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David Foster Wallace, Both Professional and Not

Jan 13

The English department’s spring graduate conference, MadLit 2023, is now open for submissions! Submit 250-word abstract on "Ephemerals" by February 17 at docs.google.com/forms/d/1AtQa3

UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON Madison Literature and Language Conference
Submission Deadline February 17 2023
The University of Wisconsin—Madison English department will bring together graduate student researchers, educators, and writers to discuss critical and/or creative works that think through the theme and metaphor of ephemerals.

UW-Madison’s 2023 MadLit Conference aims to provide the bare ground within which new ideas, experiments, works, methodologies, and art might thrive, even if transiently.

We welcome submissions that celebrate the idea of ephemerals from any period, English concentration (i.e. Literary Studies, Rhetoric and Composition, Creative Writing, and English Language and Linguistics), literary tradition, genre, methodology, or context.

Submit an abstract at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1AtQa3qkhyPp7-GBbrK9LjZds-OXPTZBVGKuIWpQQSII/edit

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the best kind of mail day. this photo isn't even nearly doing them justice. they're so beautiful. i haven't stopped staring at them. |||

David Foster Wallace was fascinated by professionals: athletes, journalists, accountants. But what did he think about the professionalization of fiction writers? My new article, now online in

@ES_Routledge

, looks at this in his essays and The Pale King.

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Professionals—athletes, journalists, and accountants—feature prominently in the work of David Foster Wallace, remarkable for their single-minded focus on a specialised task. While Wallace finds muc...

Hey Iowa City: headed yr way this Friday to read some poems at

@Prairie_Lights

with the amazing #CarylPagel!

Please join us on Feb 15th for a virtual discussion on "Racist Love: Asian Abstraction and the Pleasure of Fantasy" More info: events.umich.edu/event/104386

Keli Tucker and her undergraduate Writing Fellows at UW-Madison share their reflections on learning to think critically about ideologies of language and race in writing tutoring through their experiences in English 403. Read more: go.wisc.edu/5upt80

Eight individual images of Keli Tucker and her undergraduate students are foregrounded against a bright, abstract rainbow background. Above the image is text, "Learning to Tutor for Racial and Linguistic Justice: Reflections from the Writing Fellows Program."

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Announcing a new series in collaboration with

@NiCHE_Canada

and

@RiceENST

: "Commons for Whom?" asks how commons and communal spaces are established, challenged, and claimed/reclaimed. Read the full CFP and submission guidelines on our website

edgeeffects.net

CFP: Commons for Whom? - Edge Effects

Edge Effects, NiCHE, and Correspondences seek submissions that engage questions of representation and access in the environmental "commons"

I had the honor to interview Dr. Leslie Bow on my favorite book from last year, Racist Love: Asian Abstraction and the Pleasures of Fantasy (

2022) on

. In this book, Leslie analyzes

newbooksnetwork.com

Podcast | Leslie Bow, "Racist Love: Asian Abstraction and the…

Subscribe for free. Leslie Bow, "Racist Love: Asian Abstraction and the Pleasures of Fantasy" (Duke UP, 2022)

We're so excited to announce that Professor Ramzi Fawaz (

@NewMutantRamz

) (PhD '12) will be our 2023 Mergen-Palmer Distinguished Lecture speaker! To learn more about the event and register, navigate to go.gwu.edu/mergenpalmer

I’m mentoring high school poets this summer through

@adroitjournal

! working with teen writers is one of the great delights of my past few years and I cannot wait! if you know someone interested in applying please spread the word 🫶

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The Adroit Journal

@adroitjournal

Feb 4

Is your portfolio ready? Next week, applications for our annual Summer Mentorship Program opens!

Check out

MFA student

in BPJ!!!!

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BeloitPoetryJournal

@BPJTweets

Feb 5

Treat yourself to some excellent weekend reading! We're excited to welcome Mandy Moe Pwint Tu to our feature, BPJ Poets In Conversation. Join the conversation here: bpj.org/interview/mand

With a lot of anticipation from fans, "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever" is on

@DisneyPlus

@TTBOOK

spoke with science fiction author

@Nnedi

and literary scholar

'Africanfuturism' and dreaming of bigger, bolder African futures

after the movie debuted to discuss African science fiction and "africanfuturism."

wpr.org

The "Black Panther" movies have sparked a lively dialogue — and sometimes sharp critiques — about how Hollywood tells stories about Africa. Given the chance, how do Africans tell stories about their

L&S alumnus Deshawn McKinney reflects on the significance of #BlackHistoryMonth.⁦

⁩ #WeAreLS ⁦

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On Wisconsin magazine

@OnWisMag

Jan 27

On #HolocaustRemembranceDay, we celebrate

An Unsung Hero | On Wisconsin

alum Mildred Fish Harnack, who served in the anti-Nazi resistance before being executed by Hitler.

onwisconsin.uwalumni.com

Mildred Fish Harnack ’25, MA’26 lost her life in the German resistance to Hitler.

