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Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Working on this reported essay, just published, increasingly took over my life for the last two months. PEN America did a terrible disservice with its sloppy reporting about American Jews and Israelis in publishing in July. Josh Lambert and I tried to do better. jewishcurrents.org/what-pen-ame...

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What PEN America Got Wrong About Antisemitism in Publishing

Misleading anecdotes, flawed data, and oversimplified analyses are at the heart of a narrative of Jewish exclusion promoted by the free expression…

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Sarah Brouillette @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

my book is out now 🫶 💗 $18 with coupon code E26CNTNT enjoy!!!??? :)

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Content Machines: Reading and Writing in the Platform Era

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Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

$18 EXTREMELY WELL SPENT! Get at it folks. This book is brilliant.

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cmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If you are a graduate student in the humanities (construed as broadly as possible), what is the MOST EXCITING book published in the last five years to you? Please repost if you’re not a graduate student!

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Scott Selisker @sselisker.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

My new book is out in the world a little early, and in the hands of an exceptionally wonderful human!

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Scott Selisker @sselisker.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Sample chapter up! "Ways of Reading the Character Network" from my forthcoming book. Expands my Bechdel Test article, w/ more angles on vernacular criticism (manic pixie dream girls, sidekicks of color, minor-character elaborations), character, humanities v. dataviz. academic.oup.com/book/63155/c...

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Ways of Reading the Character Network

Abstract. This chapter elaborates on contemporary reading practices that center the character network: vernacular criticism like the Bechdel test and other

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Anna Muenchrath, PhD (she/her) @annamuenchrath.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Just got my first in the black royalty statement for Making World Literature. It's $4.98.

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Nick Seaver @nickseaver.website · 08/09/2026

First class of the semester is completed. Running iteration 9 of my seminar, How to Pay Attention. Doing it fully on paper this year, but the web copy of the syllabus is here: classes.nickseaver.net/HTPA/

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How to Pay Attention

Undergraduate seminar critically examining attention: how it is measured, valued, and managed in social, cultural, and technical contexts, from driver monitoring to AI.

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Anna Muenchrath, PhD (she/her) @annamuenchrath.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

My favorite. Do hope to still write a better one, but remain pleased with it.

Footnote reading, "The traditional gesture toward Goethe's words is repeated in Pascale Casanova, The World Republic of Letters, trans. M. B. DeBevoise (1999; repr., Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007), 13-14; Pheng Cheah, What Is a World? On Postcolonial Literature as World Literature (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2016), 6; David Damrosch, What Is World Literature? (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2003),
3; Stefan Helgesson and Pieter Vermeulen, eds., Institutions of World Literature: Writing, Translation, Markets (New York: Routledge, 2015), 3;
Franco Moretti, "Conjectures on World Literature," New Left Review 1 (February 2000): 54; Aamir R. Mufti, "Orientalism and the Institution of World Literatures," Critical Inquiry 36, no. 3 (2010): 465; John Pizer, The Idea of World Literature: History and Pedagogical Practice (Baton Rouge:
LSU Press, 2006), 2; and Wail S. Hassan, "World Literature in the Age of Globalization: Reflections on an Anthology," College English 63, no. 1
(2000): 39. This list is not exhaustive but aims to trace a network of influence, which I have now joined, and in which the reference to Goethe acts as a sort of protocol."

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Devin Garofalo @devingarofalo.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

GREETINGS.

Cover of my forthcoming monograph, Nineteenth-Century Poetry and Cosmologies of the Human, featuring an image by John Ruskin of ferns, moss, florals, and rock in shades of sage green, teal, and lavendar.

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Anna Muenchrath, PhD (she/her) @annamuenchrath.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I think I’ve decided on Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep as the shared fiction text for my spring lit theory class for non majors (I know!). now assembling the theory readings. Recs appreciated!

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Anna Muenchrath, PhD (she/her) @annamuenchrath.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Informative thread. I'm not surprised by the growth in legal studies. Growing up, I can't remember there being so much high stakes discussion of what's happening in US courts with lawyers and judges often being (presented as) democracy's last defense. If I were a student, I would want in too!

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Charlotte Mandell @avecsesdoigts.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Just out! From @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social. Mathias Énard's first novel, translated by me

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Anna Muenchrath, PhD (she/her) @annamuenchrath.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Getting great professional news while on maternity leave creates the terrifyingly elusive and addictive feeling that I “have” “it” “all.”

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Günter Leypoldt @guenterleypoldt.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Really enjoyed reviewing Anna Muenchrath's brilliant book on "Making World Literature" academic.oup.com/alh/issue/38/3

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Stephen Guy-Bray @stephengb.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

The University of Toronto is advertising a tenure-track job in Global Anglophone Literature and Postcolonial Theory. I pasted information below. Full details: jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-... Closing Date: October 15, 2026

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Assistant Professor - Global Anglophone Literature

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Anna Muenchrath, PhD (she/her) @annamuenchrath.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

What an essay! Wonder if it will affect students the same way it seems to be affecting people who teach writing. . .

