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Lennard J. Davis

@lendavis.bsky.social
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First gen professor of disability studies, poverty and working class studies, novel criticism and theory. Currently Emeritus Distinguished Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

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Lennard J. Davis @lendavis.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
My new essay on #RolandBarthes as professor. This is based on my year in his seminar 1972-73 in Paris.
sites.cardiff.ac.uk
Tutoy-ing: Roland Barthes et Moi
Visit the post for more.
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Lennard J. Davis @lendavis.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
academic.oup.com/alh/article/... John Marsh's ALH review of my book POOR THINGS ends "After reading Poor Things...academics may never see works about the poor the same."
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Lennard J. Davis @lendavis.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Great review by @mattbrim.bsky.social of my book POOR THINGS in the Journal of Working Class Studies.
journals.uwyo.edu
View of Davis, L. (2024) Poor Things: How Those with Money Depict Those Without It. Duke University Press.
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Beacon Press @beaconpress.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Section 504 in the Rehabilitation Act in 1972 was as short as a tweet, but it belied the volumes of language it would generate in the coming years of disability history. #DisabilityPrideMonth #ADA35 @lendavis.bsky.social
beaconbroadside.com
Forty-Six Words That Changed Disability History
By Lennard J. Davis | Trying to find a moment when the ADA began is like trying to find the source of the Nile or the Amazon. So many tributaries flow into the making of the ADA that you cannot say if...
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Lennard J. Davis @lendavis.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
disabilityscoop.com
White House Sued Over Accessibility
Disability advocates are suing after the Trump White House abruptly stopped including sign language interpreters at press briefings and other events.
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Lennard J. Davis @lendavis.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
This American Life is rebroadcasting my segment this weekend for Father’s Day It starts about 5 minutes into the episode. It's about using DNA testing to find out if my father was my biological father.
thisamericanlife.org
Go Ask Your Father - This American Life
Sons and daughters get to find out the one thing they've always wanted to know about their father.
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Lennard J. Davis @lendavis.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Contacted them. They get their books from distributors. They will check which distributor and will ban the book for sale from their list.
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Lennard J. Davis @lendavis.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
I contacted them. They said they get it from a distributor. I asked them to let me know who the distributor is. Waiting to find out. They said they will blacklist the book on their list and won't sell it.
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Lennard J. Davis @lendavis.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Looks like someone got the page proofs illegally. Yes, it was typeset.
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Lennard J. Davis @lendavis.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Agreed.
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Lennard J. Davis @lendavis.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
When I get to the bottom of what happened I will let you know. In the meantime, could you please indicate to your followers the actual state of things? There certainly was no intention on my part or Rebecca's to have this work surface. Quite the opposite.
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Lennard J. Davis @lendavis.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Whether there is a pirated edition that someone got published (and somehow got the page proofs?) is up for speculation. My editor says he will get the Amazon and Barnes and Noble listing taken down. But I want you to know this has nothing to do with me or Rebecca.
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Lennard J. Davis @lendavis.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Sami, I don't know what is going on.Your post was the first I have heard about this bootleg edition. I am in touch with Routledge to find out what happened. I had zero knowledge of this and my editor at Routledge as well as Rebecca have no knowledge.
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Lennard J. Davis @lendavis.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Thank you. This is both shocking and horrible. For many reasons. I'm in communication with Routledge right now.
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Lennard J. Davis @lendavis.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
I know. Don't buy it!
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Lennard J. Davis @lendavis.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
And the articles as well?
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Lennard J. Davis @lendavis.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Hi Chloe, This is news to me (and to my editor at Routledge.) I'm shocked to find this out. I assume that this is somehow a pirated edition. Does it include the section on Neurodiversity? Part VIII?
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Lennard J. Davis @lendavis.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Can you show me the contents of the book, because neither I nor Routledge have put this book out. Thank you.
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Lennard J. Davis @lendavis.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
authorsguild.org/news/ai-driv...
authorsguild.org
AI Is Driving a New Surge of Sham “Books” on Amazon - The Authors Guild
As we feared—and warned—the growing access to AI is driving a new surge of low-quality sham “books” on Amazon. In the last few weeks, we have seen hundreds of examples of how bad actors are using gene...
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Lennard J. Davis @lendavis.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
www.theguardian.com/books/2018/a...
theguardian.com
Fake books sold on Amazon could be used for money laundering
Books of gibberish are listed on Amazon.com for thousands of dollars, with one author claiming his name was used to send almost $24,000 to a fraudulent seller
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Lennard J. Davis @lendavis.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
A fake version of the Disability Studies Reader 6th edition has been put up on Amazon and Barnes and Noble. The 6th edition was never published. Routledge is working to get the listing taken down. Please do not order it because this is a scam. All the previous editions 1st through 5th are genuine.
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Lennard J. Davis @lendavis.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Or this? www.boldbusiness.com/digital/ai-g....
boldbusiness.com
AI Gone Wild: Fake Books Sold on Amazon
Generative AI has been a wildly innovative tool, but like all tools, it's something used nefariously. Case in point: fake books.
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Lennard J. Davis @lendavis.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Could be this? www.theguardian.com/books/2018/a...
theguardian.com
Fake books sold on Amazon could be used for money laundering
Books of gibberish are listed on Amazon.com for thousands of dollars, with one author claiming his name was used to send almost $24,000 to a fraudulent seller
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Lennard J. Davis @lendavis.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Hi Sami I can't explain this photo, except to say that the picture doesn't show a book, only a single page. If there is a book out there, it wasn't published by Routledge. I would have a copy and so would my editor.
