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Ryan Carroll

@ryancarroll.bsky.social
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PhD candidate @ UNC-Chapel Hill - C19 Anglophone literature; lover of information, narration, sensation, and interpretation - He/him

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Emily Waller Singeisen @esing.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
🚨Calling all nineteenth centuryists! @ryancarroll.bsky.social and I are welcoming submissions for a special issue of Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies next summer!
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Public Books @publicbooks.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
New at PB: @ryancarroll.bsky.social reviews “The Pitt.” Although the show is “chained to the social discourse beyond it,” there is truth in the fact that “we cringe at having to face issues that we must consider but have already considered a million times.”
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“The Pitt”: How Corny Can Crisis Get? - Public Books
The show is chained to the social discourse beyond it, to online conversations and headlines and talking-head commentary and all the voluminous language through which we engage with social crises.
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Ryan Carroll @ryancarroll.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Today for @publicbooks.bsky.social I wrote about The Pitt, its amazing goofiness (and genuine goodness), and whether aesthetic “failure” might be theoretically operative in its own right—give it a read!! www.publicbooks.org/the-pitt-how...
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“The Pitt”: How Corny Can Crisis Get? - Public Books
The show is chained to the social discourse beyond it, to online conversations and headlines and talking-head commentary and all the voluminous language through which we engage with social crises.
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Ryan Carroll @ryancarroll.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Was so honored to have my keyword for @victorianpoetry.bsky.social’s “Poetry’s Parts” series appear in an amazing issue on poetry and labor! Give it ALL a read!!
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Ryan Carroll @ryancarroll.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Vernon Lee is 90% Merleau-Ponty?
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Ryan Carroll @ryancarroll.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
paying a nominal fee for a library digitization
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Emily Waller Singeisen @esing.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Thrilled to be included among fabulous contributors to the latest edition of Dilettante Army, “Ekphrasis.” Read on for speculations about AI boyfriends, avant-garde burlesque shows, killer machines, and the Freudian death drive. dilettantearmy.com/articles/ekp...
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Ekphrasis Ex Machina: Desire and the Death Drive in the Age of AI
Emily Singeisen contextualizes AI, a technologically novel way of exploiting language, within some very old fantasies.
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Ryan Carroll @ryancarroll.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
wake up at 3 AM. find it impossible to get back to sleep. read Ode to a Nightingale to pass the time. think of sudden amazing insight about poem. fall asleep, completely forget insight
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Ryan Carroll @ryancarroll.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
great-grandfather to ferdinand de saussure. signification dynasty
Image of a substack post showing a cyanometer, a tool to measure the intensity of blue in the sky. Its caption attributes the cyanometer to Horace Benedict de Saussure, whose great-grandson is the linguist Ferdinand de Saussure.
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Ryan Carroll @ryancarroll.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
wish i knew
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Ryan Carroll @ryancarroll.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
I wrote for @newinquiry.bsky.social about the psycho-political agons of 90s sitcom neighbors like Kimmy Gibbler, Steve Urkel, and co.—why they showed up, why they were thrown out, and why they kept coming back. Give it a read! thenewinquiry.com/new-neighbor...
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Ryan Carroll @ryancarroll.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
My article “The Form of Information and Informational Form in The Woman in White” was published in Studies in the Novel (@studiesinthenovel.bsky.social)—give it a read!! muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
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Paul Fyfe @pfyfe.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
"Victorian Studies: Who Cares?" Come to the Victorians Institute 2025 conference at Furman University in Greenville, SC this Sept 14-15. CFP deadline now May 31. Please submit and share! vi2025.wordpress.com
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Victorian Studies: Who Cares?
