Sean Seeger

Environmental humanities & adjacent scholars: interested in collaborating on a panel for this @carsoncenter.bsky.social conference in July?!
#envhum #STS #envhist www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/news/news_ev...

Our three-volume Cambridge History of the Gothic, a monumental labour of love that we worked on for many years, has just come out in paperback! @angelawright1794.bsky.social @catherinespooner.bsky.social @universitypress.cambridge.org

Aporias of Truth and Politics: Arendt, Foucault, and the Practice of Truth-Telling In the recent debates on so-called 'post-truth politics,' Hannah Arendt's essay "Truth and Politics" is a constant reference point. Indeed, it is one of the few texts within political philosophy and p...

New in Genealogy+Critique: Gerald Posselt’s “Aporias of Truth and Politics: Arendt, Foucault, and the Practice of Truth-Telling”
Read it here: doi.org/10.16995/gc....

The Jameson Tapes, Side A with Isabel Bartholomew, Anna Kornbluh, Caleb Smith, Robert Tally, & Fredric Jameson

As a dedicated reader and former student of Jameson's, I revel in the work that @mattseybold.bsky.social, @annakornbluh.bsky.social, @smithcal.bsky.social, et al. do here. An "add another mile to the morning walk to finish this one out" episodes. theamericanvandal.substack.com/p/the-jameso...

Editors' Introduction

We’re proud to publish the inaugural issue of Theory & Social Inquiry— now fully scholar-led, #DiamondOA, and free from commercial control.

Read the introduction by editors Greta R. Krippner and Monica Prasad to learn why this matters: doi.org/10.16995/tsi...

Cover of Ekman's Urban Fantasy, which is mostly black, two hooded figures at the bottom, and a vertigo-inducing image of skyscrapers in the center.

Congrats to Stefan Ekman and his book Urban Fantasy: Exploring Modernity through Magic, published by us at @leverpress.bsky.social, for winning the 2025 Mythopoeic Award for Myth and Fantasy Studies! www.mythsoc.org/news/news-20...

Everything about the present moment makes me want to retreat into old books.

Associate Professor/Professor in Cambridge Digital Humanities at University of Cambridge An academic position as a Associate Professor/Professor in Cambridge Digital Humanities is being advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Click now to find more details and explore additional academic job opportunit...

We're hiring an Associate Professor/Professor at Cambridge Digital Humanities. Specialisms include Digital History/Mapping, Critical Data Studies, Archive and Memory Studies, Digital Media Arts, Environmental Humanities, AI/Digital Visual Culture.

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOD837/a...

CFP! Anne Rüggemeier and I are organizing a FRIAS conference on silence in literature and culture from April 15-17, 2026. Please consider submitting an abstract by September 15 ✍️ (link below) @uni-freiburg.de @friasunifreiburg.bsky.social

Haunted by Hydrocarbons Essay Collection, Deadline Reminder!

We're accepting abstracts until August 31st!

See the CFP for details: drive.google.com/file/d/190Eh...

Lunchtime Book Launch: Barry Devine and Ellen Scheible: "Teaching James Joyce in the Twenty-First Century" — James Joyce Society Please join the James Joyce Society for our latest installment in our Lunchtime Launch Series : Teaching James Joyce in the Twenty-First Century , edited by Barry Devine and Ellen Scheible This ...

Barry Devine and I will be launching Teaching James Joyce in the Twenty-First Century on Friday, December 12 from 12:30-2pm online via Zoom. Thanks to the James Joyce Society, New York for sponsoring the event. Please join us! #jamesjoyce

@seveneccles.bsky.social @floridapress.bsky.social

The graphic shows cultivated lands bordering on a river/wetland and collections of trees (credit: AXIO-IMAGES from Getty Images) in the background of text bubbles. The text summarizes key details of the conference. Please read the description and the full call on the RCC website for this information.

We are looking for multidisciplinary panels to be presented at our upcoming conference "Beyond Dualism—Thinking Creatively Across Worlds," which takes place in July next year.

The full call can be found in the news section on our website: www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/news/news_ev... (1/?)

How Virginia Woolf righted ‘one chapter gone wrong’

'In The Waves, the corrected proofs unfortunately offer no solution to the book’s one unsolvable textual mystery.'

Edward Mendelson: How Virginia Woolf righted ‘one chapter gone wrong’

Utopia in the Factory This open access book critiques techno-utopias, arguing that human creativity and tacit knowledge remain vital to work and radical organization.

My new book is out. Utopia in the Factory: Prefigurative Knowledge Against Cybernetics. It's open access you can read it free here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

The debut issue of American Gothic Studies has now been published! To access, join The Society for the Study of the American Gothic at www.americangothicsociety.com. Free article from this issue at scholarlypublishingcollective.org/psup/ags/art....

