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Michael Lucey

@michaellucey.bsky.social
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Author of "What Proust Heard" & the Misfit Trilogy: "The Misfit of the Family," "Never Say I," "Someone." Throw in some translating, piano, yoga, and cats.

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Michael Lucey @michaellucey.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
A new issue of Representations is out, with a couple great articles and a cluster on AI, language, and literary theory: an article by Lauren Goodlad and a set of intriguing responses, with one I find particularly fascinating by Courtney Handman. Check it out! online.ucpress.edu/representati...
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Michael Lucey @michaellucey.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Today's mail:
Photo of title page of new translation of Proust's Sodom and Gomorrah by Helen Constantine with an introduction by Michael Lucey.
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Michael Lucey @michaellucey.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
online.ucpress.edu/representati... The new issue of Representations is AMAZING not coz of my article on Baldwin’s “Just Above My Head.” Read Sreyashi Ray on birds and breathable air; Sean Silver on Sterne’s marbled page; Vanessa Lyon on Delores Fullman and Rauschenberg; and Tom Laqueur on dogs!
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Michael Lucey @michaellucey.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
For anyone interested who's in the vicinity tomorrow...
Modern and Contemporary Literature Research Seminar, Trinity Term 2026
Convenors Santanu Das and Peter Boxall
 
Week 1 – Wednesday 29 April, Prof Michael Lucey (University of California, Berkeley) at All Soul College (Hovenden Room), 5:15 - 7 pm
‘Sexuality, Indexicality, and Music in James Baldwin's Just Above My Head’
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Michael Lucey @michaellucey.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
In other excellent Representations news, Carlos Alonso Nugent's article "Drawing and Disrupting Borders in the Wake of the US-Mexico War" from issue 166 just won the annual essay prize from the Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography (SoFCB). online.ucpress.edu/representati...
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Drawing and Disrupting Borders in the Wake of the US-Mexico War
This article advances an argument about two “imagined environments”—my term for the frameworks that human groups use to depict and dwell in more-than-human worlds. The first of these imagined environm...
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Michael Lucey @michaellucey.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
The latest issue of Representations contains a lovely tribute to Natalie Zemon Davis by French historian Denis Crouzet, along with a bouquet of fine articles on Vernon Lee, Wordsworth, Donne, and poetic apostrophe and slavery in Ancient Rome. online.ucpress.edu/representati...
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Michael Lucey @michaellucey.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
During a busy fall semester, I missed announcing the impressive special issue of Representations (no. 172) on Techniques of Legal Personhood, with guest editors Lindsay O’Connor Stern and Julie Stone Peters and a sparkling list of contributors. Worth checking out! online.ucpress.edu/representati...
Red cover of the journal Representations, number 172. The table of contents of the journal is printed on the cover.
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Michael Lucey @michaellucey.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
At last, Michael Warner's compelling Berkeley Tanner Lectures are out there in the world awaiting readers.
Photo showing cover of the book “On the Grid: Climate Change and the Utopia of Green Energy” by Michael Warner. Cover image is a photo of earth at night from outer space where electric usage in Europe, Africa, and parts of Asia is perceptible because of urban illumination.
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Michael Lucey @michaellucey.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
It’s a Dakota Staton kind of morning as we reacclimate to chilly, gloomy San Francisco.
Photo of two Staton CDs: The Late, Late Show and Dakota at Storyville
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Michael Lucey @michaellucey.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
A cat with Franciscan leanings in the monastery on the island of Badija near Korčula.
A cat sleeping on a chairThe cat on the chair with an altar and statues visible behind itWider range view of the whole soaring chapel where the cat is sleeping on the chairView of part of the cloister outside the chapel
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Michael Lucey @michaellucey.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Thinking of my great uncle Anthony Stipulin here at St. Anthony’s church in the woods on Korčula.
Photo of the path up to the churchMe standing in front of the churchRound the back of the churchFront of the small church nestled in a grove of trees.
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Michael Lucey @michaellucey.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
The latest issue of Representations is full of great pieces on attending to all different kinds of objects, images, book catalogues, and even attending to attention itself. online.ucpress.edu/representati...
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Michael Lucey @michaellucey.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
The joys of home
A handsome cat on a daybed with a window behind him dangling one paw rakishly over the edge of the daybed.
