Aarthi Vadde
@aarthivadde.bsky.social
Associate Prof of English at Duke. My new book We the Platform: How the Internet Changed Twenty-First Century Literature (Columbia UP) comes out Summer 2026! More about me here: https://aarthivadde.com
Page proofs arrived today (!) and actual book coming August 2026!!!
January 29, 2026 at 9:57 PM
Page proofs arrived today (!) and actual book coming August 2026!!!
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Modernism/modernity seeks a Book Reviews Editor (3-year term, 2026–2029).
The role involves commissioning and editing reviews for both the print journal and Print+.
Deadline to apply: March 16, 2026
Please share widely.
The role involves commissioning and editing reviews for both the print journal and Print+.
Deadline to apply: March 16, 2026
Please share widely.
January 19, 2026 at 10:16 PM
Modernism/modernity seeks a Book Reviews Editor (3-year term, 2026–2029).
The role involves commissioning and editing reviews for both the print journal and Print+.
Deadline to apply: March 16, 2026
Please share widely.
The role involves commissioning and editing reviews for both the print journal and Print+.
Deadline to apply: March 16, 2026
Please share widely.
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Novel 58.2 is now live!
"Pastoral is far less innocent than its surface charms may suggest."
Check out Helen Small's recently published piece in NOVEL 58.2, "The Activist Novel: Pastoral Political Mediations in England and Aotearoa New Zealand"
read.dukeupress.edu/novel/articl...
Check out Helen Small's recently published piece in NOVEL 58.2, "The Activist Novel: Pastoral Political Mediations in England and Aotearoa New Zealand"
read.dukeupress.edu/novel/articl...
The Activist Novel: Pastoral Political Mediations in England and Aotearoa New Zealand
Abstract. This essay examines forms of social and political activism in England and Aotearoa New Zealand as they are mediated through disruptions of pastoral in Charlotte Yonge's The Daisy Chain (1856...
read.dukeupress.edu
January 5, 2026 at 9:26 AM
Novel 58.2 is now live!
Happy public domain day to Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying, Hughes’ Not Without Laughter, the first four Nancy Drew novels, Betty Boop, and more! web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicd...
Public Domain Day 2026 | Duke University School of Law
January 1, 2026 is Public Domain Day: Works from 1930 are open to all, as are sound recordings from 1925! By Jennifer Jenkins and James Boyle[1] CC BY 4.0 Please note that this site is only about US l...
web.law.duke.edu
January 1, 2026 at 1:45 PM
Happy public domain day to Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying, Hughes’ Not Without Laughter, the first four Nancy Drew novels, Betty Boop, and more! web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicd...
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Very pleased that New York City will have an inaugural poet and such a fine one in the great Cornelius Eady. Poet Elizabeth Alexander of the Mamdani arts and culture transition committee doing good work: “Poets and artists…can say things that politicians can’t say.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/n...
‘This Is Our Time’: Acclaimed Poet to Honor Mamdani With Inaugural Poem
www.nytimes.com
December 30, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Very pleased that New York City will have an inaugural poet and such a fine one in the great Cornelius Eady. Poet Elizabeth Alexander of the Mamdani arts and culture transition committee doing good work: “Poets and artists…can say things that politicians can’t say.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/n...
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Here are the top 10 most popular post-1945 American authors at the Seattle Public Library over the last 20 years.
December 11, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Here are the top 10 most popular post-1945 American authors at the Seattle Public Library over the last 20 years.
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December 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Major conference on the legacy of Fredric Jameson happening at Duke April 10-12, 2026. Grad students should submit! CFP linked:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Submit your proposal: Fredric Jameson and the Future of Critical Theory
Due
December 15, 2025
11:59 PM EST
Notification of Decision
January 10, 2026
Conference Information
April 10–12, 2026
Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA
Keynotes by Michael Denning, Jane G...
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December 1, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Major conference on the legacy of Fredric Jameson happening at Duke April 10-12, 2026. Grad students should submit! CFP linked:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Shadow libraries have complex histories, but AI companies using them instead of getting consent and offering authors and publishers compensation is simply wrong. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
OpenAI Loses Key Discovery Battle as It Cedes Ground to Authors in AI Lawsuits
The issue has been a major battleground in discovery. OpenAI could be on the hook for hundreds of millions, if not billions, of dollars if it was aware it was infringing on copyrighted material.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
December 1, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Shadow libraries have complex histories, but AI companies using them instead of getting consent and offering authors and publishers compensation is simply wrong. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
Well, I’ll be giving thanks to Andrea Bartz and the other authors who brought this class action against Anthropic, gave up huge amounts of their time, and won on our behalves.
