Gulsin Ciftci
@gulsinciftci.bsky.social
PhD candidate, lit theory • research on reading • lecturer of American literature
One of the things that keep me going in this dreary winter is the poetry readings I am lucky to be part of. The first of these is with Tracy Fuad, and I am super excited for December to come & to be in convo with her 😍
November 15, 2025 at 10:16 AM
One of the things that keep me going in this dreary winter is the poetry readings I am lucky to be part of. The first of these is with Tracy Fuad, and I am super excited for December to come & to be in convo with her 😍
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Yay! Out now!! Thanks to @lmesseri.bsky.social @niiyokamigaabaw.bsky.social, Alexandra Ganser, Stefanie Dunning, Natalie Treviño, Matt Harvey and Frédéric Boone for their wonderful contributions and afterwords!
@jenstemmen.bsky.social and I are happy to announce the publication of our special issue on Critical Outer Space Studies. Warm thanks to the contributors, the Caliban editorial team, and our student assistants for their hard work throughout the process! 🪐🚀🌌
journals.openedition.org/caliban/14586
journals.openedition.org/caliban/14586
Critical Outer Space Studies: Framing an Emerging Field. Introduction
On October 13, 2021, 90-year-old actor William Shatner, globally known for his role of Captain James T. Kirk, gallivanting captain of the starship Enterprise on the TV show Star Trek, emerged from ...
journals.openedition.org
November 5, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Yay! Out now!! Thanks to @lmesseri.bsky.social @niiyokamigaabaw.bsky.social, Alexandra Ganser, Stefanie Dunning, Natalie Treviño, Matt Harvey and Frédéric Boone for their wonderful contributions and afterwords!
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Man kann wirklich nur hoffen, dass die durchwegs zuversichtliche und positive Kampagne zur Inspiration für die deutsche Linke dient. Schon klar: New York ist nicht USA und auch nicht Deutschland. Aber: einfach mal machen! Schlimmer kann es doch eh nicht mehr werden.
November 5, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Man kann wirklich nur hoffen, dass die durchwegs zuversichtliche und positive Kampagne zur Inspiration für die deutsche Linke dient. Schon klar: New York ist nicht USA und auch nicht Deutschland. Aber: einfach mal machen! Schlimmer kann es doch eh nicht mehr werden.
Woke up at 4am to re-read Shockley’s Renegade Poetics intro for a class and prep to talk about queer hope and failure in another seminar—but instead, I spent the first two hours looking at Mamdani’s smiling face and rewatching campaign videos. Zero regrets.
November 5, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Woke up at 4am to re-read Shockley’s Renegade Poetics intro for a class and prep to talk about queer hope and failure in another seminar—but instead, I spent the first two hours looking at Mamdani’s smiling face and rewatching campaign videos. Zero regrets.
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Today is pub day for my third book: Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century. It is a handbook on how to read. It argues for the foundational importance of *caring* to thought. It offers an anatomy of close reading's five steps so we can hone the skills to perform them. It argues for why to read
October 21, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Today is pub day for my third book: Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century. It is a handbook on how to read. It argues for the foundational importance of *caring* to thought. It offers an anatomy of close reading's five steps so we can hone the skills to perform them. It argues for why to read
& I hope you too are as happy as I am now <3
October 27, 2025 at 12:43 PM
& I hope you too are as happy as I am now <3
It was a brilliant talk & we were a lucky audience 🫶
Had a good time talking about Nancy Garden's ANNIE ON MY MIND as part of our Banned Books in Conversation series last week, covering: lesbian love stories with happy endings, proto-queer YA, new PEN America data, Mahmoud v. Taylor, recent developments in Texas, Lori the Librarian, soft censorship,
October 27, 2025 at 12:41 PM
It was a brilliant talk & we were a lucky audience 🫶
Thrilled that my chapter on digital poetry is out in The Handbook of Poetic Forms! It’s in great company, and I’m humbled to have been invited to contribute. Huge congrats to the editors, who’ve done a majestic job.
October 25, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Thrilled that my chapter on digital poetry is out in The Handbook of Poetic Forms! It’s in great company, and I’m humbled to have been invited to contribute. Huge congrats to the editors, who’ve done a majestic job.
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Academy in Exile invites humanities/social sciences/law scholars at risk from any country - because of their academic work and/or civic engagement in human rights, democracy, and the pursuit of academic freedom - to apply for 12-month fellowships at @tu-dortmund.de and @kwi-essen.bsky.social.
