Gabriel Hankins
@gabrielh.bsky.social
Modernism, digital studies, psychoanalysis, horror, literary color. Asheville / Clemson. Literary and Cultural Studies feed here: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:m22fqufavn4t3bpxa6y53jqz/feed/aaajitqeisltw .
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Gabriel Hankins
@gabrielh.bsky.social
· Nov 22
Thread on contributors and contributions to Digital Futures of Graduate Study in the Humanities (which doesn't argue that all such futures are "digital"): this book is an examination of the plans, institutions, successes, and failures of DH graduate training, broadly understood. (1/14)
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HELLO, BLUESKY!
In 2021, @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social published our fantastic symposium, ANTIRACISM IN THE CONTEMPORARY UNIVERSITY.
It's worth a re-read. (Also I am sharing for the updated urls, as they've redesigned their site.)
READ/SHARE/READ AGAIN!
lareviewofbooks.org/feature/anti...
🙌🙌🙌
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In 2021, @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social published our fantastic symposium, ANTIRACISM IN THE CONTEMPORARY UNIVERSITY.
It's worth a re-read. (Also I am sharing for the updated urls, as they've redesigned their site.)
READ/SHARE/READ AGAIN!
lareviewofbooks.org/feature/anti...
🙌🙌🙌
1/8
“Antiracism in the Contemporary University,” a Symposium | Los Angeles Review of Books
lareviewofbooks.org
November 7, 2025 at 5:47 PM
HELLO, BLUESKY!
In 2021, @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social published our fantastic symposium, ANTIRACISM IN THE CONTEMPORARY UNIVERSITY.
It's worth a re-read. (Also I am sharing for the updated urls, as they've redesigned their site.)
READ/SHARE/READ AGAIN!
lareviewofbooks.org/feature/anti...
🙌🙌🙌
1/8
In 2021, @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social published our fantastic symposium, ANTIRACISM IN THE CONTEMPORARY UNIVERSITY.
It's worth a re-read. (Also I am sharing for the updated urls, as they've redesigned their site.)
READ/SHARE/READ AGAIN!
lareviewofbooks.org/feature/anti...
🙌🙌🙌
1/8
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Peter Coviello isn't on Bluesky, but this definitely should be: lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
lithub.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Peter Coviello isn't on Bluesky, but this definitely should be: lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
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For @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social I wrote about Kelly Reichardt's THE MASTERMIND, and what her riff on the heist film has to say about labor, art, and entitlement lareviewofbooks.org/article/rebe...
Rebel Without a Clue | Los Angeles Review of Books
Elizabeth Alsop picks up the trail of Kelly Reichardt’s alienated art thief in “The Mastermind.”
lareviewofbooks.org
November 7, 2025 at 6:24 PM
For @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social I wrote about Kelly Reichardt's THE MASTERMIND, and what her riff on the heist film has to say about labor, art, and entitlement lareviewofbooks.org/article/rebe...
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One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 6, 2025 at 9:00 PM
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
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here is my story about how Zohran's focus on community amid the loneliness epidemic helped young people connect their politics to an organizing infrastructure, that interviewed ZM, and does not use the NYT's framing of "they don't know how to make friends" :-) and also ran 4 days before NYT's lol
Zohran Mamdani's Establishment-Fighting Campaign Built Community for Young People
“What Mamdani has done is not only inspire and mobilize young people, but he has exposed the establishment and some of their calcified views of participation and inclusion.”
www.teenvogue.com
November 5, 2025 at 2:14 PM
here is my story about how Zohran's focus on community amid the loneliness epidemic helped young people connect their politics to an organizing infrastructure, that interviewed ZM, and does not use the NYT's framing of "they don't know how to make friends" :-) and also ran 4 days before NYT's lol
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I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.
November 5, 2025 at 12:13 PM
I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.
Incredible this book doesn't exist yet, must have press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
Plastics
Why modern and contemporary art—and art conservation—can’t be understood without taking account of the revolutionary impact of plastics
press.princeton.edu
October 31, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Incredible this book doesn't exist yet, must have press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
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Doug Armato, who has helmed the 100-year-old press for 27 years, is retiring at the end of December. His tenure saw the expansion of the press’s list and the development of strong Indigenous studies, trade, and regional publishing programs.
