Rose Casey
@rosecasey.bsky.social
Literature professing, somewhere.
So the @nytimes.com knew about DJT, Epstein, and sex-trafficked girls & young women in 2015 but refused to publish the story?
There's so much that the NYT does that's deeply morally questionable & decidedly non-neutral, so I don't know why I keep being surprised at their poor editorial decisions!
There's so much that the NYT does that's deeply morally questionable & decidedly non-neutral, so I don't know why I keep being surprised at their poor editorial decisions!
November 13, 2025 at 2:51 PM
So the @nytimes.com knew about DJT, Epstein, and sex-trafficked girls & young women in 2015 but refused to publish the story?
There's so much that the NYT does that's deeply morally questionable & decidedly non-neutral, so I don't know why I keep being surprised at their poor editorial decisions!
There's so much that the NYT does that's deeply morally questionable & decidedly non-neutral, so I don't know why I keep being surprised at their poor editorial decisions!
I had such a wonderful two-day visit to Kenyon this week to talk about my book!
Ask me to visit your campus!
Ask me to visit your campus!
November 7, 2025 at 10:52 PM
I had such a wonderful two-day visit to Kenyon this week to talk about my book!
Ask me to visit your campus!
Ask me to visit your campus!
I'm so excited about this book!
@ryantopper.bsky.social's Animist Poetics: Ancestral Trauma and Regeneration in African Literature is out from SUNY UP now
@ryantopper.bsky.social's Animist Poetics: Ancestral Trauma and Regeneration in African Literature is out from SUNY UP now
October 28, 2025 at 2:58 PM
I'm so excited about this book!
@ryantopper.bsky.social's Animist Poetics: Ancestral Trauma and Regeneration in African Literature is out from SUNY UP now
@ryantopper.bsky.social's Animist Poetics: Ancestral Trauma and Regeneration in African Literature is out from SUNY UP now
Spotted on Upworth: an ad for an "editor" to help an AI system to write romance fiction. Hook: "If you're looking for a gateway drug into the future of book writing, this is it." Gross.
![Post advertising the following position: "Romance/Thriller Editor Wanted for AI Writing Startup ($40/hr)."
Text begins as follows [note: I didn't read it all and will just type the first few lines]: "If you're looking for a gateway drug into the future of book writing, this is it. We're building FictionPub.ai--an AI platform that generates full-length novels. The software team is handling the engineering, but we need an experienced fiction editor to help shape the stories into something readers can't put down. Here's the role: you'll generate drafts with our AI, edit them, and work directly with the team to translate your feedback into simply rules the system can learn from. It's not just editing--it's teaching the AI how to nail tropes, hooks, pacing, and character arcs that sell."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ttdnc246ov2gybpe6e7sdzwh/bafkreichrq5snpjyhyrolusxda3i3knjuubjmav4hi4c3ula3cebssg7lu@jpeg)
October 2, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Spotted on Upworth: an ad for an "editor" to help an AI system to write romance fiction. Hook: "If you're looking for a gateway drug into the future of book writing, this is it." Gross.
I hope that this floral bounty from my garden is as cheering for others as it is for me
September 2, 2025 at 12:42 PM
I hope that this floral bounty from my garden is as cheering for others as it is for me
I can't believe that this is my new office!! Even if it's only mine because @johannawinant.bsky.social has gone 😭😭😭 (I'd have happily kept my old office to keep her, too)
August 19, 2025 at 5:01 PM
I can't believe that this is my new office!! Even if it's only mine because @johannawinant.bsky.social has gone 😭😭😭 (I'd have happily kept my old office to keep her, too)
Halfway through my six-week grad summer class, "Novel Theory." We've been reading classics as well as recent work by @dorazhang.bsky.social, @teaganbradway.bsky.social, & @ehayot.bsky.social. Up next: @drbibliomane.bsky.social, @sinsleyh.bsky.social, @annakornbluh.bsky.social, & more!
