Vincent Haddad
@vincenthaddad.bsky.social
Scholar of literature and popular culture.
Author of The Detroit Genre (Lever Press, 2024) and Next Time on Dragon Ball (UMN Press, 2026)
Author of The Detroit Genre (Lever Press, 2024) and Next Time on Dragon Ball (UMN Press, 2026)
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Judging colleges by how they teach vocational skills misses the point, argues an engineering professor.
The skills employers need most include initiative, critical thinking, navigating ambiguity, and more – and those come from blending humanities and STEM. buff.ly/FWQuzll
The skills employers need most include initiative, critical thinking, navigating ambiguity, and more – and those come from blending humanities and STEM. buff.ly/FWQuzll
Colleges teach the most valuable career skills when they don’t stick narrowly to preprofessional education
Parents and policymakers want job security for graduates, but in the AI and automation era, careers may depend as much on curiosity and initiative as on credentials.
buff.ly
November 30, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Judging colleges by how they teach vocational skills misses the point, argues an engineering professor.
The skills employers need most include initiative, critical thinking, navigating ambiguity, and more – and those come from blending humanities and STEM. buff.ly/FWQuzll
The skills employers need most include initiative, critical thinking, navigating ambiguity, and more – and those come from blending humanities and STEM. buff.ly/FWQuzll
My fave novelist won the National Book Award! www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
Rabih Alameddine wins National book award for fiction with darkly comic epic spanning six decades
True to his irreverent style, author of The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother) thanks his psychiatrist, his gastrointestinal doctors and his drug dealers
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:11 PM
My fave novelist won the National Book Award! www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
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Adjuncts, indie scholars, publishers, journal eds: please spread the word about this and help me do recon! It's so hard w/ social media being so fragmented to learn about all the great lit studies articles and books pub'd this year by contingent/indie folx. I know there's lots! Deadline: end of Nov.
It’s that time of year friends! Thanks to @erinbartram.bsky.social and our friends at @contingent-mag.bsky.social, Laura and I are putting together a list of 2025 articles & books by contingent & indie lit critters. DM, reply, email me @ suny press. And spread the word!!
We are at it again! Myself & the wonderful @rcolesworthy.bsky.social😍
Seeking pubs -- articles, book chapters, monographs -- by contingent lit scholars for the 2025 list 👇👇 please spread the word!!!
contingentmagazine.org/2024/12/08/2...
Seeking pubs -- articles, book chapters, monographs -- by contingent lit scholars for the 2025 list 👇👇 please spread the word!!!
contingentmagazine.org/2024/12/08/2...
November 19, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Adjuncts, indie scholars, publishers, journal eds: please spread the word about this and help me do recon! It's so hard w/ social media being so fragmented to learn about all the great lit studies articles and books pub'd this year by contingent/indie folx. I know there's lots! Deadline: end of Nov.
Pretty funny to take a vote in Congress that immediately makes your Google autofill “Is Clay Higgins in the Epstein files” and “Is Clay Higgins a pedophile”
November 18, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Pretty funny to take a vote in Congress that immediately makes your Google autofill “Is Clay Higgins in the Epstein files” and “Is Clay Higgins a pedophile”
People say this news is stranger than fiction, but I’m confident if Paul Verhoeven did a take on Manchurian Candidate it would have prophesied all aspects of the Epstein story.
November 14, 2025 at 8:51 PM
People say this news is stranger than fiction, but I’m confident if Paul Verhoeven did a take on Manchurian Candidate it would have prophesied all aspects of the Epstein story.
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Coming in 2026, the next book in the Mass Markets series: NEXT TIME ON DRAGONBALL by the great @vincenthaddad.bsky.social...
November 10, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Coming in 2026, the next book in the Mass Markets series: NEXT TIME ON DRAGONBALL by the great @vincenthaddad.bsky.social...
Alright y’all, which cover design for my book coming out this August?
November 7, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Alright y’all, which cover design for my book coming out this August?
Silver linings when two of my favorite writers have new books out in the same year.
November 3, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Silver linings when two of my favorite writers have new books out in the same year.
Wondered if Republican pundits reacted so negatively to Superman (1978) and then a friend shared this newspaper clip from the 1940s…
July 14, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Wondered if Republican pundits reacted so negatively to Superman (1978) and then a friend shared this newspaper clip from the 1940s…
Files from the quaint scandals of yesteryear: Just read Koushun Takami’s novel Battle Royale and find Suzanne Collins’s claim that she was unfamiliar with the book when she wrote Hunger Games…improbable.
