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Alexander Starre @astarre.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Thinking about personhood and interdependence at the JFK Institute today and tomorrow with a stellar group of people

Poster for dilemmas of interdependence conference

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Alexander Starre @astarre.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

A snack-sized new book and a bespoke set of snacks (caramel cold brew m&ms!) courtesy of the brilliant Eurie Dahn. What a tasty object lesson!

A bunch of candy and the new book on Snacks by Eurie Dahn

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Alexander Starre @astarre.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

A snack-sized new book and a bespoke set of snacks (caramel cold brew m&ms!) courtesy of the brilliant Eurie Dahn. What a tasty object lesson!

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Alexander Starre @astarre.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Today in books received. Can't wait to dig in @lbmcgrath.bsky.social

Cover of Laura McGrath's new book Middlemen

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The Bibliographical Society of America @bibsocamer.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

📖Talking Books: The Paratextual Communication between Edward P. Jones, Richard Wright, and James Baldwin📖 Learn more in Dustin Breitenwischer's article in the March 2026 issue of PBSA - Link in Bio🔗 🔍 DOI: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.10…

Black text on a lime green background with information about an article in a recent issue of The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America

Black text on a lime green background. Quote from the abstract of the article with information about the author at the bottom.

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Alexander Starre @astarre.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

The summer semester just started here in Berlin, which means our annual speaker series is about to kick off. If you're in the area, feel free to join us at the JFK Institute for any (or all) of these colloquium sessions (Wednesdays at 4pm). Link: www.jfki.fu-berlin.de/en/faculty/l...

Program of the research colloquium at the JFK Institute Berlin - details on our official website

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Alexander Starre @astarre.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Thinking about reading today at TU Dortmund

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Sheila Liming @seeshespeak.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Carnegie Mellon’s literature PhD is being liquidated in favor of “computation,” casualized labor, and AI. That has profound ramifications for, students, faculty, and program alums like myself. I wrote it about it (w/ Catherine Evans, a current PhD student). www.chronicle.com/article/a-co...

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Opinion | A Coup at Carnegie Mellon?

The university is replacing the humanities with more computers.

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Jeff (Hot Type) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Turns out sans serif is woke. At least they didn't switch to White House gilded script. At State Dept., a Typeface Falls Victim in the War Against Woke www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/u...

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At State Dept., a Typeface Falls Victim in the War Against Woke

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Alexander Starre @astarre.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

By accident, I discovered that if you google the names of some standard typefaces, the search results will appear in this very font. See below Time New Roman and (of course) Comic Sans.

google result page for "comic sans" set in comic sans

google results page for Times New Roman set in Times New Roman

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Günter Leypoldt @guenterleypoldt.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Thrilled to announce my new book (electronic version out now, print next month) — it proposes a new value theory grounded in the longue durée of literary institutions, 1800–present.

Cover of my book: Literature's Social Lives: A Socio-Institutional History of Literary Value. The Cover depicts a bookseller in 1930s Cambridge, with a book rack on her back, and a customer perusing one of her books

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Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Germans: be apprised. You can get yours, too.

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Public Books @publicbooks.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

New at PB: As part of a series exploring higher ed under Trump, curated by Dennis M. Hogan (@dennismhogan.bsky.social), Christopher Newfield tells us how waiting out Trump will inevitably fail. Instead, we must build a new cultural order.

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Academics Must Seize the Means of Knowledge Production - Public Books

Trumpism has canceled the knowledge society.

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Alexander Starre @astarre.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

The language of the AI policy for my fall courses is really taking shape.

selection of lyrics from Natasha Bedingfield's song "Unwritten" starting with "Staring at the blank page before you
Open up the dirty window"

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Fachbereich 09 Philologie der Universität Münster @fb09public.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

🎓✨ Apply Now: PhD Scholarships in Literature ✨🎓 Fully funded 3-year PhD scholarships at our Graduate School Practices of Literature @uni-muenster.de in Germany, with the possibility of a 4th-year extension. Apply by December 31, 2025! #PhD #Scholarship #LiteraryStudies More info: uni.ms/gssp

PHD Scholarships
For International Applicants
- Program in Literary Studies
- Funding for up to four years
- Start date: 1 Oct. 2026
- Deadline: 31 Dec. 2025
Apply now!

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Alexander Starre @astarre.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Life's little victories: writing n+1 headlines 4 months in advance.

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Hello. I wrote a nice long essay about AI and this very strange moment where we're constantly told we're living in the dawn of a strange new future but the only thing that's actually clear is that everyone feels pretty unmoored and uncertain. I hope you'll read it

theatlantic.com

AI Is a Mass-Delusion Event

Three years in, one of AI’s enduring impacts is to make people feel like they’re losing it.

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Anthony Obst @aobst.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

After Robert Gooding-Williams’ stint at the @ktbberlin.bsky.social summer school, @schlawinerkreis.bsky.social, Andreas-Johann Sorger and I are hosting a discussion at the Kennedy Institute on his new book @columbiaup.bsky.social www.jfki.fu-berlin.de/faculty/cult...

Poster for event with Robert Gooding-Williams at the Kennedy Institute in Berlin on July 7

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Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

The best ( @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social ) is here to clear up a very confused discourse

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Katrin Horn @katrinhorn.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

#dgfa2025 if I didn't shove a flyer into your hand the last few days, let me make up for that digitally: the volume co-edited with @improbable.bsky.social has finally seen the light of day and you can see it, too, at 30% off if you add EVENT30 at checkout www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781...

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Alexander Starre @astarre.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Absolute highlight of my academic year ⬇️⬇️

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Library of Anglo-American Culture & History @libraryaac.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Day 3 of #DGfA2025: Alexander Starre @astarre.bsky.social introduces the conference's 3rd keynote - Kinohi Nishikawa on Toni Morrison's Beloved.