July 18, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Halfway through my six-week grad summer class, "Novel Theory." We've been reading classics as well as recent work by @dorazhang.bsky.social, @teaganbradway.bsky.social, & @ehayot.bsky.social. Up next: @drbibliomane.bsky.social, @sinsleyh.bsky.social, @annakornbluh.bsky.social, & more!
Goodbye, England. Thanks for giving me my accent back!
June 28, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Goodbye, England. Thanks for giving me my accent back!
Spotted in the wild for the first time! Aesthetic Impropriety: Property Law and Postcolonial Style is out on July 1--but it's already made it to Holmfirth, England (my hometown!). @fordhampress.bsky.social
June 20, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Spotted in the wild for the first time! Aesthetic Impropriety: Property Law and Postcolonial Style is out on July 1--but it's already made it to Holmfirth, England (my hometown!). @fordhampress.bsky.social
Seen in the wild! (My book arrived at my friend Jeff's house.)
June 14, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Seen in the wild! (My book arrived at my friend Jeff's house.)
The very best parcel arrived today!!
May 28, 2025 at 7:25 PM
The very best parcel arrived today!!
Truly, I underestimated how incredibly emotional high school graduation would be! Proud of my child, now all grown up!
May 26, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Truly, I underestimated how incredibly emotional high school graduation would be! Proud of my child, now all grown up!
Confirmation (upon confirmation) that the British "left" has a long history of racist imperialism (not that Keir and his party represent the left at all).
May 1, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Confirmation (upon confirmation) that the British "left" has a long history of racist imperialism (not that Keir and his party represent the left at all).
West Virginia Humanities Council releases statement confirming that DOGE cuts, if they go ahead, will shutter the organization. Full text in image, described there in alt text.
![West Virginia Humanities Council, Statement from the Board of Directors
The Board of Directors of the West Virginia Humanities Council [the Council], a nonpartisan nonprofit organization, was recently notified by the federal Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), that support to our Council from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) was being terminated.
This abrupt termination of long-established and congressionally appropriated NEH funding support for the Council, which serves as the NEH’s official affiliate in and for the Mountain State, if sustained, will cause the closure of all Council activities within West Virginia.
The financial support received from NEH represents 50% of the Council’s annual budget. That funding is matched dollar-for-dollar by donations from West Virginians which together provide the funds that enable the Council to host events, provide programs, and support projects that preserve our state’s history and cultural heritage, and promote public discussions about issues that matter to West Virginians.
These funds enable the Council to create sustainable partnerships between the public and private sectors which contribute well over a million dollars every year to our state’s cultural economy, in the form of the grants and programs we provide to West Virginia cultural organizations, historical societies, schools, community centers, municipalities, and other entities.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ttdnc246ov2gybpe6e7sdzwh/bafkreifimmsvatk2meuwgeuy742gmttpl6szoxunrwympul5gjcmcdgqzu@jpeg)
![[text cont from 1st photo]: As the Council’s Board of Directors, we come from all areas of West Virginia, from communities of every size. We have seen firsthand, in our hometowns and in every county, the profound impact of the Council’s work. Rescinding of congressionally appropriated funding for the NEH means that our capacity to serve West Virginians will disappear, as will our significant contribution to our state’s rapidly growing cultural economy.
The impact will be felt everywhere, nowhere more directly than in the rural areas of our state. Our work is accomplished through the work that West Virginians do themselves. These dollars are locally directed; the projects they support are locally designed and locally delivered. Our work is a model of federal funding done responsibly and cost-effectively, by returning tax dollars to the people of West Virginia in support of programs they themselves support, create, and execute in their home communities.
[text from image]
West Virginians have historically demonstrated a culture of working past our differences to achieve ends that benefit us all. We call on our congressional representatives to defend and ensure the delivery of NEH funding appropriated in support of the West Virginia Humanities Council -funding that has, for 50 years, worked to serve all West Virginians.
