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Nicole Rizzuto

@nicolerizzuto.bsky.social
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Lit Professor at Georgetown. 20-21 c Anglophone. Arresting Ecologies: Global Literature across Air, Land, and Sea, 1926-2014: academic.oup.com/book/62701?searchr…

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Nicole Rizzuto @nicolerizzuto.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Thanks, Gabe, and for your help!
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Nicole Rizzuto @nicolerizzuto.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
I cite @lalehkhalili.bsky.social excellent work in the book, in a chapter on sea fiction of the interwar era and coal work.
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Nicole Rizzuto @nicolerizzuto.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Thank you for all the hours discussing! A privilege, my friend.
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Nicole Rizzuto @nicolerizzuto.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Thank you!
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Nicole Rizzuto @nicolerizzuto.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Excited for this book!
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Gabriel Hankins @gabrielh.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
This is so smart and timely! And free! #lit
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Nicole Rizzuto @nicolerizzuto.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Hi everyone. The introduction to my book Arresting Ecologies is available here without a paywall until July 22. Book is out now in UK, ships in the US this month. Hope you check it: academic.oup.com/book/62701/c...
Flyer for a free chapter of ARRESTING ECOLOGIES: GLOBAL LITERATURE ACROSS AIR, LAND, and SEA (Oxford UP 2026).
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Nicole Rizzuto @nicolerizzuto.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Thanks, Ryan!
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Nicole Rizzuto @nicolerizzuto.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Thank you! Hoping you enjoy!
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Nicole Rizzuto @nicolerizzuto.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Thank you!
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Nicole Rizzuto @nicolerizzuto.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Thank you, Tim!
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Nicole Rizzuto @nicolerizzuto.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
It exists! Publication day in the UK of ARRESTING ECOLOGIES: GLOBAL LITERATURE ACROSS AIR, LAND, AND SEA, 1926-2014. Available everywhere for preorder with discount code AUFLY30 at Oxford UP WEBSITE; digital edition available now at all libraries with Oxford academic subscriptions.
Hardcover copy of ARRESTING ECOLOGIES: GLOBAL LITERATURE ACROSS AIR, LAND, AND SEA, 1926-2014 (Oxford UP June 2026).Table of contents of ARRESTING ECOLOGIES Image of interior pages with Shell OIL advertising photos.
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
less A quotas and more of this! THINKING remains the sine qua non
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Farah Bakaari @bakaari.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
For the Boston Review, I wrote about Somaliland and Israel, the consequences of imagining political freedom as a struggle for national sovereignty, and what growing up in and alongside Somaliland had meant for my political education.
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Sovereignty’s End and Beginning
In Somaliland, the pursuit of statehood has come with a bitter irony.
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Nicole Rizzuto @nicolerizzuto.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Ai is probably quoting me because I can’t see: AI SUCKS.
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Nicole Rizzuto @nicolerizzuto.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Going on leave next year and what I’m most looking forward to is not having to debate the merits of AI in my university committee meetings. On the record: it sucks, it is terrible, I hate it.
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Nicole Rizzuto @nicolerizzuto.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
🙏🏼❤️🙏🏼
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Nicole Rizzuto @nicolerizzuto.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Thanks!
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Nicole Rizzuto @nicolerizzuto.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Thank you!
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Nicole Rizzuto @nicolerizzuto.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Congratulations, Corbin. I’m really looking forward to this.
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Nicole Rizzuto @nicolerizzuto.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Thanks, Jeff!
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Nicole Rizzuto @nicolerizzuto.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Thank you for this! Noted!
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Nicole Rizzuto @nicolerizzuto.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Very excited to hear what you think!
