András Kiséry
@andrask.bsky.social
early modernist and book historian, curious about shorthand, epigraphy, catalogs and other media. also sociology of cold war translations, history of media studies, … and Uwe Johnson.
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This is fascinating! I loved learning more about how Cold War ideology shaped high school English. It's also interesting how divorced high school English is from college English and the literary profession. Definitely going to check out this book when it is published.
As some of you may know, I’m writing a book on the history of high school English in the United States, and I’m excited to share a new article from that project—“High School English and the Making of American Readers”—out today in American Literary History! 🧵
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High School English and the Making of American Readers
Abstract. The high school English classroom is the most influential literary institution in the United States, and the most overlooked by literary scholars
academic.oup.com
February 15, 2026 at 7:13 PM
This is fascinating! I loved learning more about how Cold War ideology shaped high school English. It's also interesting how divorced high school English is from college English and the literary profession. Definitely going to check out this book when it is published.
the actual condition of the “diffusion of humanistic knowledge”
I teach where this is edited, and my library subscribes, and I still don't know how to get access to the text. Humanities ArXiv when?
February 15, 2026 at 10:09 PM
the actual condition of the “diffusion of humanistic knowledge”
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Great intervention by @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social on reactionary centrism, anti-wokeness, and the tendency to interpret the success of the right as backlash instead of as its own political project
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Beware of ‘anti-woke’ liberals: they attacked the left and helped Trump win | Jan-Werner Müller
So-called ‘reactionary centrist’ pundits proclaimed that there was a global ‘vibe shift’ in favor of the right. They were wrong
www.theguardian.com
February 3, 2026 at 4:07 PM
Great intervention by @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social on reactionary centrism, anti-wokeness, and the tendency to interpret the success of the right as backlash instead of as its own political project
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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I did not know about this!: “BLUE (in Gowanus) is an ever-growing home to 6,000 books, journals, exhibition catalogs and objects that examine and celebrate the global history, traditions, makers, craft and beauty of textiles.” tatter.org/blue-library/
January 1, 2024 at 4:10 PM
I did not know about this!: “BLUE (in Gowanus) is an ever-growing home to 6,000 books, journals, exhibition catalogs and objects that examine and celebrate the global history, traditions, makers, craft and beauty of textiles.” tatter.org/blue-library/
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Since Emilia Bassano was busy writing the works attributed to the Stratford man, Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum must be the work of Edward DeVere, 17th Earl of Oxford.
Shakespeare was actually a black Jewish woman, new book claims
Feminist historian identifies Tudor poet Emilia Bassano as true author whose identity was hidden by literary establishment
www.standard.co.uk
January 28, 2026 at 1:21 PM
Since Emilia Bassano was busy writing the works attributed to the Stratford man, Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum must be the work of Edward DeVere, 17th Earl of Oxford.
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"a great-books model at the undergraduate level is, in fact, so consonant with Freire’s radical critique that it represents a far better path forward for a left-wing vision of education than virtually anything else currently on offer in the US" thepointmag.com/examined-lif...
The Left Case for Great Books | The Point Magazine
A great-books model at the undergraduate level is, in fact, so consonant with Freire’s radical critique that it represents a far better path forward for a left-wing vision of education than virtually ...
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February 4, 2026 at 10:25 PM
"a great-books model at the undergraduate level is, in fact, so consonant with Freire’s radical critique that it represents a far better path forward for a left-wing vision of education than virtually anything else currently on offer in the US" thepointmag.com/examined-lif...
So I have looked a bit more closely at another one of these, with a more exposed 18th c looking binding. I think it is whipstitch as @aarontpratt.bsky.social was suggesting as an option. And re: the question abt those sections by @wynkenhimself.bsky.social , those are def due to uneven paper size.
Book people: when one encounters volumes of 17th-18th c single sheet folio size newspapers in contemp bindings—how were those bound? What does a binder do when no leaves are conjugate? What am I missing here? @wynkenhimself.bsky.social , @aarontpratt.bsky.social , @zacharylesser.bsky.social ?
February 3, 2026 at 4:59 PM
So I have looked a bit more closely at another one of these, with a more exposed 18th c looking binding. I think it is whipstitch as @aarontpratt.bsky.social was suggesting as an option. And re: the question abt those sections by @wynkenhimself.bsky.social , those are def due to uneven paper size.
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In the new MLA Newsletter, @annamillsoer.bsky.social and @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social, members of the committee that drafted the MLA Statement on Educational Technologies and AI Agents, reflect on the importance of the statement and how to put it into action. news.mla.hcommons.org/2026/01/30/e...
News from the MLA Educational Technologies and AI Agents
news.mla.hcommons.org
February 2, 2026 at 9:20 PM
In the new MLA Newsletter, @annamillsoer.bsky.social and @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social, members of the committee that drafted the MLA Statement on Educational Technologies and AI Agents, reflect on the importance of the statement and how to put it into action. news.mla.hcommons.org/2026/01/30/e...
