Matthew Scully
@matthewscully.bsky.social
Lecturer at the Université de Lausanne | C19 to C21 American literature, film, and visual art | Literary theory | First Book: Democratic Anarchy (Fordham UP, 2024)
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If you're attending the American Studies Association conference this week, come join us for a roundtable on my @uminnpress.bsky.social book! I'm excited to be in conversation with these brilliant scholars & everyone who attends!
Thurs Nov 20th
9:45 to 11:15 AM
Convention Center Ballroom A
Salon A
Thurs Nov 20th
9:45 to 11:15 AM
Convention Center Ballroom A
Salon A
November 17, 2025 at 10:09 PM
If you're attending the American Studies Association conference this week, come join us for a roundtable on my @uminnpress.bsky.social book! I'm excited to be in conversation with these brilliant scholars & everyone who attends!
Thurs Nov 20th
9:45 to 11:15 AM
Convention Center Ballroom A
Salon A
Thurs Nov 20th
9:45 to 11:15 AM
Convention Center Ballroom A
Salon A
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University presses provide essential infrastructure for vetting & curating humanities & social science scholarship, which universities rely on not only for the scholarly endeavor but for the promotion & tenure process. When a university shutters a press, it abdicates that responsibility.
Under Pressure to Cut Costs, a University Closes Its Press
Bucknell University says it’s closing its storied academic press to focus more resources on undergraduate students. But faculty and other scholars say the press has long been a part of the value proposition at a... https://bit.ly/43UmxVK
Bucknell University says it’s closing its storied academic press to focus more resources on undergraduate students. But faculty and other scholars say the press has long been a part of the value proposition at a... https://bit.ly/43UmxVK
November 12, 2025 at 3:37 PM
University presses provide essential infrastructure for vetting & curating humanities & social science scholarship, which universities rely on not only for the scholarly endeavor but for the promotion & tenure process. When a university shutters a press, it abdicates that responsibility.
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BOOK NEWS
Seeking true equality via literary moments of resistance
*Democratic Anarchy: Aesthetics and Political Resistance in U.S. Literature*
By @matthewscully.bsky.social / published by @fordhampress.bsky.social
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Seeking true equality via literary moments of resistance
*Democratic Anarchy: Aesthetics and Political Resistance in U.S. Literature*
By @matthewscully.bsky.social / published by @fordhampress.bsky.social
journalofmodernliterature.blogspot.com/2025/10/book...
#BookSky #AcademicSky
BOOK NEWS: Seeking true equality via literary moments of resistance
Democratic Anarchy: Aesthetics and Political Resistance in U.S. Literature By Matthew Scully Fordham UP, 2024 ISBN: 9781531507077 https://fo...
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October 3, 2025 at 2:53 PM
BOOK NEWS
Seeking true equality via literary moments of resistance
*Democratic Anarchy: Aesthetics and Political Resistance in U.S. Literature*
By @matthewscully.bsky.social / published by @fordhampress.bsky.social
journalofmodernliterature.blogspot.com/2025/10/book...
#BookSky #AcademicSky
Seeking true equality via literary moments of resistance
*Democratic Anarchy: Aesthetics and Political Resistance in U.S. Literature*
By @matthewscully.bsky.social / published by @fordhampress.bsky.social
journalofmodernliterature.blogspot.com/2025/10/book...
#BookSky #AcademicSky
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“latest in a longline of computerized fads that plunk kids in front of screens+deny them crucial socialization skills, suppressing their ability to think critically”
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A.I.-Driven Education: Founded in Texas and Coming to a School Near You
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July 27, 2025 at 11:21 AM
“latest in a longline of computerized fads that plunk kids in front of screens+deny them crucial socialization skills, suppressing their ability to think critically”
Https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/us/politics/ai-alpha-school-austin-texas.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
Https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/us/politics/ai-alpha-school-austin-texas.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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"The expertise necessary to create the book lists sold to Informa LTD is obviously considered to be without value."
(Amsterdam University Press has been sold to a for-profit press, so the film, media, & communication faculty have resigned.)
mediastudies.hypotheses.org/6850
(Amsterdam University Press has been sold to a for-profit press, so the film, media, & communication faculty have resigned.)
mediastudies.hypotheses.org/6850
Sale of the Amsterdam University Press (AUP) film, media and communication list to Taylor & Francis – Resignation of series editors and editorial board members
“GR Stocks” auf unsplash It is with great dismay that we, the undersigned, learned that the film, media and communication list of Amsterdam University Press (AUP) has been taken over by Taylor & Franc...
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July 10, 2025 at 6:21 AM
"The expertise necessary to create the book lists sold to Informa LTD is obviously considered to be without value."
