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James Gifford
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Professor & Director @FDUP.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy ¶ solo dad ¶ sing opera ¶ cut my own hair ¶ he/him ¶ own my views (views my own) ¶ typos pletniful

I'll be a lot more active at @GiffordJames.mas.to.ap.brid.gy

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James Gifford @giffordjames.bsky.social · 1d
When I went back to buzzing my hair after the pandemic-man-bun-fiasco, my youngest asked me immediately, "Dad, are you embarrassed to look like that?" #fatherhood

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James Gifford @giffordjames.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 5d
My kids: “You wouldn’t understand. It’s Discord, Unc.”
Me: “I remember in 2015, when you were learning to speak, working with a team of septuagenarians on how Discord offered options different from a listserv that was literally built from Pine.” {beat} “Newbs…”

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James Gifford @giffordjames.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 11d
I've reviewed Peter Midgley's chapbook 20/15 for the Poetry In Canada Newsletter. Midgley's poetry is fabulous, and the newsletter announces the 2026 Phyllis Webb Memorial Award:

https://www.poetrycanada.org/s/poetryincanada-newsletter-3.pdf#page=2

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James Gifford @giffordjames.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · Jul 24
24 July 1834 – Edward Taylor Fletcher contracted cholera in the pandemic and wrote about it in 1885. I edited this piece during the COVID-19 pandemic, and it changed how I read everything the man ever wrote… (the book is free online, so take a peak!) […]
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James Gifford @giffordjames.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · Jul 24
Friends, I've decided to post a year of content from my edition of Edward Taylor Fletcher's works. The hashtag #edtafl seems shiny and unused, so I'm taking it… This project came out during a tricky period and never really caught eyes, so I'm going to do that now! […]

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Book cover for Of Sunken Islands and Pestilence: Restoring the Voice of Edward Taylor Fletcher to Nineteenth Century Canadian Literature

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James Gifford @giffordjames.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · Jul 22
More #bloomscrolling a short walk from home
Flowers along the path

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James Gifford @giffordjames.bsky.social · Jul 21
A nice review is coming out soon

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James Gifford @giffordjames.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · Jul 16
Tooting on Mastodon with reposts bridged to BSKY means never having to see the "well, actually" replies… Or at least not until months later, at which point who care about someone on the internet who's wrong.

And…"BSKY" will never cease to make me think "NKOTB." There, I said it. I'm old.

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James Gifford @giffordjames.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · Jul 14
Water lilies count for #bloomscrolling
Water lilies Water lilies

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FDU Press @fdup.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · Mar 21
Yuan Shu reviews Da Zehng's *Shih-I Hsiung: A Glorious Showman* in Journal of Chinese Overseas:

https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781683931072/

"Zheng’s work represents a pioneering and cutting-edge effort in Asian American studies, overseas-Chinese studies, and […]

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New Release Shih-I Hsiung: A Glorious Showman. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press https://www.fdupress.org

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James Gifford @giffordjames.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · Mar 8
New poetry focused on form from above/ground press! (a consolation for missing @robmclennan read last week…)
Two chapbooks of poetry. TERMINALS by Nathanael O’Reilly and the suitcase poem by many hands with Amanda Earl.

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James Gifford @giffordjames.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · Feb 21
Gave a talk today for the #louisville conference #lclc52. Huge fun and a bit crazy to have done…

“From Easter Eggs to Clinamen: A Theory of Allusion in Lawrence Durrell, Samuel R. Delany, and David Eddings”

#academia #literature #modernism #sff
From Easter Eggs to Clinamen: A Theory of Allusion in Lawrence Durrell, Samuel Delany, and David Eddings James Gifford @GiffordJames@mas.to

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FDU Press @fdup.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · Feb 18
Isabelle Keller-Privat & Anne Zahlan's *Heresy and Heterotopia in Works by Lawrence Durrell* is now out!

https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781683934448/

*Heresy and Heterotopia* gathers new essays by international scholars who examine heretical concepts and […]

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New Release: Heresy and Heterotopia in Works by Lawrence Durrell: Alexandria to Angkor Wat edited by Isabelle Keller-Privat and Anne Zahlan. www.fdupress.org

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James Gifford @giffordjames.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · Feb 17
And there it is. The most Canadian spectacle I have ever seen… #Canada
Many people walking around in a frozen lake behind a sign “DANGER THIN ICE KEEP OFF”

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James Gifford @giffordjames.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · Feb 11
I’m not used to television showing my neighbourhood as if it were New York. I could get used to it… #allegiance #cbc
Patullo Bridge from Surrey, BC in the show Allegiance

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FDU Press @fdup.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · Dec 28
Vincenzo Tomeo's *The Judge on the Screen: A Translation and Critical Edition* is now out, edited and translated by Peter Robson with Vincenzo Ferrari and Ferdinando Spina

https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781683934172/

Tomeo’s pioneering research in the 1960s and […]

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The Judge on the Screen: A Translation and Critical Edition by Vincenzo Tomeo translated and edited by Peter Robson. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, www.fdupress.org

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FDU Press @fdup.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · Dec 12
Sabrina Vellucci's book *Italian American Poetics of Place: An Environmental Perspective* is now out!