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Michael Lucey @michaellucey.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Making flash cards today to consolidate declensions in Croatian...
Screen shot of a flash card showing case endings for the Instrumental singular case in Croatian
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Michael Lucey @michaellucey.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
online.ucpress.edu/representati... Lots of intriguing reading in the new issue of Reps including a wonderful piece by @drbibliomane.bsky.social
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Michael Lucey @michaellucey.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
A ray of sunshine on a cloudy day. Congratulations to all these folks! www.gf.org/stories/anno...
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Announcing the 2025 Guggenheim Fellows — Guggenheim Fellowships: Supporting Artists, Scholars, & Scientists
Since 1925, the Guggenheim Foundation has given Fellowships to exceptional artists, writers, scholars, and scientists, empowering them to pursue meaningful work under the freest possible conditions.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 11/04/2025
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Michael Lucey @michaellucey.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
For those in need of mood enhancement.
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Michael Lucey @michaellucey.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
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The Life, Old Age and Death of a Working-Class Woman review – a son confronts his mother’s decline
Didier Eribon’s guilt and shame fuels an angry and eloquent meditation on our attitudes towards the elderly and the end of life
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Michael Lucey @michaellucey.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Good news from the LRB Bookstore in London today. Also, copies of the US edition are now out in the world!
Image of the current bestseller list from the LRB bookstore, with Didier Eribon’s book, The Life, Old Age, and Death of a Working-Class Woman in the number 1 spot.picture of a box of a few copies of the US edition of Didier Eribon’s book, The Life, Old-Age, and Death of a Working-Class Woman
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Michael Lucey @michaellucey.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Always important to spend time with friends and acquaintances in Paris, even if them being locked up at night makes close communication challenging. Something also poignant in the way that the Grisette de 1830 and Frédérick Lemaître are forever separated by the unforgiving Rue du Faubourg du Temple.
A nighttime picture of the outdoor statue called La grisette de 1830 in Paris, a young working class woman. The statue is in a park surrounded by greenery and trees.A nighttime picture of the bust of the nineteenth-century actor Frédérick Lemaître in Paris outside in a park with a fence around it.
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Michael Lucey @michaellucey.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
I just called my reps with @5calls.org, you should too: 5calls.org
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5 Calls
Spend 5 minutes. Make 5 calls. Make your voice heard.
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Michael Lucey @michaellucey.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Coming on March 25 from Allen Lane in the UK and Semiotext(e) in the US — a book by Didier Eribon committed to the struggle for a better world than this one! Just got my translator’s copies today.
Photo of the jacket copy of the English translation of Didier Eribon’s book, The Life, Old Age, and Death of a Working-Class woman. Photo of the front cover of The Life, Old Age, and Death of a Working-Class Woman
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Michael Lucey @michaellucey.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
5calls.org/issue/s9-wom... 5 calls is a really helpful platform for ally-ship....
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Protect Transgender Athletes ⭑ 5 Calls
On January 14th, the House passed the deceptively-titled Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act, which is now scheduled for a vote in the Senate. …
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Michael Lucey @michaellucey.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
I know it's hard not to be preoccupied with other things, but if you need a distraction, here's a fun forum in the American Book Review on "Listening" organized by Bryan Counter that I contributed to -- a seed planted for an upcoming project... americanbookreview.org/focus-listen...
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Focus: Listening -- Fall 2024 • American Book Review
Focus: Listening Volume 45, Number 3 Fall 2024 Excerpts available through Project Muse; full articles available to Project Muse subscribers. From the Editor Worlding Literature by Jeffrey Di Leo Fo...
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Please, everyone, drop what you’re doing and read this:
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Free Our Feeds @freeourfeeds.com · 13/01/2025
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Free Our Feeds
Let's take social media away from billionaire capture.
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Michael Lucey @michaellucey.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
I've been published in the journal that bears the name of my field for the first time! Better late than never...Thanks to @fauxneem.bsky.social Michael Allan and his team! I don't think the issue is up on line yet, but once it is I'll be happy to share a pdf with anyone who's interested....
Photograph of the table of contents of Vol. 76, Number 4 of the journal Comparative Literature.Photo of the first page of an article by Michael Lucey called "Translation and Polylanguaging: Sexuality and Novels from James Baldwin to Mohamed Mbougar Sarr."
