Arnab Dutta Roy
@arnabdr.bsky.social
Associate Professor at Florida Gulf Coast University | PhD @UConn | Areas: World & South Asian Lit + Studies in Colonialism & Human Rights | host @NewBooksNetwork | Books on the Postcolonial Bildungsroman | Parent of 🐈⬛🐈 🐈⬛
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Arnab Dutta Roy
@arnabdr.bsky.social
· Jan 3
Hello friends, the postcolonial bildungsroman volumes are out now. Please consider checking them out, using them in your research, courses, reviewing them, ordering them for your personal or university libraries, and spreading the word. @ualbertapress.bsky.social @univnebpress.bsky.social
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My copy just arrived: Fredric Jameson's posthumous companion volume to "The Years of Theory," here addressing postwar German thought. Thanks (and congratulations) to editor Carson Welch for putting this together so marvelously. www.versobooks.com/products/353...
After Year Zero
In this series of accessible lectures, Fredric Jameson explores German philosophy and critical theory as it developed in the wake of World War Two. Focusing on key thinkers — Horkheimer, Adorno, Heid...
www.versobooks.com
September 16, 2026 at 1:58 AM
My copy just arrived: Fredric Jameson's posthumous companion volume to "The Years of Theory," here addressing postwar German thought. Thanks (and congratulations) to editor Carson Welch for putting this together so marvelously. www.versobooks.com/products/353...
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Friends, @keeblearin.bsky.social and i are giving a talk with @bacls.bsky.social this Friday, September 18 at 9am EST / 2pm BST. I’d love for you to come!
You can register for free here: luma.com/pujm2k86
You can register for free here: luma.com/pujm2k86
September 15, 2026 at 10:43 PM
Friends, @keeblearin.bsky.social and i are giving a talk with @bacls.bsky.social this Friday, September 18 at 9am EST / 2pm BST. I’d love for you to come!
You can register for free here: luma.com/pujm2k86
You can register for free here: luma.com/pujm2k86
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"Inland Empire" by Manuel Shvartzberg Carrió explores how modernist architecture and urbanism structured US settler colonialism, placing them in critical dialogue with Indigenous design and resistance in Southern California. Read the intro for free: buff.ly/XnZvixp
September 4, 2026 at 5:01 PM
"Inland Empire" by Manuel Shvartzberg Carrió explores how modernist architecture and urbanism structured US settler colonialism, placing them in critical dialogue with Indigenous design and resistance in Southern California. Read the intro for free: buff.ly/XnZvixp
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Read Critical AI editor Lauren Goodlad's essay in #Representations new #clusteronAI (2026) 175 (1): 80–110.
doi.org/10.1525/rep.....
The cluster begins with Goodlad's "We Have Always Been Action Theorists" and includes four interdisciplinary responses.
doi.org/10.1525/rep.....
The cluster begins with Goodlad's "We Have Always Been Action Theorists" and includes four interdisciplinary responses.
We Have Always Been Action TheoristsToward a Critical Theory of Language for the Era of “Large Language Models”
Scholars of literature and culture understandably place themselves among the world’s premiere experts on matters of language. But they also know that fields like linguistics and communication have the...
doi.org
August 2, 2026 at 2:44 PM
Read Critical AI editor Lauren Goodlad's essay in #Representations new #clusteronAI (2026) 175 (1): 80–110.
doi.org/10.1525/rep.....
The cluster begins with Goodlad's "We Have Always Been Action Theorists" and includes four interdisciplinary responses.
doi.org/10.1525/rep.....
The cluster begins with Goodlad's "We Have Always Been Action Theorists" and includes four interdisciplinary responses.
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Raymond Williams had a birthday yesterday. we celebrated his 100th with this book. read some essays, read more Williams, read. like he says, culture is ordinary!
www.bloomsbury.com/us/raymond-w...
www.bloomsbury.com/us/raymond-w...
Raymond Williams at 100
Raymond Williams was “by common consent” one of the “two most commanding intellectual figures in the New Left that emerged in Britain at the t…
www.bloomsbury.com
September 1, 2026 at 11:29 AM
Raymond Williams had a birthday yesterday. we celebrated his 100th with this book. read some essays, read more Williams, read. like he says, culture is ordinary!
www.bloomsbury.com/us/raymond-w...
www.bloomsbury.com/us/raymond-w...
