J.D. Schnepf

Lineup:
Adam Kelly
@isanchezprado.bsky.social
Cheryl Higashida
Irvin Hunt
Patricia Stuelke
Cristina Pérez Jiménez
Francisco
Me
Lawrence

Introduction - Post45 Rarely does the publication of a peer-reviewed essay generate the excitement that accompanied Jeffrey Lawrence’s “Mobilizing Literature” in the Fall 2024 issue of ELH. Lawrence aims for an ambitious i...

What role do social movements play in recent literary history? @franciscondine.bsky.social and I gathered some brilliant scholars to debate Jeffrey Lawrence's essay, "Mobilizing Literature," published last fall for @atpost45.bsky.social

post45.org/2025/03/intr...

Rest in Power Linda Williams. 💔 (1946-2025) This loss hangs heavy on my heart. Linda was a legend--inspiring feminist scholar, warm interlocutor always generous to students & newbies, and fierce/indomitable presence whose commitment made us all care more. I'm grateful to have known her!! ❤️😢

😍👇

The Edinburgh Companion to the Millennial Novel The Edinburgh Companion to the Millennial Novel

Thrilled to be joining the coterie of excellent scholars in the Edinburgh Companion to the Millennial Novel. I have a chapter on writing and uncreative labour in 3 v. recent novels. You can pre-order here: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-edi...

Berkeley demands the release of Mahmoud!!

beautiful 😍

*had 🙈

And for those who followed me through the Feminist Media starter pack: This year I’ve also been co-editing a special issue of Feminist Media Histories (@femmediahist.bsky.social) on the theme, “Intimacies of Scale” with amazing scholars and friends. Look out for it Summer 2025!

Radiant Security — Parapraxis Migration's anxious remediations J.D. Schnepf

For the @parapraxismag.bsky.social issue on security, I wrote “Radiant Security: Migration’s Anxious Remediations” on electromagnetic surveillance and the political life of the logistical image. With thanks to my amazing editor, Michelle Rada. www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/rad...

Cover of a book in black and white entitled, Drone Aesthetics: War, Culture, Ecology, edited by Beryl Pong and Michael Richardson

I has a couple things come out in 2024. My essay “On Feminised Digital Media and Drone Operations” in Drone Aesthetics: War, Culture, Ecology draws on Tung-Hui Hu and Caren Kaplan’s accounts of civilian/military tech mergers to explain drone screen culture www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles...

Thank you, Steph! Congrats and looking forward to your book!

Me too! thanks for doing this

Cop Cities Mock Cities | Los Angeles Review of Books Stuart Schrader examines the historical origins and current ramifications of “cop city” complexes.

Thrilled to share my new article “Cop Cities Mock Cities,” published today in LA Review of Books. I examine history of the mock-urban tactical training facility, while also explaining what it tells us about the contemporary political economy of cities. lareviewofbooks.org/article/cop-...

Centre for Drones and Culture

I’ll be discussing the chapter at the virtual book launch for a DRONE AESTHETICS on Wed Oct 2 @ 12:00 BST alongside a great lineup of speakers. Registration for the event, hosted by the Centre for Drones and Culture, now open here: www.centrefordronesandculture.com

Vol. 5, No. 9: September 2024 · Reviews in Digital Humanities Vol. 5, No. 8 of Reviews in Digital Humanities, a peer-reviewed journal that facilitates scholarly evaluation of digital humanities work and its outputs, edited by Jennifer Guiliano (Indiana Universit...

Happy to share the September issue of #ReviewsInDH, edited by yours truly and Jennifer Guiliano. We take you on a global journey through a number of exciting projects — Podcasts! E-lit! And more. Enjoy! reviewsindh.pubpub.org/v5-n9

My chapter, “On Feminized Digital Media Users and Drone Operations,” is now our in the edited collection *Drone Aesthetics: War, Culture, Ecology* edited by Beryl Pong and Michael Richardson. The whole book is online and free to download here: www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles...