The 2025 conference of the Victorians Institute
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Ryan Carroll @ryancarroll.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
another year, another analysis of the humanoid NCAA championship mascots. first up is an old favorite, the St. Mary’s Gael, a living 19th century caricature of a Scotsman
The St. Mary’s Gael
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Ryan Carroll @ryancarroll.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Michael Mann’s Heat is a movie equally perfect for adults who love moody Italians and small children who really like trucks, construction equipment, infrastructure, etc
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Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
The Snowy Day — Ezra Jack Keats, 1962
Illustration of the dark skinned little boy in red snow suit with a stick looking up at a snow covered tree about the poke it and drop some snow down on himself
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Victorian Studies @victstudies.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
In this post and the next two, we will introduce the contributors to 66.3! 66.3’s first essay cluster, “Stretch*,” is organized and introduced by Priti Joshi @pritijoshi.bsky.social, and features essays written by Hosanna Krienke, Ryan Carroll @ryancarroll.bsky.social, and M.A. Miller.
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Ryan Carroll @ryancarroll.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Excited to share my article “Revision and the Politics of Truth-Telling in the Autobiography of Juan Francisco Manzano, which was published in Victorian Studies @victstudies.bsky.social!! Give it a read to think with me on truth, translation, and slave narrative muse-jhu-edu/pub/3/articl...
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Nate Wolff @natewolff.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Obviously the b-sides are great too but it's always a thrill when Moby Dick bot plays the hits.
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Ryan Carroll @ryancarroll.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
“No: it means being honest in committing to action—and sometimes, it means being honest about when action is impossible.” csalateral.org/section/apor...
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The Future Isn’t Now: Impossible Action in Political Scholarship
In a world of negation, it is exhilarating to imagine possibilities. Such is evident in the strain of critique that asserts there is something radically productive in opening up possibilities. This ma...
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Ryan Carroll @ryancarroll.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Dispatches from another world
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Ryan Carroll @ryancarroll.bsky.social · 13/02/2024
was very sad and sickened to have come across one of these articles lately, complete with a chart on the “impact,” “locality,” and “sentiment” of the person who’d passed away. absolutely horrible to read about more, but worth reading
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Mia Sato @miasato.bsky.social · 12/02/2024
New: When someone dies, Google is filled with clickbait articles about their death — even non-celebrity, private individuals. Even children. I wrote about the cruelty of SEO obituary spam, and how sites are now using generative AI to produce even more content. www.theverge.com/24065145/ai-...
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When a funeral is clickbait
AI-generated obituaries are beginning to litter search results, turning the deaths of private individuals into clunky, repetitive content.
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Ryan Carroll @ryancarroll.bsky.social · 04/02/2024
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Ryan Carroll @ryancarroll.bsky.social · 30/12/2023
hm
A Wikipedia text box reading “description: anthropomorphic buckeye nut”
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Ryan Carroll @ryancarroll.bsky.social · 14/12/2023
Give a gift to the Derridean or Foucaldian in your life
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Ryan Carroll @ryancarroll.bsky.social · 17/11/2023
Cultural history of perceived end-times
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Ryan Carroll @ryancarroll.bsky.social · 06/11/2023
comic strip heathcliff and Catherine Linton vs comic strip Cathy and human Heathcliff. who wins
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Patrick Fiorilli @patfio.bsky.social · 28/10/2023
I'm excited to share via the LA Review of Books my review of Plastiboo's VERMIS, a beautiful dream of a world where strategy guides get the attention they've always deserved. Come for an analysis of the form, stay for the comparisons to Lem and Bolaño!
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The Guide to a Game That Doesn’t Exist: On Plastiboo’s “Vermis”
Patrick Fiorilli reviews Plastiboo’s “Vermis,” a strategy guide to a video game that doesn’t exist....
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Ryan Carroll @ryancarroll.bsky.social · 30/10/2023
Exceptionally great review of an exceptionally great piece of story/worldbuilding/art!
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Ryan Carroll @ryancarroll.bsky.social · 17/10/2023
Paterpilled once again
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Ryan Carroll @ryancarroll.bsky.social · 30/09/2023
🤌
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Ryan Carroll @ryancarroll.bsky.social · 29/09/2023
Digital humanities pedagogy just hurts you in the end
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Ryan Carroll @ryancarroll.bsky.social · 18/09/2023
and now we let the clout roll in
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