July 10, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Files from the quaint scandals of yesteryear: Just read Koushun Takami’s novel Battle Royale and find Suzanne Collins’s claim that she was unfamiliar with the book when she wrote Hunger Games…improbable.
Finally saw the new Mission Impossible and I can’t believe they actually made an entire blockbuster movie about my long-standing quip that “Tom Cruise is America’s Jesus.”
June 26, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Finally saw the new Mission Impossible and I can’t believe they actually made an entire blockbuster movie about my long-standing quip that “Tom Cruise is America’s Jesus.”
Can’t wait for this Pee-Wee Herman documentary tonight, especially after reading @caitmckinney.bsky.social ‘s absolutely incredible book from earlier this year.
May 24, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Can’t wait for this Pee-Wee Herman documentary tonight, especially after reading @caitmckinney.bsky.social ‘s absolutely incredible book from earlier this year.
My book project, Dragon Ball Z: A Manga and Anime Franchise Plays Across the Americas, just received unanimous support from the UMN Press editorial board!
A rare example of a project where I am more interested in the topic now than at the start. Usually I'm exhausted with the idea.
A rare example of a project where I am more interested in the topic now than at the start. Usually I'm exhausted with the idea.
April 24, 2025 at 5:32 PM
My book project, Dragon Ball Z: A Manga and Anime Franchise Plays Across the Americas, just received unanimous support from the UMN Press editorial board!
A rare example of a project where I am more interested in the topic now than at the start. Usually I'm exhausted with the idea.
A rare example of a project where I am more interested in the topic now than at the start. Usually I'm exhausted with the idea.
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Look. I know the country is on fire. But I have a documentary on Steve #Ditko in production that should release in 2026/27. I’m writing a revival/legacy of Ditko’s STATIC with Mike Norton. @vincenthaddad.bsky.social and I have a new book on The Question coming. Better a bang than a whimper, right?
April 21, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Look. I know the country is on fire. But I have a documentary on Steve #Ditko in production that should release in 2026/27. I’m writing a revival/legacy of Ditko’s STATIC with Mike Norton. @vincenthaddad.bsky.social and I have a new book on The Question coming. Better a bang than a whimper, right?
I assign a basic summary and response of an academic article in my sophomore comics class.
There is something especially disheartening about reading AI-generated "responses" that criticize the writer's rhetorical choices or examples because the student was prompted to respond critically.
There is something especially disheartening about reading AI-generated "responses" that criticize the writer's rhetorical choices or examples because the student was prompted to respond critically.
April 4, 2025 at 12:42 PM
I assign a basic summary and response of an academic article in my sophomore comics class.
There is something especially disheartening about reading AI-generated "responses" that criticize the writer's rhetorical choices or examples because the student was prompted to respond critically.
There is something especially disheartening about reading AI-generated "responses" that criticize the writer's rhetorical choices or examples because the student was prompted to respond critically.
Happy for the opportunity to think more about Danny Brown.
April 3, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Happy for the opportunity to think more about Danny Brown.
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I was interviewed the other day on the relationship between manga and baseball for this NYT piece.
🌐 How two art forms, baseball and manga, became intertwined in Japan
#Baseball
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6208911/2025/03/18/baseball-manga-japan-tokyo-series/
How two art forms, baseball and manga, became intertwined in Japan
Manga’s roots are deep, and its influence on baseball is growing, even in the U.S.
www.nytimes.com
March 18, 2025 at 11:29 AM
I was interviewed the other day on the relationship between manga and baseball for this NYT piece.
Read two outstanding books this week that poignantly illuminated today’s structure of feeling.
March 10, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Read two outstanding books this week that poignantly illuminated today’s structure of feeling.
What do other people do with the constant low-grade anxiety waiting for a specific e-mail (like reader reports) before, on, or in the indeterminate days and week(s)? I need a better strategy than whatever I am doing.
March 4, 2025 at 5:58 PM
What do other people do with the constant low-grade anxiety waiting for a specific e-mail (like reader reports) before, on, or in the indeterminate days and week(s)? I need a better strategy than whatever I am doing.
The single-issue egg voter.
March 1, 2025 at 12:28 PM
The single-issue egg voter.