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Asst Prof. English/Film Studies/Middle Eastern Studies @BrynMawr . _Losing the Plot_ ( @UChicagoP , Nov 2023); coeditor, _Visualities_ ( @MModernity )

Philadelphia, PA

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*excellent* pieces on Persianate lit and culture in PMLA. an honor to edit this. Ati Akbari, Aria Fani, Kevin Schwartz, Samuel Hodgkin, Supriya Gandhi, @profchander , Nicole Ferreira, Catherine Ambler, David Brophy, Nile Green, @yakabikaj Anahid Nersessian

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Pardis Dabashi پردیس دباشی 🇵🇸 🍉

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Hi everyone; starting this fall, I'll be joining the faculty at Bryn Mawr College, as Assistant Professor of Literatures in English and Film Studies. I'm going to miss my colleagues and friends at UNR a lot. But I'm also really excited to move back East (home for me).

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On its way out in November... @UChicagoPress

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Hi everyone. My book, _Losing the Plot: Film and Feeling in the Modern Novel_ is now officially under contract with @UChicagoPress ! It asks: what happened to plot in literary modernism? The answer involves understanding what happened to it in the classical Hollywood cinema.

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She's here! Or at least her face is. :) Forthcoming from @UChicagoPress in November 2023. @msatweet @MModernity @modernistudies @modernism_asia @NovelDialogue @novelforum @ClsscHollywood @SMCStudies #academictwitter

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Syllabus help, here. Novels/stories about *class* passing? Passing for wealthier, in particular. Thank you!

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When students ask me how to become better writers, I often tell them to spend a summer reading Jane Austen. None of them have listened to me (though one did read _Persuasion_! She was brilliant; now training to be a legal scholar), but I won't stop recommending this!

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She's HERE! _Losing the Plot_ is now available for purchase! So many pple to thank, the list is endless, here's a start: @alixbeeston @amyEelkins @cinewallah @_nbaer_ @fuscowrites @allyson_nadia , Dan Morgan, @dora__zhang Discount code (30% off!) is UCPNEW

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Losing the Plot

An examination of the relationship between literature and classical Hollywood cinema reveals a profound longing for plot in modernist fiction. The modernist novel sought to escape what Virginia Woolf...

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Cover of _Losing the Plot_ (out in November; pre-order!). So many thanks to Daniel Morgan and Dora Zhang for such generous blurbs. @UChicagoPress @msatweet

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In the flesh! Come by the Chicago table if you’re at #MLA2024 ! And if you’re around this evening, come by Poison Heart bar (6pm-8pm) to celebrate _LOSING THE PLOT_ with me, along with new amazing books by Kelly Rich and Arielle Zibrak!

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I’m obsessed with my new tie. Especially the Windsor knot.

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Sitting with the copyedits of _Losing the Plot: Film and Feeling in the Modern Novel_ @UChicagoPress (in which Dietrich figures quite prominently), coming out in Fall 2023. This is not what I look like going over them, but it would be cool I did.

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It’s my birthday today :) 🥳

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Why, hello there, all you beautiful people. Consider, over morning coffee (or your beverage of choice), pre-ordering a copy of my book, which is coming out in November!

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Over the several years I've now been teaching, the sentence that comes up with the most regularity in my evaluations is "She is intimidating." .... I prefer to think of my teaching affect as "I'm not here to amuse you."

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Consder joining me @Harvard on ZOOM on **October 23rd.** I'll be discussing _Losing the Plot_, with Paul Saint-Amour as respondent. @UChicagoPress @msatweet @AcademicChatter @NovelDialogue @novelforum , etc. Many thanks to @DrBibliomane and Yoon Sun Lee!

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NOVEL THEORY SPEAKERS: Pardis Dabashi, Bryn Mawr College; Paul Saint-Amour, University of Pennsylvania

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“Cover to Come…” How appropriate, for a book about our love of anticipating what comes next :) @msatweet @UChicagoPress

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An examination of the relationship between literature and classical Hollywood cinema reveals a profound longing for plot in modernist fiction. The modernist novel sought to escape what Virginia Woolf...