Carrie at 50 Abstract. Fifty years after its publication as a novel, Carrie still manages to remind us of not only Stephen King’s importance as a novelist but also the value of reading the text and the film it ins...

American Gothic Studies issue 1.1 came out Friday and today we transmitted the content for issue 1.2, which will be out near the end of the year. Please send us your scholarship!

scholarlypublishingcollective.org/psup/ags/art...

Excited to have a short provocations piece, 'Against Entanglement', in the first issue of American Gothic Studies.

In a time of pandemics, militant land grabs, and extinctions, the Gothic uses tales of zombie infections and nuked landscapes to show us the dark side of being entangled with others.

I'm currently looking for visiting lecturing/tutoring work for the autumn 💛 I've worked in English, Media Arts and Liberal Arts departments, and have taught poetry, literature, film, television and critical theory. If you know of any vacancies, or anyone that might be looking, please let me know 😊

I can finally share the cover for ‘Neurodivergent, by Nature: why biodiversity needs neurodiversity’ with you all. Designed by the brilliant Lauren Marina, the rooted oak is the perfect symbol for my new book, and I absolutely love it! Published on July the 31st by Bloomsbury.

#booksky

The following books written by Brian McHale: Postmodernist Fiction, Constructing Postmodernism, The Obligation toward the Difficult Whole: Postmodernist Long Poems, and The Cambridge Introduction to Postmodernism, plus two books he co-edited: Teaching Narrative Theory and Postmodern Literature.

Devastated to learn of the death of Brian McHale, my good friend for over 50 years, from metastatic melanoma. Here are some of Brian’s books. His many articles and books leave a great legacy, but not as great as his friendship. RIP.

Provocateur’s progress While Naomi Mitchison was sitting, with her four children, for the artist and writer Wyndham Lewis, she saw that he kept a flipped pudding bowl on permanent display in his studio. Inside the bowl, Lew...

The @thetls.bsky.social let me eviscerate Wyndham Lewis 🖤🔥🔥🖤

Carving out a space for intellectual autonomy in dangerous times: Theory and Social Inquiry launches at the Open Library of Humanities We're thrilled to announce the launch issue of Theory and Social Inquiry has been published at the Open Library of Humanities. As we reported in May 2024, Theory and Social …

The first issue of Theory & Social Inquiry is out via @openlibhums.bsky.social! Successor to Springer’s Theory & Society, the journal is now #DiamondOA / no APCs, no paywalls. Scholar-led & free from commercialisation, at a time when academic freedom needs defending: www.openlibhums.org/news/844/

Amazon review of Pride and Prejudice, left by carlton p morgan on 30 July 2010: "Just a bunch of people going to each other's houses"

Happy 15th anniversary of the peak achievement of literary criticism, to all who celebrate

Edinburgh Critical AI in Education Network The event is aimed at creating a space for critical discussion of AI across our universities in Edinburgh

Critical AI in Higher Education event in Edinburgh, Monday 1st September

Featuring @semacrae.bsky.social @karengregory.bsky.social @huwcdavies.bsky.social @benpatrickwill.bsky.social and more to be added.

Sign up link here...and please share!

PUBLISHED #OpenAccess!

HISTORIOGRAPHIES OF GAME STUDIES: What It Has Been, What it Could Be

780 pages of disciplinary self-care, otherwise known as intellectual history. Come for the pixels, stay for the resolutions.

#VideoGames #MediaStudies

@cmejeur.bsky.social @emmavphd.bsky.social

his great genius is declared in his doing nothing particular to prove it

The Palgrave Handbook of Feminist, Queer and Trans* Narrative Studies This Palgrave Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the intersection between narrative theory and feminist, queer, and trans* theory.

Thrilled to have a chapter on "Queer Formalism" in The Palgrave Handbook of Feminist, Queer and Trans* Narrative Studies, which is a wonderful new collection edited by Vera Nünning & Corinna Assmann that everyone should check out ASAP!

Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century A user’s guide to the fundamental practice of literary studies, providing context, examples, and practical exercises

You can now, at last, pre-order CLOSE READING FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY directly from Princeton UP. It's at the printer and is likely to arrive in September, though the official pub date is October 21. Can also preview TOC and intro at this link
press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

Callout: Storying the Future: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Queer Storytelling Storying the Future: Queer Storytelling and Unsettling TImes Date: Wednesday 10th September, 2025 Location: University of Sheffield, UK Organisers: Dr Ames Clark and Dr Eleanor Wilkinson, School of...

CfP for an exciting workshop I'm co-organising at the Uni of Sheffield - Storying the Future: Queer Storytelling and Unsettling Times.

(More info below but workshop 10th sept, deadline for EOI 6th aug)

tinyurl.com/qstorytelling

I only began reading him recently and, wow, just wow.