William Orchard
@billeo.bsky.social
Associate Professor of English, Queens College/ CUNY Graduate Center. Latinx studies, comics and graphic narratives, queer studies.
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Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.
November 25, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.
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I wrote an essay for @bostonreview.bsky.social about what I learned about close reading when I taught at West Virginia University
www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
The Claims of Close Reading - Boston Review
Literary studies have been starved by austerity, but their core methodology remains radical.
www.bostonreview.net
November 26, 2025 at 3:14 PM
I wrote an essay for @bostonreview.bsky.social about what I learned about close reading when I taught at West Virginia University
www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
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One of the most awaited titles of 2025, right? I'll be bringing it back this time from the trip across the channel next week.
Hazel Carby's Racial Fictions has been published! @versobooks.bsky.social
www.versobooks.com/products/333...
Hazel Carby's Racial Fictions has been published! @versobooks.bsky.social
www.versobooks.com/products/333...
Racial Fictions
Drawing on a rich tapestry of historical analysis, literary criticism, and cultural theory, Hazel V. Carby interrogates our racial fictions, which have been constructed, maintained, and weaponized acr...
www.versobooks.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:38 PM
One of the most awaited titles of 2025, right? I'll be bringing it back this time from the trip across the channel next week.
Hazel Carby's Racial Fictions has been published! @versobooks.bsky.social
www.versobooks.com/products/333...
Hazel Carby's Racial Fictions has been published! @versobooks.bsky.social
www.versobooks.com/products/333...
Book to look forward to: utpress.utexas.edu/9781477333495/
November 25, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Book to look forward to: utpress.utexas.edu/9781477333495/
César Chávez Dissertation and Postdoctoral Fellowship at Dartmouth College 2026-28, due 2/1. Had this fellowship in 2008, and so many good things came from it. lalacs.dartmouth.edu/our-fellowsh...
César Chávez Dissertation and Postdoctoral Fellowship 2026-28
lalacs.dartmouth.edu
November 25, 2025 at 8:15 PM
César Chávez Dissertation and Postdoctoral Fellowship at Dartmouth College 2026-28, due 2/1. Had this fellowship in 2008, and so many good things came from it. lalacs.dartmouth.edu/our-fellowsh...
I'm ready for the letter-of-recommendation-writing long weekend: an annual tradition.
November 25, 2025 at 5:22 PM
I'm ready for the letter-of-recommendation-writing long weekend: an annual tradition.
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So thrilled to see ALTER EGO out in paperback today!
Eternally proud of this standalone sequel to SECRET IDENTITY, which was an immediate USA TODAY-bestseller, Anthony Award-nominee, and got rave reviews from all over.
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
Eternally proud of this standalone sequel to SECRET IDENTITY, which was an immediate USA TODAY-bestseller, Anthony Award-nominee, and got rave reviews from all over.
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
November 25, 2025 at 5:15 PM
So thrilled to see ALTER EGO out in paperback today!
Eternally proud of this standalone sequel to SECRET IDENTITY, which was an immediate USA TODAY-bestseller, Anthony Award-nominee, and got rave reviews from all over.
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
Eternally proud of this standalone sequel to SECRET IDENTITY, which was an immediate USA TODAY-bestseller, Anthony Award-nominee, and got rave reviews from all over.
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
View from the roof today
November 25, 2025 at 12:40 AM
View from the roof today
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If Nvidia had just stuck to soaps and moisturizers they probably wouldn't be mired in all this mess.
November 24, 2025 at 7:50 PM
If Nvidia had just stuck to soaps and moisturizers they probably wouldn't be mired in all this mess.
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looks like my summer class next year will be on Batman, 1939 to the present.
November 24, 2025 at 7:33 PM
looks like my summer class next year will be on Batman, 1939 to the present.
learned that peacock in Spanish is "pavo real," which gave me new respect for regular pavos
November 24, 2025 at 4:01 PM
learned that peacock in Spanish is "pavo real," which gave me new respect for regular pavos
Got a pretty deep paper cut from the thick pages of a volume of poetry. Poetry: it can cut you deep.
