Anna Ioanes
@annaioanes.bsky.social
American literature, aesthetics, violence, theory, cultural studies. Views mine.
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For University Press Week, we're highlighting the important, collaborative work that Senior Acquisitions Editor @rcolesworthy.bsky.social does to build bridges across the scholarly publishing ecosystem: tinyurl.com/3t7mdnef/
#TeamUP #ReadUP
#TeamUP #ReadUP
November 10, 2025 at 2:27 PM
For University Press Week, we're highlighting the important, collaborative work that Senior Acquisitions Editor @rcolesworthy.bsky.social does to build bridges across the scholarly publishing ecosystem: tinyurl.com/3t7mdnef/
#TeamUP #ReadUP
#TeamUP #ReadUP
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We are at it again! Myself & the wonderful @rcolesworthy.bsky.social😍
Seeking pubs -- articles, book chapters, monographs -- by contingent lit scholars for the 2025 list 👇👇 please spread the word!!!
contingentmagazine.org/2024/12/08/2...
Seeking pubs -- articles, book chapters, monographs -- by contingent lit scholars for the 2025 list 👇👇 please spread the word!!!
contingentmagazine.org/2024/12/08/2...
2024 Literary Studies Book and Journal Article List
A companion list for lit studies scholars.
contingentmagazine.org
November 9, 2025 at 5:04 PM
We are at it again! Myself & the wonderful @rcolesworthy.bsky.social😍
Seeking pubs -- articles, book chapters, monographs -- by contingent lit scholars for the 2025 list 👇👇 please spread the word!!!
contingentmagazine.org/2024/12/08/2...
Seeking pubs -- articles, book chapters, monographs -- by contingent lit scholars for the 2025 list 👇👇 please spread the word!!!
contingentmagazine.org/2024/12/08/2...
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It's Timeeeeee 🗣️
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Our Holiday Sale is here! Find the perfect gift for everyone on your list with 30% + FREE US shipping on orders over $75 🙌
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November 5, 2025 at 8:35 PM
It's Timeeeeee 🗣️
Our Holiday Sale is here! Find the perfect gift for everyone on your list with 30% + FREE US shipping on orders over $75 🙌
Start shopping 👉 uncpress.org/holiday-sale/
Our Holiday Sale is here! Find the perfect gift for everyone on your list with 30% + FREE US shipping on orders over $75 🙌
Start shopping 👉 uncpress.org/holiday-sale/
Who up weeping--just a little--as they read Raymond Williams?
November 3, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Who up weeping--just a little--as they read Raymond Williams?
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My book (made possible by @samcohen.bsky.social) on why fiction writers are always, always writing about writer's block is out next week (yikes!). It centers critiques of literary institutions/markets and compositional lessons for real writers. Consider pre-ordering! BLOCK40 will discount by 40%
Writing Through Writer’s Block
uipress.uiowa.edu
October 24, 2025 at 7:08 PM
My book (made possible by @samcohen.bsky.social) on why fiction writers are always, always writing about writer's block is out next week (yikes!). It centers critiques of literary institutions/markets and compositional lessons for real writers. Consider pre-ordering! BLOCK40 will discount by 40%
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If you don't yet have a copy of Mel Micir's brilliant THE PASSION PROJECTS, Princeton is having an ungodly 70% off sale. Now's your chance. press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
The Passion Projects
How modernist women writers used biographical writing to resist their exclusion from literary history
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October 22, 2025 at 4:41 PM
If you don't yet have a copy of Mel Micir's brilliant THE PASSION PROJECTS, Princeton is having an ungodly 70% off sale. Now's your chance. press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
"This is the human in humanistic thinking. It’s the realization of knowing we need each other more than we think: we need each other in order to think."
Great review of Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century from @profdgd.bsky.social!
Great review of Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century from @profdgd.bsky.social!
The Problem of the Parlor | Los Angeles Review of Books
Douglas Dowland close-reads Dan Sinykin and Johanna Winant’s new edited volume, “Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century.”
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October 22, 2025 at 6:39 PM
"This is the human in humanistic thinking. It’s the realization of knowing we need each other more than we think: we need each other in order to think."
