Alex Brostoff
alexbrostoff.bsky.social
Alex Brostoff
@alexbrostoff.bsky.social
asst prof @ Georgetown | comparatist | editor AUTOTHEORIES | translator | trans literatures

https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262552295/autotheories/
no idea why the cover image is showing up blown up / cut off like that!
February 20, 2025 at 3:34 PM
ToC here!
February 20, 2025 at 3:34 PM
contributor dream team: Jessica Bush, Judith Butler, Vilashini Cooppan, Carla Freccero, rl Goldberg, Jan Grue, Emma Lieber, Megan Moodie, Lili Owen Rowlands, John Patterson, Paul B. Preciado, Erica Richardson, Migueltzinta C. Solís, Jamieson Webster, Damon Ross Young, Stacey Young, Arianne Zwartjes
February 20, 2025 at 3:34 PM
The book offers a new frame of reference for autotheory and its genre-bending synthesis of autobiography and critical theory. Transgressing generic boundaries and bridging stylistic registers, it underscores autotheory's multiple genealogies while situating it against the political field.
February 20, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Reposted by Alex Brostoff
In "Autotheories," @alexbrostoff.bsky.social and Vilashini Cooppan bring together a thrilling group of writers, thinkers, and practitioners to theorize the powerful, evolving concept of 'autotheory':
Autotheories
Autotheories tells the story of a field in formation. Building on traditions that have long fused life writing, philosophical encounter, embodied theorizing,...
mitpress.mit.edu
February 18, 2025 at 6:58 PM
My pleasure!
January 23, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Reposted by Alex Brostoff
@alexbrostoff.bsky.social @deesisit.bsky.social and I will be thinking about machine translation. We will examine the effects of machine translation on minority languages, particularly how specific contexts are erased through their transfer into hegemonic linguistic frameworks.
January 14, 2025 at 4:58 PM
yes absolutely!!! and for you, Thomas!
December 27, 2024 at 5:14 PM
Celebrate with us at #MLA2025 in New Orleans @ Good Friends Bar on Sat. Jan 11 from 8:30pm onwards 🎉
December 26, 2024 at 12:56 PM
Coedited w Vilashini Cooppan; w contributor dream team rl Goldberg, Jan Grue, Emma Lieber, Megan Moodie, Lili Owen Rowlands, Erica Richardson, Migueltzinta C. Solís, Jamieson Webster, Damon Ross Young, Stacey Young, Arianne Zwartjes, Carla Freccero, Judith Butler, and Paul B. Preciado
December 26, 2024 at 12:56 PM