Colleagues and fellow scholars, here’s info on a special issue of Modern Fiction Studies that I’m coediting with Matthew Gannon and @katemarshall.bsky.social: “Long Modernism, Altered Natures,” cfp below—send us your abstracts! call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/09/...

This weekend we dedicated the Franco Institute, a reimagined research institute at ND of which I am the founding director. Our mission is to fund great research, and to work both locally and beyond to make the case for the public good of the liberal arts. It’s a great time to be doing this work.

Great to see Francisco Robles’s Coalition Literature in my mailbox. This book puts together some broken shards of a US literary history fired in the kilns of the late thirties and helps me see how to embrace a “collective” dimension of our aesthetic politics. @franciscondine.bsky.social

Thrilled to be reviewed in CI, and grateful to John Williams for his thoughtful and generous read of my book.

1/2: I won’t be at MLA this year for the first time in years, but if you are, I hope you’ll check out the Post*45 books at the Stanford UP booth! We had three great titles come out in 2024, by Adrienne Brown, Adam Kelly, and Shane Boyle.

In the off-chance you’re interested in affect theory as a materialist theology and/or my book project on feminist an-aesthetics, you’ll find that and much smarter essays (by @sarahlwasserman.bsky.social, @katemarshall.bsky.social, & Thomas Constaninesco) in the pages of American Literary History.

I got to write about things I like: Freud, 80s computers, and @katemarshall.bsky.social's treatment of genre. Plus one I dislike: academic trend. Check out the whole "interlocutions" cluster, also featuring @ericafretwell.bsky.social and Thomas Constantinesco. academic.oup.com/alh/article-...

Aliens and aliens and aliens!!! @katemarshall.bsky.social 👾💜👾

as of today, direct from Verso pre-orders available! paperback is $14.97 right now www.versobooks.com/products/303...

I wish I could say each copy comes with its own mars globe

Ok so I legit hate podcasts but I make an exception for this one because it's honestly incredible work. Come for the surprising audio of a university president actually coming out in favor of learning, stay for the brilliant analysis linking shifts in literary criticism to the history of economics

Cross-posting non-sh*t news from the sh*t place: It's a beautiful day to pre-order some books! @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social @alexandermanshel.bsky.social @pdabashi.bsky.social @katemarshall.bsky.social

Love this weird season so much!