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JOB ALERT: The English Department at UNC Charlotte is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor in African American and/or African Diaspora Literature. The position is *research-intensive* and the *teaching load is 2/2* See the full ad below 👇 Please repost and disseminate through your networks!

Assistant Professor of English in African American and/or African Diaspora Literature

Assistant Professors are invested in working closely with and mentoring English undergraduate and graduate students, and fully participating in service to the English Department, with opportunities to...

Juan Meneses @dissentum.bsky.social · 16h

That was Reviewer 2, wasn't it? Or maybe they sent it to Cavill and he got a bit jealous...

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Assistant Professor of English in African American Literature and/or African Diaspora Literature - Charlotte, North Carolina (US) job with UNC-Charlotte, English Department | 2001565

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The University of North Carolina at Charlotte invites applications for a position of Assistant Professor of English specializing in African America...

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Not saying what a big plot twist in the middle/big revelation at the end is *about* for fear of spoiling is a form of spoiling!

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Sometimes you're writing something and a truly terrible take on readership appears out of nowhere that fits perfectly with what you're writing, so you quote it as a counterexample, pan it, and move on. Humanities in real time!

Not saying what a big plot twist in the middle/big revelation at the end is *about* for fear of spoiling is a form of spoiling!

Assistant Professor of English in African American and/or African Diaspora Literature

If you're a bit 💰 tight but would like to get a hold of Postpolitics and the Aesthetic Imagination, it is available at the online retailer with a tropical rainforest name for under $15!

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OK one more: knowledge-making should be actively divorced from the culture of stardom and celebrity that sometimes builds up in academic circles.

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If you have money to invite scholars to give talks on campus, you don't *have to* get the star people. Invite early career people! I have done it many times and it's a great way to boost people's careers. You can also invite non-star people who are also doing great work!

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Adjacent point: even when it's online, organizing a talk is work, and we may as well acknowledge our colleagues' labor by attending the talks they organize. And on top of that, we may even learn something at the talk!

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Finally, inviting non-star academics/early career people helps instill in people a culture of solidarity and one that does not celebrate *only* the big names. I know we're all ultra busy, but it's worth going to a talk for the sake of it, not because of the cache of the speaker.

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Also, if you have no money, academic zoom talks are still 💯 *invited talks* and that looks great on people's CVs! 💫 Many people will accept talks if you cover the costs, or even for free if it's online! People may do it for a parking pass and a sandwich lunch!

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trace press @tracepress.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

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🌏Check out Asymptote’s Alton Melvar M Dapanas' fascinating conversation with #TamilTerrains co-editors Nedra Rodrigo and Geetha Sukumaran & contributors Enbah Nilah, V. Iswarya, and Jayashree Panicker. www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2026/09...

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Red Earth and Pouring Rain: An Interview with Five Tamil Translators on Thinai and Transcreation - Asymptote Blog

The poems themselves, both past and present, become the balm for what life denies you.

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💯 it's a great way to connect with people too!

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Thanks! Just some thoughts that are probably too obvious and yet worth repeating every once in a while!

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In another installment of Workplace Unfortunate Truths...

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OK one more: knowledge-making should be actively divorced from the culture of stardom and celebrity that sometimes builds up in academic circles.

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Assistant Professor of English in African American Literature and/or African Diaspora Literature - Charlotte, North Carolina (US) job with UNC-Charlotte, English Department | 2001565

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The University of North Carolina at Charlotte invites applications for a position of Assistant Professor of English specializing in African America...

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Juan Meneses @dissentum.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Assistant Professor of English in African-American and/or African Diaspora Literature

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Lynne Bowker @bowkerl.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Poste de professeur(e) en interprétation ou en traduction spécialisée à l’Université Laval, Québec, Canada Date limite: 14 décembre 2026 www.rh.ulaval.ca/emplois-disp...

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Professeure ou professeur en interprétation ou en traduction spécialisée | Ressources humaines | Université Laval

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Juan Meneses @dissentum.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Sorry and thanks, thanks and sorry!

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Juan Meneses @dissentum.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Assistant Professor of English in African-American and/or African Diaspora Literature

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Robert Heinze @rheinze.myatproto.social · 09/10/2026

This. I’m still baffled at how few academics get this, but that’s what happens when you don’t see yourself as labour

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Daisy Rockwell @shreedaisy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Upcoming readings and events for my novel Alice Sees Ghosts!

