Gus McFadzean
@gusmcfadzean.bsky.social
Author of Suburban Fantastic Cinema: Growing Up in the Late Twentieth Century (2019); Collected Epiphanies of James Joyce: A Critical Edition, eds. (2024). Tutor at Oxford University Department for Continuing Education. https://www.conted.ox.ac.uk/tutors/5
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Gus McFadzean
@gusmcfadzean.bsky.social
· Nov 16
Hello Bluesky,
I teach British and American literature and film, mainly 20th and 21st century. My writing focuses on James Joyce’s modernist aesthetics, petrofiction/petrocultures of the mid-century, and American suburban science fiction and horror of the late twentieth century.
I teach British and American literature and film, mainly 20th and 21st century. My writing focuses on James Joyce’s modernist aesthetics, petrofiction/petrocultures of the mid-century, and American suburban science fiction and horror of the late twentieth century.
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7 years old now and I just discovered it has a whopping 5 reviews on Goodreads, which freaked me out. But in the interest of emphasizing that shelf life is real: it was just this year cited in a CFP for a panel about generous modernisms. 🎁
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November 27, 2025 at 2:07 AM
7 years old now and I just discovered it has a whopping 5 reviews on Goodreads, which freaked me out. But in the interest of emphasizing that shelf life is real: it was just this year cited in a CFP for a panel about generous modernisms. 🎁
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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Dialogue is a cornerstone of social life, and a democratic society cannot guarantee a good life for all if dialogue is corrupted. I wrote Resisting Dialogue: Modern Fiction and the Future of Dissent because I saw literature offers both a warning and a corrective.
A short 🧵with two current examples:
A short 🧵with two current examples:
Resisting Dialogue
A bold new critique of dialogue as a method of eliminating dissent Is dialogue always the productive political and communicative tool it is widely conceived ...
www.upress.umn.edu
November 22, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Dialogue is a cornerstone of social life, and a democratic society cannot guarantee a good life for all if dialogue is corrupted. I wrote Resisting Dialogue: Modern Fiction and the Future of Dissent because I saw literature offers both a warning and a corrective.
A short 🧵with two current examples:
A short 🧵with two current examples:
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You can get Postpolitics and the Aesthetic Imagination with a 30% discount here: www.upress.umn.edu/amst/
www.upress.umn.edu/978151791918...
Thank you for doing this @annakornbluh.bsky.social!
www.upress.umn.edu/978151791918...
Thank you for doing this @annakornbluh.bsky.social!
Postpolitics and the Aesthetic Imagination
Igniting political power through the lens of art and the imaginationPostpolitics and the Aesthetic Imagination investigates the erosion of meaningful politic...
www.upress.umn.edu
November 27, 2025 at 2:17 AM
You can get Postpolitics and the Aesthetic Imagination with a 30% discount here: www.upress.umn.edu/amst/
www.upress.umn.edu/978151791918...
Thank you for doing this @annakornbluh.bsky.social!
www.upress.umn.edu/978151791918...
Thank you for doing this @annakornbluh.bsky.social!
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Happy Thanksgiving! Here's my book!
www.amazon.com/dp/B0DHGFKZ8W
www.amazon.com/dp/B0DHGFKZ8W
November 26, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Happy Thanksgiving! Here's my book!
www.amazon.com/dp/B0DHGFKZ8W
www.amazon.com/dp/B0DHGFKZ8W
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Feeling definitive about this one.
November 26, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Feeling definitive about this one.
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I feel like my covid book baby about manifestos (in the form of a manifesto) didn’t get the wild acclaim it so clearly deserves ;)
November 26, 2025 at 11:24 PM
I feel like my covid book baby about manifestos (in the form of a manifesto) didn’t get the wild acclaim it so clearly deserves ;)
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Promoting my last book!
Interested in video games, cinema, history and/or racism in Hollywood? My last book SLAVE REVOLT ON SCREEN: THE HAITIAN REVOLUTION IN FILM & VIDEO GAMES is a great gift for yourself or someone on your gift list!🗃️📽️
www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/S/Slav...
Interested in video games, cinema, history and/or racism in Hollywood? My last book SLAVE REVOLT ON SCREEN: THE HAITIAN REVOLUTION IN FILM & VIDEO GAMES is a great gift for yourself or someone on your gift list!🗃️📽️
www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/S/Slav...
