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Aarthi Vadde @aarthivadde.bsky.social · 2d

This rare skeet is dedicated to my husband’s coworker, who will be heading to a bookstore at midnight, to buy the new Pynchon book. Such commitment still exists!

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Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 10d

Boston-area friends, if you're in the vicinity of Harvard tomorrow, please come to @harvardbookstore.bsky.social for a conversation about novels, LLMs, public opinion polls, collages, cut-ups, and patchwork with me and @tomcomitta.bsky.social. It will be a wild ride--hope you can join us for it!

Poster showing Tom Comitta (big photo) and Deidre Lynch (smaller one) and the covers of their two new novels: Patchwork and People's Choice Literature. Monday, September 29th, 7 p.m., Harvard Book Store, Cambridge, MA

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Chris Warren @chrisvvarren.bsky.social · 20d

Trying to keep my professional chill but I’m SO excited Carnegie Mellon is launching a cluster hire in computational humanities—MULTIPLE JOBS!

1. Asst Teaching Track Prof in Computational Humanities - apply.interfolio.com/173622
2. Asst Tenure Track Prof in CH - apply.interfolio.com/173626

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 24d

Modern Fiction Studies is sponsoring a conference on “Cultural AI” at Purdue, to be followed by a special issue. @aarthivadde.bsky.social, @richardjeanso.bsky.social, N Katherine Hayles, @mattwilkens.bsky.social , @mellymeldubs.bsky.social, and I will be there later this week.

Conference on Artificial Intelligence

www.cla.purdue.edu

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Meredith Martin @mmvty.bsky.social · 28d

Want to read something interesting? Stop doomscrolling & check out this amazing special issue!

Journal of Cultural Analytics @culturalanalytics.bsky.social · 28d

💻 We are very excited to announce the launch of our special issue Computational Formalism, edited by Tess McNulty and Laura Alice Chapot, that reconsiders the intersections of computation and form at this emerging technological and critical moment.

culturalanalytics.org/issue/12788

Vol. 10, Issue 3, 2025 | Published by Journal of Cultural Analytics

In this special issue, we bring together scholars from across multiple disciplines to reconsider the intersections of computation and form at this emerging technological and critical moment.

culturalanalytics.org

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Marc de Faoite @marcdefaoite.bsky.social · Aug 16

Sally Rooney putting her money where her mouth is (figuratively of course). Bravo.
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

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Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · Jun 30

You can now read most of the introduction (co-written by me and @johannawinant.bsky.social) to CLOSE READING FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY, out in October from Princeton UP press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century

A user’s guide to the fundamental practice of literary studies, providing context, examples, and practical exercises

press.princeton.edu

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Aarthi Vadde @aarthivadde.bsky.social · Jun 13

Congrats, Matt! What an exciting position and place!

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Aarthi Vadde @aarthivadde.bsky.social · Jun 4

How demoralizing - have lots to say about online learning but not here

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Aarthi Vadde @aarthivadde.bsky.social · Jun 4

How did those students respond when you confronted them (assuming you did)?

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Aarthi Vadde @aarthivadde.bsky.social · May 30

Plus gorgeous bookmarks courtesy of Novel Dialogue!

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Aarthi Vadde @aarthivadde.bsky.social · May 30

SNS registration starting at 8am! Pick up your program and name tags!

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Aarthi Vadde @aarthivadde.bsky.social · May 28

Ngugi should have won the Nobel. An incredible body of work dedicated to the promotion and institutionalization of African languages as literary languages. Devil on the Cross was my personal favorite of his novels.

Vauhini Vara @vauhinivara.bsky.social · May 28

A giant, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o. From my epigraphs: "Language carries culture, and culture carries, particularly through orature and literature, the entire body of values by which we come to perceive ourselves and our place in the world."

