Anne Jamison
@prof-anne.bsky.social
Professor of English at U of Utah. I compare literatures. Current teaching: Fanfiction and Adaptation (Fall 2024); Benjamin, Baudelaire, Kafka (Spring 2025). Current book project: 19thC Fanfic.
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This whole business is remarkable in so many ways, not to mention ironic. The University of Utah administration is carrying out the GOP remove diversity from higher ed playbook while also showing off about buying expensive art made by a gay man. The early draft for the sculpture was the word "fuck".
“It’s a work of art even non-art people know, and I love that about it,” said Gretchen Dietrich, executive director of the Utah Museum of Fine Arts at the University of Utah.
University of Utah donors spent millions to get this iconic art sculpture on campus
“It’s a work of art even non-art people know, and I love that about it,” said Gretchen Dietrich, executive director of the Utah Museum of Fine Arts at the University of Utah.
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October 28, 2025 at 7:11 PM
This whole business is remarkable in so many ways, not to mention ironic. The University of Utah administration is carrying out the GOP remove diversity from higher ed playbook while also showing off about buying expensive art made by a gay man. The early draft for the sculpture was the word "fuck".
Congratulations!
Publication day for Taylor's Version! I'm so happy for my baby and for all the work @hachetteus.bsky.social & @johnmurrays.bsky.social did to bring her out into the world. Consider an order here: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/steph...
Taylor’s Version
“With unfailing lucidity, empathy, and wit” (Greil Marcus), a preeminent Harvard professor and poetry expert explains the artistry—and the celebrity—...
www.hachettebookgroup.com
October 7, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Congratulations!
My vet in Maine has a marketing campaign “The life of a show pet”
October 6, 2025 at 2:18 PM
My vet in Maine has a marketing campaign “The life of a show pet”
Can every one of my co-authors on Fic file an anthropic claim??
October 3, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Can every one of my co-authors on Fic file an anthropic claim??
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if you're thinking about coming to do a #fanstudies PhD with me, here's your chance to learn more.
Thinking about pursuing a PhD with T&T? We've got TWO upcoming information sessions. The first will be Wednesday, October 15 at 6pm. Sign up here! applynow.graduate.ucf.edu/register/?id...
Texts & Technology PhD October Open House
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September 30, 2025 at 7:25 PM
if you're thinking about coming to do a #fanstudies PhD with me, here's your chance to learn more.
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strong candidate for Transformative Work of the Day #3
September 29, 2025 at 10:16 AM
strong candidate for Transformative Work of the Day #3
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Since quotes are going around from @readingtheend.bsky.social's excellent @reactorsff.bsky.social piece today, here's the full essay I wrote last month on fandom, trad publishing, IP, and navigating it all from a more personal perspective:
"Power doesn’t care about joy. Ultimately, it only cares about value, which means money. Trad publishing loves fanfic right now because it sees dollar signs instead of kudos."
In our new piece, @tessagratton.bsky.social tackles the messy intersections between pro entertainment and fans right now:
In our new piece, @tessagratton.bsky.social tackles the messy intersections between pro entertainment and fans right now:
The Fan, the Pro, and the Spaces In Between — Fansplaining
Writing for Star Wars challenges me to interrogate fandom power dynamics—and figure out where I fall in a rapidly shifting landscape.
www.fansplaining.com
September 23, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Since quotes are going around from @readingtheend.bsky.social's excellent @reactorsff.bsky.social piece today, here's the full essay I wrote last month on fandom, trad publishing, IP, and navigating it all from a more personal perspective:
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You guys, so many Romance girlies are reading "On Tyranny" that they've broken the Goodreads recommendations algorithm. 10/10; no notes.
#romancelandia
#romancelandia
September 21, 2025 at 4:30 PM
You guys, so many Romance girlies are reading "On Tyranny" that they've broken the Goodreads recommendations algorithm. 10/10; no notes.
#romancelandia
#romancelandia
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i guess this got announced today . . . Fandom Is Ugly won the National Communication Association Diamond Anniversary Book Award www.natcom.org/nca-awards/2...
September 18, 2025 at 7:12 PM
i guess this got announced today . . . Fandom Is Ugly won the National Communication Association Diamond Anniversary Book Award www.natcom.org/nca-awards/2...
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I don't really care if the future is short videos. I like words. Words have gotten me this far and I'm gonna stick with 'em for the duration
September 9, 2025 at 6:21 PM
I don't really care if the future is short videos. I like words. Words have gotten me this far and I'm gonna stick with 'em for the duration
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I would just like everyone to know I did NOT write the title (or choose the pic, though it's a nice dad joke). But here's the op-ed I wrote for the NYTimes. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/o...
Opinion | How I Ran Afoul of the Air Force Academy
www.nytimes.com
September 9, 2025 at 12:25 PM
I would just like everyone to know I did NOT write the title (or choose the pic, though it's a nice dad joke). But here's the op-ed I wrote for the NYTimes. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/o...
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Did you hear? We're hiring an Education Fellow! If you're interested in pursuing a career as a scholar, educator, or curriculum developer in world literature, then we'd love to hear from you. Apply today:
wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...
wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...
