Nicole Rizzuto

this is today if you’re free and interested and it’s also today if you’re busy and uninterested

Poster for Georgetown Event: UNDERSTANDING THE PRESENT CRISIS I: WHAT IS AN INSTITUTION FOR? AN INTERDEPARTMENTAL TEACH-IN THE WORD "INSTITUTION" NAMES ANY SOCIAL FORM THAT PERSISTS ACROSS TIME. FOR MUCH OF THE TWENTIETH AND TWENTY-FIRST CENTURIES, COMMITTED ANALYSIS OFTEN FOCUSED ON THE CRITIQUE OF INSTITUTIONS --STATE, EDUCATIONAL, & CULTURAL-- SINCE THESE FORMS ENSURED THAT OFTEN-VIOLENT SOCIAL RELATIONS COULD PERSIST INTO THE FUTURE. THE PRESENT CRISIS IS CHARACTERIZED BY FRONTAL ATTACKS ON LONG-ESTABLISHED INSTITUTIONS AND THE SUSTAINED DESTRUCTION OF RULES, NORMS, AND EVEN WHOLE AGENCIES THAT TURNED OUT TO HAVE OFFERED DEGREES OF (LIMITED) PROTECTION AND EVEN FLOURISHING. WHAT IS AN INSTITUTION FOR? THIS TEACH-IN ADDRESSES THE DOUBLE-SIDED NATURE OF INSTITUTIONS, EVALUATES THEIR FUNCTION AND PURPOSE NOW, & ASKS WHAT TO DO IN- AND OUTSIDE OF THEM TODAY. THIS IS THE THIRD IN AN ONGOING SERIES OF TEACH-IN EVENTS. ANALYTICAL CLARITY AND COMMUNITY ARE THE GOALS. DISCUSSION WILL FOLLOW. ALL ARE WELCOME. GU Humanities GEORGETOHSY UNIVERSITY College of Arts & Sciences Department of English THURSDAY, JANUARY 22, 12-1:30 PM OLD NORTH 205 PIZZA SERVED: ALL WELCOME: BRING A FRIEND

If you’re near Georgetown on Thursday it would be good to see you for this.

The great @nicolerizzuto.bsky.social will be talking about ed-tech contracts & members of @guaap.bsky.social will be sharing results of a student survey of GU working conditions 💙

BlueSky: If you've started reading my new book, AESTHETIC IMPROPRIETY: PROPERTY LAW AND POSTCOLONIAL STYLE, and are enjoying it, please consider sending me a sentence or two explaining why.

It's for a thing I'm applying for (and a small monetary award for future research funds). Thanks!

I really don’t know what to say about this. Ricardo was probably the most generous and kind academic I have come across ever and I loved working with him. It is unfathomable that he is suddenly gone. Beloved and respected by colleagues and students in and beyond Georgetown. I will miss him.

Thank you for everything!Couldn’t have done it without you. So grateful, friend.

Thanks for these well-wishes, everyone! Majorly appreciate it.

I just submitted the book I have been working on for a decade to Oxford University Press, where it is under contract. I’ll be taking a nap til the semester starts.

❤️❤️❤️🎉🎉🎉🎉

Read this book and highly recommend. Meticulous readings of form and politics poco lit and drama and pairs very well with another stunner on eco politics and form, Aesthetic Impropriety by @rosecasey.bsky.social

Very excited for your new chapter, friend!

Out today: a must-read for anyone interested in po-co literature, law, including environmental law: AESTHETIC IMPROPRIETY: Property Law and Postcolonial Style, by @rosecasey.bsky.social. I loved this book and cannot recommend it enough. Get it!

A little warm in NYC. Hope people are staying cool.

It was the most rewarding experience. So grateful for your reading all my horrendous drafts and talking me off the ledge. 😂😂

Cover of Nathan K Hensley, Action without Hope: Victorian Literature and Climate Collapse (U Chicago Press, 2025)

Images from insert of ACTION WITHOUT HOPE

Images from ACTION WITHOUT HOPE.

I’ve posted about @nathankhensley.bsky.social ‘s new ACTION WITHOUT HOPE: Victorian Literature and Climate Collapse before, but just got the gorgeous book in my hands. Come for the stunning visuals, stay for the superb argument and analyses of literature and ecologies.

Grades in, no emails denouncing me for said grades, knicks hopefully about to clean the Celtics clocks. Good day.

Got my teeth x rayed today because as you know I busted my face falling off a scooter. Thank you for saving me posting the images. 😂

Awesome if true. 😂

Chartering an AAUP chapter at Georgetown. Please join AAUP, please join us to stand up for our profession, our colleagues, our students, staff, and rights. Email me if you need more info. Trying to end social media forever but needed to announce for colleagues interested.

Met you through him so ❤️❤️❤️❤️

Congratulations to one of the best to be doing it. Obviously Nathan’s scholarship is exceptional. What people might not know about is his absolute commitment to teaching and to service in all its forms in and beyond g-town. Proud to have @nathankhensley.bsky.social as a colleague and bestie.

Great! Hope it’s useful!

If at all helpful, a chapter of my examines how Caribbean novelists responded to the controversy. Happy to send pdf but it also might be open access….

I hate this book so much. Thank you for saying this.

😂 You’re the best.

I have had the honor of reading much of this book as it was being composed and it is truly a banger, and I cannot wait to get the final, beautiful version in my hands.

Ah shit, thanks! I’ll fix it.

For those attending the MLA, the illustrious @bakaari.bsky.social and @lilysaint.bsky.social organized a great panel on the African historical novel and I’m thankful they included me. Come by, Thursday at 3:30.

Good ideaaaaaaa!!

You cannot understand how hard I was laughing. It is the same student who named out final conference presentations the DIVA conference:

It was my guy Derrida. You can take the girl out of early 2000s comp lit grad courses across the city of New York, but not them out of her. 😂