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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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Ryan Carroll @ryancarroll.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
only the functional text of road signage counts as literature
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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 · 01/04/2026
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Ryan Carroll @ryancarroll.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
incredible that Soderbergh has done every single one of these (uncredited stunt double for Rebel Wilson in pitch perfect 2)
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Ryan Carroll @ryancarroll.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
I seek the Venn diagram so small that my audience could fit in a utility closet
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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 · 07/10/2025
no 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...
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Zorg. A story of British Guiana. book by Vernon Kirke
Buy a cheap copy of Zorg. A story of British Guiana. book by Vernon Kirke. Free Shipping on all orders over $15.
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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
*vibrating in Merleau-Ponty*
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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 · 31/07/2025
Congrats!
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Ryan Carroll @ryancarroll.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Thanks so much!
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Ryan Carroll @ryancarroll.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Iconic exercise in the heresy of the paraphrase
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Ryan Carroll @ryancarroll.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Thanks so much!!! Zany is the goal!!!
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Ryan Carroll @ryancarroll.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Thanks so much to @ayeshaasiddiqi.bsky.social for caring so deeply about this piece and to @stephaniedegooyer.bsky.social, of course, for everything!!
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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 · 12/06/2025
Thanks so much to @ayeshaasiddiqi.bsky.social for caring so deeply about this piece and to @stephaniedegooyer.bsky.social, of course, for everything!!
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Ryan Carroll @ryancarroll.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Broadly 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
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Ryan Carroll @ryancarroll.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
I 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)
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Ryan Carroll @ryancarroll.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
this 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'
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Ryan Carroll @ryancarroll.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
This Man is My Dad
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Ryan Carroll @ryancarroll.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
kind of gobsmacked by the volume of “so clever, so true, so sad” comments about a….free association of major news topics?
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Ryan Carroll @ryancarroll.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Congratulations!!
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Ryan Carroll @ryancarroll.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
I still have the abstract art-doodles you made when I gave the protozoic version of this essay at NAVSA 2022!!
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Ryan Carroll @ryancarroll.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
An adult jellyfish becomes a fertilized egg???
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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
And 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
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Ryan Carroll @ryancarroll.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
UCSD’s Triton, the objective coolest
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Ryan Carroll @ryancarroll.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Vanderbilt’s Commodore, an actual supervillain
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Ryan Carroll @ryancarroll.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
The Mt. St. Mary’s Mountaineer: Queer Eye for Larry the Cable Guy
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Ryan Carroll @ryancarroll.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Texas Tech’s Definitely Not Copyright Infringing Raider Red
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Ryan Carroll @ryancarroll.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Hopping across the Mediterranean, we have Troy University’s T-Roy the Trojan, who looks like a melted Lego figure version of a classical warrior
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Ryan Carroll @ryancarroll.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
The SECOND Peloponnesian mascot this year is Norfolk State’s Mr. Spartan, who beats out Sparty in eyebrows, Mediterranean aspect, and general menace
Norfolk St. Spartan
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Ryan Carroll @ryancarroll.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Michigan State’s Sparty the Spartan, whose eyebrows remain amazing
Michigan State Spartan
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Ryan Carroll @ryancarroll.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Purdue Pete the Boilermaker, Robbie Rotten’s blue-collar great-grandfather
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Ryan Carroll @ryancarroll.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
McNeese’s Cowboy, AKA Old West Mr. Bean
McNeese Cowboy
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Ryan Carroll @ryancarroll.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Robert Morris’ RoMo, who appears to be a pirate risen from the dead by dark magic
Robert Morris RoMo
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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 · 16/03/2025
She’s the only thing keeping me in the literacy game (just BARELY)
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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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Ryan Carroll @ryancarroll.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Thanks so much!!
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