International Booker Prize-winning translator, Daisy Rockwell, on tour in the US this fall with her new novel, _Alice Sees Ghosts_.

“A gripping saga that excavates the dark, all too human, secrets of a family straddling two continents, _Alice Sees Ghosts_ combines cold psychological probing with deep compassion; pathos with humour.” — Geetanjali Shree.

- October 18th, 2026: Fireside Chat with Jared Green at Cambridge Common House, 6–8 PM, Cambridge, MA.
- October 20th, 2026: Launch Day at Battenkill Books, 6:00 PM, Cambridge, NY.
- October 21st, 2026: In conversation with Camille Guthrie at Bennington Bookshop (Park-McCullough Carriage Barn), 7–8:30 PM, North Bennington, VT.
- October 30th, 2026: The Red Lion Inn, 5–7 PM, Stockbridge, MA.
- November 19th, 2026: Northshire Community Library, 1–2 PM, Manchester Center, VT.

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Arnab Dutta Roy @arnabdr.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Proofs are finally in! This essay should be out soon, hopefully by later this month. It is such a dream to be published by New Literary History! Super excited!

Image of the title page of the essay Emancipating Universalism by Arnab Dutta Roy

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Juan Meneses @dissentum.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

El diálogo es un pilar fundamental de la vida social, y una sociedad democrática no puede garantizar la buena vida para todos si se corrompe el diálogo. Escribí *Resisting Dialogue: Modern Fiction and the Future of Dissent* porque vi que la literatura ofrece tanto una advertencia como una corrección

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Resisting Dialogue

A bold new critique of dialogue as a method of eliminating dissent Is dialogue always the productive political and communicative tool it is widely conceived ...

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Juan Meneses @dissentum.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Dialogue is a cornerstone of social life, and a democratic society cannot guarantee a good life for all if dialogue is corrupted. I wrote Resisting Dialogue: Modern Fiction and the Future of Dissent because I saw literature offers both a warning and a corrective. A short 🧵with two current examples:

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Resisting Dialogue

A bold new critique of dialogue as a method of eliminating dissent Is dialogue always the productive political and communicative tool it is widely conceived ...

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Juan Meneses @dissentum.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Sherryl Vint has been doing a lot of good work on this front. She and some of us worked on some of those issues in Postpolitics and the Aesthetic Imagination www.upress.umn.edu/978151791918...

Table of contents (essays 1-5) of Postpolitics and the Aesthetic Imagination: Acknowledgments / Introduction: Sensing the Postpolitical, Juan Meneses / 1. The Infrastructural Aesthetic: Materialist Politics in Karen Tei Yamashita’s I Hotel, Christopher Breu / 2. Irrational Exuberance: The Politics of Start-up Futurism, Sherryl Vint / 3. Un violador en tu camino: Reimagining the Political through Mediated Feminist Street Performance, Jacquelyn Arcy and Allison Page / 4. Thinking Jacques Rancière with Ursula K. Le Guin: Aesthetics and Politics in a Postpolitical Age, Robert P. Marzec / 5. Wayward Possibilities: Errant Black Women and the Intimacies of Freedom, Matthew Scully

Table of contents (essays 6-8 + Afterword) of Postpolitics and the Aesthetic Imagination: 6. False Specters of the Political: Revisitation, Digital Documentary Vernacular, and the Postpolitical after January 6, Stephen Charbonneau / 7. Dissensus, Refusal, Participatory Music: Negation and Rupture in Crowd in C, Eric Lemmon / 8. A Haunted Present: Postpolitics, Nuclear Waste, and the Colonization of the Future, Juan Meneses / Afterword: Between Two Endings, or Prolegomena for Another End, Erik Swyngedouw / Contributors / Index

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Animation Obsessive @ani-obsessive.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Done by hand. Frame by frame. Funny, brilliant. Let's keep celebrating this kind of obsessive commitment to one's work.

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Nick Park spent the '80s making A Grand Day Out mostly alone. It was a school project that got out of hand -- he wanted to quit many times. But Park stuck with it and fulfilled his dream of bringing a cinematic feel to stop motion. We explore: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/wallace-an...

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What's the estimated time before faculty emails become unusable?

One thing I really appreciate of a large number of the US academic publishers is the dedication to producing books, and the involvement of all parties (authors, editors, peer reviewers, copy-editors, production staff, etc)

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