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Nicole Rizzuto @nicolerizzuto.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Thank you, Nathan! I’m so grateful for your help.
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Nicole Rizzuto @nicolerizzuto.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
#environmentalhumanities #modernism #infrastrucure #postcolonialliterature #climate #ecocriticism #novel #petrofiction #soundstudies
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Nicole Rizzuto @nicolerizzuto.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
By tracing how literature and art encodes the chokepoints and jagged transitions where modes of production, communication, and energy regimes overlap and interfere, I unearth a counterhistory of the Anglophone novel as an ongoing critique of flows comprising accelerative modernity.
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Nicole Rizzuto @nicolerizzuto.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
I show that a range of modernist and postcolonial authors and artists from England, Germany, Trinidad, Kenya, Somalia, and Zanzibar register the instabilities of oil, gas, wind, frontier ecologies by upsetting and revising genres oriented toward closure.
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Nicole Rizzuto @nicolerizzuto.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
I argue that writers and artists from the 1920s to the 2010s drew inspiration from experiences of stalled and impeded mobility across atmospheres and skies, roads and highways, on oceans and at littorals, and used these breakdowns to critique the accelerative impulses of the Anthropocene.
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Nicole Rizzuto @nicolerizzuto.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
It is a truism that the last one hundred years have been defined by the accelerated and increased propulsion of people and information across seas, land, and air, and that literature and art reflect this enhanced mobility in their formal composition. Arresting Ecologies challenges these truisms.
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Nicole Rizzuto @nicolerizzuto.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
In this thread I describe the arguments of the book—10 years in the making!
Discount flyer for ARRESTING ECOLOGIES: Global literature across Air, Land, and Sea, 1926-2014 (Oxford UP 6/26), discount code AUFLY30
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Nicole Rizzuto @nicolerizzuto.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
🚨: My new monograph ARRESTING ECOLOGIES: GLOBAL LITERATURE ACROSS AIR, LAND, and SEA, 1926-2014 is available for preorder from OXFORD UP, with 30 percent discount.
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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
It’s the weekend! You could touch grass OR read the new OA issue of @victorianpoetry.bsky.social on the material conditions of Victorian Poetry/humanistic knowledge production, incl my essay on “critical uni press studies.” Here’s a snippet. So honored to be included. 🖤 muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
The Publisher as Critic
Drawing on my experience as an indie scholar and university press editor, I turn a critical eye on the conditions of scholarly production and consumption in literary studies and, more specifically, Victorian studies. From the “method wars” to “the institutional turn,” university presses, and scholarly publishing more generally, can be, if not a blind spot, then a practical stopping point of discourse about the state and fate of literature and literary studies—not to mention the state [End Page 70] and fate of the university.6 Nor do press workers much appear in spaces like Victorian Poetry, that is, journals and conferences devoted to literary studies. When we do appear, our primary mode is prescriptive.
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Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
LYRIC LOGIC is out in the world now!
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Aarthi Vadde @aarthivadde.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
We the Platform is available for preorder with the discount code CUP20 if you order directly from the press! cup.columbia.edu/book/we-the-... A thread on the argument below:
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We the Platform | Columbia University Press
Web 2.0 gave us the online world as we know it today. Popularized in 2004, it redefined the internet as social, a “platform” for self-expression and data... | CUP
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profchander @profchander.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
this is today if you’re free and interested and it’s also today if you’re busy and uninterested
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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
If you’re near Georgetown on Thursday it would be good to see you for this. The great @nicolerizzuto.bsky.social will be talking about ed-tech contracts & members of @guaap.bsky.social will be sharing results of a student survey of GU working conditions 💙
Poster for Georgetown Event: 

