Ken Wissoker
@kwissoker.bsky.social
Senior Executive Editor, Duke University Press. Director, Intellectual Publics, CUNY Graduate Center. Book doula/curator. Art lover, record accumulator. All opinions my own-ish.
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Ken Wissoker on Finances
Ken Wissoker is Senior Executive Editor at Duke University Press where, since arriving in 1991, he has published over 1400 books. Ken acquires books across the humanities, social sciences, and the art...
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I was interviewed by Lisa Regan on the The Academic Publishing Podcast about publishing finances -- everything from why a press might want a subvention to why the system as a whole in in big trouble if everyone goes for the free pdf and no one is paying for the books themselves. She had smart Q's!
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yep. also really can't overstate how much nuzzi is very much the product of an environment that rewards amoral ambition and frowns on people who sincerely believe anything
November 27, 2025 at 3:15 AM
yep. also really can't overstate how much nuzzi is very much the product of an environment that rewards amoral ambition and frowns on people who sincerely believe anything
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Guest Post — What Do College Students Lose When Libraries Are Ignored? scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/12/02/g...
Guest Post — What Do College Students Lose When Libraries Are Ignored? - The Scholarly Kitchen
Today's guest post argues that academic libraries are an investment in the very foundation of quality scholarship and responsible publishing.
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December 2, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Guest Post — What Do College Students Lose When Libraries Are Ignored? scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/12/02/g...
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Reading Liboiron's "Pollution is Colonialism" for my engineering ethics class and what an excellent first footnote.
![[highlight] Hello, Reader! Thank you for being here. [end highlight] These footnotes are a place of nuance and politics, where the protocols of gratitude and recognition play out (sometimes also called citation), [highlight] where warnings and care work are carried out (including calling certain readers aside for a chat or a joke), [end highlight] and where I contextualize, expand, and emplace work. The footnotes support the text above, representing the shoulders on which I stand and the relations I want to build. They are part of doing good relations within a text, through a text. Since a
main goal of Pollution Is Colonialism is to show how methodology is a way of being in the world and that ways of being are tied up in obligation, these footnotes are one way to enact that argument. Thank you to Duke University Press for these footnotes.
[highlight] For this first footnote of the introduction, we have a simple citation: Stouffer, “Plastics Packaging,” 1–3. Don’t worry. They’ll get better. [end highlight]
2 Packard, Waste Makers; Strasser, Waste and Want; M. Liboiron, “Modern Waste as Strategy.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:haaq7phs6kn67qhdlwk32ijt/bafkreicthxbr5wmqew4s7uft7mc57aeamttc3shvit5wqwhgnktalwydtu@jpeg)
December 1, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Reading Liboiron's "Pollution is Colonialism" for my engineering ethics class and what an excellent first footnote.
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Wanna learn more about Pinkwashing and Homonationalism?
Check out:
Puar, Jasbir. "Rethinking Homonationalism." International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies 45, no. 2 (2013): 336-339.
Puar, Jasbir. Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times. Duke University Press, 2007.
Check out:
Puar, Jasbir. "Rethinking Homonationalism." International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies 45, no. 2 (2013): 336-339.
Puar, Jasbir. Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times. Duke University Press, 2007.
Rethinking Homonationalism on JSTOR
Jasbir Puar, Rethinking Homonationalism, International Journal of Middle East Studies, Vol. 45, No. 2, SPECIAL ISSUE: Queer Affects (May 2013), pp. 336-339
www.jstor.org
November 28, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Wanna learn more about Pinkwashing and Homonationalism?
Check out:
Puar, Jasbir. "Rethinking Homonationalism." International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies 45, no. 2 (2013): 336-339.
Puar, Jasbir. Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times. Duke University Press, 2007.
Check out:
Puar, Jasbir. "Rethinking Homonationalism." International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies 45, no. 2 (2013): 336-339.
Puar, Jasbir. Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times. Duke University Press, 2007.
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On this World AIDS Day, I'm thinking back to 2011, when we in NEH-ODH gave Anne Balsamo and her team the first of several awards to develop the AIDS Quilt Touch, which allows the public to search and view the AIDS Quilt. apps.neh.gov/PublicQuery/...
NEH Award Search
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December 2, 2025 at 5:06 AM
On this World AIDS Day, I'm thinking back to 2011, when we in NEH-ODH gave Anne Balsamo and her team the first of several awards to develop the AIDS Quilt Touch, which allows the public to search and view the AIDS Quilt. apps.neh.gov/PublicQuery/...
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Yes, Northwestern and @medillschool.bsky.social, go hide in shame. You realize that no one will want to give you money to turn around and give it to Donald Trump. My alma mater is dead to me.
December 2, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Yes, Northwestern and @medillschool.bsky.social, go hide in shame. You realize that no one will want to give you money to turn around and give it to Donald Trump. My alma mater is dead to me.
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Excuse me but the book cover alone is enough to want to buy. Gorgeous!
