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YouTube video by Mayeena Reads & Rhythms BOOK DISCUSSION | THE SISTERHOOD - Courtney Thorsson

Thank you, Mayeena, for this video about **The Sisterhood**! It's a joy to see what my book means to such a smart, invested reader. 📚

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First up in our shortlist for the ASAP/16 Book Prize is Sarah Dimick’s UNSEASONABLE: CLIMATE CHANGE IN GLOBAL LITERATURES from @columbiaup.bsky.social. We will announce the winner at this year’s conference in Houston, TX. Please join us!

Hot off the press! POETRY AFTER BARBARISM: THE INVENTION OF MOTHERLESS TONGUES & RESISTANCE TO FASCISM, by Jennifer Scappettone. Use the code CUP20 and save 20%: bit.ly/3KWKghe @xenoglossic.bsky.social #LiteratureNow @columbiaup.bsky.social

CBFS: Black Arts, Black Spaces and Black Performance On the spatiality of Black arts and performance, Julius B. Fleming Jr. (Black Patience: Performance, Civil Rights, and the Unfinished Project of Emancipation) will share his work on performance and the Civil Rights Movement. Jo-Ann Morgan (The Black Arts Movement and the Black Panther Party in American Visual Culture) will discuss the relationship between the Black Panther Party's visual culture and the Black Arts Movement and La Donna L. Forsgren (In Search of Our Warrior Mothers: Women Dramatists of the Black Arts Movement) will present her oral histories with women in the movement. Courtney Thorsson (The Sisterhood: How a Network of Black Women Writers Changed American Culture) will discuss how a network of Black women writers transformed American culture. Teachers are eligible to receive 1.5 CTLE credits for attending Conversations in Black Freedom Studies online programs. PANELISTS Julius B. Fleming, Jr. | Washington University in St. Louis Julius B. Fleming, Jr. earned a PhD in English, and a graduate certificate in Africana studies. Specializing in Afro-diasporic literatures and cultures, he has particular interests in performance studies, black political culture, diaspora, and colonialism, especially where they intersect with race, gender, and sexuality. Fleming is the author of Black Patience: Performance, Civil Rights, and the Unfinished Project of Emancipation (NYU Press 2022). This book reconsiders the Civil Rights Movement from the perspective of black theatre. It argues that black theatrical performance—much like television and photography—was a vital technology of civil rights activism, and a crucial site of black artistic and cultural production. La Donna L. Forsgren | The University of Notre Dame La Donna L. Forsgren is an Associate Professor of Film, Television, and Theatre with a joint appointment in the Department of Africana Studies. She is concurrent faculty in the Gender Studies Program at the University of Notre Dame. She serves as Editor for Theatre Survey. Her first book, In Search of Our Warrior Mothers: Women Dramatists of the Black Arts Movement (Northwestern UP, 2018), investigates the works and careers of Black women playwrights: Martie Evans-Charles, J.e. Franklin, Sonia Sanchez, and Barbara Ann Teer. Her second book, Sistuhs in the Struggle: An Oral History of the Black Arts Movement Theatre and Performance (Northwestern UP, 2020), is a finalist for ATHE’s Outstanding Book Award (2021). Her current book project, Black Girlhood on the Musical Theatre Stage (under contract, Oxford UP), explores Black queer feminist spectatorship and representations of Black girlhood in contemporary musical theatre. Jo-Ann Morgan | West Illinois University Jo-Ann Morgan is Professor Emeritus of African American Studies and Art History at Western Illinois University. She authored The Black Arts Movement and the Black Panther Party in American Visual Culture (Routledge, 2019) and Uncle Tom’s Cabin as Visual Culture, winner of the Seaborg Award for Civil War Scholarship in 2008. Prior to becoming a scholar of African American art and culture, Morgan graduated from the University of Wyoming in studio art (MFA 1988) and remained active as a visual artist while a doctoral student at UCLA (PhD 1997). After two decades of university teaching, in 2020 Morgan reestablished a full-time studio practice, creating stitched fabric compositions on themes related to social justice and gun violence. Courtney Thorsson | University of Oregon Courtney Thorsson teaches, studies, and writes about African American literature at the University of Oregon, where she is a Professor of English and a Faculty Fellow in the Clark Honors College. She is the author of Women’s Work: Nationalism and Contemporary African American Women's Novels and essays in Callaloo, African American Review, MELUS, Gastronomica, Contemporary Literature, Legacy, and Public Books. ABOUT CONVERSATIONS IN BLACK FREEDOM STUDIES The founding curators of this series, Professors Jeanne Theoharis (Brooklyn College/CUNY) and Komozi Woodard (Sarah Lawrence College), introduced a new paradigm that challenged the older geography, leadership, ideology, culture and chronology of Civil Rights historiography. Jeanne Theoharis continues in her role and is joined by Robyn C. Spencer-Antoine (Wayne State University) ) as co-curator. Komozi Woodard continues to advise the series from an emeritus position. Discussions take place on the first Thursday of each month. Learn more: http://www.blackfreedomstudies.org

VIDEO: Watch an excellent conversation w/ Julius B. Fleming Jr., Jo-Ann Morgan, La Donna Forsgren, and Courtney Thorsson on the ties between Black political activism & the arts via Schomburg Conversations in Black Freedom Studies bit.ly/3KzYYL8 @courtneythorsson.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social

"Jacobson promotes an unsettled perspective on the relationship between the film text and its mode of production."

