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Alexander Starre

@astarre.bsky.social

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Asst Prof, American Studies @ JFK Institute, FU Berlin - knowledge cultures, book studies, literary institutions, AmLit C19-C21

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Alexander Starre @astarre.bsky.social · 3d

Also available at your local english philology library

Alexander Starre @astarre.bsky.social · 3d

Close Reading for the winter term in Germany @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social

Copy of close Reading for the 21st century by sinykin / winant on a table at U Bochum

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Public Books @publicbooks.bsky.social · 3d

New at PB: As part of a series exploring higher ed under Trump, curated by Dennis M. Hogan (@dennismhogan.bsky.social), Christopher Newfield tells us how waiting out Trump will inevitably fail. Instead, we must build a new cultural order.

Academics Must Seize the Means of Knowledge Production - Public Books

Trumpism has canceled the knowledge society.

www.publicbooks.org

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Alexander Starre @astarre.bsky.social · 17d

The language of the AI policy for my fall courses is really taking shape.

selection of lyrics from Natasha Bedingfield's song "Unwritten" starting with "Staring at the blank page before you
Open up the dirty window"

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Fachbereich 09 Philologie der Universität Münster @fb09public.bsky.social · 21d

🎓✨ Apply Now: PhD Scholarships in Literature ✨🎓

Fully funded 3-year PhD scholarships at our Graduate School Practices of Literature @uni-muenster.de in Germany, with the possibility of a 4th-year extension. Apply by December 31, 2025! #PhD #Scholarship #LiteraryStudies

More info: uni.ms/gssp

PHD Scholarships
For International Applicants
- Program in Literary Studies
- Funding for up to four years
- Start date: 1 Oct. 2026
- Deadline: 31 Dec. 2025
Apply now!

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Alexander Starre @astarre.bsky.social · 23d

Cf.
www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...

Large Language Muddle | The Editors

The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...

www.nplusonemag.com

Alexander Starre @astarre.bsky.social · 23d

Life's little victories: writing n+1 headlines 4 months in advance.

Alexander Starre @astarre.bsky.social · May 7

Large Language Muddle

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · Aug 18

Hello. I wrote a nice long essay about AI and this very strange moment where we're constantly told we're living in the dawn of a strange new future but the only thing that's actually clear is that everyone feels pretty unmoored and uncertain. I hope you'll read it

AI Is a Mass-Delusion Event

Three years in, one of AI’s enduring impacts is to make people feel like they’re losing it.

www.theatlantic.com

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Anthony Obst @aobst.bsky.social · Jun 25

After Robert Gooding-Williams’ stint at the @ktbberlin.bsky.social summer school, @schlawinerkreis.bsky.social, Andreas-Johann Sorger and I are hosting a discussion at the Kennedy Institute on his new book @columbiaup.bsky.social www.jfki.fu-berlin.de/faculty/cult...

Poster for event with Robert Gooding-Williams at the Kennedy Institute in Berlin on July 7

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Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · Jun 24

The best ( @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social ) is here to clear up a very confused discourse

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Christian Lammert @profausberlin.bsky.social · Jun 19

Die FAZ berichtete in dieser Woche über Die Jahrestagung der #DGfA Gruss and die local organizer der diesjährigen Tagung!
zeitung.faz.net/faz/geistesw...

Lust, den Schwur von damals zu erneuern

zeitung.faz.net

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Katrin Horn @katrinhorn.bsky.social · Jun 15

#dgfa2025 if I didn't shove a flyer into your hand the last few days, let me make up for that digitally:
the volume co-edited with @improbable.bsky.social has finally seen the light of day and you can see it, too, at 30% off if you add EVENT30 at checkout
www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781...

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Alexander Starre @astarre.bsky.social · Jun 14

Absolute highlight of my academic year ⬇️⬇️

Julia Faisst @juliafaisst.bsky.social · Jun 14

On day 3 of #DGfA2025, @astarre.bsky.social leads the way by introducing @kinohi.bsky.social s wonderful keynote on Toni Morrison’s Literary Archaeology & Productive Disremeberings

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Julia Faisst @juliafaisst.bsky.social · Jun 14

On day 3 of #DGfA2025, @astarre.bsky.social leads the way by introducing @kinohi.bsky.social s wonderful keynote on Toni Morrison’s Literary Archaeology & Productive Disremeberings

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Library of Anglo-American Culture & History @libraryaac.bsky.social · Jun 14

Day 3 of #DGfA2025: Alexander Starre @astarre.bsky.social introduces the conference's 3rd keynote - Kinohi Nishikawa on Toni Morrison's Beloved.