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Public Books @publicbooks.bsky.social · May 23

Amid fears about AI, @aarthivadde.bsky.social‬ chats with @vauhinivara.bsky.social‬ about what it really means to put ChatGPT on the printed page and whether generative AI will steal writers’ paychecks.

Who Owns These Tools?: Vauhini Vara and Aarthi Vadde

“The desire for that sort of purist kind of connection that one might call communion, is something that I'm interested in in all of my work.”

www.publicbooks.org

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Vauhini Vara @vauhinivara.bsky.social · May 22

I loved talking to @aarthivadde.bsky.social and Sarah Wasserman about how “language is the main tool we have to bridge the divide" among us — it's why I'm a writer — and how big tech companies have been colonizing language, most recently with AI, but starting long before that.

Aarthi Vadde @aarthivadde.bsky.social · May 22

It was a true pleasure to discuss Searches with @vauhinivara.bsky.social and Sarah Wasserman for the Novel Dialogue podcast! We ranged through the fic/nonfic binary, pushing the boundaries of form with human writing and machine outputs, and AI as a labor issue.
noveldialogue.org/2025/05/22/9...

9.5 Who Owns These Tools?: Vauhini Vara and Aarthi Vadde (SW)

In an essay about her recent book Searches, a genre-bending chronicle of the deeply personal ways we use the internet and the uncanny ways it uses us, Vauhini Vara admits that several reviewers see…

noveldialogue.org

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Aarthi Vadde @aarthivadde.bsky.social · May 22

It was a true pleasure to discuss Searches with @vauhinivara.bsky.social and Sarah Wasserman for the Novel Dialogue podcast! We ranged through the fic/nonfic binary, pushing the boundaries of form with human writing and machine outputs, and AI as a labor issue.
noveldialogue.org/2025/05/22/9...

9.5 Who Owns These Tools?: Vauhini Vara and Aarthi Vadde (SW)

In an essay about her recent book Searches, a genre-bending chronicle of the deeply personal ways we use the internet and the uncanny ways it uses us, Vauhini Vara admits that several reviewers see…

noveldialogue.org

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Aarthi Vadde @aarthivadde.bsky.social · May 8

Agh, I wish you were coming. I would love to see you and Kathy P. in the same room

P.in

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Aarthi Vadde @aarthivadde.bsky.social · May 8

we'll pour one out for you, Tommy!

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Aarthi Vadde @aarthivadde.bsky.social · May 8

Full program for SNS 2025: Novel Languages now available! So happy to see this event come together and to have so many good people descend on Durham, NC! Come for the terrific panels and seminars and stay for signature novel-inspired cocktails and bookish swag!

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Aarthi Vadde @aarthivadde.bsky.social · May 2

So excited to hear your stuff and read! 🎉🎉🎉

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Nina Beguš @ninabegus.bsky.social · May 1

The press shared a 50% discount code for preorders, May 1-31!

SPRING25

press.umich.edu/Books/A/Arti...

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Aarthi Vadde @aarthivadde.bsky.social · May 2

So many great books coming down the pike!

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Aarthi Vadde @aarthivadde.bsky.social · May 1

Yay! Can’t wait to read, Rose!

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Rose Casey @rosecasey.bsky.social · Apr 15

Available for preorder, Aesthetic Impropriety: Property Law and Postcolonial Style is out from Fordham on 7/1/25.

I analyze property law expansively, across Nigeria, India, South Africa, and the English Atlantic, to argue that both legal and literary innovations are undoing law's colonial legacies.

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Meredith Martin @mmvty.bsky.social · Apr 22

Today's the day! I invite close readers to see if they can find the places where I channeled the most rage into this project. It is supposed to make you uncomfortable. You are supposed to try to dismiss it as "praxis" vs. "theory" and then you are supposed to be convinced otherwise.

Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · Apr 22

In Poetry's Data, @mmvty.bsky.social explores why literary studies must confront digital mediation.

Out now. Learn more about this engaging book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Poetry's Data: Digital Humanities and the History of Prosody

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