New in review, Parker Stenseth on Brian Jacobson's The Cinema of Extractions, from @columbiaup.bsky.social: criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/parker_stens...

Poetry After Barbarism | Columbia University Press Against a backdrop of xenophobic and ethnonationalist fantasies of linguistic purity, Poetry After Barbarism uncovers a stateless, polyglot poetry of resista... | CUP

POETRY AFTER BARBARISM: THE INVENTION OF MOTHERLESS TONGUES & THE RESISTANCE TO FASCISM, by Jennifer Scappettone, is now available for purchase. Use the coupon code CUP20 and save 20%! bit.ly/3KWKghe @xenoglossic.bsky.social

On 10/15, Jennifer Scappettone will be launching her timely new book, POETRY AFTER BARBARISM: THE INVENTION OF MOTHERLESS TONGUES & RESISTANCE TO FASCISM at the Regenstein Library at the University of Chicago. bit.ly/42WuVUa @xenoglossic.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social #LiteratureNow

On November 3, join Jennifer Scappettone as she discusses her highly anticipated new book, POETRY AFTER BARBARISM: THE INVENTION OF MOTHERLESS TONGUES & RESISTANCE TO FASCISM, at Public Trust. bit.ly/46TlbLs @xenoglossic.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social

This Wednesday (10/8) at 7 pm! Edward Mendelson discusses his book, THE INNER LIFE OF MRS. DALLOWAY and the new edition of Virginia Woolf's novel from @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social with Francesca Wade at @bookculture.com
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TMR 28.6: "Preparation H" [Vineland] Peter Coviello joins to talk VINELAND REREAD and ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER!

Listen to a great podcast conversation with Peter Coviello about his amazing book VINELAND REREAD, the joys of Thomas Pynchon, and *One Battle After Another,* on the Two Month Review. bit.ly/3VQLBIT #Rereadings @chadwpost.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social

Hot off the press! REORIENTALISM: FROM THE AVANT-GARDE TO SOVIET NATIONAL FORM, by Nariman Skakov. Use the coupon code CUP20 and save 20%! bit.ly/4qbtj39 #ModernistLatitudes @columbiaup.bsky.social

A white background with a gold Lammys Day 2025 logo and a teal banner that reads: Interview: Mat Fournier, Finalist in LGBTQ+ Studies, 2pm ET. A maroon stripe is behind an image of the cover of Dysphoric Modernism: Undoing Gender in French Literature and a headshot of Mat Fournier. Additional text reads: Tickets at LambdaLiterary.org, Join us all day Saturday, October 4th, 2025.

Join us Oct 4 at 2pm ET for an interview with Mat Fournier, finalist in LGBTQ+ Studies, author of Dysphoric Modernism: Undoing Gender in French Literature. @matfournier.bsky.social
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Very exciting to see two @columbiaup.bsky.social books shortlisted for the ASAP Book Prize! Congratulations to Chris Fan (@chrisfan.bsky.social) author of ASIAN AMERICAN FICTION AFTER 1965 and Sarah Dimick, author of UNSEASONABLE.

Christopher T. Fan- Asian American Fiction After 1965: Transnational Fantasies of Economic Mobility @columbiaup.bsky.social

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Sarah Dimick- Unseasonable: Climate Change in Global Literatures (Columbia UP) Kency Cornejo- Visual Disobedience: Art and Decoloniality in Central America (Duke UP) Brooke Belisle- Depth Effects: Dimensionality from Camera to Computation (University of California Press) Steven Swarbrick & Jean-Thomas Tremblay- Negative Life: The Cinema of Extinction (Northwestern UP) Amber Jamilla Musser- Between Shadows and Noise: Sensation, Situatedness, and the Undisciplined (Duke UP) Christopher T. Fan- Asian American Fiction After 1965: Transnational Fantasies of Economic Mobility (Columbia UP)

We are so excited to announce the shortlist for the ASAP/16 Book Prize!

Congratulations to all the nominees! We’ll announce the winner of the prize at the annual conference in a few weeks in Houston! See the ALT ID and thread for more information.

