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Sean DiLeonardi
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Assistant Professor of English and Director of the Center for Digital Studies at Pitt-Greensburg (he/him)

Every day I wake up and cognitively map like my subjectivity depends on it.
I’m very happy for László Krasznahorkai and the Nobel win, but look at this interview bit - did he steal it from Nic Cage’s monologue in Moonstruck? Same vibe.
October 11, 2025 at 7:42 PM
In Milan, I saw my first Jacquard loom in person, not knowing that the following day, in Bologna, I would see my second, though this one was programmed by an Italian artist to weave a pattern based on his own genetic code.
July 14, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Had no idea Delany wrote a graphic novel. It’s a bizarre space opera that imagines empire as control over information and Maxwell’s Demon as an actual entity.

Nabbed this at the Cozy Corner in Pittsburgh, the owner’s dad was a rare books dealer and it’s an eccentric collection
April 15, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Why watch Top Gun tonight when you can Kiss Kiss Bang Bang?!
April 2, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Oh you’re looking for a film about the urgency of life and the power an individual bureaucrat has to cut through planned obsolescence and effect change for the public good?
February 26, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Not watching. Just reading some Auerbach today
January 20, 2025 at 8:51 PM
What is a movie you love from 1992?

The only movie question I’ve ever been 100% certain of
January 9, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Y’all, Colson Whitehead just reskeeted Richard Jean So’s NYT article in a thread dunking on Joyce Carol Oates. Love this place

@richardjeanso.bsky.social
December 20, 2024 at 4:20 PM
Where is the meme of this with Drew Barrymore saying ‘cellar door’?!
November 13, 2024 at 1:52 PM
And here's my favorite to end things: the most best-sellingest translator you've never heard of. Naomi Walford translated all of Mika Waltari's interwar era novels from the original Finnish. They were THE biggest translated bestsellers of the era
November 7, 2024 at 7:51 PM
Here's the (mostly postwar) French and Greek constellations
November 7, 2024 at 7:47 PM
Isabel Allende forms a kind of author-centric network in which other Spanish-language authors gather around
November 7, 2024 at 7:46 PM
This one is less linguistic or generic and really based more on the franchise itself, which was taken up by a second author after Larsson died
November 7, 2024 at 7:45 PM
Just for fun, here's Márquez next to Murakami
November 7, 2024 at 7:44 PM
But languages aren't the only way bestsellers link up. This one shows up as more of a generic trend, as Nordic authors, especially of the Noir genre, write across a few diff languages
November 7, 2024 at 7:43 PM
So what language is the most networked? It turns out to be German. We can get from ETA Hoffman to Thomas Mann to The Neverending Story through a few shared translators
November 7, 2024 at 7:42 PM
In the spirit of making good things, I'd like to share what's been a couple years of work. Let's say you took all 7,000 novels that have made the NYT bestseller lists and wanted to find all of the works in translation. And let's say you visualized the results as a network of translators . . .
November 7, 2024 at 7:39 PM
Three weeks ago I gave a talk at my small rural Pennsylvania campus about AI and data privacy. At this moment, Bill Clinton is behind the same podium. Swingstate stuff
October 29, 2024 at 6:37 PM