Nicole Rizzuto
@nicolerizzuto.bsky.social
Lit Professor at Georgetown. 20-21 c Anglophone.
Arresting Ecologies: Global Literature across Air, Land, and Sea, under contract with Oxford University Press.
Co-edited Aesthetic Life of Infrastructure.
https://nupress.northwestern.edu/97808101
Arresting Ecologies: Global Literature across Air, Land, and Sea, under contract with Oxford University Press.
Co-edited Aesthetic Life of Infrastructure.
https://nupress.northwestern.edu/97808101
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BlueSky: If you've started reading my new book, AESTHETIC IMPROPRIETY: PROPERTY LAW AND POSTCOLONIAL STYLE, and are enjoying it, please consider sending me a sentence or two explaining why.
It's for a thing I'm applying for (and a small monetary award for future research funds). Thanks!
It's for a thing I'm applying for (and a small monetary award for future research funds). Thanks!
October 5, 2025 at 3:02 PM
BlueSky: If you've started reading my new book, AESTHETIC IMPROPRIETY: PROPERTY LAW AND POSTCOLONIAL STYLE, and are enjoying it, please consider sending me a sentence or two explaining why.
It's for a thing I'm applying for (and a small monetary award for future research funds). Thanks!
It's for a thing I'm applying for (and a small monetary award for future research funds). Thanks!
I really don’t know what to say about this. Ricardo was probably the most generous and kind academic I have come across ever and I loved working with him. It is unfathomable that he is suddenly gone. Beloved and respected by colleagues and students in and beyond Georgetown. I will miss him.
Some of you know from FB or elsewhere already, but our wonderful, funny, & unfailingly generous colleague Ricardo Ortiz died suddenly over the weekend. It is the most brutal possible news, and so profoundly sad. He was a source of joy and love and was a committed mentor to so many of us here.
August 19, 2025 at 3:06 PM
I really don’t know what to say about this. Ricardo was probably the most generous and kind academic I have come across ever and I loved working with him. It is unfathomable that he is suddenly gone. Beloved and respected by colleagues and students in and beyond Georgetown. I will miss him.
I just submitted the book I have been working on for a decade to Oxford University Press, where it is under contract. I’ll be taking a nap til the semester starts.
August 15, 2025 at 8:41 PM
I just submitted the book I have been working on for a decade to Oxford University Press, where it is under contract. I’ll be taking a nap til the semester starts.
Read this book and highly recommend. Meticulous readings of form and politics poco lit and drama and pairs very well with another stunner on eco politics and form, Aesthetic Impropriety by @rosecasey.bsky.social
Animist Poetics: Ancestral Trauma and Regeneration in African Literature is in print! The paperback will be out in Feb. Please request that your library order a copy. 30% off with the discount code SNWF25. @sunypress.bsky.social @rcolesworthy.bsky.social
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Animist Poetics
sunypress.edu
August 11, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Read this book and highly recommend. Meticulous readings of form and politics poco lit and drama and pairs very well with another stunner on eco politics and form, Aesthetic Impropriety by @rosecasey.bsky.social
Out today: a must-read for anyone interested in po-co literature, law, including environmental law: AESTHETIC IMPROPRIETY: Property Law and Postcolonial Style, by @rosecasey.bsky.social. I loved this book and cannot recommend it enough. Get it!
July 1, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Out today: a must-read for anyone interested in po-co literature, law, including environmental law: AESTHETIC IMPROPRIETY: Property Law and Postcolonial Style, by @rosecasey.bsky.social. I loved this book and cannot recommend it enough. Get it!
A little warm in NYC. Hope people are staying cool.
June 24, 2025 at 12:59 AM
A little warm in NYC. Hope people are staying cool.
I’ve posted about @nathankhensley.bsky.social ‘s new ACTION WITHOUT HOPE: Victorian Literature and Climate Collapse before, but just got the gorgeous book in my hands. Come for the stunning visuals, stay for the superb argument and analyses of literature and ecologies.