Taratantara, Murmur.
January 27, 2026 at 8:07 PM
Taratantara, Murmur.
Book people: when one encounters volumes of 17th-18th c single sheet folio size newspapers in contemp bindings—how were those bound? What does a binder do when no leaves are conjugate? What am I missing here? @wynkenhimself.bsky.social , @aarontpratt.bsky.social , @zacharylesser.bsky.social ?
January 26, 2026 at 1:52 AM
Book people: when one encounters volumes of 17th-18th c single sheet folio size newspapers in contemp bindings—how were those bound? What does a binder do when no leaves are conjugate? What am I missing here? @wynkenhimself.bsky.social , @aarontpratt.bsky.social , @zacharylesser.bsky.social ?
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🚨 Spring seminar alert!
The History of Material Texts series at Penn launches this Monday as we welcome Adrian Johns (Univ. of Chicago) who will speak on “Looking for Labels: The Science of Safety and the Defenders of Information.”
📍 In person + Zoom | January 26, 5:15pm EST
🔗 pennmaterialtexts.org
The History of Material Texts series at Penn launches this Monday as we welcome Adrian Johns (Univ. of Chicago) who will speak on “Looking for Labels: The Science of Safety and the Defenders of Information.”
📍 In person + Zoom | January 26, 5:15pm EST
🔗 pennmaterialtexts.org
January 21, 2026 at 2:14 PM
🚨 Spring seminar alert!
The History of Material Texts series at Penn launches this Monday as we welcome Adrian Johns (Univ. of Chicago) who will speak on “Looking for Labels: The Science of Safety and the Defenders of Information.”
📍 In person + Zoom | January 26, 5:15pm EST
🔗 pennmaterialtexts.org
The History of Material Texts series at Penn launches this Monday as we welcome Adrian Johns (Univ. of Chicago) who will speak on “Looking for Labels: The Science of Safety and the Defenders of Information.”
📍 In person + Zoom | January 26, 5:15pm EST
🔗 pennmaterialtexts.org
January 19, 2026 at 3:42 PM
I was so happy to be in Reps that I forgot to brag about it here. The book trade, their catalogs, and how they made literature. First stab at something that is part of a bigger project. Abstract below, dm for pdf if you don’t have access.
Useless BooksBooksellers’ Catalogs, Puritans, and Our Categories of Literature
The catalog is a technology that mediates access to books and also mediates its users’ cultural categories. In a 1657 catalog, the bookseller William London effectively created a category for what we ...
online.ucpress.edu
January 19, 2026 at 6:17 AM
I was so happy to be in Reps that I forgot to brag about it here. The book trade, their catalogs, and how they made literature. First stab at something that is part of a bigger project. Abstract below, dm for pdf if you don’t have access.
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A bit eclectic, but a rich collection on Cultural Evolution: Language and Literature in the Hungarian journal Helikon, which focuses on contemporary developments. It's in Hungarian, but it has an English table of contents.
January 14, 2026 at 7:44 AM
A bit eclectic, but a rich collection on Cultural Evolution: Language and Literature in the Hungarian journal Helikon, which focuses on contemporary developments. It's in Hungarian, but it has an English table of contents.
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This was so interesting and exciting to work on with @heatherwolfe.bsky.social and Jeremy Lopez. Carl Berkhout spent about 40 years, off and on, investigating this book, and we edited this posthumously published text from his annotated drafts.
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January 6, 2026 at 11:55 PM
This was so interesting and exciting to work on with @heatherwolfe.bsky.social and Jeremy Lopez. Carl Berkhout spent about 40 years, off and on, investigating this book, and we edited this posthumously published text from his annotated drafts.
doi.org/10.1093/sq/q...
doi.org/10.1093/sq/q...
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For CRITICAL INQUIRY,
I reviewed @leifw.bsky.social’s very important LANGUAGE MACHINES. Also, unless someone tells me different, I’m going to lay claim to the first F bomb in CI’s history.
I reviewed @leifw.bsky.social’s very important LANGUAGE MACHINES. Also, unless someone tells me different, I’m going to lay claim to the first F bomb in CI’s history.
"Cultural AI is called out in the subtitle not as a plea to attend to AI’s better half but because culture has been detached from cognition for too long."
New in review, Matthew Kirschenbaum on Leif Weatherby's Language Machines: criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/matthew_kirs...
New in review, Matthew Kirschenbaum on Leif Weatherby's Language Machines: criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/matthew_kirs...
January 9, 2026 at 1:55 AM
For CRITICAL INQUIRY,
I reviewed @leifw.bsky.social’s very important LANGUAGE MACHINES. Also, unless someone tells me different, I’m going to lay claim to the first F bomb in CI’s history.