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You know when you read something, sigh deeply, and then want to shout to the heavens, "THANK YOU!"
This report from MIT on AI is one of those things:
This report from MIT on AI is one of those things:
August 27, 2026 at 2:40 PM
You know when you read something, sigh deeply, and then want to shout to the heavens, "THANK YOU!"
This report from MIT on AI is one of those things:
This report from MIT on AI is one of those things:
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CFP! @joeykim.bsky.social & I are editing The Latinx-Asian Commons, an interdisciplinary collection on Asian-Latinx relationalities from the nineteenth century to 1965. We welcome 300–500-word proposals. Due October 8, 2026. Graduate students & contingent faculty encouraged! See photo for more info.
August 23, 2026 at 8:39 PM
CFP! @joeykim.bsky.social & I are editing The Latinx-Asian Commons, an interdisciplinary collection on Asian-Latinx relationalities from the nineteenth century to 1965. We welcome 300–500-word proposals. Due October 8, 2026. Graduate students & contingent faculty encouraged! See photo for more info.
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🗣️ Volume 56 of 'The Yearbook of English Studies' is out!
Entitled 'Literature and Ethics in a Time of Crisis', the volume is edited by Charlotta Palmstierna Einarsson, Pieter Vermeulen, and Joakim Wrethed.
👉 www.mhra.org.uk/publications...
Via @projectmuse.bsky.social 👉 muse.jhu.edu/issue/57375
Entitled 'Literature and Ethics in a Time of Crisis', the volume is edited by Charlotta Palmstierna Einarsson, Pieter Vermeulen, and Joakim Wrethed.
👉 www.mhra.org.uk/publications...
Via @projectmuse.bsky.social 👉 muse.jhu.edu/issue/57375
August 20, 2026 at 1:28 PM
🗣️ Volume 56 of 'The Yearbook of English Studies' is out!
Entitled 'Literature and Ethics in a Time of Crisis', the volume is edited by Charlotta Palmstierna Einarsson, Pieter Vermeulen, and Joakim Wrethed.
👉 www.mhra.org.uk/publications...
Via @projectmuse.bsky.social 👉 muse.jhu.edu/issue/57375
Entitled 'Literature and Ethics in a Time of Crisis', the volume is edited by Charlotta Palmstierna Einarsson, Pieter Vermeulen, and Joakim Wrethed.
👉 www.mhra.org.uk/publications...
Via @projectmuse.bsky.social 👉 muse.jhu.edu/issue/57375
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This was such a fun conversation with Arnab and a nice change of pace for me to be a podcast guest!
In the last @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social episode, I speak with the brilliant @aarthivadde.bsky.social about her fantastic new book We the Platform: How the Internet Changed Twenty First-Century Literature. Please check it out: newbooksnetwork.com/we-the-platf...
August 18, 2026 at 4:13 PM
This was such a fun conversation with Arnab and a nice change of pace for me to be a podcast guest!
In the last @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social episode, I speak with the brilliant @aarthivadde.bsky.social about her fantastic new book We the Platform: How the Internet Changed Twenty First-Century Literature. Please check it out: newbooksnetwork.com/we-the-platf...
August 18, 2026 at 3:16 PM
In the last @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social episode, I speak with the brilliant @aarthivadde.bsky.social about her fantastic new book We the Platform: How the Internet Changed Twenty First-Century Literature. Please check it out: newbooksnetwork.com/we-the-platf...
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Looking for a compelling case for the relevance of Marxist criticism? Well, I've got a bunch of them! Liam Kruger, Oded Nir, and I put together a special issue of @culturalcritique.bsky.social on "Marxism, Form, and Futurity"! #humanities #marxism
muse.jhu.edu/issue/57283
muse.jhu.edu/issue/57283
muse.jhu.edu
July 24, 2026 at 5:04 PM
Looking for a compelling case for the relevance of Marxist criticism? Well, I've got a bunch of them! Liam Kruger, Oded Nir, and I put together a special issue of @culturalcritique.bsky.social on "Marxism, Form, and Futurity"! #humanities #marxism
muse.jhu.edu/issue/57283
muse.jhu.edu/issue/57283
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The introduction to my book is now available online, thanks @dukepress.bsky.social 🫶 The official pub date is in October www.dukeupress.edu/content-mach....
