If you're attending the American Studies Association conference this week, come join us for a roundtable on my @uminnpress.bsky.social book! I'm excited to be in conversation with these brilliant scholars & everyone who attends! Thurs Nov 20th 9:45 to 11:15 AM Convention Center Ballroom A Salon A

University presses provide essential infrastructure for vetting & curating humanities & social science scholarship, which universities rely on not only for the scholarly endeavor but for the promotion & tenure process. When a university shutters a press, it abdicates that responsibility.

BOOK NEWS Seeking true equality via literary moments of resistance *Democratic Anarchy: Aesthetics and Political Resistance in U.S. Literature* By @matthewscully.bsky.social / published by @fordhampress.bsky.social journalofmodernliterature.blogspot.com/2025/10/book... #BookSky #AcademicSky

Only 9 more days till we get a new Susan Howe book … www.ndbooks.com/book/peniten...

“latest in a longline of computerized fads that plunk kids in front of screens+deny them crucial socialization skills, suppressing their ability to think critically” Https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/us/politics/ai-alpha-school-austin-texas.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

"The expertise necessary to create the book lists sold to Informa LTD is obviously considered to be without value." (Amsterdam University Press has been sold to a for-profit press, so the film, media, & communication faculty have resigned.) mediastudies.hypotheses.org/6850

Thrilled to see this in print and very excited to read the other contributions! And congratulations to @dissentum.bsky.social on such a masterful editorial job!

A grad student at the University of Minnesota has been abducted by ICE.

Hello! @keeblearin.bsky.social and I are convening a roundtable at ASAP/16 in Houston about genres and forms of the Forever War. Please apply/share! Find CFP info in the link below! asap16.exordo.com/panels/47/co...

Really looking forward to seeing this in print. It was a wonderful collaboration with @dissentum.bsky.social and the various contributions promise to be excellent. Discount code now available if you (or your library) would like to preorder! www.upress.umn.edu/978151791918...

Can’t wait to see this and read the other essays. @dissentum.bsky.social did an amazing job as editor throughout the process!

#2024asa may be over, but you can still get @uminnpress.bsky.social American Studies books at 30% off using code MNAMST24 at www.upress.umn.edu/amst24/ through the end of the month!

Fordham University Press is having a sale right now. Here's the details: Save 25% on print and eBooks during our Winter Sale! Plus, get free domestic shipping on all print books. Use the promo code WINTER24-FI at checkout.

I’m disappointed to be missing the ASA conference this year but very pleased to be included in Fordham’s virtual exhibit! www.fordhampress.com/asta-2024/

The ACLA portal opens up today! Please consider submitting an abstract for the "Odd Temporalities" seminar call @matthewscully.bsky.social and I have put together (conference online!). More details here: www.acla.org/odd-temporal...

In honor of Kant’s birthday, a reminder that he would’ve been an X Files fan

Unfortunately I think I’m the 8,000 word detour kind of person

CFP for our special issue on Labor, Political Economy, and Activism in the Age of Digital Mediation: please reskeet and consider submissions! Collective / collaborative / short submissions welcome! #lit cuny.manifoldapp.org/read/jitp-ca...

This book is so good I can no longer remember how the contemporary looked to me without it. Happy long-awaited publication day to @annakornbluh.bsky.social

new editor thinking broadly about poetry and poetics! submit your awesome work!

Shelfie! Overjoyed to behold the pink object at last and so so grateful to friends, colleagues, students, mentors, interlocutors, editors, and darlings!! MLA book party Jan 5; Chicago book party Jan 27; Seminary Coop book chat with Sianne Ngai; and more fun to come!

some IMMEDIACY good stuff! Philly! MLA book party 5 Jan; ping for deets! Chicago! Seminary Coop book chat 5 Feb with Sianne Ngai! www.semcoop.com/event/anna-k... blurbs are up! www.versobooks.com/products/303...

"While Sinykin and Manshel place accent on different components, these excellent, systematic studies complement each other well in defining the contours of the contemporary US novel...they are crowning achievements." Thanks, Omid Bagherli and ASAP Journal, for this fabulous review!

Seeing this in print has restored my faith in peer review!

Perhaps a naive question for fellow literary studies people: what is the best way to find sales numbers for contemporary novels? Contact publishers directly? #litcrit #lit

Friends, a reminder that we are gathering a list of 2023 books and articles by contingent (NTT and independent) lit studies scholars to be published in @contingent-mag.bsky.social. Please reply or email at Rebecca dot Colesworthy at sunypress dot edu. We want to show off all YOU do!!

