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Caleb Smith

@c-also.bsky.social
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Critic. Thoreau’s Axe (2023), Haunted Convict (2016), The Oracle & the Curse (2013), The Prison & the American Imagination (2009). Writing about Foucault & the legacies of theory for WW Norton. Tending my garden. campuspress.yale.edu/calebsmith

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Caleb Smith @c-also.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
‘Literary criticism as an ideal training ground for Marxist thinking, or as a central part of an explicitly political education: Did this sound as scandalous to readers of Jameson’s book in 1971 as it will to many in the United States today?’ —Sianne Ngai in a beautiful new foreword.
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Caleb Smith @c-also.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Update! I thought you would especially appreciate the one I got today:
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Caleb Smith @c-also.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The idea that leftist, activist academics caused the death of the humanities was born in the Reagan-era reaction to the 1960s. I almost can’t believe how often it is being repeated 40 years later. This was Allan Bloom’s version, more restrained than most, in 1987.
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Caleb Smith @c-also.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Out now! New editions of 2 Jameson classics from Princeton University Press. ‘Marxism and Form,’ with a foreword by Sianne Ngai. ‘The Prison-House of Language,’ with a foreword by Paul North and me.
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Caleb Smith @c-also.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I am so stoked to be working with my crew in Yale English and The Yale Review to host this new program, Writing in Public. Many events are free and open to the public. Let’s get together for the basic, beautiful human practices of thinking, talking, reading, and writing. Starting soon!
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Caleb Smith @c-also.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Back to school! It’s time to register yourself for this year’s gathering of The English Institute, happening at Yale October 2-3. Look at this killer lineup, and the shared reading is from Nietzsche. Come on up!
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Caleb Smith @c-also.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
This looks good.
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Caleb Smith @c-also.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Next week! What an honor to give this series of lectures named in honor of Barbara Packer, one of the all-time great scholars of the Transcendentalists.
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Caleb Smith @c-also.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Coming soon! I wrote the Foreword to the new edition of Lauren Berlant’s first book, The Anatomy of National Fantasy. Dig the killer new cover design, where Liberty is in a scaffold that looks a lot like a cage.
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Caleb Smith @c-also.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
I am so honored and FIRED UP to introduce the legendary Angela Davis on Yale’s campus tomorrow, for a two-day lecture series on Abolition. Let’s go!
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Caleb Smith @c-also.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Bound for New Orleans and the MLA. Catch me at the bar, or at one of these two killer sessions:
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Caleb Smith @c-also.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
A student gave me this card, with a beautiful hand-made picture of my book 🐍❤️
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