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Elizabeth A. Wilson

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Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor WGSS Emory University | "A Silvan Tomkins Handbook: Foundations for Affect Theory" (with Adam Frank) UMinnesota Press | Co-editor differencesjournal.org Current research: Valerie Solanas 🖤 bit.ly/valeriesolanas .. more

Elizabeth A. Wilson is a Samuel Candler Dobbs professor of women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at Emory University. She is a scholar of feminist science studies, and her work brings together psychoanalytic theory, affect theory, feminist and queer theory, and neurobiology. She is the author of Neural Geographies: Feminism and the Microstructure of Cognition (1998), Psychosomatic: Feminism and the Neurological Body (2004), Affect and Artificial Intelligence (2010), and Gut Feminism (2015). .. more

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Elizabeth A. Wilson @elizwilsonemory.bsky.social · Feb 25

The first essay from my Solanas project @criticalinquiry.bsky.social 🖤

"Corroded with SCUM: Valerie Solanas’s Theories of Mind"

www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....

bit.ly/valeriesolanas

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Jennifer C. Nash @jennifercnash.bsky.social · 8d

Year 5 of the Black Feminist Theory Summer Institute: Applications are open, more info on our website. Please spread the word.

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Emory College of Arts & Sciences @emorycollege.bsky.social · Sep 8

Our friends in Emory Film and Media are taking us back 50 years with this fall's Emory Cinematheque 1975, celebrating releases from that memorable year.
Screenings, which are free and open to the public, happen every Wednesday at 7:30 pm in White Hall 208.
Full schedule: https://bit.ly/41I3QUj

Promotional poster for The Emory Cinematheque event titled '1975 - A Year in Cinema,' featuring bold yellow and red text with star and curtain graphics, scheduled for Wednesday nights at 7:30 PM, White Hall 208.

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Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry @foxcenteremory.bsky.social · Sep 8

Our first faculty book launch of the year is just around the corner! Join us for a discussion of @emorycollege.bsky.social Philsophy Prof. Lynne Huffer's new multi-media monograph "These Survivals: An Autobiography of Extinction" (@dukepress.bsky.social) 📚

RSVP here: forms.office.com/r/u9LDySx3FC

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Emory Center for Digital Scholarship @ecds-emory.bsky.social · Aug 27

Come work with us!

Emory Graduate Students - apply by September 9th: tinyurl.com/cfa-dstp2025

Fyer announcing that ECDS is hiring. Text on the flyer reads: Interested in working with an interdisciplinary team while learning new tools and methods in digital scholarship? Apply by Sept 9.
Questions? Visit ecds.emory.edu or email Dr. Alexander Cors at acors@emory.edu.
Please fill out this survey to apply: https://tinyurl.com/cfa-dstp2025

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The Pembroke Center at Brown University @pembrokecenter.bsky.social · Aug 26

Applications open for 26-27 postdocs. Welcoming apps from any field that relates to the theme of the Seminar, "The Meanings of Merit: Labor, Categories of Difference, and the Creation of Knowledge." See: pembroke.brown.edu/funding-oppo.... Due 11/24/25. @pajaf.bsky.social @brownanthro.bsky.social

2026-27 Postdoctoral Research Fellowships at the Pembroke Center. Applications Now Open. Applications due Monday Nov 24 2025. Complete applications must include curriculum vitae, cover letter, writing sample.

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National Humanities Center @natlhumanities.bsky.social · Aug 18

A fellowship at the National Humanities Center isn't just a break from teaching or a change of scenery. It's an opportunity to draft chapters, reimagine arguments, and follow ideas into unexpected terrain.

Application Deadline: October 2, 2025

Learn more: bit.ly/nhc-scholarly-programs

2026–27 Residential Fellowship Program at the National Humanities Center. Application Deadline: October 2, 2025.

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The Pembroke Center at Brown University @pembrokecenter.bsky.social · Aug 12

Applications open for 26-27 postdocs. Welcoming apps from any field that relates to the theme of the Seminar, "The Meanings of Merit: Labor, Categories of Difference, and the Creation of Knowledge." See: pembroke.brown.edu/funding-oppo.... Due 11/24. @pajaf.bsky.social @brownanthro.bsky.social

2026-27 Postdoctoral Research Fellowships at the Pembroke Center. Applications Now Open. Applications due Monday Nov 24 2025. Complete applications must include curriculum vitae, cover letter, writing sample.

