Can’t wait for this!!

looking like my time in academia finally coming to an end, with no job lined up beyond May. If you're interested in my early attempt to think through a new project on energy, riots, and masses, check out new issue of @victorianreview.bsky.social. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

My book, Probable Exhaustion, posits that literary texts of the long 19th c help us trace how a conception of progress welded to infinite growth and development is unthinkable outside of the threat of exhaustion. Will be out with @cornellupress.bsky.social Jan 15, 2027

looking like my time in academia finally coming to an end, with no job lined up beyond May. If you're interested in my early attempt to think through a new project on energy, riots, and masses, check out new issue of @victorianreview.bsky.social. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

Thinking, for no particular reason, of Michael Tondre's excellent account of Victorian/Energy Studies, ruminating on relation between the founding of *Victorian Studies* journal and Suez Crisis

New! A thrilling special issue on "Post-Carbon Victorian Studies" edited by Michael Tondre. A fantastic forum on "Victorian Breeds and Breeding" edited by Kristen Guest and Ronja Frank. Reviews of new books on Conrad, A Brontë, Carroll, and others! Read us on Project Muse muse.jhu.edu/issue/56547

THE BARBARA JOHNSON COLLECTIVE has a cover, a website, and is available for preorder! (Use code NUP2026 for a discount.) See the full contents at the link below — lucky to be part of this extraordinary project and excited to see it in print this fall! ✨🔥 nupress.northwestern.edu/979889948066...

Now available! Johanna Winant's eagerly anticipated, LYRIC LOGIC: HOW MODERN AMERICAN POETRY REASONS. Use the coupon code CUP20 and save 20%! tinyurl.com/4e7vphwa @johannawinant.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social

Let's gooooo!!!

For actual thoughtful and incisive analyses of these dynamics, see, @annakornbluh.bsky.social's chapter in The Order of Forms, @nathankhensley.bsky.social's chapter in Action without Hope, Victoria Baena's essay, "History's Borrowed Languages: Emily Brontë, Karl Marx, and the Novel Of 1848" in ELH

"There’s something outrageous about the stripping away of the politics of Wuthering Heights...most students understand that the novel is not really a love story...revenge, class struggle, power, whiteness" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

*Neil Young voice* – "alllll my track changes were there"

The government of Jamaica has set up a portal for contributing to official relief efforts. I will update this thread if anything analogous opens up for Haiti, Cuba, or the DR supportjamaica.gov.jm

All your holiday shopping in one place! allgrimprints.shop

Wrote a thing on the hot summer of uni AI adoption for @defector.com A huge thanks to @nathankhensley.bsky.social and @anniemcc.bsky.social. @brandyjensen.bsky.social is a legend. And anything smart in hear is thanks to hours of discussion, texting, and draft reading by @smosment.bsky.social

Go see my brilliant friend, Alya! @alyaimsorry.bsky.social

As is obvious to those who know him, Nathan continues the work of fighting for so many. I met Nathan as a know-nothing grad student and for almost a decade he has been a staunch supporter and model of the best version of academia

Thrilled! Delighted! Exicted! to share "Energy!" a panel with Corbin Hiday, Gyuri Moon, Govind Narayan Ponnuchamy, & Michael Tondre at #NAVSA2025

Can't afford not to!

Delayed news and feels weird to share but my book, Probable Exhaustion: Progress Fictions in the Era of Fossil Capitalism, is under contract at Cornell University Press @cornellupress.bsky.social. I’ve been buried in revision work and hoping to land stable job but book will be out soon-ish

Delayed news and feels weird to share but my book, Probable Exhaustion: Progress Fictions in the Era of Fossil Capitalism, is under contract at Cornell University Press @cornellupress.bsky.social. I’ve been buried in revision work and hoping to land stable job but book will be out soon-ish

Must listen! @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social @nathankhensley.bsky.social

JOB: Associate or Full Professor, Palestinian Literature & Culture, University of Toronto universityaffairs.ca/search-job/?...

Assistant Professor of AI slop

Coalposting

*Action without Hope: Victorian Literature after Climate Collapse* is out today! The official release got pushed back due to an issue w the art, & despite being mostly about literature it's very visual. So to celebrate its full entry into the world, a thread of some of my favorite images from it:

Ordered! And you should too!

Gutted 💔

When the President Talks to God (Lee Iacocca Remix)

BREAKING: Yuval Abraham, co-director of Oscar-winning documentary "No Other Land," says Israeli settlers beat his co-director Hamdan Ballal, injuring his head and stomach — and then Israeli soldiers invaded the ambulance he was in and seized him. Ballal's whereabouts are now unknown.

Free Mahmoud Khalil

One of the sharpest thinkers *and* best people out here working in the crumbling conditions of intellectual life

fake (car dealership) empire

Free Mahmoud Khalil

Free Mahmoud Khalil

Required reading by my brilliant friend and colleague, Pete Coviello @nplusonemag.com www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

Required reading by my brilliant friend and colleague, Pete Coviello @nplusonemag.com www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

Reading one (1) page of Middlemarch would kill the average tech executive

it's crazy how every time you scratch the surface of some 'return to aesthetics' dude you get a collaborator just waiting for the right time to help out

scam calls / scam country

On the fascistic rot within the contradictions of liberal democracy. This whole piece worth a read! @charlotteerosen.bsky.social proteanmag.com/2025/01/20/t...

Sad to hear Garth Hudson, multi-instrumentalist, master of the Lowrey organ and last living member of The Band, has died at 87. Hudson providing sax and contralto on “It Makes No Difference” in a 1976 performance with The Band. #RIPGarthHudson m.youtube.com/watch?v=GIw6...

Trans rights are human rights

I had the great pleasure to read a small portion of this project awhile back and cannot wait to dig into the entire book in all its brilliance!

How many tens, hundreds of thousand dead? Will never forget / forgive a liberal-democratic genocide watched by the world. End the occupation / apartheid. Free Palestine forever

Applying to postdocs / prizes, beyond “early career” but no permanent job. Opportunities for “no career” scholars?