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Thank you everyone (including @sunyalog !) for coming to our roundtable yesterday @SCMStudies #SCMS23 on the State of Method in Cinema and Media Studies. @cinewallah @_nbaer_ @rawreader , and Patrice Petro were amazing. Also... it's my birthday today!! 🥳

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Aerial shot of audience present for State of the Method roundtable at #SCMS23 , feat. @cinewallah , @_nbaer_ , @rawreader , @PDabashi , & Patrice Petro!!! 👏🏾 Keywords: horror, revelation, pleasure, love, war, grad school, anxiety, intellectual history, undisciplinarity

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30 and up, drop a pic. 37 on April 15.

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consider joinng me at this event (April 7!) ! I’m gng to be talkng about what it means to be convinced by a critical reading + what the diff. is, if any, between that and having faith/believing (in the non-secular sense). Thank you @englishwali and @theschac for the invitation!

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In case there was any doubt that the Bryn Mawr English dept is bringing the ‘70s back…🪩🪩🪩🪩 @BrynMawrCollege @BrynmawrEnglish

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Hi! If you're in the Philadelphia area on 11/18, please feel free to stop by @PennEnglish , where I'll be presenting work from my first book, _Losing the Plot: Film and Feeling the Modern Novel_ ( @UChicagoPress , forthcoming Falll 2023). I'll be talking about Larsen and Garbo.

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30% Discount with the promo code!: UCPNEW

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Guess who I ran into at MSA holding her new masterpiece! @PDabashi

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Honored and excited about this! 🙏

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Please join the MSA executive board in congratulating our newly elected board members: 2nd Vice President Octavio González @TaviRGonzalez Program Chair Pardis Dabashi @PDabashi Treasurer Matthew Eatough @EatoughMatthew Our sincere thanks to everyone who ran this year!

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Happening *this Monday* @ 6pm on Zoom @Harvard . Join me, Paul Saint-Amour, and the rest of the Novel Theory Seminar discussing my book, just out. _Losing the Plot: Film and Feeling in the Modern Novel ( @UChicagoPress ).

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Consder joining me @Harvard on ZOOM on **October 23rd.** I'll be discussing _Losing the Plot_, with Paul Saint-Amour as respondent. @UChicagoPress @msatweet @AcademicChatter @NovelDialogue @novelforum , etc. Many thanks to @DrBibliomane and Yoon Sun Lee!

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Hi! If you’re in the Philly area on Thursday, Nov. 30th, please consider coming to the Bryn Mawr Film Institute to see _The Scarlet Empress_ on 35mm! I’ll also be talking about my book, _Losing the Plot_, which discusses this and other Dietrich films.

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Essay I wrote on the racial politics of Northern US moving picture palace architecture in the 1910s just published in the latst issue of Early Popular Visual Culture, guest edited by @agatafrymus and Special Issues edtor @BeccaEHarrison . Lmk if you want a free copy. @SCMStudies

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Happy Persian New Year, everyone!

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My professional website is now up and running, entirely thanks to @woodavens , for their amazing work on it, and @ria4983 for the wonderful recommendation. 🙏

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Work email 9-5, M-F only. Let's make it a movement, please. Great, thanks!

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Mask-at-the-train-station chic.

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I do not like Wes Anderson films. Will someone else who also does not like Wes Anderson films tell me if I should go see Asteroid City?

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Hello, modernists! I'm running to be the next Program Chair of the MSA. Please consider voting for me! @msatweet

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@WakeRevolt I’m writing a book called _Losing the Plot_ about existential desire/need for plot(s) and narrative coherence. It’s coming out in Fall 2023 from University of Chicago Press. @UChicagoPress

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@heyprofbow I set these boundaries as well. If I don't, then I will drown under email correspondences and be of no good to anyone--including the students. And as others have said, I encourage the students to set these limits as well.

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Read! "Workers in the oil and energy sector have staged strikes for two days .... During the 1979 Islamic revolution, strikes in those sectors were a powerful tool that accelerated the Shah’s collapse."

Protests in Iran Spread, Including to Oil Sector, Despite Violent Crackdown (Published 2022)

Human rights groups say at least 185 people have been killed and thousands injured or arrested, but demonstrations that began after the death of Mahsa Amini have continued nearly a month.

