Alexander Starre

Thinking about reading today at TU Dortmund

Opinion | A Coup at Carnegie Mellon? The university is replacing the humanities with more computers.

Carnegie Mellon’s literature PhD is being liquidated in favor of “computation,” casualized labor, and AI.

That has profound ramifications for, students, faculty, and program alums like myself.

I wrote it about it (w/ Catherine Evans, a current PhD student).

www.chronicle.com/article/a-co...

At State Dept., a Typeface Falls Victim in the War Against Woke

Turns out sans serif is woke. At least they didn't switch to White House gilded script.
At State Dept., a Typeface Falls Victim in the War Against Woke www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/u...

At State Dept., a Typeface Falls Victim in the War Against Woke

apropos of Times New Roman suddenly being anti-woke
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/u...

google result page for "comic sans" set in comic sans

google results page for Times New Roman set in Times New Roman

By accident, I discovered that if you google the names of some standard typefaces, the search results will appear in this very font. See below Time New Roman and (of course) Comic Sans.

Congrats, Günter! Looks great - can't wait to read.

Cover of my book: Literature's Social Lives: A Socio-Institutional History of Literary Value. The Cover depicts a bookseller in 1930s Cambridge, with a book rack on her back, and a customer perusing one of her books

Thrilled to announce my new book (electronic version out now, print next month) — it proposes a new value theory grounded in the longue durée of literary institutions, 1800–present.

Germans: be apprised. You can get yours, too.

Also available at your local english philology library

Copy of close Reading for the 21st century by sinykin / winant on a table at U Bochum

Close Reading for the winter term in Germany @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social

Academics Must Seize the Means of Knowledge Production - Public Books Trumpism has canceled the knowledge society.

New at PB: As part of a series exploring higher ed under Trump, curated by Dennis M. Hogan (@dennismhogan.bsky.social), Christopher Newfield tells us how waiting out Trump will inevitably fail. Instead, we must build a new cultural order.

selection of lyrics from Natasha Bedingfield's song "Unwritten" starting with "Staring at the blank page before you Open up the dirty window"

The language of the AI policy for my fall courses is really taking shape.

PHD Scholarships For International Applicants - Program in Literary Studies - Funding for up to four years - Start date: 1 Oct. 2026 - Deadline: 31 Dec. 2025 Apply now!

🎓✨ Apply Now: PhD Scholarships in Literature ✨🎓

Fully funded 3-year PhD scholarships at our Graduate School Practices of Literature @uni-muenster.de in Germany, with the possibility of a 4th-year extension. Apply by December 31, 2025! #PhD #Scholarship #LiteraryStudies

More info: uni.ms/gssp

Large Language Muddle | The Editors The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...

Cf.
www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...

Life's little victories: writing n+1 headlines 4 months in advance.

AI Is a Mass-Delusion Event Three years in, one of AI’s enduring impacts is to make people feel like they’re losing it.

Hello. I wrote a nice long essay about AI and this very strange moment where we're constantly told we're living in the dawn of a strange new future but the only thing that's actually clear is that everyone feels pretty unmoored and uncertain. I hope you'll read it

Poster for event with Robert Gooding-Williams at the Kennedy Institute in Berlin on July 7

After Robert Gooding-Williams’ stint at the @ktbberlin.bsky.social summer school, @schlawinerkreis.bsky.social, Andreas-Johann Sorger and I are hosting a discussion at the Kennedy Institute on his new book @columbiaup.bsky.social www.jfki.fu-berlin.de/faculty/cult...

The best ( @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social ) is here to clear up a very confused discourse

Die FAZ berichtete in dieser Woche über Die Jahrestagung der #DGfA Gruss and die local organizer der diesjährigen Tagung!
zeitung.faz.net/faz/geistesw...

#dgfa2025 if I didn't shove a flyer into your hand the last few days, let me make up for that digitally:
the volume co-edited with @improbable.bsky.social has finally seen the light of day and you can see it, too, at 30% off if you add EVENT30 at checkout
www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781...

Absolute highlight of my academic year ⬇️⬇️

Day 3 of #DGfA2025: Alexander Starre @astarre.bsky.social introduces the conference's 3rd keynote - Kinohi Nishikawa on Toni Morrison's Beloved.

That's a wrap on our panel on literary institutions & periodicals. Great turnout, innovative contributions. C19 studies going strong! #dgfa2025

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DGfA keynote by Katrin horn

Archival brilliance by @katrinhorn.bsky.social at #dgfa2025

I have a chapter in here on Du Bois and his first, unpublished novel. Not open access, but I'm happy to share.

Only now seeing this advertised on Bluesky. Get your open access essays from this wonderful volume ⬇️⬇️

Against Technofeudal Education Pillars For Protecting Our "Core Infrastructure" From OpenAI

Great recs from @mattseybold.bsky.social on resisting technofeudal education: prioritize print, practice ungrading, "Luddify" the classroom; de-mobilize computer infrastructure (root technology in social place!); faculty governance over SaaS subscriptions; instructor choice re: ed-tech

Selected British Literary Prizes (1990-2022) – Post45 Data Collective The Selected British Literary Prizes (SBLP) dataset contains information on nine major literary prizes in the U.K. from 1990 to 2022 and demographic information on 682 prize winners and shortlisted au...

More than 30 years worth of data on UK literary prizes (and their winners) goes live today @post45data.bsky.social! Bravo to researchers Katherine Binhammer, Kanika Batra, Theo Gray, and Maryse Jayasuriya for compiling and publishing this incredible resource! data.post45.org/posts/britis...

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