University of Minnesota Press Director Retires
Doug Armato, who has helmed the 100-year-old press for 27 years, is retiring at the end of December. His tenure saw the expansion of the press’s list and the development of strong Indigenous studies,…
buff.ly
October 28, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Doug Armato, who has helmed the 100-year-old press for 27 years, is retiring at the end of December. His tenure saw the expansion of the press’s list and the development of strong Indigenous studies, trade, and regional publishing programs.
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A truly legendary run, transformative contributions to letters & humanities, and a wonderfully supportive and insightful editor on a personal level. Congrats and thanks for everything @noctambulate.bsky.social !
Doug Armato, who has helmed the 100-year-old press for 27 years, is retiring at the end of December. His tenure saw the expansion of the press’s list and the development of strong Indigenous studies, trade, and regional publishing programs.
University of Minnesota Press Director Retires
Doug Armato, who has helmed the 100-year-old press for 27 years, is retiring at the end of December. His tenure saw the expansion of the press’s list and the development of strong Indigenous studies,…
buff.ly
October 29, 2025 at 5:42 PM
A truly legendary run, transformative contributions to letters & humanities, and a wonderfully supportive and insightful editor on a personal level. Congrats and thanks for everything @noctambulate.bsky.social !
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not to brag but i can generate slop with natural intelligence
October 28, 2025 at 4:15 PM
not to brag but i can generate slop with natural intelligence
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Enormous news for US literature. A new, Mellon-led, $50 million fund for nonprofit literary orgs and publishers. Closest thing we've ever had to it was Mellon and Wallace in 1991, which, in today's dollars, was still less than half this. Open call begins Nov 10. literaryartsfund.org/about/
About | Literary Arts Fund
The Literary Arts Fund advances support for the nonprofit literary arts field toward ensuring creative writers’ contributions to American literature for generations to come.
literaryartsfund.org
October 28, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Enormous news for US literature. A new, Mellon-led, $50 million fund for nonprofit literary orgs and publishers. Closest thing we've ever had to it was Mellon and Wallace in 1991, which, in today's dollars, was still less than half this. Open call begins Nov 10. literaryartsfund.org/about/
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#Fellowships: Academy in Exile invites 5 international scholars at risk for a 12-month fellowship. The fellowship opens up the opportunity to pursue a career in the humanities, social sciences, or law in a secure environment.
@mellon.org
📍KWI Essen/ TU Dortmund
⏱️15 Nov 25
🔗 tinyurl.com/mwv3amzb
@mellon.org
📍KWI Essen/ TU Dortmund
⏱️15 Nov 25
🔗 tinyurl.com/mwv3amzb
October 28, 2025 at 11:07 AM
#Fellowships: Academy in Exile invites 5 international scholars at risk for a 12-month fellowship. The fellowship opens up the opportunity to pursue a career in the humanities, social sciences, or law in a secure environment.
@mellon.org
📍KWI Essen/ TU Dortmund
⏱️15 Nov 25
🔗 tinyurl.com/mwv3amzb
@mellon.org
📍KWI Essen/ TU Dortmund
⏱️15 Nov 25
🔗 tinyurl.com/mwv3amzb
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Oh I am cry
Remembering the great Prunella Scales (1932-2025).
October 28, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Oh I am cry
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TFW an essay says exactly what you've been compiling as a rant in your head? And does it super well with a bunch of careful research + shoutout to other excellent scholars? For me, that's Sarah Pett's "Rash Reading: Rethinking Virginia Woolf's On Being Ill"
October 28, 2025 at 12:13 PM
TFW an essay says exactly what you've been compiling as a rant in your head? And does it super well with a bunch of careful research + shoutout to other excellent scholars? For me, that's Sarah Pett's "Rash Reading: Rethinking Virginia Woolf's On Being Ill"
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Creating this festschrift reminded me of a basic truth: you can do something nice for someone whenever you want. Don't wait until people are dead to praise them. Don't hold out for someone else to do it. Nominate people for prizes. Write someone a note of appreciation. Today's the day.
October 21, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Creating this festschrift reminded me of a basic truth: you can do something nice for someone whenever you want. Don't wait until people are dead to praise them. Don't hold out for someone else to do it. Nominate people for prizes. Write someone a note of appreciation. Today's the day.
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Useful explainer on toxic wealth as the root of internet manosphere and the digital labour of fascism:
www.theguardian.com/technology/n...
www.theguardian.com/technology/n...