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I reviewed Sarah Keller's excellent new book, _Anxious Cinephilia_ for @MModernity , print journal, but it's also featured here: , on Modernism/modernity Print + @msatweet @SCMStudies

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@madame_noworry I agree with this very much. I wrote a piece about this problem, called “The Loose Garments of Argument.” Came out in PMLA in 2020. Let me know if you’d like a pdf

Introduction to “Cultures of Argument”: The Loose Garments of Argument | PMLA | Cambridge Core

Introduction to “Cultures of Argument”: The Loose Garments of Argument - Volume 135 Issue 5

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Please join us on Friday @ 4:00 for a discussion of method in film and media studies! @_nbaer_ @cinewallah @rawreader and Patrice Petro! @SCMStudies

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Join us this Friday at #SCMS23 for a conversation on questions of method!

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Drop the most iconic picture of you

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Head to _Visualities_ @ M/m Print+ to see Sophie Oliver and Sarah Parker's extraordinary--and stylish--new piece, just out! @alixbeeston and I are extremely grateful to have worked with such fantastic co-authors. @MModernity @modernistudies @msatweet

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It was a complete joy working with Robert Volpicelli. Beautiful piece; check it out!

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The latest in our Visualities series, edited by @PDabashi and @alixbeeston , is now live on Print Plus! Read Robert Volpicelli's "Monet’s Cataracts, Re-examined" here:

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I talked recently with Kim Adams of @HighTheoryPodc1 about my new book, LOSING THE PLOT, just out w/ @UChicagoPress . Listen in! (You can get a 30% discount on the book @ the UChicagoP website with the promo code UCPNEW.)

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What I like about British bake-off is that the show doesn’t indulge in personal stories about the contestants.

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My brilliant (and fabulously outfitted) academic wife, @alixbeeston , and her spectacular new volume!!

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Probably the best and happiest roundtable ever!! Delighted to chat @WFTHN #DWFTH6 with my collaborators on the launch day for #Incomplete ( @ucpress ). Trust me, you want to read this work by Karen Redrobe, Mathilde Rouxel, @magshenny , @isabelsegui et al:

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Hi everyone-- a reminder, if you're in the Philly area. This afternoon (Nov. 18 @ 5:00) I'll be sharing some work at @PennEnglish from my book, _Losing the Plot_, forthcoming from @UChicagoPress in Fall 2023.

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👀 for “Theories and Methodlgies” sction I’m edtng for Mrch ‘24 issu PMLA, on “The Persianate.” AMZING essays by @yakabikaj @profchander Anahid Nersessian Atefeh Akbari Catherine Ambler Supriya Gandhi David Brophy Aria Fani Kevin Schwartz Samuel Hodgkin Nicole Ferreira Nile Green

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Drop a photo of you that looks like an album cover. (2018, Ithaca, NY, the photographer, my and @RadidHamza ’s third member, Sebastien Fanzun.)

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Drop a photo of you that looks like an album cover. (21st birthday, Purple Turtle in Oxford)

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Run over to Modernism/modernity Print + to see @NadineAttewell ’s beautiful new piece for _Visualities_!

@MModernity

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The latest in our Visualities series, edited by @PDabashi and @alixbeeston , is now live on Print Plus! Read @NadineAttewell 's "Looking With Images: Chinese Diasporic Worldmaking Beyond the Frame" here:

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Hi everyone- I reviewed Daniel Morgan's excellent new book on camera movement for _Film Quarterly_. I can't recommend the book enough. #FilmTwitter #AcademicTwitter Review: The Lure of the Image: Epistemic Fantasies of the Moving Camera, by Daniel Morgan

Review: The Lure of the Image: Epistemic Fantasies of the Moving Camera, by Daniel Morgan

BOOK DATA Daniel Morgan, The Lure of the Image: Epistemic Fantasies of the Moving Camera. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2021. $85.00 cloth, $29.95 paper. 306 pages.When the camera...

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I'm retweeting myself on this (lol). Seriously, folks. Too much. It's just all too much. We're all too tired. We all need more headspace, headspace not to be filled with *yet more correspondence*.

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Work email 9-5, M-F only. Let's make it a movement, please. Great, thanks!

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I'm *really* enjoying Ruth Grant's _Hypocrisy and Integrity: Machiavelli, Rousseau, and the Ethics of Politics_ (1997, @UChicagoPress ). So smart--and accessible. On the necessity of hypocrisy to the operations of politics. One of those books that forces one to think subtly.

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♥️

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Leesa Gazi লীসা গাজী

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Artwork by Marjane Satrapi, creator of PERSEPOLIS 🔥

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Lest we forget...

