John Hay

@johnhay.bsky.social

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Associate Professor of English at UNLV
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John Hay @johnhay.bsky.social · 26d

UNLV’s English Department is looking to hire a tenure-track creative writing professor of literary nonfiction

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Assistant Professor, English [R0149472]

The University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) appreciates your interest in employment. We ask that you keep in mind the following when completing your application: Once you start the application process ...

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John Hay @johnhay.bsky.social · Aug 7

James—PC is underrated

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Las Vegas Review of Books @laverb.bsky.social · Jul 18

"Baker’s book astutely captures the cultural abandonment of the worker for the celestial sheen of the CEO."

A review of Erik Baker's "Make Your Own Job": lasvegasreviewofbooks.com/history-5/

History

Erik Baker, Make Your Own Job: How the Entrepreneurial Work Ethic Exhausted America (Harvard University Press), 352 pp. Hardback, $35.00. Erik Baker’s Make Your Own Job: How the Entrepreneurial Wor…

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Las Vegas Review of Books @laverb.bsky.social · Jul 8

Check out the current issue (Issue #10) of the Las Vegas Review of Books: lasvegasreviewofbooks.com/current-issue/

Current Issue

Issue #10 April 2025 Fiction: Jon Hickey, Big Chief (Simon & Schuster) Poetry: Rachel Richardson, Smother (Norton) Fiction: Frederic S. Durbin, The Country Under Heaven (Melville House) History…

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshksi.bsky.social · Dec 28

"Over a half-century of accelerating crises . . . tenured humanities faculty have expressed surprisingly little organized interest in the material well-being of their fields . . . even as its relative poverty came to hurt the careers of their own students." www.cambridge.org/core/journal... 🗃️

Humanities Decline in Darkness: How Humanities Research Funding Works | Public Humanities | Cambridge Core

Humanities Decline in Darkness: How Humanities Research Funding Works - Volume 1

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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · Dec 16

I will never stop being aghast that the United States built a higher education system that was literally the envy of the entire world—our bitterest political enemies nonetheless sent their children to us to be educated, it was so good—& then just decided to systematically, ruthlessly dismantle it

John Hay @johnhay.bsky.social · Dec 16

I wrote about George R. Stewart’s novel “Fire” for Alta: www.altaonline.com/books/fictio...

Past Is Prologue

George R. Stewart’s 1948 novel Fire, recently reissued, has a contemporary resonance.

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John Hay @johnhay.bsky.social · Dec 11

I wrote a bit about Forrest Gander’s new book for Review 31: review31.co.uk/essay/view/1...

Review 31's Books of the Year 2024

Review 31 is an online literary review.

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Jessica Teague @jes-tea.bsky.social · Dec 3

Did anyone else who published with Cambridge get a request to sign over their work for “AI Subsidiary Aggregation”? They claim we’ll be paid a 20% royalty, but I’m highly suspicious. Are other university presses doing this?

John Hay @johnhay.bsky.social · Nov 12

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John Hay @johnhay.bsky.social · Feb 17

Very pleased to see my essay on Longfellow in the newest issue of Raritan: www.proquest.com/docview/2919...

Longfellow's Echoes - ProQuest

Explore millions of resources from scholarly journals, books, newspapers, videos and more, on the ProQuest Platform.

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John Hay @johnhay.bsky.social · Aug 11

Happy publication to my brother’s new book: “Saeculum: Defining Historical Eras in Ancient Roman Thought,” out from the University of Texas Press
https://utpress.utexas.edu/9781477327395/