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A bright side for me this week has been having several exciting conversations about books and bookish ideas on which folks are working 📚

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A fantastic podcast episode from the Minnesota Historical Society, featuring public historian Lizzie Ehrenhalt, on Leon Belmont, gender, and taking historical figures on their own terms. www3.mnhs.org/unraveled/ep...

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Extremely excited to see Postpolitics and the Aesthetic Imagination one step closer to being out in the world--this is an edited volume that you'll want to read from cover to cover! @dissentum.bsky.social

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Reading a fantastic manuscript that I can't wait to see in print. This is the way to do Fridays!

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I thought that white nationalist ideas about NASA was going to be a very obscure topic for an interview, and then I saw what Trump was doing to the space agency

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Listen up! "How does a focus on blackness complicate traditional understandings of history and culture?" Parisa Vaziri rethinks the history of African enslavement in the western Indian Ocean through the lens of Iranian cinema newbooksnetwork.com/racial-black...

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Melody Jue's absolutely beautiful Forerunner, Coralations, is here!

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Check out Speculative Whiteness by Jordan S. Carroll @jordanscarroll.bsky.social on the Locus 2024 Recommended Reading List! locusmag.com/2025/02/2024... via @locusmag.bsky.social mag

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There are a lot of things I like about being disabled, all the upper body strength I’ve developed being a surprising example, but traveling is emphatically not one.

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Some good news: Suzanne Bost's Quiet Methodologies is here! This innovative book reimagines humanities scholarship with humility and inclusive attention.

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Add Joshua Gooch's @joshuagooch.bsky.social Capitalism Hates You to the top of your TBR pile now!

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"Stardust: Cinematic Archives at the End of the World is an impressive, accessible, and luminous offering of scientific and cinematic enquiry." Annals of Light in Hannah Goodwin’s Stardust: Cinematic Archives at the End of the World www.sensesofcinema.com/2024/book-re...

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Just in and such a great start to the weekend: Jules O'Dwyer's @julesod.bsky.social The Seduction of Space

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if you missed my talk the other day about Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right, you can check out a recording here:

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I'm so excited to be holding Beenash Jafri's Settler Attachments and Asian Diasporic Film in my hands!

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social offers practical wisdom on dealing with "Reader 2" in her latest column How to Respond (Politely) to a Negative Peer Review www.chronicle.com/article/how-...

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This is so good, & so useful for placing current conflict within broader contexts necessary to understand it. Would like to pull a dozen quotes, but will settle for this fragment: "a member organization until members threaten to get in the way of the 'real work'" - @rcolesworthy.bsky.social

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If you are still at MLA, go to the @uminnpress.bsky.social booth and say hi to @lpennywark.bsky.social!

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It’s the last day to visit @uminnpress.bsky.social at #mla25, but you can still visit our books online and take advantage of our sale at www.upress.umn.edu/mla25/

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Spotted at the @uminnpress.bsky.social booth at #mla25! 😍 Kudos to editors @gabrielh.bsky.social, Anouk Lang, & Simon Appleford—I’m super honored to have my words in this volume 📚🎉

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It’s day 2 in the book exhibit at #mla25! Stop by and see us @uminnpress.bsky.social or check out our online exhibit at www.upress.umn.edu/mla25/

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We're ready to rock, #MLA25! Come on over, or check out our list online: www.upress.umn.edu/mla25/

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We’ve got Lisa Diedrich’s @lisadiedrich.bsky.social Illness Politics and Hashtag Activism and other new and wonderful Forerunners on sale!

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Stop by the Minnesota booth @uminnpress.bsky.social at #mla25 and check out new books at 30% off!

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Jordan S. Carroll’s @jordanscarroll.bsky.social Speculative Whiteness on ARB's 2024 Notable Criticism ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/01/05/a...

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Happy publication day to Chris Washington! Nonbinary Jane Austen is a provocative analysis of Jane Austen as an early gender abolitionist www.upress.umn.edu/978151791758...

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There's only one week left that this code is valid! If you haven't ordered a copy of Abolition Time yet, make sure you get a chance to use MN92070 for 30% off on the @uminnpress.bsky.social website! www.upress.umn.edu/978151791789...

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Jess A. Goldberg's @jessagoldberg.bsky.social Abolition Time "reveals how literary studies can help undo carceral epistemologies embedded in language and poetics." player.fm/series/new-b...

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Out this year! Postpolitics and the Aesthetic Imagination is a brilliant book. Contributors explore how the aesthetic imagination can play a crucial role in reenvisioning our politics.

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Chris Washington's Forerunner, Nonbinary Jane Austen, is here in time for #MLA25!

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The Syllabus just named my conversation David Higgins about Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right on @uminnpress.bsky.social the podcast of the week!

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I published a few things this year. For starters, my book dropped. /x

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All new guest essay by @lydiaxzbrown.bsky.social for the Disability Visibility Project Not Just Gus Walz: Understanding the Ableist Logic of Toxic White Masculinity in the New Eugenics Era disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2024/12/15/n...

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"It’s not too late for the world’s largest organization of professional humanists to find its voice, stand against genocide alongside our Palestinian colleagues, and recall what it means to be human."

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🎧 New episode on our podcast: @jordanscarroll.bsky.social in conversation with David M. Higgins on science fiction and the alt-right: share.transistor.fm/s/f4891bf5

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Grateful for the privilege of staying inside and warm on this cold morning!

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publishing job: Acquisitions Assistant UNC Press Chapel Hill, NC $41K 👇🏻

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I had a far-ranging conversation with David Higgins about Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right on the University of Minnesota Press podcast!

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Happy pub day to @jessagoldberg.bsky.social! Abolition Time is "utterly necessary." It "encourages us to reimagine what being human could mean in a world where people were truly free." www.upress.umn.edu/978151791789...

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On democracy: Essential reading from university presses, compiled by @aupresses.bsky.social: digitaldigest.up.hcommons.org/2024/12/09/o...

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Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right is in great company on Contingent's 2024 in lit studies list — thank you @rcolesworthy.bsky.social and @hartmann-villalta.bsky.social for including me!

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I was not (and am still not) ready for Christmas carols in the gym

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My interview with Salvador Lopez Rivera about Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right for the New Books Network is now available! I really enjoyed our conversation. open.spotify.com/episode/1HAN...

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Enjoying a day off with Tracy Chapman, coffee, and Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch

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