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August 7, 2026 at 1:41 PM
The introduction to my book is now available online, thanks @dukepress.bsky.social 🫶 The official pub date is in October www.dukeupress.edu/content-mach....
In the latest @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social episode, I had the great privilege of speaking with Guadeloupian author Marie Léticée and translator Kevin Meehan about their novel Camille's Lakou. Please check it out:
newbooksnetwork.com/camilles-lakou
newbooksnetwork.com/camilles-lakou
July 27, 2026 at 5:33 PM
In the latest @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social episode, I had the great privilege of speaking with Guadeloupian author Marie Léticée and translator Kevin Meehan about their novel Camille's Lakou. Please check it out:
newbooksnetwork.com/camilles-lakou
newbooksnetwork.com/camilles-lakou
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"We really need to work on the ethical implications of AI!"
OK, cool, about how it's making poor people's lives worse?
"... No"
About how it's destroying education?
"No not that"
OK so which ethical implications are you talking about?
"Oh, you know the ones ;)"
OK, cool, about how it's making poor people's lives worse?
"... No"
About how it's destroying education?
"No not that"
OK so which ethical implications are you talking about?
"Oh, you know the ones ;)"
July 19, 2026 at 4:34 PM
"We really need to work on the ethical implications of AI!"
OK, cool, about how it's making poor people's lives worse?
"... No"
About how it's destroying education?
"No not that"
OK so which ethical implications are you talking about?
"Oh, you know the ones ;)"
OK, cool, about how it's making poor people's lives worse?
"... No"
About how it's destroying education?
"No not that"
OK so which ethical implications are you talking about?
"Oh, you know the ones ;)"
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There is a massive amount of research and literature on needed reforms to universities that nobody at The Atlantic, New York Times, New Yorker, or in the "thought industry" want to talk about or even pretend exists. Wonder why! www.press.jhu.edu/books/series...
Critical University Studies
Books in the Critical University Studies series turn a cold eye on higher education to show how it is a site of struggle between private commercial interests and more public ones. They analyze how the...
www.press.jhu.edu
July 17, 2026 at 2:15 PM
There is a massive amount of research and literature on needed reforms to universities that nobody at The Atlantic, New York Times, New Yorker, or in the "thought industry" want to talk about or even pretend exists. Wonder why! www.press.jhu.edu/books/series...
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today in journal special issues received!
CULTURAL CRITIQUE features "Marxism, Form, and Futurity"
special editors Liam Kruger, Oded Nir, and Christian Haines @cphiliphaines.bsky.social @culturalcritique.bsky.social
CULTURAL CRITIQUE features "Marxism, Form, and Futurity"
special editors Liam Kruger, Oded Nir, and Christian Haines @cphiliphaines.bsky.social @culturalcritique.bsky.social
July 16, 2026 at 1:11 PM
today in journal special issues received!
CULTURAL CRITIQUE features "Marxism, Form, and Futurity"
special editors Liam Kruger, Oded Nir, and Christian Haines @cphiliphaines.bsky.social @culturalcritique.bsky.social
CULTURAL CRITIQUE features "Marxism, Form, and Futurity"
special editors Liam Kruger, Oded Nir, and Christian Haines @cphiliphaines.bsky.social @culturalcritique.bsky.social
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DATA EMPIRE is on BookBub's Best Nonfiction of the Summer list! www.bookbub.com/blog/nonfict...
July 13, 2026 at 11:29 PM
DATA EMPIRE is on BookBub's Best Nonfiction of the Summer list! www.bookbub.com/blog/nonfict...
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Look what came in the mail today!!! www.versobooks.com/products/347.... Thanks @versobooks.bsky.social!!! Officially out next month. Order yours today.
July 13, 2026 at 1:36 AM
Look what came in the mail today!!! www.versobooks.com/products/347.... Thanks @versobooks.bsky.social!!! Officially out next month. Order yours today.
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I've been watching for the past decade as people in my circle & beyond have been declining (employment, income, quality of life).
First it was precarity. Now the process is faster. People are moving into borderline poverty. I don't recall this rate of decline before.
news.gallup.com/poll/702125/...
First it was precarity. Now the process is faster. People are moving into borderline poverty. I don't recall this rate of decline before.
news.gallup.com/poll/702125/...