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Lennard J. Davis @lendavis.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
I notified the editor at Routledge who will get the Amazon and Barnes and Noble listings taken down. I would appreciate it if you could let your followers know this. Thank you.
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Lennard J. Davis @lendavis.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
That is not the case. Believe me, I would know.
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Lennard J. Davis @lendavis.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Sorry, it doesn't exist. Amazon posted this a long time ago, but we never published the 6th edition. Thank you for letting me know. I've informed Routledge who should be able to get Amazon to remove the listing.
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Lennard J. Davis @lendavis.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
That listing was put up before the publication of the DSR6 and it was never taken down. Check the Routledge website.
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Lennard J. Davis @lendavis.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Amazon listed it before it was supposed to be published. They never removed the listing.
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Lennard J. Davis @lendavis.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Again. The DSR6 was never published. Amazon for some reason has it listed, but it was never published. Check Routlege's website.
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Lennard J. Davis @lendavis.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Sami. The DSR is not out. It was never published.
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Lennard J. Davis @lendavis.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
If you are a Columbia alum you should consider signing this letter. Please repost. www.columbiaalumniforacademicfreedom.org
columbiaalumniforacademicfreedom.org
Columbia Alumni for Academic Freedom - Columbia Alumni for Academic Freedom
Columbia Alumni for Academic Freedom Columbia alumni, join us in defending academic freedom by signing the letter below. Columbia University Alumni Statement on Academic Freedom “There is a certain en...
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Lennard J. Davis @lendavis.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Disabled Americans fear losing protections if states’ lawsuit succeeds
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Association of University Presses @aupresses.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
We join with publishers, authors, booksellers & librarians to affirm that the White House executive order recognizing only two sexes constitutes censorship and has no place in a free society. University presses strive to give voice to the breadth of human knowledge & experience. 1/2
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Lennard J. Davis @lendavis.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Problematic for its emphasis on "white" and "men" but relevant in regard to classism and poorism.
timeshighereducation.com
White privilege doesn’t exist for working-class men in higher education
Consider social class a protected characteristic and remove financial barriers to make HE accessible to white, working-class men, writes Mark Butterick
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Marijam Didžgalvytė @marijamdid.com · 15/02/2025
Found this to be a crucial, moving intervention that explains something so basic yet unbearably ignored. "So many people study class, Marx, Gramsci, Althusser etc, but they just don't care or don't want to think about poor people and poverty." Listen to the episode!
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Lennard J. Davis @lendavis.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
“The suit argues that Section 504 is “coercive, untethered to the federal interest in disability, and unfairly retroactive” and therefor unconstitutional.”
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Lennard J. Davis @lendavis.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
First published academic review of my book POOR THINGS. It's very positive. Last line: "Poor Things provides a deep reflection and the start of a conversation that could go on forever." @dukepress.bsky.social #poverty onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Poor Things: How Those With Money Depict Those Without ItBy Lennard J. Davis, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2024. 291 pp. ISBN: 978‐1‐4780‐3102‐4
Click on the article title to read more.
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Lennard J. Davis @lendavis.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
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Lennard J. Davis @lendavis.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
You might want to listen to an interview with me on New Books Network about POOR THINGS. @dukepress.bsky.social , #poverty newbooksnetwork.com/poor-things-2
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Lennard J. Davis @lendavis.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
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Lennard J. Davis @lendavis.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
I'll be speaking at the CUNY Victorian Seminar on Friday, February 7, 2025 at 12:00-1:15 pm, Graduate Center. Topic from my book POOR THINGS: "Biocultural Myths About Poverty: The Racialization of the Poor in Victorian London" Bring an ID to enter the CUNY Grad Center building. Room number TK.
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Lennard J. Davis @lendavis.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/14/s...
nytimes.com
An Artist Who Has Something in Common With Her Subjects
Rachel Handlin is possibly the first person with Down syndrome to receive an M.F.A., and one of just a few to hold a bachelor’s. Her first solo show features her portraits of others like her.
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Lennard J. Davis @lendavis.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
@novicsara.bsky.social
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Lennard J. Davis @lendavis.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Important piece by Sara Novic.
thebaffler.com
Signed Away | Sara Nović
The hearing world continues to pillage and caricature the deaf community—most recently with the proprietary, sign-based system Makaton.
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Lennard J. Davis @lendavis.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Thank you. And thanks for doing this.
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Lennard J. Davis @lendavis.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Please add me. Thank you.
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Lennard J. Davis @lendavis.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
My daughter Francesca Mirabella has a short in this Museum of Modern Art screening on December 12 at 7:30 pm. Please come and support these filmmakers.
futureoffilmisfemale.com
FOFIF at MoMA 2024 — THE FUTURE OF FILM IS FEMALE
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Lennard J. Davis @lendavis.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
My daughter Francesca Mirabella has a short in this Museum of Modern Art screening on December 12 at 7:30 pm. Please come and support these filmmakers.
futureoffilmisfemale.com
FOFIF at MoMA 2024 — THE FUTURE OF FILM IS FEMALE
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Joe Saunders @joesaunders1.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Public service announcement that Charles Booth's 'Maps Descriptive of London Poverty, 1898-9' have been uploaded by LSE archive online to be viewed and reproduced freely. 🗃️ unsplash.com/collections/...
Map of London, East. Colour coded.
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