The CFP for Ephemeral Modernisms, BAMS International Conference, 2024, is here! We’ll be at the University of Leeds. We welcome proposals for papers, panels, or for something more innovative if the spirit moves you! wordpress.com/page/bams.ac... @modernistudies.bsky.social

Fitzcarraldo Editions have made the eBook of Adania Shibli's Minor Detail, translated by Elisabeth Jaquette, free to download for the entirety of the Frankfurt Bookfair (via Amazon, Apple Books and Kobo - links in their tweet: twitter.com/Fitzcarraldo... )

A major conference ahead on the legacies of #LaurenBerlant: BERLANT’S AMERICA at Northwestern U., 26-27 October. @dukepress.bsky.social Details & registration ➡️ cgcc.soc.northwestern.edu/berlants-ame...

On October 23rd, at 6 pm EST, on Zoom, the Novel Theory seminar at Harvard will be showcasing _Losing the Plot_, the new book by @pdabashi.bsky.social. Paul Saint Amour (Penn) will lead the discussion. Pls join us, Bluesky pals! Info' here: mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/event/losing...

VCologies Early Career Paper Prize 2024—awarded to work by rising scholars on “ecological thinking in the Anglophone world, 1750-1945.” Pls help spread the word 🌿

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!

Do you still have to wait three more months for the publication of IMMEDIACY? Yes. Does the delay weaponize our impatience to reinforce the claims of the book? Maybe. Perhas this collection of six appearances by @annakornbluh.bsky.social on The American Vandal Podcast can be a temporary salve.

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

So I assume this means the machine is in the throes of an existential crisis

Submissions to @sarahlwasserman.bsky.social and my "Forgotten Forms" due Sept. 30!

Commissioning reviews for Studies in the Novel. Which recent (just published / published in last few years) monographs are you most excited about? Any book focused on the novel & / or narrative welcome. Also interested in the anti-novel (for lack of a better word) if it’s the right fit!

Novel Dialogue is back with a new season devoted to "The Weird!" We have form, genre, climate, and nonhuman narration all coming up for discussion plus a bonus episode with Kate Marshall!

Eek here it is, friends! My big debut In the Chronicle. In seriousness, I’m psyched to have this opportunity and hope I can do some good. (If you’re interested in reading but can’t access it, please just lemme know. Happy to help with that!) www.chronicle.com/article/why-...

Literary / cultural studies people who just arrived, let me know if you want to be added to the Lit/cult feed #lit bsky.app/profile/did:...

Arundhati Roy tonight; JM Coetzee and Susan Howe on Thursday: amazing week of events in Lausanne! www.logicandmodernliterature.net/program

Announcing the Inaugural Post45 Essay Prizes! One for PhD students & recent PhDs and one for contingent scholars. Winners receive $500 and publication in the journal (pending peer review). All submissions considered for publication. Submit by 1/15/24! Please circulate widely! post45.org/prizes-cfp/

what are the biggest university partnerships with the energy industry? u of oklahoma has one of the oldest; stanford sustainability accelerator has new digs; what else? @ketanjoshi.co any ideas where to look for a list? (thanks for reskeets)

Here's the first and still crucial way faculty have organized to resist these nonsensical, cruel, and self-destructive cuts -- an anonymous blog post with real data.

Also my go-to. One of my best classroom experiences as a student was when the prof spent over an hour on the first lines of To the Lighthouse

Might as well announce it here: Paul Reitter's new translation of Capital, vol. 1, with editorial notes by Reitter and Paul North and an afterword by moi, has passed through review at Princeton and will be going into production very soon. Been a long time coming, but it should arrive in 2024!

Sending off the article…reviewing final proofs

I’d be available to consult on what to do with admin and college coaches at a fraction of these costs

An incomplete list, from coast to coast & spanning every type of school: -University of Kansas -Loyola Maryland -SUNY -CUNY -Mizzou -Gallaudet -UCR -UVA -Washington State -GWU -UT–Austin -Utica -Goucher -dozens of community colleges

"WVU administration's proposal is a result of financial mismanagement, lack of institutional transparency, & an astonishing failure to recognize the power of education in transforming the lives of West Virginians." https://slate.com/human-interest/2023/08/west-virginia-university-cuts-programs.html