Matthew Scully

A.I.-Driven Education: Founded in Texas and Coming to a School Near You

“latest in a longline of computerized fads that plunk kids in front of screens+deny them crucial socialization skills, suppressing their ability to think critically”
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Sale of the Amsterdam University Press (AUP) film, media and communication list to Taylor & Francis – Resignation of series editors and editorial board members “GR Stocks” auf unsplash It is with great dismay that we, the undersigned, learned that the film, media and communication list of Amsterdam University Press (AUP) has been taken over by Taylor & Franc...

"The expertise necessary to create the book lists sold to Informa LTD is obviously considered to be without value."

(Amsterdam University Press has been sold to a for-profit press, so the film, media, & communication faculty have resigned.)

mediastudies.hypotheses.org/6850

Thrilled to see this in print and very excited to read the other contributions! And congratulations to @dissentum.bsky.social on such a masterful editorial job!

Letter from the University President indicating that a grad student has been detained by ICE. No more specific information is provided.

A grad student at the University of Minnesota has been abducted by ICE.

Hello! @keeblearin.bsky.social and I are convening a roundtable at ASAP/16 in Houston about genres and forms of the Forever War. Please apply/share! Find CFP info in the link below!

asap16.exordo.com/panels/47/co...

Postpolitics and the Aesthetic Imagination book cover with discount code

Really looking forward to seeing this in print. It was a wonderful collaboration with @dissentum.bsky.social and the various contributions promise to be excellent. Discount code now available if you (or your library) would like to preorder! www.upress.umn.edu/978151791918...

Can’t wait to see this and read the other essays. @dissentum.bsky.social did an amazing job as editor throughout the process!

This was my experience the first six months in Switzerland

#2024asa may be over, but you can still get @uminnpress.bsky.social American Studies books at 30% off using code MNAMST24 at www.upress.umn.edu/amst24/ through the end of the month!

Fordham University Press is having a sale right now. Here's the details: Save 25% on print and eBooks during our Winter Sale! Plus, get free domestic shipping on all print books. Use the promo code WINTER24-FI at checkout.

#2024ASA

I’m disappointed to be missing the ASA conference this year but very pleased to be included in Fordham’s virtual exhibit! www.fordhampress.com/asta-2024/

Thanks, Juan!

Odd Temporalities | American Comparative Literature Association

The ACLA portal opens up today! Please consider submitting an abstract for the "Odd Temporalities" seminar call @matthewscully.bsky.social and I have put together (conference online!). More details here: www.acla.org/odd-temporal...

Thanks again on this site! The book definitely benefited from all our conversations

In honor of Kant’s birthday, a reminder that he would’ve been an X Files fan

Unfortunately I think I’m the 8,000 word detour kind of person

CFP for our special issue on Labor, Political Economy, and Activism in the Age of Digital Mediation: please reskeet and consider submissions! Collective / collaborative / short submissions welcome! #lit cuny.manifoldapp.org/read/jitp-ca...

This book is so good I can no longer remember how the contemporary looked to me without it. Happy long-awaited publication day to @annakornbluh.bsky.social

new editor thinking broadly about poetry and poetics! submit your awesome work!

Not sure if this is what you have in mind, but Toni Morrison’s Home is about the racism in/of medical history. And forced sterilization comes up in Sherman Alexie’s first story collection

Congratulations! Very excited to read it!

Shelfie! Overjoyed to behold the pink object at last and so so grateful to friends, colleagues, students, mentors, interlocutors, editors, and darlings!! MLA book party Jan 5; Chicago book party Jan 27; Seminary Coop book chat with Sianne Ngai; and more fun to come!

some IMMEDIACY good stuff!

Philly! MLA book party 5 Jan; ping for deets!

Chicago! Seminary Coop book chat 5 Feb with Sianne Ngai!
www.semcoop.com/event/anna-k...

blurbs are up! www.versobooks.com/products/303...

Reading Literary Success: On Dan Sinykin’s Big Fiction and Alexander Manshel's Writing Backwards /...

"While Sinykin and Manshel place accent on different components, these excellent, systematic studies complement each other well in defining the contours of the contemporary US novel...they are crowning achievements."

Thanks, Omid Bagherli and ASAP Journal, for this fabulous review!

Seeing this in print has restored my faith in peer review!

Fantastic—thanks so much!

Perhaps a naive question for fellow literary studies people: what is the best way to find sales numbers for contemporary novels? Contact publishers directly? #litcrit #lit

Friends, a reminder that we are gathering a list of 2023 books and articles by contingent (NTT and independent) lit studies scholars to be published in @contingent-mag.bsky.social. Please reply or email at Rebecca dot Colesworthy at sunypress dot edu. We want to show off all YOU do!!

The CFP for Ephemeral Modernisms, BAMS International Conference, 2024, is here! We’ll be at the University of Leeds. We welcome proposals for papers, panels, or for something more innovative if the spirit moves you! wordpress.com/page/bams.ac... @modernistudies.bsky.social