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Steph Brown
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Author | Watching Women: Militant Suffragists Write the British Surveillance State | U Toronto Press, 2024

Assoc Prof of English in Tucson | Surveillance | C20/21 Caribbean and British Lit | GWS

rock scrambler | hawk enthusiast | she/her
November 9, 2025 at 8:04 PM
@mattseybold.bsky.social's proposal to (among other things) reestablish faculty and students' control over their data & work here is...brilliant, actually?

(Tho it would strip upper admin of their power to decide WHO gets to buy that data...😢)

theamericanvandal.substack.com/p/mamdani-wi...
November 5, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Finishing up Peter J. Kalliney's _The Aesthetic Cold War_ and going to hang on to this paragraph as an example of the kind of reflection and work for which there are no shortcuts, and that a humanities education prepares us to do:
October 27, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Poetry haul from my first visit to Palabras Bilingual Bookstore in Phoenix last week 💜 Came away feeling that I would live there if I could…
October 21, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Speaking of, this is happening this afternoon:
October 17, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Re-organizing my work schedule for the next few days because my pre-order of "Claude McKay: Letters in Exile" arrived a week early 💜💜💜
August 26, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Read @biancatherosestone.bsky.social's What Is Otherwise Infinite in the same week as Koleka Putuma's Collective Amnesia and it was the perfect accidental pairing--excellent on their own, and better together.
July 24, 2025 at 6:30 PM
July 21, 2025 at 11:25 PM
If you'll be at the Modernist Studies Association conference in Oct and want to talk surveillance: just received the acceptance for the Surveillance Modernity, Surveillance Modernisms seminar. Join us!

(MSA registration coming soon!) @moderniststudies.bsky.social @modernistudies.bsky.social
June 12, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Overwhelmed with the amount of new reading I need to do, I have naturally embarked on a re-read of Glissant’s Poetics of Relation
June 10, 2025 at 12:19 AM
I almost took The Dragon Can't Dance off my Caribbean Lit syllabus this semester, so of course this is the semester that our class discussions and their papers keep coming back to it over and over. (The lesson here is "don't sleep on Earl Lovelace," I guess.)
May 16, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Nothing says Summer 2025 like your new bathing suit being detained by tariff enforcement.
May 14, 2025 at 4:52 AM
In the UK suffrage movement too: one of the first thing the East London Federation of Suffragettes did when WWI broke out (maybe even before?) was establish milk centers so that working class women had access to unadulterated milk.
May 1, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Finally reading Many-Headed Hydra, and while "superlucration" might not be plain speech in the way "surplus value" is, I do enjoy how it gets at the dragonish lucre-hoarding aspects of the extremely wealthy.

We're living in the era of superlucration, y'all.
April 29, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Don't let ICE just wave any old piece of paper at you. Great that Pima County is giving their workers a primer on administrative v. judicial warrants.
January 30, 2025 at 5:23 PM
I'm not at MLA this week, but my book is! Stop by the @uoftpress.bsky.social table and send me pics! (Piling them up on my coffee table isn't the same...)
January 9, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Rafe Dalleo did an amazing job editing the Journal of West Indian Lit Special Issue on George Lamming. So proud to have contributed, alongside Linden Lewis, Yutaka Yoshida, @jackieretalis.bsky.social, Tohru Nakamura, and Amílcar Peter Sanatan!

Read the issue here: www.jwilonline.org/downloads/vo...
January 6, 2025 at 7:15 PM
🎉Obligatory Edith Garrud tossing a constable*🎉

*not really a constable, actually her very obliging husband dressed as a constable.
December 19, 2024 at 12:13 AM
A seasonally appropriate one that didn't make it into the book (but that I squeezed into a different article that's coming out soon): The Suffragette threatening to cover everyone's Christmas cards in acid if women aren't given the vote:
December 19, 2024 at 12:07 AM
Just realized that the poster on the dust cover of Barbara Green's Spectacular Confessions is the print that hangs in my office--appropriate given what an outsize role her work plays in my own...

(And with that, I have gotten myself out of alphabetical order, a sign that I should resume tomorrow!)
December 17, 2024 at 3:45 AM
Even though he wasn't at UofA long, getting to read some of Sony Coráñez Bolton's Crip Colony (www.dukeupress.edu/crip-colony) while he was here and it was in progress was a privilege.
December 17, 2024 at 3:01 AM
I still have conversational shorthands from the late Greg Colomb's The Craft of Argument that every UVa English grad of a Certain Era would probably recognize.
December 17, 2024 at 2:46 AM
Insisting that even in end-of-semester mode I can get some slow reading done, I’m really enjoying Imani D Owens’ TURN THE WORLD UPSIDE DOWN, which so far has convinced me that yes, I do need to think more about Eric Walrond…
December 10, 2024 at 3:24 PM
The project thinks about how Caribbean writers moving around the (former) British empire used fiction to convey experiential aspects of migrant surveillance. The newest bit of this is on George Lamming’s The Emigrants, in the forthcoming November issue of the Journal of West Indian Literature. 12/
November 27, 2024 at 12:41 AM
My new(ish) book project is an extension of my obsession with the Jamaican/Harlem Renaissance/Black Atlantic vagabond Claude McKay. (For me as for so many modernists-by-training, McKay has been the gateway into doing a whole book about C20 Caribbean writers.) 11/

muse.jhu.edu/issue/44250
November 27, 2024 at 12:41 AM