Hannes Bok's interior art for Henry Hasse's "Farewell to Fuzzies" in Astonishing Stories, ed. Frederik Pohl (September 1941) #scifi #sciencefiction #art

1. More Americans work at the Cheesecake Factory than in the entire coal industry, and that won't change. It's because of automation, not snooty libs. 2. Coal energy is now more expensive than wind and solar. 3. So this means: higher energy prices, more pollution, no jobs benefit. Genius!

My friend just convinced me to watch Princess Mononoke. Five ⭐️ obviously but all of this is explained by Marxism. Lady Eboshi is a historically progressive force and if you don’t want her to shoot the Great Forrest Spirit, then you’re not a real leftist. #anime #studioghibli

🔍 Uppsala NLP Reading Group: Paper Spotlight! This week's pick is "Do Prompt-Based Models Really Understand the Meaning of Their Prompts?" by Webson & Pavlick. 🧠 The authors ask whether modern LMs truly “understand” the instructions in prompts. 📖 Let’s discuss! Stay tuned for our next pick! 🚀

Do not miss Revista de Estudios Hispánicos' (59.1) Dossier "Reading in the Time of Media Multiplicity: Practices from Latin America" edited by Marcy Schwartz! I don't have an article there, but Binding Media got its first citation in the intro (...according to google scholar).

You can use ChatGPT instead of your own brain to write your paper if I can talk about ChatGPT instead of you in your letter of reference

She's the force behind Speculative Fiction in Translation -- which is either approaching or just past its 10 year anniversary. www.sfintranslation.com

syllabus time, teaming up for the herculean efforts of reinventing writing assignments. here, some prompts for required weekly low stakes 250-500 word reflections/ process pieces that have proven relatively conducive to real writing in lit class. please share any similar suggestions in thread.

My course proposal for Cultural Analytics @berkeleyischool.bsky.social has been approved for Fall 2025! This is the fullest expression of my vision for CA: a radical interdisciplinary experiment for rethinking knowledge production at the intersection of the humanities and machine learning. (1/9)

Just received my copy of Stephen Buttes's exciting new book "Poverty and Antitheatricality" Thank you @rutgersupress.bsky.social www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/poverty-and-... @formajournal.bsky.social

This essay is a mix of invented language + references to thinkers who don't typically fit into the same category: Shel Silverstein, A.A. Milne, Walter Benjamin, Julia Kristeva, Vicente Huidobro etc. Just saying: I do not think that AI could produce something so weird. www.guernicamag.com/aquaduhka/

You weren’t doing DH right if you didn’t have “close reading makes a comeback around 2025” on your bingo card

Binding Media. Hybrid Print-Digital Literature from across the Americas is officially out today from @stanfordpress.bsky.social! 🎉 If you’re interested in publishing, book history, cultural hybridity, media archaeology, and digital literature, you might like the book! A not so short thread 1/

Cover reveal! “Taco”, my first trade book, part of the Object Lessons series at Bloomsbury is available for pre-order. It publishes on October 16. If you are interested, you can pre-order in your local or bookstore and directly from this link , www.bloomsbury.com/us/taco-9798...

I'm going to both sympathize with and disagree with @isanchezprado.bsky.social 's reading of @jefflawcdm.bsky.social's essay. On the one hand, I agree that the essay "would be stronger if Lawrence weaved in transnationalism." However, on the other hand, is it fair to say that about an essay?

Nine responses to my 2024 ELH essay "Mobilizing Literature: Social Movements and Post-1945 US Literary Studies" just went live on @atpost45.bsky.social. I'm grateful to @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social and @franciscondine.bsky.social for organizing the cluster. post45.org/2025/03/intr...

In the final article for FORMA's Debate issue, José Eduardo Gonzalez takes a quantitative approach to Spanish American literary studies, referencing Ángel Rama’s essay “El boom en perspectiva.” Read more and consider responding at buff.ly/vB1FL1y.

The final article in our Forma Journal's state of the field special issue is an article I wrote using data about the annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference. www.formajournal.org/essays/asses...

This week we are publishing position papers by @magarmtis.bsky.social and Patrick Dove as part of the special issue on the state of the field in Latin American studies www.formajournal.org/essays/dista...

Two new position papers on the state of Latin American literary criticism published in Forma (www.formajournal.org/debate) this week. "The Failures of Latin America and Criticism on Latin America" by @juanedecastro.bsky.social and "Affects and Forms in LGBTQ Cinema" by Vinodh Venkatesh

FORMA's "State of the Field" Debate series has launched! In the first set of "position papers," Ignacio López-Calvo and Mark Anderson examine the sets of subdisciplines comprising the field. Read more at www.formajournal.org/debate

Today I am filled with gratitude that this book went from being an idea to an object that exists in the real world. Last evening I finally got my copies and I would like to highlight a couple of the chapters in it 🧵