Signed by Board President George 'Gib' Brown on April 11, 2025
on behalf and at the request of the West Virginia Humanities Council Board of Directors
Paul Papadopoulos, Vice President, Hurricane
J. Dan McCarthy, Treasurer, Fayetteville
Leslie Baker, Secretary, Beckley
Matt Bond, Charleston
Gregory Coble, Shepherdstown
Cicero Fain Ill, Huntington
Rita Hedrick-Helmick, Glenville
Elliot Hicks, Charleston
Charles Ledbetter, Charleston
Michele Moure-Reeves, Mathias
Amy Pancake, Romney
Katrena Ramsey, Ravenswood
Lisa Rose, Morgantown
Megan Tarbett, Hurricane
Pam Tarr, Charleston
John Unger, Martinsburg
Bryson VanNostrand, Buckhannon
Lydia Warren, Fairmont](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ttdnc246ov2gybpe6e7sdzwh/bafkreid47nhszcuvvpz5kghdbvbxsjcxhczaaqzejoo56qj454slw46egm@jpeg)
April 22, 2025 at 2:33 PM
West Virginia Humanities Council releases statement confirming that DOGE cuts, if they go ahead, will shutter the organization. Full text in image, described there in alt text.
Available for preorder, Aesthetic Impropriety: Property Law and Postcolonial Style is out from Fordham on 7/1/25.
I analyze property law expansively, across Nigeria, India, South Africa, and the English Atlantic, to argue that both legal and literary innovations are undoing law's colonial legacies.
I analyze property law expansively, across Nigeria, India, South Africa, and the English Atlantic, to argue that both legal and literary innovations are undoing law's colonial legacies.
April 15, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Available for preorder, Aesthetic Impropriety: Property Law and Postcolonial Style is out from Fordham on 7/1/25.
I analyze property law expansively, across Nigeria, India, South Africa, and the English Atlantic, to argue that both legal and literary innovations are undoing law's colonial legacies.
I analyze property law expansively, across Nigeria, India, South Africa, and the English Atlantic, to argue that both legal and literary innovations are undoing law's colonial legacies.
Bought the fancy doughnuts that I can't actually afford because it's one of those days/weeks/months (not all for me!)
April 9, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Bought the fancy doughnuts that I can't actually afford because it's one of those days/weeks/months (not all for me!)
WVU's student newspaper doesn't forget
February 14, 2025 at 10:59 PM
WVU's student newspaper doesn't forget
Why I teach: talking with smart, inquisitive young people about legal theory, environmental justice, climate crisis, racial injustice, and proposals for how we might collectively do better.
January 30, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Why I teach: talking with smart, inquisitive young people about legal theory, environmental justice, climate crisis, racial injustice, and proposals for how we might collectively do better.
I am glad, more than ever, that I went to the most beautiful parts of WV this past weekend.
Pics 1 and 2: Chimney Top on the North Fork Trail
Pics 3 and 4: Lion's Head Rock at Dolly Sods
Pics 1 and 2: Chimney Top on the North Fork Trail
Pics 3 and 4: Lion's Head Rock at Dolly Sods
November 8, 2024 at 12:18 PM
I am glad, more than ever, that I went to the most beautiful parts of WV this past weekend.
Pics 1 and 2: Chimney Top on the North Fork Trail
Pics 3 and 4: Lion's Head Rock at Dolly Sods
Pics 1 and 2: Chimney Top on the North Fork Trail
Pics 3 and 4: Lion's Head Rock at Dolly Sods
New sign on office door | office plant.
July 3, 2024 at 8:54 PM
New sign on office door | office plant.
Celebrating book manuscript submission. Now onto production! Aesthetic Impropriety: Property Law and Postcolonial Style will be out from Fordham next spring.
June 15, 2024 at 10:27 PM
Celebrating book manuscript submission. Now onto production! Aesthetic Impropriety: Property Law and Postcolonial Style will be out from Fordham next spring.
Beautiful (as in, truly stunning) poem by Walt Hunter for your Thursdays
May 2, 2024 at 2:35 PM
Beautiful (as in, truly stunning) poem by Walt Hunter for your Thursdays