Six talented

professors received 2023 Distinguished Teaching Awards. Congratulations to the winners! bit.ly/3JgLZv6

2023 Distinguished Teaching Award recipients announced

Twelve faculty members have been chosen to receive this year’s Distinguished Teaching Awards, an honor that annually recognizes some of UW–Madison's finest educators.

I spoke in the middle of the Wisconsin State Capitol rotunda about the battleground for reproductive justice in Wisconsin, where abortion is pretty universally popular (supported by two-thirds of Wisconsin voters) but is still illegal.

person with bright red sweater speaking in front of a podium with a covid-safe cover

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two people standing on a flatbed truck -- one white / blonde and wearing a green safety vest, one black / brunette. the capitol building in the background

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a person in a bright red sweater standing in front of a capitol building rotunda with hundreds of others

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person with bright red sweater standing in front of a podium. The caption reads: "Amadi Ozier of MARRCH started with a chant: 'Free abortion on demand, can we do it?' The crowd responded: 'Yes we can.'"

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Thrilled to share that my article on assessment in literary studies is out in

@PedagogyJournal

! Very grateful to the reviewers and colleagues in

@ISSOTL

for their feedback on this project along the way😊 read.dukeupress.edu/pedagogy/artic

Language discrimination can be subtle or blatant, but it's likely more prevalent on campus than you realize. A new group is developing strategies to help UW-Madison faculty, staff and students learn to recognize and avoid it. bit.ly/3Y0ebqr

Sounds like discrimination

#WeAreLS

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Backed by a grant from

@NEHgov

, faculty from American Indian Studies,

@UWMadisonGeog

and

@UW_GndrWomenSt

will develop educational modules about the expropriation of indigenous lands. bit.ly/3GHY3Ti

Teaching Indigenous land dispossession in Wisconsin and beyond

#WeAreLS

news.wisc.edu

Thanks to new funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities, an interdisciplinary group of UW–Madison faculty, staff and graduate students will be able to help teach the history of land...

EnglishUW

Caroline Gottschalk Druschke

Jan 11

…an 18-month project to develop curricular modules focused on the 1862 expropriation of Native American lands in Wisconsin and their redistribution to land-grant universities in the state and nationwide. Congratulations to all, we’re excited to see these projects develop!

Professor Druschke will collaborate with Professors Ruth Goldstein (GWS), Kasey Keeler (Human Ecology), Joseph Mason (Geography), and Jen Smith (Geography) on “Whose Land Was “Granted” to the Land Grant? Teaching Indigenous Dispossession in Wisconsin and Beyond"...

Professor Castronovo is being supported for the writing of a book examining how early American conceptions of national security are expressed in its literature & other media.

Excellent news: congratulations to NEH grant recipients Professors Russ Castronovo and Caroline Gottschalk Druschke!

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Jan 10

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So thrilled and excited that our team (

@MoreorLoess

, Caroline Gottschalk Druschke, Ruth Goldstein,

@KeelerKasey

) has been awarded a NEH grant for our project "Whose Land Was 'Granted' to the Land Grant? Teaching Indigenous Dispossession in Wisconsin and Beyond"!

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NEH

@NEHgov

Jan 10

NEH announces $28.1 million in #grants to support 204 #humanities projects, including initiatives on college campuses, conservation research, innovative digital resources, and infrastructure projects at cultural institutions across the country. bit.ly/3iqxzgT

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My latest post for the

@PoetryFound

Harriet blog, on reading and critically rewriting Ezra Pound.