Save 30% on #NewBook "Inhabitants of the Deep" by Jonathan Howard, which undertakes a black ecocritical study of the deep (oceans, rivers, lakes) in African American literature. #BlackStudies
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December 1, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Excuse me but the book cover alone is enough to want to buy. Gorgeous!
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Haven't read BIG FICTION? Been waiting for the right time? Need a gift for the fiction-lover in your life. 50% off right now. Go get it babes.
Today! All old & new books in @columbiaup.bsky.social's Literature Now series are 50% off, including POETRY AFTER BARBARISM by @xenoglossic.bsky.social; POETRY IN GENERAL by @keegancf.bsky.social; BIG FICTION by @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social; and WRITING BACKWARDS by @manshel.bsky.social! bit.ly/4rupQx9
December 1, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Haven't read BIG FICTION? Been waiting for the right time? Need a gift for the fiction-lover in your life. 50% off right now. Go get it babes.
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There's free shipping today from @bookshop.org so here's a reminder that I have a curated list of my favorite books on writing and publishing that also functions as a great gift guide for the scholarly writer in your life (including yourself)
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Recommended resources for scholarly authors
The books on this list will help you write and publish your scholarly book
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December 1, 2025 at 9:11 PM
There's free shipping today from @bookshop.org so here's a reminder that I have a curated list of my favorite books on writing and publishing that also functions as a great gift guide for the scholarly writer in your life (including yourself)
bookshop.org/lists/recomm...
bookshop.org/lists/recomm...
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If anyone is curious about the current list of search terms being used by right wing activist organizations to harass university professors, here's a public records request I received today from Mike Howell of the Heritage Foundation. Not intimidating or meant to curtail by my speech at all, right?
August 6, 2025 at 10:03 PM
If anyone is curious about the current list of search terms being used by right wing activist organizations to harass university professors, here's a public records request I received today from Mike Howell of the Heritage Foundation. Not intimidating or meant to curtail by my speech at all, right?
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Save 30% on #NewBook "Inhabitants of the Deep" by Jonathan Howard, which undertakes a black ecocritical study of the deep (oceans, rivers, lakes) in African American literature. #BlackStudies
buff.ly/ejHedv7
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December 1, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Save 30% on #NewBook "Inhabitants of the Deep" by Jonathan Howard, which undertakes a black ecocritical study of the deep (oceans, rivers, lakes) in African American literature. #BlackStudies
buff.ly/ejHedv7
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Great to see "Soldier's Paradise" by Samuel Fury Childs Daly and "Daughter, Mother, Grandmother, and Whore" by Gabriela Leite on this list!
In this list, explore the very best of the hundreds of books on international politics, economics, and history that were featured in the magazine this year, selected by Foreign Affairs’ editors and book reviewers:
The Best of Books 2025
The very best of the hundreds of books on international politics, economics, and history that were featured in the magazine this year, selected by Foreign Affairs’ editors and book reviewers.
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December 1, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Great to see "Soldier's Paradise" by Samuel Fury Childs Daly and "Daughter, Mother, Grandmother, and Whore" by Gabriela Leite on this list!
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If you're looking for an art book to give your freaky friend or your chic cousin, look no further than "My Studio Is the Dungeon Is the Studio" by @naylandblake.bsky.social & "Mavericks of Style" by Uri McMillan. via @artnews.com.web.brid.gy
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A Holiday Art Book Gift Guide, for Every Artsy Archetype
Brandon Taylor, Nayland Blake, Yoko Ono, Coreen Simpson, Stephen Shore, and Johanna Hedva top this year's list.
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December 1, 2025 at 6:21 PM
If you're looking for an art book to give your freaky friend or your chic cousin, look no further than "My Studio Is the Dungeon Is the Studio" by @naylandblake.bsky.social & "Mavericks of Style" by Uri McMillan. via @artnews.com.web.brid.gy
www.artnews.com/list/art-in-...
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The Disturbing Profane: Hip-Hop, Blackness, and the Sacred
Hip-hop isn’t a threat to holiness — it’s a witness to survival. Joseph R. Winters’ "The Disturbing Profane" reframes the sacred through Black art and expression. Jordan Burton offers a review.
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Hip-hop isn’t a threat to holiness — it’s a witness to survival. Joseph R. Winters’ "The Disturbing Profane" reframes the sacred through Black art and expression. Jordan Burton offers a review.
@dukepress.bsky.social
The Disturbing Profane: Hip-Hop, Blackness, and the Sacred
In "The Disturbing Profane: Hip Hop, Blackness, and the Sacred," Winters shows hip-hop’s sacred power, disrupting the sacred/profane divide.
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November 25, 2025 at 8:59 PM
The Disturbing Profane: Hip-Hop, Blackness, and the Sacred
Hip-hop isn’t a threat to holiness — it’s a witness to survival. Joseph R. Winters’ "The Disturbing Profane" reframes the sacred through Black art and expression. Jordan Burton offers a review.
