Aarthi Vadde
@aarthivadde.bsky.social
Associate Prof of English at Duke. Wrote a book Chimeras of Form on modernism. Writing a book on contemporary literature and internet culture; co-host a podcast called Novel Dialogue for the Society of Novel Studies: https://sites.duke.edu/sns2025/
I devoured @lbmcgrath.bsky.social’s Middlemen over the weekend! This is such a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the marketplace of contemporary literature (and reminded me of all the lunches I heard about but never attended as a summer intern at Carlisle and Company (now Inkwell)
November 11, 2025 at 6:37 PM
I devoured @lbmcgrath.bsky.social’s Middlemen over the weekend! This is such a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the marketplace of contemporary literature (and reminded me of all the lunches I heard about but never attended as a summer intern at Carlisle and Company (now Inkwell)
Well this is going on my required reading list! Congrats to @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social and @johannawinant.bsky.social on an incredible lineup and on elegantly breaking down a practice that, at its best, feels (but never is) effortless.
October 13, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Well this is going on my required reading list! Congrats to @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social and @johannawinant.bsky.social on an incredible lineup and on elegantly breaking down a practice that, at its best, feels (but never is) effortless.
Plus gorgeous bookmarks courtesy of Novel Dialogue!
May 30, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Plus gorgeous bookmarks courtesy of Novel Dialogue!
SNS registration starting at 8am! Pick up your program and name tags!
May 30, 2025 at 11:59 AM
SNS registration starting at 8am! Pick up your program and name tags!
Full program for SNS 2025: Novel Languages now available! So happy to see this event come together and to have so many good people descend on Durham, NC! Come for the terrific panels and seminars and stay for signature novel-inspired cocktails and bookish swag!
May 8, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Full program for SNS 2025: Novel Languages now available! So happy to see this event come together and to have so many good people descend on Durham, NC! Come for the terrific panels and seminars and stay for signature novel-inspired cocktails and bookish swag!
Taught Eve Sedgwick&Adam Frank alongside Ishiguro's Klara and the Sun in my Novel after the Internet course and found their engagement with Silvan Tomkins to be a helpful reminder that emotion and child development was quite central to early AI discourse. Here's the quote on "humanoid machines":
April 8, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Taught Eve Sedgwick&Adam Frank alongside Ishiguro's Klara and the Sun in my Novel after the Internet course and found their engagement with Silvan Tomkins to be a helpful reminder that emotion and child development was quite central to early AI discourse. Here's the quote on "humanoid machines":
Novel Dialogue (the official podcast of SNS) is back with Season 9: TECH. We have a great lineup of novelists and critics ready to help you make sense of these senseless times. @sarahlwasserman.bsky.social, @rosecasey.bsky.social, @lizmiller.bsky.social, @vauhinivara.bsky.social, and more!
March 21, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Novel Dialogue (the official podcast of SNS) is back with Season 9: TECH. We have a great lineup of novelists and critics ready to help you make sense of these senseless times. @sarahlwasserman.bsky.social, @rosecasey.bsky.social, @lizmiller.bsky.social, @vauhinivara.bsky.social, and more!
Beautiful exhibit of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s archive premiered today at the Rubenstein. Enjoy pics of her book art, drawings, and proustian squid!
February 26, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Beautiful exhibit of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s archive premiered today at the Rubenstein. Enjoy pics of her book art, drawings, and proustian squid!
A full-draft of my second book finally exists!!!! Let the revisions begin (but not today).
December 18, 2024 at 8:27 PM
A full-draft of my second book finally exists!!!! Let the revisions begin (but not today).
I know what I will be reading over Thanksgiving (even if my table will not be this gorgeous or, upon closer inspection, this weird). Endlessly surprised and impressed by how Vauhini Vara threads the needle in her bwriting about and with new technologies!
November 26, 2024 at 1:46 PM
I know what I will be reading over Thanksgiving (even if my table will not be this gorgeous or, upon closer inspection, this weird). Endlessly surprised and impressed by how Vauhini Vara threads the needle in her bwriting about and with new technologies!