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Poetry Foundation

@PoetryFound

Jan 5

To critique a poem from the outside, in prose …felt too safe, too easy …I wanted to try to critique the poem from within, to implicate myself in the very language I sought to hold up to the light. —@timpanyu for #Harriet bit.ly/3Z6hf5y

In my class Race Science + Science Fiction, all of my students were required to give a presentation on a song by a black artist that contained Afrofuturist elements. Here's the playlist of songs they presented on / wrote about :)

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Race Science + Science Fiction, vol. 1

hypervodka · Playlist · 17 songs · 5 likes

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Ainehi Edoro-Glines, Phd

Jan 9

This took a lot of heavy-lifting to put together, but it was ALL worth it. My team

@brittlepaper

did a fantastic job! Here is to a year filled with good books. I hope you find those still moments and spaces to read something fun and African.

61 Anticipated African Books of 2023

2023 is going to be a very special year for lovers of African books. So many exciting titles! The 61 books on the list cover a range of genres---from short story collections to historical fiction to...

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On Wisconsin magazine

@OnWisMag

Jan 6

@smathewss

“dazzling” debut novel has gotten rave reviews for its page-turning depiction of a recent college graduate exploring issues of identity. Bonus:

The Roaring Twenties | On Wisconsin

features as her alma mater.

onwisconsin.uwalumni.com

Sarah Thankam Mathews ’17’s All This Could Be Different explores the challenges of young adulthood in a tumultuous world.

Congratulations to

and

, who made the

' list of 10 Madisonians to watch in 2023! bit.ly/3IsiyFZ #WeAreLS

captimes.com

Paul Tran, poet and UW-Madison assistant professor

A child of Vietnamese refugees and the first in their family to learn English, Paul Tran discovered the power of words by serving as an unofficial translator for family members

“[A] novelist I had become friends with encouraged me to stop working like ‘an American’ and leave my room sometimes. One night, he came and told me there were bats out by the lake I should go and see immediately.” —Leila Chatti

The sound of quiet. The sky / indigo, steeping

Every one of the ten professors

@CapTimes

collected book recommendations from is from

@UWMadisonLS

. And their choices are all awesome. bit.ly/3G9Xt0j #WeAreLS

10 UW-Madison profs share their favorite books of 2022

UW-Madison professors choose their most memorable fiction and nonfiction of the year, from reads on elephants and music to travel and dystopian societies.

Looking for something amazing to read as the New Year launches?

prof

@brittlepaper

has compiled a list of 100 notable African Books from 2022. Check it out and start turning pages! bit.ly/3Iin4qp

#WeAreLS

100 Notable African Books of 2022

Explore African Literature

NYE must-read: a thoughtful reflection on books, bookshelves, & reading. Written by #ThomVanCamp, a writer, editor, & thinker who has challenged my thinking in many ways over the past half-decade

#academictwitter #altac #phddone

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Up! up! my Friend, and quit your books! HH Producer Thom Van Camp takes a holiday break to sort through his library. Why do we read? Who do we read for? Can we read better? loom.ly/cvTxbAU #books #academictwitter

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Dec 29, 2022

PhD candidate in literary studies Thom Van Camp on how to quit your books:

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Ainehi Edoro-Glines, Phd

Dec 26, 2022

Interesting year for African literature.

9 Major Trends in African Literature in 2022

African writers are producing excellent writing, and publishers, both on the continent and the diaspora, are making space for their work. This year, we expanded our Notable African Books of the Year...

is it too late to do an end-of-the-year publishing thread? i hope not! it's been a WILD year! my 6th book, USEFUL JUNK, came out from

@boaeditions

in april + i'm still in love with the cover art--ceramic sculptures by Genesis Belanger: boaeditions.org/products/usefu #poetry

boaeditions.org

Useful Junk

Publication Date: April 5 ISBN: 978-1-950774-53-1 A master of documentary poetry, Erika Meitner takes up the question of desire and intimacy in her latest collection of poems. In her newest collect...

The African books we reviewed this year belong to a wide variety of genres ranging from women’s fiction, sci-fi, romance, & historical fiction. We have identified 5 major themes that these stories fall into & some of these themes might surprise you.

We Reviewed 45 African Books in 2022 | This is What We Discovered

2022 was a groundbreaking year for African literature. See our 100 Notable African Books of 2022 to glimpse the diverse range and number of fascinating stories African writers published this year. We...

Contemporary Literature

@C_L_Journal

Dec 21, 2022

In the latest issue of CL, Kalyan Nadiminti reviews EPIDEMIC EMPIRE by Anjuli Fatima Raza Kolb and published by

@UChicagoPress

. Available here: cl.uwpress.org/content/current

mriechers@journa.host

@MarkOnFire

Dec 13, 2022

This conversation with

@Nnedi

and