English & African American Studies and Director of the Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in the Humanities @Princeton.
Princeton, NJ
Joined November 2011
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Congratulations to @PrincetonEnglsh and IHUM Ph.D. candidate Kierra Duncan for winning the David Ruggles Prize for her collection "Translating Blackness across Space," an inquiry into the publishing of twentieth-century Black writing across the diaspora. rugglesprize.org/winners
Herman Beavers drawing from the wisdom of literary tradition in his first presidential column for @MLAnews. Starting and ending with his mentor, the poet and critic Michael S. Harper. A loving tribute and call to action. president.mla.hcommons.org/2…
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Ganja & Hess (1973), directed by Bill Gunn, is a landmark avant-garde art-horror film and a cornerstone of Black independent cinema. The film uses vampirism and an unquenchable thirst for blood as a complex metaphor for addiction, generational trauma, and spiritual emptiness.
RIP Ara Wilson, a critical mentor in my time at Duke, especially when it comes to teaching interdisciplinary and intersectional classes. She bought me a giant book of J. G. Ballard short stories as a graduation gift. gendersexualityfeminist.duke…
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"A bold argument for periodizing the terms of support and containment of Black writing in America"--Kinohi Nishikawa
Now available: CROWD CONTROL, by Claire Grossman, Juliana Spahr, and Stephanie Young
Use the code CUP20 and save 20%. bit.ly/47mdv53 @ColumbiaUP
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Join us Oct 2–3 for Archival Abundances and Silences in Islamic Studies, a two-day interdisciplinary conference on archives' role in Islam and Muslim societies.
📍 Hobart Betts Auditorium.
👥 Open to public
Register: buff.ly/i0R461d
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in lieu of dm, here, pdf of BURNOUT seminar syllabus paulnadal.com/eng248-burnout…
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I presented my book, Diasporic Connections: How Afro-Brazilians Use African American Culture to Challenge Racial Exceptionalism (@ColumbiaUP) at Dark Lab (@LaboratoryDark)! Thanks @taoleighgoffe for the invitation and for organizing an amazing event.
Happening next Friday, 10/2. Registration is still open 👉
IHUM at Princeton is proud to host "Nota Bene: The Theory and Practice of Taking Notes," convened by Jeff Dolven and Florian Fuchs, October 2, 2026. Free and open to the public, feat. Ben Kafka, Gavin Steingo, Leah Price, and others. Register 👉 ihum.princeton.edu/events/no…
I can't tell if Rep. DeLauro has been hacked, is serious, or is laughing with us at the absurdity of the situation. The latter seems the least plausible?
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Today (9/22) at 4:30 p.m. ET, join Barbara Graziosi, the Ewing Professor of Greek Language and Literature and professor of classics at Princeton, on Zoom to discover why Odysseus’s journey remains one of the world’s most resonant and influential stories. alumni.princeton.edu/events/…
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"Michael Gorra has long been one of the finest literary critics in America. His new book surveys a landscape both familiar and strange...the development of the short story." Gorra's interview with the Chronicle of Higher Education on THE STORYTELLERS: buff.ly/oYBjJBv
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Like music catalogs, literary estates are now targeted by private equity
Langston Hughes’ literary estate now belongs to International Literary Properties, which says a Harlem Renaissance licensing program is next on its list theankler.com/private-equity…
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Over his five decades at Random House, Erroll McDonald stewarded the work of such authors as Toni Morrison, Wole Soyinka, Salman Rushdie, and Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o. He will retire at the end of 2026. buff.ly/3xPAcZP
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Fund for Irish Studies at @Princeton kicks off the the 2026-27 series with renowned Irish biochemist, immunologist, and bestselling author Luke O’Neill (@laoneill111): bit.ly/4xi0Uuh
#PrincetonArts
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Princeton remembers Ulrich “Uli” Knoepflmacher, "a towering scholar of Victorian fiction and poetry who brought to his subject a deep familiarity with traditions of realism, religious humanism, existential despair, culture and Romanticism." bit.ly/46v76Ep
A smart, wide-ranging @PrincetonEnglsh conversation between Günter Leypoldt and Juliana Spahr on Günter's new book LITERATURE'S SOCIAL LIVES. On the uses of literary sociology for understanding symbolic capital. Thanks to Sarah Malone for the photographs and write-up.
