Rebecca Oh
@rebeccaoh.bsky.social
Asst prof at U Illinois working on contemporary global South literature, environmental humanities, imagined states, lit and politics, utopia, apocalypse, genre, infrastructure
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March 9, 2025 at 3:40 PM
UIUC folks! Literary journal Ninth Letter publishes exceptional writing and graphic design, and provides undergrad and grad students with hands-on experience in publishing and editorial work. Support them during Orange and Blue week! Crowdfunding here: payment.giving.illinois.edu/schools/Univ...
Reading Better States now has a cover! Very grateful to Silvestre Santiago Pejac ("Pejac") for allowing us to use his arresting image, "Le Bateau Ivre." Forthcoming with Fordham University Press in late 2025!
February 12, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Reading Better States now has a cover! Very grateful to Silvestre Santiago Pejac ("Pejac") for allowing us to use his arresting image, "Le Bateau Ivre." Forthcoming with Fordham University Press in late 2025!
Powerful read. Depressing, maddening, mandatory. wordsinspace.net/2024/12/13/t...
wordsinspace.net
December 16, 2024 at 6:35 PM
Powerful read. Depressing, maddening, mandatory. wordsinspace.net/2024/12/13/t...
Critical infrastructure scholars - who first used the term "soft infrastructure"? The discussion of hard and soft infrastructures is ubiquitous at this point but where did it come from? @liquidperson2.bsky.social @jessicahurley.bsky.social @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social @jamieljones.bsky.social
November 18, 2024 at 10:10 PM
Critical infrastructure scholars - who first used the term "soft infrastructure"? The discussion of hard and soft infrastructures is ubiquitous at this point but where did it come from? @liquidperson2.bsky.social @jessicahurley.bsky.social @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social @jamieljones.bsky.social
Anyone know where I can find an English subtitled copy of Amina Weira's film Anger in the Wind? Only found French so far. #complit #africanstudies #film #filmstudies
November 17, 2024 at 1:57 AM
Anyone know where I can find an English subtitled copy of Amina Weira's film Anger in the Wind? Only found French so far. #complit #africanstudies #film #filmstudies
Has anyone already done an #envihum starter pack? Recent energy and connections on this platform are great but I haven't seen this on my feed yet.
November 16, 2024 at 7:02 PM
Has anyone already done an #envihum starter pack? Recent energy and connections on this platform are great but I haven't seen this on my feed yet.
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my sadly somewhat timely book has a cover now, which i think is very beautiful 🌿
Action without Hope
A study of how writers from the early phases of our prolonged climate emergency used aesthetic strategies to redefine the category of action. What does it feel like to live helplessly in a world that ...
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November 8, 2024 at 6:42 PM
my sadly somewhat timely book has a cover now, which i think is very beautiful 🌿
Haven't been on Bluesky in so long but given the dumpster fire nightmare we are now in, guess it's really time to abandon the other place. Hello again!
November 9, 2024 at 12:36 AM
Haven't been on Bluesky in so long but given the dumpster fire nightmare we are now in, guess it's really time to abandon the other place. Hello again!
So, after years of hard work, stress, imposter syndrome and other stops on the first-book rollercoaster, this is happing! My book is going to be a thing in the world! Feeling slow-onset happiness and much gratitude as it sinks in. Thanks to all who helped me get here.
March 22, 2024 at 6:34 PM
So, after years of hard work, stress, imposter syndrome and other stops on the first-book rollercoaster, this is happing! My book is going to be a thing in the world! Feeling slow-onset happiness and much gratitude as it sinks in. Thanks to all who helped me get here.
Reading/teaching Woman at the Edge of Time for the first time. Awesome book, grim, hopeful and super interesting! But LOLed at this: "We don't think telling people what to do is a real world skill." 😂
March 20, 2024 at 9:45 PM
Reading/teaching Woman at the Edge of Time for the first time. Awesome book, grim, hopeful and super interesting! But LOLed at this: "We don't think telling people what to do is a real world skill." 😂
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Her book--The Atlas of AI--is tremendous. Highly recommend.
