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Nicole Rizzuto

@nicolerizzuto.bsky.social

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Lit Professor at Georgetown. 20-21 c Anglophone. Arresting Ecologies: Global Literature across Air, Land, and Sea, under contract with Oxford University Press. Co-edited Aesthetic Life of Infrastructure. https://nupress.northwestern.edu/97808101

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Rose Casey @rosecasey.bsky.social · 10d

BlueSky: If you've started reading my new book, AESTHETIC IMPROPRIETY: PROPERTY LAW AND POSTCOLONIAL STYLE, and are enjoying it, please consider sending me a sentence or two explaining why.

It's for a thing I'm applying for (and a small monetary award for future research funds). Thanks!

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Nicole Rizzuto @nicolerizzuto.bsky.social · Aug 19

I really don’t know what to say about this. Ricardo was probably the most generous and kind academic I have come across ever and I loved working with him. It is unfathomable that he is suddenly gone. Beloved and respected by colleagues and students in and beyond Georgetown. I will miss him.

Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · Aug 19

Some of you know from FB or elsewhere already, but our wonderful, funny, & unfailingly generous colleague Ricardo Ortiz died suddenly over the weekend. It is the most brutal possible news, and so profoundly sad. He was a source of joy and love and was a committed mentor to so many of us here.

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Nicole Rizzuto @nicolerizzuto.bsky.social · Aug 16

Thank you for everything!Couldn’t have done it without you. So grateful, friend.

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Nicole Rizzuto @nicolerizzuto.bsky.social · Aug 15

Thanks for these well-wishes, everyone! Majorly appreciate it.

Nicole Rizzuto @nicolerizzuto.bsky.social · Aug 15

I just submitted the book I have been working on for a decade to Oxford University Press, where it is under contract. I’ll be taking a nap til the semester starts.

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Nicole Rizzuto @nicolerizzuto.bsky.social · Aug 11

❤️❤️❤️🎉🎉🎉🎉

Nicole Rizzuto @nicolerizzuto.bsky.social · Aug 11

Read this book and highly recommend. Meticulous readings of form and politics poco lit and drama and pairs very well with another stunner on eco politics and form, Aesthetic Impropriety by @rosecasey.bsky.social

Ryan Topper @ryantopper.bsky.social · Aug 10

Animist Poetics: Ancestral Trauma and Regeneration in African Literature is in print! The paperback will be out in Feb. Please request that your library order a copy. 30% off with the discount code SNWF25. @sunypress.bsky.social @rcolesworthy.bsky.social

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Animist Poetics

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Nicole Rizzuto @nicolerizzuto.bsky.social · Aug 6

Very excited for your new chapter, friend!

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Nicole Rizzuto @nicolerizzuto.bsky.social · Jul 1

Out today: a must-read for anyone interested in po-co literature, law, including environmental law: AESTHETIC IMPROPRIETY: Property Law and Postcolonial Style, by @rosecasey.bsky.social. I loved this book and cannot recommend it enough. Get it!

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Nicole Rizzuto @nicolerizzuto.bsky.social · Jun 24

A little warm in NYC. Hope people are staying cool.

Nicole Rizzuto @nicolerizzuto.bsky.social · May 20

It was the most rewarding experience. So grateful for your reading all my horrendous drafts and talking me off the ledge. 😂😂

Nicole Rizzuto @nicolerizzuto.bsky.social · May 20

I’ve posted about @nathankhensley.bsky.social ‘s new ACTION WITHOUT HOPE: Victorian Literature and Climate Collapse before, but just got the gorgeous book in my hands. Come for the stunning visuals, stay for the superb argument and analyses of literature and ecologies.

Cover of Nathan K Hensley, Action without Hope: Victorian Literature and Climate Collapse (U Chicago Press, 2025)

Images from insert of ACTION WITHOUT HOPE

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Nicole Rizzuto @nicolerizzuto.bsky.social · May 14

Grades in, no emails denouncing me for said grades, knicks hopefully about to clean the Celtics clocks. Good day.

Nicole Rizzuto @nicolerizzuto.bsky.social · May 4

Got my teeth x rayed today because as you know I busted my face falling off a scooter. Thank you for saving me posting the images. 😂

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Nicole Rizzuto @nicolerizzuto.bsky.social · Apr 28

Awesome if true. 😂

Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · Apr 28

this incredible work of art was spotted on campus and we are all basically sure it must have come from one of @nicolerizzuto.bsky.social’s students

Fake student election sign on wall @ Georgetown that has Kyler’s painting and says

ANGELUS NOVUS
FOR GUSA PRESIDENT

And includes the passage from Benjamin about it

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Nicole Rizzuto @nicolerizzuto.bsky.social · Mar 25

Chartering an AAUP chapter at Georgetown. Please join AAUP, please join us to stand up for our profession, our colleagues, our students, staff, and rights. Email me if you need more info. Trying to end social media forever but needed to announce for colleagues interested.

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Nicole Rizzuto @nicolerizzuto.bsky.social · Mar 13

Met you through him so ❤️❤️❤️❤️

Nicole Rizzuto @nicolerizzuto.bsky.social · Mar 12

Congratulations to one of the best to be doing it. Obviously Nathan’s scholarship is exceptional. What people might not know about is his absolute commitment to teaching and to service in all its forms in and beyond g-town. Proud to have @nathankhensley.bsky.social as a colleague and bestie.

Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · Mar 12

In the midst of late imperial collapse I got promoted to full professor. Thank you so much to everyone on here who's helped me, read my stuff, taught me things, & contributed more generally to the intellectual world that has enabled me to find this luck. I do not take it for granted. Solidarity.

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Nicole Rizzuto @nicolerizzuto.bsky.social · Mar 10

Great! Hope it’s useful!

Nicole Rizzuto @nicolerizzuto.bsky.social · Mar 10

If at all helpful, a chapter of my examines how Caribbean novelists responded to the controversy. Happy to send pdf but it also might be open access….

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Nicole Rizzuto @nicolerizzuto.bsky.social · Jan 16

I hate this book so much. Thank you for saying this.

Nicole Rizzuto @nicolerizzuto.bsky.social · Jan 16

😂 You’re the best.

Nicole Rizzuto @nicolerizzuto.bsky.social · Jan 16

I have had the honor of reading much of this book as it was being composed and it is truly a banger, and I cannot wait to get the final, beautiful version in my hands.

Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · Jan 16

the blurb is probably a fatally corrupt modern genre, but when people you admire w your whole heart read something you struggled with & worked on for years, then say kind things—well, there's something moving about that. Deeply grateful to @lizmiller.bsky.social & @benjaminmorgan.bsky.social 🙏🌿

Liz Miller's incredibly generous blurb for Action w o Hope part 1

Liz Miller's incredibly generous blurb for Action w o Hope part 2

Benjamin Morgan's incredibly generous blurb for Action w o hope

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Nicole Rizzuto @nicolerizzuto.bsky.social · Jan 8

Ah shit, thanks! I’ll fix it.

Nicole Rizzuto @nicolerizzuto.bsky.social · Jan 8

For those attending the MLA, the illustrious @bakaari.bsky.social and @lilysaint.bsky.social organized a great panel on the African historical novel and I’m thankful they included me. Come by, Thursday at 3:30.

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