I reviewed @leifw.bsky.social’s very important LANGUAGE MACHINES. Also, unless someone tells me different, I’m going to lay claim to the first F bomb in CI’s history.
I just found someone citing an essay I never wrote. I did make the point they attributed to me, and I did so in print—just not in the essay I never wrote, obviously…
Do not cite an academic paper unless you’ve read it
AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don't Exist -- And They're Being Cited in Real Journals
Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.
www.rollingstone.com
December 20, 2025 at 1:52 AM
I just found someone citing an essay I never wrote. I did make the point they attributed to me, and I did so in print—just not in the essay I never wrote, obviously…
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Very rarely does a post warrant all caps, but: SEARCHABLE INTERIM MANUSCRIPTS CATALOGUE. At long last! searcharchives.bl.uk
British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue
searcharchives.bl.uk
December 15, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Very rarely does a post warrant all caps, but: SEARCHABLE INTERIM MANUSCRIPTS CATALOGUE. At long last! searcharchives.bl.uk
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Which is why narrowing the conversation to the technology or the product is never going to be effective. bsky.app/profile/sonj...
Identifying flaws in GenAI unfortunately offers a pretext for claims that perfecting the product is just a matter of time & money. So pointing to chatbots’ role in,say, suicides can only go so far if we don’t also identify the systemic, irresolvable lack of Gen AI’s human commitment bc math has none
December 10, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Which is why narrowing the conversation to the technology or the product is never going to be effective. bsky.app/profile/sonj...
This is the kind of post I wish there were more of.
OK, so I just got really obsessed with a very arcane question. There are 'land' and 'water' hemispheres that maximize the amount of each (below). But can you divide the earth into two hemispheres that are each 29% land, 71% water, just like the earth as a whole? The LLMs said no… but I persisted.
December 4, 2025 at 1:43 AM
This is the kind of post I wish there were more of.
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Meghan Andrews was an amazing scholar. Help make her posthumous book, edited by her friends, open access!
Attention #EarlyModern and #Shakespeare friends: join me on this Giving Tuesday in donating to an Open Access fund for Meghan C. Andrews’s book. Cancer took Meghan from us in 2023, but her legacy can live on. Share widely!
Donate to Help Publish Meghan's Shakespeare Monograph, organized by Sarah Neville
Shakespeare scholar Meghan C Andrews passed away in 2023, after a valiant… Sarah Neville needs your support for Help Publish Meghan's Shakespeare Monograph
www.gofundme.com
December 2, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Meghan Andrews was an amazing scholar. Help make her posthumous book, edited by her friends, open access!
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Let's make Meghan's life's work Open Access! Chip in if you can...
gofund.me/08aa0ed6b
gofund.me/08aa0ed6b
Donate to Help Publish Meghan's Shakespeare Monograph, organized by Sarah Neville
Shakespeare scholar Meghan C Andrews passed away in 2023, after a valiant… Sarah Neville needs your support for Help Publish Meghan's Shakespeare Monograph
gofund.me
December 2, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Let's make Meghan's life's work Open Access! Chip in if you can...
gofund.me/08aa0ed6b
gofund.me/08aa0ed6b
Meghan Andrews was an amazing scholar. Help make her posthumous book, edited by her friends, open access!
Attention #EarlyModern and #Shakespeare friends: join me on this Giving Tuesday in donating to an Open Access fund for Meghan C. Andrews’s book. Cancer took Meghan from us in 2023, but her legacy can live on. Share widely!
Donate to Help Publish Meghan's Shakespeare Monograph, organized by Sarah Neville
Shakespeare scholar Meghan C Andrews passed away in 2023, after a valiant… Sarah Neville needs your support for Help Publish Meghan's Shakespeare Monograph
www.gofundme.com
December 2, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Meghan Andrews was an amazing scholar. Help make her posthumous book, edited by her friends, open access!
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And, I'll just step out of my historical lane for a second and say that the 19C railroad industry--a bubble these guys love to invoke as precedent--wasn't trying to pump railroad into everything. There was no Railroad School. No Railroad Healthcare System. No Railroad Personal Assistant.
November 26, 2025 at 12:51 AM
And, I'll just step out of my historical lane for a second and say that the 19C railroad industry--a bubble these guys love to invoke as precedent--wasn't trying to pump railroad into everything. There was no Railroad School. No Railroad Healthcare System. No Railroad Personal Assistant.
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I'm so tired of people telling me to have students critique LLM outputs. I'm just going to print this on little cards and hand them out
I will add the following: our students lack the research skills required to audit an LLM essay for errors. They don’t arrive on campus with these skills; we teach it to them over four long years. So throwing freshmen in the deep end and saying “swim your way to a shore of rectitude” is folly.
November 24, 2025 at 2:36 PM
I'm so tired of people telling me to have students critique LLM outputs. I'm just going to print this on little cards and hand them out