Rolling up on here to tell all the ASAP peeps to put Maximo on your dining must list. Tell Rene and hi and thank me later.

Sometimes When You Edit a Book Series You Don't Know When Books Are Starting to Emerge Into the World Until Somebody Tells You Part Two uipress.uiowa.edu/books/writin...

Here for this kind of Valentine’s flowers ❤️

JWIL mourns the passing of Velma Pollard (1937-2025) www.jwilonline.org/jwil-mourns-...

Join us! 7 March 2025 Free and open to the public. Registration required: tinyurl.com/sxsexuality

I went to a virtual book club for The Book of Night Women last night, hosted by a J’can influencer living in T’dad & Marlon James the author & later Marlon James the photographer & painter *both* got on the call, surprising host & all. The casual yet joyful mischief of it all is where it’s at.

There is now an affordable paperback edition of this book on Jesmyn Ward's writing (eds. @sherimariephd.bsky.social, Maria Elena Torres-Quevedo, me) @edinburghup.bsky.social. I am very proud of this book which would be useful to anyone working on Ward. edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-jesmyn-...

Run, don’t walk over to Cambridge Elements where Maisha Wester’s new book on the African American Gothic is free — FREE (!) — until February 13.

When admin work has me out of these classroom streets, I appreciate Matt for sharing my words with his students ❤️.

Machel did tiny desk and it’s the carnival infusion we could all us.

Jesmyn Ward: New Critical Essays is out in paperback! Use code: PAPER30 for 30% off on EUP’s website.

Part 2 of World Literature podcast on Percival Everett’s James. In this one I bring out my trademark, “What if the point of this novel is straightforward?” move. But also: @sherimariephd.bsky.social, @keeblearin.bsky.social, and @mattseybold.bsky.social saying good stuff!

Today at MTC, Jordan Baldridge revisits the radical politics and guerilla education of Rage Against the Machine. mid-theory.com/2024/12/10/p...

Sometimes I go on other people's podcasts! 🧵 The first installment of a three-parter with @sherimariephd.bsky.social, @thathoberekguy.bsky.social, & @keeblearin.bsky.social on Ivan Stacy's "The World Literature Podcast." We're talking about Percival Everett's "James"! 1/3

This was so much fun, y’all! And it was only 8am, but Everett’s James is that girl!Check out this conversation I had with @thathoberekguy.bsky.social @mattseybold.bsky.social and @keeblearin.bsky.social on Ivan Stacy’s The World Literature podcast. youtu.be/8MxxDO3-6Jw

post the LAST SENTENCE of your last article “The value of this fiction thus lies not only in its representations of what is but in its dialectical, utopian, necessarily imperfect attempts to think what might be.” tinyurl.com/4rwz3m6d

This collection of essays I co-edited with @sherimariephd.bsky.social and Maria Elena Torres-Quevedo is now briefly half price and the much cheaper paperback version is available to pre-order! I am very proud of this collection and collaboration. edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-jesmyn-...

Mid Theory decided to join you in the blue skies! Check us out! mid-theory.com

There has never been a minute in U.S. history when HBCUs have not been treated as vessels for capital incursions into education.

Co-authoring this article on Percival Everett's The Trees with @sherimariephd.bsky.social has been such a rewarding experience. This whole special issue of Orbit - open access - is really great. Please check it out!

Looks what's finally out! It's the essay @keeblearin.bsky.social and I wrote on Percival Everett's The Trees for a special issue on Everett's writing in Orbit!

The introduction to Jesmyn Ward: New Critical Essays ed by @mariatq.bsky.social @sherimariephd.bsky.social and I is now open access Edinburgh UP: Jesmyn Ward (edinburghuniversitypress.com). Check it out!

On my list (also 30% off)! uncpress.org/book/9781469...

I’m a little bit 🤏 excited @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social’s forthcoming book, as well as @lbmcgrath.bsky.social’s work on literary agents, @sherimariephd.bsky.social reading all the prize lists, & the Culture Industries Section at Public Books.

True story: I didn’t think deeply about my habit of reading book prizes and criticism together until I talked with Matt for the podcast. *Thrilled* to be a part of these important conversations and for the agile intellectual community this work carves and shapes.

Very excited to be making a repeat appearance on The American Vandal pod! Talking ‘bout agents as literary critics and “pre-literary criticism.” podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Lovely to see page proofs for this new co-authored article (with the wonderful @sherimariephd.bsky.social ) on Percival Everett's The Trees. Coming very soon as part of a special issue of Orbit on PE!

This is my Booker shortlist. They can keep the other one. Jonathan Escoffery’s If I Survive You for the win!!!

It is so very slow and so very hard but everything in this scholar’s brain is excited about the things I have to tell you about Marlon James’ fiction in this book. Now if only I can finish writing it.

Over here listening to each episode twice b/c I don’t want to miss a second of how they contextualizes our work as literary critics (& administrators), offers explanations for how we got here, and presents ideas for where we might go next. Essential listening for our work in Higher Ed.

So excited to launch this book with Maria Elena Torres-Quévedo and @sherimariephd.bsky.social - get in touch if you’d like to come along (digitally or in person):

Hopping across the pond — for the 1st time! — to do a couple things. You should come. Let me know if you want the virtual deets.

As those of you who know me might guess, I prepared my whole life for the moment just now when @sherimariephd.bsky.social told me she was working on a lecture she’s giving in Scotland but had “run out of steam.”

You’ve gotta admit that @sherimariephd.bsky.social’s New Black Gothic essay had some predictive power.

Folks are sharing this on another site, so here it is. It’s a photo of a pdf; we don’t have it up on the website yet. Letter from the MLA to president of WVU, where languages are on the chopping block.

TYRA MAIL!!! So excited that this edited collection on Jesmyn Ward that Arin Keeble, Maria Elena Torres-Quevedo, and I edited is *finally* out in the world!

My scholarship is visible across the profession in no small part because of outlets like LARB. This first installment of Criticism Inc is a great beginning for a season long conversation about the work of contemporary literary criticism and how and why we do it.

@isanchezprado.bsky.social talking about what college students need is time *to be students & foster their intellectual life* is better than caffeine this morning. I’m still mid-episode, so I expect to have more thoughts about the larger discussion of the space of literary criticism today.

No, my dude. You are!

whole season =🔥

Advance Warning: Our transcription software believes that when @annakornbluh.bsky.social says "austerocrat politicians," she is saying "austere crap politicians." And I'm not going to change it.

Ah Ready!

Super excited to be part of the new season of American Vandal, talking about ed-tech with my rad collaborator Louise McCune! Check out this teaser and the other amazing guests. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6BOMEwNCQI

When you’re affirmed in your sense that someone you helped train would be out in the world holding her own with the OGs. Truth be told I knew because of how much I learn myself, from @greatkatee.bsky.social .

Check out @greatkatee.bsky.social here, and also in this terrific new special on global Genres of Empire!

Good afternoon from my curry mango and roti lunch 😋

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