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Michelle Chen

@michellechn.bsky.social

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Senior Editor at University Press of Colorado acquiring books in composition & rhetoric, folklore, history, and polar studies. Formerly at OUP (music), Palgrave (politics) and Bloomsbury (33 1/3). Based in Brooklyn. Opinions my own.

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Michelle Chen @michellechn.bsky.social · 19m

My partner (40s) and I (30s) legitimately consume cans of Chef Boyardee ravioli on the regular

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Michelle Chen @michellechn.bsky.social · 2h

I love this! I feel that about not being able to keep up now though. I have a subscription to Harpers that feeds a very sad pile in my living room.

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Michelle Chen @michellechn.bsky.social · 3h

This makes me think of the new Author & Punisher dropping same day as the TS album

Michelle Chen @michellechn.bsky.social · 4h

“Speak English or die.” Wow. This #BannedBooksWeek let’s also think about linguistic hegemony—what languages don’t get published & read. Lingít is an endangered language of the Tlingit people of the Pacific NW Coast. What does it sound like? Give these recordings a listen! tinyurl.com/4h4xkvwp

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Michelle Chen @michellechn.bsky.social · 21h

Scott! This is so awesome! Congrats 🎉🎉🎉

Michelle Chen @michellechn.bsky.social · 1d

I still remember fondly the days of YBP 😢

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Michelle Chen @michellechn.bsky.social · 1d

I know ya'll love a free book...

UPColorado @upcolorado.bsky.social · 1d

Happy #OAWeek! Did you know we have a full collection of books that are completely FREE to read? Open Books = Open Minds. Check out the full list here and spread the word! read.upcolorado.com #readUP #OAWeek2025

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Michelle Chen @michellechn.bsky.social · 1d

"His talk will challenge us to examine the complex realities of ownership, access, and equity in knowledge production" -- Yes please!

Association of University Presses @aupresses.bsky.social · 1d

All are invited to this #OAWeek webinar, "Who Owns Our Knowledge? An African University Press Perspective," featuring Nwachukwu Egbunike, Head of Pan-Atlantic University Press in Lagos, on Tues 10/21 4pm ET. Read more & register: events.umich.edu/event/139485

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Michelle Chen @michellechn.bsky.social · 1d

"A book which's title..." oh dear god that's actually so much worse than "that's"

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Michelle Chen @michellechn.bsky.social · 1d

It's not just about what stories are banned, but what stories don't get told. I'm glad someone told this one. If not this book, there are countless other accounts of Indigenous communities existentially threatened by climate change. Go forth and read up! #BannedBooksWeek @upcolorado.bsky.social

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Michelle Chen @michellechn.bsky.social · 1d

Oh do report back! I love to be corrected on grammar 🤓

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Michelle Chen @michellechn.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like this is one of those things where it's technically grammatically correct, but so ugly it should be avoided at all costs. Like possessives of names that end in "s" **shudder**

Michelle Chen @michellechn.bsky.social · 1d

I...don't like it.

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Michelle Chen @michellechn.bsky.social · 1d

I feel the same! @derekkrissoff.bsky.social wrote a great post about this (sorry Derek, to put you on blast again; apparently I'm your biggest fan this week) derekkrissoff.substack.com/p/my-problem...

My problem with Banned Books Week

The unbought book vs. the challenged one

derekkrissoff.substack.com

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Reposted by Michelle Chen

Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 1d

FYI happening this Thursday—free and open to all. Just click the link to register. Featuring @dwcongdon.com, @dawnd.bsky.social, and Alyssa Napier talking all things diss to book—what’s the diff b/w them, how to find a press/approach an editor, tips for proposal writing. Join us & spread the word!

Association of University Presses @aupresses.bsky.social · 2d

All are invited to the first in Publishing with University Presses Webinar Series, "Turning Your Dissertation into a Book," Oct 9 at 1pm ET. Organized by our Faculty Outreach Committee with the Rutgers Ctr for Minority Serving Institutions.

Register here: https://buff.ly/UiOAr5M

Turning You Dissertation into a Book webinar promotional tile

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Michelle Chen @michellechn.bsky.social · 1d

Today we've got BLACK OR RIGHT which explores ideas of Blackness in white institutional spaces. It's theory; it's rhetoric studies; it's autoethnography. It's got it all. Including some truly haunting personal accounts of what it practically means to be a Black man on campus.

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Michelle Chen @michellechn.bsky.social · 1d

Ever since @derekkrissoff.bsky.social's blog about #BannedBooks week, I've been thinking about the need to highlight books that are not technically banned, especially now now when bans are less explicit, but exist all the same. So I'll have recs every day this week (bc reading widely is resistance!)

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Michelle Chen @michellechn.bsky.social · 2d

Happy Mid-Autumn Festival to those who celebrate! 🥮 🌕

Also, I was today year's old when I found out that China's lunar exploration program is named after the moon goddess Chang'e, about whom there is a surprising dearth of academic material. Who wants to pitch me a book on Chinese folklore?

Michelle Chen @michellechn.bsky.social · 2d

Comments on endnotes/footnotes omg YES

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Michelle Chen @michellechn.bsky.social · 3d

The real ones get it

Michelle Chen @michellechn.bsky.social · 3d

Me: it’s time to purge some books from the bookshelves

Also me: ok but obviously I NEED to keep this high school Latin primer

Spoiler alert: books remain unpurged

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Michelle Chen @michellechn.bsky.social · 3d

Oh good point! I didn't even notice that. I was just happy to see that both Katie Kitamura and Susan Choi made the list 🤗

Michelle Chen @michellechn.bsky.social · 3d

Oh thank you! According to my brother, the use of it also requires some kind of military grade maps, which seems above my limited wildlife capabilities 😂

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Michelle Chen @michellechn.bsky.social · 3d

Silly little me thinking that compasses are all the same and just point north 🤷‍♀️

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Michelle Chen @michellechn.bsky.social · 3d

Example of why I would not survive a day in the apocalypse: I had to buy a compass so I purchased one at random and my (outdoorsy) brother looked at it and went "do you even know how to use a lensatic compass?" to which I replied "what is a lensatic compass?" so yeah I'll be returning that I guess

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