Brian Glavey
@glavey.bsky.social
Author of Relatability: Sharing and Oversharing with the New York School Poets (forthcoming from University of Chicago Press) and The Wallflower Avant-Garde; Associate Professor of English, Univ of South Carolina
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Brian Glavey
@glavey.bsky.social
· Sep 26
I'm over the moon that my book, Relatability: Sharing and Oversharing with the New York School Poets, will be published by the University of Chicago Press in the not too distant future.
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Reason no. 103857392 to read books and, yes, write your own damn emails, too
www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
Reading and writing can lower dementia risk by almost 40%, study finds
Cognitive health in later life is ‘strongly influenced’ by lifelong exposure to intellectually stimulating environments, say researchers
www.theguardian.com
February 12, 2026 at 1:16 AM
Reason no. 103857392 to read books and, yes, write your own damn emails, too
www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
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“If you wanted to create a tool that would enable the destruction of institutions that prop up democratic life, you could not do better than AI. Authoritarian leaders & tech oligarchs are deploying AI systems to hollow out public institutions with an astonishing alacrity.”
February 12, 2026 at 1:36 PM
“If you wanted to create a tool that would enable the destruction of institutions that prop up democratic life, you could not do better than AI. Authoritarian leaders & tech oligarchs are deploying AI systems to hollow out public institutions with an astonishing alacrity.”
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This is my first attempt to capture a live event of this size.
I’m thankful to @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social & @johannawinant.bsky.social for letting me adapt the launch of their tremendous book.
I think these episodes will be an additive supplement to it.
I’m thankful to @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social & @johannawinant.bsky.social for letting me adapt the launch of their tremendous book.
I think these episodes will be an additive supplement to it.
February 10, 2026 at 12:28 PM
This is my first attempt to capture a live event of this size.
I’m thankful to @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social & @johannawinant.bsky.social for letting me adapt the launch of their tremendous book.
I think these episodes will be an additive supplement to it.
I’m thankful to @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social & @johannawinant.bsky.social for letting me adapt the launch of their tremendous book.
I think these episodes will be an additive supplement to it.
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February 3, 2026 at 12:54 AM
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this week is the deadline for paper proposals for
The State of the Unions
The 28th Annual University of Florida Critical Theory Reading Group Conference
April 23-25 in Gainesville
keynotes Sianne Ngai, Anna Kornbluh
alumni keynote: Ryan Kerr
call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/12/...
The State of the Unions
The 28th Annual University of Florida Critical Theory Reading Group Conference
April 23-25 in Gainesville
keynotes Sianne Ngai, Anna Kornbluh
alumni keynote: Ryan Kerr
call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/12/...
cfp | call for papers
call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu
January 26, 2026 at 2:15 PM
this week is the deadline for paper proposals for
The State of the Unions
The 28th Annual University of Florida Critical Theory Reading Group Conference
April 23-25 in Gainesville
keynotes Sianne Ngai, Anna Kornbluh
alumni keynote: Ryan Kerr
call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/12/...
The State of the Unions
The 28th Annual University of Florida Critical Theory Reading Group Conference
April 23-25 in Gainesville
keynotes Sianne Ngai, Anna Kornbluh
alumni keynote: Ryan Kerr
call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/12/...
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You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today.
This could be you.
This could be you.
January 8, 2026 at 12:15 AM
You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today.
This could be you.
This could be you.
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I wasn’t sure they were going to publish this. So good for them.
The ‘Crisis of the Humanities’ Is Over. That’s Not a Good Thing.
All of higher ed now suffers the attacks of politics and technology.
www.chronicle.com
December 29, 2025 at 1:30 PM
I wasn’t sure they were going to publish this. So good for them.
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Poor @erinbartram.bsky.social is worried abt the black box thumbnail but it feels representative of how challenging it was for @hartmann-villalta.bsky.social & I to compile the list this year.
Kudos to the authors! Pls read, cite, teach, buy, & share their work—& know there is much more out there!
Kudos to the authors! Pls read, cite, teach, buy, & share their work—& know there is much more out there!
As always, we're happy to bring you a lit studies companion to our yearly history book/article lists. Assembled by @rcolesworthy.bsky.social and @hartmann-villalta.bsky.social
2025 Literary Studies Book and Journal Article List
A companion list for lit studies scholars.
contingentmagazine.org
December 17, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Poor @erinbartram.bsky.social is worried abt the black box thumbnail but it feels representative of how challenging it was for @hartmann-villalta.bsky.social & I to compile the list this year.
