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Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor WGSS Emory University | "A Silvan Tomkins Handbook: Foundations for Affect Theory" (with Adam Frank) UMinnesota Press | Co-editor differencesjournal.org Current research: Valerie Solanas π€ bit.ly/valeriesolanas
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19.10.2025 20:51 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I have a new publication called Throwing Like a Girl
sterlinga.substack.com/p/throwing-l...
Open access link: bsd.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
Queer Class/Room Symposium
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA
April 15 and 16, 2026
Due date for proposals: November 15, 2025
Keynote: Justin Torres
queerclassrelations.commons.gc.cuny.edu/graduate-stu...
Year 5 of the Black Feminist Theory Summer Institute: Applications are open, more info on our website. Please spread the word.
01.10.2025 11:55 β π 74 π 41 π¬ 2 π 2Our first faculty book launch of the year is just around the corner! Join us for a discussion of @emorycollege.bsky.social Philsophy Prof. Lynne Huffer's new multi-media monograph "These Survivals: An Autobiography of Extinction" (@dukepress.bsky.social) π
RSVP here: forms.office.com/r/u9LDySx3FC
Promotional poster for The Emory Cinematheque event titled '1975 - A Year in Cinema,' featuring bold yellow and red text with star and curtain graphics, scheduled for Wednesday nights at 7:30 PM, White Hall 208.
Our friends in Emory Film and Media are taking us back 50 years with this fall's Emory Cinematheque 1975, celebrating releases from that memorable year.
Screenings, which are free and open to the public, happen every Wednesday at 7:30 pm in White Hall 208.
Full schedule: https://bit.ly/41I3QUj
Fyer announcing that ECDS is hiring. Text on the flyer reads: Interested in working with an interdisciplinary team while learning new tools and methods in digital scholarship? Apply by Sept 9. Questions? Visit ecds.emory.edu or email Dr. Alexander Cors at acors@emory.edu. Please fill out this survey to apply: https://tinyurl.com/cfa-dstp2025
Come work with us!
Emory Graduate Students - apply by September 9th: tinyurl.com/cfa-dstp2025
2026-27 Postdoctoral Research Fellowships at the Pembroke Center. Applications Now Open. Applications due Monday Nov 24 2025. Complete applications must include curriculum vitae, cover letter, writing sample.
Applications open for 26-27 postdocs. Welcoming apps from any field that relates to the theme of the Seminar, "The Meanings of Merit: Labor, Categories of Difference, and the Creation of Knowledge." See: pembroke.brown.edu/funding-oppo.... Due 11/24/25. @pajaf.bsky.social @brownanthro.bsky.social
26.08.2025 11:24 β π 1 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0Reminder! Sept 1 deadline!
18.08.2025 12:25 β π 13 π 9 π¬ 0 π 02026β27 Residential Fellowship Program at the National Humanities Center. Application Deadline: October 2, 2025.
A fellowship at the National Humanities Center isn't just a break from teaching or a change of scenery. It's an opportunity to draft chapters, reimagine arguments, and follow ideas into unexpected terrain.
Application Deadline: October 2, 2025
Learn more: bit.ly/nhc-scholarly-programs
2026-27 Postdoctoral Research Fellowships at the Pembroke Center. Applications Now Open. Applications due Monday Nov 24 2025. Complete applications must include curriculum vitae, cover letter, writing sample.
Applications open for 26-27 postdocs. Welcoming apps from any field that relates to the theme of the Seminar, "The Meanings of Merit: Labor, Categories of Difference, and the Creation of Knowledge." See: pembroke.brown.edu/funding-oppo.... Due 11/24. @pajaf.bsky.social @brownanthro.bsky.social
12.08.2025 11:19 β π 4 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0Announcing
The Parapraxis Film Festival
Friday, September 19 - Thursday, September 25, 2025
361 Stagg Street, Suite 407, Brooklyn
at @lightindustry.bsky.social
Organized by Perwana Nazif and Hannah Zeavin
For program, speaker list, & ticketing information:
lightindustry.org/parapraxis
From the pen of the very talented @wrisley.bsky.social recently graduated from @emorywgss.bsky.social and now faculty at WGSX at St Maryβs College, Maryland.