We’re Hiring: 2025–26 Education Fellow - Words Without Borders
Words Without Borders seeks applicants for its education fellowship, designed to provide in-depth experience to individuals interested in a career in world literature—whether as scholars, educators, o...
wordswithoutborders.org
August 25, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Did you hear? We're hiring an Education Fellow! If you're interested in pursuing a career as a scholar, educator, or curriculum developer in world literature, then we'd love to hear from you. Apply today:
wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...
wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...
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An M.I.T. study found that 95% of companies that had invested in A.I. tools were seeing zero return. It jibes with the emerging idea that generative A.I., “in its current incarnation, simply isn’t all it’s been cracked up to be,” johncassidysays.bsky.social writes.
The A.I.-Profits Drought and the Lessons of History
Like the steam engine, electricity, and computers, generative artificial intelligence could take longer than expected to transform the economy.
www.newyorker.com
August 25, 2025 at 2:43 PM
An M.I.T. study found that 95% of companies that had invested in A.I. tools were seeing zero return. It jibes with the emerging idea that generative A.I., “in its current incarnation, simply isn’t all it’s been cracked up to be,” johncassidysays.bsky.social writes.
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things were better when the computer lived in its own specific room and you only went in there sometimes
August 21, 2025 at 4:36 PM
things were better when the computer lived in its own specific room and you only went in there sometimes
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"Who’s deciding what matters? Who’s deciding what stories are being told? And who’s deciding where the money comes in?"
On our SDCC panel, @tessagratton.bsky.social talked about writing other peoples' characters for fun vs for $$.
Watch or read a transcript: www.fansplaining.com/articles/sdc...
On our SDCC panel, @tessagratton.bsky.social talked about writing other peoples' characters for fun vs for $$.
Watch or read a transcript: www.fansplaining.com/articles/sdc...
August 4, 2025 at 5:37 PM
"Who’s deciding what matters? Who’s deciding what stories are being told? And who’s deciding where the money comes in?"
On our SDCC panel, @tessagratton.bsky.social talked about writing other peoples' characters for fun vs for $$.
Watch or read a transcript: www.fansplaining.com/articles/sdc...
On our SDCC panel, @tessagratton.bsky.social talked about writing other peoples' characters for fun vs for $$.
Watch or read a transcript: www.fansplaining.com/articles/sdc...
Great company also with @christinalauren.bsky.social ! #OldHomeWeek. My actual position is like a wave (it both *is* and is *not* all fanfiction) but when observed in a non-academic setting it becomes a particle #quantumfanfic
Very proud I can get my eternal gripe—it's *not* all fanfiction—into the Washington Post haha. (I'm interviewed here alongside very smart folks like @prof-anne.bsky.social & @ceciliaaragon.bsky.social!)
Fan fiction is everywhere, if you know how to look
Writers who were once relegated to the internet are reshaping traditional publishing. It’s partly thanks to their infectious, generous passion.
www.washingtonpost.com
July 29, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Great company also with @christinalauren.bsky.social ! #OldHomeWeek. My actual position is like a wave (it both *is* and is *not* all fanfiction) but when observed in a non-academic setting it becomes a particle #quantumfanfic
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Juniper is an 8 month old basset hound and she says hello
June 27, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Juniper is an 8 month old basset hound and she says hello
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EXCITING NEWS 📣 #TWC is officially launching a new section of the journal titled Multimedia, spearheaded by our newly (re)named Symposium & Multimedia Editors.
You can read more about this decision here:
You can read more about this decision here:
buff.ly
June 27, 2025 at 1:27 PM
EXCITING NEWS 📣 #TWC is officially launching a new section of the journal titled Multimedia, spearheaded by our newly (re)named Symposium & Multimedia Editors.
You can read more about this decision here:
You can read more about this decision here:
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Just going to consult this reference book, “The Consequences of Pursuing Godlike Power,” by The Entire Canon of World Literature
June 27, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Just going to consult this reference book, “The Consequences of Pursuing Godlike Power,” by The Entire Canon of World Literature
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Plz read & share. Having lived, studied, & taught in UT from 2020 until recently, the actions taken to limit the rights & safety of the LGBTQ+ community has been one of the most astounding & visible facets of present day fascism.
www.sltrib.com/opinion/comm...
www.sltrib.com/opinion/comm...
Voices: As a parent and professor, I’m watching Utah squander its young talent
“For many of our state’s leaders, the problem isn’t that these kids are leaving, it’s that they were ever here at all,” writes Anne Jamison in an op-ed.
www.sltrib.com
May 23, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Plz read & share. Having lived, studied, & taught in UT from 2020 until recently, the actions taken to limit the rights & safety of the LGBTQ+ community has been one of the most astounding & visible facets of present day fascism.
www.sltrib.com/opinion/comm...
www.sltrib.com/opinion/comm...
My kid standing up to the state that will not stand up for her
“This [pride flag] ban is unconstitutional and only serves as a means of control over the people,” Millie Dworkin, a senior at Salt Lake Center for Science Education, said during public testimony. “You all argue semantics, but you all know this is wrong and immoral.”
Nazi flags can fly in Utah schools, but not pride flags, GOP lawmaker says
A new bill would allow for Nazi and Confederate flags to be displayed in Utah schools and government buildings, but pride flags would be banned.
www.sltrib.com
February 15, 2025 at 1:17 AM
My kid standing up to the state that will not stand up for her
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Millie Dworkin seems pretty awesome
February 14, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Millie Dworkin seems pretty awesome