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Congrats 🥳 to ASU Professor Nnedi Okorafor, PhD whose novel "Death of the Author" is the winner of the 2026 NAACP Image Award for a Literary Work in Fiction! 🏆

Learn more: https://ow.ly/oZfQ50YlV9h #ASUHumanities
February 25, 2026 at 8:01 PM
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Here's a spring '27 ASU course that'll spark insight✨ ENG 240: Intro to Narrative Studies examines the power of storytelling, in all its beauty and danger. Taught by Brandi K. Adams (ASU Online) and Christine Holbo (Tempe campus).

Register or add to favs: https://ow.ly/sR9K50ZSk19 #ASUHumanities
September 28, 2026 at 5:00 PM
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Congrats 🎉 to ASU English Professor @nnedi.bsky.social, whose novel "Death of the Author" was named among the best fiction of 2025 by @readbookpage.bsky.social.

See the full list: ow.ly/WIHk50XAjC9 #ASUHumanities
The Best Fiction of 2025
The greatest novels of 2024 were notably unafraid to rewrite the past. Even better: Many of them made us laugh along the way.
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December 4, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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New books from ASU English faculty! Just out or forthcoming soon are works on Irish literature (G. Castle), Jane Austen (@devoney.bsky.social), space cats ‪(@nnedi.bsky.social) and Shakespeare (L. Turchi).

Learn more: ow.ly/IV6X50WByRC #ASUHumanities CC: @acmrs.bsky.social
Covers of new books by ASU faculty Gregory Castle, Devoney Looser, Nnedi Okorafor, and Laura Turchi.
August 11, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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Another spring '27 ASU course for your consideration 🌍 CTE 310: Elements of Culture, Technology & Environment brings humanistic understanding to the four ancient elements 🌱🌪️🔥🌊 Taught via ASU Online + as an iCourse for campus students.

Register/add to favs: https://ow.ly/bkrO50ZT9pW #ASUHumanities
September 30, 2026 at 4:01 PM
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With fall semester in full swing, let's meet a few ASU English faculty in the trenches. New, or new-in-their-roles are: Maeghan Bowman, Reza Dalman, Ayling Dominguez, Andrew Dana Hudson, Patti Jones, Kathleen McNamara, Cecilia Savala & Marlene Tovar.

More: https://ow.ly/Cuil50ZTiKz #ASUHumanities
October 1, 2026 at 2:01 PM
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ICYMI: During #ASUHumanities Week (+ in honor of our 125th anniversary), we hosted an exciting conversation between ASU's @mdbell79.bsky.social and @nnedi.bsky.social about authorship, identity and creativity.

Watch “The Future is Now”: youtu.be/eQ3hbq6ubPc
The Future is Now: Nnedi Okorafor In Conversation with Matt Bell
YouTube video by Department of English, Arizona State University
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November 25, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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ASU English professor Brandi K. Adams has found what might be the earliest use of the term “artificial intelligence” in a 1588 book by English physician and astrologer John Harvey. Time to update the Oxford English Dictionary? 🤔😜

Learn more: https://ow.ly/o1i150ZL3jk #ASUHumanities
September 9, 2026 at 4:01 PM
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Hello Bluesky community! Here we are. ☀️ Please enjoy this photo of Ross-Blakley Hall—our home on the ASU Tempe campus—and its symbolic "open book" architecture. #ASUHumanities
An image of Ross-Blakley Hall on the Tempe campus reaching toward a brilliant blue sky. Photo by Bruce Matsunaga/ASU.
February 3, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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The ASU Department of English seeks applicants for Faculty Associate positions in both its Writing Programs and academic areas. Applications reviewed beginning Aug. 5.

Info: https://ow.ly/I6aB50Zn1xL #ASUHumanities
July 14, 2026 at 2:05 PM
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Oct. 23: We're hosting award-winning Africanfuturist @nnedi.bsky.social in convo with fiction writer @mdbell79.bsky.social on the craft of writing, metafiction & the power of story. Part of our quasquicentennial celebration + #ASUHumanities week. Reception to follow.

Join us! ow.ly/ip9g50Xbq2C
Flyer advertising "The Future Is Now" event featuring Nnedi Okorafor and Matt Bell, with pictures of the authors and event details: Oct. 23 at 3 p.m., University Club, ASU Tempe campus. RSVP at english.asu.edu/english-125
October 15, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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year 5 of #ASUHumanities Week ahead: many of the events are streamed

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August 28, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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"ASU’s Jeffrey J Cohen, a self-described 'medievalist' and 'higher ed optimist,' says colleges will survive threats posed by the technology. And he says blaming students for being lazy or less dedicated than previous generations is hardly new."

See gbhnews: https://ow.ly/bYU650ZSmW9 #ASUHumanities
‘Cognitive surrender’: Are college students who use AI really learning?
Artificial intelligence is forcing colleges to reconsider what exactly they want students to learn — and how to measure it.
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September 29, 2026 at 4:01 PM
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⭐🐚 "you could be a cookie lying there, / photographed not on a beach but in a pastry case"

From "Die-off Off Vancouver" by ASU English professor Sally Ball.