(Amsterdam University Press has been sold to a for-profit press, so the film, media, & communication faculty have resigned.)
mediastudies.hypotheses.org/6850
(Amsterdam University Press has been sold to a for-profit press, so the film, media, & communication faculty have resigned.)
mediastudies.hypotheses.org/6850
Thrilled to see this in print and very excited to read the other contributions! And congratulations to @dissentum.bsky.social on such a masterful editorial job!
June 12, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Thrilled to see this in print and very excited to read the other contributions! And congratulations to @dissentum.bsky.social on such a masterful editorial job!
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A grad student at the University of Minnesota has been abducted by ICE.
March 29, 2025 at 1:58 AM
A grad student at the University of Minnesota has been abducted by ICE.
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Hello! @keeblearin.bsky.social and I are convening a roundtable at ASAP/16 in Houston about genres and forms of the Forever War. Please apply/share! Find CFP info in the link below!
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February 26, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Hello! @keeblearin.bsky.social and I are convening a roundtable at ASAP/16 in Houston about genres and forms of the Forever War. Please apply/share! Find CFP info in the link below!
asap16.exordo.com/panels/47/co...
asap16.exordo.com/panels/47/co...
Really looking forward to seeing this in print. It was a wonderful collaboration with @dissentum.bsky.social and the various contributions promise to be excellent. Discount code now available if you (or your library) would like to preorder! www.upress.umn.edu/978151791918...
February 28, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Really looking forward to seeing this in print. It was a wonderful collaboration with @dissentum.bsky.social and the various contributions promise to be excellent. Discount code now available if you (or your library) would like to preorder! www.upress.umn.edu/978151791918...
Can’t wait to see this and read the other essays. @dissentum.bsky.social did an amazing job as editor throughout the process!
Worried about the world in 2025 (and beyond)? Do you care about artistic expression (lit, cinema, music, docs, the digital)? Would you support a non-profit press working to make books as affordable as possible? Then this may be for you: www.upress.umn.edu/978151791918...
Postpolitics and the Aesthetic Imagination
Igniting political power through the lens of art and the imaginationPostpolitics and the Aesthetic Imagination investigates the erosion of meaningful politic...
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January 3, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Can’t wait to see this and read the other essays. @dissentum.bsky.social did an amazing job as editor throughout the process!
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#2024asa may be over, but you can still get @uminnpress.bsky.social American Studies books at 30% off using code MNAMST24 at www.upress.umn.edu/amst24/ through the end of the month!
Conference sale: American Studies Association 2024 - University of Minnesota Press
Books on sale during the 2024 Annual Meeting of the American Studies Association in Baltimore. Books featured in this collection are 30% off when you
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November 20, 2024 at 3:29 PM
#2024asa may be over, but you can still get @uminnpress.bsky.social American Studies books at 30% off using code MNAMST24 at www.upress.umn.edu/amst24/ through the end of the month!
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Fordham University Press is having a sale right now. Here's the details: Save 25% on print and eBooks during our Winter Sale! Plus, get free domestic shipping on all print books. Use the promo code WINTER24-FI at checkout.
November 20, 2024 at 2:18 PM
Fordham University Press is having a sale right now. Here's the details: Save 25% on print and eBooks during our Winter Sale! Plus, get free domestic shipping on all print books. Use the promo code WINTER24-FI at checkout.
I’m disappointed to be missing the ASA conference this year but very pleased to be included in Fordham’s virtual exhibit! www.fordhampress.com/asta-2024/
AStA 2024 - Fordham University Press
American Studies Association 2024: Virtual Book Exhibit Save 25% plus free domestic shipping when you use coupon code ASTA2024-FI at checkout. Expires 12/31/24.
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November 15, 2024 at 10:58 AM
I’m disappointed to be missing the ASA conference this year but very pleased to be included in Fordham’s virtual exhibit! www.fordhampress.com/asta-2024/
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The ACLA portal opens up today! Please consider submitting an abstract for the "Odd Temporalities" seminar call @matthewscully.bsky.social and I have put together (conference online!). More details here: www.acla.org/odd-temporal...
Odd Temporalities | American Comparative Literature Association
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September 13, 2024 at 6:58 PM
The ACLA portal opens up today! Please consider submitting an abstract for the "Odd Temporalities" seminar call @matthewscully.bsky.social and I have put together (conference online!). More details here: www.acla.org/odd-temporal...
In honor of Kant’s birthday, a reminder that he would’ve been an X Files fan
April 22, 2024 at 10:11 AM
In honor of Kant’s birthday, a reminder that he would’ve been an X Files fan
Unfortunately I think I’m the 8,000 word detour kind of person
I'm a 6,000 word argument kind of gal, not an 8,000 word one.