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parapraxismag.bsky.social @parapraxismag.bsky.social · Aug 6

Announcing
The Parapraxis Film Festival
Friday, September 19 - Thursday, September 25, 2025
361 Stagg Street, Suite 407, Brooklyn
at @lightindustry.bsky.social
Organized by Perwana Nazif and Hannah Zeavin

For program, speaker list, & ticketing information:
lightindustry.org/parapraxis

Elizabeth A. Wilson @elizwilsonemory.bsky.social · Aug 5

From the pen of the very talented @wrisley.bsky.social recently graduated from @emorywgss.bsky.social and now faculty at WGSX at St Mary’s College, Maryland.

Chicago Journals @chicagojournals.bsky.social · Jul 30

Check out "Trans-Exclusionary Reactionary Feminism and the Politics of Ressentiment" from Signs and read how trans-exclusionary feminists' definition of womanhood is shaped by "ressentiment." Find it here: ow.ly/8NTH50WttHN @signsjournal.org

Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society

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Chicago Journals @chicagojournals.bsky.social · Jul 30

Check out "Trans-Exclusionary Reactionary Feminism and the Politics of Ressentiment" from Signs and read how trans-exclusionary feminists' definition of womanhood is shaped by "ressentiment." Find it here: ow.ly/8NTH50WttHN @signsjournal.org

Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · Jul 26

The Weekly Read is "On Exhaustion: Toward a Post-Care Feminism" by Samantha Pinto and Jennifer C. Nash. The article was published in Dossier: Limits of Legibility—Questions of Blackness and Sexuality, a special issue of @differences.bsky.social (36:1).

Read the article for free: buff.ly/XDrQAhF

Cover of differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, Volume 36, Number 1 (May 2025). The background is solid yellow with a horizontal beige band across the middle containing the journal title "differences" in lowercase serif letters. Below the band, the issue’s featured dossier is titled "Limits of Legibility—Questions of Blackness and Sexuality," with contributing authors listed: Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli, Matthew Helm, Iván A. Ramos, Jennifer C. Nash, Samantha Pinto, Lee Edelman, David Marriott, and Selamawit D. Terrefe.

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Hannah Zeavin @hzeavin.bsky.social · Nov 25

Announcing:

A RETURN TO FREUD? NEW HISTORIES OF PSYCHOANALYSIS, a three-day symposium at UC Berkeley, co-organizeed with Ramsey McGlazer.

March 20-22. In-person.

More info & registration here:
thepsychosocialfoundation.org/events/

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differences @differences.bsky.social · Dec 12

differences 35.3 is out now! — edited by @teaganbradway.bsky.social, "Unaccountably Queer" features essays from Gila Ashtor, Cassius Adair, Sara Ahmed, Judith Butler, Jules Gill-Peterson, and more: read.dukeupress.edu/differences/...

Cover of "Unaccountably Queer" a special issue of differences: a journal of feminist cultural studies, volume 35, number 3. Yellow background with black text. A pale yellow bar with the journal's title in black crosses over the top quarter.

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Victoria Hesford @vhesford.bsky.social · Feb 27

Happy to share that I just received a contract for my next book, "Artificial Women: Mass Culture, the 1970s, and Feminism." Thank you @dukepress.bsky.social and in particular, @lizault.bsky.social, for guiding me through the process. I am excited to have the project out in the world--finally!

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The Pembroke Center at Brown University @pembrokecenter.bsky.social · Mar 6

The room is filling fast for Heather Love!

Audience members

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Nikolas Rose @rose-nikolas.bsky.social · Apr 22

Heartfelt thanks to my dear colleagues in the BioSocieties editorial collective for this incredibly generous ´tribute’ as I step down from my editorial role after 20 years. I’ll continue to support this terrific journal from the sidelines. biosocieties.org/our-thanks-t...

Our Thanks to Founding Editor Professor Nikolas Rose

As BioSocieties reaches its twentieth year we write to mark a significant transition in our history. Professor Nikolas Rose, founding editor and global leader

biosocieties.org

Elizabeth A. Wilson @elizwilsonemory.bsky.social · Jul 18

I pre-ordered today!