American Optimism Slumps to Record Low
The percentage of U.S. adults who anticipate high-quality lives in five years declined to 59.2% in 2025, the lowest level since measurement began in 2008.
news.gallup.com
July 11, 2026 at 11:29 PM
I've been watching for the past decade as people in my circle & beyond have been declining (employment, income, quality of life).
First it was precarity. Now the process is faster. People are moving into borderline poverty. I don't recall this rate of decline before.
news.gallup.com/poll/702125/...
First it was precarity. Now the process is faster. People are moving into borderline poverty. I don't recall this rate of decline before.
news.gallup.com/poll/702125/...
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Happy Saturday, friends. Obnoxiously re-upping the news that I won’t be writing a column for the Chronicle anymore but I hope you’ll still read and share my 10 pieces. And who knows, maybe someday I’ll spin and build them into something longer (a…book?? Sounds hard LOL).
Friends, authors, fellow dissidents--a quick FYI: I won't be writing for the Chronicle anymore. I took a hiatus to deal w/ Life Things & they're no longer running regular columns, which is a-OK. BUT you can still read the 10 publishing advice columns I DID write: www.chronicle.com/author/rebec...
Rebecca Colesworthy
Rebecca Colesworthy is a senior acquisitions editor at the SUNY Press in the areas of education, African American studies, women’s and gender studies, and queer studies, among others. She is on social...
www.chronicle.com
July 11, 2026 at 1:17 PM
Happy Saturday, friends. Obnoxiously re-upping the news that I won’t be writing a column for the Chronicle anymore but I hope you’ll still read and share my 10 pieces. And who knows, maybe someday I’ll spin and build them into something longer (a…book?? Sounds hard LOL).
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Learn more about our new July releases, including a collection on the work of Fredric Jameson, "The Future of Totality," edited by @roberttally.bsky.social, Nicholas Brown, Maria Elisa Cevasco and Fabio Akcelrud Durão. buff.ly/zs9RK2C
July 1, 2026 at 4:15 PM
Learn more about our new July releases, including a collection on the work of Fredric Jameson, "The Future of Totality," edited by @roberttally.bsky.social, Nicholas Brown, Maria Elisa Cevasco and Fabio Akcelrud Durão. buff.ly/zs9RK2C
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The Weekly Read is "The Artist-Philosopher: Sylvia Wynter's Aesthetic Continuity and the Creative Act of Decolonial Theory" by manuel arturo abreu. The article appears in Sylvia Wynter and the Question of Technology, a special issue of Social Text.
Read it for free through 9/30: buff.ly/EpumIFV
Read it for free through 9/30: buff.ly/EpumIFV
June 27, 2026 at 1:03 PM
The Weekly Read is "The Artist-Philosopher: Sylvia Wynter's Aesthetic Continuity and the Creative Act of Decolonial Theory" by manuel arturo abreu. The article appears in Sylvia Wynter and the Question of Technology, a special issue of Social Text.
Read it for free through 9/30: buff.ly/EpumIFV
Read it for free through 9/30: buff.ly/EpumIFV
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I loved talking with @ryantopper.bsky.social about our recent books.
Interested in the structures and possibilities that literature builds? In literary criticism and critical theory? In African studies, postcolonial anglophone literature, psychoanalysis, or the law? We have all this and more!
Interested in the structures and possibilities that literature builds? In literary criticism and critical theory? In African studies, postcolonial anglophone literature, psychoanalysis, or the law? We have all this and more!
New on the Diacritics blog: "Postcolonial Literature’s Generative Capacities: A Conversation with Rose Casey and Ryan Topper" about their recent monographs, "Aesthetic Impropriety" & "Animist Poetics." Read here: www.diacriticsjournal.com/postcolonial...
June 23, 2026 at 9:42 PM
I loved talking with @ryantopper.bsky.social about our recent books.
Interested in the structures and possibilities that literature builds? In literary criticism and critical theory? In African studies, postcolonial anglophone literature, psychoanalysis, or the law? We have all this and more!
Interested in the structures and possibilities that literature builds? In literary criticism and critical theory? In African studies, postcolonial anglophone literature, psychoanalysis, or the law? We have all this and more!
My summer graduate course Utopias from the Global South is ready to roll! Excited!
June 23, 2026 at 4:48 PM
My summer graduate course Utopias from the Global South is ready to roll! Excited!