Alex Brostoff

Later this week, @iashedinburgh.bsky.social hosts "Autotheories" editors @alexbrostoff.bsky.social & Vilashini Cooppan for a hybrid launch event—Thurs, June 12, 17:30-19:30 BST.

Register to join in person or via Zoom: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...

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Autotheories

The intro to AUTOTHEORIES is live! 🙏 @mitpress.bsky.social #autotheory Free to read- check it out issuu.com/mitpress/doc...

travelling down to Bristol today to read alongside Ilya Kaminsky for @lyrafest.com — if you’re around, say hi! taking my copy of Autotheories ed @alexbrostoff.bsky.social to keep me in good company

Text reads: "What is autheory?"

A definition of autotheory from the editors of "Autotheories," Alex Brostoff and Vilashini Cooppan: "A straddle (of disciplines), a strut (of style), an axies (of identification), an index (of attachments), an archive (of loves). It's us (editors and contributors) and you (reader) and we (all of us)."

Bringing together a transdisciplinary array of authors, including Judith Butler & Paul B. Preciado, "Autotheories" offers a new frame of reference for autotheory in a kaleidoscopic snapshot of this genre-bending field: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255229... @alexbrostoff.bsky.social

Hand holding a copy of "Autotheories" against a white background.

Explore the literary & artistic practice that combines autobiography & critical theory with the editors of "Autotheories." @citylightsbooks.bsky.social hosts a free, virtual inquiry into #autotheory on March 1st! Register: https://citylights.com/events/autotheory-encounters-embodiments-critique/

I'm giving my first lecture for the year tomorrow at this event on queer feminist translation, affect & decoloniality. Glad I can be there all day to absorb & listen & learn.

www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/lcahm/departments/languages/events/2025/queer-feminist-translation-affect-and-decoloniality

no idea why the cover image is showing up blown up / cut off like that!

Autotheories: 9780262552295 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books A transdisciplinary array of authors offering a new frame of reference for autotheory and its genre-bending synthesis of autobiography and critical theory. Autotheories tells the story of a field in formation....

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ToC here!

contributor dream team: Jessica Bush, Judith Butler, Vilashini Cooppan, Carla Freccero, rl Goldberg, Jan Grue, Emma Lieber, Megan Moodie, Lili Owen Rowlands, John Patterson, Paul B. Preciado, Erica Richardson, Migueltzinta C. Solís, Jamieson Webster, Damon Ross Young, Stacey Young, Arianne Zwartjes

The book offers a new frame of reference for autotheory and its genre-bending synthesis of autobiography and critical theory. Transgressing generic boundaries and bridging stylistic registers, it underscores autotheory's multiple genealogies while situating it against the political field.

Autotheories Autotheories tells the story of a field in formation. Building on traditions that have long fused life writing, philosophical encounter, embodied theorizing,...

hi Bluesky! our volume AUTOTHEORIES (co-edited with Vilashini Cooppan) is officially out with @mitpress.bsky.social #autotheory mitpress.mit.edu/978026255229...

Autotheories Autotheories tells the story of a field in formation. Building on traditions that have long fused life writing, philosophical encounter, embodied theorizing,...

In "Autotheories," @alexbrostoff.bsky.social and Vilashini Cooppan bring together a thrilling group of writers, thinkers, and practitioners to theorize the powerful, evolving concept of 'autotheory':

"Theory wonks will love this rigorous & surprisingly playful survey of the genre of #autotheory."

The Millions recommends @alexbrostoff.bsky.social & Vilashini Cooppan's "Autotheories" in their winter 2025 preview!

My pleasure!

So much fun talking about autotheories with the one and only @lenamattheis.bsky.social hugest thanks for hosting!!

New Queer Lit episode with @alexbrostoff.bsky.social! Listen now to find out why autotheories are super queer and which formative texts Alex recommends...

www.spreaker.com/episode/auto...

@alexbrostoff.bsky.social @deesisit.bsky.social and I will be thinking about machine translation. We will examine the effects of machine translation on minority languages, particularly how specific contexts are erased through their transfer into hegemonic linguistic frameworks.

3D cover of "Autotheories" by Alex Brostoff and Vilashini Cooppann on a background of sparkly, pastel confetti.

Alex Brostoff & Vilashini Coopann, editors of a forthcoming volume on #autotheory are speaking this Saturday at #MLA2025 in New Orleans. Join them after the panel for a book party—8:30pm at Good Friends Bar at 740 Dauphine St. All are welcome! @alexbrostoff.bsky.social

New year, new presses and publishers added to this starter pack! And as always, let us know if you're a translation-centric press and we can add you to the list. go.bsky.app/RPkPdAM

yes absolutely!!! and for you, Thomas!

Celebrate with us at #MLA2025 in New Orleans @ Good Friends Bar on Sat. Jan 11 from 8:30pm onwards 🎉

Coedited w Vilashini Cooppan; w contributor dream team rl Goldberg, Jan Grue, Emma Lieber, Megan Moodie, Lili Owen Rowlands, Erica Richardson, Migueltzinta C. Solís, Jamieson Webster, Damon Ross Young, Stacey Young, Arianne Zwartjes, Carla Freccero, Judith Butler, and Paul B. Preciado

Autotheories A transdisciplinary array of authors offering a new frame of reference for autotheory and its genre-bending synthesis of autobiography and critical theory.Au...

Hello Bluesky! I’m new here and a book I’ve coedited is coming out in 2025 with @mitpress.bsky.social excited to welcome AUTOTHEORIES to the world 2/18/25 #autotheory preoder here mitpress.mit.edu/978026255229...