Great review of Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century from @profdgd.bsky.social!
Great review of Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century from @profdgd.bsky.social!
It’s the official publication day for Painful Forms! I’m so pleased to see the book out in the world and grateful forever to @uncpress.bsky.social for making that happen. uncpress.org/978146968894...
Painful Forms
In the wake of World War II, Americans struggled to grasp the shifting scale of violence brought on by the nuclear era. To grapple with the overwhelming suff...
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October 21, 2025 at 11:09 PM
It’s the official publication day for Painful Forms! I’m so pleased to see the book out in the world and grateful forever to @uncpress.bsky.social for making that happen. uncpress.org/978146968894...
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Happy official publication day to Close Reading for the Twenty- First Century
October 21, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Happy official publication day to Close Reading for the Twenty- First Century
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I have three #newpoems in one of my favorite lit mags, Waxwing, alongside gorgeous work by many other writers I admire. Check out all of issue 34! waxwingmag.org
October 20, 2025 at 9:20 PM
I have three #newpoems in one of my favorite lit mags, Waxwing, alongside gorgeous work by many other writers I admire. Check out all of issue 34! waxwingmag.org
Publishing tomorrow! @uncpress.bsky.social @hkyria.bsky.social
University of St. Francis Professor Anna Ioanes Explores Violence and Beauty in New Book
New book by University of St. Francis professor Anna Ioanes Explores Connections between Violence and Beauty in American Literature and Art
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October 20, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Publishing tomorrow! @uncpress.bsky.social @hkyria.bsky.social
Happy @dukepress.bsky.social sale season to all who celebrate!
Our Fall Sale begins today! Save 50% on books & journal issues now through November 9 with coupon code FALL25. buff.ly/Bk390cu
October 20, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Happy @dukepress.bsky.social sale season to all who celebrate!
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Not signage of my own making and unlikely I can attend in person, but very happy to see this. Rumor has it Jerome McGann is one of the speakers.
October 14, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Not signage of my own making and unlikely I can attend in person, but very happy to see this. Rumor has it Jerome McGann is one of the speakers.
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Student government leaders of MIT, UVA, U of AZ, Dartmouth, UPenn, Brown, and Vanderbilt united in their opposition to the "compact" proposed by the Trump administration.
October 13, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Student government leaders of MIT, UVA, U of AZ, Dartmouth, UPenn, Brown, and Vanderbilt united in their opposition to the "compact" proposed by the Trump administration.
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I wrote about the divide between high school and college English, and what we might do to bridge it, for @publicbooks.bsky.social—part of an excellent roundtable on higher ed under Trump organized by @dennismhogan.bsky.social
www.publicbooks.org/toward-the-h...
www.publicbooks.org/toward-the-h...
Toward the Higher- and Secondary-Ed Alliance! - Public Books
The influence of K-12 policy and pedagogy on higher ed can perhaps be seen best in the trickle-up effect of the standards of the Common Core.
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October 10, 2025 at 4:39 PM
I wrote about the divide between high school and college English, and what we might do to bridge it, for @publicbooks.bsky.social—part of an excellent roundtable on higher ed under Trump organized by @dennismhogan.bsky.social
www.publicbooks.org/toward-the-h...
www.publicbooks.org/toward-the-h...
October 10, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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The 11th annual Post45 Graduate Symposium will be hosted by Duke University's Department of English, February 20-21, 2026! Check out the CFP (post45.org/graduate/202...) and please share with anyone who might be interested.
Abstracts are due November 14.
Abstracts are due November 14.
October 9, 2025 at 12:46 AM
The 11th annual Post45 Graduate Symposium will be hosted by Duke University's Department of English, February 20-21, 2026! Check out the CFP (post45.org/graduate/202...) and please share with anyone who might be interested.
Abstracts are due November 14.
Abstracts are due November 14.