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Anna Muenchrath, PhD (she/her) @annamuenchrath.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

It is such an honor to be read so generously by the likes of @guenterleypoldt.bsky.social and in the pages of ALH no less! academic-oup-com.portal.lib.fit.edu/alh/article/...

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Shibboleth Authentication Request

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Anna Muenchrath, PhD (she/her) @annamuenchrath.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

What kind of masochist is choosing 6 here?!

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Juan Meneses @dissentum.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Check out my CFP, "Views from the Global South: New Horizons in World Literature," for ACLA 2027. It will be online, and there are plans for a follow-up publication.

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Anna Muenchrath, PhD (she/her) @annamuenchrath.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I have an essay on techno-optimistic ”edits” of The Diamond Age coming out later this year. . . So ubiquitous and a real argument for the necessity of close reading as a skill.

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Anna Muenchrath, PhD (she/her) @annamuenchrath.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Just finished Cocteau’s Beauty and the Beast. Not sure I would have taken out the singing and dancing furniture. 3/5 ⭐️

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Paula Krebs @paulakrebs.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

TODAY. If you have a canceled NEH grant, please attend.

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Anna Muenchrath, PhD (she/her) @annamuenchrath.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Fellow Authors: without any context, what's the first line of your current work in progress?

Only an estimated three percent of books published in the US annually are translations—one percent if you’re interested in fiction only. This compares to numbers like 30 percent in France, 40 percent in Turkey, and 70 percent in Slovenia. Although there are many possible reasons for this, including US myopia when it comes to the rest of the world, a key factor is that the rapidly conglomerating and rationalizing publishing industry, increasingly concerned with shareholder profit, is unwilling to take risks on the expensive prospect of translation. It is in this context that Amazon Publishing founded its translation imprint, Amazon Crossing, in 2010. Within five years it became the largest translation publisher in the US.

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Tamoor Hussain @tamoorh.com · 03/07/2026

Incredible moment where Fox News puts up a graphic with all the reasons it opposes the DSA and why people should be afraid of them

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Anna Muenchrath, PhD (she/her) @annamuenchrath.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Doing a final read through before I send out the book proposal 😬

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Anna Muenchrath, PhD (she/her) @annamuenchrath.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

“The United States commands the world from atop a mountain of skulls.”

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Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Want some summer reading? How about a "book about books about computing"?? I have a new book out via @mitpress.bsky.social Details at: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255348... #HistSci #Computing #History #Books 🗃️

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

wanna learn more about myths and lies, and truths and numbers, on lifetime employment opportunities for english majors and other humanists? we've got (free) merch! humanitiesworks.org

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HUMANITIES WORKS – posters, postcards, and handouts to support the humanities

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Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go (which is a dream to teach) pairs so well with Frankenstein (ditto). Each is so good for teaching narrative form.

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Juan Meneses @dissentum.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Friends! Consider submitting an abstract for the ACLA 2027 seminar "Views from the Global South: New Horizons in World Literature" I have just proposed. Please click on the link for details, let me know if you have any questions, and please repost! www.acla.org/seminar/fcb8...

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View Seminar | American Comparative Literature Association

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Dr Michele V @micheleveldsman.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

“I have done all of the things that one is supposed to do to earn a tenure-track position. And I have done approximately 85% of them by typing prompts into a large language model and then moderately editing the output.” 🤣🤣🤣 brilliant 👌🏽 open.substack.com/pub/inprepar...

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Opinion: I Was Not Allowed To Type Prompts Into ChatGPT During My Chalk Talk And This Is Discrimination

By Dr. Rachel Simmons, Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University

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Nick Seaver @nickseaver.website · 25/06/2026

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Dan Hassler-Forest @danhf.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

After seemingly endless revisions, second-guessing, and even more revisions, I have now finally settled on a final (!) list of viewing assignments for this fall's new iteration of my Introduction to Media Studies class, structured around @mznewman.bsky.social's wonderful textbook.

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

A few years ago I mocked up a facsimile of this manuscript just so I could get my head around its mechanics. I'm co-authoring an essay that discusses it so I opened this video I made, and you can hear my dog (then puppy) whimpering the background...my poor heart! www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

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Anna Muenchrath, PhD (she/her) @annamuenchrath.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Current outline of chapter one. Welcoming heckles, comments, and questions that are more of comments.

Fictions and Datafictions: Translating Judgment and Europa Editions’ Bestsellers
Judgment Born-Translated: Ratings, Subscriptions, and the Most-Read List
Making Judgment Valuable: Desemanticization, Difference, and Prediction
Converting Symbolic, Economic, and Data Capital
Literacy, Judgment, and Opacity in Europa Editions’ Bestsellers
The Elegance of the Hedgehog
Fresh Water for Flowers
The Neapolitan Quartet
Fiction and Datafiction

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Sarah Brouillette @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Now available for preorder, arriving in warehouse 10/02/2026: dukeupress.edu/content-mach... Duke UP gave me a discount code for 30% off paperback preorders: it's E26CNTNT ♥️👍

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Content Machines: Reading and Writing in the Platform Era

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Anna Muenchrath, PhD (she/her) @annamuenchrath.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

How good do you usually feel about something before submitting it (at the peer review stage)? 100%? 90%?

