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Elizabeth A. Wilson

@elizwilsonemory.bsky.social

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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 · Jan 16

If you’re in the vicinity, we’d love to see you at Limits of Legibility #3!

differences @differences.bsky.social · Jan 15

join us in Providence on March 6th for Limits of Legibility: History under Siege — a colloquium featuring Joan Wallach Scott, Omnia El Shakry, Gary Wilder, and Korey Williams: events.brown.edu/pembroke/eve...

This image is a poster for a colloquium titled "Limits of Legibility: History under Siege." White and yellow text on black background. The description reads: "How does critical history address the impasse between conventional history, on the one hand, and aggressive authoritarian rewriting of history, on the other? Given critical history’s theoretical critique of the positivist understanding of facts, what is its response to the assertion of 'alternative facts'? And what impact, if any, can it have on current battles as to what counts as history?" Below this description is a list of participants: Joan W. Scott (Insitute for Advanced Study), Omnia El Shakry (Yale University), Gary Wilder (CUNY Grad Center), and Korey Williams (University of Chicago). The event will take place on March 6th from 2pm to 6pm at Brown University in Pembroke Hall 305.

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Society for the Study of Affect @affectsociety.bsky.social · 2d

Submit now for MAKE (Methods, Atmospheres, Knowledges, Energies). October 23-25 in Vancouver, Canada, located at/around the downtown Simon Fraser University campus.

Stream proposals: Due March 31.
Paper abstracts: Due May 22.
Non-paper intervention: Due by May 22

More:
affectsociety.com/make/

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Evelien Geerts @egeertsphd.bsky.social · 2d

Interested in women's & gender studies? You can now apply to join our MA Women's Studies 2026-27 cohort at @ucc.ie.
Use the QR code below or find out more via www.ucc.ie/en/cke03/.
March 12th is the GOI-IES fellowship deadline.
#UCC #womensstudies #genderstudies #Ireland #postgraduate #MA

MA Women's Studies application poster

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The Pembroke Center at Brown University @pembrokecenter.bsky.social · 9d

From the Archives: The Deborah E. McDowell papers, available for research. McDowell is Alice Griffin Prof. Emerita of Literary Studies at UVA. Image is a program from Toni Morrison's 70th birthday, signed by Morrison, Ann DuCille, & Hortense Spillers. Finding aid: www.riamco.org/render?eadid...

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Society for the Study of Affect @affectsociety.bsky.social · 16d

🖋️ Upcoming Conference Alert!!
Society for the Study of Affect... 'MAKE'...Vancouver...October 23-25.
More details to come in the next week!
Yes, affect conferences have the best vibes. Let's see what we can MAKE in Vancouver...rerouting the (worst) timelines of the present.

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Evelien Geerts @egeertsphd.bsky.social · 18d

RIP Carla Freccero. You were feisty & fabulous. Brilliant & bold. You thought my usage of the word 'oeuvre' was annoying (OK, ça va, I give you that one!), but read my and other folks' work with an eye for detail & care and embodied a type of intellectual generosity that is rarely found in academia.

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William Orchard @billeo.bsky.social · 21d

Nostalgic for snow days rather than shift to remote days.

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Feminist Studies Journal @feministstudies.bsky.social · 23d

The annual Feminist Studies grad prize is open for submissions! December 31st deadline. Please spread the word.

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differences @differences.bsky.social · Jan 15

join us in Providence on March 6th for Limits of Legibility: History under Siege — a colloquium featuring Joan Wallach Scott, Omnia El Shakry, Gary Wilder, and Korey Williams: events.brown.edu/pembroke/eve...

This image is a poster for a colloquium titled "Limits of Legibility: History under Siege." White and yellow text on black background. The description reads: "How does critical history address the impasse between conventional history, on the one hand, and aggressive authoritarian rewriting of history, on the other? Given critical history’s theoretical critique of the positivist understanding of facts, what is its response to the assertion of 'alternative facts'? And what impact, if any, can it have on current battles as to what counts as history?" Below this description is a list of participants: Joan W. Scott (Insitute for Advanced Study), Omnia El Shakry (Yale University), Gary Wilder (CUNY Grad Center), and Korey Williams (University of Chicago). The event will take place on March 6th from 2pm to 6pm at Brown University in Pembroke Hall 305.

