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Arnab Dutta Roy @arnabdr.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Haha! CatTV drives my cats absolutely nuts! They love it!

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Daisy Rockwell @shreedaisy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Delighted that my translation of Geetanjali Shree’s Our City that Year is in this excellent long list from @womenintranslation.bsky.social ! 🧿

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Kevin Moorebidity @kevinwmoore.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

From this day on 2012: probably the most popular thing I’ve ever drawn.

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Arnab Dutta Roy @arnabdr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Spring 2027 courses are ready to roll. Now, just hoping for good enrollment 🤞🏾

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I am thrilled to announce that the American Studies Program at Boston University will be accepting new PhD Students for the 27/28 academic year. These are fully funded, unionized, 5-year positions, with 4 semesters of guaranteed dissertation fellowship in years 4 & 5.

Application Deadline: December 15, 2026
The American Studies Program at Boston University is a nationally recognized leader in the interdisciplinary field of American Studies. Our students and faculty study the disparate yet interconnected cultures of colonial North America and the United States as seen in the ideas and actions of its people, and as expressed in a range of forms, especially culture, the arts, media, literature, and institutions - often seen through a global or transnational lens. Formerly known as the American & New England Studies Program, we maintain active collaborations with many cultural institutions in the region, especially in the Boston Area. Our large PhD program has produced tenure-track protessors, public historians, museum curators, and directors at major universities, museums, and other cultural and historical institutions.
Funding Opportunities
PhD students receive full funding for up to five years (12 months a year) under a collective bargaining agreement. During this time, they take courses, teach in their fields and disciplines of interest, and develop and write dissertations. The fellowship package guarantees four semesters of dissertation fellowship in years 4 and 5, with no service obligations Additional funding is available from Boston University for travel to conferences, for archival research, and for internships.
Current students have recently received outside fellowships from the Fulbright Foundation, the American Antiquarian Society, the Massachusetts Historical Society, the Huntington Library, the Smithsonian Institution, the Beinecke Library, the Corning Museum of Glass, the New Bedford Whaling Museum, and the American Historical Association.
Graduate Student Association
The Program's own independent Graduate Student Association (GSA) is comprised of elected PhD students who sponsor events and programs for developing professional skills, while representing our students' interests to the governing faculty.

A list of affiliate faculty, available also on the program’s webpage

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Arnab Dutta Roy @arnabdr.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Please check out this @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social episode where I speak to @shreedaisy.bsky.social about her fantastic new novel, Alice Sees Ghosts. Link below: newbooksnetwork.com/alice-sees-g...

Image features information about Daisy Rockwell’s novel Alice Sees Ghosts and link to podcast.

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Arnab Dutta Roy @arnabdr.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I have long admired & followed @amitbaishya.bsky.social’s work, so I was delighted to find this wonderful book in my mailbox today. Many thanks, Amit, for generously sending me a copy from your own personal stash. I can’t wait to read it and then have a conversation with you about it.

Cover image of the book Attunement of Others by Amit Baishya

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Arnab Dutta Roy @arnabdr.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It did take a while for it to get to me. But to be completely fair, I was out for a few days, so I was not able to get to the mailbox. In any case, i am happy that i have it now 🩷

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Juan Meneses @dissentum.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

CFP: "Views from the Global South: New Horizons in World Literature" ACLA 2027 seminar! It explores new disciplinary horizons that emerge from the comparative friction between the categories “world literature” and “Global South.” There are plans for a possible follow-up publication.

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View Seminar | American Comparative Literature Association

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Pavel Andrade @pavelandrade.com · 30/07/2026

Combined and uneven modernism seminar for the upcoming ACLA. In person, U of Houston, 20-23 May, 2027. How do peripheral literatures register, model, and think the historical and material configurations of the world system? www.acla.org/seminar/f2f2...

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View Seminar | American Comparative Literature Association

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Jay Shelat @jshelat1.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Friends, my book—No Place for Home: Terror and Race in Literature After 9/11—has a cover! I’m so pleased with what Rachel Moeller and the design team at @uminnpress.bsky.social came up with! The book will be out in Spring 2027 and that I’ll post a pre-order link once it’s available! 1/2

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Arnab Dutta Roy @arnabdr.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Many congratulations! This looks fantastic!

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Elisabeth R. Anker @libankerdc.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

AI is the largest theft of labor in history, but the case doesn't go far enough -- AI steals not only from journalists and researchers but from authors throughout history, from policymakers and legal writers, from photographers and artists in every medium.

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Arnab Dutta Roy @arnabdr.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Came home after a long day of work to find this beautiful gift! Thank you so much @shreedaisy.bsky.social! This absolutely made my day! 🩷🩷

Image displaying the cover of book Mixed Metaphor by Daisy Rockwell.

This image shows the opening page of Mixed Metaphors signed by the author, Daisy Rockwell.