Elizabeth A. Wilson @elizwilsonemory.bsky.social · Jul 17

Oh, this is really great: new poetry from @differences.bsky.social managing editor, the super talented @scottjackshaw.bsky.social

"apophatic theology, body horror, gardening, queer theory, classic films, poststructuralism, and bad sex" @talonbooks.bsky.social

talonbooks.com/books/stigmata

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The Pembroke Center at Brown University @pembrokecenter.bsky.social · Jul 17

We are delighted to welcome two new Center staff. Scott Jackshaw joins differences as Managing Editor; Erin Perfect joins the archives team as Processing Archivist. Read about Scott : pembroke.brown.edu/news/2025-07... Read about Erin: pembroke.brown.edu/news/2025-05...
@differences.bsky.social

Text reads Welcome to our newest staff members and has an arrow indicating that there are more images to come.

Elizabeth A. Wilson @elizwilsonemory.bsky.social · Jul 13

I also do this 😏

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Jennifer C. Nash @jennifercnash.bsky.social · Jul 11

Feminist Studies is seeking three new editorial collective members. Application forms online:
forms.gle/1CuqBvkBQe1g...

Feminist Studies Editorial Collective Application

Feminist Studies is seeking three new editorial collective members to commit to active participation in the journal for a three-year renewable term. We seek editors who are invested in interdisciplina...

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Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry @foxcenteremory.bsky.social · Jul 8

📣 MEET THE 2025–26 LIFE/STORY FELLOWS 📣⁠

The Fox Center is delighted to announce our 2025-26 Fellows, who will be joining us during our Life/Story theme year! 🌟

Learn more about our incoming fellows & their projects: bit.ly/3IhaoSM

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The Pembroke Center at Brown University @pembrokecenter.bsky.social · Jul 7

Post 1/4. 2025 marks the 50th anniversary of Louise Lamphere vs. Brown University, the landmark sex discrimination case that changed the face of Brown. Lamphere was an assistant professor of anthropology who was denied tenure.
‪@brown.edu‬ @brownanthro.bsky.social‬

Department of Anthropology Photograph, 1970-71. Top row, left to right: Niels Braroe, Richard Strand, Robert Jay, James Deetz, Dwight Heath, Douglas Anderson. Bottom row, left to right: George Hicks, Louise Lamphere, Philip Leis, Alex Ricciardelli, Karl Heider

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The Pembroke Center at Brown University @pembrokecenter.bsky.social · Jul 3

To read: this interview of Elizabeth Weed and Elizabeth A. Wilson, differences editors, by Eugenia Zuroski, president of the Council of Editors of Learned Journals. www.celj.org/featured-jou.... differences is CELJ's newest featured journal. @differences.bsky.social‬
‪@elizwilsonemory.bsky.social‬

Differences — Council of Editors of Learned Journals

Editors of differences were interviewed by CELJ Board members, Debra Rae Cohen and Eugenia Zuroski as CELJ’s newest featured journal!

Elizabeth A. Wilson @elizwilsonemory.bsky.social · Jun 26

How about:

Silvan Tomkins Handbook (Frank & Wilson)
www.upress.umn.edu/978081668000...

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The User Unconscious (Clough)
www.upress.umn.edu/978151790422...

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Political Affect (Protevi)
www.upress.umn.edu/978081666510...

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Emory WGSS @emorywgss.bsky.social · Jun 23

SIS Call for Summer Proposals!
For faculty & graduate students working in areas related to race, sexuality, and gender! Proposal deadline is June 30, 2025. Please send proposals to [email protected], with your name, department, rank or year, and theme for proposal.

Elizabeth A. Wilson @elizwilsonemory.bsky.social · Jun 11

Worn out by an afternoon in front of microfilm, but did locate terrific series of letters from Solanas to her college newspaper in 1957 “my pen is dipped in blood”

Elizabeth A. Wilson @elizwilsonemory.bsky.social · Jun 11

😱

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Nikolas Rose @rose-nikolas.bsky.social · Jun 3

Finally my essay on a 5E approach to mental distress in adversity is published! It is open access at doi.org/10.1177/1363...

First page of the paper

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differences @differences.bsky.social · Jun 2

"Limits of Legibility: Questions of Blackness and Sexuality" is dedicated to the memory of Selamawit D. Terrefe.