Thanks! From enemies to lovers - it’s a popular trope.
Web-based fandoms are intimate publics at scale. @richardjeanso.bsky.social and I use close reading/stats to study the narrative/rhetorical features of fanfic and commentary on AO3. Fandoms are part of literary history, and we show how to study these living archives of reader-response. No paywall!
The University of Groningen is advertising 3 DH-related jobs: Assistant Professor in Media and Digital Humanities www.rug.nl/about-ug/wor...www.rug.nl/about-ug/wor...www.rug.nl/about-ug/wor...@tedunderwood.me@fortextlab.bsky.social@dhuniwien.bsky.social
Uber but make it for editors, agents, and everyone else who once dreamed of having an actual job with an actual salary
It's possible that my book, Big Fiction, will be a eulogy for the conglomerate era—that a new publisher, Authors Equity, will come to mark the start of the startup age. Maybe! Maybe! It'd be from bad to worse! I wrote about it for @thebaffler.com thebaffler.com/latest/the-g...
A new publishing company called Authors Equity styles itself as a Silicon Valley-esque disruptor. How it will affect a beleaguered book industry?
Hmm, got mine at home yesterday so maybe plus seven days for campus mail? 😂
5/5 And finally, we offer two new full-length plays by Caryl Churchill (Top Girls) and Wole Soyinka (Death and the King's Horseman). Thanks to fellow Vol. F editor Jahan Ramazani and all the editors including @drbibliomane.bsky.social@cweiss-smith.bsky.social who worked so hard on this!
4/5 On paper, we fought for fonts! Typography was so important to Kamau Brathwaite's poetry and we preserved that! In the E-book, we include video to bring the kinetic poetry of bpNichol and Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries to life.4/5 On paper, we fought for fonts! Typography was so important to Kamau Brathwaite's poetry and we preserved that! In the E-book, we include video to bring the kinetic poetry of bpNichol and Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries to life.
3/5 Another thematic cluster on "Born-Digital Literature" introduces works written on computers and usually meant to be read on them. This section hinged on finding innovative ways to anthologize across page and screen (Norton paper and E-book).3/5 Another thematic cluster on "Born-Digital Literature" introduces works written on computers and usually meant to be read on them. This section hinged on finding innovative ways to anthologize across page and screen (Norton paper and E-book).
2/5 Special thematic cluster on "Environmental Literature and Climate Change" designed to represent nature differently– not as a pristine space outside of culture, but as a dynamic system essential to our own preservation as a species.2/5 Special thematic cluster on "Environmental Literature and Climate Change" designed to represent nature differently– not as a pristine space outside of culture, but as a dynamic system essential to our own preservation as a species.
