written all over it. And it will be deployed against teachers (and students) of color - especially Black teachers, and also especially trans and gender non-conforming teachers, disabled teachers, and teachers of "controversial" subjects as a weapon. Resist.

Vol B of our anthologies on the Postcolonial Bildungsroman has a cool new cover! The Postcolonial Bildungsroman & the Character of Place will be out w University of Nebraska Press in Jan2026. Very thankful to my co-editors Paul Ugor & Simone Puleo, and to the contributors for their incredible work!

Exciting to see we have a website for the collection Postpolitics and the Aesthetic Imagination I have edited with @uminnpress.bsky.social with essays from brilliant scholars (and one by me) www.upress.umn.edu/978151791918...

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

Congratulations to @josendiaz.bsky.social , whose book "Postcolonial Configurations" has won the 2025 Association for Asian American Studies Book Awards in the Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies category. https://buff.ly/4hDdxcv

It occurs to me, for no reason in particular, that I should put this starter pack back in circulation go.bsky.app/3h6n3YC

Last week, Ben Baer and I spoke to @arnabdr.bsky.social about our book Spider-Mother and Rokeya Hossain for the New Books Network podcast. You can listen to the episode at the link below. 🙂 So grateful for Arnab's excellent questions and planning of the interview. newbooksnetwork.com/spider-mother

🚨New Episode Alert 🚨 Please check out this latest @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social episode where I speak with @smaran.bsky.social & Ben Baer about their groundbreaking new book, Spider-Mother: The Fiction and Politics of Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain. newbooksnetwork.com/spider-mother

In "Oceanic Becoming," Rob Wilson demonstrates that in the midst of the planetary crises the Pacific now faces, it must be understood as interconnected to the other oceans. Read the introduction for free on our website now. #OceanStudies #AsianStudies https://buff.ly/4g8szVW

Glimpses from the Annual Sala conference “Rethinking South Asia: Postcoloniality & Decolonial Frames and Praxis” that took place this weekend. It was such an honor organizing this conference alongside Amrita Ghosh & Rajorshi Das (and the SALA team).

Our book, The Postcolonial Bildungsroman, is now featured in University of Alberta Press’s 2025 fall catalog, & has a breathtaking cover designed by the Paris-based artist Rakajoo. Very grateful to my co-editor Paul Ugor for his invaluable partnership. tinyurl.com/zf6bwm4f

Excited to share that that my project of translating Bangladeshi writer Mahmudul Haque's novel "My Sister, Life,' in collaboration with Shabnam Nadiya, has been awarded a 2025 Translation Fellowship by the National Endowment for the Arts. 🧵

Today at #mla2025 Join @arnabdr.bsky.social & me at 1:45.

“In order to shoot off one email per week for a year, ChatGPT would use up 27 liters of water, or about one-and-a-half jugs… that means if one in 10 U.S. residents—16 million people—asked ChatGPT to write an email a week, it’d cost more than 435 million liters of water.”