Read the whole poem online or in the September print issue @thenation.com: ow.ly/ICsz50WHzVf #ASUHumanities
Die-off Off Vancouver
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August 26, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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Coming spring '27 at ASU 🔍 Brilliant detectives, perfect crimes, unreliable witnesses, femmes fatale, criminal masterminds, spies, traitors, secret codes, hidden identities and more, in ENG 294: Mystery and Detective Fiction taught by Prof. Brian K Goodman.

https://ow.ly/QtJ150ZQP3F #ASUHumanities
ENG 294: Mystery and Detective Fiction | An ASU whodunit
Why do we love a good mystery? Is it because of the brilliant detectives, perfect crimes, unreliable witnesses, femmes fatale, criminal masterminds, spies, t...
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September 24, 2026 at 2:01 PM
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"Over the years, U.S. courts have established that obscenity can be a legitimate cause for removing a book from the public sphere, but only under limited circumstances."

—ASU English professor James Blasingame @us.theconversation.com: ow.ly/F7cC50WZUCs #ASUHumanities
Federal judge overturns part of Florida’s book ban law, drawing on nearly 100 years of precedent protecting First Amendment access to ideas
A federal judge found a Florida law censoring school library books violates students’ First Amendment rights.
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September 22, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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🚙 Fiction Friday: "'Arrived,' the SUV announced in its weirdly androgynous voice."

From "Death of the Author" by ASU professor @nnedi.bsky.social. Read the novel excerpt @wired.com: ow.ly/GWzW50UOhtk #ASUHumanities
Imagining a Future Where Chicagoans Get Around in Free Driverless Cars
In Nnedi Okorafor’s new book, "Death of the Author," a young author experiences the exhilaration, and panic, of living in the world she’d previously only dreamed of.
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February 21, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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What's behind the cultural phenomenon of "KPop Demon Hunters"? 🎤✨🎶

#ASUHumanities professors @areum.bsky.social (ASU School of International Letters and Cultures) and @katiedidnt.bsky.social (ASU English) explain.

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Scholars, fans can explore the rise of 'KPop Demon Hunters' during Humanities Week | ASU News
As part of this year's Humanities Week at Arizona State University, a “Fun with K-Pop Demon Hunters” event will take place on Oct. 22.If you’ve read that sentence and are wondering what, or who, K-pop...
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October 21, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Happy commencement day, ASU grads! The Department of English wishes you a galaxy of success. ✨🔱 #ASUHumanities
May 11, 2026 at 2:02 PM
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"I’m alive and I have an appetite / for longing. So let them all in: the birds, / the strays. Even the / things that buzz / in my ear. "

From "Flight Path" by ASU English alum @susanpoet.bsky.social. Read the whole poem @aaww-nyc.bsky.social The Margins: ow.ly/wgmy50XyqHe #ASUHumanities
Flight Path
I’m alive and I have an appetite/ for longing.
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December 2, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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It's been a busy autumn 🍂 9 ASU English faculty announce 2025 work 🥳 Here are nooks & journals by @beelzebebout.bsky.social, @haydenmcasey13.bsky.social, G. Castle, L. FastHorse/M. Garcés, @elizhoran.bsky.social, @nnedi.bsky.social, A. Thompson & N. Zweig.

Details: ow.ly/qhnG50XmSzi #ASUHumanities
Covers of books and journals written or edited by ASU English faculty Lee Bebout, Hayden Casey, Gregory Castle, Larissa FastHorse, Michael John Garces, Elizabeth Horan, Nnedi Okorafor, Ayanna Thompson and Noah Zweig.
November 13, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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An ASU lab led by ASU English alum Emilia Gracia uses immersive technology to teach international students how to navigate real-world conversations, cultural nuance and everyday interactions.

Learn more: https://ow.ly/VIYt50YoUGY #ASUHumanities
March 5, 2026 at 2:01 PM
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📣 ASU students 📣 Thinking about spring '27 courses? Here's one that's plug-and-play—FMS 100: Intro to Film & Media Studies. 🎞️ Learn media analysis skills (+ enjoy the homework!) on Tempe campus or ASU Online.

Register or add to favorites: https://ow.ly/H2XB50ZQfJn #ASUHumanities

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September 22, 2026 at 5:00 PM
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This summer, ASU English professor @briankgoodman.bsky.social is conducting research in Bulgaria with a prestigious @acls1919.bsky.social fellowship. Goodman's work on the project was first enabled with seed funding from ASU’s Humanities Institute.

Learn more: ow.ly/WzQq50VTxRf #ASUHumanities
ASU Assistant Professor of English Brian Goodman stands with his arms crossed in front of an orange background in this ASU photo.
May 21, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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🐴 Fiction Friday: "That’s the key: the patterns. Without them, it’s just people in horse costumes."

From "Horseplay" by ASU English alum @leahenewsom.bsky.social‬. Read the story in Daedalus, journal of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences: ow.ly/2LMN50WFv9k #ASUHumanities CC: @acmrs.bsky.social
Cover of the latest issue of Daedalus journal, themed How Will We Think about the Past in the Future?
August 15, 2025 at 5:21 PM