Close Reading for the 21C has been approved for publication by the board at Princeton University Press. The book includes a three-part introduction by Johanna Winant & I: What Close Reading Is; What Close Reading Does; and What Close Reading Has Been. See 🧵 for contributors

A little lunchtime reading perhaps? My column on book subventions is now LIVE. This one was a DOOZY to write but I hope it's illuminating. Lots was cut--about OA, non-US stuff--but I think and hope it's still broadly applicable. As always pls dm for a pdf. chronicle.com/article/a-sub-…

I wrote about a new edition of Emily Dickinson’s letters—and about what letters can and cannot do—for The New Yorker. newyorker.com/books/under-re…

Eliot Now, our collection examining the poetry, reputation, and influence of T. S. Eliot on literary studies is out today! I'm particularly proud of 4 things. 1/5 International T. S. Eliot Society MSA (Modernism) Bloomsbury Books UK

Hey it’s that time of year again; if you are teaching any kind of critical aesthetic or political theory, this is the essay I wrote to help students understand how to process it. avidly.lareviewofbooks.org/2016/09/13/we-…

If you assign any bit of Avidly Reads Poetry in your classes, Millie and I will zoom in to talk about it! It is very cheap for students to buy in the usual places and even cheaper for them to get it on JSTOR FOR FREE

Jennifer Chang’s “Dorothy Wordsworth” has a striking last line that i’ll never get over

I just pre-ordered Cari Hovanec's Notes on Vermin and you should too! press.umich.edu/Books/N/Notes-…

Very happy that Melanie Walsh and I have won an NEH Digital Advancement Grant to "support the development of a comprehensive data style guide and set of protocols for interoperability with complementary datasets" at the Post45 Data Collective

ICYMI you can buy my new book now

Tim Walz is now the soft-crowned king of the dads. But JD Vance is a dad, too, and the comforting paunch of American Dad Culture protects him as much as it propels Walz. I wrote about the long history of this in my very first(!!!) essay for New York Magazine: nymag.com/intelligencer/…

…and we are back to school! One thing I’m super excited about this semester is a series hosted by Wesleyan University English Department. Inspired by Kamran Javadizadeh ‘s podcast Close Readings, we are going to gather for close, slow, collaborative conversation about poems!

I am so honored to get to kick off this amazing series at Wesleyan this fall!

First day of school; last day to get this puppy for $17 with the DOGDAYS discount code! nupress.northwestern.edu/9780810147904/…

In Search of Lost Time but every sentence ends with "lol" ... drive.google.com/file/d/1rrahfd…

My review of V. R. 'Bunny' Lang's new selected poems, The Miraculous Season--ed. by Rosa Campbell & pub'd by Carcanet Press--is out now in the new Poetry Project Newsletter. An amazing book-- "With The Miraculous Season, Campbell has fulfilled O’Hara’s wish." poetryproject.org/publications/n…

i am SO thrilled to share that the Post45 Journal Graduate Symposium will be held at University of Michigan this spring! details below, link to submit your abstract here: bit.ly/4gg9WAC come join us in Ann Arbor for some good vibes & intellectual exchange ✨

Literary studies colleagues: have you been involved in overhauling your dept.'s curriculum recently? What do you particularly love about changes you've made? Or, have you read good articles on the process (I feel like there have been several lately). Please share, respond, DM!

Columbus OH come out, I'm talking Big Fiction with the best nerds, bibliophiles, for the Aldus Society this Thursday at 7:30 eventbrite.com/e/big-fiction-…

Self-Portrait with Sylvia Plath’s Braid By Diane Seuss Some women make a pilgrimage to visit it in the Indiana library charged to keep it safe. I didn’t drive to it; I dreamed it, the thick braid roped over my hands, heavier than lead. My own hair was long for years. Then I