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Michael Martin Shea

@immanentfields.bsky.social
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Poet, translator, scholar | Assistant professor, University of Louisiana at Lafayette | Writing a book about poetry, mysticism, and neoliberalism in the Americas | Also: infrastructure, translation, the seventies, cookbooks www.michaelmartinshea.com

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Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is *the* piece. Kate Manne, professor of philosophy at Cornell, speaks truth to the totality of failures at the university — and why students protesting the war in Gaza have faced far harsher consequences than any of the Cornell 7: www.thecut.com/article/what...
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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.
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Urvi @theurv.com · 28/09/2026
There were more men in a single documented gang rape at one school than the number of competitive trans athletes nationally. But I’ve heard a lot more politicians being asked about protecting girls from one of these scenarios and not another… I’ll let you guess which is which.
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Michael Martin Shea @immanentfields.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Landlord fixed the AC but now the AC runs at 80 db 🙃
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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
What’s missing: 1/ Any framing about what higher is or has been that misses the big public investment post-WW2 and then massive disinvestment starting in the 1980s which spirals into rising costs and student debt is disingenuous at best. 5/
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Maegan Poland @maeganpoland.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I will be at AWP next year. I'm interested in doing an off-site reading, if anyone is organizing and looking for readers!
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Rachel Banner @ishmaelcallme.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
please check out our wonderful latest special issue 53.3, "Infrastructural Poetics" guest edited by Claire Farley & Michael Martin Shea. Intro attached here! muse.jhu.edu/issue/57479
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Seth Perlow @sethperlow.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
My book has a website! And a cover! And some very humbling blurbs! THE DIGITAL HAND: ELECTRONICS AND LITERARY MANUSCRIPTS, coming April 2027 Several more posts about it coming before then . . . www.sup.org/books/litera...
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Rachel Banner @ishmaelcallme.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Allow me to introduce myself in a new professional capacity: while the JHUP info isn't updated quite yet, I'm delighted to be taking over as Editor in Chief of College Literature here at WCUPA! Lit Studies people, please submit your brilliant work... www.press.jhu.edu/journals/col...
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College Literature: A Journal of Critical Literary Studies
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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Initially I was frustrated with the rise of self-checkout but I appreciated how stores passed the savings on to me rather than pocket the money, fire armies of workers & make me do a job I suck at. It’s also why I’m optimistic about AI! I have been kicked in the head by several horses.
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Modernism/modernity @mmodernity.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Attention: Call for Co-editor of Modernism/modernity Due Date: November 16, 2026. Please see attached image for further details.
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Michael Martin Shea @immanentfields.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Sample size of one and in a new course to boot but I instituted a "no phones no laptops" policy (with exceptions for accommodations) for my undergrads this semester and we're already having better conversations this semester than we were at any point in previous semesters.
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Michael Martin Shea @immanentfields.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Happy Labor Day to all my sweeties (potential employers) out there
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Elephant Mastodon @emath.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Literary fiction is coming. It is going to revolutionize the economy. We know that China has already got a start on literary fiction. We can’t afford to be left out of the literary fiction economy. Think of your kids. They might already be engaging with literary fiction.
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Michael Martin Shea @immanentfields.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Incorrect. It's Frau Chauchat fall, baby, let's slam some doors.
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Michael Martin Shea @immanentfields.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The existence of alt ac implies the existence of hard ac, soft ac, classic ac, punk ac, prog ac, and many more
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Brian Glavey @glavey.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
My book, Relatability: Sharing and Oversharing with the New York School Poets, will be out later this year--just in time to stuff it in your stockings--but you can preorder now with the code UCPNEW for 30% off. @uchicagopress.bsky.social press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
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Relatability
