Ryan Carroll
@ryancarroll.bsky.social
PhD candidate @ UNC-Chapel Hill - C19 Anglophone literature; lover of information, narration, sensation, and interpretation - He/him
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Ryan Carroll
@ryancarroll.bsky.social
· May 10
My article “The Form of Information and Informational Form in The Woman in White” was published in Studies in the Novel (@studiesinthenovel.bsky.social)—give it a read!!
muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
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Life folded Death; Death trellised Life; the grim god wived with youthful Life, and begat him curly-headed glories.
November 14, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Life folded Death; Death trellised Life; the grim god wived with youthful Life, and begat him curly-headed glories.
i love whistler but I think we should admit that Ruskin was right about Nocturne a Falling Rocket
November 8, 2025 at 2:05 AM
i love whistler but I think we should admit that Ruskin was right about Nocturne a Falling Rocket
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you cannot sit motionless in the heart of these perils, because the boat is rocking like a cradle, and you are pitched one way and the other, without the slightest warning
November 2, 2025 at 11:47 AM
you cannot sit motionless in the heart of these perils, because the boat is rocking like a cradle, and you are pitched one way and the other, without the slightest warning
Vernon Lee is 90% Merleau-Ponty?
October 31, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Vernon Lee is 90% Merleau-Ponty?
successfully discovered the true identity of an author about Guyana from 1893, currently levitating. all fans of ZORG: A STORY OF BRITISH GUIANA, our time has come
October 7, 2025 at 7:39 PM
successfully discovered the true identity of an author about Guyana from 1893, currently levitating. all fans of ZORG: A STORY OF BRITISH GUIANA, our time has come
paying a nominal fee for a library digitization
October 6, 2025 at 10:32 PM
paying a nominal fee for a library digitization
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Thrilled to be included among fabulous contributors to the latest edition of Dilettante Army, “Ekphrasis.”
Read on for speculations about AI boyfriends, avant-garde burlesque shows, killer machines, and the Freudian death drive.
dilettantearmy.com/articles/ekp...
Read on for speculations about AI boyfriends, avant-garde burlesque shows, killer machines, and the Freudian death drive.
dilettantearmy.com/articles/ekp...
Ekphrasis Ex Machina: Desire and the Death Drive in the Age of AI
Emily Singeisen contextualizes AI, a technologically novel way of exploiting language, within some very old fantasies.
dilettantearmy.com
September 9, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Thrilled to be included among fabulous contributors to the latest edition of Dilettante Army, “Ekphrasis.”
Read on for speculations about AI boyfriends, avant-garde burlesque shows, killer machines, and the Freudian death drive.
dilettantearmy.com/articles/ekp...
Read on for speculations about AI boyfriends, avant-garde burlesque shows, killer machines, and the Freudian death drive.
dilettantearmy.com/articles/ekp...
wake up at 3 AM. find it impossible to get back to sleep. read Ode to a Nightingale to pass the time. think of sudden amazing insight about poem. fall asleep, completely forget insight
September 4, 2025 at 11:37 AM
wake up at 3 AM. find it impossible to get back to sleep. read Ode to a Nightingale to pass the time. think of sudden amazing insight about poem. fall asleep, completely forget insight
great-grandfather to ferdinand de saussure. signification dynasty
August 23, 2025 at 11:27 AM
great-grandfather to ferdinand de saussure. signification dynasty
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I tell you, the sperm whale will stand no nonsense.
June 22, 2025 at 6:47 AM
I tell you, the sperm whale will stand no nonsense.
I wrote for @newinquiry.bsky.social about the psycho-political agons of 90s sitcom neighbors like Kimmy Gibbler, Steve Urkel, and co.—why they showed up, why they were thrown out, and why they kept coming back. Give it a read!
thenewinquiry.com/new-neighbor...
thenewinquiry.com/new-neighbor...
June 12, 2025 at 9:42 PM
I wrote for @newinquiry.bsky.social about the psycho-political agons of 90s sitcom neighbors like Kimmy Gibbler, Steve Urkel, and co.—why they showed up, why they were thrown out, and why they kept coming back. Give it a read!
thenewinquiry.com/new-neighbor...
thenewinquiry.com/new-neighbor...
