Daniel Wright

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The ICCIT is hiring! Our faculty is inviting applications for an Associate or Full Professor position in Organizational Studies, with an anticipated start date of July 1, 2026. jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Mississa...

A stack of several purple-and-yellow copies of Charles Dickens's GREAT EXPECTATIONS, edited by Daniel Wright, Norton Library edition

FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION. Think about this @nortonlibrary.bsky.social edition for all your 2025-26 teaching needs!

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UTM Postdoctoral Fellowship Award | Research and Innovation ** Updated: April 2025 ** Program Purpose:Postdoctoral Fellowships (PDFs) are an important post-PhD training opportunity, affording recent graduates an opportunity to establish an independent research...

Come be a postdoc @uoftmississauga.bsky.social! If you're in the field of novel studies, or literature and philosophy, or Victorian studies, and this opportunity interests you, please be in touch with me directly about a potential application.

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Trying to start a new thing!

I meant to tag @taliaschaffer.bsky.social !

A beautiful and generous review from Talia Schaffer that puts THE GROUNDS OF THE NOVEL into conversation with Adela Pinch's THE LOCATION OF EXPERIENCE. (And stay tuned for my own review of Pinch's incredible book, coming soon in MLQ!)

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My textbook is finally available! 'Writing on Fire: A Fierce Yet Friendly Guide to Writing Humanities Essays in College.' There are chapters on close reading, thesis statements, all the good stuff. If you teach writing via a humanities subject, check it out! broadviewpress.com/product/writ...

Congratulations, can't wait to read!!

3. I go to great pains in the introduction to say that I don't see the novel as some kind of edenic "refuge" for marginalized forms of being — although I do claim that in the hands of some authors it can serve to articulate more expansive ontologies by using the resources of fiction.

2. Parker focuses on a single moment where I conflate novel and epic in Lukács (in a moment where I too quickly rearticulate an earlier point) rather than looking at the original discussion of "paths of adequation" where I clearly indicate that Lukács is talking there about ancient epic.

A few key points to rebut: 1. I do not argue for a "logic of segregation" whereby queer, trans, and/or racialized people have a merely fictional existence. That is absurd! The point is to think about how reality (embodiment, lived experience) and fiction (social construction) overlap.

I have dutifully shared several positive reviews of The Grounds of the Novel. This one is extremely un-positive (backhanded compliment about "ambition" notwithstanding), but I will share it anyway on the principle that all publicity is good publicity?

THE GROUNDS OF THE NOVEL reviewed by Anna Henchman for NCL

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Hi, you seem to have tagged the wrong person!

Came here to say this! For whatever reason that description of the Santa Ana winds has stuck with me for decades!

The Grounds of the Novel | Stanford University Press What grounds the fictional world of a novel? Or is such a world peculiarly groundless? In a powerful engagement with the latest debates in novel theory, Daniel Wright investigates how novelists reckon...

Discount alert! THE GROUNDS OF THE NOVEL is part of the @stanfordpress.bsky.social Virtual Exhibit for MLA and you can get it for 30% off with code S25MLA between Jan 9 and Feb 12. www.sup.org/books/litera...

And check out the full exhibit while you're at it! www.sup.org/virtual-exhi...

1/2: I won’t be at MLA this year for the first time in years, but if you are, I hope you’ll check out the Post*45 books at the Stanford UP booth! We had three great titles come out in 2024, by Adrienne Brown, Adam Kelly, and Shane Boyle.

1/2: I won’t be at MLA this year for the first time in years, but if you are, I hope you’ll check out the Post*45 books at the Stanford UP booth! We had three great titles come out in 2024, by Adrienne Brown, Adam Kelly, and Shane Boyle.

The first season of the little known but pretty interesting horror anthology series Channel Zero!

Great Expectations (The Norton Library) Part of the Norton Library series, Great Expectations (The Norton Library), Charles Dickens, Daniel Wright, 9781324046721

My edition of Great Expectations for the Norton Library series now has a webpage, a delightfully purple cover, and a projected publication date of July 1, 2025. Think about it for your Fall 2025 syllabus needs. (Or just because it's a pretty colour!)

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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

Oh, and a plug for Alice Meynell’s amazing essay “The Rhythm of Life,” and Amy Levy’s incredible dramatic monologue “Xantippe”

Schreiner’s “Woman and Labour” would also be great

What’s a Theory to Do? Given the scope of the crisis before us, we will need theory of all stripes to find our way forward.

So much fun to see THE GROUNDS OF THE NOVEL put into surprising and illuminating conversation with @annakornbluh.bsky.social's IMMEDIACY in service of some big thinking about The Function of Theory at the Present Time.

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I’m so honoured to be read with such generosity by the brilliant Deidre Lynch.

Timothy Gao reviews @dannybwright.bsky.social 's The Grounds of the Novel for Review 19, " For Wright, the strange ontological foundations of novelistic worlds become a "resource" (6) for thinking through our own ambiguities and ethics of being": www.review19.org/view_doc.php...

Paging George Eliot!

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Parents of small children everywhere cursing the Oscars for the early start time on the first post-lost-hour evening. Bedtimes are *complicated* tonight Academy!

I am *so excited* for this book, and not only because it is authored by a fellow Daniel W. I've been lucky enough to get to know snippets of Daniel's brilliant work over the years, and am so eager to get to know more of it!

✨The Art of Uncertainty: Probable Realism and the Victorian Novel✨ is out with Cambridge UP!

Available in US/UK (cambridge.org/9781009436113), 20% off w/ TAU2024

Huge thanks to all who shepherded it into print and to Kate Flint & Clare Pettitt for including it in their series!

Days later, still have not recovered emotional equilibrium after watching Andrew Haigh’s remarkable ALL OF US STRANGERS. Double whammy of impact as both a gay man and a parent!!