Kudos to the authors! Pls read, cite, teach, buy, & share their work—& know there is much more out there!
Kudos to the authors! Pls read, cite, teach, buy, & share their work—& know there is much more out there!
I’m into being adverbialized but it is funny to be in the sweet spot career-wise where people ask me to blurb their books and then misspell my name
December 10, 2025 at 9:58 PM
I’m into being adverbialized but it is funny to be in the sweet spot career-wise where people ask me to blurb their books and then misspell my name
Anyway, here's Glavey Rock open.spotify.com/playlist/6My...
Glavey Rock 2025
open.spotify.com
December 8, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Anyway, here's Glavey Rock open.spotify.com/playlist/6My...
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Virtually every institution I engage with regularly—the university, healthcare—is falling to pieces in front of my eyes.
But live music? It continues to deliver everything its social contract has always promised: community, joy, a vision of a better world.
Go to the gig.
But live music? It continues to deliver everything its social contract has always promised: community, joy, a vision of a better world.
Go to the gig.
December 3, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Virtually every institution I engage with regularly—the university, healthcare—is falling to pieces in front of my eyes.
But live music? It continues to deliver everything its social contract has always promised: community, joy, a vision of a better world.
Go to the gig.
But live music? It continues to deliver everything its social contract has always promised: community, joy, a vision of a better world.
Go to the gig.
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starting Dec 1st! ie tomorrow!
for structure to eke out pages at a bonkers time of year (that is also a precious writing-est time):
you can do 250 words a day! books get written that way! if more, amazing! if not when grading or festive-ing, that's ok!
check in daily at #acadecawriteathon
for structure to eke out pages at a bonkers time of year (that is also a precious writing-est time):
you can do 250 words a day! books get written that way! if more, amazing! if not when grading or festive-ing, that's ok!
check in daily at #acadecawriteathon
is there a NaNoWriMo but for December and academic/ nonfiction? Should we start it?
December 1, 2025 at 12:28 AM
starting Dec 1st! ie tomorrow!
for structure to eke out pages at a bonkers time of year (that is also a precious writing-est time):
you can do 250 words a day! books get written that way! if more, amazing! if not when grading or festive-ing, that's ok!
check in daily at #acadecawriteathon
for structure to eke out pages at a bonkers time of year (that is also a precious writing-est time):
you can do 250 words a day! books get written that way! if more, amazing! if not when grading or festive-ing, that's ok!
check in daily at #acadecawriteathon
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Tonight at 8pm EST--a free online event with Stephanie Anderson, Patricia Spears Jones, Maureen Owen, & MC Hyland hosted by @nysnetwork.bsky.social. Register via the link!
www.eventbrite.com/e/women-in-i...
www.eventbrite.com/e/women-in-i...
November 24, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Tonight at 8pm EST--a free online event with Stephanie Anderson, Patricia Spears Jones, Maureen Owen, & MC Hyland hosted by @nysnetwork.bsky.social. Register via the link!
www.eventbrite.com/e/women-in-i...
www.eventbrite.com/e/women-in-i...
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"Challenging the dicta, norms, & implicit biases that have dominated poetry pedagogy for decades, Teaching Poetry Now jump-starts a long overdue discussion of the theories, methods, & stakes of teaching poetry today."
Getting ready to send this one to the printer. 🎉
sunypress.edu/Books/T/Teac...
Getting ready to send this one to the printer. 🎉
sunypress.edu/Books/T/Teac...
Teaching Poetry Now
sunypress.edu
November 24, 2025 at 2:24 PM
"Challenging the dicta, norms, & implicit biases that have dominated poetry pedagogy for decades, Teaching Poetry Now jump-starts a long overdue discussion of the theories, methods, & stakes of teaching poetry today."
Getting ready to send this one to the printer. 🎉
sunypress.edu/Books/T/Teac...
Getting ready to send this one to the printer. 🎉
sunypress.edu/Books/T/Teac...
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Just ordered! At $20.97 this works out to LESS THAN $1 AN ESSAY for, e.g. @asheeshksi.bsky.social on "Board of Trustees"; @cnewf.bsky.social on "Degree"; @dennismhogan.bsky.social on "Endowment": & (one I read in draft) @andyhines.bsky.social, @kaibosworth.bsky.social et al on "Sustainability" 💥
everyone is talking about getting copies of University Keywords (or other JHU Press books) for all their friends, students, and comrades for the holidays, especially when it is 40% off with the code HHOL25.