May 20, 2025 at 4:01 PM
I’ve posted about @nathankhensley.bsky.social ‘s new ACTION WITHOUT HOPE: Victorian Literature and Climate Collapse before, but just got the gorgeous book in my hands. Come for the stunning visuals, stay for the superb argument and analyses of literature and ecologies.
Grades in, no emails denouncing me for said grades, knicks hopefully about to clean the Celtics clocks. Good day.
May 14, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Grades in, no emails denouncing me for said grades, knicks hopefully about to clean the Celtics clocks. Good day.
Awesome if true. 😂
this incredible work of art was spotted on campus and we are all basically sure it must have come from one of @nicolerizzuto.bsky.social’s students
April 28, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Awesome if true. 😂
Chartering an AAUP chapter at Georgetown. Please join AAUP, please join us to stand up for our profession, our colleagues, our students, staff, and rights. Email me if you need more info. Trying to end social media forever but needed to announce for colleagues interested.
March 25, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Chartering an AAUP chapter at Georgetown. Please join AAUP, please join us to stand up for our profession, our colleagues, our students, staff, and rights. Email me if you need more info. Trying to end social media forever but needed to announce for colleagues interested.
Congratulations to one of the best to be doing it. Obviously Nathan’s scholarship is exceptional. What people might not know about is his absolute commitment to teaching and to service in all its forms in and beyond g-town. Proud to have @nathankhensley.bsky.social as a colleague and bestie.
In the midst of late imperial collapse I got promoted to full professor. Thank you so much to everyone on here who's helped me, read my stuff, taught me things, & contributed more generally to the intellectual world that has enabled me to find this luck. I do not take it for granted. Solidarity.
March 12, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Congratulations to one of the best to be doing it. Obviously Nathan’s scholarship is exceptional. What people might not know about is his absolute commitment to teaching and to service in all its forms in and beyond g-town. Proud to have @nathankhensley.bsky.social as a colleague and bestie.
I have had the honor of reading much of this book as it was being composed and it is truly a banger, and I cannot wait to get the final, beautiful version in my hands.
the blurb is probably a fatally corrupt modern genre, but when people you admire w your whole heart read something you struggled with & worked on for years, then say kind things—well, there's something moving about that. Deeply grateful to @lizmiller.bsky.social & @benjaminmorgan.bsky.social 🙏🌿
January 16, 2025 at 5:25 PM
I have had the honor of reading much of this book as it was being composed and it is truly a banger, and I cannot wait to get the final, beautiful version in my hands.
For those attending the MLA, the illustrious @bakaari.bsky.social and @lilysaint.bsky.social organized a great panel on the African historical novel and I’m thankful they included me. Come by, Thursday at 3:30.
January 8, 2025 at 6:28 PM
For those attending the MLA, the illustrious @bakaari.bsky.social and @lilysaint.bsky.social organized a great panel on the African historical novel and I’m thankful they included me. Come by, Thursday at 3:30.
In my grad theory seminar yesterday a student did a hilarious surprise PowerPoint presentation modeled on Spotify. He called it “critical theory wrapped.” He revealed he’d tracked, secretly, for 10 WEEKS who most mentioned theorist was in the course. Drumroll…..
December 10, 2024 at 4:56 PM
In my grad theory seminar yesterday a student did a hilarious surprise PowerPoint presentation modeled on Spotify. He called it “critical theory wrapped.” He revealed he’d tracked, secretly, for 10 WEEKS who most mentioned theorist was in the course. Drumroll…..
Just awoke from a nightmare in which I had to take the GRE (currently, lnow, 11/2024), but I failed to charge my computer and battery died before I began. Consequences: very bad. Glad my unconscious is so secure this many years into my professional life. 😵💫
November 23, 2024 at 12:47 PM
Just awoke from a nightmare in which I had to take the GRE (currently, lnow, 11/2024), but I failed to charge my computer and battery died before I began. Consequences: very bad. Glad my unconscious is so secure this many years into my professional life. 😵💫
You too can read our collection of awesome essays on aesthetics of visual, sound, literary, and architectural infrastructures! I think there’s a link in my bio? Title is The Aesthetic Life of Infrastructure: Race, Affect, Environment.
