Daniel Wright
@dannybwright.bsky.social
Associate Professor of English, University of Toronto. The novel, literature and philosophy, gender and sexuality.
THE GROUNDS OF THE NOVEL
https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=37186
GREAT EXPECTATIONS https://wwnorton.com/books/9781324046721
THE GROUNDS OF THE NOVEL
https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=37186
GREAT EXPECTATIONS https://wwnorton.com/books/9781324046721
Calling all novel people! With my amazing colleague Thom Dancer, I am co-organizing an ACLA 2026 seminar called "The Craft of Fiction." Link below. Please consider submitting a proposal.
www.acla.org/seminar/6892...
www.acla.org/seminar/6892...
View Seminar | American Comparative Literature Association
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August 11, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Calling all novel people! With my amazing colleague Thom Dancer, I am co-organizing an ACLA 2026 seminar called "The Craft of Fiction." Link below. Please consider submitting a proposal.
www.acla.org/seminar/6892...
www.acla.org/seminar/6892...
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The ICCIT is hiring! Our faculty is inviting applications for an Associate or Full Professor position in Organizational Studies, with an anticipated start date of July 1, 2026. jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Mississa...
July 28, 2025 at 8:27 PM
The ICCIT is hiring! Our faculty is inviting applications for an Associate or Full Professor position in Organizational Studies, with an anticipated start date of July 1, 2026. jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Mississa...
FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION. Think about this @nortonlibrary.bsky.social edition for all your 2025-26 teaching needs!
wwnorton.com/books/978132...
wwnorton.com/books/978132...
July 28, 2025 at 2:33 PM
FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION. Think about this @nortonlibrary.bsky.social edition for all your 2025-26 teaching needs!
wwnorton.com/books/978132...
wwnorton.com/books/978132...
Come be a postdoc @uoftmississauga.bsky.social! If you're in the field of novel studies, or literature and philosophy, or Victorian studies, and this opportunity interests you, please be in touch with me directly about a potential application.
www.utm.utoronto.ca/research-inn...
www.utm.utoronto.ca/research-inn...
UTM Postdoctoral Fellowship Award | Research and Innovation
** Updated: April 2025 ** Program Purpose:Postdoctoral Fellowships (PDFs) are an important post-PhD training opportunity, affording recent graduates an opportunity to establish an independent research...
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July 25, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Come be a postdoc @uoftmississauga.bsky.social! If you're in the field of novel studies, or literature and philosophy, or Victorian studies, and this opportunity interests you, please be in touch with me directly about a potential application.
www.utm.utoronto.ca/research-inn...
www.utm.utoronto.ca/research-inn...
Trying to start a new thing!
July 22, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Trying to start a new thing!
A beautiful and generous review from Talia Schaffer that puts THE GROUNDS OF THE NOVEL into conversation with Adela Pinch's THE LOCATION OF EXPERIENCE. (And stay tuned for my own review of Pinch's incredible book, coming soon in MLQ!)
muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...
muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...
Project MUSE - <i>The Grounds of the Novel</i> by Daniel Wright, and: <i>The Location of Experience: Victorian Women Writers, the Novel, and the Feeling of Living</i> by Adela Pinch (review)
muse.jhu.edu
July 21, 2025 at 1:02 PM
A beautiful and generous review from Talia Schaffer that puts THE GROUNDS OF THE NOVEL into conversation with Adela Pinch's THE LOCATION OF EXPERIENCE. (And stay tuned for my own review of Pinch's incredible book, coming soon in MLQ!)
muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...
muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...
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My textbook is finally available! 'Writing on Fire: A Fierce Yet Friendly Guide to Writing Humanities Essays in College.' There are chapters on close reading, thesis statements, all the good stuff. If you teach writing via a humanities subject, check it out! broadviewpress.com/product/writ...
