Aarthi Vadde
@aarthivadde.bsky.social
Associate Prof of English at Duke. Wrote a book Chimeras of Form on modernism. Writing a book on contemporary literature and internet culture; co-host a podcast called Novel Dialogue for the Society of Novel Studies: https://sites.duke.edu/sns2025/
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.
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Details - Assistant Professor of English: 20th-21st Century British Literature | Human Resources | UMass Amherst
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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).
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Here I focus on "Mississippi Masala" (-->immigration/ refugees) and "The Reluctant Fundamentalist" (-->Palestine).
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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I loved talking to @aarthivadde.bsky.social and Sarah Wasserman about how “language is the main tool we have to bridge the divide" among us — it's why I'm a writer — and how big tech companies have been colonizing language, most recently with AI, but starting long before that.
It was a true pleasure to discuss Searches with @vauhinivara.bsky.social and Sarah Wasserman for the Novel Dialogue podcast! We ranged through the fic/nonfic binary, pushing the boundaries of form with human writing and machine outputs, and AI as a labor issue.
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9.5 Who Owns These Tools?: Vauhini Vara and Aarthi Vadde (SW)
In an essay about her recent book Searches, a genre-bending chronicle of the deeply personal ways we use the internet and the uncanny ways it uses us, Vauhini Vara admits that several reviewers see…
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May 22, 2025 at 4:15 PM
I loved talking to @aarthivadde.bsky.social and Sarah Wasserman about how “language is the main tool we have to bridge the divide" among us — it's why I'm a writer — and how big tech companies have been colonizing language, most recently with AI, but starting long before that.
It was a true pleasure to discuss Searches with @vauhinivara.bsky.social and Sarah Wasserman for the Novel Dialogue podcast! We ranged through the fic/nonfic binary, pushing the boundaries of form with human writing and machine outputs, and AI as a labor issue.
noveldialogue.org/2025/05/22/9...
noveldialogue.org/2025/05/22/9...
9.5 Who Owns These Tools?: Vauhini Vara and Aarthi Vadde (SW)
In an essay about her recent book Searches, a genre-bending chronicle of the deeply personal ways we use the internet and the uncanny ways it uses us, Vauhini Vara admits that several reviewers see…
noveldialogue.org
May 22, 2025 at 3:09 PM
It was a true pleasure to discuss Searches with @vauhinivara.bsky.social and Sarah Wasserman for the Novel Dialogue podcast! We ranged through the fic/nonfic binary, pushing the boundaries of form with human writing and machine outputs, and AI as a labor issue.
noveldialogue.org/2025/05/22/9...
noveldialogue.org/2025/05/22/9...
Full program for SNS 2025: Novel Languages now available! So happy to see this event come together and to have so many good people descend on Durham, NC! Come for the terrific panels and seminars and stay for signature novel-inspired cocktails and bookish swag!
May 8, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Full program for SNS 2025: Novel Languages now available! So happy to see this event come together and to have so many good people descend on Durham, NC! Come for the terrific panels and seminars and stay for signature novel-inspired cocktails and bookish swag!
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The press shared a 50% discount code for preorders, May 1-31!
SPRING25
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SPRING25
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May 1, 2025 at 3:52 PM
The press shared a 50% discount code for preorders, May 1-31!
SPRING25
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SPRING25
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So many great books coming down the pike!
May 2, 2025 at 1:03 AM
So many great books coming down the pike!
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Available for preorder, Aesthetic Impropriety: Property Law and Postcolonial Style is out from Fordham on 7/1/25.
I analyze property law expansively, across Nigeria, India, South Africa, and the English Atlantic, to argue that both legal and literary innovations are undoing law's colonial legacies.
I analyze property law expansively, across Nigeria, India, South Africa, and the English Atlantic, to argue that both legal and literary innovations are undoing law's colonial legacies.
April 15, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Available for preorder, Aesthetic Impropriety: Property Law and Postcolonial Style is out from Fordham on 7/1/25.
I analyze property law expansively, across Nigeria, India, South Africa, and the English Atlantic, to argue that both legal and literary innovations are undoing law's colonial legacies.
I analyze property law expansively, across Nigeria, India, South Africa, and the English Atlantic, to argue that both legal and literary innovations are undoing law's colonial legacies.
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Today's the day! I invite close readers to see if they can find the places where I channeled the most rage into this project. It is supposed to make you uncomfortable. You are supposed to try to dismiss it as "praxis" vs. "theory" and then you are supposed to be convinced otherwise.
In Poetry's Data, @mmvty.bsky.social explores why literary studies must confront digital mediation.
Out now. Learn more about this engaging book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
Out now. Learn more about this engaging book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
April 22, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Today's the day! I invite close readers to see if they can find the places where I channeled the most rage into this project. It is supposed to make you uncomfortable. You are supposed to try to dismiss it as "praxis" vs. "theory" and then you are supposed to be convinced otherwise.
Taught Eve Sedgwick&Adam Frank alongside Ishiguro's Klara and the Sun in my Novel after the Internet course and found their engagement with Silvan Tomkins to be a helpful reminder that emotion and child development was quite central to early AI discourse. Here's the quote on "humanoid machines":
April 8, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Taught Eve Sedgwick&Adam Frank alongside Ishiguro's Klara and the Sun in my Novel after the Internet course and found their engagement with Silvan Tomkins to be a helpful reminder that emotion and child development was quite central to early AI discourse. Here's the quote on "humanoid machines":
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UPCOMING: Join us in-person or virtually for a conversation about Building the Indigenous Internet, with Ashley Cordes, Majerle Lister, and @lnakamura.bsky.social
🗓️ Monday, April 14, 2 - 3:30 PM ET
📍 Weiser Hall 10th Floor, UMich & Zoom
More info and register: events.umich.edu/event/130932
🗓️ Monday, April 14, 2 - 3:30 PM ET
📍 Weiser Hall 10th Floor, UMich & Zoom
More info and register: events.umich.edu/event/130932
April 2, 2025 at 9:51 PM
UPCOMING: Join us in-person or virtually for a conversation about Building the Indigenous Internet, with Ashley Cordes, Majerle Lister, and @lnakamura.bsky.social
🗓️ Monday, April 14, 2 - 3:30 PM ET
📍 Weiser Hall 10th Floor, UMich & Zoom
More info and register: events.umich.edu/event/130932
🗓️ Monday, April 14, 2 - 3:30 PM ET
📍 Weiser Hall 10th Floor, UMich & Zoom
More info and register: events.umich.edu/event/130932