Reading and writing about novels from the late 19th C to the present. Also bicycling and hiking around San Francisco.
Joined May 2012
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Michaela Bronstein retweeted
out now! along with a host of amazing essays, hopefully a start and a sign of much more attention to come devoted to this crucial, vibrant writer: scholarlypublishingcollectiv…
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Congratulations to @Carlos_A_Nugent , @alexrmoskowitz , @TravisMFoster , whose articles are among those recognized by the American Literature Society for the Best Essay Prize. (Happy to see MELUS represented twice!)
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Registration for MSA Brooklyn (Oct. 26-29, 2023) is now open! msa.press.jhu.edu/conference…
Deadline for reduced pricing: Sept. 15
Seminar registration closes Aug. 18
For more info, see the conference website and the MSA listserv. Can’t wait to see you all in Brooklyn!
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Today, Stanford graduate workers have announced our intent to unionize! Follow along and join us in solidarity as we fight to make Stanford a fair and safe workplace by giving graduate workers a real voice in our wellbeing. Stanford works because WE do! #StanfordGWU #SGWU
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Nominations for MSA book prizes are now open! 3 prizes this year: annual Book Prize & 1st Book Prize for books published in 2022, & biennial Edition/Anthology/Collection Prize for books published in 2021 and 2022. Deadline: May 1. Details here: msa.press.jhu.edu/prize/nomi… 1/3
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"Novels of politics foreground tactical questions that fail to be representative; they look at strategies that can’t or shouldn’t stand in the societies they hope to create." Brilliant article from @MichaelaWriting 🙌🏾 Eager to dive into this whole issue! bit.ly/3EvXls9
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Democracy and the Novel in the US, coedited by @rgreenwaldsmith, the largest special issue in ALH history, is now available:
academic.oup.com/alh/issue/3…
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BEING PLAGIARIZED: receipts edition
I’ve been vague-tweeting about this for a while, but now that everyone involved has had the chance to do right and one of them (weirdly, not the plagiarizer) has simply decided not to…
I guess it’s time to name names. (1/?)
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I'm genuinely happy to see "thrilled to announce" tweets and root for everyone getting secure employment. At the same time in a way that doesn't detract from that happiness, I hope I and my fellow new TT faculty always remember that we're not special for getting these jobs, (1/4)
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"While Africans don’t need to be told that no one person or book can represent a huge, culturally and linguistically diverse continent, readers from Western countries have been slow to grasp that fact..." Jeanne-Marie Jackson in @nytimes
nytimes.com/2022/01/02/opini…
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Author Richard Wright was born on this day in 1908. For this week's (end of) summer reading special, Josh and Ray spoke to their @Stanford English colleague @MichaelaWriting about Wright's recently-published novel "The Man Who Lived Underground" – LISTEN: soundcloud.com/philosophytal….
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We, the workers of Oxford University Press USA, are forming a union! We are excited to join 24,000+ workers at @newsguild & for the opportunities ahead. Support us in our campaign for voluntary recognition by liking, retweeting, and sharing our platform! #OUPUSAGuild #UnionizeUP
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Stanford will have a Department in African & African American Studies! We are so deeply grateful to the Black Graduate Student Association @StanfordBGSA for their tireless work and dedication and so appreciative and thankful for our extraordinary faculty, staff & alums! @Stanford
Michaela Bronstein retweeted
OK, so I know that there is too much news, but here is the *good* news: Durham English 📚 is hiring 4 new colleagues! 1) early modern lit; 2) literary medical humanities, post-1700; 3) 1870-1945; and 4) 1945-present. Links 👇
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"Eliot now is Eliot new. It must be. He cannot be defined by his own self-crafting, his voice from beyond the grave, his widow’s long care of his estate, or by critics who mock new readings of Eliot’s work." @QuigleyMM making the Eliotic case for Eliot. modernismmodernity.org/forum…
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How the rhetoric of 'disruption' depends on actively misunderstanding and misrepresenting the past. theguardian.com/news/2020/se…
Michaela Bronstein retweeted
It's National Poll Worker Recruitment Day!
COVID means not enough poll workers = not enough polls = long lines, esp for Black, Brown & low-income voters.
Sign up, make a difference. #1u
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I published a thing!
washingtonpost.com/outlook/2…