Please help spread the word! The English Department at Harvard is hoping to hire an assistant professor of post-45 Anglophone literature. I'm not on the committee, but would be happy to answer your questions.
academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/14143

I guess this will be infiltrating the bibliographies of student essays soon

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Yep SciSpace. Yeah maybe that’s what’s going on. I guess anyone who actually reads the article will realize the mistake immediately

For the record, I didn’t write this. Has anyone else had this happen?

Today I delivered my plenary lecture on drone automation and gestational labor at the European Society for the Study of English 2024 Conference. Many thanks to the organizers for a great week in Lausanne🇨🇭 wp.unil.ch/esse2024/aca...

They are so, so excited to pay a tech company instead of teachers

Bluesky pals, I am soliciting your suggestions for school poems--esp. those where schooling = "immigrating into English."
I've got Scots examples by Jackie Kay & Liz Lochhead; I've got Li Young Lee's "Persimmon" & Hai-Dang Phan's "My Father's Norton Introduction to Literature."
What else? thanks!

Deadline is September 15!

I chaired a session of the 2024 International PhD Seminar at the Roosevelt Institute of American Studies earlier this summer: 10 PhD candidates from 7 countries workshopping diss chapters over 3 days.

CFP for their next Seminar is out now: www.roosevelt.nl/en/nieuws/ca...

Great CFP on Surveillance and Literature for a special issue of Surveillance & Society. Guest edited by the wonderful Steph Brown. Drafts due January 2025! ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/su...

Scott’s here!

IRST FORUM CONFERENCE 2024 – CALL FOR PROPOSALS DIVISION OF CINEMA AND MEDIA STUDIES UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA SEPTEMBER 27TH AND 28TH Infrastructure and Abstraction “The immaterial has become… immaterial.” – Lord Cutler Beckett, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End A turn to infrastructure in media studies has drawn attention to important lines of inquiry about materiality, environments, elemental media, and infrastructures’ frequent entanglements with capitalist and colonialist projects. But this turn, at times, also risks occluding no less important questions about the work of abstraction in media and adjacent considerations of representation, affect, and the ephemeral. Such thinking reduces the real to the material and renders abstraction immaterial. For instance, Melody Jue’s powerful emphasis on the milieu-specificity of thought, which proceeds via a submersion of media studies into the ocean, turns on the abjection of abstraction. For her, media studies’ usual defini

powers of abstractions rather than deriding them for their immateriality; indeed, it retools our very understanding of what does and does not count as material, as well as the value we accord to materiality. Kinder expands our sense of what counts as infrastructure; Marks offers a way of affirming images as real and worldly; both turn on fundamental transvaluations of materiality and immateriality, concretion and abstraction. These and other media studies scholars working along similar lines demonstrate just some of the ways that the discipline can rework the coordinates of infrastructure and abstraction to highly generative ends. The organizing committee of the 2024 First Forum Conference invites papers and creative projects from graduate students that navigate generative oppositions between infrastructure and abstraction as they relate to a wide range of media objects and sites of mediation. We encourage submissions that address the unstable borders between these two concepts, perhap

❑ Digital environments; interactivity ❑ Elemental media ❑ Infrastructure’s promise of futurity ❑ Indexicality and abstraction ❑ Abstraction and value ❑ Vernacular modernism ❑ Place-based knowledge and abstractions/appropriations thereof Please submit an abstract (-300 words) and a short biography (-150 words). Conference presentations will be 15-20 minutes. Applicants must submit their materials by July 14, 2024 to firstforumgradconference@gmail.com. Please include “Name + First Forum 2024 Submission” in the subject line. Alongside traditional academic papers, we welcome non- traditional projects, including but not limited to video essays, short films, and art exhibitions.

The CFP for the USC Cinema & Media Studies grad conference "Infrastructure and Abstraction" is now live. It is always great. Please circulate widely. The Alt Text is a mess, sorry.