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If you haven’t already, check out @alixbeeston ’s fabulous new piece called “Blur” on her Visualities forum. 👀🎊 @msatweet

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Had a great time talking to Jacob Mazer about _Scarlet Empress_ and the Dietrich/von Sternberg collabs last night at the BMFI. My book _Losing the Plot_ available for 30% off on @UChicagoPress site with discount code UCPNEW. @SCMStudies @alnthomas @archivesofsara @meredithnini

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Post screening discussion on Dietrich/von Sternberg with @PDabashi and her excellent new book @BMFI

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Um, hello, young Patrick Stewart... 👀

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The loch ness googly-eyed monster.

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I had a *wonderful* conversation with the History of Literature podcast about my book LOSING THE PLOT ( @UChicagoPress 2023); 30%discount on UchicagoP website with the promo code UCPNEW

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585 Plots and the Modern Novelist (with Pardis Dabashi) | My Last Book with Anne Enright

Episode · The History of Literature · As far back as Aristotle, plots have been viewed as essential components of long-form narratives. So what happened when Modern novelists like James Joyce,...

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Someone please tell me why this isn't positively sweeping the nation.

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The loch ness googly-eyed monster.

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My UNR email address has been terminated. If you would like to reach me, my email address is pdabashi @brynmawr .edu

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Your favorite spots for coffee in Philly, @raf_walk @SarahLWasserman ? I'm here! :)

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Had SO much fun on this episode with Kim Adams!! Advance warning: there is a *lot* of laughter and delightful Adorno-influenced silliness. What would Adorno think...🙀

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High Theory Podcast

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RELAUNCH! EPISODE 7: AUTONOMOUS WORK OF ART @PDabashi talks to Kim about Theodore Adorno's concept. Does it exist? What can it be a placeholder for? What after all is art for Adorno?

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The best thing to happen to 2024.

@cinewallah

Kartik Nair

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My book is coming! SEEING THINGS, out Spring 2024 with University of California Press and a gorgeous cover designed by Francis Russo!

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An absolute must! @cinewallah ’s book, SEEING THINGS!

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University of California Press

Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.

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"Yes, we are full, but we are full of fluff." --one of my favorite lines from my book _Losing the Plot_, said from the perspective of Louise de...'s closets in Max Ophuls's _The Earrings of Madame de..._ (1953) ( @UChicagoPress ~Fall 2023)

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Very excited about this roundtable on questions of method in cinema and media studies. Please join us if you can!

@_nbaer_

nicholas baer

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Join us at #SCMS2023 for a conversation on questions of method with Kartik Nair ( @cinewallah ), Moira Weigel ( @moiragweigel ), Patrice Petro, Rebecca Wanzo ( @rawreader ) & Pardis Dabashi ( @PDabashi )!

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Everyone must read.

@cinewallah

Kartik Nair

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Coming January 2024 with @ucpress !

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Why when the US does horrific things that are entirely of a piece with its own internal history does it compare itself to other parts of the world of which it considers itself the antithesis. Rhetorical non-question.

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@raf_walk I like Walter Benjamin because he had so many reasons to be hopeless but he still wasn't.

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♥️

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Solidarity with the brave Iranians protesting #MahsaAmini your memory is light 💔

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Academic Wife+Academic Wife=2 Serious Ladies.

@alixbeeston

Alix Beeston

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Guess what pals? From now on I'll be coediting #Visualities @MModernity with my fav academic and bestie @PDabashi ! We've got a stellar line-up of critical and creative essays on modern/ist visual cultures this year and we accept rolling pitches at pitchvisualities @gmail .com ❤️

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@stewdust Dora zhang, strange likeness.

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codas or conclusions of academic books that you especially like?

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This is so amazing!

@NonsenseIsland

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Old Hollywood bloopers are a thing of beauty.

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@RezekJoe 99% of the time, the students' confusion is not on us. There's a resistance these days to reading words.

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Two books finally arrived from @UChicagoPress , one new, one a bit older: _Bette Davis Black and White_ (Julia Stern) and _Hypocrisy and Integrity_ (Ruth Grant). Very excited about both, BDBW already proving excellent.

