My latest article is out. Read "Literary Debts in Tang China: On the Exchange of Money, Merit, and Meter" here in Monumenta Serica 71.1. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02549948.2023.2198396

If you don't have institutional access, you can download a copy here:
https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/QW7SRHUE8TBDPCQTIFYT/full?target=10.1080/02549948.2023.2198396

If that link doesn't work, email me for a copy if you're interested.

#Chinese #Poetry #Exchange #Money #Merit #Tang #ReligiousStudies #LiteraryStudies #Debt

#savethedate #FediCampus
Am 06.07. findet das interdisziplinäre a.r.t.e.s forum 2023 im Seminargebäude der Uni Köln statt. Es geht um die Frage danach, wie wir mit Umgebungen umgehen, die unsere Lebensgrundlagen und Lebensweisen in Frage stellen. Das diesjährige Forum, an dem Forscher aus den Bereichen #archaeology , #architecture, #musicology, #literarystudies, #theology, #bioengineering und #sociology teilnehmen, 1/2

Thrilled to announce that our #EXC2020 #RA4_LiteraryCurrencies volume on "The Value of Literary Circulation" is out! @freieuniversitaet

It can be downloaded here: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-662-65544-3

The 33 articles put #circulation up for discussion anew as a concept in #literarystudies. The aim is to give the term a methodological-theoretical profile vis-à-vis its metaphorical use, to concretize it materially-phenomenally, and to redefine it for transnationally organized literature.

Published this month in #OpenAccess by @SKS_finlit - Elää, kokea, ymmärtää. Alex Matsonin elämä (Live, Experience, Understand. The Life of Alex Matson). Read it in full here - https://doi.org/10.21435/tl.280 #openbooks #openscholarship #alexmatson #literarystudies
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Nyt avoimena verkossa ja painettuna: Yrjö Varpion elämäkerta kirjailija ja kriitikko Alex Matsonista, jonka jättämä jälki näkyy suomalaiskirjailijoiden tuot…
https://twitter.com/SKS_finlit/status/1647894583366361089

I will be putting together a syllabus for an upper-level undergrad course called "Literature and Social Justice" for the fall. Any recommendations for what we should read?
#HigherEd
#Humanities
#TeachingLit
#LiteraryStudies
#SocialJustice
#MovementLiterature

The power of language: How rhetoric awareness can combat hiring bias and discrimination
#Canada #Work #Immigration #Discrimination #Jobs #Bias #Rhetoric #HiringPractices #JobMarket #Hiring #HiringDiscrimination #JobHunting #LiteraryStudies #Language
https://the-14.com/the-power-of-language-how-rhetoric-awareness-can-combat-hiring-bias-and-discrimination/

A nice take from Andrew Dean in the Sydney Review of Books on the implications of generative AI for literary studies: https://sydneyreviewofbooks.com/essay/future-literary-studies-dean/

#digitalhumanities #literarystudies

So proud to be writing the "George Gissing" volume for @LivUniPress@twitter.com' Writers and Their Work series! #GreatGissingRevival

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Students and faculty at @RiceUniversity@twitter.com now have trial access to 100 volumes from Writers and Their Work: The Digital Collection until February 22nd 2023.
Browse the volumes here: https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/topic/collections/writers-and-their-work-the-digital-collection-free-trial?
#literarystudies #Literature @fondrenlibrary@twitter.com

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/LivUniPress/status/1617613269513998356

Feels a bit reminiscent of job market days where I had to become expert in persuasively describing as-yet-unwritten projects. Anyway, if any #AcWri folks out there have fun or interesting ideas for transitioning from the planning/envisioning phase to the concrete 'WRITE THIS and integrate the pre-existing research and already-written chunks/chapters into a whole actual book' phase, I would love to hear them! @academicchatter #literarystudies

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2023 is off to a great start with the launch of Writers and Their Work: The Digital Collection. Please take a look, recommend it to your libraries, and read my blog post about the history of the series going back to 1950! #literarystudies https://twitter.com/LivUniPress/status/1613547723839442946

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/xabelsc/status/1613568864985522177

#CFP

Gender Dialogues:
Interdisciplinary Forum for Young Scholars

"[...] It is aimed at PhD students from different disciplines who apply #feminist, #gender and queer-specific approaches in their dissertation project, especially from the fields of #LiteraryStudies, #TheatreStudies, #Philosophy, #Aesthetics, #ArtHistory, #Musicology, #Linguistics, #TranslationStudies, #History, #Anthropology and #MediaStudies."

