Ryan Kerr
@ryanrkerr.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of English at Broward College. James Joyce, David Foster Wallace, theory, film, punk, etc.
The James Joyce Quarterly issue featuring my recent article is up now on Project MUSE.
muse.jhu.edu/issue/55691
muse.jhu.edu/issue/55691
Project MUSE - James Joyce Quarterly-Volume 62, Number 1, Fall 2024
muse.jhu.edu
October 14, 2025 at 3:59 PM
The James Joyce Quarterly issue featuring my recent article is up now on Project MUSE.
muse.jhu.edu/issue/55691
muse.jhu.edu/issue/55691
The annual David Foster Wallace conference will be held in Austin in June 2026! Here's the call for papers: call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/09/...
cfp | call for papers
call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu
September 26, 2025 at 11:44 AM
The annual David Foster Wallace conference will be held in Austin in June 2026! Here's the call for papers: call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/09/...
Something Wild (dir. Jonathan Demme, 1986)
August 8, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Something Wild (dir. Jonathan Demme, 1986)
Been listening to:
"Venus as a Boy" -Björk
"She Does It Right" -Dr. Feelgood
"The Best Part of Being with You" -The Groove Farm
"Bluebeard" -Cocteau Twins
"Venus as a Boy" -Björk
"She Does It Right" -Dr. Feelgood
"The Best Part of Being with You" -The Groove Farm
"Bluebeard" -Cocteau Twins
August 6, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Been listening to:
"Venus as a Boy" -Björk
"She Does It Right" -Dr. Feelgood
"The Best Part of Being with You" -The Groove Farm
"Bluebeard" -Cocteau Twins
"Venus as a Boy" -Björk
"She Does It Right" -Dr. Feelgood
"The Best Part of Being with You" -The Groove Farm
"Bluebeard" -Cocteau Twins
Bowie street art in Miami.
July 18, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Bowie street art in Miami.
Another shameless plug for Bloomsday—before heading to the Joyce event in Miami, I checked my mail and the new James Joyce Quarterly (with my new article) was waiting for me!
June 16, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Another shameless plug for Bloomsday—before heading to the Joyce event in Miami, I checked my mail and the new James Joyce Quarterly (with my new article) was waiting for me!
Bloomsday outfit. Off to the Joyce event in Miami!
June 16, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Bloomsday outfit. Off to the Joyce event in Miami!
This #ModWrite is also Bloomsday, so I'll drop the link to the new issue of the James Joyce Literary Supplement (which includes a book review that I wrote). stars.library.ucf.edu/jjls/
James Joyce Literary Supplement | University of Central Florida
stars.library.ucf.edu
June 16, 2025 at 1:10 PM
This #ModWrite is also Bloomsday, so I'll drop the link to the new issue of the James Joyce Literary Supplement (which includes a book review that I wrote). stars.library.ucf.edu/jjls/
Reposted by Ryan Kerr
April 21, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Read my new article in Journal of Modern Literature here!
IN OUR LATEST ISSUE
Ryan Kerr (@ryanrkerr.bsky.social) examines fictional responses to 1950s austerity Britain: ineffectual anarchism in Alan Sillitoe's novel, and conformist decorum in Samuel Selvon's.
Read it on Project MUSE (@projectmuse.bsky.social) at muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...
Ryan Kerr (@ryanrkerr.bsky.social) examines fictional responses to 1950s austerity Britain: ineffectual anarchism in Alan Sillitoe's novel, and conformist decorum in Samuel Selvon's.
Read it on Project MUSE (@projectmuse.bsky.social) at muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...
April 12, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Read my new article in Journal of Modern Literature here!
The physical copy of my article has arrived!
March 15, 2025 at 8:06 PM
The physical copy of my article has arrived!
Been listening to:
"My My Metrocard" -Le Tigre
"No Bunny" -Pailhead
"It's Too Late" -Bob Mould
"Hey Mersh!" -Moe Tucker
"My My Metrocard" -Le Tigre
"No Bunny" -Pailhead
"It's Too Late" -Bob Mould
"Hey Mersh!" -Moe Tucker
March 11, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Been listening to:
"My My Metrocard" -Le Tigre
"No Bunny" -Pailhead
"It's Too Late" -Bob Mould
"Hey Mersh!" -Moe Tucker
"My My Metrocard" -Le Tigre
"No Bunny" -Pailhead
"It's Too Late" -Bob Mould
"Hey Mersh!" -Moe Tucker
This #modwrite I'm prepping for my presentation at this weekend's Modernism Remodeled online conference, hosted by the LABRC (London Arts-Based Research Centre). Pictured here are TS Eliot and Franco "Bifo" Berardi.
March 3, 2025 at 8:02 PM
This #modwrite I'm prepping for my presentation at this weekend's Modernism Remodeled online conference, hosted by the LABRC (London Arts-Based Research Centre). Pictured here are TS Eliot and Franco "Bifo" Berardi.
Was watching As Told by Ginger again and saw what appears to be a poster of James Joyce in Ms. Zorski’s classroom???
February 22, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Was watching As Told by Ginger again and saw what appears to be a poster of James Joyce in Ms. Zorski’s classroom???
The new issue of Virginia Woolf Miscellany is here (and I'm in it), so check it out!
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January 26, 2025 at 1:11 AM
The new issue of Virginia Woolf Miscellany is here (and I'm in it), so check it out!
virginiawoolfmiscellany.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...
virginiawoolfmiscellany.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...
Reposted by Ryan Kerr
We’re nice.
We extended the deadline.
Friday, January 17.
🙂
We extended the deadline.
Friday, January 17.
🙂
For those interested, the deadline to submit abstracts for the UF Marxist Reading Group conference is tomorrow. Check/share the link: call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2024/11/...
cfp | call for papers
call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu
January 13, 2025 at 2:55 PM
We’re nice.
We extended the deadline.
Friday, January 17.
🙂
We extended the deadline.
Friday, January 17.
🙂
Reposted by Ryan Kerr
If hanging with the UF MRG isn’t your thing (see last post), you could instead write an essay interrogating AppleTV+’s investments in the sci-fi genre for this special issue that I’m co-editing with two great colleagues:
call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2024/12/...
call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2024/12/...
cfp | call for papers
call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu
January 9, 2025 at 10:31 PM
If hanging with the UF MRG isn’t your thing (see last post), you could instead write an essay interrogating AppleTV+’s investments in the sci-fi genre for this special issue that I’m co-editing with two great colleagues:
call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2024/12/...
call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2024/12/...
My MLA talk is today at noon! Come hang out!
January 9, 2025 at 2:17 PM
My MLA talk is today at noon! Come hang out!
Reposted by Ryan Kerr
For those interested, the deadline to submit abstracts for the UF Marxist Reading Group conference is tomorrow. Check/share the link: call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2024/11/...
cfp | call for papers
call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu
January 9, 2025 at 1:52 PM
For those interested, the deadline to submit abstracts for the UF Marxist Reading Group conference is tomorrow. Check/share the link: call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2024/11/...