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steven @stevenwatts.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I got my PhD so I could play keys in a grateful dead cover band

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steven @stevenwatts.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

sometimes I log into bluesky and post just to remember what it feels like to get no engagement. stay humble

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steven @stevenwatts.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I've received word that my article on The Wallcreeper is now available online. I'm really excited to have this be readable. Huge shoutout to @seanobrien.bsky.social for his tireless editorial work to make my thoughts visible for others. Also to @samcohen.bsky.social and @thathoberekguy.bsky.social

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steven @stevenwatts.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

While I'd love to be a more prolific writer, eking out a living in universities with a teaching-heavy, public school degree has not left a lot of time or brainpower for doing the writing, and Sean's invitation helped me feel like I hadn't totally left academia behind.

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steven @stevenwatts.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Again, huge thanks to @seanobrien.bsky.social for inviting me to the symposium this sprung out of and the greater, sustained conversation afterwards. In the time I've worked on this article, I've had positions at 4 different universities in 4 different states in 3 relatively different fields

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steven @stevenwatts.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

In it, I think through the concept of "genre-flail" as a way of writing concepts we know are real but can't really represent, like the incompatibility between geological time and our daily lives. At heart, it is a question about what literary form can and can't do

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steven @stevenwatts.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

for working with me when this was in its most nascent, adolescent state.

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steven @stevenwatts.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

As this photo shows, I had the time of my life and got paid for performing grateful dead covers for septuagenarians cycling through Nebraska and thus am now a professional musician who will be getting paid again for performing grateful dead covers at a sexagenarian's birthday party on Saturday

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steven @stevenwatts.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

update for all my opps: I'm gonna be filling in as the bassist in a grateful dead cover band this summer

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Sam Cohen @samcohen.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Excited to see the latest from the series out in the world! uipress.uiowa.edu/books/genre-...

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Genre Migrations

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steven @stevenwatts.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

this is fucked & also I am manifestly interested in this

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Miscellany @miscellanyjournal.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Miscellany has published its first article! The wonderful @stevenwatts.bsky.social on Speculative Analepsis and climate catastrophe. If you like it, consider buying our print issue, which comes out in March! www.miscellanyjournal.com/alreadyinthe...

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Already in the Room | Miscellany Journal

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