Writing on Fire - Broadview Press
Writing on Fire -
broadviewpress.com
October 26, 2024 at 4:51 PM
My textbook is finally available! 'Writing on Fire: A Fierce Yet Friendly Guide to Writing Humanities Essays in College.' There are chapters on close reading, thesis statements, all the good stuff. If you teach writing via a humanities subject, check it out! broadviewpress.com/product/writ...
I have dutifully shared several positive reviews of The Grounds of the Novel. This one is extremely un-positive (backhanded compliment about "ambition" notwithstanding), but I will share it anyway on the principle that all publicity is good publicity?
I reviewed @dannybwright.bsky.social “Grounds of the Novel” @stanfordpress.bsky.social for Genre. I admire the ambition and range of inquiry but I have grave doubts about the scholarship and argument. Hopefully a productive debate for researchers in novel theory!
read.dukeupress.edu/genre/articl...
read.dukeupress.edu/genre/articl...
The Grounds of the Novel | Genre | Duke University Press
read.dukeupress.edu
July 8, 2025 at 4:45 PM
I have dutifully shared several positive reviews of The Grounds of the Novel. This one is extremely un-positive (backhanded compliment about "ambition" notwithstanding), but I will share it anyway on the principle that all publicity is good publicity?
Discount alert! THE GROUNDS OF THE NOVEL is part of the @stanfordpress.bsky.social Virtual Exhibit for MLA and you can get it for 30% off with code S25MLA between Jan 9 and Feb 12. www.sup.org/books/litera...
And check out the full exhibit while you're at it! www.sup.org/virtual-exhi...
And check out the full exhibit while you're at it! www.sup.org/virtual-exhi...
The Grounds of the Novel | Stanford University Press
What grounds the fictional world of a novel? Or is such a world peculiarly groundless? In a powerful engagement with the latest debates in novel theory, Daniel Wright investigates how novelists reckon...
www.sup.org
January 8, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Discount alert! THE GROUNDS OF THE NOVEL is part of the @stanfordpress.bsky.social Virtual Exhibit for MLA and you can get it for 30% off with code S25MLA between Jan 9 and Feb 12. www.sup.org/books/litera...
And check out the full exhibit while you're at it! www.sup.org/virtual-exhi...
And check out the full exhibit while you're at it! www.sup.org/virtual-exhi...
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1/2: I won’t be at MLA this year for the first time in years, but if you are, I hope you’ll check out the Post*45 books at the Stanford UP booth! We had three great titles come out in 2024, by Adrienne Brown, Adam Kelly, and Shane Boyle.
January 8, 2025 at 8:43 PM
1/2: I won’t be at MLA this year for the first time in years, but if you are, I hope you’ll check out the Post*45 books at the Stanford UP booth! We had three great titles come out in 2024, by Adrienne Brown, Adam Kelly, and Shane Boyle.
My edition of Great Expectations for the Norton Library series now has a webpage, a delightfully purple cover, and a projected publication date of July 1, 2025. Think about it for your Fall 2025 syllabus needs. (Or just because it's a pretty colour!)
wwnorton.com/books/978132...
wwnorton.com/books/978132...
Great Expectations (The Norton Library)
Part of the Norton Library series, Great Expectations (The Norton Library), Charles Dickens, Daniel Wright, 9781324046721
wwnorton.com
September 27, 2024 at 4:51 PM
My edition of Great Expectations for the Norton Library series now has a webpage, a delightfully purple cover, and a projected publication date of July 1, 2025. Think about it for your Fall 2025 syllabus needs. (Or just because it's a pretty colour!)
wwnorton.com/books/978132...
wwnorton.com/books/978132...
