Morgen (4.12.) in der #Studiobühne (Domplatz 23) @uni-muenster.de: Lesung & Gespräch mit Dichterin und Autorin Tracy Fuad. "Portals and Passages: Poetry Across Worlds", 18:30 Uhr, Eintritt frei. #AmericanStudies

One of the things that keep me going in this dreary winter is the poetry readings I am lucky to be part of. The first of these is with Tracy Fuad, and I am super excited for December to come & to be in convo with her 😍

Yay! Out now!! Thanks to @lmesseri.bsky.social @niiyokamigaabaw.bsky.social, Alexandra Ganser, Stefanie Dunning, Natalie Treviño, Matt Harvey and Frédéric Boone for their wonderful contributions and afterwords!

Man kann wirklich nur hoffen, dass die durchwegs zuversichtliche und positive Kampagne zur Inspiration für die deutsche Linke dient. Schon klar: New York ist nicht USA und auch nicht Deutschland. Aber: einfach mal machen! Schlimmer kann es doch eh nicht mehr werden.

Woke up at 4am to re-read Shockley’s Renegade Poetics intro for a class and prep to talk about queer hope and failure in another seminar—but instead, I spent the first two hours looking at Mamdani’s smiling face and rewatching campaign videos. Zero regrets.

Today is pub day for my third book: Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century. It is a handbook on how to read. It argues for the foundational importance of *caring* to thought. It offers an anatomy of close reading's five steps so we can hone the skills to perform them. It argues for why to read

& I hope you too are as happy as I am now <3

It was a brilliant talk & we were a lucky audience 🫶

Thrilled that my chapter on digital poetry is out in The Handbook of Poetic Forms! It’s in great company, and I’m humbled to have been invited to contribute. Huge congrats to the editors, who’ve done a majestic job.

Academy in Exile invites humanities/social sciences/law scholars at risk from any country - because of their academic work and/or civic engagement in human rights, democracy, and the pursuit of academic freedom - to apply for 12-month fellowships at @tu-dortmund.de and @kwi-essen.bsky.social.

This morning’s reading had me lol.

Preparing for tomorrow‘s class and thinking about bringing these three images to my students alongside Berlant & Warner‘s „Sex in Public“. I am curious to see what will unfold in the room.

hello! I wanted to let you know that there is now a *second edition* of our Seized Books! catalogue, after @gaystheword.bsky.social put the first edition on their Insta and it promptly sold out huge thanks to PageMasters for funding & producing it so beautifully www.pagemasters.co/shop/seized-...

Welcome to Bluesky, COPAS! Please give the account a share, repost, etc. <3

Woke up today wondering what Sianne Ngai might be up to these days…

not now London Review of Books

Writing my dissertation: oscillating between “I should rewatch the entire Lars von Trier filmography to fully feel something” and “Maybe Gilmore Girls will heal me.”

Making a CLEAN, SHAREABLE dataset is fucking hard! I'm super proud, then, to publish this one, on a team led by @sdileonardi.bsky.social and @beccacohen.bsky.social, with @post45data.bsky.social. It has more than a decade of 21C int'l bestseller data, revealing how popular world lit circulates....

Clicked the link to read and... well... can't say I'm surprised. women: *publishing 50.45% of books* men: *publishing 49.55% of books* crying man: i am feel uncomfortable when we are not about me? oh, and according to the author interviewed here, the worst thing for a man to do is...write genre

Amid all the idiot chatter about men and reading, men and writing, some of the best books I've read lately are by men about masculinity, and instead of baseless whingeing, we could be talking about these: Mark Haber, Lesser Ruins Tony Tulathimutte, Rejection Andrew Lipstein, Something Rotten

REPETITION: Looking for literary examples (21st c. American) of repetition. Also interested in knowing more theoretical works that are not the usual suspects directly coming to mind. (Today, I miss my academic Twitter)

close reading archive launch! “surveys sundry print, archival, and digital resources, concentrating on Anglo-American literary studies that overtly reflect upon the practice of “close reading”” www.closereadingarchive.org/acknowledgme...

Today I am revisiting this wonderful Forum publication since my before-sleep Google search activity (don’t ask) brought me back to it last night. Absolutely recommended! amst.winter-verlag.de/article/amst...

“A Meeting by the Archive– American Studies, History, and Literature” Mahshid Mayar & my CfP for the German American Studies Association annual conference is up—consider submitting an abstract ✨ Full CfP: dgfa.de/wp-content/u...

Marry my mind, Mr. Miller.

Project “Reading Reading” continues. Happy Tuesday!

I read this (from Toril Moi) with interest & amusement. But if we want to imagine the new—I do!—then we desperately need to stop talking about the same 3 books over & over. I promise that lots of critics ARE doing new things. Can we please talk about them?! academic.oup.com/alh/article/...

writing is fixing everything in the shower, only to plonk on the dry page

This has been a labor of love over the last two years w @weisenburg.bsky.social and the Emerson Society and we hope you like it! thedialjournal.org

Quite literally, Reading Reading. But also, “Nobody Talks About Form Anymore”, “Archives Amirite,” and, seriously, “Remember Poetry?”

Umm…YES!

One of the more toxic traits of the modern neoliberal university is the tendency for disciplines to dunk on other disciplines. In other words, the anti-intellectualism is coming from inside the house.

I wrote about the horror of beauty -- for this week's TLS column. www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/ter...

Came home from this year’s PGF conference on affective spaces to find The Affect Theory Reader in my mailbox. The level of excitement is simply too high!!!

Können populärwissenschaftliche Texte Gesellschaft helfen, in Krisen handlungsfähig zu bleiben? Oder sind sie selbst krisenanfällig? Wir diskutieren am 27. 10. mit @adriandaub.bsky.social , Nils Kumkar & Claudia Weber an der @adwmainz. Infos & Anmeldung: wisskomm.academy/events/popul...

If you were to choose one novel to teach undergrads prose analysis & close reading, which work of American lit would be your choice?

I think it was the jet lag. It still is…

Procrastinating & designing posters instead of actually preparing the lecture.

Arrived, taught, took care of pressing admin, & now taking care of myself.

Looking forward to #ASAP14 kicking off today in Seattle & our panel “The Politics of Flight Mode: Fugitive Reading Practices” scheduled for Saturday. My first ASAP ever 😱 I fee like I’m going to a school reunion of a class I wasn’t part of 😬

I can’t believe this day is real: I’ve been listening to Percival Everett, dg nanouk okpik, Ling Ma, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, & many more inspiring authors and poets in conversation. Aaaagh! 🥹😍

I feel like I’ve been waiting for this book forever. Why is it not Feb yet 😭

I had a non-academic, beautiful evening in the *wilds* of Connecticut.

Can‘t wait to dig in to this STUCKNESS🤤

That simultaneous feelings of excitement and impatience I feel every time I come close to that moment of breakthrough is priceless. I love & hate it.

This must be one of my best & the most unexpected Goodwill finds ever.

Next up. Been meaning to start this, so taking a break from my not-boyfriend Barthes.

I want to fall in love with Barthes.

Re-reading S/Z today. Let’s go.