Jessica Teague

The Course: What is a Book? Collecting, Libraries, and the Materiality of Texts Students learn how to judge a book by its cover.

I’ve been team-teaching one of my favorite classes this semester: What is a book? This lovely piece tells all about it:

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Assistant Professor, English [R0149472] The University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) appreciates your interest in employment. We ask that you keep in mind the following when completing your application: Once you start the application process ...

We’re hiring a TT Assistant Professor of Creative Nonfiction at UNLV - please share!

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A pop icon is behind the comeback of one of Las Vegas' most intimate traditions In the 1950s and '60s, it became an institution.

I’m quoted in this piece about the Vegas lounge scene, past & present

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Current Issue Issue #10 April 2025 Fiction: Jon Hickey, Big Chief (Simon and Schuster) Poetry: Rachel Richardson, Smother (Norton) Fiction: Frederic S. Durbin, The Country Under Heaven (Melville House) History: …

The current issue of LaVeRB (Las Vegas Review of books) is out! And my essay on Gatsby can be found there. #gatsby #bookreviews @laverb.bsky.social

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I wrote an essay about Gatsby and music and Las Vegas. Let me know what you think!

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Teaching Kafka’s ‘The Trial’ this week as part of my 1925 class, and you can probably guess how that feels… yikes.

Fiction Sally Rooney, Intermezzo (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), 464 pp. Hardback, $29.00. Expectations were running high for Sally Rooney’s fourth novel. The author of Normal People and Conversations with Fr…

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What did you think of Intermezzo by Sally Rooney? Here is my Review for LaVeRB @laverb.bsky.social - link below

JET’s Best of 2024

For what it’s worth, here’s my Best of 2024: open.spotify.com/playlist/2P4...

What were your favorite albums/songs from the last year? What should I put on my new year playlist? I want your recommendations!

A new review of “Fire” in Alta by my love @johnhay.bsky.social -

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Next semester I’m teaching a class all about literature & pop culture from 1925 (a 100 yr anniversary class). What kinds of secondary readings and history should I assign? What would be on your dream 1925 syllabus?

I’m posting this question again because I’d genuinely like to hear people’s thoughts on university presses asking permission to sell our books to AI:

Did anyone else who published with Cambridge get a request to sign over their work for “AI Subsidiary Aggregation”? They claim we’ll be paid a 20% royalty, but I’m highly suspicious. Are other university presses doing this?

Color in the desert

Today I had the honor of introducing a craft talk with Teju Cole—he was so thoughtful in response to my students’ questions

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The deadline for the Arizona Quarterly special issue on the American Novel that @natewolff.bsky.social and I are coediting is less than a month away! Do send us things.
azq.arizona.edu/call-papers-0

Ooh! It’s worth a read! I’ll be in New Orleans with Bob in January for MLA and we’ll be chatting about it

He writes: “The antagonistic cooperation that means most to me has to do with this will to move together, even with strangers, even with trouble in the air.”

I’m rereading Bob O’Meally’s ‘Antagonist Cooperation’ for a paper I’m writing and forgot what a scathing indictment of Trump it includes! His argument in the intro for “radical inclusiveness” is 🔥

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