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Join Lauren M.E. Goodlad, editor of @criticalai-journal.bsky.social, for a workshop titled "Teaching Critical AI Literacies," next Thursday, 9/23, at 4:30 pm, in the Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall at @fhiduke.bsky.social More information here: buff.ly/0el2U3a

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Robert Tally @roberttally.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

My copy just arrived: Fredric Jameson's posthumous companion volume to "The Years of Theory," here addressing postwar German thought. Thanks (and congratulations) to editor Carson Welch for putting this together so marvelously. www.versobooks.com/products/353...

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After Year Zero

In this series of accessible lectures, Fredric Jameson explores German philosophy and critical theory as it developed in the wake of World War Two. Focusing on key thinkers — Horkheimer, Adorno, Heid...

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Jay Shelat @jshelat1.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Friends, @keeblearin.bsky.social and i are giving a talk with @bacls.bsky.social this Friday, September 18 at 9am EST / 2pm BST. I’d love for you to come! You can register for free here: luma.com/pujm2k86

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

"Inland Empire" by Manuel Shvartzberg Carrió explores how modernist architecture and urbanism structured US settler colonialism, placing them in critical dialogue with Indigenous design and resistance in Southern California. Read the intro for free: buff.ly/XnZvixp

Cover of Inland Empire: Settler Colonialism and Modern Architecture in Southern California by Manuel Shvartzberg Carrió. The cover shows a modern white house with a white fence on a slightly elevated desert landscape surrounded by palm trees and other, light greenery. Mountains appear in the hazy background against a pale blue sky. Shadows stretch across the desert foreground. The title and subtitle appear in white text across the center of the cover on the fence, with the author's name below.

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Raymond Williams had a birthday yesterday. we celebrated his 100th with this book. read some essays, read more Williams, read. like he says, culture is ordinary! www.bloomsbury.com/us/raymond-w...

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Raymond Williams at 100

Raymond Williams was “by common consent” one of the “two most commanding intellectual figures in the New Left that emerged in Britain at the t…

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Marcus Luther @marcusluther.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

You know when you read something, sigh deeply, and then want to shout to the heavens, "THANK YOU!" This report from MIT on AI is one of those things:

concerning effects of AI, per the MIT report (linked in reply)

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Unusual Whales @unusuqlwhalles.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

CFP! @joeykim.bsky.social & I are editing The Latinx-Asian Commons, an interdisciplinary collection on Asian-Latinx relationalities from the nineteenth century to 1965. We welcome 300–500-word proposals. Due October 8, 2026. Graduate students & contingent faculty encouraged! See photo for more info.

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Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

🗣️ Volume 56 of 'The Yearbook of English Studies' is out! Entitled 'Literature and Ethics in a Time of Crisis', the volume is edited by Charlotta Palmstierna Einarsson, Pieter Vermeulen, and Joakim Wrethed. 👉 www.mhra.org.uk/publications... Via @projectmuse.bsky.social 👉 muse.jhu.edu/issue/57375

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Aarthi Vadde @aarthivadde.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

This was such a fun conversation with Arnab and a nice change of pace for me to be a podcast guest!

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Arnab Dutta Roy @arnabdr.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

In the last @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social episode, I speak with the brilliant @aarthivadde.bsky.social about her fantastic new book We the Platform: How the Internet Changed Twenty First-Century Literature. Please check it out: newbooksnetwork.com/we-the-platf...

Information about New Books Network episode on Aarthi Vadde’s book We The Platform

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Christian Haines @cphiliphaines.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Looking for a compelling case for the relevance of Marxist criticism? Well, I've got a bunch of them! Liam Kruger, Oded Nir, and I put together a special issue of @culturalcritique.bsky.social on "Marxism, Form, and Futurity"! #humanities #marxism muse.jhu.edu/issue/57283

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Sarah Brouillette @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

The introduction to my book is now available online, thanks @dukepress.bsky.social 🫶 The official pub date is in October www.dukeupress.edu/content-mach....

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Arnab Dutta Roy @arnabdr.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

In the latest @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social episode, I had the great privilege of speaking with Guadeloupian author Marie Léticée and translator Kevin Meehan about their novel Camille's Lakou. Please check it out: newbooksnetwork.com/camilles-lakou

New Books Network webpage featuring information about episode on novel Camille’s Lakou

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Brett Karlan @oldjerryfodor.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

"We really need to work on the ethical implications of AI!" OK, cool, about how it's making poor people's lives worse? "... No" About how it's destroying education? "No not that" OK so which ethical implications are you talking about? "Oh, you know the ones ;)"

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 17/07/2026

There is a massive amount of research and literature on needed reforms to universities that nobody at The Atlantic, New York Times, New Yorker, or in the "thought industry" want to talk about or even pretend exists. Wonder why! www.press.jhu.edu/books/series...