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Please help spread the word! The English Department at Harvard is hoping to hire an assistant professor of post-45 Anglophone literature. I'm not on the committee, but would be happy to answer your questions.
academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/14143
academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/14143
Tenure-Track Professor in Post45 Anglophone Literature
The Department of English seeks to appoint a tenure-track professor in Post45 Anglophone Literature. The appointment is expected to begin on July 1, 2025. The tenure-track professor will be responsibl...
academicpositions.harvard.edu
September 27, 2024 at 3:58 PM
Please help spread the word! The English Department at Harvard is hoping to hire an assistant professor of post-45 Anglophone literature. I'm not on the committee, but would be happy to answer your questions.
academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/14143
academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/14143
So much fun to see THE GROUNDS OF THE NOVEL put into surprising and illuminating conversation with @annakornbluh.bsky.social's IMMEDIACY in service of some big thinking about The Function of Theory at the Present Time.
www.publicbooks.org/whats-a-theo...
www.publicbooks.org/whats-a-theo...
What’s a Theory to Do?
Given the scope of the crisis before us, we will need theory of all stripes to find our way forward.
www.publicbooks.org
September 10, 2024 at 6:24 PM
So much fun to see THE GROUNDS OF THE NOVEL put into surprising and illuminating conversation with @annakornbluh.bsky.social's IMMEDIACY in service of some big thinking about The Function of Theory at the Present Time.
www.publicbooks.org/whats-a-theo...
www.publicbooks.org/whats-a-theo...
I’m so honoured to be read with such generosity by the brilliant Deidre Lynch.
My review of the mind-blowing, FOUNDATIONAL work of novel theory by @dannybwright.bsky.social is now up on the Critical Inquiry site.
Bluesky #litcrit friends, _The Grounds of the Novel_ will change how you think about what realism is and what it can do.
criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/deidre_lynch...
Bluesky #litcrit friends, _The Grounds of the Novel_ will change how you think about what realism is and what it can do.
criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/deidre_lynch...
Critical Inquiry
A journal of Art, Culture and Politics, Published by the University of Chicago
criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu
September 10, 2024 at 12:56 AM
I’m so honoured to be read with such generosity by the brilliant Deidre Lynch.
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Timothy Gao reviews @dannybwright.bsky.social 's The Grounds of the Novel for Review 19, " For Wright, the strange ontological foundations of novelistic worlds become a "resource" (6) for thinking through our own ambiguities and ethics of being": www.review19.org/view_doc.php...
THE GROUNDS OF THE NOVEL by Daniel Wright, Reviewed by Timothy Gao
Review 19: Assessing New Books on English and American Literature of the Nineteenth Century
www.review19.org
July 2, 2024 at 2:48 PM
Timothy Gao reviews @dannybwright.bsky.social 's The Grounds of the Novel for Review 19, " For Wright, the strange ontological foundations of novelistic worlds become a "resource" (6) for thinking through our own ambiguities and ethics of being": www.review19.org/view_doc.php...
May 21, 2024 at 12:32 PM
Parents of small children everywhere cursing the Oscars for the early start time on the first post-lost-hour evening. Bedtimes are *complicated* tonight Academy!
March 11, 2024 at 12:10 AM
Parents of small children everywhere cursing the Oscars for the early start time on the first post-lost-hour evening. Bedtimes are *complicated* tonight Academy!
I am *so excited* for this book, and not only because it is authored by a fellow Daniel W. I've been lucky enough to get to know snippets of Daniel's brilliant work over the years, and am so eager to get to know more of it!
✨The Art of Uncertainty: Probable Realism and the Victorian Novel✨ is out with Cambridge UP!
Available in US/UK (cambridge.org/9781009436113), 20% off w/ TAU2024
Huge thanks to all who shepherded it into print and to Kate Flint & Clare Pettitt for including it in their series!
Available in US/UK (cambridge.org/9781009436113), 20% off w/ TAU2024
Huge thanks to all who shepherded it into print and to Kate Flint & Clare Pettitt for including it in their series!
March 7, 2024 at 2:47 PM
I am *so excited* for this book, and not only because it is authored by a fellow Daniel W. I've been lucky enough to get to know snippets of Daniel's brilliant work over the years, and am so eager to get to know more of it!
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✨The Art of Uncertainty: Probable Realism and the Victorian Novel✨ is out with Cambridge UP!