I think I got everyone who requested an add to the Novel Studies Starter Pack - welcome and let me know if you want in! Also, the submission deadline for the Society of Novel Studies conference at Duke is Nov. 15 (this Friday!) Submit paper or panel abstracts here: sites.duke.edu/sns2025/cfps...
November 10, 2024 at 4:55 PM
I think I got everyone who requested an add to the Novel Studies Starter Pack - welcome and let me know if you want in! Also, the submission deadline for the Society of Novel Studies conference at Duke is Nov. 15 (this Friday!) Submit paper or panel abstracts here: sites.duke.edu/sns2025/cfps...
I wrote in PMLA about the questions generative AI raises for literary study as a discipline. Studying LLMs matters for understanding contemporary literature, the creative industries, and enduring definitional questions about aesthetics. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
October 13, 2024 at 2:08 PM
I wrote in PMLA about the questions generative AI raises for literary study as a discipline. Studying LLMs matters for understanding contemporary literature, the creative industries, and enduring definitional questions about aesthetics. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Tagging plenary speakers, seminar leaders, and NOVEL journal folks! Please help spread the word about SNS 2025: Novel Languages hosted by Duke University @stephaniedegooyer.bsky.social, @isanchezprado.bsky.social, @nicolerizzuto.bsky.social, @charlottesussman.bsky.social, @jackquirk.bsky.social
August 1, 2024 at 4:21 PM
Tagging plenary speakers, seminar leaders, and NOVEL journal folks! Please help spread the word about SNS 2025: Novel Languages hosted by Duke University @stephaniedegooyer.bsky.social, @isanchezprado.bsky.social, @nicolerizzuto.bsky.social, @charlottesussman.bsky.social, @jackquirk.bsky.social
Congratulations, Duke class of 2024, on your alternative commencement!
May 12, 2024 at 7:02 PM
Congratulations, Duke class of 2024, on your alternative commencement!
4/5 On paper, we fought for fonts! Typography was so important to Kamau Brathwaite's poetry and we preserved that! In the E-book, we include video to bring the kinetic poetry of bpNichol and Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries to life.
February 29, 2024 at 3:57 PM
4/5 On paper, we fought for fonts! Typography was so important to Kamau Brathwaite's poetry and we preserved that! In the E-book, we include video to bring the kinetic poetry of bpNichol and Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries to life.
3/5 Another thematic cluster on "Born-Digital Literature" introduces works written on computers and usually meant to be read on them. This section hinged on finding innovative ways to anthologize across page and screen (Norton paper and E-book).
February 29, 2024 at 3:57 PM
3/5 Another thematic cluster on "Born-Digital Literature" introduces works written on computers and usually meant to be read on them. This section hinged on finding innovative ways to anthologize across page and screen (Norton paper and E-book).
2/5 Special thematic cluster on "Environmental Literature and Climate Change" designed to represent nature differently– not as a pristine space outside of culture, but as a dynamic system essential to our own preservation as a species.
February 29, 2024 at 3:57 PM
2/5 Special thematic cluster on "Environmental Literature and Climate Change" designed to represent nature differently– not as a pristine space outside of culture, but as a dynamic system essential to our own preservation as a species.
1/5 After three years of editing, annotating, headnote writing, and permissions getting, it is completely thrilling to hold a physical copy of Vol. F of The Norton Anthology of English Literature in my hands! A thread on its new features:
February 29, 2024 at 3:57 PM
1/5 After three years of editing, annotating, headnote writing, and permissions getting, it is completely thrilling to hold a physical copy of Vol. F of The Norton Anthology of English Literature in my hands! A thread on its new features:
Novel Dialogue is back with a new season devoted to "The Weird!" We have form, genre, climate, and nonhuman narration all coming up for discussion plus a bonus episode with Kate Marshall!
September 21, 2023 at 1:45 PM
Novel Dialogue is back with a new season devoted to "The Weird!" We have form, genre, climate, and nonhuman narration all coming up for discussion plus a bonus episode with Kate Marshall!
Pretty scary welcome back to school after the latest extreme storm.
August 17, 2023 at 12:27 AM
Pretty scary welcome back to school after the latest extreme storm.