The first meeting – 23.02.2023 at 4 p.m. via Zoom.

https://www.uni-bamberg.de/slavart/news/artikel/cfp-gender-dialogues/

#CFP for edited volume: Nightmare/s in the Long #19thCentury

#Nightmares occupied a special place in “the mythology of the #Gothic imagination”; some of the most famous works in this genre – such as #MaryShelley’s #Frankenstein (1818) & #RobertLouisStevenson’s #JekyllandHyde (1886) – allegedly had their origins in their author’s nightmares

submission deadline 15 March

@litstudies
#literature #horror #literarystudies

img: Henry Fuseli, “The Nightmare” (1781)

https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2022/12/19/nightmares-in-the-long-nineteenth-century-cfp-for-edited-volume

Monday, January 9th, at 6pm GMT/1pm EST, Grave Matters, a Death Studies group out of the University of Birkbeck, will be having a free talk that I am presenting in! My talk is on haunted portraits in late 19th century aesthetic literature. There will also be talks on humor in spiritualist lit and Welsh death omens.

Come if you can!

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/one-need-not-be-a-chamber-to-be-haunted-haunted-people-haunted-objects-tickets-463906455697

#supernaturalfiction #supernatural #literarystudies #Victodon @litstudies #VictorianStudies

Arthur Machen puts forward that what makes something "fine literature" is a feeling of ecstasy. This is a general term he uses for: rapture, beauty, adoration, wonder, awe, mystery, sense of the unknown, desire for the unknown.

Ecstasy itself comes from feeling outside oneself.

Of course there is a sexual component that is not explicitly in Machen's literary theory but is present in his fiction.

Can ecstasy be divorced from sex? Just feeling pleasure?
#Victodon @litstudies
#literarystudies

Every time I give my students the option to fulfil an assignment through some kind of non-traditional project (a fictional interview, a podcast script, a lesson plan, a blog post) they do such wonderfully wild and clever things. I just finished reading an analysis of two Emily Dickinson poems in the mode of a scene in an interrogation room between Dickinson and Death. So good.
#Teaching #LiteraryStudies
#LoveMyStudents

I guess it’s #introduction time: I’m an English prof at Ohio State. I write & research in the areas of #environmentalhumanities, #energyhumanities & #literarystudies. My first home was #modernism & I wrote a book called The Extinct Scene: Late Modernism & Everyday Life (Columbia UP 2016). I am working on a book called Unnatural Attachments: Aesthetic Education & Ecological Crisis. I edit the Energy & Environment forum for Modernism/Modernity’s Print + platform (pitch me!). Into analog things.

★★★★★
Twentieth Century Interpretations of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, edited by Denton Fox

#bookstodon #sirgawain #gawain #greenknight #middleenglish #poetry #medieval #literaturestudies #literarystudies #literarycriticism #criticism #england #medievalengland

Okay #LiteraryCommunity i'm a little emotional right now because a lyric essay I got pubbed in Honey Literary got the close-read treatment over at essay daily, and sol kim, the author of this piece, was incredibly generous and insightful and made me feel grateful to be a writer in ways old and new. I am so fucking grateful to share my words with the world and sometimes get even better ones back.

#literarymastodon @litodons #litodon #transmastodon #literarystudies

https://www.essaydaily.org/2022/12/advent-2022-dec-16-sol-kim-cowell-final.html

Shout-out to @zanykirz and our very own @ssidky for their exciting work (on #Yiddish #translation & #GenocideStudies #Pedagogy) featured in this #LiteraryStudies list from @contingent_mag!
#YasherKoyekh

https://contingentmagazine.org/2022/12/12/2022-literary-studies-book-and-journal-article-list/

Come see me at #AJS2022! (Please wear a mask 😭 )

Monday Dec 19, 8:30 AM, Fairfax B 3rd Floor: Contesting Jewish Masculinities panel.

My presentation is titled "The First Hungarian Transgender Children’s Book? Gender Nonconformity in Jewish Author Zsuzsa Kántor’s Szerelmem, Csikó (1973)".

It was supported by the HBI Jewish Gender Studies research grant (much appreciated!)

#JewishStudies #TransLit #HungarianAuthors #LiteraryStudies #Humanities #Conferences #ZsuzsaKántor #CommunistHungary