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · Dec 27

The Weekly Read is “The Americanity of the 'American Lyric': Claudia Rankine in Ibero-American Translation” by Whitney Devos. The article appears in Lyric beyond Containment, a special issue of @differences.bsky.social (36:2-3). Read it for free: buff.ly/hj5wL6r

Cover of Differences journal issue with yellow background, horizontal gray band, title Lyric beyond Containment, and contributor names listed.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · Dec 25

Wishing you all a peaceful moment today! www.criterion.com/current/post...

Celebrate the holiday season with this special treat from our production team.

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · Dec 10

"Lyric beyond Containment," a special issue of differences edited by Sarah Dowling and Claire Grandy, is now available. View the TOC, read the intro, and "The Americanity of the 'American Lyric',"all freely available: buff.ly/3RkT2Hv

Cover of Differences journal issue with yellow background, horizontal gray band, title Lyric beyond Containment, and contributor names listed.

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differences @differences.bsky.social · Dec 6

differences 36.2–3 is out now — edited by Sarah Dowling and Claire Grandy, "Lyric beyond Containment" features essays from Jacques Khalip, David Marriott, Andrea Brady, Amy De'Ath, Whitney DeVos, Jan Mieszkowski, Ren Ellis Neyra, Susan Briante, more: read.dukeupress.edu/differences/...

Cover of Lyric beyond Containment, a special issue of differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, volume 36, issue 2–3. A yellow cover with black text.

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Durba Mitra @durba.bsky.social · Dec 3

The Introduction, “What is the Future We Yearn For?,” to my book, *The Future That Was*, is now live and freely available to all on the book’s @princetonupress.bsky.social website

press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

The Future That Was

How Third World women seized the means of knowledge production to fight against rising authoritarianism and imagine a future freer than our present

press.princeton.edu

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · Nov 14

In "Sex Isn't Real," @beansvelocci.bsky.social traces the history of attempts to define sex and to create a world devoid of trans life, demonstrating that it is not the cis people who fit the categories but the categories that flex to make them fit. Read the intro for free now! buff.ly/TinoJLg

Cover of Sex Isn't Real: The Invention of an Incoherent Binary by Beans Velocci. The cover features a mesh grid pattern in an off white against a black background. The title is written large in a serif font in the center of the cover. Each word is a different color— ‘sex’ is a light orange; ‘isn’t’ is a grey blue; ‘real’ is a teal. The subtitle is directly below in white. The author’s name is above the title also in white.

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Feminist Studies Journal @feministstudies.bsky.social · Nov 14

One of my favorite things about Feminist Studies is our commitment to art. We regularly publish art essays with full color spreads of art work (have an idea to pitch us? Please send!) and our covers are stunning. Shout out to Duy-Khuong Van, our graphic designer.

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Critical Inquiry @criticalinquiry.bsky.social · Nov 12

Winter 2026 issue is coming soon!

Elizabeth A. Wilson @elizwilsonemory.bsky.social · Oct 30

Right?! But maybe it would be a very short syllabus given that mostly I am so throughly annoyed by so many texts.

Elizabeth A. Wilson @elizwilsonemory.bsky.social · Oct 30

For me this is Catharine MacKinnon. I disagree with most of it but it’s remarkably generative in a classroom. Immensely charismatic texts.

Elizabeth A. Wilson @elizwilsonemory.bsky.social · Oct 23

We are now accepting submissions for Volume Three of Intarsia: Undergraduate Journal of Queer and Feminist Inquiry.

Please encourage your undergraduate students to submit!
Intarsia is peer-reviewed, open-access, and student-led. It is sponsored by @emorywgss.bsky.social and @ecds-emory.bsky.social

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Elizabeth A. Wilson @elizwilsonemory.bsky.social · Oct 19

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Anne Fausto-Sterling @birdlady.bsky.social · Oct 17

I have a new publication called Throwing Like a Girl
sterlinga.substack.com/p/throwing-l...

Open access link: bsd.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Throwing Like a Girl

I have a new publication!

sterlinga.substack.com

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

Queer Class/Room Symposium
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA
April 15 and 16, 2026
Due date for proposals: November 15, 2025
Keynote: Justin Torres

queerclassrelations.commons.gc.cuny.edu/graduate-stu...

Queer Class/Room Symposium – Queer-Class Relations Conference

queerclassrelations.commons.gc.cuny.edu

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Jennifer C. Nash @jennifercnash.bsky.social · Oct 1

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.