An engaging account of how the New York School poets used art to imagine their queerness as something that might be shared with other people.How did Frank O’Hara and other New York School poets—a smal...
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Michael Martin Shea @immanentfields.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
No disrespect to Bruce Springsteen but I really don't believe that he was sitting around trying to write a book.
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Michael Martin Shea @immanentfields.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
First week of semester five at UL in the books, featuring new syllabi numbers nine and ten. Things can be difficult here, our students and many of my colleagues deserve better (Athletics deserves worse). But what a joy to get to teach this dream-slate of classes.
A photo of a desk taken from above, featuring two printed syllabi: one with the title "Modern and Contemporary Poetry" featuring a photo of Gertrude Stein and her dog; another with the title "Experimental Poetics" featuring a photo of Nathaniel Mackey. Other assorted desk items (keyboard, mouse, sticky notes) partially visible at the edges.
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Michael Martin Shea @immanentfields.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
My university president is really excited about SpaceX coming to Louisiana 🤷
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Harris Feinsod @feinsod.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Among the singularly recognizable enclaves of poetic enunciation--say, Shandong in 740, Paris in 1857, Havana in 1931, or what have you--I would rank Buffalo in 1991 pretty highly.
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J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
CFP: Post45's Special Issue Why 45? Deadline EXTENDED: 8/31 submissions.post45.org/journal/CFP/...
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Why45? (or Why68?) | Post45 Journal Submissions
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Michael Martin Shea @immanentfields.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Just awful.
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Richard Jean So @richardjeanso.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Really worthwhile CFP f/ Computational Humanities Research on "Peripheries," inviting work that uses data-driven approaches to recovering marginalized, lost voices in the cultural record/archive & what's been lost through processes of mass corpus digitization: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Peripheries
Call for Papers: Peripheries
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
i’m dying. i’m dead
zohran holding a the power broker book up in front of his face. caption reads “but robert moses is another video entirely)
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Michael Martin Shea @immanentfields.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
First day of the new semester and I'm teaching Stein in both classes ✌️
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Michael Martin Shea @immanentfields.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I have maybe three Lafayette followers here but, nevertheless!
Flyer for a book launch party for Michael Martin Shea's The Immanent Fields, a collection of poems. Michael will be reading at Wild Child Wines on Thursday, September 3rd at 6 pm, along with Rodrigo Toscano and Nicole Stockburger. The flyer shows a black and white image of a ranch style home with a woman's silhouette in the front window. The details of the reading (listed above) are in black font on pink text boxes.
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Michael Martin Shea @immanentfields.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
A modest proposal: abolish football
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Jorge Téllez @jorgetellez.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
The Dept. of Cinema & Media Studies at Penn is hiring: Tenure-track Assistant Professor in the field of Global South media studies with expertise in Latin American, African, and/or African diasporic media cultures. More info here: apply.interfolio.com/191793
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J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Post45 CFP Alert: Super excited to announce this special issue, edited by Michelle N. Huang and Carlos Alonso Nugent. If you've ever thought that our periodization (or ASAP's!) needed fixing, now is your chance. submissions.post45.org/journal/CFP/...
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Why45? (or Why68?) | Post45 Journal Submissions
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Michael Martin Shea @immanentfields.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
The special issue of College Literature on "Infrastructural Poetics" that Claire Farley and I co-edited has just been published! We're so proud of this volume and all the brilliant writing that we get to feature here. You can find the full TOC at the link below: muse.jhu.edu/issue/57479
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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I hate summer. Long-time big-time anti-summer guy here.
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Devin Garofalo @devingarofalo.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
It (nearly) lives! Forthcoming from OUP in November or December! My first reaction, for once, was glee — though the terror of writing a book is that it’s never finished. Eek! Woohoo! Wild to have proofs in hand!!!!
Title page of forthcoming book by me, titled Nineteenth-Century Poetry and Cosmologies of the Human: Worlds Unmanned. From Oxford UP.Table of contents for forthcoming book.

Introduction: Poetry, Person, Planet — with subsections on William Wordsworth; Sylvia Wynter and lyricization; climate, affectability, impress; and criticism, canonicity, and counterbumanism. 