November 24, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Just ordered! At $20.97 this works out to LESS THAN $1 AN ESSAY for, e.g. @asheeshksi.bsky.social on "Board of Trustees"; @cnewf.bsky.social on "Degree"; @dennismhogan.bsky.social on "Endowment": & (one I read in draft) @andyhines.bsky.social, @kaibosworth.bsky.social et al on "Sustainability" 💥
Punch me in the face for 10,000 years!
November 19, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Punch me in the face for 10,000 years!
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I am full of gratitude for this conversation @redemmas.org on Saturday with @kristingrogan.bsky.social and Chris Nealon. It was such a wonderful way to launch Poetry in General. Thanks to all who came!!
November 17, 2025 at 5:12 PM
I am full of gratitude for this conversation @redemmas.org on Saturday with @kristingrogan.bsky.social and Chris Nealon. It was such a wonderful way to launch Poetry in General. Thanks to all who came!!
Will someone come pick me up and drive me to Baltimore for this?
Keegan’s book is just so, so good - on how poetry expresses, refracts, and critiques state-managed capitalism, and how it does this by developing interdisciplinary public forms. I’ve been reading this book all week and cannot wait to talk with Keegan and Chris later today!
This Saturday at 7 pm, two @columbiaup.bsky.social authors, Keegan Cook Finberg and Kristin Grogan discuss their extraordinary new books, POETRY IN GENERAL and STITCH, UNSTITCH: in conversation w/ Christopher Nealon at @redemmas.org! bit.ly/3LAvRYz @keegancf.bsky.social @kristingrogan.bsky.social
November 15, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Will someone come pick me up and drive me to Baltimore for this?
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you could fact check this — there aren’t 30 million illegal immigrants and there is no evidence that the presence of an immigrant in say houston has any impact on housing in madison, wisconsin — or you could note straightforwardly that this is just nazi rhetoric
JD Vance: "A lot of young people are saying housing is way too expensive. Why is that? Because we flooded the country with 30 million illegal immigrants who were taking houses that ought by right go to American citizens."
November 13, 2025 at 10:12 PM
you could fact check this — there aren’t 30 million illegal immigrants and there is no evidence that the presence of an immigrant in say houston has any impact on housing in madison, wisconsin — or you could note straightforwardly that this is just nazi rhetoric
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my library bought @kristingrogan.bsky.social ’s beautiful book and yours should too
November 13, 2025 at 9:43 PM
my library bought @kristingrogan.bsky.social ’s beautiful book and yours should too
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November 12, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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Sapere aude y’all
Mamdani got a humanities degree.
His win helps to illustrate that one of the central forces driving higher ed’s dissolution of the humanities is the fear that teaching people how power works can also lead to their interest in seizing it on behalf of the less powerful.
His win helps to illustrate that one of the central forces driving higher ed’s dissolution of the humanities is the fear that teaching people how power works can also lead to their interest in seizing it on behalf of the less powerful.
November 6, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Sapere aude y’all
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This is tomorrow night! Please share widely and bring your friends!
How can we turn discussions about what we read and think into discussion for action? How does action lead to new forms of critical analysis?
I’ll talk about this with @davarianbaldwin.bsky.social and Vineeta Singh this Friday at 8pm ET for @debtcollective.bsky.social’s Jubilee School. Join us!
I’ll talk about this with @davarianbaldwin.bsky.social and Vineeta Singh this Friday at 8pm ET for @debtcollective.bsky.social’s Jubilee School. Join us!
University Keywords: Study and Struggle
Our session will put two keywords in relation that are essential to the fight ahead in higher education and beyond: study and struggle.
debtcollective.org
November 6, 2025 at 4:06 PM
This is tomorrow night! Please share widely and bring your friends!
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Instead of watching Ross Douthat make this face 🤔 while smelling his own farts, you should read @sophiegilbert.bsky.social on the "Great Feminization." www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025...
No, Women Aren’t the Problem
America is rapidly becoming the manosphere, but sure, let’s go after the “feminization” of culture.
www.theatlantic.com
November 6, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Instead of watching Ross Douthat make this face 🤔 while smelling his own farts, you should read @sophiegilbert.bsky.social on the "Great Feminization." www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025...