Adin E. Lears
@adinlears.bsky.social
Black chalk living room couch professor—I write things and teach literature, critical theory, and medieval studies at VCU. Author of World of Echo: Noise and Knowing in Late Medieval England (Cornell, 2020).
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Adin E. Lears
@adinlears.bsky.social
· Jul 31
Adin Lears–Bitcoin Vitalism and the Elixir of Life
This text is published as part of a special b2o issue titled “Critique as Care”, edited by Norberto Gomez, Frankie Mastrangelo, Jonathan Nichols, and Paul Robertson, and published in honor of our b2o ...
www.boundary2.org
Very happy this essay in memory and honor of my friend David Golumbia has come to fruition: www.boundary2.org/2025/04/adin...
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"This book . . . asks how the invisible immanence of whiteness is '"recognised or misrecognised"' and how it shapes social and political power."
Adin E. Lears on Wan-Chuan Kao's White before whiteness in the late Middle Ages: criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/adin_e_lears...
Adin E. Lears on Wan-Chuan Kao's White before whiteness in the late Middle Ages: criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/adin_e_lears...
February 13, 2026 at 12:09 AM
"This book . . . asks how the invisible immanence of whiteness is '"recognised or misrecognised"' and how it shapes social and political power."
Adin E. Lears on Wan-Chuan Kao's White before whiteness in the late Middle Ages: criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/adin_e_lears...
Adin E. Lears on Wan-Chuan Kao's White before whiteness in the late Middle Ages: criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/adin_e_lears...
CFP for MLA roundtable on “Chaucerian Animacies”! Feel free to disseminate!
February 11, 2026 at 1:18 PM
CFP for MLA roundtable on “Chaucerian Animacies”! Feel free to disseminate!
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In Journal of English and Germanic Philology Vol. 124 No. 3 @adinlears.bsky.social reviews "Hawking Women: Falconry, Gender, and Control in Medieval Literary Culture" (@ohiostatepress.bsky.social). Read the review on @projectmuse.bsky.social. cc: @ndiscenza1.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/pub/34/artic...
November 25, 2025 at 4:02 PM
In Journal of English and Germanic Philology Vol. 124 No. 3 @adinlears.bsky.social reviews "Hawking Women: Falconry, Gender, and Control in Medieval Literary Culture" (@ohiostatepress.bsky.social). Read the review on @projectmuse.bsky.social. cc: @ndiscenza1.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/pub/34/artic...
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‘The gradual ebbing of classics – once synonymous with education as a whole – opened up ground for the emergence of English. But the relationship also involved an awkward, smothering paternalism.’
Colin Kidd on the history of university English studies: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Colin Kidd on the history of university English studies: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Colin Kidd · Lumps of Cram: University English
What is the missing noun to which English refers: literature, language or both? If both, does English belong with the...
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August 14, 2025 at 5:20 PM
‘The gradual ebbing of classics – once synonymous with education as a whole – opened up ground for the emergence of English. But the relationship also involved an awkward, smothering paternalism.’
Colin Kidd on the history of university English studies: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Colin Kidd on the history of university English studies: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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He might be the most embarrassing man in existence, and that's saying a lot given the current administration.
August 8, 2025 at 10:38 PM
He might be the most embarrassing man in existence, and that's saying a lot given the current administration.
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hmmm. feels like shovel violence is lower than it should be.
Study Finds Refreshingly Low Amount Of Shovel Violence theonion.com/study-f...
July 30, 2025 at 9:03 PM
hmmm. feels like shovel violence is lower than it should be.
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“It was a long and firm hug, as the Comet Man wept tears of flame.” 😭❤️
@jeffvandermeer.bsky.social #APeculiarPeril 📚💙
@jeffvandermeer.bsky.social #APeculiarPeril 📚💙
July 31, 2025 at 4:02 AM
“It was a long and firm hug, as the Comet Man wept tears of flame.” 😭❤️
@jeffvandermeer.bsky.social #APeculiarPeril 📚💙
@jeffvandermeer.bsky.social #APeculiarPeril 📚💙
Very happy this essay in memory and honor of my friend David Golumbia has come to fruition: www.boundary2.org/2025/04/adin...
Adin Lears–Bitcoin Vitalism and the Elixir of Life
This text is published as part of a special b2o issue titled “Critique as Care”, edited by Norberto Gomez, Frankie Mastrangelo, Jonathan Nichols, and Paul Robertson, and published in honor of our b2o ...
www.boundary2.org
July 31, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Very happy this essay in memory and honor of my friend David Golumbia has come to fruition: www.boundary2.org/2025/04/adin...