"Syntax of Thought: Reading Leo Bersani," a new issue of d i f f e r e n c e s (34:1) edited by Jacques Khalip & John Paul Ricco, is out now! Featuring essays by Lee Edelman, Amber Musser, Lynne Huffer and more! TOC: ow.ly/ulsV50P0v4P Buy a print copy: dukeupress.edu/syntax-of-thou…

"Difficult Conversations in Modernist Studies" starts Tuesday! Amazing line-up of events, including AMSN roundtables on "Teaching Modernism in the Antipodes" (30/7) and "Close Reading Modernist Difficulty" (2/8) Programme and registration: amsn.org.au/events/

First day of #DifficultMod on "Difficult Careers in Modernist Studies" was really stimulating! Join us tomorrow for the Société d'études modernistes (SEM) roundtable "The Politics of Poetics: Revisiting Modernist Difficulty". 2-4pm UK/3-5pm CEST/9-11am EST bams.ac.uk/difficult-conv…

Congratulations to our many authors whose books have won awards since January 2023! ow.ly/gJn550PjsIn Willard Jenkins Hiʻilei Julia Hobart @minhyoungsong @heather_davish1 @ProfVVG @BlkNunHistorian Srila Roy

“The Dept of African American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley seeks a TT Assistant Professor whose work demonstrates prior or potential contributions to the study of the Afterlives of Slavery.” #Blktwitterstorians #twitterstorians indeed.com/m/viewjob?jk=6…

Great experience working with SouthernHumanitiesReview and always of course a pleasure to read and think with Ocean Vuong!

My book is out with UChicagoPress this October, and I can’t wait to see it. If you’d like a tour of life on Mars with *30% off* enter UCPNEW at checkout: tinyurl.com/Byaliens

Thrilled to announce the 23/24 schedule for the Am Lit and Culture Seminar at Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard. First seminar is with Manisha Sinha on 9/20, 6pm; with Nina Silber responding. With thanks to my co-organizer sari edelstein. If you are in town please join us! mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/american-liter…

Preparing for the semester…coming out of the first week

Join me. I will be discussing the catastrophe of sex/gender as an antiblack mode of perception, logic, and order in relation to Kathleen Collins' indispensable film Losing Ground.

BAR Book Forum: Rizvana Bradley’s Book, “Anteaesthetics” We're incredibly honored to feature Rizvana Bradley in this week's Black Agenda Report Book Forum. Her book is part of David Marriott's new series at Stanford Press: blackagendareport.com/bar-book-forum…

It’s here! Our cluster on jstheater.bsky.social can be found at post45.org/contemporaries. Edited by e, the cluster features work by: Phillip Brian Harper Margo Natalie Crawford Kimberly Quiogue Andrews bamenke.bsky.social pocothought Matt Brim Tyrone Palmer and Fred Moten post45.org/contemporaries

Coauthors Coauthors meeting submitting

started to think about my ACLA paper and so looked up the seminar and NGL I'm excited--it is pretty fire Cassandra Complex Mitch Therieau Kalyan Sarah Wasserman @SheriMariePhD acla.org/program-guide#…

The graduate teaching assistants I've worked with at McGill have been outstanding: learned, conscientious, and deeply committed to their undergraduate students. They deserve better, plain and simple. AGSEM | MCGILL UNION said it best—and I agree—"McGill works because TAs do!"