Against Archival Erasure: a conversation on Caribbean women and the archive. 2/27 at the CUNY Graduate Center.
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Against Archival Erasure: a conversation on Caribbean women and the archive. 2/27 at the CUNY Graduate Center.
It would be embarrassing under any circumstances to spend a year on this reactionary horseshit, but to have spent the year in which graduate students were sent to concentration camps for op-eds and the federal govt launched a no hold barred attack on academic freedom is just beyond
It’s infuriating how many people claim to care about fictitious “child trafficking” conspiracies about trans people and Wayfair and Democrats but will miss, ignore, and distract from actual government agents kidnapping children in front of their very eyes
It would appear I am now a columnist at Inside Higher Ed. My first piece focuses on McCarthyism, censorship, and our current moment in higher education. This is an essay I started nearly 6 months ago so I'm glad to finally share it with y'all.
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
The Introduction, “What is the Future We Yearn For?,” to my book, *The Future That Was*, is now live and freely available to all on the book’s @princetonupress.bsky.social website
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On a separate note, this isn’t even the most exciting development in the study of CLR James in my own household this week.
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Graph showing relationship between share of faculty hiring going to white men vs. underrepresented minorities at different levels of state revenue dependence with and without introduction of DEI bills.
There hasn't been a lot of empirical evidence yet -- here's a start from Kim + Hamilton.
Faculty hiring of URMs decreases after state introduction (not passage) of anti-DEI legislation. Impact greater for teaching-focused schools, and increases with state revenue dependence. osf.io/preprints/so...
BlueSky: If you've started reading my new book, AESTHETIC IMPROPRIETY: PROPERTY LAW AND POSTCOLONIAL STYLE, and are enjoying it, please consider sending me a sentence or two explaining why.
It's for a thing I'm applying for (and a small monetary award for future research funds). Thanks!
The cover for my book, The Future That Was, is now live! It features the MacArthur genius artist Shahzia Sikander's Infinite Woman (2021), where earth is surrounded by an infinite series of women marching around the globe who, from afar, become rays of the sun ☀️
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NEW — An estimated 40 people were taken by federal agents in an overnight raid in South Shore, a predominantly-Black neighborhood on Chicago’s South Side.
A couple who live nearby said they were shocked to see the enormous militarized raid in their community.
thetriibe.com/2025/09/feds...
Don't miss the first of this semester's New Faculty Voices Q&A series! This semester we were delighted to welcome Professor Farah Bakaari to UC Berkeley English. A scholar of 20th and 21st Century African Literature, you can learn more about her and her work in our Q&A - link in bio!
green and yellow cover of University Keywords, ed by Andy Hines
Table of contents for University Keywords University: An Introduction, Andy Hines Academic Freedom, Jennifer Ruth and Ellen Schrecker Adjunct, Heather Steffen Admissions, Scott Gelber Alternative Institutions, Andy Hines and Eli Meyerhoff Athletics, Wayne L. Black Board of Trustees, Asheesh Siddique Kapur Budget, Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra Campus, Davarian Baldwin Classroom, Richard Simpson Critical University Studies, Rana M. Jaleel, Isaac Kamola, and Heather Steffen Debt, Eleni Schirmer and Jason Wozniak Degree, Christopher Newfield Discipline, Vineeta Singh Diversity, p.s. kehal EdTech, Annie McClanahan and Louise McCune Endowment, Dennis M. Hogan Entrepreneurship, Jesse Goldstein
Table of contents for university keywords Fiction, Jeffrey J. Williams Legislation, Elizabeth Tandy Shermer Noncitizen Student, Abigail Boggs Police, Yalile Suriel and Grace Watkins Ranking, Jelena Brankovic and Stefan Wilbers Revenue, Dan Nemser and Brian Whitener Risk Management, Mattie Armstrong-Price Sustainability, Kai Bosworth, Jesse Goldstein, Andy Hines, and Eli Meyerhoff Title IX, Rana M. Jaleel Union, Zach Schwartz-Weinstein Appendix: Questions to Consider for Composing a Keywords Entry Contributor Bios Acknowledgments Index
It's publication day for UNIVERSITY KEYWORDS. Across 27 sharp essays, the book offers a critical account of the political economy of US higher education, how it came to be structured this way, and how together we might build a better university together.
Want to read about postcolonial literature that's contributed to anti-colonial legal change? Keen on Arundhati Roy, M. NourbeSe Philip, Zoë Wicomb, Ben Okri, or Chigozie Obioma?
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Relatedly, I highly recommend co-writing with the homies! It was invigorating and it brought a lot of joy into my solo writing process too
In a new article in Verge, @neelofer.bsky.social, Najnin Islam, and I offer iteration as
the aesthetic logic by which contemporary visual culture connects Indian indenture to the labor systems that precede and follow it.
Check it out in Verge (open access!)
muse.jhu.edu/pub/23/artic...
Thank you for sharing and for these really kind words Manu!
Flyer: Did you know Penn is now applying for reaccreditation, even while facing threats that trustees might unilaterally close departments and punish open expression? DON'T LET DONORS AND TRUSTEES JEOPARDIZE PENN'S ACCREDITATION. Third-party comment period is open until January 12. Use the QR code to tell MSCHE: Higher education is impossible without academic freedom. Billionaire CEOs' and trustees' attempts to control curriculum and to silence speech are a threat to Penn's future
Penn is due for reaccreditation. That requires a university to adhere to principles of academic freedom, shared governance, open expression, and diversity. Speak up and tell MSCHE: unelected trustees' and donors' recent actions put Penn's future at risk. Public comment ends 1/12 shorturl.at/giAOS
You were missed! Hope to meet you another time
There'll be more jerks to come, no worries! And thank you for coming on Thursday, appreciate it! ✨
Unpopular opinion: the MLA convention somehow morphed into one of the better scholarly events out there. Plenty of complaints, sure, but I've been almost every year since 2017. And as all the tweets & texts are reminding me–a lot of good work is happening in those dim ballrooms!
Thank you so much Nathan 🥹
Harris! I missed this very kind post, thank you for all your good questions and support!
Description of an MLA 2024 roundtable, titled "Jerks," on the dyspeptic, cantankerous, and disagreeable in literature.
For my first Bluesky post, some #mla24 promo:
It's here! Wake up with "Jerks" this Friday at 8:30 am.
We'll hear about Oscar Zeta Acosta's pugnacious leadership in the Chicano movement, Coetzee’s jerk poetics, dyspeptic dads, Larry David, and the valences of "nothing" in Naipaul's work.