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Alexander Starre @astarre.bsky.social · Jun 13

That's a wrap on our panel on literary institutions & periodicals. Great turnout, innovative contributions. C19 studies going strong! #dgfa2025

Alexander Starre @astarre.bsky.social · Jun 13

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Alexander Starre @astarre.bsky.social · Jun 13

Archival brilliance by @katrinhorn.bsky.social at #dgfa2025

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Alexander Starre @astarre.bsky.social · Jun 12

I have a chapter in here on Du Bois and his first, unpublished novel. Not open access, but I'm happy to share.

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Alexander Starre @astarre.bsky.social · Jun 12

Only now seeing this advertised on Bluesky. Get your open access essays from this wonderful volume ⬇️⬇️

Katrin Horn @katrinhorn.bsky.social · Jun 10

Update: my chapter on #gossip and @gothamscholar.bsky.social 's chapter on financial knowledge of immigrants are now #openaccess

Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · Apr 30

Out now!

Speculative endeavors, Cultures of knowledge and capital in the long nineteenth century
By Selina Foltinek Karin Hoepker and @katrinhorn.bsky.social

Analyses insider information, rumour, gossip and slander in #C19th #AmericanSociety

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manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526182159/

Alexander Starre @astarre.bsky.social · Jun 11

Or vice versa

Alexander Starre @astarre.bsky.social · Jun 11

For you and Christina I'll bring both the mullet and the blanket to the dance floor

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Alexander Manshel @manshel.bsky.social · Jun 11

More than 30 years worth of data on UK literary prizes (and their winners) goes live today @post45data.bsky.social! Bravo to researchers Katherine Binhammer, Kanika Batra, Theo Gray, and Maryse Jayasuriya for compiling and publishing this incredible resource! data.post45.org/posts/britis...

Selected British Literary Prizes (1990-2022) – Post45 Data Collective

The Selected British Literary Prizes (SBLP) dataset contains information on nine major literary prizes in the U.K. from 1990 to 2022 and demographic information on 682 prize winners and shortlisted au...

data.post45.org

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Corinna Norrick-Rühl @corinnanorue.bsky.social · Jun 10

When a big @nytimes.com feature about #reeesesbookclub dropped in mid-May 2024, @astarre.bsky.social and I had just submitted our manuscript about - you guessed it - the club to @cl-journal.bsky.social. #Academicpublishing is slow, but here we are, 13 months later... (1/4)

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · Jun 10

Great recs from @mattseybold.bsky.social on resisting technofeudal education: prioritize print, practice ungrading, "Luddify" the classroom; de-mobilize computer infrastructure (root technology in social place!); faculty governance over SaaS subscriptions; instructor choice re: ed-tech

Against Technofeudal Education

Pillars For Protecting Our "Core Infrastructure" From OpenAI

theamericanvandal.substack.com

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Alexander Starre @astarre.bsky.social · Jun 10

I went clubbing - book clubbing that is - with @corinnanorue.bsky.social and you can read about it in the new issue of @cl-journal.bsky.social. open access!
cl.uwpress.org/content/65/3...
More in Corinna's🧵

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Katrin Horn @katrinhorn.bsky.social · Jun 10

Update: my chapter on #gossip and @gothamscholar.bsky.social 's chapter on financial knowledge of immigrants are now #openaccess

Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · Apr 30

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · Jun 4

If you make me president of your university, I will find millions in cost savings by force-quitting shady EdTech contracts, & I will spend it all by giving faculty an annual budget to buy course books for their students.

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Ruth Mayer @profiprof.bsky.social · May 28

Mit @jenniferhenke.bsky.social, @juliafaisst.bsky.social et al. aus Anglistik/Amerikanistik habe ich darüber nachgedacht, was das rasante Schleifen der Unis in den USA für Deutschland bedeuten kannd. Das Ergebnis kann man jetzt in der ZEIT nachlesen. www.zeit.de/2025/23/deut...

Deutsche Hochschulen: Abwarten ist keine Option

Was die Hochschulen aus der Zerstörung der Wissenschaft in den USA lernen müssen.

www.zeit.de

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · May 19

NYT: “.. People making between about $51,000 and $17,000 could lose about $700 on average in after-tax income ..

“By contrast, the top 0.1 percent, including those with incomes over $4.3 million, would gain on average more than $389,000 ..”

@tonyromm.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/u...

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