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Edge Effects @edgeeffectsmag.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

From sugarcane plantations to broken electricity poles, Bad Bunny presented and protested the historical and lived realities of Puerto Rico during this year's Super Bowl. Today in the Botanical Imaginations series, Isaac Salazar takes a closer look at his botanical aesthetic. 🐰 🇵🇷

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Bad Bunny's Botanical, Eco-Rasquache Aesthetic - Edge Effects

Bad Bunny's agricultural imagery and eco-rasquache aesthetic reflects and protests historical and lived realities of Puerto Rico.

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Anna Muenchrath, PhD (she/her) @annamuenchrath.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Finished Department of Speculation and now on Archive of Lost Children (on a mothering kick).

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

The AAUP chapters at Vanderbilt & Wash U have issued a joint statement denouncing the “State of Scholarship” report commissioned by their chancellors. Please, let’s make this as widely read as the gaslighting to which it responds.

Joint Statement on the "State of Scholarship" Report
The Vanderbilt University and Washington University chapters of the American Association of University Professors express our profound disagreement with the "State of Scholarship" report commissioned by our universities' chancellors. The report distorts the state of humanistic and social scientific scholarship at our universities and in the academy overall. Worse, it proposes a shocking intrusion of university administration into faculty governance and portends greater threats to academic freedom that should concern all faculty.
The report currently appears on Vanderbilt's website under the insignia of both Vanderbilt and Washington Universities. It is already receiving public condemnation. As the American Council of Learned Societies makes clear, the report is founded on false premises and anecdotal evidence and thus does nothing to "ensure deeper and more meaningful relations among scholars and members of the public." No doubt more rebuttals from scholars, departments, and professional societies will follow. It suffices for us to say that the report falls far short of the standards of political neutrality and disinterested inquiry it claims to champion. Historians, literary scholars, and anthropologists are singled out for caricature while the authors fail to acknowledge their own public biases against scholarship performed in the name of social justice. Nor does the report divulge its source of funding or conflicts of interest that may entail - standard practice for any work of humanistic or social scientific scholarship. In sum, the report is itself a clear example of "politicized" research that its authors attempt to decry.
What is most alarming is the guidance the report offers to its intended audience of university chancellors and presidents. By falsely arguing that humanities and social science departments are in the throes of an epistemological crisis, the authors lay the groundwork for university adminis…

Weakening faculty governance does nothing to solve the real challenges facing our universities, and undermines our ability to effectively address society's most profound problems and challenges, from the inequalities of wealth and white supremacy to the political consequences of climate change.
Indeed, the direst threats to public trust in higher education are not philosophical debates about the nature of truth. Currently, the federal government is dramatically cutting funding for the humanities and social sciences as well as for the natural sciences, engineering, medicine, public health, and the arts. In response, university administrations have instituted austerity measures, even as administrative salaries and administrative positions have taken up an increasing share of decreasing budgets.
The best way for scholars to cultivate diverse opinions and advance knowledge is by strengthening academic freedom. Political threats to higher education have degraded, and will continue to degrade, the quality of all fields of our universities' research, to the detriment of America's global standing.
We note that the organizations now working most actively and successfully to defend academic free inquiry from politicized federal interference are not university leaders but the American Council of Learned Societies, the Modern Language Association, and the American Historical Association - professional societies of the very disciplines chastised by the report.
We call on our chancellors to rescind the report and affirm their commitment to the intellectual autonomy of faculty, academic departments, and governing faculty bodies. Administrative interference into academic departments, as licensed by this report, is a violation of the standards of academic freedom that have made American universities the envy of the world. Rather than undermining these bedrock principles, administrators should vigorously and publicly defend them.
Vanderbilt University AAUP
vanderbiltaaup@gmail.com
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 12/06/2026

One thing I'm really struck by here is the authors' constant denial of political entanglement & nonepistemic values as motivation for a project which then seems to rest entirely on or take great pains to skirt its own obvious political and valuative implications or motivations. Like… very basically…

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Anna Muenchrath, PhD (she/her) @annamuenchrath.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

in my undergrad research class I taught students how to use zotero so they could focus their limited time on reading and writing. it didn’t surprise me when this got pushback only from faculty on the tenure track with a lower teaching load, who have time to do manual citations.

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Paula Krebs @paulakrebs.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

If you were not able to help us out with the costs of our lawsuit against DOGE last year, you still have a chance! We are still in the courts fighting for the NEH on appeal, and we could really use your help with the legal costs. This is the fund we use: www.mla.org/About-Us/Sup...

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Paving the Way: For the Future of the Humanities

Students and faculty members in the humanities face mounting challenges—from skepticism about the value of humanities education to deteriorating pay and working conditions. The MLA is committed to res...

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