Bookmarking! Very exciting to see David Castillo--a Buffalo prof and founding editor of SUNY Press's Humanities to the Rescue series--writing on the ever fabulous Debra Rae Cohen's blog. (Inevitable link to the series just cuz, forgive me, etc: sunypress.edu/Series/S/SUNY-…)

The latest entry in Debra Rae Cohen's 'In These Times' is David R. Castillo's piece on the role of the humanities in combatting the spread of mis- and disinformation: modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts/c…

Science Fiction as Theory Fiction in Modernism/modernity modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts/p…

'There is no gentle way into the later twentieth-century work of the painter Prunella Clough. It is [...] a difficult kind of realism' writes Jennifer Johnson in her article 'Realism, Alienation, and Affective Distance.' Read it online now: modernismmodernity.org/articles/johns…

Check out the cluster on Global Cinephilia by Rielle Navitski in Modernism/modernity. My entry is on Critical Cinephilia and Mrinal Sen's Calcutta 71. A number of fascinating entries film education, quarrels, and reception in Cuba, Iraq, Hong Kong, Uruguay Modernism/modernity

Delighted that Samhita Sunya & I's article on Samuel Shimon's autobiographical novel 'An Iraqi in Paris' is now out in Modernism/modernity Global South Cinephilia's Print + cluster. It was a joy to co-write and merge our love for #cinema and #arabicliterature .
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Our new cluster, 'Global South Cinephilias,' ed. Rielle Navitski, questions what 'come[s] into view if we expand cinephilia’s purview beyond the Euro-American contexts where it is traditionally understood to have flourished?': modernismmodernity.org/forums/global-…

Can't wait for Kartik Nair's new book after reading this inspired piece about its inspired cover Modernism/modernity: 'your eyes are now seeing things: sensing the tactility undergirding fantastical visions, even feeling their own flesh as things you see with.' modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts/j…

Loving Dan Morgan in Modernism/modernity on how the cover of his book The Lure of the Image (@ucpress) serves to recognize 'the communal activities that go into the creation and development of ideas, the way that books both emerge from and create communities.' modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts/j…

It made me happy to write this short piece on the cover of my book. Thanks to Pardis Dabashi پردیس دباشی 🇵🇸 🍉 and Alix Beeston for the invitation, and letting me use so many synonyms for “red.” In Modernism/modernity.

Oh hey look! 🤩 Part 2 of Alix Beeston & Pardis Dabashi پردیس دباشی 🇵🇸 🍉's excellent cluster on scholarly book covers at Modernism/modernity is now live! ft essays by Daniel Morgan, Rochelle Rives, Kartik Nair, Jed Esty, Natalia Cecire, & lucky, honored me w/ a/the publisher's perspective modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts/j…

Anne Anlin Cheng's gorgeous poem written to accompany the cover of Ornamentalism, for #Visualities Modernism/modernity: '(Did you ever get the idea / standing / in a room full of beautiful things / meant to enhance you / that you were / the unwanted excess?)' modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts/j…

Really excited to see this in the world—part 1 of 2 of a fabulous cluster ft authors writing about their book covers on Modernism/modernity Print Plus, edited by the ever wonderful Alix Beeston and Pardis Dabashi پردیس دباشی. Part 2 (in which I’m lucky to have a postscript) drops next week so stay tuned.

My ride or die Pardis Dabashi پردیس دباشی and I wrote about the desires compacted in scholarly book covers, by way of introducing a #Visualities series Modernism/modernity feat. short essays by some of our favorite authors reflecting on their book covers! Pls read & share: modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts/j…

SPIN PUBLICATION: SPINs Natalie Ferris contributes to a full-colour book featuring visual poetry from 36 women in 21 countries. Read more about women of asemic writing in her article for Modernism/modernity here: modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts/f…

Live now from our latest print issue: 'Lynching Modernism: Ulysses, America, and the Negro Minstrel Abroad' by Amadi Ozier: modernismmodernity.org/articles/ozier…

'The realist impulse, however, is manifest not in the representation itself, but in its absence.'
Fresh off the presses is Thomas A. Laughlin's review of Paul Stasi's 'The Persistence of Realism in Modernist Fiction': modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts/l…