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Sheri Harrison @sherimariephd.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Rolling up on here to tell all the ASAP peeps to put Maximo on your dining must list. Tell Rene and hi and thank me later.

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Sam Cohen @samcohen.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Sometimes When You Edit a Book Series You Don't Know When Books Are Starting to Emerge Into the World Until Somebody Tells You Part Two uipress.uiowa.edu/books/writin...

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The Writings of Jesmyn Ward

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Sheri Harrison @sherimariephd.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Here for this kind of Valentine’s flowers ❤️

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Small Axe Project @smallaxeproject.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Join us! 7 March 2025 Free and open to the public. Registration required: tinyurl.com/sxsexuality

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Sheri Harrison @sherimariephd.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

I went to a virtual book club for The Book of Night Women last night, hosted by a J’can influencer living in T’dad & Marlon James the author & later Marlon James the photographer & painter *both* got on the call, surprising host & all. The casual yet joyful mischief of it all is where it’s at.

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Arin Keeble @keeblearin.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

There is now an affordable paperback edition of this book on Jesmyn Ward's writing (eds. @sherimariephd.bsky.social, Maria Elena Torres-Quevedo, me) @edinburghup.bsky.social. I am very proud of this book which would be useful to anyone working on Ward. edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-jesmyn-...

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Sheri Harrison @sherimariephd.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Run, don’t walk over to Cambridge Elements where Maisha Wester’s new book on the African American Gothic is free — FREE (!) — until February 13.

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African American Gothic in the Era of Black Lives Matter

Cambridge Core - English Literature 1700-1830 - African American Gothic in the Era of Black Lives Matter

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Sheri Harrison @sherimariephd.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

When admin work has me out of these classroom streets, I appreciate Matt for sharing my words with his students ❤️.

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Sheri Harrison @sherimariephd.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Jesmyn Ward: New Critical Essays is out in paperback! Use code: PAPER30 for 30% off on EUP’s website.

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Jesmyn Ward

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Andy Hoberek @thathoberekguy.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Part 2 of World Literature podcast on Percival Everett’s James. In this one I bring out my trademark, “What if the point of this novel is straightforward?” move. But also: @sherimariephd.bsky.social, @keeblearin.bsky.social, and @mattseybold.bsky.social saying good stuff!

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The World Literature Podcast • A podcast on Spotify for Podcasters

Welcome to The World Literature Podcast! My name is Ivan Stacy, and on this channel, I explore great literature from around the world.

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Sometimes I go on other people's podcasts! 🧵 The first installment of a three-parter with @sherimariephd.bsky.social, @thathoberekguy.bsky.social, & @keeblearin.bsky.social on Ivan Stacy's "The World Literature Podcast." We're talking about Percival Everett's "James"! 1/3

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James by Percival Everett - part 1

The World Literature Podcast · Episode

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profchander @profchander.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

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Sheri Harrison @sherimariephd.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

This was so much fun, y’all! And it was only 8am, but Everett’s James is that girl!Check out this conversation I had with @thathoberekguy.bsky.social @mattseybold.bsky.social and @keeblearin.bsky.social on Ivan Stacy’s The World Literature podcast. youtu.be/8MxxDO3-6Jw

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James by Percival Everett - part 1

YouTube video by The World Literature Podcast

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Sheri Harrison @sherimariephd.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

post the LAST SENTENCE of your last article “The value of this fiction thus lies not only in its representations of what is but in its dialectical, utopian, necessarily imperfect attempts to think what might be.” tinyurl.com/4rwz3m6d

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Feminist Intersections (Chapter 10) - The Cambridge Companion to Contemporary African American Literature

The Cambridge Companion to Contemporary African American Literature - December 2023

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Arin Keeble @keeblearin.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

This collection of essays I co-edited with @sherimariephd.bsky.social and Maria Elena Torres-Quevedo is now briefly half price and the much cheaper paperback version is available to pre-order! I am very proud of this collection and collaboration. edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-jesmyn-...

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Jesmyn Ward

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Mid Theory Collective @mid-theory.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Mid Theory decided to join you in the blue skies! Check us out! mid-theory.com

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Mid Theory Collective

the contemporary and its curiosities

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

There has never been a minute in U.S. history when HBCUs have not been treated as vessels for capital incursions into education.

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Philanthrocapitalism U (A Tale of Today, Episode #7)

A discussion of financing HBCUs revolving around the example of Morehouse College.

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Arin Keeble @keeblearin.bsky.social · 10/11/2023

Co-authoring this article on Percival Everett's The Trees with @sherimariephd.bsky.social has been such a rewarding experience. This whole special issue of Orbit - open access - is really great. Please check it out!

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Arin Keeble @keeblearin.bsky.social · 24/10/2023

The introduction to Jesmyn Ward: New Critical Essays ed by @mariatq.bsky.social @sherimariephd.bsky.social and I is now open access Edinburgh UP: Jesmyn Ward (edinburghuniversitypress.com). Check it out!

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 17/10/2023

I’m a little bit 🤏 excited @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social’s forthcoming book, as well as @lbmcgrath.bsky.social’s work on literary agents, @sherimariephd.bsky.social reading all the prize lists, & the Culture Industries Section at Public Books.