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Alexander Starre @astarre.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

That's a wrap on our panel on literary institutions & periodicals. Great turnout, innovative contributions. C19 studies going strong! #dgfa2025

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Alexander Starre @astarre.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

I have a chapter in here on Du Bois and his first, unpublished novel. Not open access, but I'm happy to share.

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Alexander Starre @astarre.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Only now seeing this advertised on Bluesky. Get your open access essays from this wonderful volume ⬇️⬇️

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Great recs from @mattseybold.bsky.social on resisting technofeudal education: prioritize print, practice ungrading, "Luddify" the classroom; de-mobilize computer infrastructure (root technology in social place!); faculty governance over SaaS subscriptions; instructor choice re: ed-tech

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Against Technofeudal Education

Pillars For Protecting Our "Core Infrastructure" From OpenAI

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Alexander Manshel @manshel.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

More than 30 years worth of data on UK literary prizes (and their winners) goes live today @post45data.bsky.social! Bravo to researchers Katherine Binhammer, Kanika Batra, Theo Gray, and Maryse Jayasuriya for compiling and publishing this incredible resource! data.post45.org/posts/britis...

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Selected British Literary Prizes (1990-2022) – Post45 Data Collective

The Selected British Literary Prizes (SBLP) dataset contains information on nine major literary prizes in the U.K. from 1990 to 2022 and demographic information on 682 prize winners and shortlisted au...

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Alexander Starre @astarre.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

I went clubbing - book clubbing that is - with @corinnanorue.bsky.social and you can read about it in the new issue of @cl-journal.bsky.social. open access! cl.uwpress.org/content/65/3... More in Corinna's🧵

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Contemporary Literature @cl-journal.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Don’t miss new work by @corinnanorue.bsky.social and @astarre.bsky.social on “Genre, Diversity, and Metanarrative” in Reese Witherspoon’s book club. Now available completely open access.

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

If you make me president of your university, I will find millions in cost savings by force-quitting shady EdTech contracts, & I will spend it all by giving faculty an annual budget to buy course books for their students.

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Alexander Starre @astarre.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

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Ruth Mayer @profiprof.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Mit @jenniferhenke.bsky.social, @juliafaisst.bsky.social et al. aus Anglistik/Amerikanistik habe ich darüber nachgedacht, was das rasante Schleifen der Unis in den USA für Deutschland bedeuten kannd. Das Ergebnis kann man jetzt in der ZEIT nachlesen. www.zeit.de/2025/23/deut...

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Deutsche Hochschulen: Abwarten ist keine Option

Was die Hochschulen aus der Zerstörung der Wissenschaft in den USA lernen müssen.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

I think it can be hard to understand why someone in this category would vote for this unless you follow sports. All they're hearing is that their Team won, so they're happy. Their self-esteem is tied to feeling like Trump got what he wanted, they'll blame someone else for their hardship later

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

say it again: 4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities ROI for NIH and NSF for local economies is conservatively 4x, often close to 10x demolishing higher education is economic sabotage

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 29/04/2025

I check the little screen, I check the big screen, I check the watch screen, I check the tablet screen. I check the screen that reminds me of the good times, I check the screen that reminds me of the better times.

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GRK 2806 »Literatur und Öffentlichkeit« @grk2806.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Friendly reminder: we have 11 doctoral positions in the topic "Literature & Public Sphere" (Apply: May 1st). Not only interesting for literary scholars, but also for the disciplines Communication Studies, Book Studies, Sociology or Digital Humanities. www.literaturundoeffentlichkeit.phil.fau.de

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

NEW TODAY: 200 college and university presidents band together to condemn “unprecedented government overreach” in higher education and reaffirm the “essential freedom to determine, on academic grounds, whom to admit and what is taught, how, and by whom.” www.aacu.org/newsroom/a-c...

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A Call for Constructive Engagement | AAC&U

A Call for Constructive Engagement

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/03/2025

one thing i keep thinking about is how there is simply no way to design a constitutional system that can resist authoritarian incursion if participants in that system do not actually care that much

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Christina Meyer @chrismey2203.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Together with Birte Wege, I’m organizing (and will, eventually - hopefully- be chairing) a panel for the next annual meeting of the #dgfa25 #dgfa2025 (which takes place in Siegen, from June 12 to June 14, 2025). For further details see here: dgfa.de/annual-meeti...

Screenshot of the call for papers of a panel that I am putting together with Birte Wege for the next year’s annual meeting of the DGfA.

Screenshot of the call for papers of a panel that I am putting together with Birte Wege for the next year’s annual meeting of the DGfA. (page 2)

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Ilka Brasch @ibrasch.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

2nding Alex’ ad: Apply if you’re in long 19c studies - I’ll be there, too!

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Alexander Starre @astarre.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Asteroid sagt schnelleres Aussterben der Dinosaurier voraus

Spiegel Schlagzeile: KI-Prognose sagt schnellere Erderwärmung voraus

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Alexander Starre @astarre.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

⬇️⬇️⬇️ stay tuned for book club goodness

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Alexander Starre @astarre.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

CfP: Together with several colleagues, I'm putting together a panel for the annual meeting of the DGfA (June 12-14, 2025, Siegen). Conference theme is "Archiving American / American Archives". We're inviting presentations on C19 periodicals and literary institutions: dgfa.de/annual-meeti...

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Annual Meeting – Deutsche Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien

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Alexander Starre @astarre.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Back at FU Berlin next week exploring "prizeworthiness" with stellar colleagues: www.temporal-communities.de/events/2024/...

Conference on Literature and Prizeworthiness - click link for program

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