I am reading my new copy of this badass collection at my daughter’s IG-ready dance studio and it matches perfectly
@nicolerizzuto.bsky.social
@nicolerizzuto.bsky.social
November 15, 2024 at 12:32 AM
You too can read our collection of awesome essays on aesthetics of visual, sound, literary, and architectural infrastructures! I think there’s a link in my bio? Title is The Aesthetic Life of Infrastructure: Race, Affect, Environment.
Today the students in my critical theory class actually asked me if I had advice for what to read to deal with this moment of misery. I told them to read this. www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/exit-right/
Exit Right - Dissent Magazine
Trump has remade Americans, and to defeat Trumpism requires nothing less than the left doing the same.
www.dissentmagazine.org
November 12, 2024 at 1:03 AM
Today the students in my critical theory class actually asked me if I had advice for what to read to deal with this moment of misery. I told them to read this. www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/exit-right/
I’m in a starter pack! That my friend Aarthi made, and which is very cool. Novel people—heads up on this.
Ok, I started a starter pack for novel scholars and the people who love them. Long live long forms! Happy to add anyone I missed.
go.bsky.app/FcvMAmd
go.bsky.app/FcvMAmd
November 10, 2024 at 7:59 PM
I’m in a starter pack! That my friend Aarthi made, and which is very cool. Novel people—heads up on this.
I guess we’re doing this for real? Based on the outrageous number of followers I got in 2 days?
November 10, 2024 at 7:51 PM
I guess we’re doing this for real? Based on the outrageous number of followers I got in 2 days?
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Ok, I started a starter pack for novel scholars and the people who love them. Long live long forms! Happy to add anyone I missed.
go.bsky.app/FcvMAmd
go.bsky.app/FcvMAmd
November 9, 2024 at 6:10 PM
Ok, I started a starter pack for novel scholars and the people who love them. Long live long forms! Happy to add anyone I missed.
go.bsky.app/FcvMAmd
go.bsky.app/FcvMAmd
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A little over two years ago I had just made the move from the USA to Canada and from academia to government when this little doorstop came out. Still very proud of what Alex Goody and I assembled here and still amazed at the brilliance of our contributors edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-edi...
edinburghuniversitypress.com
October 10, 2024 at 4:05 PM
A little over two years ago I had just made the move from the USA to Canada and from academia to government when this little doorstop came out. Still very proud of what Alex Goody and I assembled here and still amazed at the brilliance of our contributors edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-edi...
I didn’t know Stuart Curran’s work well, but I believe @drbibliomane.bsky.social and @nathankhensley.bsky.social that he too fits this description. Very sorry for this loss.
My friend @nicolerizzuto.bsky.social told her students of Jameson, with full gravity, that “he was a serious person and a real intellectual.” I feel like that plus some version of the below is literally the only legacy that any of us could ever want or hope to leave
Oh what sad news! So committed to poetry , so committed to the welfare of our field, and an early champion of the women Romantics no one was reading in the late 20th c.
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October 8, 2024 at 10:40 PM
I didn’t know Stuart Curran’s work well, but I believe @drbibliomane.bsky.social and @nathankhensley.bsky.social that he too fits this description. Very sorry for this loss.
Tomorrow.
hey if you're in dc and want to join me and @nicolerizzuto.bsky.social and her brilliant critical theory students for lunch next tuesday, please swing through
September 30, 2024 at 10:28 PM
Tomorrow.
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RIP Fredric Jameson. No book has been more central to my life than The Political Unconscious. I reread it like you do a favorite novel.
September 22, 2024 at 6:19 PM
RIP Fredric Jameson. No book has been more central to my life than The Political Unconscious. I reread it like you do a favorite novel.