@dukepress.bsky.social
Hip-hop isn’t a threat to holiness — it’s a witness to survival. Joseph R. Winters’ "The Disturbing Profane" reframes the sacred through Black art and expression. Jordan Burton offers a review.
@dukepress.bsky.social
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Catch authors @pepepierce.bsky.social, @michellehsho.bsky.social,
@summerkimlee.bsky.social, and @arsavium.bsky.social at in-person and online events in December! buff.ly/XxR5lqg
@summerkimlee.bsky.social, and @arsavium.bsky.social at in-person and online events in December! buff.ly/XxR5lqg
December 1, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Catch authors @pepepierce.bsky.social, @michellehsho.bsky.social,
@summerkimlee.bsky.social, and @arsavium.bsky.social at in-person and online events in December! buff.ly/XxR5lqg
@summerkimlee.bsky.social, and @arsavium.bsky.social at in-person and online events in December! buff.ly/XxR5lqg
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Sorrowful news - and sorrowful subtext. www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/174... Wishing longevity and great success to the Literary Arts Fund and its mission.
Evolving Our Work
Poems, readings, poetry news and the entire 110-year archive of POETRY magazine.
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December 1, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Sorrowful news - and sorrowful subtext. www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/174... Wishing longevity and great success to the Literary Arts Fund and its mission.
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Reading Ronald Radano’s new, magisterial Marxist history of Black music and sound. @dukepress.bsky.social
November 29, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Reading Ronald Radano’s new, magisterial Marxist history of Black music and sound. @dukepress.bsky.social
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Delia Duong Ba Wendel, Rwanda's Genocidal Heritage: Between Justice and Sovereignty - @dukepress.bsky.social, November 2025 (print and open access)
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Rwanda′s Genocide Heritage: Between Justice and Sovereignty
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November 28, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Delia Duong Ba Wendel, Rwanda's Genocidal Heritage: Between Justice and Sovereignty - @dukepress.bsky.social, November 2025 (print and open access)
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Catch our authors at virtual and in-person events this month!
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December 1, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Catch our authors at virtual and in-person events this month!
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The Crimson does it again. Harvard can't stop tripping itself up over Epstein.
Harvard Endowment Appoints 3 New Directors, Including JPMorgan Exec Who Managed Epstein’s Bank Accounts | News | The Harvard Crimson
Three Harvard Business School alumni — Paul B. Edgerley, Mary Callahan Erdoes, and Raymond J. McGuire ’79 — were appointed to Harvard Management Company’s board of directors.
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December 1, 2025 at 1:04 PM
The Crimson does it again. Harvard can't stop tripping itself up over Epstein.
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big Mail day from @dukepress.bsky.social
November 26, 2025 at 8:56 PM
big Mail day from @dukepress.bsky.social
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Friends in Denver, and friends with friends in Denver, I’ll be coming to Bookies Bookstore on Saturday, December 13 to talk about Beautiful Mystery. So happy to have the worlds of people like her are under threat. @dukepress.bsky.social
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An Afternoon with Author Danilyn Rutherford | The Bookies Bookstore
Denver independent bookstore for children, families, and teachers!
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November 26, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Friends in Denver, and friends with friends in Denver, I’ll be coming to Bookies Bookstore on Saturday, December 13 to talk about Beautiful Mystery. So happy to have the worlds of people like her are under threat. @dukepress.bsky.social
thebookies.com/events/41517...
thebookies.com/events/41517...
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Gratitude to Baldwin & Co. bookstore for sharing the second part of our collaboration where Corey J. Miles and I converse about #StayBlackandDie (@dukepress.bsky.social) while in New Orleans. As well, thanks to those who attended this event, both friends and enemies.
What?! 👀
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What?! 👀
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Growing Up in Melancholy: A Black Intellectual Story by I. Augustus Durham.
YouTube video by Baldwin & Co.
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November 25, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Gratitude to Baldwin & Co. bookstore for sharing the second part of our collaboration where Corey J. Miles and I converse about #StayBlackandDie (@dukepress.bsky.social) while in New Orleans. As well, thanks to those who attended this event, both friends and enemies.
What?! 👀
youtu.be/3kRPwrcbG0Q
What?! 👀
youtu.be/3kRPwrcbG0Q
Coming up next Monday, December 8 at 6:30 eastern via Zoom webinar. Right on time! Registration details linked below!
"Mohanty teaches us that we can only create different kinds of subjects, relationships, and worlds by insurgency, rising in revolt against imperialism, racial capitalism, and heteropatriarchy.... A vital and visionary contribution.”
- Sara Ahmed
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- Sara Ahmed
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December 1, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Coming up next Monday, December 8 at 6:30 eastern via Zoom webinar. Right on time! Registration details linked below!
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Literally buying one copy of a book at your local indie bookstore can mean the difference in whether they buy future books from that author.
November 24, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Literally buying one copy of a book at your local indie bookstore can mean the difference in whether they buy future books from that author.