Excellent Kate Crawford piece here on the rapidly rising environmental costs of generative software - and importantly, the slimy corporate secrecy used to try and downplay and obscure those costs
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Generative AI’s environmental costs are soaring — and mostly secret
First-of-its-kind US bill would address the environmental costs of the technology, but there’s a long way to go. First-of-its-kind US bill would address the environmental costs of the technology, but ...
www.nature.com
February 24, 2024 at 11:07 PM
Her book--The Atlas of AI--is tremendous. Highly recommend.
📣 Pick up @c4noff.bsky.social's brilliant Subjunctive Aesthetics!! EH folks, Mexicanists, Latin Americanists, and speculators of all stripes, this one's for you! 📣 So excited to read it!
My book is out! I was waiting to post a pic holding it IRL, but alas, it is yet to arrive. I hope you will check it out, and ask your library to buy a copy! www.vanderbiltuniversitypress.com/978082650617...
February 3, 2024 at 3:10 PM
📣 Pick up @c4noff.bsky.social's brilliant Subjunctive Aesthetics!! EH folks, Mexicanists, Latin Americanists, and speculators of all stripes, this one's for you! 📣 So excited to read it!
Freezing rain here and the sidewalks are basically ice rinks 🥶
January 22, 2024 at 3:30 PM
Freezing rain here and the sidewalks are basically ice rinks 🥶
Waiting is the worst. I'm in a period between projects, and waiting for reviews. Can't opt out of working, but also not totally focused. Recommendations for what to do/how to approach this kind of time?? 😩
January 22, 2024 at 3:17 PM
Waiting is the worst. I'm in a period between projects, and waiting for reviews. Can't opt out of working, but also not totally focused. Recommendations for what to do/how to approach this kind of time?? 😩
This panel looks 🔥!
"Material Lives of Logistics" - panel proposal for the upcoming American Literature Association Conference. We invite abstracts that explore logistics & infrastructures in literary texts. >> 1/24/24
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call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2024/01/...
cfp | call for papers
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January 21, 2024 at 9:11 PM
This panel looks 🔥!
🦇 So, I taught Silvia Moreno-Garcia's Mexican Gothic last semester, and the students loved it! I would really like to develop a longer gothic course for next year. What are your favorite modern gothic novels or films, especially female/feminist gothics?? 🦇
January 17, 2024 at 11:59 PM
🦇 So, I taught Silvia Moreno-Garcia's Mexican Gothic last semester, and the students loved it! I would really like to develop a longer gothic course for next year. What are your favorite modern gothic novels or films, especially female/feminist gothics?? 🦇
It's been single digits in the Midwest this week. I am not prepared! And yet this is also the temperature it's supposed to be after a mild fall and December. Climate change dissonance and mixed feelings all around! 🥶
January 16, 2024 at 11:48 PM
It's been single digits in the Midwest this week. I am not prepared! And yet this is also the temperature it's supposed to be after a mild fall and December. Climate change dissonance and mixed feelings all around! 🥶
Can confirm, this book is awesome and everyone should both read it and listen to this podcast! 🐳
I had a blast talking about my book with ASLE EcoCast—a brilliant podcast about new research in the environmental humanities. Highly recommend the podcast in general! Our conversation about the dubious concept of energy transition and more is available on your podcast app or: asleecocast.podbean.com
ASLE EcoCast Podcast | asleecocast
EcoCast: Environmental Conversations On Creative Art, Scholarship, and Teaching. The official podcast of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE). Each episode features inter...
asleecocast.podbean.com
January 16, 2024 at 11:44 PM
Can confirm, this book is awesome and everyone should both read it and listen to this podcast! 🐳
Slowly migrating here from the other place!
January 13, 2024 at 4:05 PM
Slowly migrating here from the other place!