Money, muscles and anxiety: why the manosphere clicked with young men – a visual deep dive
The manosphere is known for misogyny, but that’s not the only thing that influencers in this space offer. Young men explain the allure and the problems of the manosphere in their own words
www.theguardian.com
October 21, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Useful explainer on toxic wealth as the root of internet manosphere and the digital labour of fascism:
www.theguardian.com/technology/n...
www.theguardian.com/technology/n...
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Again for the morning crowd. These two new chapters of our book are made available in draft because we’re experimenting with Open Review. Please share your thoughts! These chapters are about methods for assessing data representativeness, and ….
Hey! We have two new draft chapters of the Living with Machines book up online for your delectation! One on Mapreader and one on the Environmental Scan. read.uolpress.co.uk/projects/liv...
Living with Machines | University of London Press
*Living With Machines* is a data-driven history of the coming of the machine age in Britain in the long nineteenth century. Featuring an innovative open access edition enhanced with interactive maps, ...
read.uolpress.co.uk
October 15, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Again for the morning crowd. These two new chapters of our book are made available in draft because we’re experimenting with Open Review. Please share your thoughts! These chapters are about methods for assessing data representativeness, and ….
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Reading the Northanger Abbey chapter of @devoney.bsky.social’s latest book and this “turn a Romance into a novel!” table is killing me 😂
October 15, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Reading the Northanger Abbey chapter of @devoney.bsky.social’s latest book and this “turn a Romance into a novel!” table is killing me 😂
Late night Watergate crimeposting
There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.
September 21, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Late night Watergate crimeposting
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There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.
September 21, 2025 at 12:56 AM
There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.
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Very cool piece from Jed Kudrick and @sdileonardi.bsky.social on the history of translation in the US literary scene!
New at PB: Jed Kudrick & @sdileonardi.bsky.social use data from the NYT bestseller list to map 3 popular waves of literature in translation in the US: the postwar popularity of European titles, the "Latin American boom," & the more recent explosion of Nordic noir.
How Translations Sell: Three U.S. Eras of International Bestsellers
A translation renaissance in US publishing just ended. And you probably missed it.
www.publicbooks.org
September 16, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Very cool piece from Jed Kudrick and @sdileonardi.bsky.social on the history of translation in the US literary scene!
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An unsatisfying term I’ve been thinking through to make sense of this is “postpolitical.” The right looks for that one signifier to prove the shooter was a leftist, the left hopes for proof he was a right winger, and so on. But for these kids don’t use signifiers that way (1/)
September 12, 2025 at 5:58 PM
An unsatisfying term I’ve been thinking through to make sense of this is “postpolitical.” The right looks for that one signifier to prove the shooter was a leftist, the left hopes for proof he was a right winger, and so on. But for these kids don’t use signifiers that way (1/)
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Literature student: Hey, chat, will you please summarize ULYSSES for me and identify its themes?
Notebook LM: yes I said yes I will Yes.
Notebook LM: yes I said yes I will Yes.
The imagined consumer on the landing page for Google's NotebookLM is a student in an upper-division literature course who has been assigned James Joyce's "Ulysses," and asks the software to summarize the novel and identify its themes.
Who is this advertising for?
Who is this advertising for?
September 12, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Literature student: Hey, chat, will you please summarize ULYSSES for me and identify its themes?
Notebook LM: yes I said yes I will Yes.
Notebook LM: yes I said yes I will Yes.
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Carnegie Mellon English proudly supports Ed Simon's launch of the Pittsburgh Review of Books. I like to say that @cmuenglish.bsky.social is where readers find refuge and leaders find language. It's tremendous to see Ed and ProB offering that same spirit to our city and to our world.
pghrev.com
pghrev.com
Pittsburgh Review of Books - Engaged, Incisive, Smart Cultural Criticism & Analysis
The Pittsburgh Review of Books publishes engaged, incisive, and smart cultural criticism and analysis.
pghrev.com
September 11, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Carnegie Mellon English proudly supports Ed Simon's launch of the Pittsburgh Review of Books. I like to say that @cmuenglish.bsky.social is where readers find refuge and leaders find language. It's tremendous to see Ed and ProB offering that same spirit to our city and to our world.
pghrev.com
pghrev.com
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Read this book!
Now available! Blending Marxist and feminist theory with attentive close readings, STITCH, UNSTITCH is a revelatory materialist account of the values of poetry. buff.ly/DlnVJeY #CreativeLabor #FeministModernism #WagesForHousework #Modernism
September 11, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Read this book!