Reposted by Kellen HoxworthDustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 23hI've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this: 245175304640
Reposted by Kellen HoxworthDick Zoutman @dickzoutman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026VERY important paper! This study detected SARS-CoV-2 in the air of common areas of 4 big US airports. SARS-CoV-2 detected in 98% of samples through the year. Influenza A was found during flu season. That’s why you want to wear an N95 respirator in an airport! And all indoor public spaces all year!journals.plos.orgMultimodal genomic surveillance for respiratory pathogens at four U.S. international airports: A comparison of air, wastewater, clinical, and national surveillance dataEarly detection of outbreaks and emerging pathogens is critical for public health and global biosecurity. Airports, as major international travel hubs with dense, enclosed populations, are high-risk s... 9227125
Kellen Hoxworth @kellenhoxworth.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Happy to announce that my new essay “Intertheatrical Things” is out in the book “Theatre Things”! 010
Kellen Hoxworth @kellenhoxworth.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Humbled to receive an Honorable Mention for the Association for Theatre in Higher Education’s 2026 Outstanding Article Award for my essay “Alice Childress’s Troubling Method: Theatrical ‘Truth’ and the Cold War Politics of Rehearsing Racial Authenticity.” www.athe.org/page/article...athe.orgATHE 2026 Outstanding Article Awardees - Association for Theatre in Higher Education 110
Kellen Hoxworth @kellenhoxworth.bsky.social · 26/05/2026My new essay is out in the Journal of American Drama and Theatre’s special issue on “100 Years of Du Bois.” It’s open-access, so you can read it here:thesegalcenter.orgAn Expansive “Us”: W. E. B. Du Bois’s “Pan-Negro” Theatrical VisionKellen Hoxworth 030
Reposted by Kellen HoxworthOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 06/05/2026the best part of post-tenure academia has been having the career space to slow down. the damage done by the contraction of tenure track positions + poor security/working conditions of non tenure track faculty + quantification of academic contributions is incalculable 21852128
Kellen Hoxworth @kellenhoxworth.bsky.social · 05/03/2026This special section runs alongside Camille Owens's review of "Transoceanic Blackface," which shares a review essay with Chinua Thelwell's "Exporting Jim Crow," Bethany Hughes's "Redface," and Danielle Roper's "Hemispheric Blackface."doi.orgReorienting Blackface | TDR | Cambridge CoreReorienting Blackface - Volume 70 Issue 1 072
Kellen Hoxworth @kellenhoxworth.bsky.social · 05/03/2026The new issue of TDR is out now, featuring the special section I co-edited with Doug Jones on "Blackface Geographies":doi.orgBlackface Geographies | TDR | Cambridge CoreBlackface Geographies - Volume 70 Issue 1 1113
Kellen Hoxworth @kellenhoxworth.bsky.social · 19/02/2026I wrote a whole essay, and he just…skeeted it out.doi.orgStrains of the Enlightenment: Making Belief in American Secularism and African Difference in The Book of Mormon | Modern DramaThis article argues that the 2011 Broadway musical The Book of Mormon, best known for its parody of Mormon religious beliefs, uses what Sara Ahmed terms “affective economies” to paradoxically remake A... 010
Reposted by Kellen HoxworthMr. Buddy @alexfirer.bsky.social · 24/01/2026People are nervous about watching video, but this one is not of the murder, it's of the lead up, and people need to see it before the spin takes over. 11235602
Reposted by Kellen Hoxworthmarissa walmart dog @meo.bsky.social · 24/01/2026these are the 7 house democrats who voted to give ICE another $10 billion on thursday btw 9930481539
Kellen Hoxworth @kellenhoxworth.bsky.social · 20/01/2026Check out my interview with Dr. Miranda Melcher at the New Books Network about my book Transoceanic Blackface!newbooksnetwork.comKellen Hoxworth, "Transoceanic Blackface: Empire, Race, Performance" (Northwestern UP, 2024) - New Books Network 161
Reposted by Kellen HoxworthPhillip Maciak @pjmaciak.bsky.social · 07/01/2026The "English Departments don't teach enough Shakespeare" wing of the Republican party has been overwhelmed by the "universities shouldn't exist" wing. 0115
Reposted by Kellen HoxworthOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 07/01/2026"I’m going to pause here just to review: an institution that purports to be a university has told a philosophy professor he is forbidden from teaching Plato." surreal times dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...dailynous.comTexas A&M Bans Plato - Daily NousDrop the race and gender material from your course and the Plato readings, or teach a different course. You have a day to decide. That's a paraphrase of what Martin Peterson, professor of philosophy a... 21347571872
