Derek Krissoff
@derekkrissoff.bsky.social
Publishing worker in Pittsburgh. Editor-at-large with @oupress.bsky.social and @ksupress.bsky.social. Email me at dkrissoff at gmail dot com. More at derekkrissoff.com and derekkrissoff.substack.com.
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Opinion | This Is a Golden Age for University Presses
The focus on efficiency and innovation misses the point: We are producing fabulous books.
www.chronicle.com
Excited to have a new piece in the Chronicle of Higher Ed (@chronicle.com). I’ve been in so many exchanges with people who’ve never heard anything happy about university presses. So I wrote an essay to share with them.
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BREAKING: We won!
Today the 3rd Circuit Court ordered the @post-gazette.com to restore our contract it illegally tore up 5 years ago. That’s our health care, PTO, right to a 40-hr. work week, short-term disability and so much more we’ve struck for 3+ years.
pghguild.com/2025/11/10/p...
Today the 3rd Circuit Court ordered the @post-gazette.com to restore our contract it illegally tore up 5 years ago. That’s our health care, PTO, right to a 40-hr. work week, short-term disability and so much more we’ve struck for 3+ years.
pghguild.com/2025/11/10/p...
November 10, 2025 at 5:48 PM
BREAKING: We won!
Today the 3rd Circuit Court ordered the @post-gazette.com to restore our contract it illegally tore up 5 years ago. That’s our health care, PTO, right to a 40-hr. work week, short-term disability and so much more we’ve struck for 3+ years.
pghguild.com/2025/11/10/p...
Today the 3rd Circuit Court ordered the @post-gazette.com to restore our contract it illegally tore up 5 years ago. That’s our health care, PTO, right to a 40-hr. work week, short-term disability and so much more we’ve struck for 3+ years.
pghguild.com/2025/11/10/p...
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Listen In! This installment of Between the Lines, explores three teaching moves from @geekypedagogy.bsky.social's book "SNAFU Edu: Teaching and Learning When Things Go Wrong in the College Classroom". www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLZT...
Between the Lines: SNAFU Edu by Jessamyn Neuhaus
YouTube video by Teaching in Higher Ed
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November 3, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Listen In! This installment of Between the Lines, explores three teaching moves from @geekypedagogy.bsky.social's book "SNAFU Edu: Teaching and Learning When Things Go Wrong in the College Classroom". www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLZT...
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Share the news... OSU Libraries & Press is seeking a Director for the Oregon State University Press! See the detailed job description at jobs.oregonstate.edu/posting....
Please reach out to us if you have any questions about the position, OSU, or life in Oregon! ☔❤️☔
#OregonStateUniversity #ApplyNow
Please reach out to us if you have any questions about the position, OSU, or life in Oregon! ☔❤️☔
#OregonStateUniversity #ApplyNow
October 29, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Share the news... OSU Libraries & Press is seeking a Director for the Oregon State University Press! See the detailed job description at jobs.oregonstate.edu/posting....
Please reach out to us if you have any questions about the position, OSU, or life in Oregon! ☔❤️☔
#OregonStateUniversity #ApplyNow
Please reach out to us if you have any questions about the position, OSU, or life in Oregon! ☔❤️☔
#OregonStateUniversity #ApplyNow
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A fabulous dinner after my #SnafuEdu book talk at @olemiss.bsky.social! Huge thank you to the Center for Excellence in Teaching & Learning, @josheyler.bsky.social, @empittsdonahoe.bsky.social & @liznorell.bsky.social for inviting me & to everyone who attended the event.
October 24, 2025 at 2:47 PM
A fabulous dinner after my #SnafuEdu book talk at @olemiss.bsky.social! Huge thank you to the Center for Excellence in Teaching & Learning, @josheyler.bsky.social, @empittsdonahoe.bsky.social & @liznorell.bsky.social for inviting me & to everyone who attended the event.
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📣🌟 Come work with us! We're looking for a highly organized individual with strong communication skills and an enthusiastic mindset to serve as our next Publicity Manager! Learn more here ➡️ ou.taleo.net/careersectio...
October 22, 2025 at 2:57 PM
📣🌟 Come work with us! We're looking for a highly organized individual with strong communication skills and an enthusiastic mindset to serve as our next Publicity Manager! Learn more here ➡️ ou.taleo.net/careersectio...
