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english @ city college, cuny | modernism, cold war, contemporary lit, media, the novel | INSTITUTIONAL CHARACTER out now with uva press (https://bit.ly/inst-char)
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Hiii, friends🪻 My new book on Louise Glück is out today and free to read/download/gift to your loved ones etc. for the next two weeks doi.org/10.1017/9781...

New Shows coming this Spring! Most Wednesdays at 3pm. Free tix available soon.

open.substack.com/pub/translat... This piece is part of our project on translation flows. It’s about how the path a book follows through the world’s languages reflects its genre and its political appropiability.

A (soft) launch for a new writing venture today!

💥We’ve extended the deadline for An Fód Dúchais: Home, Heritage and Origins, the 8th International Flann O’Brien Conference💥 Get your proposals in by 14 February 2025. Join us and amazing keynote speakers Dr Tobias W. Harris (Birkbeck), Dr Michael Pierse (QUB), Dr Emily Ridge (Galway)

Having trouble sleeping? Hear me talk about my new book on poetry, suffering, and Louise Glück: www.cambridge.org/EIPP_Hadjiyiannis

Really great to be part of this colloquium with @johannawinant.bsky.social, @ehayot.bsky.social and others, and to see it published in the new (gigantic) issue of Symploke: muse.jhu.edu/article/946632

Really great to be part of this colloquium with @johannawinant.bsky.social, @ehayot.bsky.social and others, and to see it published in the new (gigantic) issue of Symploke: muse.jhu.edu/article/946632

We are now on BlueSky! The 2025 Conference of the Society for Novel Studies will be held at Duke in late May. Check out our website to find more about this year's theme. Program will be live shortly sites.duke.edu/sns2025/cfps...

Out this week — and delighted and honoured to be in it. Congratulations and thanks @matthewtaunton.bsky.social & Rachel Potter 🙏🏽💡🤔💭📚

more from me on close reading! I wrote a fun conference paper: three parts all with the same title-- how close reading goes off --but each about a different connotation of that same title, each using a different piece of the same Dickinson poem now published here! muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/artic...

A great new Substack by @andrask.bsky.social and friends, on literary translation

high school teacher asks: "is there a site w short videos of people describing their professions+their college major, to help guide students, show them all the different things people do?" we made humanitiesworks.org and individual depts have alumni roundtables, but got video testimonials? please RT

years ago the V21 Collective & Jennifer Doyle started a database of funded MA programs in English. It's still a fantastic resource for helping students find chances to remove themselves, if just for a year or two, from the maelstrom of fully commodified life docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

FICTION magazine founding editor Mark Mirsky with student editorial staff, English Department, CUNY. One of the great American literary magazines publishing prose fiction.

Quick question: I've been moderating the MSA's social media accounts for the last year but was very inactive on the org's X account. I've let members know that we are planning to stop using it. We have a lot of followers on there, but our board approved our move here. Is it ok to just delete it?

Gertrud Kauders 7: My great aunt Gertrud Kauders’ works were concealed behind the walls of a Prague house before the Nazis murdered her, were forgotten and found by chance in 2018. Almost 700 works, her whole studio. Here Gertrud’s Jean Rhys side.

Gertrud Kauders 6: My great aunt Gertrud Kauders’ works were concealed behind the walls of a Prague house before the Nazis murdered her, were forgotten and found by chance in 2018. Almost 700 works, her whole studio. An oil from late in life: the flower a symbol of transitoriness and impending doom.

So happy about this beautiful new site and grateful to Steve Nathaniel for his work making it!

Quote post with an underrated post-punk or new wave record

Quote post with an underrated post-punk or new wave record

To all the academics out there: do you have a system for doing preliminary, open-ended thinking? A way to way to record and work on your ideas that’s open-ended and not tied to a specific project? Do you work out a lot of your ideas in notes or unstructured writing? How do you do it?

Friends, new and old! My book is 40% off with code EXMSTA24 for a short time. Crafting Feminism from Literary Modernism to the Multimedia Present global.oup.com/academic/pro...

We're thrilled to be Chicago this morning for the Modernist Studies Association Conference! Come visit the Hopkins Press booth, browse our titles, and treat yourself to a special conference discount on all orders!! #MSA2024

If you're at the MSA conference in Chicago right now, please tag our new Blue Sky account!

Time for MSA posting @moderniststudies.bsky.social !!!

the MLA should have panels on federal ed policy

At The Modernist Review we have just launched a CfP for a 'Modernism and Data' Special Issue with guest editor Mia Cecily Florin-Sefton (Columbia University). Details below! Please circulate widely.

I'm helping run FLESH FEEDBACK, this year's iteration of NYU IDM's speaker series, themed around haptics & wearables. First event is next Friday & featuring Keith Kirkland, happening at the Tandon campus in Brooklyn. Details in link, hmu w/any questions. www.eventbrite.com/e/idm-x-onas...

it's kind of a shame that the two norms for literary interpretation are "here's the wildest claim I think I can get away with" and "previous scholarship is utterly unsupported by the evidence, here's what the author says this means in a letter titled 'What My Book Means.'

I wrote a thing about one of my favorite weird writers, Antoine Volodine, over at @ancillaryreview.bsky.social

excellent round-up of new humanities scholarship on infrastructure! www.publicbooks.org/what-is-the-...

I guessed right! You should read Percival Everett’s The Trees!

Tagging plenary speakers, seminar leaders, and NOVEL journal folks! Please help spread the word about SNS 2025: Novel Languages hosted by Duke University @stephaniedegooyer.bsky.social, @isanchezprado.bsky.social, @nicolerizzuto.bsky.social, @charlottesussman.bsky.social, @jackquirk.bsky.social

The Society of Novel Studies is holding its biennial conference: NOVEL LANGUAGES at Duke next year and the CFP is up now! Please check out our site for more info about all the great seminars, keynotes, and more and consider submitting!! sites.duke.edu/sns2025/