Matthew Scully

You’ve tagged the wrong person. I’m not the conservative political speechwriter and author of this book but an academic in literary studies critical of American politics and ideologies

If you're attending the American Studies Association conference this week, come join us for a roundtable on my @uminnpress.bsky.social book! I'm excited to be in conversation with these brilliant scholars & everyone who attends!

Thurs Nov 20th
9:45 to 11:15 AM
Convention Center Ballroom A
Salon A

Anne Carson’s Autobiography of Red and Dionne Brand’s The Blue Clerk immediately come to mind!

University presses provide essential infrastructure for vetting & curating humanities & social science scholarship, which universities rely on not only for the scholarly endeavor but for the promotion & tenure process. When a university shutters a press, it abdicates that responsibility.

BOOK NEWS: Seeking true equality via literary moments of resistance Democratic Anarchy: Aesthetics and Political Resistance in U.S. Literature By Matthew Scully Fordham UP, 2024 ISBN: 9781531507077 https://fo...

BOOK NEWS
Seeking true equality via literary moments of resistance
*Democratic Anarchy: Aesthetics and Political Resistance in U.S. Literature*
By @matthewscully.bsky.social / published by @fordhampress.bsky.social
journalofmodernliterature.blogspot.com/2025/10/book...
#BookSky #AcademicSky

Penitential Cries What labor to live forever. Speak of the elect what can you do in all this world so much life in the little of it. In four parts, Susan Howe’s new book opens with the arresting long prose poem “Penit...

Only 9 more days till we get a new Susan Howe book …

www.ndbooks.com/book/peniten...

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”
Https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/us/politics/ai-alpha-school-austin-texas.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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!

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...

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...