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If you're in the Toronto area, I'll be speaking about themes related to Virality Vitality at McMaster on March 12th (full info in the flier below). An enormous thank you to Derek Woods for organizing, and to David Clark and Zachary Gan for being in conversation with me. I hope to see you there!

The Campus Crisis Toolkit is the first book to address campus crises that's by and for faculty, staff, and students—the true heart of higher ed and the people who make it work.
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"...it was a delight to have author Tad Richards educate me about the rich history of the Prestige record label during its existence from 1949 to 1972, about its founder Bob Weinstock, and about the many, many jazz greats who recorded for the label."

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Here's @ryantopper.bsky.social with his book Animist Poetics: Ancestral Trauma and Regeneration in African Literature, which is now available in paperback! sunypress.edu/Books/A/Anim...
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Today's #StaffPick is from Tanja Eise, Director of Marketing & Sales. Black Campus Life challenges our assumptions about both the STEM pipeline crisis and campus racial climate by centering what's often missing from these conversations: the actual lives of Black students.
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"…the book has an admirable range and supplies a convincing account of the director's work in its Italian social context and of international film culture in the postwar decades." — @choicereviews.bsky.social

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Hitchcock turns hospitality into suspense. Forthcoming in May HITCHCOCK AND HOSPITALITY explores crises of welcome—from REBECCA to VERTIGO and THE BIRDS—showing how he manipulates access to homes, trains, and even film itself.

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#ACLA2026 Explore post-9/11 cinema with NO JURISDICTION, where cowboys, femme fatales, and superheroes reveal how genre films shape law, culture, and collective trauma.

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#ACLA2026 #ReadUP on MICHEL FOUCAULT'S PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY!

Maddalena Cerrato uncovers a consistent, coherent philosophical itinerary where political analysis, history, epistemology, and ethics converge.

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Forthcoming in May: NEW RAPE STUDIES—14 essays showing why the fight against sexual violence needs the humanities. Literary criticism, film, art, and more shape a new generation of feminist thought.

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BROKEN RECORD documents bullying & abuse in academia — from classrooms to conferences — and shows how to resist, heal, and demand change.

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#ACLA2026 #ReadUP on art, crisis & survival.
AVANT-GARDES IN CRISIS traces minoritarian aesthetic responses to the long 1970s—living-wage scarcity, epidemics, infrastructural breakdown, & unevenly managed vitality across race, citizenship, gender, sexuality, class & disability.

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#ACLA2026 What if trauma is not solely a psychic wound within an individual, but a more-than-human process linking the living, the dead, and the ecosystems they inhabit?

ANIMIST POETICS rethinks trauma, regeneration, and the postcolonial condition from the ground up.

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#ACLA2026 dive into the reader’s role in shaping literary meaning with MODE OF ADDRESS (forthcoming in April), a fresh look at US literature and theory of the late 1960s and ’70s.

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#ACLA2026 How do the legacies of slavery shape modern Spain?

CULTURAL LEGACIES OF SLAVERY IN MODERN SPAIN brings together scholars, artists & activists to examine slavery’s cultural afterlives across literature, memory, music & film.

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In this #OneToOne Author Q&A, Aaron X. Smith, co-author of READING DU BOIS, revisits W. E. B. Du Bois through an Afrocentric lens, centering Black subjectivity in the struggle for democracy.

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I promise to stop reposting SUNY P soon but a) I’m obsessed with this cover art, b) it’s about representing the (ahem) lumpenproletariat, and c) it’s available open access thanks to funding from Emory U, the author’s uni. Heavy on the Greimas and Jameson (complimentary).

Really a very interesting collection of books on Blanchot, Sebald, Aimé Césaire, Hölderlin, to Hindi literature and postcolonial fiction.

#ACLA2026 #ReadUP on the global life of close reading!

HOW CLOSE READING MADE US by Yael Segalovitz rethinks the legacy of New Criticism by tracing the method of close reading from the US to Brazil & Israel, & revealing its powerful role in shaping global modernisms.

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We spoke with Ezella McPherson and Tony Laing, co-editors of BLACK STUDENT SUPPORT NETWORKS about how Black students build belonging and redefine success in higher ed.

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#ACLA2026 Learn more about the SUNY series in Latin American Cinema, publishing innovative scholarship from early #film to contemporary media. From silent cinema to digital practices, it’s a vibrant platform for new research in the field.

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#ACLA2026 #ReadUP how close reading across literature & film reveals the narratives of the urban underclass.

ASCETIC IMAGES explores social invisibility in postwar Italy through Anna Maria Ortese and Roberto Rossellini, from THE SILENCE OF REASON to JOURNEY TO ITALY

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VIRALITY VITALITY brings deconstruction to the life sciences, showing how viruses unsettle the very concept of “life.” Drawing on Jacques Derrida, Jonathan Basile explores the unstable borders between virus and organism, self and other.

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"A must-read for anyone committed to advancing equity in education, this book is an invaluable resource for creating truly inclusive campuses where Black students can thrive." — Jerlando F. L. Jackson, Michigan State University
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Look what beat me home from the Realizing the Promise of Public Good U barnstorming tour stop at Ulster @thetattooedprof.bsky.social @sunypress.bsky.social

Hello #ACLA2026 stop by and explore our virtual booth!

Browse our latest titles in #comparativeliterature, find new ideas, and save 30% with code SACLA26 through April 1, 2026.

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Read an excerpt from John Tonello's fortchoming memoir, Daring to Run: How I Ran an Outsider's Campaign for Mayor of Elmira, New York, and Won (March 2026): tinyurl.com/ycx96x6c
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In this #OneToOne #AuthorQandA, the editors of (RE)FRAMING COLLEGE ACCESS BY AND WITH COMMUNITIES OF COLOR rethink college choice by centering BIPOC communities and challenging traditional models.

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Congratulations to Charu Gupta on HINDI HINDU HISTORIES (co-published with Permanent Black) winning the 2026 Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy Prize from @asianstudies.org!

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