Kellen Hoxworth @kellenhoxworth.bsky.social · 30/12/2025nupress.northwestern.eduTransoceanic Blackface - Northwestern University PressA sweeping history of racialized performance across the Anglophone imperial world from the eighteenth to the early twentieth century A material history of ra... 010
Kellen Hoxworth @kellenhoxworth.bsky.social · 27/12/2025Brian Robert’s reviewed Transoceanic Blackface in the Journal of American History, where he observes: “Hoxworth argues, convincingly, that blackface served both as pedagogy for understanding social relations of imperialism and as part of the ‘furniture’ of empire.” 130
Kellen Hoxworth @kellenhoxworth.bsky.social · 26/11/2025My book Transoceanic Blackface: Empire, Race, Performance is available from Northwestern University Press. It maps the global history of blackface, minstrelsy, and related forms of racialized performance such as brownface and yellowface.nupress.northwestern.eduTransoceanic Blackface - Northwestern University PressA sweeping history of racialized performance across the Anglophone imperial world from the eighteenth to the early twentieth century A material history of ra... 07013
Reposted by Kellen HoxworthOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/11/2025morbidly sociologically curious about whether there's a relationship between this and the clustering of right wingers on Truth Social + exodus of libs and the left from Twitter, etc 2038044
Kellen Hoxworth @kellenhoxworth.bsky.social · 02/11/2025Still waiting for the day my book is not relevant to today’s news stories:nupress.northwestern.eduTransoceanic Blackface - Northwestern University PressA sweeping history of racialized performance across the Anglophone imperial world from the eighteenth to the early twentieth century A material history of ra... 0123
Reposted by Kellen HoxworthOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 23/09/2025"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply." me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...bostonreview.netHow Can We Live Together? - Boston ReviewEzra Klein is wrong: shame is essential. 20070921984
Reposted by Kellen HoxworthMark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 22/09/2025Trump has signed an executive order designating Antifa as a domestic terrorist organisation. 92351129
Kellen Hoxworth @kellenhoxworth.bsky.social · 20/09/2025We said goodbye to our 10 year-old puppy Nova this week. He was our close companion ever since we rescued him when he was six months old. Across multiple moves (one cross-country) and major life events, he never left our sides. He was the best boy, and he will be missed. 150
Reposted by Kellen HoxworthOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 12/09/2025guys it's happening www.newsweek.com/groyper-char...newsweek.comWhat is a 'groyper? What to know about Nick Fuentes' alt-right movementFuentes' band of extremist followers take their name from the underbelly of internet meme culture. 24971234
Kellen Hoxworth @kellenhoxworth.bsky.social · 17/08/2025Uhhhh… read my essay:muse.jhu.eduProject MUSE - Football Fantasies: Neoliberal Habitus, Racial Governmentality, and National Spectacle 010
Kellen Hoxworth @kellenhoxworth.bsky.social · 28/07/2025I’m humbled and honored that the American Theatre and Drama Society has awarded my book Transoceanic Blackface: Empire, Race, Performance and Honorable Mention for the John W. Frick Book Award!nupress.northwestern.eduTransoceanic Blackface - Northwestern University PressA sweeping history of racialized performance across the Anglophone imperial world from the eighteenth to the early twentieth century A material history of ra... 2240
Kellen Hoxworth @kellenhoxworth.bsky.social · 11/07/2025KOKO: Koko birkin bag. Practical Koko possession bag. RESEARCHER: No, Koko. You can’t have a Birkin bag. KOKO: Good Birkin good Koko give beautiful Koko deserve gorilla RESEARCHER: Koko, we simply can’t afford a Birkin bag. It is an unjustifiable expense. KOKO: jealousy professor 140
Reposted by Kellen HoxworthTheatre Journal @theatrejournal.bsky.social · 09/07/2025For your summer reading . . . TJ's June issue is out! Articles by Patrick McKelvey, Rebecca Chaleff, Shea Hwang, and Kellen Hoxworth speak collectively to the intricacies of minoritarian worldmaking. Print issue: muse.jhu.edu/issue/55030 Open access content: www.jhuptheatre.org/.../volume-7... 074