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Gulsin Ciftci @gulsinciftci.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

The previous owner of this copy was a voracious annotator!

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Sarah Pyke @sarahpyke.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

writing is saying no to almost everything and also backing out of your existing commitments

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Sarah Pyke @sarahpyke.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

holiday academic Bluesky (US version): here is a list of everything I accomplished this year plus I had some Thoughts about the humanities holiday academic Bluesky (UK version): I’m 80% brandy butter, 12% brussels sprouts, 8% brisk walk, what’s a university again, also I’ve forgotten how to write

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Gulsin Ciftci @gulsinciftci.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Framing Turkish American Literature I am so, very happy to finally share this CfP for a special forum of the Journal of Transnational American Studies. It is a project dear to my heart & I would be grateful if you could help circulate it! Full CfP is here: www.uni-muenster.de/Anglistik/Re...

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Denise Wong @heyitsdenisew.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

💫 My book is finally in print! Immensely grateful to all my colleagues and to @emilysharp.bsky.social , @elizabethfr.bsky.social, and the whole team at @edinburghup.bsky.social for their support throughout the writing, revision, and publication process! 🚨 (For a 30% discount, use code NEW30)

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Gulsin Ciftci @gulsinciftci.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

One of the things that keep me going in this dreary winter is the poetry readings I am lucky to be part of. The first of these is with Tracy Fuad, and I am super excited for December to come & to be in convo with her 😍

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Jens Temmen @jenstemmen.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Yay! Out now!! Thanks to @lmesseri.bsky.social @niiyokamigaabaw.bsky.social, Alexandra Ganser, Stefanie Dunning, Natalie Treviño, Matt Harvey and Frédéric Boone for their wonderful contributions and afterwords!

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Ruth Mayer @profiprof.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Man kann wirklich nur hoffen, dass die durchwegs zuversichtliche und positive Kampagne zur Inspiration für die deutsche Linke dient. Schon klar: New York ist nicht USA und auch nicht Deutschland. Aber: einfach mal machen! Schlimmer kann es doch eh nicht mehr werden.

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Gulsin Ciftci @gulsinciftci.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Woke up at 4am to re-read Shockley’s Renegade Poetics intro for a class and prep to talk about queer hope and failure in another seminar—but instead, I spent the first two hours looking at Mamdani’s smiling face and rewatching campaign videos. Zero regrets.

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Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Today is pub day for my third book: Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century. It is a handbook on how to read. It argues for the foundational importance of *caring* to thought. It offers an anatomy of close reading's five steps so we can hone the skills to perform them. It argues for why to read

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Gulsin Ciftci @gulsinciftci.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

It was a brilliant talk & we were a lucky audience 🫶

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Gulsin Ciftci @gulsinciftci.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

Thrilled that my chapter on digital poetry is out in The Handbook of Poetic Forms! It’s in great company, and I’m humbled to have been invited to contribute. Huge congrats to the editors, who’ve done a majestic job.

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Julia Faisst @juliafaisst.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Academy in Exile invites humanities/social sciences/law scholars at risk from any country - because of their academic work and/or civic engagement in human rights, democracy, and the pursuit of academic freedom - to apply for 12-month fellowships at @tu-dortmund.de and @kwi-essen.bsky.social.

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Academy in Exile

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Gulsin Ciftci @gulsinciftci.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

This morning’s reading had me lol.

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Gulsin Ciftci @gulsinciftci.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Preparing for tomorrow‘s class and thinking about bringing these three images to my students alongside Berlant & Warner‘s „Sex in Public“. I am curious to see what will unfold in the room.

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Sarah Pyke @sarahpyke.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

hello! I wanted to let you know that there is now a *second edition* of our Seized Books! catalogue, after @gaystheword.bsky.social put the first edition on their Insta and it promptly sold out huge thanks to PageMasters for funding & producing it so beautifully www.pagemasters.co/shop/seized-...

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Seized Books!

LGBTQ+ books and censorship in 1980s Britain: A catalogue' describes the publications that were wrongly confiscated from the UK's first lesbian and gay bookshop, Gay's the Word, by Her Majesty's Custo...

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Gulsin Ciftci @gulsinciftci.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Welcome to Bluesky, COPAS! Please give the account a share, repost, etc. <3

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Gulsin Ciftci @gulsinciftci.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Woke up today wondering what Sianne Ngai might be up to these days…

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Noreen Masud @noreenmasud.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

not now London Review of Books

email from London Review of books with subject line 'what is an emotion'

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Gulsin Ciftci @gulsinciftci.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Writing my dissertation: oscillating between “I should rewatch the entire Lars von Trier filmography to fully feel something” and “Maybe Gilmore Girls will heal me.”

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Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Making a CLEAN, SHAREABLE dataset is fucking hard! I'm super proud, then, to publish this one, on a team led by @sdileonardi.bsky.social and @beccacohen.bsky.social, with @post45data.bsky.social. It has more than a decade of 21C int'l bestseller data, revealing how popular world lit circulates....