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Michael Lucey @michaellucey.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Just because…
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Michael Lucey @michaellucey.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Regular cat pic posts seem to be what is called for. Here are Sir Rory and Mr. Willoughby being exemplary.
An orange tabby kitten and a full grown Tonkinese cat on a messy unmade bed with front paws intertwined and heads resting against each other, both half asleep.
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Michael Lucey @michaellucey.bsky.social · 22/10/2024
Parisian pavlova. Reasonable reward for a reasonably productive trip.
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Michael Lucey @michaellucey.bsky.social · 29/09/2024
The first of three papers I have appearing this fall is on Proust and understanding music. It began as a paper for the NYU "Fugitive Proust" conference. Here it is in an issue of Textual Practice of papers from the conference. A sketch of part of a book to come... www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....
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Understanding ‘understanding music’ in Proust
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Michael Lucey @michaellucey.bsky.social · 15/09/2024
Writing letters and postcards through the following platforms for the rest of this season: votefwd.org; markersfordemocracy.org; and postcardstovoters.org. Every day's news makes me want to write a few more.
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Vote Forward
Vote Forward volunteers send heartfelt handwritten letters to unregistered and low-propensity voters encouraging them to participate in our democracy. The letters have been shown to significantly boos...
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Michael Lucey @michaellucey.bsky.social · 06/07/2024
Blanching peaches and nectarines for pie (with blackberries to boot). Pretending like it’s a hot summer’s day here in SF, where it’s actually a pleasant, sunny 70.
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Michael Lucey @michaellucey.bsky.social · 24/04/2024
I feel like a bit of a stereotype making these for the last undergrad Proust class this spring, but whatever. At least they are turning out okay — my first run at them in fact, so that wasn’t a sure thing.
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Michael Lucey @michaellucey.bsky.social · 03/04/2024
Maryse Condé taught one semester a year for a few years in the Berkeley French Department right when I started teaching there. Her office was either next door to mine or two doors down, I can’t quite remember. I remember reading Ségou and then Traversée and then Moi, Tituba with amazement.
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Michael Lucey @michaellucey.bsky.social · 26/02/2024
It was eleven years ago today that I got to interview Ursula Le Guin when she visited Berkeley's Townsend Center. A wonderful memory I feel lucky to have. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovZ6...
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Ursula K. Le Guin, Avenali Chair in the Humanities
Avenali Chair in the Humanities Ursula K. Le Guin in conversation with Professor Michael Lucey (Comparative Literature and French, UC Berkeley).Ursula K. Le ...
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Michael Lucey @michaellucey.bsky.social · 08/02/2024
granta.com/the-life-old... An excerpt from Didier Eribon's latest book just appeared in Granta (translated by yours truly). Look for the whole book from Semiotexte in the US and Penguin in the UK sometime next year...
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Michael Lucey @michaellucey.bsky.social · 10/01/2024
Cleaning out my childhood home, I discover Peter Pears sang in South Bend, Indiana in 1977. I wish I could tell my teenage self to buy a ticket and then find a way to meet him. #queermissedconnections
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Michael Lucey @michaellucey.bsky.social · 05/01/2024
Happy MLA sightings... #MLA2024 @modernlanguage.bsky.social
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Michael Lucey @michaellucey.bsky.social · 06/12/2023
I arrive in Paris for a 12-day research stint and also get to announce some cheery news at the end of a gloomy year.
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Michael Lucey @michaellucey.bsky.social · 06/12/2023
Thanks to the editors of Nineteenth-Century French Studies for giving me a chance to think about readability: doi.org/10.1353/ncf....
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K R @kringelberg.bsky.social · 24/11/2023
The latest NCFS journal is a banger, with so many of my faves involved including @hannahfrydman.bsky.social @cofo.bsky.social @michaellucey.bsky.social and some folks not on here like Elizabeth Emery & Darcy Grimaldo-Grigsby. Get on it! (Also me, I need to get on it) www.ncfs-journal.org/current-toc
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Current Table of Contents | ncfs
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Michael Lucey @michaellucey.bsky.social · 27/10/2023
Slowly weaning myself from that other place.
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