For the @ajc.com, I wrote about how close reading cultivates the virtues that promote eudaimonia, or human flourishing, or the good life.
That's me in the picture at the front of the room.
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Can’t wait!
This feels like a turning point in literary judgment where the provenance of writing is always potentially in dispute. AI detection and honor codes seem like symptoms of our new textual conditions rather than workable solutions. I wish I had solutions!
Here comes the physical media! My first encounter with We the Platform in book form. I loved the cover already, but the yellow spine was a particularly nice surprise 😍
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Education is being polarized by advocates on the left and right, but students' learning should not be limited to mastering skills that lead to economic output.
Cover, official page, Oct 6 2026 hardcover / late-June ebook release dates, ISBN-13 for my book, *Character Networks in Contemporary U.S. Fiction*...
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Aarthi Vadde
Brian Glavey
Dan Sinykin
Aarthi Vadde
this is from the statement from Razmi Farook, Director-General of the Commonwealth Foundation — which awarded the prize resulting in this publication.
I'm sharing an extraordinary farewell letter from my colleague Vic Strandberg who taught in Duke's English Department for 60 years. He's touched the lives of over 10k students, which is unreal. Also, he shared Duke's salary for asst. prof in English in 1962: $9500
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Scott Selisker
Vauhini Vara
Aarthi Vadde
You could call this my last will and testament. I will begin with the testament, based on my institutional memory going back sixty years. After earning my PhD at Brown in 1962, I taught at the Univers...
New book going to press: *Character Networks in Contemporary U.S. Fiction.* It’s about social networks as context for—and formal element of—the novel. For contemporary lit, novel/narrative theory, DH, lit and sociology, network analysis crowds. Here’s what it’s about: (1/n)
Over on X, people are suggesting that AI was used to write this story published in the prestigious journal Granta. The AI detector Pangram flags it as AI too. granta.com/the-serpent-...