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Mia Tsai says buy her books @itsamia.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Clicked the link to read and... well... can't say I'm surprised. women: *publishing 50.45% of books* men: *publishing 49.55% of books* crying man: i am feel uncomfortable when we are not about me? oh, and according to the author interviewed here, the worst thing for a man to do is...write genre

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Is this the death of the male novelist? The lonely life of a man writing fiction in 2025
A long-overdue shift to female perspectives means male authors are being sidelined, or so says the founder of Conduit Books, a new publishing house that trades only in novels written by men. Nick Duerden investigates

There is bust portrait of a white man wearing glasses beneath the text.

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Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Amid all the idiot chatter about men and reading, men and writing, some of the best books I've read lately are by men about masculinity, and instead of baseless whingeing, we could be talking about these: Mark Haber, Lesser Ruins Tony Tulathimutte, Rejection Andrew Lipstein, Something Rotten

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Gulsin Ciftci @gulsinciftci.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

REPETITION: Looking for literary examples (21st c. American) of repetition. Also interested in knowing more theoretical works that are not the usual suspects directly coming to mind. (Today, I miss my academic Twitter)

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

close reading archive launch! “surveys sundry print, archival, and digital resources, concentrating on Anglo-American literary studies that overtly reflect upon the practice of “close reading”” www.closereadingarchive.org/acknowledgme...

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Acknowledgments — Close Reading Archive

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Gulsin Ciftci @gulsinciftci.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Today I am revisiting this wonderful Forum publication since my before-sleep Google search activity (don’t ask) brought me back to it last night. Absolutely recommended! amst.winter-verlag.de/article/amst...

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Gulsin Ciftci @gulsinciftci.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

“A Meeting by the Archive– American Studies, History, and Literature” Mahshid Mayar & my CfP for the German American Studies Association annual conference is up—consider submitting an abstract ✨ Full CfP: dgfa.de/wp-content/u...

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Gulsin Ciftci @gulsinciftci.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Project “Reading Reading” continues. Happy Tuesday!

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Sarah Dowling @sarahmdowling1.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

I read this (from Toril Moi) with interest & amusement. But if we want to imagine the new—I do!—then we desperately need to stop talking about the same 3 books over & over. I promise that lots of critics ARE doing new things. Can we please talk about them?! academic.oup.com/alh/article/...

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Crisis in the Profession, or the Failure to Imagine the New

Abstract. This essay provides a thorough analysis of Bruce Robbins’s, Jonathan Kramnick’s, and John Guillory’s recent books on the state of the discipline

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

writing is fixing everything in the shower, only to plonk on the dry page

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Chris Hanlon @chrishanlon.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

This has been a labor of love over the last two years w @weisenburg.bsky.social and the Emerson Society and we hope you like it! thedialjournal.org

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The Dial – A Journal of the Ralph Waldo Emerson Society

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Gulsin Ciftci @gulsinciftci.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Quite literally, Reading Reading. But also, “Nobody Talks About Form Anymore”, “Archives Amirite,” and, seriously, “Remember Poetry?”

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Sheila Liming @seeshespeak.bsky.social · 22/05/2024

One of the more toxic traits of the modern neoliberal university is the tendency for disciplines to dunk on other disciplines. In other words, the anti-intellectualism is coming from inside the house.

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Gulsin Ciftci @gulsinciftci.bsky.social · 12/11/2023

Came home from this year’s PGF conference on affective spaces to find The Affect Theory Reader in my mailbox. The level of excitement is simply too high!!!

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Jens Temmen @jenstemmen.bsky.social · 18/10/2023

Können populärwissenschaftliche Texte Gesellschaft helfen, in Krisen handlungsfähig zu bleiben? Oder sind sie selbst krisenanfällig? Wir diskutieren am 27. 10. mit @adriandaub.bsky.social , Nils Kumkar & Claudia Weber an der @adwmainz. Infos & Anmeldung: wisskomm.academy/events/popul...

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Gulsin Ciftci @gulsinciftci.bsky.social · 16/10/2023

If you were to choose one novel to teach undergrads prose analysis & close reading, which work of American lit would be your choice?

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Gulsin Ciftci @gulsinciftci.bsky.social · 14/10/2023

I think it was the jet lag. It still is…

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Gulsin Ciftci @gulsinciftci.bsky.social · 14/10/2023

Procrastinating & designing posters instead of actually preparing the lecture.

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Gulsin Ciftci @gulsinciftci.bsky.social · 13/10/2023

Arrived, taught, took care of pressing admin, & now taking care of myself.

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Gulsin Ciftci @gulsinciftci.bsky.social · 04/10/2023

Looking forward to #ASAP14 kicking off today in Seattle & our panel “The Politics of Flight Mode: Fugitive Reading Practices” scheduled for Saturday. My first ASAP ever 😱 I fee like I’m going to a school reunion of a class I wasn’t part of 😬

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Gulsin Ciftci @gulsinciftci.bsky.social · 21/09/2023

I can’t believe this day is real: I’ve been listening to Percival Everett, dg nanouk okpik, Ling Ma, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, & many more inspiring authors and poets in conversation. Aaaagh! 🥹😍