Academy in Exile
www.academy-in-exile.eu
October 23, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Academy in Exile invites humanities/social sciences/law scholars at risk from any country - because of their academic work and/or civic engagement in human rights, democracy, and the pursuit of academic freedom - to apply for 12-month fellowships at @tu-dortmund.de and @kwi-essen.bsky.social.
This morning’s reading had me lol.
October 22, 2025 at 5:48 AM
This morning’s reading had me lol.
Preparing for tomorrow‘s class and thinking about bringing these three images to my students alongside Berlant & Warner‘s „Sex in Public“. I am curious to see what will unfold in the room.
October 21, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Preparing for tomorrow‘s class and thinking about bringing these three images to my students alongside Berlant & Warner‘s „Sex in Public“. I am curious to see what will unfold in the room.
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hello! I wanted to let you know that there is now a *second edition* of our Seized Books! catalogue, after @gaystheword.bsky.social put the first edition on their Insta and it promptly sold out
huge thanks to PageMasters for funding & producing it so beautifully
www.pagemasters.co/shop/seized-...
huge thanks to PageMasters for funding & producing it so beautifully
www.pagemasters.co/shop/seized-...
Seized Books!
LGBTQ+ books and censorship in 1980s Britain: A catalogue' describes the publications that were wrongly confiscated from the UK's first lesbian and gay bookshop, Gay's the Word, by Her Majesty's Custo...
www.pagemasters.co
October 16, 2025 at 10:35 AM
hello! I wanted to let you know that there is now a *second edition* of our Seized Books! catalogue, after @gaystheword.bsky.social put the first edition on their Insta and it promptly sold out
huge thanks to PageMasters for funding & producing it so beautifully
www.pagemasters.co/shop/seized-...
huge thanks to PageMasters for funding & producing it so beautifully
www.pagemasters.co/shop/seized-...
Welcome to Bluesky, COPAS!
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New Issue Out Now! | COPAS Vol. 26 No. 1 (2025)
With our first post on Bluesky, we’re excited to announce the release of the newest issue of COPAS, guest edited by Chiona Hufnagel, Arunima Kundu, Lisa Seuberth & Ruxandra Teodorescu.
Read it here: copas.uni-regensburg.de/index.php/co...
With our first post on Bluesky, we’re excited to announce the release of the newest issue of COPAS, guest edited by Chiona Hufnagel, Arunima Kundu, Lisa Seuberth & Ruxandra Teodorescu.
Read it here: copas.uni-regensburg.de/index.php/co...
Vol. 26 No. 1 (2025)
| Current Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies
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October 17, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Welcome to Bluesky, COPAS!
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Woke up today wondering what Sianne Ngai might be up to these days…
October 6, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Woke up today wondering what Sianne Ngai might be up to these days…
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not now London Review of Books
August 25, 2025 at 10:05 AM
not now London Review of Books
Writing my dissertation: oscillating between “I should rewatch the entire Lars von Trier filmography to fully feel something” and “Maybe Gilmore Girls will heal me.”
August 11, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Writing my dissertation: oscillating between “I should rewatch the entire Lars von Trier filmography to fully feel something” and “Maybe Gilmore Girls will heal me.”
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Making a CLEAN, SHAREABLE dataset is fucking hard! I'm super proud, then, to publish this one, on a team led by @sdileonardi.bsky.social and @beccacohen.bsky.social, with @post45data.bsky.social. It has more than a decade of 21C int'l bestseller data, revealing how popular world lit circulates....
New dataset on bestsellers from 40+ countries, with consistent coverage for France, Germany, Spain, Italy, and the U.S.
Congrats to the authors @sdileonardi.bsky.social, @beccacohen.bsky.social, and @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social on this major contribution! 🎉
🔗: doi.org/10.18737/386...
Congrats to the authors @sdileonardi.bsky.social, @beccacohen.bsky.social, and @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social on this major contribution! 🎉
🔗: doi.org/10.18737/386...
July 29, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Making a CLEAN, SHAREABLE dataset is fucking hard! I'm super proud, then, to publish this one, on a team led by @sdileonardi.bsky.social and @beccacohen.bsky.social, with @post45data.bsky.social. It has more than a decade of 21C int'l bestseller data, revealing how popular world lit circulates....