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This Saturday (October 4th) at 2 pm, join Mat Fournier who will be interviewed about his book DYSPHORIC MODERNISM as part of Lammys Day 2025! bit.ly/4psrSgd @matfournier.bsky.social @lambdaliterary.org @columbiaup.bsky.social

Tomorrow at 6:30 PM (online). Schomburg Conversations in Black Freedom Studies featuring Julius B. Fleming, Jr., Jo-Ann Morgan, La Donna Forsgren, and Courtney Thorsson on the ties between Black political activism and the arts. bit.ly/4gOloEl
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I'm extremely honored that "Death by Laughter" made the shortlist for the @moderniststudies.bsky.social Book Prize!!! ☺️🎊 CONGRATS to the winners & fellow short-listers--such beautiful research here that I can't wait to read!! 📚@columbiaup.bsky.social

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Edward Mendelson discusses his new book THE INNER LIFE OF MRS. DALLOWAY and the new edition of the novel from @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social with Francesca Wade next Wednesday (10/8) at 7 at BookCulture! bit.ly/42i0NCv @bookculture.com @columbiaup.bsky.social

The reverse victimisation of Charlie Kirk – from propagandist to martyr | British Politics and Policy at LSE In the aftermath of Charlie Kirk's assassination, Donald Trump and J D Vance proclaimed him a martyr, a recasting of those with power and influence as victims.

"In the logic of reverse victimisation, those who enjoy domination become martyrs, while those who are marginalised are cast as perpetrators." -- @liliechouliaraki.bsky.social, author of WRONGED, aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s assassination. tinyurl.com/smazswb4 @columbiaup.bsky.social

Good Riddance To ‘The Best American Poetry’ | Defector When David Lehman, a poet then working as a book critic for Newsweek, proposed the project for The Best American Poetry anthology, he was searching for a national platform. His first anthology project...

It's the end of The Best American Poetry.

I wrote about the forty-year anthology project, poetry’s place in Big Five publishing, and editor David Lehman's culture wars vision of American verse.

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Psychic Empire | Columbia University Press In nineteenth-century imperial Germany and the Austro-Hungarian Empire, new scientific fields like psychophysics, empirical psychology, clinical psychiatry, ... | CUP

And lastly on the shortlist (in alphabetical order) is: Cate I. Reilly's Psychic Empire: Literary Modernism and the Clinical State

Congrats Cate and @columbiaup.bsky.social!

Scattered and Fugitive Things | Columbia University Press Winner, 2025 Merle Curti Intellectual History Award, Organization of American HistoriansWinner, 2024 Arline Custer Memorial Book Award, Mid-Atlantic Regional... | CUP

Congrats to the three authors on the shortlist for the 2025 MSA First Book prize:

Laura E. Helton, Scattered and Fugitive Things: How Black Collectors Created Archives and Remade History

Congrats @lehelton.bsky.social and @columbiaup.bsky.social

Circulating Jim Crow | Columbia University Press Winner, 2023-2024 RSAP Book Prize, Research Society for American PeriodicalsIn the early twentieth century, the Saturday Evening Post was perhaps the most po... | CUP

And finally on the shortlist (in alphabetical order) is: Adam McKible's Circulating Jim Crow: The Saturday Evening Post and the War Against Black Modernity

Congrats Adam and @columbiaup.bsky.social (again!!)

Death by Laughter | Columbia University Press Can you really die from laughing too hard? Between 1870 and 1920, hundreds of women suffered such a fate—or so a slew of sensationalist obituaries would ha... | CUP

Next on the shortlist: Maggie Hennefeld's Death by Laughter: Female Hysteria and Early Cinema

Congrats Maggie and @columbiaup.bsky.social (also again!)

Tonight! Should be a good conversation.

The Rise of Pacific Literature | Columbia University Press In the 1960s and 1970s, the staff and students of two newly founded universities in the Pacific Islands helped foster a golden age of Oceanian literature. At... | CUP

It's time to announce the winners of the 2025 MSA Book Prize: Maebh Long and Matthew Hayward for The Rise of Pacific Literature: Decolonization, Radical Campuses, and Modernism. Congratulations! @maebhlong.bsky.social, Matthew, and @columbiaup.bsky.social

Tomorrow at 7 pm at @communitybookstore.bsky.social in Brooklyn, Edward Mendelson will talk with Sarah Cole about his new book THE INNER LIFE OF MRS. DALLOWAY and the new edition of Woolf's novel, published by @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social. tinyurl.com/26r9ma3t
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The reverse victimisation of Charlie Kirk – from propagandist to martyr | British Politics and Policy at LSE In the aftermath of Charlie Kirk's assassination, Donald Trump and J D Vance proclaimed him a martyr, a recasting of those with power and influence as victims.

The reverse victimisation of #CharlieKirk – from propagandist to martyr – @liliechouliaraki.bsky.social @lsemedia.bsky.social for @lsepoliticsblog.bsky.social.