November 24, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Got a pretty deep paper cut from the thick pages of a volume of poetry. Poetry: it can cut you deep.
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Poetry Comics Month, Day 22
November 22, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Poetry Comics Month, Day 22
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"Roger Williams University is mandating that most of its full-time employees take a one-week unpaid furlough to tackle its $3.5 million budget deficit."
-Boston Globe
-Boston Globe
November 22, 2025 at 8:18 PM
"Roger Williams University is mandating that most of its full-time employees take a one-week unpaid furlough to tackle its $3.5 million budget deficit."
-Boston Globe
-Boston Globe
The fragile Men of Massachusetts. Handle with care.
November 22, 2025 at 7:14 PM
The fragile Men of Massachusetts. Handle with care.
Amazing how a good conversation with a student or with a colleague can help you get over a shitty week--reminds you of what brought you to this work to begin wiht.
November 21, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Amazing how a good conversation with a student or with a colleague can help you get over a shitty week--reminds you of what brought you to this work to begin wiht.
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My new favorite kind of meme is "here are detailed instructions on how to turn off AI". 🔨
November 19, 2025 at 3:00 PM
My new favorite kind of meme is "here are detailed instructions on how to turn off AI". 🔨
Night of the laureates: reading and talk by US Poet Laureate Arthur Sze, who'll also be in conversation with NY State Poet Laureate Kimiko Hahn.
November 20, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Night of the laureates: reading and talk by US Poet Laureate Arthur Sze, who'll also be in conversation with NY State Poet Laureate Kimiko Hahn.
I have so much ASA FOMO now, but am enjoying folks' pics from San Juan.
November 20, 2025 at 7:14 PM
I have so much ASA FOMO now, but am enjoying folks' pics from San Juan.
Campus scene/ autumn
November 19, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Campus scene/ autumn
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comrade JCO gets it completely
CHOP FROM THE TOP
(solemn vow never ever to screenshot badsite; solemn exception for this urgent story; rally against these anti-intellectuals detonating public goods for the working people of NJ!)
CHOP FROM THE TOP
(solemn vow never ever to screenshot badsite; solemn exception for this urgent story; rally against these anti-intellectuals detonating public goods for the working people of NJ!)
November 19, 2025 at 3:03 PM
comrade JCO gets it completely
CHOP FROM THE TOP
(solemn vow never ever to screenshot badsite; solemn exception for this urgent story; rally against these anti-intellectuals detonating public goods for the working people of NJ!)
CHOP FROM THE TOP
(solemn vow never ever to screenshot badsite; solemn exception for this urgent story; rally against these anti-intellectuals detonating public goods for the working people of NJ!)
CFP: Special issue of Pasados on "Against the Past," critical interventions on pre-1980s Latinx literary and expressive forms of cultural production that confront the past & challenge the presentism of US Latinx Studies, guest edited by Jesse Alemán and Evelyn Soto profession.mla.org/opportunity/...
November 19, 2025 at 6:59 PM
CFP: Special issue of Pasados on "Against the Past," critical interventions on pre-1980s Latinx literary and expressive forms of cultural production that confront the past & challenge the presentism of US Latinx Studies, guest edited by Jesse Alemán and Evelyn Soto profession.mla.org/opportunity/...
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Few things bug me more than higher ed leaders saying that we lost our mission and lost the trust of the public, when we have actually been the target of a decades-long smear campaign by the right wing that worked. The moment we’re losing our mission is right now, in capitulation.
November 19, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Few things bug me more than higher ed leaders saying that we lost our mission and lost the trust of the public, when we have actually been the target of a decades-long smear campaign by the right wing that worked. The moment we’re losing our mission is right now, in capitulation.
Saw a bald eagle in Connecticut this morning. It was magnificent
November 19, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Saw a bald eagle in Connecticut this morning. It was magnificent