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Katherine Fusco
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English Professor and Writer. Struggling department chair and mom. New book: Hollywood's Other's: Love and Limitation in the Star System (Columbia UP). https://cup.columbia.edu/book/hollywoods-others/9780231220927/ Future book: Anita Loos bio.
@hennefem.bsky.social what at treat to have you here in person, as well as on the shelf!
Spotted in Reno, NV!!! 📚
November 15, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Quick reminder that University of Nevada is hiring TWO TT jobs in literature, one in Af-Am and one in U.S. Lit 1865-1930 with desired queer theory focus. The close date for both positions is Halloween 10/31.

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Assistant Professor English
The University of Nevada, Reno (UNR) appreciates your interest in employment at our growing institution. We want your application process to go smoothly and quickly. Final applications must be submitt...
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October 23, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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October 8, 2025 at 3:15 PM
And here's our third position. Assistant Professor of U.S. literature from the period 1865-1930 with a desired secondary area in Queer Theory.

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Assistant Professor English
The University of Nevada, Reno (UNR) appreciates your interest in employment at our growing institution. We want your application process to go smoothly and quickly. Final applications must be submitt...
nshe.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com
September 24, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Thanks to @petecant.bsky.social for this interview!
I had a great conversation with Katherine Fusco (@fuscowrites.bsky.social) about her wonderful new book, Hollywood's Others: Love and Limitation in the Studio System.

You can check it out here:

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Katherine Fusco, "Hollywood's Others: Love and Limitation in the Star System" (Columbia UP, 2025) - New Books Network
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September 17, 2025 at 7:48 PM
I was so busy doing all the department chair things that I almost missed my own pub day! So, so happy to have this out in the world. And so thankful to @philipleventhal.bsky.social for his guidance.
September 3, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Labor Day reading for my fellow profs: theamericanvandal.substack.com/p/against-te...
Against Technofeudal Education
Pillars For Protecting Our "Core Infrastructure" From OpenAI
theamericanvandal.substack.com
September 1, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Want to support Nevada Humanities? Come to this year’s lit crawl on 9/13! 🎈

Lydia Huerta, Renata Keller, Prisca Gayles, and I will be talking about our books at 3:30 at the downtown library. 📚

Get the program: nevadahumanities.org/literarycrawl

📖 over 120 panelists at over 40 Reno locations! 😁
August 26, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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Woohoo!! Excited to receive my copy of HOLLYWOOD'S OTHERS: LOVE AND LIMITATION IN THE STAR SYSTEM -- by the always brilliant @fuscowrites.bsky.social , hot off the press from @columbiaup.bsky.social 🎊📚

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August 19, 2025 at 2:48 PM
I assume most of y'all have already encountered this resource. If not, here's an invaluable collection of Anti-AI resources from @annakornbluh.bsky.social and colleagues: against-a-i.com?fbclid=IwY2x...
AGAINST AI -
against-a-i.com
August 19, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Starting first semester of chairing English. It's drinking from a firehose on behalf of all my favorite people.
a cartoon of a man holding a hose in front of a house
Alt: Hank Hill sprays himself in the face
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August 14, 2025 at 12:30 AM
What a lucky gal! Blurbed by the inimitable Will Scheibel!
"[A] fascinating fascinating counternarrative of the Hollywood star sytem..." -- Will Scheibel

Now available! HOLLYWOOD'S OTHERS: LOVE & LIMITATION IN THE STAR SYSTEM, by Katherine Fusco.

Use the coupon code CUP20 and save 20%: bit.ly/4kN4HcR
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Hollywood's Others | Columbia University Press
We tend to think about movie stars as either glamorous or relatable. But in the 1920s and 1930s, when the Hollywood star system was taking shape, a number of... | CUP
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August 13, 2025 at 12:21 PM
aw, shucks. But really, Pinto is an idol of mine. I love her book Infamous Bodies! Buy her book from @dukepress.bsky.social and then buy mine from @columbiaup.bsky.social .
"[A] must-read for film, feminist, Black, American, and cultural studies scholars..." -- Samantha Pinto

Hot off the press! HOLLYWOOD'S OTHERS, by Katherine Fusco.

Use the coupon code CUP20 and save 20%: bit.ly/4kN4HcR @fuscowrites.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social
August 8, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Folks sometimes push back when I insist that Anita Loos was no feminist. But I can put her socializing with both Pat Nixon and a Koch in the early 60s...I love her, too, but I'm just saying....
July 28, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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Now Available! HOLLYWOOD'S OTHERS: LOVE & LIMITATION IN THE STAR SYSTEM, by Katherine Fusco.

Use the coupon code CUP20 and save 20%: bit.ly/4kN4HcR @fuscowrites.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social
July 22, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Attempted and largely failed to make Nanaimo bars for Canada Day. 🍁 a rustic Nanaimo, I think. (It looked better once I cut it into bars)
July 1, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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the story today is of a profoundly low energy military parade being met with millions of americans in nationwide protests denouncing the dictatorial pretensions of the president
June 15, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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"At its heart the Trump Administration is violently divisive, isolationist, and segregationist, and solidarity is our first duty and most profound rejection of that agenda."

for this insight, Solnit has been suspended from fb

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Some Notes on the City of Angels and the Nature of Violence
I think maybe it's begun, the bigger fiercer backlash against the Trump Administration which is itself a violent backlash against every good thing that's happened over the past several decades – the a...
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June 11, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Late in the day....Running "mommy camp" for the kiddos means that the #1000wordsofsummer were about 1,000 words of fast and shallow revision in the backyard. One kid's at a play date. The other at practice. Dog is chewing a stick. I'll take it.
June 11, 2025 at 12:55 AM
#1000wordsofsummer Mostly feeling for L.A. Very distracted. Instead of new words, worked on revising last week's words about Anita's first Broadway play.

Also: Anita would hate what is happening in her beloved L.A. She abhorred violence and opposed anything she perceived as government overreach.
June 9, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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the funniest thing about the “ice agents are human beings with families” line is that there is no evidence to support the claim. oh they’re real people? what are their names? as far as I’m concerned they’re the T-1000 until proven otherwise
June 7, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Just caught up with @jordanrbrower.bsky.social 's article in @jcmsjournal.bsky.social about A24 as the antibildung studio (and so many other smart arguments). So good. Worth assigning to the many students are fans. Plus, the line "Korine’s bad taste is his own" made me laugh aloud!
At long last, “A24’s Academic Style; or, Coming of Age in an Era of Student Debt” is now out with @jcmsjournal.bsky.social

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June 8, 2025 at 12:40 AM
I took yesterday off from #1,000wordsofsummer because it was Clementine's kindergarten graduation.

Today, I was back at it. I hired @carolinemalloyphd.bsky.social for a retreat/accountability day and revised 5,500 words of the book's first chapter. Moved from sh*tty first draft to first draft!
June 6, 2025 at 9:12 PM