Ryan Carroll @ryancarroll.bsky.social · 18/08/2026only the functional text of road signage counts as literature 110
Reposted by Ryan CarrollEmily 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! 0115
Reposted by Ryan CarrollPublic Books @publicbooks.bsky.social · 16/04/2026New 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.”publicbooks.org“The Pitt”: How Corny Can Crisis Get? - Public BooksThe 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. 062
Ryan Carroll @ryancarroll.bsky.social · 16/04/2026Today 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...publicbooks.org“The Pitt”: How Corny Can Crisis Get? - Public BooksThe 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. 020
Ryan Carroll @ryancarroll.bsky.social · 03/04/2026Was 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!! 140
Ryan Carroll @ryancarroll.bsky.social · 17/11/2025incredible that Soderbergh has done every single one of these (uncredited stunt double for Rebel Wilson in pitch perfect 2) 120
Ryan Carroll @ryancarroll.bsky.social · 31/10/2025I seek the Venn diagram so small that my audience could fit in a utility closet 010
Ryan Carroll @ryancarroll.bsky.social · 07/10/2025no but seriously read Zorg—violence, maternity, infidelity, deception, Chopin’s-The-Awakening-by-way-of-colonial-Guyana it seems to be available at just a handful of libraries around the world, but there’s a cheap Apple Books version and a paperback—well worth!! www.thriftbooks.com/w/zorg-a-sto...thriftbooks.comZorg. A story of British Guiana. book by Vernon KirkeBuy a cheap copy of Zorg. A story of British Guiana. book by Vernon Kirke. Free Shipping on all orders over $15. 000
Ryan Carroll @ryancarroll.bsky.social · 06/10/2025paying a nominal fee for a library digitization 020
Reposted by Ryan CarrollEmily Waller Singeisen @esing.bsky.social · 09/09/2025Thrilled 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...dilettantearmy.comEkphrasis Ex Machina: Desire and the Death Drive in the Age of AIEmily Singeisen contextualizes AI, a technologically novel way of exploiting language, within some very old fantasies. 054
Ryan Carroll @ryancarroll.bsky.social · 04/09/2025wake 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 040
Ryan Carroll @ryancarroll.bsky.social · 23/08/2025great-grandfather to ferdinand de saussure. signification dynasty 010
Ryan Carroll @ryancarroll.bsky.social · 22/06/2025Iconic exercise in the heresy of the paraphrase 170
Ryan Carroll @ryancarroll.bsky.social · 12/06/2025Thanks so much to @ayeshaasiddiqi.bsky.social for caring so deeply about this piece and to @stephaniedegooyer.bsky.social, of course, for everything!! 010
Ryan Carroll @ryancarroll.bsky.social · 12/06/2025I 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... 131
Ryan Carroll @ryancarroll.bsky.social · 12/06/2025Thanks so much to @ayeshaasiddiqi.bsky.social for caring so deeply about this piece and to @stephaniedegooyer.bsky.social, of course, for everything!! 000
Ryan Carroll @ryancarroll.bsky.social · 11/06/2025Broadly IMO novels and films aren’t the main mediums for Developing Thought rn, soapbox-style arguments are—social media posts, essays, reels, etc. most ppl writing novels or making film are getting their political thought from those, which is why didactic art often has hammy literalistic speeches 0101
Ryan Carroll @ryancarroll.bsky.social · 11/06/2025I think this is true in one way but it also seems right-wing art is also deeply didactic (ranging from heavyhanded jokes about SJWs in Tim Allen sitcoms to “Classical Man” Twitter accts saying that Objectively Good Art is Moral and Edifies the Soul) 2140
Ryan Carroll @ryancarroll.bsky.social · 09/06/2025this is my specialty!! - Guillory, The Memo and Modernity - Maurice Lee, Overwhelmed - Nunberg, Farewell to the Information Age - Richard Menke, Telegraphic Realism - Lisa Gitelman, Raw Data" is an Oxymoron - Peters and Cmiel, 'Promiscuous Knowledge' - Eric Hayot's intro to 'Information: a Reader' 010
Ryan Carroll @ryancarroll.bsky.social · 05/06/2025kind of gobsmacked by the volume of “so clever, so true, so sad” comments about a….free association of major news topics? 000
Ryan Carroll @ryancarroll.bsky.social · 11/05/2025I still have the abstract art-doodles you made when I gave the protozoic version of this essay at NAVSA 2022!! 000
Ryan Carroll @ryancarroll.bsky.social · 10/05/2025My 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... 1417
Reposted by Ryan CarrollPaul 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.comvi2025.wordpress.comVictorian Studies: Who Cares?The 2025 conference of the Victorians Institute 01415
Ryan Carroll @ryancarroll.bsky.social · 23/03/2025And finally, the worst of them all, the Duke Blue Devil, who is inexplicably not the Chalk World character implied by the logo but rather a discount version of The Tick 000
Ryan Carroll @ryancarroll.bsky.social · 23/03/2025The Mt. St. Mary’s Mountaineer: Queer Eye for Larry the Cable Guy 110
Ryan Carroll @ryancarroll.bsky.social · 23/03/2025Texas Tech’s Definitely Not Copyright Infringing Raider Red 100
Ryan Carroll @ryancarroll.bsky.social · 23/03/2025Hopping across the Mediterranean, we have Troy University’s T-Roy the Trojan, who looks like a melted Lego figure version of a classical warrior 100
Ryan Carroll @ryancarroll.bsky.social · 23/03/2025The SECOND Peloponnesian mascot this year is Norfolk State’s Mr. Spartan, who beats out Sparty in eyebrows, Mediterranean aspect, and general menace 100
Ryan Carroll @ryancarroll.bsky.social · 23/03/2025Michigan State’s Sparty the Spartan, whose eyebrows remain amazing 110
Ryan Carroll @ryancarroll.bsky.social · 23/03/2025Purdue Pete the Boilermaker, Robbie Rotten’s blue-collar great-grandfather 100
Ryan Carroll @ryancarroll.bsky.social · 23/03/2025Robert Morris’ RoMo, who appears to be a pirate risen from the dead by dark magic 110
Ryan Carroll @ryancarroll.bsky.social · 23/03/2025another 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 101
Ryan Carroll @ryancarroll.bsky.social · 16/03/2025She’s the only thing keeping me in the literacy game (just BARELY) 110
Ryan Carroll @ryancarroll.bsky.social · 02/02/2025Michael 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 110