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@alixbeeston @MModernity So excited to be doing this together!! 🥳♥️🎊

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@voicesbend @SarahLWasserman @graceelavery @jde2022 @agatafrymus @aytugs @PennEnglish @jake_romanow @RezekJoe @pasqetball @possiblynasia @juliensuaudeau @_discoursis @debraraecohen , Sarah Gleeson-White, Jack Matthews, Howard Eiland, Peter Gordon

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One of my favorite sentences I've ever tweeted.

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@WissMobb @AAUP @MeTooFieldwork Let me tell you, I am just as interested in money as men are. 💅

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Check out @noarheva 's fantastic new piece on the Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven @MModernity Print Plus!

@MModernity

Modernism/modernity

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The latest in our Visualities series, edited by @PDabashi and @alixbeeston , is now live on Print Plus! Read @noarheva 's "'Improbable Life': Bain, the Baroness, and Public Photography" here:

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Watch “Mo” on Netflix! It’s so good!

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This coronation business reminded me of this piece I wrote when I was a grad student, which I still quite like.

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The Art of the High-Born: A Look Back at Bahman Farmanara’s Shazdeh Ehtejab - Politics/Letters...

I was moved to re-watch Bahman Farmanara’s Prince Ehtejab (1974) after seeing the profusely televised royal wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. Apart from the fact that of the aristocracies in...

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Those who helpd me with the class passing question, thank you!! (I should've specified: Passing was already on my list prior to my tweet.) Also, this is a *writing* class, where I have to teach a vry small # of texts. I've decidd on Pssng, Talntd Mr. Ripley, and Vanishng Half.🙏

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Really good piece on what’s happening in Iran.

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Opinion | ‘It’s Like a War Out There.’ Iran’s Women Haven’t Been This Angry in a Generation....

The gap between the freedoms and opportunities enjoyed by the system’s affiliated elite and those of ordinary Iranians has never been so wide.

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When I lived in Boston for 7 years, I thought those were the most reckless drivers I’d ever encountered. But Philly drivers are next level. Wow.

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Woohoo! Three cheers for @fuscowrites !!!

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It continues.

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Protests enter 15th day in Iran amid lingering internet curbs

Protests were recorded across several cities on Saturday, with Iranians abroad also organising demonstrations.

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Read! “American sanctions“ have caused the “economic suffering of … Iranian people — rents … have multiplied, goods … have become prohibitively expensive, a currency … has plummeted so low that Iranians need stacks of bills to do everyday shopping.”

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Opinion | How the U.S. Can Help Support the Women of Iran Calling for Change (Published 2022)

Diplomatic efforts toward a nuclear deal must go hand in hand with American support for Iran’s protest movement.

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@adamkotsko Trent from Daria.

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HUGE thanks to @alnthomas , and the other incredible people @UChicagoPress , Randy Petilos, @meredithnini , @archivesofsara who brought this to fruition.

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She's HERE! _Losing the Plot_ is now available for purchase! So many pple to thank, the list is endless, here's a start: @alixbeeston @amyEelkins @cinewallah @_nbaer_ @fuscowrites @allyson_nadia , Dan Morgan, @dora__zhang Discount code (30% off!) is UCPNEW

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Don’t miss!

@cinewallah

Kartik Nair

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My book is coming! SEEING THINGS, out Spring 2024 with University of California Press and a gorgeous cover designed by Francis Russo!

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@elizabethalsop @alixbeeston @carallewis @msatweet @scriblerian @ria4983 @voicesbend @noarheva So excited about everyone’s papers! Such strong work. 🥳

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Because I grew up, the better part of my life, in NYC, I will always--at least at first go--pronounce Houston Baker's first name as in the street downtown rather than the city in Texas. "House-ton."

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Will I ever be able to speak Arabic without a Persian accent? Probably not, alas. 🤓

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Reminder: please join the Novel Theory Seminar @Harvard , via Zoom, *October 23rd* @ 6pm EST. I'll be discussing my book just out _LOSING THE PLOT_ (2023) with Paul Saint-Amour. Also, 30% discount on the book @UChicagoPress website, promotion code UCPNEW.

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Losing the Plot: Film and Feeling in the Modern Novel

NOVEL THEORY SPEAKERS: Pardis Dabashi, Bryn Mawr College; Paul Saint-Amour, University of Pennsylvania

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@WissMobb @AAUP @MeTooFieldwork Let me tell you, I am just as interested in money as men are. 💅

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@farahbakaari He’s a loser. You and your dress are amazing! 🥳

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