UNDERSTANDING THE PRESENT CRISIS I:
WHAT IS AN INSTITUTION FOR?

AN INTERDEPARTMENTAL TEACH-IN

THE WORD "INSTITUTION" NAMES ANY SOCIAL FORM THAT PERSISTS ACROSS TIME. FOR MUCH OF THE TWENTIETH AND TWENTY-FIRST CENTURIES, COMMITTED ANALYSIS OFTEN FOCUSED ON THE CRITIQUE OF INSTITUTIONS --STATE, EDUCATIONAL, & CULTURAL-- SINCE THESE FORMS ENSURED THAT OFTEN-VIOLENT SOCIAL RELATIONS COULD PERSIST INTO THE FUTURE. THE PRESENT CRISIS IS CHARACTERIZED BY FRONTAL ATTACKS ON LONG-ESTABLISHED INSTITUTIONS AND THE SUSTAINED DESTRUCTION OF RULES, NORMS, AND EVEN WHOLE AGENCIES THAT TURNED OUT TO HAVE OFFERED DEGREES OF (LIMITED) PROTECTION AND EVEN FLOURISHING. WHAT IS AN INSTITUTION FOR? THIS TEACH-IN ADDRESSES THE DOUBLE-SIDED NATURE OF INSTITUTIONS, EVALUATES THEIR FUNCTION AND PURPOSE NOW, & ASKS WHAT TO DO IN- AND OUTSIDE OF THEM TODAY. THIS IS THE THIRD IN AN ONGOING SERIES OF TEACH-IN EVENTS.

ANALYTICAL CLARITY AND COMMUNITY ARE THE GOALS. DISCUSSION WILL FOLLOW. ALL ARE WELCOME.

GU
Humanities
GEORGETOHSY
UNIVERSITY
College of Arts & Sciences
Department of English

THURSDAY, JANUARY 22, 12-1:30 PM
OLD NORTH 205
PIZZA SERVED: ALL WELCOME: BRING A FRIEND
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Nicole Rizzuto @nicolerizzuto.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
I really don’t know what to say about this. Ricardo was probably the most generous and kind academic I have come across ever and I loved working with him. It is unfathomable that he is suddenly gone. Beloved and respected by colleagues and students in and beyond Georgetown. I will miss him.
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Nicole Rizzuto @nicolerizzuto.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Thank you for everything!Couldn’t have done it without you. So grateful, friend.
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Nicole Rizzuto @nicolerizzuto.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Thanks for these well-wishes, everyone! Majorly appreciate it.
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Nicole Rizzuto @nicolerizzuto.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
I just submitted the book I have been working on for a decade to Oxford University Press, where it is under contract. I’ll be taking a nap til the semester starts.
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Nicole Rizzuto @nicolerizzuto.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
❤️❤️❤️🎉🎉🎉🎉
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Nicole Rizzuto @nicolerizzuto.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Read this book and highly recommend. Meticulous readings of form and politics poco lit and drama and pairs very well with another stunner on eco politics and form, Aesthetic Impropriety by @rosecasey.bsky.social
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Nicole Rizzuto @nicolerizzuto.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Very excited for your new chapter, friend!
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Nicole Rizzuto @nicolerizzuto.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Out today: a must-read for anyone interested in po-co literature, law, including environmental law: AESTHETIC IMPROPRIETY: Property Law and Postcolonial Style, by @rosecasey.bsky.social. I loved this book and cannot recommend it enough. Get it!
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Nicole Rizzuto @nicolerizzuto.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
A little warm in NYC. Hope people are staying cool.
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Nicole Rizzuto @nicolerizzuto.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
It was the most rewarding experience. So grateful for your reading all my horrendous drafts and talking me off the ledge. 😂😂
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Nicole Rizzuto @nicolerizzuto.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
I’ve posted about @nathankhensley.bsky.social ‘s new ACTION WITHOUT HOPE: Victorian Literature and Climate Collapse before, but just got the gorgeous book in my hands. Come for the stunning visuals, stay for the superb argument and analyses of literature and ecologies.
Cover of Nathan K Hensley, Action without Hope: Victorian Literature and Climate Collapse (U Chicago Press, 2025)Images from insert of ACTION WITHOUT HOPEImages from ACTION WITHOUT HOPE.
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Nicole Rizzuto @nicolerizzuto.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Grades in, no emails denouncing me for said grades, knicks hopefully about to clean the Celtics clocks. Good day.
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Nicole Rizzuto @nicolerizzuto.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Got my teeth x rayed today because as you know I busted my face falling off a scooter. Thank you for saving me posting the images. 😂
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