Anna Muenchrath, PhD (she/her)
@annamuenchrath.bsky.social
Academic studying 20-21 C. World Lit and Book/Media History.
Books: Making World Literature (UMass Press) and Selling Books With Algorithms (Cambridge UP)
Opinions Mine
Books: Making World Literature (UMass Press) and Selling Books With Algorithms (Cambridge UP)
Opinions Mine
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Anna Muenchrath
Assistant Professor, Florida Institute of Technology
annamuenchrath.com
Just wrote up a description of the new project on my website. That makes it real, right?
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Adjuncts, indie scholars, publishers, journal eds: please spread the word about this and help me do recon! It's so hard w/ social media being so fragmented to learn about all the great lit studies articles and books pub'd this year by contingent/indie folx. I know there's lots! Deadline: end of Nov.
It’s that time of year friends! Thanks to @erinbartram.bsky.social and our friends at @contingent-mag.bsky.social, Laura and I are putting together a list of 2025 articles & books by contingent & indie lit critters. DM, reply, email me @ suny press. And spread the word!!
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...
November 19, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Adjuncts, indie scholars, publishers, journal eds: please spread the word about this and help me do recon! It's so hard w/ social media being so fragmented to learn about all the great lit studies articles and books pub'd this year by contingent/indie folx. I know there's lots! Deadline: end of Nov.
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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...
Just wrote up a description of the new project on my website. That makes it real, right?
annamuenchrath.com
annamuenchrath.com
Anna Muenchrath
Assistant Professor, Florida Institute of Technology
annamuenchrath.com
November 18, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Just wrote up a description of the new project on my website. That makes it real, right?
annamuenchrath.com
annamuenchrath.com
I'm reading introductions (to academic books) that I love in preparation of drafting one for the new project. What academic book introductions do you think do an amazing job (and why)?
November 18, 2025 at 5:11 PM
I'm reading introductions (to academic books) that I love in preparation of drafting one for the new project. What academic book introductions do you think do an amazing job (and why)?
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Happy ON THE CALCULATION OF VOLUME day! Let's stay here forever 💙
November 18, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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the sound you're hearing is every instructor teaching Paradise Lost next semester opening their powerpoint.
in a long life filled with saying stupid shit this is may be the stupidest shit he's ever said
November 11, 2025 at 8:37 PM
the sound you're hearing is every instructor teaching Paradise Lost next semester opening their powerpoint.
the headline is cute, but this actually has really expansive implications regarding the public turn against higher-ed and how we got here
Peter Coviello isn't on Bluesky, but this definitely should be: lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
lithub.com
November 7, 2025 at 6:56 PM
the headline is cute, but this actually has really expansive implications regarding the public turn against higher-ed and how we got here
I was a an "AP Fellow" recently. The mc format is not conducive to close reading or critical application of concepts. It tests reading comprehension using pre-defined terms like "tone," "setting," or "character." It's fine, but not what students learn in college-level lit classes.
I teach some of the brightest, hardworking, driven students anywhere — and in some cases, among the most resourced anywhere.
And man can I tell when they “got out of” earlier English requirement via AP when they show up in my core lit class (that can’t be AP-ed out of).
And man can I tell when they “got out of” earlier English requirement via AP when they show up in my core lit class (that can’t be AP-ed out of).
I am increasingly skeptical of the whole AP thing. In the past ~5 years, I've had a consistently growing number of first year students crash out in the science, math, and language classes they've placed into on the basis of their AP scores. Acing the exam ≠ the ability to apply that knowledge
November 7, 2025 at 1:39 PM
I was a an "AP Fellow" recently. The mc format is not conducive to close reading or critical application of concepts. It tests reading comprehension using pre-defined terms like "tone," "setting," or "character." It's fine, but not what students learn in college-level lit classes.
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Academic authors: self-promote! 💫
This is not a particularly popular account but:
🚨 If you have published a book in the last 5 years (since the hype wears off after a while), especially in the humanities, feel free to reply here and repost! 👇
This is not a particularly popular account but:
🚨 If you have published a book in the last 5 years (since the hype wears off after a while), especially in the humanities, feel free to reply here and repost! 👇
November 5, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Academic authors: self-promote! 💫
This is not a particularly popular account but:
🚨 If you have published a book in the last 5 years (since the hype wears off after a while), especially in the humanities, feel free to reply here and repost! 👇
This is not a particularly popular account but:
🚨 If you have published a book in the last 5 years (since the hype wears off after a while), especially in the humanities, feel free to reply here and repost! 👇
Paging Elizabeth Costello. . .
URGENT CRUISE SPEAKER NEEDED! 🚨
Past Preservers has an immediate opening for an expert lecturer on a 25-day Oceania Amazon & Caribbean Voyage (departs Nov 12th).
www.oceaniacruises.com/cruises/INS2...
Includes Plus One & Double Airfare!
Contact us NOW with 8 proposed lecture titles!
Past Preservers has an immediate opening for an expert lecturer on a 25-day Oceania Amazon & Caribbean Voyage (departs Nov 12th).
www.oceaniacruises.com/cruises/INS2...
Includes Plus One & Double Airfare!
Contact us NOW with 8 proposed lecture titles!
November 4, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Paging Elizabeth Costello. . .
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The new Illinois Luddite Society have become regulars at @skeuomorphpress.org community hours. Their prints from last night are pretty sweet
October 28, 2025 at 3:44 PM
The new Illinois Luddite Society have become regulars at @skeuomorphpress.org community hours. Their prints from last night are pretty sweet
I'm reading one more article before I sit down to start writing new stuff. Trying to hold on to this feeling of unbridled excitement (which I know will dissipate as soon as the writing process begins).