First chapter on Wordsworth, Charles Lyell, and c19 manscapes — with subsections on Wordsworth’s and Lyell’s lyric theologies, the pathetic fallacy (Ruskin) and Wynter on desperate realization, and apostrophizing Toussaint Louverture. 

Second chapter on Tennyson’s In Memoriam, the possibilities and limits of posthumanism, and ambivalent reading — with subsections on extinction and apostrophe. 

Third chapter on Elizabeth Barrett Browning, the problem of reference, and infrastructures of reading — with subsections on Swedenborgianism, sphericity, plantation inheritances, and the slippages of rhyme. 

Fourth chapter on Phillis Wheatley, extractivism, extractionist reading, and salvage criticism—with subsections on solar intergumanism, allusion, reticence, and refusal. 

Coda on contemporary representations of climate collapse, Wynter on transumption, and the afterlives of c19 aesthetic imaginaries.
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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
In "Transplanetary Americas," Robb Hernández explores how the modern space race has driven Latinx artists to look up and attune to expressions derived from the solar system and beyond. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/h90oYId
Cover of Transplanetary Americas: Art, Outer Space, and the Latinx Imagination by Robb Hernández. It features an image of Leo Villareal’s Star Ceiling, installed in a plaza with tall columns and benches. 2 people stroll below. The text is in a retro sci-fi font in bright lime-green and yellow.
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Christian Haines @cphiliphaines.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Very happy to have had the opportunity to contribute a piece on Commune Editions to this issue! Claire and Michael were amazing editors.
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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
75% of the US professoriate is basically paycheck-to-paycheck so naturally the Chronicle is doing vibes-based quasi-critique again
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Kristin Grogan @kristingrogan.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
chuffed to bits by this review of my book, Stitch, Unstitch, by Sarah Ehlers in College Literature muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/issue/...
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Michael Martin Shea @immanentfields.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
The special issue of College Literature on "Infrastructural Poetics" that Claire Farley and I co-edited has just been published! We're so proud of this volume and all the brilliant writing that we get to feature here. You can find the full TOC at the link below: muse.jhu.edu/issue/57479
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Jon @thelitcritguy.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
I think about this point by Adorno so often of late.
My thesis about this would be that all
humans deep down, whether they admit this or not, know that it
would be possible or it could be different. Not only could they live
without hunger and probably without anxiety, but they could also
live as free human beings. At the same time, the social apparatus has
hardened itself against people, and thus, whatever appears before
their eyes all over the world as attainable possibility, as the evident
possibility of fulfillment, presents itself to them as radically impossible. And when people universally say today what was once reserved
only for philistines in more harmless times, "Oh, that's just utopian;
oh, that's possible only in the land of Cockaigne. Basically that
shouldn't be like that at all," then I would say that this is due to the
situation compelling people to master the contradiction between the
evident possibility offulfillment and the just as evident impossibility
offulfillment only in this way, compelling them to identify themselves
with this impossibility and to make this impossibility into their own
affair. In other words, to use Freud, they "identify themselves with
the aggressor" and say that this should not be, whereby they feel that
it is precisely this that should be, but they are prevented from attaining
it by a wicked spell cast over the world.
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dave @gloomfather.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
yeah man "woke 1" sucked ass. I "woke 1" morning from uneasy dreams to find myself transformed into a giant insect
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
It really is a machine for people who cannot think.
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Brian Glavey @glavey.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I'm thrilled to be launching Some Marvelous Experience today with this conversation with Josh Schneiderman and David Hobbs about their trip to see Nacny Holt's Sun Tunnels. I think it's an episode about having friends at the end of the world. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
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Podcast Episode · Some Marvelous Experience · August 10 · 55m
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David B Hobbs @deebeehobbs.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Josh & I had SO much fun talking to Brian about our trip to see landart in Utah w/ our buddy Stu — sincerely: seeing the Sun Tunnels was the great art experience of my life so far + I really hope we persuade some people to make the trip