My article “The Form of Information and Informational Form in The Woman in White” was published in Studies in the Novel (@studiesinthenovel.bsky.social)—give it a read!!
muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
May 10, 2025 at 1:23 PM
My article “The Form of Information and Informational Form in The Woman in White” was published in Studies in the Novel (@studiesinthenovel.bsky.social)—give it a read!!
muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
Reposted by Ryan Carroll
"Victorian Studies: Who Cares?" Come to the Victorians Institute 2025 conference at Furman University in Greenville, SC this Sept 14-15. CFP deadline now May 31. Please submit and share! vi2025.wordpress.com
Victorian Studies: Who Cares?
The 2025 conference of the Victorians Institute
vi2025.wordpress.com
April 29, 2025 at 6:14 PM
"Victorian Studies: Who Cares?" Come to the Victorians Institute 2025 conference at Furman University in Greenville, SC this Sept 14-15. CFP deadline now May 31. Please submit and share! vi2025.wordpress.com
another year, another analysis of the humanoid NCAA championship mascots. first up is an old favorite, the St. Mary’s Gael, a living 19th century caricature of a Scotsman
March 23, 2025 at 11:07 PM
another year, another analysis of the humanoid NCAA championship mascots. first up is an old favorite, the St. Mary’s Gael, a living 19th century caricature of a Scotsman
Michael Mann’s Heat is a movie equally perfect for adults who love moody Italians and small children who really like trucks, construction equipment, infrastructure, etc
February 2, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Michael Mann’s Heat is a movie equally perfect for adults who love moody Italians and small children who really like trucks, construction equipment, infrastructure, etc
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The Snowy Day — Ezra Jack Keats, 1962
January 19, 2025 at 2:53 AM
The Snowy Day — Ezra Jack Keats, 1962
Reposted by Ryan Carroll
In this post and the next two, we will introduce the contributors to 66.3!
66.3’s first essay cluster, “Stretch*,” is organized and introduced by Priti Joshi @pritijoshi.bsky.social, and features essays written by Hosanna Krienke, Ryan Carroll @ryancarroll.bsky.social, and M.A. Miller.
66.3’s first essay cluster, “Stretch*,” is organized and introduced by Priti Joshi @pritijoshi.bsky.social, and features essays written by Hosanna Krienke, Ryan Carroll @ryancarroll.bsky.social, and M.A. Miller.
January 15, 2025 at 3:36 PM
In this post and the next two, we will introduce the contributors to 66.3!
66.3’s first essay cluster, “Stretch*,” is organized and introduced by Priti Joshi @pritijoshi.bsky.social, and features essays written by Hosanna Krienke, Ryan Carroll @ryancarroll.bsky.social, and M.A. Miller.
66.3’s first essay cluster, “Stretch*,” is organized and introduced by Priti Joshi @pritijoshi.bsky.social, and features essays written by Hosanna Krienke, Ryan Carroll @ryancarroll.bsky.social, and M.A. Miller.
Excited to share my article “Revision and the Politics of Truth-Telling in the Autobiography of Juan Francisco Manzano, which was published in Victorian Studies @victstudies.bsky.social!! Give it a read to think with me on truth, translation, and slave narrative
muse-jhu-edu/pub/3/articl...
muse-jhu-edu/pub/3/articl...
January 10, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Excited to share my article “Revision and the Politics of Truth-Telling in the Autobiography of Juan Francisco Manzano, which was published in Victorian Studies @victstudies.bsky.social!! Give it a read to think with me on truth, translation, and slave narrative
muse-jhu-edu/pub/3/articl...
muse-jhu-edu/pub/3/articl...
Reposted by Ryan Carroll
Obviously the b-sides are great too but it's always a thrill when Moby Dick bot plays the hits.
December 6, 2024 at 1:52 PM
Obviously the b-sides are great too but it's always a thrill when Moby Dick bot plays the hits.
“No: it means being honest in committing to action—and sometimes, it means being honest about when action is impossible.”
csalateral.org/section/apor...
csalateral.org/section/apor...
December 4, 2024 at 1:55 AM
“No: it means being honest in committing to action—and sometimes, it means being honest about when action is impossible.”
csalateral.org/section/apor...
csalateral.org/section/apor...