October 28, 2025 at 4:27 PM
I'm reading one more article before I sit down to start writing new stuff. Trying to hold on to this feeling of unbridled excitement (which I know will dissipate as soon as the writing process begins).
what a metaphor for being alive in 2025
"In a town 50 miles northeast of Portland, competitors climb into gourds the size of golf carts and splash around a chilly harbor. Winning is nice, but most participants are just trying to stay afloat."
Is That Pumpkin Seaworthy? No Promises.
www.nytimes.com
October 27, 2025 at 4:54 PM
what a metaphor for being alive in 2025
oh wow. this was worse than anything i could have imagined. it reads like a colbert segment.
Open the page. Scroll down to the timeline. Go through the timeline.
It’s… shocking
It’s… shocking
The White House Building
Every president since John Adams has occupied the White House, and the history of this building extends far beyond the construction of its walls. From the Ground Floor Corridor rooms, transformed from...
www.whitehouse.gov
October 24, 2025 at 7:13 PM
oh wow. this was worse than anything i could have imagined. it reads like a colbert segment.
Love this! Would work, I think, across humanities and not limited to the digital.
ICYMI I shared a project scoping exercise that I ran with our Praxis students. Take a neutral topic, develop a project idea on it, and then push/pull that thing in all sorts of directions to see the different shapes that come out.
I wrote up the exercise I ran with Praxis this week where students practice taking an idea and scoping it every which way to see all the different shapes that can emerge. "Up, Down, Lateral Project Scoping"
walshbr.com/blog/up-down...
walshbr.com/blog/up-down...
October 23, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Love this! Would work, I think, across humanities and not limited to the digital.
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The Future of Totality
coming next june from @dukepress.bsky.social
www.dukeupress.edu/the-future-o...
coming next june from @dukepress.bsky.social
www.dukeupress.edu/the-future-o...
The Future of Totality: Fredric Jameson and the Prospects of Critical Theory
www.dukeupress.edu
October 22, 2025 at 6:55 PM
The Future of Totality
coming next june from @dukepress.bsky.social
www.dukeupress.edu/the-future-o...
coming next june from @dukepress.bsky.social
www.dukeupress.edu/the-future-o...
Admin / assistant professor / grad student
October 8, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Admin / assistant professor / grad student
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Check out the preconvention half-day workshops. Train to be an external reviewer or work on such topics as banned books or and writing studies research or the perennial favoite--AI. Worth coming early to #MLA26 in Toronto. www.mla.org/Events/2026-...
Preconvention Workshops
Preconvention workshops at the 2026 MLA convention.
www.mla.org
October 3, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Check out the preconvention half-day workshops. Train to be an external reviewer or work on such topics as banned books or and writing studies research or the perennial favoite--AI. Worth coming early to #MLA26 in Toronto. www.mla.org/Events/2026-...
I'm with Costco! I think becoming comfortable with navigating uncertainty is one of the greatest strengths of a humanities education. Where we differ is in the how to effectively mass produce this education at a low cost to the consumer. In this essay I will . . .
Today’s hilarious yet tragic quote brought to you by Costco magazine
September 30, 2025 at 6:16 PM
I'm with Costco! I think becoming comfortable with navigating uncertainty is one of the greatest strengths of a humanities education. Where we differ is in the how to effectively mass produce this education at a low cost to the consumer. In this essay I will . . .
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My latest column for the Chronicle of Higher Ed is now live. It's an argument for including AI-critical voices in campus conversations and policymaking workgroups, and I'm proud to get this dissenting piece into the mainstream genAI/higher ed discourse. Please read and share if you're so inclined 🙂
Advice | Sometimes We Resist AI for Good Reasons
Why higher ed needs to listen to the contrarians in setting policies on using tools like ChatGPT in faculty work.
www.chronicle.com
September 24, 2025 at 5:47 PM
My latest column for the Chronicle of Higher Ed is now live. It's an argument for including AI-critical voices in campus conversations and policymaking workgroups, and I'm proud to get this dissenting piece into the mainstream genAI/higher ed discourse. Please read and share if you're so inclined 🙂
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Hey thanks to @lithub.com.web.brid.gy for including my recent piece on translated bestsellers in their daily roundup of “the best of the literary internet”! Check it out:
lithub.com/lit-hub-dail...
lithub.com/lit-hub-dail...
lithub.com
September 23, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Hey thanks to @lithub.com.web.brid.gy for including my recent piece on translated bestsellers in their daily roundup of “the best of the literary internet”! Check it out:
lithub.com/lit-hub-dail...
lithub.com/lit-hub-dail...
Reminder to please submit to and circulate this seminar at the 2026 ACLA on translation and its institutions: www.acla.org/seminar/b718...
View Seminar | American Comparative Literature Association
www.acla.org
September 23, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Reminder to please submit to and circulate this seminar at the 2026 ACLA on translation and its institutions: www.acla.org/seminar/b718...
Had a great time presenting @recsys.bsky.social today! Having computer scientists interrogate my ideas really made me have to elucidate values that we often take for granted in the humanities. 10/10 would recommend.
I don’t recall a literary scholar presenting @recsys.bsky.social before, but I can recommend to invite more scholars from this domain @normalize-workshop.bsky.social. Lovely talk
#recsys2025 @annamuenchrath.bsky.social
#recsys2025 @annamuenchrath.bsky.social
September 22, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Had a great time presenting @recsys.bsky.social today! Having computer scientists interrogate my ideas really made me have to elucidate values that we often take for granted in the humanities. 10/10 would recommend.