Chris Suh

The five-paragraph essay apparently emerged in the US in the 1950s and was already getting lambasted by prominent critics and scholars in the early 1970s. It's always illuminating to see how long we've fought the same fights....

I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.

Sociology and Allegory The question of the relationship between internal and external analysis of literature remains open across disciplinary inquiries. Although Pierre Bourdieu claims to offer a definitive answer to the qu...

For the haters who say Big Fiction over-relies on allegory, my most explicit, spirited defense of allegorical interpretation. "Sociology and Allegory," published as part of a series on the sociology of literature in IASL. Lemme know if you want a PDF
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

thanks google great job you crushed it

The Allure of Empire: American Encounters with Asians in the Age of Transpacific Expansion and Exclusion, by Chris Suh Much of Chris Suh’s new book is about how Americans in the first half of the twentieth century treated Asian immigrants, particularly those from the Japane

Satoshi Mizutani reviews 'The Allure of Empire: American Encounters with Asians in the Age of Transpacific Expansion and Exclusion', by Chris Suh @chrissuh.bsky.social

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Program for Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century, with a large slate of speakers from the volume.

On Friday, November 7, I'm hosting a symposium at Emory for the launch of Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century, which I edited with @johannawinant.bsky.social. If you plan on attending, sign up for the eventbrite—hoping to get a rough gauge for attendance www.eventbrite.com/e/close-read...

The image presents a comparison of the leading causes of death in the United States for 2023 and the media coverage these causes receive from three news outlets: The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Fox News. In the footer, it notes the data sources, indicating that the information is based on media mentions from Media Cloud (2025) and death data from the US CDC (2025) and the Global Terrorism Index, with a clarification that values are normalized to sum to 100%.

Does the news reflect what we die from?

Happy to share the news that Catastrophic Diplomacy won the 2025 Tonous and Warda Johns Family Book Award (for the best monograph in the history of U.S. foreign relations, immigration history, or military history) from the PCB-AHA.

Congratulations! So well-deserved! 🎉

Check out the September issue of Diplomatic History! Featuring Elisabeth Leake's (@emleake.bsky.social) Bernath Lecture "The Decolonization Paradigm: Rethinking the US and the World" in which she argues for a "new paradigm for understanding modern international history"
doi.org/10.1093/dh/d...

And Chris Suh's (@chrissuh.bsky.social) article "Diasporic Politics in the Age of Decolonization: Korean Independence and the US Military Occupation of Korea, 1945–1948" doi.org/10.1093/dh/d...

😡

Apparently Guillermo Del Toro has ruined Frankenstein by… being relatively faithful to the source material.

Oh my.

Cover of Cold War Refugees (Stanford University Press, 2025), edited by Yumi Moon

My new school year begins with the publication of Yumi Moon's edited volume, Cold War Refugees!

Huge congratulations to Yumi, whose pathbreaking scholarship forever shaped the way I think about the intersections of Asian history and US history! 🎉🎉🎉

@stanfordpress.bsky.social
@asianstudies.org

My fellow sickos of Bluesky: Who's ready for preseason football?

YouTube video by Louisville Leopard Percussionists Ozzy & Jack's World Detour ~ The Louisville Leopard Percussionists

He did!

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Kids playing Ozzy's Crazy Train on xylophones

more of a comment than a question is the unsolicited dick pic of academia

from Have You Been Feeling Blue These Days? Poems by Kim Eon Hee, translated by Eunsong Kim & Sung-Gi Kim Have you been feeling blue these days? Are you struggling because of money? Did you watch the viral videos? Is this your castle in the sky? Do your enemies appear as your parents? Are you afraid of becoming an arsonist? Do you want to suffer more from your sense of guilt? Are you anxious you might step on a dead person’s foot, somewhere? Even though you’re alone are you really not alone? Do even dogs or cows belittle you? Is your eye twitching and pus pouring Out of your gums? Is smoke coming out from your asshole or ear hole? Do your words come out like mushed rotten strawberries? Are both your hands fool’s gold, one holding amnesia and the other delirium? Are you boundless and trapped? Suffocating and In pitch-black? You’ll likely go crazy soon But like, only like Are you like that? Then please do click Here

posting our @terpsicoreans.bsky.social translation of Kim Eon Hee's poem for no reason what so ever

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Tomorrow at 4pm EST! @wilsoncenter.org, @koreacenter.bsky.social, @historians.org, @chrissuh.bsky.social

Cover of Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century: cream lettering in color rectangles against a cream backdrop.

[clearing throat]

Best wishes for your next chapter!

I finally had the opportunity to read your wonderful book over winter break. I have every confidence that your pathbreaking work will be continued to be appreciated for many years to come!

We'll have to bring her back for an event in the future!