05.08.2025 23:57 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Cover of differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, Volume 36, Number 1 (May 2025). The background is solid yellow with a horizontal beige band across the middle containing the journal title "differences" in lowercase serif letters. Below the band, the issueβs featured dossier is titled "Limits of LegibilityβQuestions of Blackness and Sexuality," with contributing authors listed: Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli, Matthew Helm, IvΓ‘n A. Ramos, Jennifer C. Nash, Samantha Pinto, Lee Edelman, David Marriott, and Selamawit D. Terrefe.
The Weekly Read is "On Exhaustion: Toward a Post-Care Feminism" by Samantha Pinto and Jennifer C. Nash. The article was published in Dossier: Limits of LegibilityβQuestions of Blackness and Sexuality, a special issue of @differences.bsky.social (36:1).
Read the article for free: buff.ly/XDrQAhF
I pre-ordered today!
18.07.2025 00:41 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Text reads Welcome to our newest staff members and has an arrow indicating that there are more images to come.
Headshot of Scott Jackshaw, Managing Editor of differences
Headshot of Erin Perfect, Processing Archivist
We are delighted to welcome two new Center staff. Scott Jackshaw joins differences as Managing Editor; Erin Perfect joins the archives team as Processing Archivist. Read about Scott : pembroke.brown.edu/news/2025-07... Read about Erin: pembroke.brown.edu/news/2025-05...
@differences.bsky.social
Oh, this is really great: new poetry from @differences.bsky.social managing editor, the super talented @scottjackshaw.bsky.social
"apophatic theology, body horror, gardening, queer theory, classic films, poststructuralism, and bad sex" @talonbooks.bsky.social
talonbooks.com/books/stigmata
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13.07.2025 21:18 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Feminist Studies is seeking three new editorial collective members. Application forms online:
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π£ MEET THE 2025β26 LIFE/STORY FELLOWS π£β
The Fox Center is delighted to announce our 2025-26 Fellows, who will be joining us during our Life/Story theme year! π
Learn more about our incoming fellows & their projects: bit.ly/3IhaoSM
Department of Anthropology Photograph, 1970-71. Top row, left to right: Niels Braroe, Richard Strand, Robert Jay, James Deetz, Dwight Heath, Douglas Anderson. Bottom row, left to right: George Hicks, Louise Lamphere, Philip Leis, Alex Ricciardelli, Karl Heider
Post 1/4. 2025 marks the 50th anniversary of Louise Lamphere vs. Brown University, the landmark sex discrimination case that changed the face of Brown. Lamphere was an assistant professor of anthropology who was denied tenure.
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To read: this interview of Elizabeth Weed and Elizabeth A. Wilson, differences editors, by Eugenia Zuroski, president of the Council of Editors of Learned Journals. www.celj.org/featured-jou.... differences is CELJ's newest featured journal. @differences.bsky.socialβ¬
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How about:
Silvan Tomkins Handbook (Frank & Wilson)
www.upress.umn.edu/978081668000...
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The User Unconscious (Clough)
www.upress.umn.edu/978151790422...
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Political Affect (Protevi)
www.upress.umn.edu/978081666510...
SIS Call for Summer Proposals!
For faculty & graduate students working in areas related to race, sexuality, and gender! Proposal deadline is June 30, 2025. Please send proposals to fsheth@emory.edu, with your name, department, rank or year, and theme for proposal.
Worn out by an afternoon in front of microfilm, but did locate terrific series of letters from Solanas to her college newspaper in 1957 βmy pen is dipped in bloodβ
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11.06.2025 16:24 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0First page of the paper
Finally my essay on a 5E approach to mental distress in adversity is published! It is open access at doi.org/10.1177/1363...
03.06.2025 09:27 β π 13 π 7 π¬ 1 π 0"Limits of Legibility: Questions of Blackness and Sexuality" is dedicated to the memory of Selamawit D. Terrefe.
02.06.2025 18:57 β π 6 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0Cover of differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, volume 35, number 3. A pale yellow bar with the journal's title in black crosses over the top quarter. Below the title, black text on a yellow background offers the issue's subtitle: "Dossier: Limits of LegibilityβQuestions of Blackness and Sexuality."
differences 36.1 is out now β featuring a dossier of essays from Selamawit D. Terrefe, David Marriott, and Lee Edelman, alongside writing from Jennifer C. Nash, Samantha Pinto, Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli, Matthew Helm, and IvΓ‘n A. Ramos: read.dukeupress.edu/differences/...
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