November 27, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Well, I’ll be giving thanks to Andrea Bartz and the other authors who brought this class action against Anthropic, gave up huge amounts of their time, and won on our behalves.
I devoured @lbmcgrath.bsky.social’s Middlemen over the weekend! This is such a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the marketplace of contemporary literature (and reminded me of all the lunches I heard about but never attended as a summer intern at Carlisle and Company (now Inkwell)
November 11, 2025 at 6:37 PM
I devoured @lbmcgrath.bsky.social’s Middlemen over the weekend! This is such a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the marketplace of contemporary literature (and reminded me of all the lunches I heard about but never attended as a summer intern at Carlisle and Company (now Inkwell)
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Assistant Professor of 20th-21st Century British Literature (with an emphasis on literatures of the diaspora) at UMass Amherst.
careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-u...
careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-u...
Details - Assistant Professor of English: 20th-21st Century British Literature | Human Resources | UMass Amherst
careers.umass.edu
November 11, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Assistant Professor of 20th-21st Century British Literature (with an emphasis on literatures of the diaspora) at UMass Amherst.
careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-u...
careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-u...
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ICYMI, my piece in @pghreviewofbooks.bsky.social on what Zohran Mamdani learned from his mother's films. I published a book on Mira Nair's films in 2018..
Here I focus on "Mississippi Masala" (-->immigration/ refugees) and "The Reluctant Fundamentalist" (-->Palestine).
pghrev.com/what-mamdani...
Here I focus on "Mississippi Masala" (-->immigration/ refugees) and "The Reluctant Fundamentalist" (-->Palestine).
pghrev.com/what-mamdani...
What Mamdani Learned from His Mother’s Films - Pittsburgh Review of Books
Zohran Mamdani, as most readers know by now, is the son of a filmmaker, Mira Nair. His parents met while she was working on Mississippi Masala (1992); his
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November 7, 2025 at 3:49 PM
ICYMI, my piece in @pghreviewofbooks.bsky.social on what Zohran Mamdani learned from his mother's films. I published a book on Mira Nair's films in 2018..
Here I focus on "Mississippi Masala" (-->immigration/ refugees) and "The Reluctant Fundamentalist" (-->Palestine).
pghrev.com/what-mamdani...
Here I focus on "Mississippi Masala" (-->immigration/ refugees) and "The Reluctant Fundamentalist" (-->Palestine).
pghrev.com/what-mamdani...
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a helpful starter pack to find stuff you may be interested in and/or is local to you
go.bsky.app/2Fq4P6e
go.bsky.app/2Fq4P6e
November 3, 2025 at 9:17 PM
a helpful starter pack to find stuff you may be interested in and/or is local to you
go.bsky.app/2Fq4P6e
go.bsky.app/2Fq4P6e
Well this is going on my required reading list! Congrats to @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social and @johannawinant.bsky.social on an incredible lineup and on elegantly breaking down a practice that, at its best, feels (but never is) effortless.
October 13, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Well this is going on my required reading list! Congrats to @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social and @johannawinant.bsky.social on an incredible lineup and on elegantly breaking down a practice that, at its best, feels (but never is) effortless.
This rare skeet is dedicated to my husband’s coworker, who will be heading to a bookstore at midnight, to buy the new Pynchon book. Such commitment still exists!
October 6, 2025 at 10:50 PM
This rare skeet is dedicated to my husband’s coworker, who will be heading to a bookstore at midnight, to buy the new Pynchon book. Such commitment still exists!
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Boston-area friends, if you're in the vicinity of Harvard tomorrow, please come to @harvardbookstore.bsky.social for a conversation about novels, LLMs, public opinion polls, collages, cut-ups, and patchwork with me and @tomcomitta.bsky.social. It will be a wild ride--hope you can join us for it!
September 28, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Boston-area friends, if you're in the vicinity of Harvard tomorrow, please come to @harvardbookstore.bsky.social for a conversation about novels, LLMs, public opinion polls, collages, cut-ups, and patchwork with me and @tomcomitta.bsky.social. It will be a wild ride--hope you can join us for it!