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Interesting observation from @derekkrissoff.bsky.social about #book #publishers and the persistence of the catalogue: “In a digital world where everything’s available to shuffle and remix, the great strength of the catalog is that it’s linear. It’s a story.” So true
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Yes to catalogs
Publishing's surprisingly resilient piece of mail
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October 15, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Interesting observation from @derekkrissoff.bsky.social about #book #publishers and the persistence of the catalogue: “In a digital world where everything’s available to shuffle and remix, the great strength of the catalog is that it’s linear. It’s a story.” So true
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I’ve long argued that university libraries (esp pub ones) can and should offer *free* institutional borrowing privileges for those at museums, galleries, theaters, and other artistic, performing arts, & cultural orgs.
folks in power at my current library don’t have the will to make it happen.
folks in power at my current library don’t have the will to make it happen.
Working at a museum without access to a university library means spending 6 years thinking about/reading Mark Twain & his reception and then every time I think I had an original thought it turns out @mattseybold.bsky.social tweeted it out in the form of a peer-reviewed article a decade ago.
October 13, 2025 at 11:08 PM
I’ve long argued that university libraries (esp pub ones) can and should offer *free* institutional borrowing privileges for those at museums, galleries, theaters, and other artistic, performing arts, & cultural orgs.
folks in power at my current library don’t have the will to make it happen.
folks in power at my current library don’t have the will to make it happen.
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One easy way to support your local bookstore WITHOUT SPENDING ANY $$$ is to nominate their booksellers for a James Patterson holiday bonus www.bookweb.org/james-patter...
James Patterson Holiday Bookstore Bonus Program 2025
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October 8, 2025 at 10:29 PM
One easy way to support your local bookstore WITHOUT SPENDING ANY $$$ is to nominate their booksellers for a James Patterson holiday bonus www.bookweb.org/james-patter...
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Ever since @derekkrissoff.bsky.social's blog about #BannedBooks week, I've been thinking about the need to highlight books that are not technically banned, especially now now when bans are less explicit, but exist all the same. So I'll have recs every day this week (bc reading widely is resistance!)
October 6, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Ever since @derekkrissoff.bsky.social's blog about #BannedBooks week, I've been thinking about the need to highlight books that are not technically banned, especially now now when bans are less explicit, but exist all the same. So I'll have recs every day this week (bc reading widely is resistance!)
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Excited to hear Kent State University Press’s director, @tottencs.bsky.social, on the American Campus Podcast, where she talks with @llassabe.bsky.social about the meaning and value of university-press publishing.
The future of university presses with Clara Totten - American Campus Podcast
And how to approach an acquisitions editorReferences:Association of University Presses and #AskUpSteven L. Herman. 2024. Behind the White House Curtain. Kent State University Press.Madeleine L'Engle. ...
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September 24, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Excited to hear Kent State University Press’s director, @tottencs.bsky.social, on the American Campus Podcast, where she talks with @llassabe.bsky.social about the meaning and value of university-press publishing.
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Out Now! "Empowered: A Woman Faculty of Color's Guide to Teaching and Thriving" by Chavella T. Pittman. www.oupress.com/978080619565...
September 23, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Out Now! "Empowered: A Woman Faculty of Color's Guide to Teaching and Thriving" by Chavella T. Pittman. www.oupress.com/978080619565...
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In this episode of Community of Praxis, Brenna Clarke Gray interviews Cate Denial about her essay-turned-book, A Pedagogy of Kindness. Listen on our website or your favourite podcast provider. www.wlupress.wlu.ca/...
September 11, 2025 at 5:46 PM
In this episode of Community of Praxis, Brenna Clarke Gray interviews Cate Denial about her essay-turned-book, A Pedagogy of Kindness. Listen on our website or your favourite podcast provider. www.wlupress.wlu.ca/...
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USC Press seeks a full-time Marketing, Sales, and Publicity Director! Are you a collaborative team leader? Do you enjoy developing creative sales strategies? Then we can't wait to hear from you! Apply here: uscjobs.sc.edu/postings/194...
#publishingjob #hiring @uofscprovost.bsky.social
#publishingjob #hiring @uofscprovost.bsky.social
September 2, 2025 at 4:58 PM
USC Press seeks a full-time Marketing, Sales, and Publicity Director! Are you a collaborative team leader? Do you enjoy developing creative sales strategies? Then we can't wait to hear from you! Apply here: uscjobs.sc.edu/postings/194...
#publishingjob #hiring @uofscprovost.bsky.social
#publishingjob #hiring @uofscprovost.bsky.social
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I started reading the list of Bucknell English dept faculty. I don't think I know any irl or on here but every single bio lists a current book project or a/many published book/s--expected, presumably, for tenure. Will Bucknell--upon closing Bucknell UP--stop expecting their own fac to publish books?