Available in US/UK (cambridge.org/9781009436113), 20% off w/ TAU2024
Huge thanks to all who shepherded it into print and to Kate Flint & Clare Pettitt for including it in their series!
Available in US/UK (cambridge.org/9781009436113), 20% off w/ TAU2024
Huge thanks to all who shepherded it into print and to Kate Flint & Clare Pettitt for including it in their series!
March 6, 2024 at 5:46 PM
✨The Art of Uncertainty: Probable Realism and the Victorian Novel✨ is out with Cambridge UP!
Available in US/UK (cambridge.org/9781009436113), 20% off w/ TAU2024
Huge thanks to all who shepherded it into print and to Kate Flint & Clare Pettitt for including it in their series!
Available in US/UK (cambridge.org/9781009436113), 20% off w/ TAU2024
Huge thanks to all who shepherded it into print and to Kate Flint & Clare Pettitt for including it in their series!
Days later, still have not recovered emotional equilibrium after watching Andrew Haigh’s remarkable ALL OF US STRANGERS. Double whammy of impact as both a gay man and a parent!!
March 4, 2024 at 6:57 PM
Days later, still have not recovered emotional equilibrium after watching Andrew Haigh’s remarkable ALL OF US STRANGERS. Double whammy of impact as both a gay man and a parent!!
There's still time to get a 30% discount on THE GROUNDS OF THE NOVEL, through the end of February (including Leap Day of course!) -- and while you're at it, buy some of the many exciting new titles from SUP: Fyfe, MacDuffie, Kasa, Wong, Marriott, etc. etc. etc. etc.
www.sup.org/books/title/...
www.sup.org/books/title/...
February 27, 2024 at 5:47 PM
There's still time to get a 30% discount on THE GROUNDS OF THE NOVEL, through the end of February (including Leap Day of course!) -- and while you're at it, buy some of the many exciting new titles from SUP: Fyfe, MacDuffie, Kasa, Wong, Marriott, etc. etc. etc. etc.
www.sup.org/books/title/...
www.sup.org/books/title/...
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What grounds the fictional world of a novel? Or is such a world peculiarly groundless?
In a powerful engagement with the latest debates in novel theory, The Grounds of the Novel by Daniel Wright investigates how novelists reckon w/ the ontological status of their works
www.sup.org/books/title/...
In a powerful engagement with the latest debates in novel theory, The Grounds of the Novel by Daniel Wright investigates how novelists reckon w/ the ontological status of their works
www.sup.org/books/title/...
January 16, 2024 at 8:04 PM
What grounds the fictional world of a novel? Or is such a world peculiarly groundless?
In a powerful engagement with the latest debates in novel theory, The Grounds of the Novel by Daniel Wright investigates how novelists reckon w/ the ontological status of their works
www.sup.org/books/title/...
In a powerful engagement with the latest debates in novel theory, The Grounds of the Novel by Daniel Wright investigates how novelists reckon w/ the ontological status of their works
www.sup.org/books/title/...
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Important thread.
It is my pre-existing belief (so you might want to be wary of my analysis )that models of revenue sharing, shifting core curriculum requirements, and the establishment of undergraduate business majors lie at the heart of the destruction of the modern university. Today's case: U Chicago. /1
January 16, 2024 at 5:01 PM
Important thread.
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The response to a revenue gap is not to fire instructors and reduce classes; this simply destroys FTEs and retention, which means you're taking in less revenue, which means you'll make cuts again. It's like an automaker saying they'll stave off bankruptcy by simply not making cars.
Queens College just forced chairs to fire 26 of my colleagues, two weeks before the semester starts. They've lost health insurance and income, we've lost 79 sections and over 1600 students have lost their classes. Please help us protest! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
January 16, 2024 at 4:51 PM
The response to a revenue gap is not to fire instructors and reduce classes; this simply destroys FTEs and retention, which means you're taking in less revenue, which means you'll make cuts again. It's like an automaker saying they'll stave off bankruptcy by simply not making cars.