This volume examines the significance of place in contemporary Italian American literature from an ecocritical perspective. From mid-twentieth-century […]

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Cover for Sabrina Vellucci's Italian American Poetics of Place: An Environmental Perspective, www.fdupress.org

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James Gifford @giffordjames.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · Dec 12
God bless everyone working in the transplant units, and God bless and grant comfort to every family who grieves while giving the gift of life.

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James Gifford @giffordjames.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · Nov 25
Happy to share that my story “Asclepius in Albania” is out in the Nashwaak Review, vol. 50/51!

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FDU Press @fdup.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · Nov 25
Amrita Ghosh, Rohit K. Dasgupta, and Bhakti Shringarpure's book *India's Imperial Formations: Cultural Perspectives* is now out!

They explore how empire building occurs and consolidates through the Indian and diasporic cultural landscape where a collusion […]

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New Release "India's Imperial Formations" by Amrita Ghost, Rohit K. Dasgupta, and Bhakti Shringarpure www.fdupress.org fdupress@fdu.edu

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James Gifford @giffordjames.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · Nov 19
Wonderful book launch for *Sheets of Scattered Sand: Cantonese Protestants and the Secular Dream of the Pacific Rim* by Justin Tse
book launch for Sheets of Scattered Sand: Cantonese Protestants and the Secular Dream of the Pacific Rim by Justin Tse

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James Gifford @giffordjames.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · Nov 18
Just received the new Beagle book by @timothysmiller.bsky.social for review in #ywes! And I'll be teaching The Last Unicorn this spring, so pretty sure I'll get an early start on this one…

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-53425-6
Peter S. Beagle's The Last Unicorn: A Critical Companion by Timothy S. Miller in the Palgrave Science Fiction and Fantasy: A New Canon series

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FDU Press @fdup.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · Nov 16
You can watch the author Dennis Wilson Wise interviewed in this excellent PBS documentary about the revolutionary #fantasy and #sciencefiction editor Judy-Lynn del Rey: https://youtu.be/bO9oSyR-5UM

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FDU Press @fdup.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · Nov 15
If a literary movement arises but no one notices, is it still a movement?

Over the last ten decades, #poets working in #fantasy, #sciencefiction, and #horror have collectively brought forth a revival in alliterative #poetics akin to what once happened in […]

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New Release! Speculative Poetry and the Modern Alliterative Revival: A Critical Anthology by Dennis Wilson Wise. www.fdupress.org

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FDU Press @fdup.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · Nov 15
“What interests me in poetry is the interplay of language, the page, and silence. Heaven falls out of words because possibility is in the page, another kind of heaven; I wonder if that’s the only heaven we are given to know in life.” -- Edward Dickinson […]

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New Release: E.D. Blodgett's Walking Into God www.fdupress.org | fdupress@fdu.edu

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FDU Press @fdup.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · Nov 15
Time for an #introduction! Fairleigh Dickinson University Press left social media dormant for a spell, and now it's time to think about how best to be public and promote our #authors This feels like the right time and place.

With editorial offices in […]

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FDU Press booth at Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities

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Dan Hartland @danhartland.bsky.social · Sep 23
Monday’s review is up at @strangehorizons.bsky.social, a critical piece on criticism. You love to see it. No, you *do*!

On @denniswise.bsky.social: “demonstrates convincingly how the structural alliteration that was central to Old English poetry … remains vital today … [in] speculative poetry.”
Speculative Poetry and the Modern Alliterative Revival: A Critical Anthology edited by Dennis Wilson Wise
Wise's expansive view of what poetry can be, and how it can be judged, deserves a wide audience.
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James Gifford @giffordjames.bsky.social · Dec 13
I would think. How strong is gravity though?

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James Gifford @giffordjames.bsky.social · Sep 7
Yes. ie: "MMMBop." Also see, Callinan's "Big Enough."

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James Gifford @giffordjames.bsky.social · Aug 30
Uhm. Yes. I am definitely referring to her poetry. The other possibility must remains forever part of the trauma of the bird site, never to be revived.