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Michael Martin Shea @immanentfields.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
On week four of my preschooler pretending to be my dead dog
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🌱 ⓥ Francisco Robles ⓥ 🌱 @franciscondine.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Please share! My department is searching for a postdoctoral fellow for two years. Also, stay tuned for more news from ND English. This is going to be a year! joblist.mla.org/job/2001161/...
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College of Arts and Letters Provost's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, 2027-2029 - Notre Dame, Indiana (US) job with Notre Dame English Department | 2001161
The Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program and the English Department at the University of Notre Dame seek a postdoctoral fellow for 2027-29 AYs.
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Michael Martin Shea @immanentfields.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
If I was offered a tenure-track job at Bates College I would just be normal about it.
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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
In "Content Machines," @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social considers how short-form, platform-based, and social media writing on digital mediums like Wattpad and TikTok has reshaped the modern reading and writing landscape. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/Tip538L
Cover of Content Machines: Reading and Writing in the Platform Era by Sarah Brouillette. The cover is white with a tablet featuring six colorful digitally drawn images of romance book covers. There are blue thumbs ups and red hearts covering the images. Beneath is written, “Reading and Writing in the Platform Era” in bold. Below this, in lighter text, a summary of Content Machines begins. The title is written vertically in the bottom right parallel to the tablet. The author’s name is directly after in a smaller serif font.
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Pavel Andrade @pavelandrade.com · 29/07/2026
much welcomed arrivals! @roberttally.bsky.social's geocritical cosmopolitanism & @immanentfields.bsky.social the immanent fields are out in the world!
a photo two books, michael martin shea's the immanent fields & robert t. tally jr.'s geocritical cosmopolitanism, space literature, and the sense of the global
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Chris Newfield @cnewf.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Gallup-Lumina poll on college confirms that Americans are upset about the personal politics of professors--that is, 11% are concerned. Three-quarters are upset about lack of affordability. Colleges should ignore the Twitter / Atlantic debates and lower costs while heading to debt-free for all
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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Sorry to be Uncle Marxism but employer-based healthcare is a tool of social control for the ruling class
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Brian Glavey @glavey.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
OK, if you were waiting to find out what kind of fox I am before you pre-ordered Relatability, wait no more. These generous blurbs (or blurps, as O'Hara called them) just posted and I am seriously verklempt. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
A blurb from Jonathan Flatley of the University of Chicago reads: "This is a major book by a brilliant critic at the height of his powers. By way of a revelatory argument about the New York School poets and the importance of queer sharing to the aesthetic experiences they offer and promote, Glavey here develops a thrillingly original theory of oversharing and relatability. I know of no book that speaks so insightfully and movingly about how we read, teach, think and feel today." A second blurb, from Anna Kornblugh of the University of Illinois Chicago reads: "In Brian Glaey's charming and piercing readings, poetry is an aspiration to mutuality as much as it is a representation, and anything like the singularity of a queer poem flutters fortuitously towards the generality of utopian expanse. A smart and lovely book."A burb from Stephanie Burt at Harvard reads: "The academic world is full of hedgehogs and people with hammers, but Brian Glavey is a friendly fox. I learned a ton from this book and loved the process of learning." A second blurb, from Andrew Epstein at FSU, reads: "This brilliant book provides a crucial new paradigm for understanding the preoccupations of our age, tracing the contemporary compulsion to share, and overshare, back to an unexpected source: The New York School pets, who anticipated the relational logic of our social media age decades before it arrived. Brian Glavey turns 'relatability' itself--a concept often mocked or derided--into a rigorous, illuminating category of aesthetic experience, offer a bracing revisionary reading of queer theory along the way. Wonderfully written, witty, and refreshingly personal, with dazzling close readings and provocative insights on every page, this is a major book."
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