What a life. Grateful I got to meet him twenty years ago while studying in Prague
Czech novelist Ivan Klima dies aged 94
Author of more than 40 books survived Nazi concentration camp as a child and later became an active member of the literary underground during communism
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
Author of more than 40 books survived Nazi concentration camp as a child and later became an active member of the literary underground during communism
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
Czech novelist Ivan Klima dies aged 94
Author of more than 40 books survived Nazi concentration camp as a child and later became an active member of the literary underground during communism
www.irishtimes.com
October 4, 2025 at 7:31 PM
What a life. Grateful I got to meet him twenty years ago while studying in Prague
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Absolutely outrageous to say that a uni’s academic press doesn’t serve its undergraduates. Non-profit university presses support and sustain a scholarly and intellectual system THAT MAKES TEACHING UNDERGRADUATES POSSIBLE. No presses? no fields of study, no professors, no college.
"Bucknell has decided to close its highly respected, decades-old UP in June 2026. The stated reason? The press serves scholars, not Bucknell undergrads. Bucknell undergrads—& some grad students as well—disagree." FANTASTIC piece on BUP's student internship program. networks.h-net.org/group/discus...
Bucknell UP Closure Would Also Mark End of Vital Student Internship Program | H-Net
A post from Feeding the
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September 26, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Absolutely outrageous to say that a uni’s academic press doesn’t serve its undergraduates. Non-profit university presses support and sustain a scholarly and intellectual system THAT MAKES TEACHING UNDERGRADUATES POSSIBLE. No presses? no fields of study, no professors, no college.
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I had a great conversation with Katherine Fusco (@fuscowrites.bsky.social) about her wonderful new book, Hollywood's Others: Love and Limitation in the Studio System.
You can check it out here:
newbooksnetwork.com/hollywoods-o...
You can check it out here:
newbooksnetwork.com/hollywoods-o...
Katherine Fusco, "Hollywood's Others: Love and Limitation in the Star System" (Columbia UP, 2025) - New Books Network
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September 8, 2025 at 9:25 PM
I had a great conversation with Katherine Fusco (@fuscowrites.bsky.social) about her wonderful new book, Hollywood's Others: Love and Limitation in the Studio System.
You can check it out here:
newbooksnetwork.com/hollywoods-o...
You can check it out here:
newbooksnetwork.com/hollywoods-o...
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The offer still stands today
Exciting news! @uncpress.bsky.social is having a flash sale to celebrate their new website
You can save 50% off all books, including mine, for 48 hours with code 01NEWSITE50
My book tells a character-driven narrative of student activism in the '60s and '70s
uncpress.org/978146969182...
You can save 50% off all books, including mine, for 48 hours with code 01NEWSITE50
My book tells a character-driven narrative of student activism in the '60s and '70s
uncpress.org/978146969182...
High School Students Unite!
Mid-twentieth-century student activism is a pivotal chapter in American history. While college activism has been well documented, the equally vital contribut...
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August 26, 2025 at 8:29 PM
The offer still stands today
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And I am so looking forward to reading Faith Barter's Black Pro Se! uncpress.org/978146968597...
Black Pro Se
Black thinkers in the antebellum United States grappled with what it meant to inhabit a place, a history, and a violent legal regime. In newspapers and pamph...
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August 25, 2025 at 5:26 PM
And I am so looking forward to reading Faith Barter's Black Pro Se! uncpress.org/978146968597...
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I already have it, but perhaps you would like to buy Amy K. King's brilliant book? uncpress.org/978146966464...
Grotesque Touch
In this book, Amy K. King examines how violence between women in contemporary Caribbean and American texts is rooted in plantation slavery. Analyzing films, ...
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August 25, 2025 at 5:26 PM
I already have it, but perhaps you would like to buy Amy K. King's brilliant book? uncpress.org/978146966464...
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Wildly intrigued by Rudyard Alcocar's Interpretaciones: uncpress.org/978146967666...
Seems an essential addition to the current conversation on close reading!
Seems an essential addition to the current conversation on close reading!
Interpretaciones
Interpretaciones: Experimental Criticism and the Metrics of Latin American Literature examines readers’ reactions to short texts during crucial moments of ...
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August 25, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Wildly intrigued by Rudyard Alcocar's Interpretaciones: uncpress.org/978146967666...
Seems an essential addition to the current conversation on close reading!
Seems an essential addition to the current conversation on close reading!