Side note: I look forward to Chicago and any other schools suspending PhD admissions and hiring also suspending publication requirements for current faculty in those fields since such reqs presuppose the existence of an adequate pool of peer reviewers
September 3, 2025 at 2:46 PM
I started reading the list of Bucknell English dept faculty. I don't think I know any irl or on here but every single bio lists a current book project or a/many published book/s--expected, presumably, for tenure. Will Bucknell--upon closing Bucknell UP--stop expecting their own fac to publish books?
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This Labor Day Weekend, take a Rust Belt Roadtrip with @gmoult.bsky.social, who recommends three books about Cleveland’s extraordinary sacred architecture from Kent State University Press: kentstatebooks.wordpress.com/2025/08/30/m...
August 30, 2025 at 3:46 PM
This Labor Day Weekend, take a Rust Belt Roadtrip with @gmoult.bsky.social, who recommends three books about Cleveland’s extraordinary sacred architecture from Kent State University Press: kentstatebooks.wordpress.com/2025/08/30/m...
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This was a cathartic read, I say as someone who cannot help but see any glossy Banned Books Week display of titles from the Big 5 through the lens of cratering library sales.
New from @derekkrissoff.bsky.social, "My problem with Banned Books Week: The Unbought Book vs. the Challenged One."
New from @derekkrissoff.bsky.social, "My problem with Banned Books Week: The Unbought Book vs. the Challenged One."
My problem with Banned Books Week
The unbought book vs. the challenged one
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August 28, 2025 at 12:56 AM
This was a cathartic read, I say as someone who cannot help but see any glossy Banned Books Week display of titles from the Big 5 through the lens of cratering library sales.
New from @derekkrissoff.bsky.social, "My problem with Banned Books Week: The Unbought Book vs. the Challenged One."
New from @derekkrissoff.bsky.social, "My problem with Banned Books Week: The Unbought Book vs. the Challenged One."
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One of my favorite blogs is Book Work by @derekkrissoff.bsky.social
Today’s piece on the hype over Banned Books Week and how much is actually obscures about the publishing industry is 📣📣📣
Today’s piece on the hype over Banned Books Week and how much is actually obscures about the publishing industry is 📣📣📣
August 27, 2025 at 2:34 PM
One of my favorite blogs is Book Work by @derekkrissoff.bsky.social
Today’s piece on the hype over Banned Books Week and how much is actually obscures about the publishing industry is 📣📣📣
Today’s piece on the hype over Banned Books Week and how much is actually obscures about the publishing industry is 📣📣📣
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This is awful news for many reasons. I so appreciate seeing this solidarity. I have many questions and mixed feelings about alarmism. We should be sounding the alarm about our mutual conditions and threats—though the latter also well exceed the current admin.
www.chronicle.com/blogs/letter...
www.chronicle.com/blogs/letter...
Letter | Bucknell University Press to Close
This should alarm university presses nationwide, writes Aníbal González-Pérez.
www.chronicle.com
August 21, 2025 at 12:22 PM
This is awful news for many reasons. I so appreciate seeing this solidarity. I have many questions and mixed feelings about alarmism. We should be sounding the alarm about our mutual conditions and threats—though the latter also well exceed the current admin.
www.chronicle.com/blogs/letter...
www.chronicle.com/blogs/letter...
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NEW: A major AI copyright legal showdown just took a huge twist today. Facing a class action on behalf of book authors that could've seen it pay over a TRILLION in damages for alleged piracy, Anthropic has agreed to settle instead: www.wired.com/story/anthro...
Anthropic Settles High-Profile AI Copyright Lawsuit Brought By Book Authors
Anthropic faced the prospect of more than $1 trillion in damages, a sum that could have threatened the company’s survival if the case went to trial.
www.wired.com
August 26, 2025 at 7:35 PM
NEW: A major AI copyright legal showdown just took a huge twist today. Facing a class action on behalf of book authors that could've seen it pay over a TRILLION in damages for alleged piracy, Anthropic has agreed to settle instead: www.wired.com/story/anthro...
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I’ve been around Pittsburgh for a while (though I didn’t exist in '62) but had never heard of this early-60s plan to basically roof Panther Hollow and turn it into a nuclear-powered research hub. Thankfully we have @chrisbriem.bsky.social to unearth such moments www.publicsource.org/pittsburgh-h...