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Clicked the link to read and... well... can't say I'm surprised.
women: *publishing 50.45% of books*
men: *publishing 49.55% of books*
crying man: i am feel uncomfortable when we are not about me?
oh, and according to the author interviewed here, the worst thing for a man to do is...write genre
women: *publishing 50.45% of books*
men: *publishing 49.55% of books*
crying man: i am feel uncomfortable when we are not about me?
oh, and according to the author interviewed here, the worst thing for a man to do is...write genre
July 20, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Clicked the link to read and... well... can't say I'm surprised.
women: *publishing 50.45% of books*
men: *publishing 49.55% of books*
crying man: i am feel uncomfortable when we are not about me?
oh, and according to the author interviewed here, the worst thing for a man to do is...write genre
women: *publishing 50.45% of books*
men: *publishing 49.55% of books*
crying man: i am feel uncomfortable when we are not about me?
oh, and according to the author interviewed here, the worst thing for a man to do is...write genre
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Amid all the idiot chatter about men and reading, men and writing, some of the best books I've read lately are by men about masculinity, and instead of baseless whingeing, we could be talking about these:
Mark Haber, Lesser Ruins
Tony Tulathimutte, Rejection
Andrew Lipstein, Something Rotten
Mark Haber, Lesser Ruins
Tony Tulathimutte, Rejection
Andrew Lipstein, Something Rotten
July 20, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Amid all the idiot chatter about men and reading, men and writing, some of the best books I've read lately are by men about masculinity, and instead of baseless whingeing, we could be talking about these:
Mark Haber, Lesser Ruins
Tony Tulathimutte, Rejection
Andrew Lipstein, Something Rotten
Mark Haber, Lesser Ruins
Tony Tulathimutte, Rejection
Andrew Lipstein, Something Rotten
REPETITION:
Looking for literary examples (21st c. American) of repetition. Also interested in knowing more theoretical works that are not the usual suspects directly coming to mind.
(Today, I miss my academic Twitter)
Looking for literary examples (21st c. American) of repetition. Also interested in knowing more theoretical works that are not the usual suspects directly coming to mind.
(Today, I miss my academic Twitter)
July 15, 2025 at 9:28 AM
REPETITION:
Looking for literary examples (21st c. American) of repetition. Also interested in knowing more theoretical works that are not the usual suspects directly coming to mind.
(Today, I miss my academic Twitter)
Looking for literary examples (21st c. American) of repetition. Also interested in knowing more theoretical works that are not the usual suspects directly coming to mind.
(Today, I miss my academic Twitter)
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close reading archive launch!
“surveys sundry print, archival, and digital resources, concentrating on Anglo-American literary studies that overtly reflect upon the practice of “close reading””
www.closereadingarchive.org/acknowledgme...
“surveys sundry print, archival, and digital resources, concentrating on Anglo-American literary studies that overtly reflect upon the practice of “close reading””
www.closereadingarchive.org/acknowledgme...
Acknowledgments — Close Reading Archive
www.closereadingarchive.org
December 10, 2024 at 2:08 PM
close reading archive launch!
“surveys sundry print, archival, and digital resources, concentrating on Anglo-American literary studies that overtly reflect upon the practice of “close reading””
www.closereadingarchive.org/acknowledgme...
“surveys sundry print, archival, and digital resources, concentrating on Anglo-American literary studies that overtly reflect upon the practice of “close reading””
www.closereadingarchive.org/acknowledgme...
Today I am revisiting this wonderful Forum publication since my before-sleep Google search activity (don’t ask) brought me back to it last night.
Absolutely recommended!
amst.winter-verlag.de/article/amst...
Absolutely recommended!
amst.winter-verlag.de/article/amst...
December 4, 2024 at 1:36 PM
Today I am revisiting this wonderful Forum publication since my before-sleep Google search activity (don’t ask) brought me back to it last night.
Absolutely recommended!
amst.winter-verlag.de/article/amst...
Absolutely recommended!
amst.winter-verlag.de/article/amst...
“A Meeting by the Archive– American Studies, History, and Literature”
Mahshid Mayar & my CfP for the German American Studies Association annual conference is up—consider submitting an abstract ✨
Full CfP: dgfa.de/wp-content/u...
Mahshid Mayar & my CfP for the German American Studies Association annual conference is up—consider submitting an abstract ✨
Full CfP: dgfa.de/wp-content/u...
November 25, 2024 at 4:05 PM
“A Meeting by the Archive– American Studies, History, and Literature”
Mahshid Mayar & my CfP for the German American Studies Association annual conference is up—consider submitting an abstract ✨
Full CfP: dgfa.de/wp-content/u...
Mahshid Mayar & my CfP for the German American Studies Association annual conference is up—consider submitting an abstract ✨
Full CfP: dgfa.de/wp-content/u...
Marry my mind, Mr. Miller.
November 23, 2024 at 3:38 AM
Marry my mind, Mr. Miller.
Project “Reading Reading” continues.
Happy Tuesday!
Happy Tuesday!
November 19, 2024 at 3:04 PM
Project “Reading Reading” continues.
Happy Tuesday!
Happy Tuesday!