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Thank you Thersites! 😅

14.09.2025 11:48 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I'm pleased to announce that my first book, "Robert Lowell's Imitations and the Cold War: Containment, Leakage, Anarchy" will be arriving this September via @bloomsburyacad!

24.08.2025 19:16 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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‘Wild Possibilities’: American Literatures, Climate Change, and Hope in the Anthropocene: Part 1 This special issue of Comparative American Studies explores the literatures of the American hemisphere and their engagement with Anthropogenic climate change. The complex and contentious histories,...

I've really enjoyed reading the essays on "Wild Possibility" in this special issue of Comparative American Studies. Thanks Wendy McMahon and Rebecca Tillett for all your hard work on this!

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22.05.2025 18:50 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Some news...

25.01.2025 10:19 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Sayonara, Nazi.

21.01.2025 17:30 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Underlands, Oils, and Antarctica: The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym (1838) Edgar Allan Poe’s fictions have recently emerged to facilitate critical inquiry into a wide range of ecocritical and environmental concerns. This paper participates in these discussions by tracking...

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02.01.2025 13:24 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Scientists Built the First Engine Powered by Entanglement—Not Coal or Oil It's as wild as it sounds.

Sounds like Thomas Pynchon's Nefastis Machine.

www.popularmechanics.com/science/a630...

27.11.2024 04:16 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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