Panther Hollow was once envisioned as a roofed ‘Valley of Tomorrow’
In the 1960s, Pitt dreamed of a million-dollar research park over Panther Hollow. The ambitious plan would have built a nuclear reactor in the heart of Oakland.
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August 25, 2025 at 12:51 PM
I’ve been around Pittsburgh for a while (though I didn’t exist in '62) but had never heard of this early-60s plan to basically roof Panther Hollow and turn it into a nuclear-powered research hub. Thankfully we have @chrisbriem.bsky.social to unearth such moments www.publicsource.org/pittsburgh-h...
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Grateful to @publicsource.org for sharing a first look at @chrisbriem.bsky.social's book “Beyond Steel: Pittsburgh and the Economics of Transformation.”
In the 1960s, mills were still dominant in Pittsburgh. A project to turn Panther Hollow into the “Valley of Tomorrow” — with a nuclear reactor, a computing center and data bank — never came to fruition, but it laid the seeds for the meds and eds we see today. buff.ly/xIaoPlB
Panther Hollow was once envisioned as a roofed ‘Valley of Tomorrow’
In the 1960s, Pitt dreamed of a million-dollar research park over Panther Hollow. The ambitious plan would have built a nuclear reactor in the heart of Oakland.
buff.ly
August 25, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Grateful to @publicsource.org for sharing a first look at @chrisbriem.bsky.social's book “Beyond Steel: Pittsburgh and the Economics of Transformation.”
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🗃️ Variation of this: I gave students one of my chapters w/no footnotes, asked where they thought footnotes should go: What type of source was used? What makes you think that? They have to consider how writing shows evidence vs. context vs. author’s voice. They liked it a lot and had great questions!
Just sharing the “Xtreme endnotes” assignment @parisnoire.bsky.social mentions here in case anyone else finds it helpful as we begin a new academic year.
FWIW, it’s a purely analog exercise in an AI-freaky world & my students have never not had fun doing it.✌🏽
www.historians.org/perspectives...
FWIW, it’s a purely analog exercise in an AI-freaky world & my students have never not had fun doing it.✌🏽
www.historians.org/perspectives...
August 20, 2025 at 10:45 PM
🗃️ Variation of this: I gave students one of my chapters w/no footnotes, asked where they thought footnotes should go: What type of source was used? What makes you think that? They have to consider how writing shows evidence vs. context vs. author’s voice. They liked it a lot and had great questions!
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It says a lot when Times Higher Education (@timeshighered.bsky.social) casually cites a book as a relevant authority—
So I appreciate the nod here to "The Opposite of Cheating: Teaching for Integrity in the Age of AI" by Tricia Bertram Gallant & David Rettinger from @oupress.bsky.social!
So I appreciate the nod here to "The Opposite of Cheating: Teaching for Integrity in the Age of AI" by Tricia Bertram Gallant & David Rettinger from @oupress.bsky.social!
Managing student risk AI-version
Could a safe space to experiment with using artificial intelligence to complete an assessment offer students a path to both deeper learning and AI proficiency?
www.timeshighereducation.com
August 18, 2025 at 9:06 PM
It says a lot when Times Higher Education (@timeshighered.bsky.social) casually cites a book as a relevant authority—
So I appreciate the nod here to "The Opposite of Cheating: Teaching for Integrity in the Age of AI" by Tricia Bertram Gallant & David Rettinger from @oupress.bsky.social!
So I appreciate the nod here to "The Opposite of Cheating: Teaching for Integrity in the Age of AI" by Tricia Bertram Gallant & David Rettinger from @oupress.bsky.social!
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Grateful to @postindustrial.bsky.social for this short piece anticipating @chrisbriem.bsky.social's book "Beyond Steel: Pittsburgh and the Economics of Transformation," coming from KSUP this winter. postindustrial.com/stories/post...
Postindustrial Books: Pittsburgh’s evolution hasn’t always been easy
Explore Pittsburgh’s evolution from steel town to urban reinvention in the Postindustrial Era and its contested path forward.
postindustrial.com
August 11, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Grateful to @postindustrial.bsky.social for this short piece anticipating @chrisbriem.bsky.social's book "Beyond Steel: Pittsburgh and the Economics of Transformation," coming from KSUP this winter. postindustrial.com/stories/post...
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A GREAT read. Everyone need to check out this review
FWIW, @anterobot.bsky.social, @philnichols.bsky.social, and I reviewed Blood in the Machine and argued the Luddites have much to offer educators in the fight against automation and obnoxious machines.
August 10, 2025 at 4:24 AM
A GREAT read. Everyone need to check out this review