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Ryan Topper

@ryantopper.bsky.social

Associate Professor of English at Western Oregon University. Author of Animist Poetics: Ancestral Trauma and Regeneration in African Literature. sunypress.edu/Books/A/Animist-Poeti….

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Ryan Topper @ryantopper.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Read @rosecasey.bsky.social and I talk about postcolonial studies, literary criticism and theory, and our recent books for the Diacritics blog

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Ryan Topper @ryantopper.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

My chapter "Uncanny Animism: Reframing the World-Gothic with Amos Tutuola" is now available in the excellent Cambridge Companion to World-Gothic Literature www.cambridge.org/core/books/a...

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Uncanny Animism (Chapter 10) - The Cambridge Companion to World-Gothic Literature

The Cambridge Companion to World-Gothic Literature - February 2026

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SUNY Press @sunypress.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

#ACLA2026 What if trauma is not solely a psychic wound within an individual, but a more-than-human process linking the living, the dead, and the ecosystems they inhabit? ANIMIST POETICS rethinks trauma, regeneration, and the postcolonial condition from the ground up. #ReadUP tinyurl.com/5bt34ues

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Ryan Topper @ryantopper.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

I'm honored to talk about Animist Poetics for the African Studies Lecture Series at @uoregon.bsky.social today. Come by Gerlinger 246 at 2pm if you are interested.

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Ryan Topper @ryantopper.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Animist Poetics is now available in paperback! The code SNPS26 will get you 30% off through the @sunypress.bsky.social website.

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Ryan Topper @ryantopper.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

I wrote this blogpost for @sunypress.bsky.social about the process of writing my book, Animist Poetics: Ancestral Trauma and Regeneration in African Literature, which is out now. sunypress.edu/Blog/2025/An...

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Animism, in Theory

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Ryan Topper @ryantopper.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Animist Poetics: Ancestral Trauma and Regeneration in African Literature is in print! The paperback will be out in Feb. Please request that your library order a copy. 30% off with the discount code SNWF25. @sunypress.bsky.social @rcolesworthy.bsky.social sunypress.edu/Books/A/Anim...

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Animist Poetics

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