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Sheri Harrison @sherimariephd.bsky.social · 17/10/2023

True story: I didn’t think deeply about my habit of reading book prizes and criticism together until I talked with Matt for the podcast. *Thrilled* to be a part of these important conversations and for the agile intellectual community this work carves and shapes.

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Laura McGrath @lbmcgrath.bsky.social · 17/10/2023

Very excited to be making a repeat appearance on The American Vandal pod! Talking ‘bout agents as literary critics and “pre-literary criticism.” podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

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‎The American Vandal: Criticism in The Conglomerate Era on Apple Podcasts

‎Show The American Vandal, Ep Criticism in The Conglomerate Era - Oct 17, 2023

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Arin Keeble @keeblearin.bsky.social · 03/10/2023

Lovely to see page proofs for this new co-authored article (with the wonderful @sherimariephd.bsky.social ) on Percival Everett's The Trees. Coming very soon as part of a special issue of Orbit on PE!

Page proofs for new article on The Trees by Percival Everett

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Sheri Harrison @sherimariephd.bsky.social · 21/09/2023

This is my Booker shortlist. They can keep the other one. Jonathan Escoffery’s If I Survive You for the win!!!

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Sheri Harrison @sherimariephd.bsky.social · 09/09/2023

It is so very slow and so very hard but everything in this scholar’s brain is excited about the things I have to tell you about Marlon James’ fiction in this book. Now if only I can finish writing it.

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Sheri Harrison @sherimariephd.bsky.social · 04/09/2023

Over here listening to each episode twice b/c I don’t want to miss a second of how they contextualizes our work as literary critics (& administrators), offers explanations for how we got here, and presents ideas for where we might go next. Essential listening for our work in Higher Ed.

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‎The American Vandal, from The Center for Mark Twain Studies: Ponzi Austerity in The Age of Cultur...

‎Show The American Vandal, from The Center for Mark Twain Studies, Ep Ponzi Austerity in The Age of Cultural Abundance - Aug 21, 2023

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Arin Keeble @keeblearin.bsky.social · 01/09/2023

So excited to launch this book with Maria Elena Torres-Quévedo and @sherimariephd.bsky.social - get in touch if you’d like to come along (digitally or in person):

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Sheri Harrison @sherimariephd.bsky.social · 03/09/2023

Hopping across the pond — for the 1st time! — to do a couple things. You should come. Let me know if you want the virtual deets.

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Andy Hoberek @thathoberekguy.bsky.social · 30/08/2023

As those of you who know me might guess, I prepared my whole life for the moment just now when @sherimariephd.bsky.social told me she was working on a lecture she’s giving in Scotland but had “run out of steam.”

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Andy Hoberek @thathoberekguy.bsky.social · 20/08/2023

You’ve gotta admit that @sherimariephd.bsky.social’s New Black Gothic essay had some predictive power.

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Paula Krebs @paulakrebs.bsky.social · 12/08/2023

Folks are sharing this on another site, so here it is. It’s a photo of a pdf; we don’t have it up on the website yet. Letter from the MLA to president of WVU, where languages are on the chopping block.

Letter from the MLA to President Gee at WVU, noting how awful it is to eliminate language study at a state flagship university, especially for working class and first-gen students.

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Sheri Harrison @sherimariephd.bsky.social · 11/08/2023

TYRA MAIL!!! So excited that this edited collection on Jesmyn Ward that Arin Keeble, Maria Elena Torres-Quevedo, and I edited is *finally* out in the world!

Book cover for Jesmyn Ward: Critical Essays.

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Sheri Harrison @sherimariephd.bsky.social · 09/08/2023

My scholarship is visible across the profession in no small part because of outlets like LARB. This first installment of Criticism Inc is a great beginning for a season long conversation about the work of contemporary literary criticism and how and why we do it.

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Dr. Emily Friedman @ecfriedman.com · 07/08/2023

@isanchezprado.bsky.social talking about what college students need is time *to be students & foster their intellectual life* is better than caffeine this morning. I’m still mid-episode, so I expect to have more thoughts about the larger discussion of the space of literary criticism today.

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 02/08/2023

Advance Warning: Our transcription software believes that when @annakornbluh.bsky.social says "austerocrat politicians," she is saying "austere crap politicians." And I'm not going to change it.

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Annie McClanahan @anniemcc.bsky.social · 28/07/2023

Super excited to be part of the new season of American Vandal, talking about ed-tech with my rad collaborator Louise McCune! Check out this teaser and the other amazing guests. www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6BOMEwNCQI

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Sheri Harrison @sherimariephd.bsky.social · 26/07/2023

When you’re affirmed in your sense that someone you helped train would be out in the world holding her own with the OGs. Truth be told I knew because of how much I learn myself, from @greatkatee.bsky.social .

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Andy Hoberek @thathoberekguy.bsky.social · 25/07/2023

Check out @greatkatee.bsky.social here, and also in this terrific new special on global Genres of Empire!

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Sheri Harrison @sherimariephd.bsky.social · 24/07/2023

Good afternoon from my curry mango and roti lunch 😋

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