March 2, 2024 at 8:19 PM
Unfortunately I think I’m the 8,000 word detour kind of person
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CFP for our special issue on Labor, Political Economy, and Activism in the Age of Digital Mediation: please reskeet and consider submissions! Collective / collaborative / short submissions welcome! #lit cuny.manifoldapp.org/read/jitp-ca...
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February 29, 2024 at 8:45 PM
CFP for our special issue on Labor, Political Economy, and Activism in the Age of Digital Mediation: please reskeet and consider submissions! Collective / collaborative / short submissions welcome! #lit cuny.manifoldapp.org/read/jitp-ca...
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This book is so good I can no longer remember how the contemporary looked to me without it. Happy long-awaited publication day to @annakornbluh.bsky.social
January 30, 2024 at 5:43 PM
This book is so good I can no longer remember how the contemporary looked to me without it. Happy long-awaited publication day to @annakornbluh.bsky.social
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new editor thinking broadly about poetry and poetics! submit your awesome work!
C19 friends: I’m excited to post in my new capacity as editor of Victorian Poetry. It’s been a wild year for the journal, which has a new home at JHUP. Below are some big announcements. Plz send me your work (even / esp if you aren’t a “Victorian poetry person”)!
victorian-poetry.scholasticahq.com
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Victorian Poetry
Victorian Poetry publishes essays on mid- and late nineteenth-century poetries and archives, as considered from a wide range of approaches.
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January 15, 2024 at 9:27 PM
new editor thinking broadly about poetry and poetics! submit your awesome work!
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Shelfie! Overjoyed to behold the pink object at last and so so grateful to friends, colleagues, students, mentors, interlocutors, editors, and darlings!! MLA book party Jan 5; Chicago book party Jan 27; Seminary Coop book chat with Sianne Ngai; and more fun to come!
December 22, 2023 at 5:00 PM
Shelfie! Overjoyed to behold the pink object at last and so so grateful to friends, colleagues, students, mentors, interlocutors, editors, and darlings!! MLA book party Jan 5; Chicago book party Jan 27; Seminary Coop book chat with Sianne Ngai; and more fun to come!
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some IMMEDIACY good stuff!
Philly! MLA book party 5 Jan; ping for deets!
Chicago! Seminary Coop book chat 5 Feb with Sianne Ngai!
www.semcoop.com/event/anna-k...
blurbs are up! www.versobooks.com/products/303...
Philly! MLA book party 5 Jan; ping for deets!
Chicago! Seminary Coop book chat 5 Feb with Sianne Ngai!
www.semcoop.com/event/anna-k...
blurbs are up! www.versobooks.com/products/303...
Anna Kornbluh - "Immediacy" - Sianne Ngai | Seminary Co-op Bookstores
www.semcoop.com
November 30, 2023 at 5:37 PM
some IMMEDIACY good stuff!
Philly! MLA book party 5 Jan; ping for deets!
Chicago! Seminary Coop book chat 5 Feb with Sianne Ngai!
www.semcoop.com/event/anna-k...
blurbs are up! www.versobooks.com/products/303...
Philly! MLA book party 5 Jan; ping for deets!
Chicago! Seminary Coop book chat 5 Feb with Sianne Ngai!
www.semcoop.com/event/anna-k...
blurbs are up! www.versobooks.com/products/303...
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"While Sinykin and Manshel place accent on different components, these excellent, systematic studies complement each other well in defining the contours of the contemporary US novel...they are crowning achievements."
Thanks, Omid Bagherli and ASAP Journal, for this fabulous review!
Thanks, Omid Bagherli and ASAP Journal, for this fabulous review!
Reading Literary Success: On Dan Sinykin’s Big Fiction and Alexander Manshel's Writing Backwards /...
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November 30, 2023 at 5:38 PM
"While Sinykin and Manshel place accent on different components, these excellent, systematic studies complement each other well in defining the contours of the contemporary US novel...they are crowning achievements."
Thanks, Omid Bagherli and ASAP Journal, for this fabulous review!
Thanks, Omid Bagherli and ASAP Journal, for this fabulous review!
Seeing this in print has restored my faith in peer review!
This mildly unhinged requiem for "Melville Twitter" is now online! feat. @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social @thecarie.bsky.social @jennifergreiman.bsky.social and me! Ideas explored: sperm jokes are ecocrit actually; Middlemarch doesn't have enough weird animals; Elon is annoying
muse.jhu.edu/article/913121
muse.jhu.edu/article/913121
November 28, 2023 at 10:24 PM
Seeing this in print has restored my faith in peer review!