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Critical University Studies

Books in the Critical University Studies series turn a cold eye on higher education to show how it is a site of struggle between private commercial interests and more public ones. They analyze how the...

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

today in journal special issues received! CULTURAL CRITIQUE features "Marxism, Form, and Futurity" special editors Liam Kruger, Oded Nir, and Christian Haines @cphiliphaines.bsky.social @culturalcritique.bsky.social

white and green hard copies of the journal special issue

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Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

DATA EMPIRE is on BookBub's Best Nonfiction of the Summer list! www.bookbub.com/blog/nonfict...

Data Empire
Roopika Risam
As a society, we use data to predict, control, and manage our
existence. From tax records to the weather, we collect and collate
information that is also power. In this NPR Summer Reading pick
professor Roopika Risam argues that this process began at the
very dawn of civilization, and very quickly morphed from an
effort to understand the world - by tracking seasons, crops, and
other environmental data points - to an ability to maintain
power over populations. This ability has been refined throughout
the centuries until modern-day computing power rendered it
almost omniscient and omnipotent, in control of every aspect of
our lives. Library Journal calls Data Empire
"a sweeping and
convincing argument that information undergirds power."
Release date: July 14

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Jonathan E. Abel @jonabel.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Look what came in the mail today!!! www.versobooks.com/products/347.... Thanks @versobooks.bsky.social!!! Officially out next month. Order yours today.

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Shabana Mir @shabana.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

I've been watching for the past decade as people in my circle & beyond have been declining (employment, income, quality of life). First it was precarity. Now the process is faster. People are moving into borderline poverty. I don't recall this rate of decline before. news.gallup.com/poll/702125/...

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American Optimism Slumps to Record Low

The percentage of U.S. adults who anticipate high-quality lives in five years declined to 59.2% in 2025, the lowest level since measurement began in 2008.

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Happy Saturday, friends. Obnoxiously re-upping the news that I won’t be writing a column for the Chronicle anymore but I hope you’ll still read and share my 10 pieces. And who knows, maybe someday I’ll spin and build them into something longer (a…book?? Sounds hard LOL).

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Learn more about our new July releases, including a collection on the work of Fredric Jameson, "The Future of Totality," edited by @roberttally.bsky.social, Nicholas Brown, Maria Elisa Cevasco and Fabio Akcelrud Durão. buff.ly/zs9RK2C

Cover of The Future of Totality: Fredric Jameson and the Prospects of Critical Theory edited by Nicholas Brown, Cevasco, Maria Elisa, Fabio Akcelrud Durão, and Tally Jr., Robert T.. The cover is a solid grey teal with a photograph of Fredric Jameson standing at a podium in front of a chalkboard that says ‘IDEOLOGY’. The title is written in a white serif font. The subtitle is below in a mint green. The editors’ names are below in a white sans serif.

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

The Weekly Read is "The Artist-Philosopher: Sylvia Wynter's Aesthetic Continuity and the Creative Act of Decolonial Theory" by manuel arturo abreu. The article appears in Sylvia Wynter and the Question of Technology, a special issue of Social Text. Read it for free through 9/30: buff.ly/EpumIFV

Cover of Social Text 167 featuring sculptural arrangement of curved metal tools against a white gallery wall and wooden floor

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Arnab Dutta Roy @arnabdr.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

My summer graduate course Utopias from the Global South is ready to roll! Excited!

Course flyer with image and description!

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Balu Puppy @balupuppy.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Thomas and Barbara Metcalf have been so important to the study of South Asia, for decades. Thomas was influential in shaping and informing South Asian and British imperial studies at Cal and the wider world. He will be missed. southasia.berkeley.edu/news/remembe...

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Remembering Prof. Thomas Metcalf (May 31, 1934–June 18, 2026) | The Institute for South Asia Studies

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Eric Rauchway @rauchway.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

and all of them are senior university administrators

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Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

We're proud to announce a new edition of Walter Rodney's seminal work, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa - out September 29th. www.versobooks.com/blogs/readin...

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Walter Rodney: A Lightning Rod of Black Working Class Power

On the anniversary of the assassination of Walter Rodney, we are proud to publish a new edition of his seminal work, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa.

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Arnab Dutta Roy @arnabdr.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Please check out this latest @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social episode where I speak with Jeffrey De Leo about his edited book Theory as World Literature. newbooksnetwork.com/theory-as-wo...

Webpage for the podcast episode “Theory as World Literature” featuring Jeffrey R. Di Leo showing the book cover, audio player, and summary of the book’s theme

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La vida en viñetas @lavidaenvinetas.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Marjane Satrapi

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Aarthi Vadde @aarthivadde.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Here comes the physical media! My first encounter with We the Platform in book form. I loved the cover already, but the yellow spine was a particularly nice surprise 😍

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