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Trying to keep my professional chill but I’m SO excited Carnegie Mellon is launching a cluster hire in computational humanities—MULTIPLE JOBS!
1. Asst Teaching Track Prof in Computational Humanities - apply.interfolio.com/173622
2. Asst Tenure Track Prof in CH - apply.interfolio.com/173626
1. Asst Teaching Track Prof in Computational Humanities - apply.interfolio.com/173622
2. Asst Tenure Track Prof in CH - apply.interfolio.com/173626
September 18, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Trying to keep my professional chill but I’m SO excited Carnegie Mellon is launching a cluster hire in computational humanities—MULTIPLE JOBS!
1. Asst Teaching Track Prof in Computational Humanities - apply.interfolio.com/173622
2. Asst Tenure Track Prof in CH - apply.interfolio.com/173626
1. Asst Teaching Track Prof in Computational Humanities - apply.interfolio.com/173622
2. Asst Tenure Track Prof in CH - apply.interfolio.com/173626
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Modern Fiction Studies is sponsoring a conference on “Cultural AI” at Purdue, to be followed by a special issue. @aarthivadde.bsky.social, @richardjeanso.bsky.social, N Katherine Hayles, @mattwilkens.bsky.social , @mellymeldubs.bsky.social, and I will be there later this week.
Conference on Artificial Intelligence
www.cla.purdue.edu
September 14, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Modern Fiction Studies is sponsoring a conference on “Cultural AI” at Purdue, to be followed by a special issue. @aarthivadde.bsky.social, @richardjeanso.bsky.social, N Katherine Hayles, @mattwilkens.bsky.social , @mellymeldubs.bsky.social, and I will be there later this week.
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Want to read something interesting? Stop doomscrolling & check out this amazing special issue!
💻 We are very excited to announce the launch of our special issue Computational Formalism, edited by Tess McNulty and Laura Alice Chapot, that reconsiders the intersections of computation and form at this emerging technological and critical moment.
culturalanalytics.org/issue/12788
culturalanalytics.org/issue/12788
Vol. 10, Issue 3, 2025 | Published by Journal of Cultural Analytics
In this special issue, we bring together scholars from across multiple disciplines to reconsider the intersections of computation and form at this emerging technological and critical moment.
culturalanalytics.org
September 10, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Want to read something interesting? Stop doomscrolling & check out this amazing special issue!
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Sally Rooney putting her money where her mouth is (figuratively of course). Bravo.
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
August 16, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Sally Rooney putting her money where her mouth is (figuratively of course). Bravo.
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
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You can now read most of the introduction (co-written by me and @johannawinant.bsky.social) to CLOSE READING FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY, out in October from Princeton UP press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century
A user’s guide to the fundamental practice of literary studies, providing context, examples, and practical exercises
press.princeton.edu
June 30, 2025 at 3:14 PM
You can now read most of the introduction (co-written by me and @johannawinant.bsky.social) to CLOSE READING FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY, out in October from Princeton UP press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
SNS registration starting at 8am! Pick up your program and name tags!
May 30, 2025 at 11:59 AM
SNS registration starting at 8am! Pick up your program and name tags!
Ngugi should have won the Nobel. An incredible body of work dedicated to the promotion and institutionalization of African languages as literary languages. Devil on the Cross was my personal favorite of his novels.
A giant, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o. From my epigraphs: "Language carries culture, and culture carries, particularly through orature and literature, the entire body of values by which we come to perceive ourselves and our place in the world."
May 28, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Ngugi should have won the Nobel. An incredible body of work dedicated to the promotion and institutionalization of African languages as literary languages. Devil on the Cross was my personal favorite of his novels.
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Amid fears about AI, @aarthivadde.bsky.social chats with @vauhinivara.bsky.social about what it really means to put ChatGPT on the printed page and whether generative AI will steal writers’ paychecks.
Who Owns These Tools?: Vauhini Vara and Aarthi Vadde
“The desire for that sort of purist kind of connection that one might call communion, is something that I'm interested in in all of my work.”
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May 23, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Amid fears about AI, @aarthivadde.bsky.social chats with @vauhinivara.bsky.social about what it really means to put ChatGPT on the printed page and whether generative AI will steal writers’ paychecks.