November 26, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Promoting my last book!
Interested in video games, cinema, history and/or racism in Hollywood? My last book SLAVE REVOLT ON SCREEN: THE HAITIAN REVOLUTION IN FILM & VIDEO GAMES is a great gift for yourself or someone on your gift list!🗃️📽️
www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/S/Slav...
Interested in video games, cinema, history and/or racism in Hollywood? My last book SLAVE REVOLT ON SCREEN: THE HAITIAN REVOLUTION IN FILM & VIDEO GAMES is a great gift for yourself or someone on your gift list!🗃️📽️
www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/S/Slav...
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Few years old now, but still getting good feedback on it. www.ucpress.edu/books/the-ja...
November 26, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Few years old now, but still getting good feedback on it. www.ucpress.edu/books/the-ja...
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Truth and Wonder: a literary introduction (*actually a European philosophy/literary theory approach to*) Plato and Aristotle. (Plus the cover is a beautiful and relevant Darren Almond picture, I talk about it at the end) www.routledge.com/Truth-and-Wo...
November 26, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Truth and Wonder: a literary introduction (*actually a European philosophy/literary theory approach to*) Plato and Aristotle. (Plus the cover is a beautiful and relevant Darren Almond picture, I talk about it at the end) www.routledge.com/Truth-and-Wo...
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PROMOTE YOUR BOOKS! EVERYONE WANTS TO HEAR ABOUT YOUR PUBLISHED BOOKS!
gonna be reposting your books because hoo you made a book!
www.versobooks.com/products/303...
gonna be reposting your books because hoo you made a book!
www.versobooks.com/products/303...
November 26, 2025 at 9:49 PM
PROMOTE YOUR BOOKS! EVERYONE WANTS TO HEAR ABOUT YOUR PUBLISHED BOOKS!
gonna be reposting your books because hoo you made a book!
www.versobooks.com/products/303...
gonna be reposting your books because hoo you made a book!
www.versobooks.com/products/303...
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This challenge to US-metropole centric accounts of modernism was unsurprisingly ignored by the US-metropole dominant modernism studies
This challenge to US-metropole centric accounts of modernism was unsurprisingly ignored by the US-metropole dominant modernism studies
November 27, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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This challenge to US-metropole centric accounts of modernism was unsurprisingly ignored by the US-metropole dominant modernism studies
This challenge to US-metropole centric accounts of modernism was unsurprisingly ignored by the US-metropole dominant modernism studies
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Surveying CCC, English Journal, College English, etc., and the NCTE program, and the CVs at many uni programs, *literature* has long vanished as a keyword in writing studies, rhet/comp, ELA, etc. Anybody know of anybody in those fields explicitly interested in *literature* (beyond sff, fandom, YA)?
November 23, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Surveying CCC, English Journal, College English, etc., and the NCTE program, and the CVs at many uni programs, *literature* has long vanished as a keyword in writing studies, rhet/comp, ELA, etc. Anybody know of anybody in those fields explicitly interested in *literature* (beyond sff, fandom, YA)?
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Thea Riofrancos' Extraction is thoughtful, rigorous, engaged, and unafraid to look at the international demands made of us here in the US. It's a model of political logic and solidarity. Buy www.theariofrancos.com/extraction then listen: thedigradio.com/podcast/extr...
November 24, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Thea Riofrancos' Extraction is thoughtful, rigorous, engaged, and unafraid to look at the international demands made of us here in the US. It's a model of political logic and solidarity. Buy www.theariofrancos.com/extraction then listen: thedigradio.com/podcast/extr...
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Same for literary studies. Non-tenure-track lit studies scholars I know you're out there and publishing articles and books. And if you're tenure-track and know NTT authors, let me know about their work! I can reach out and confirm that they're cool with being listed.
Haven't received as many contributions as usual for this year's lists--could be many things, but one aspect is surely that our ability to get this in front of people is much diminished. If you know folks whose stuff should be on here, please suggest it! contingentmagazine.org/yearly-pub-l...
Publications by Non-Tenure-Track Historians
Since we began publishing in 2019, Contingent has published end-of-year lists of books and articles by non-tenure-track historians released in the past calendar year. To submit something for inclusion...
contingentmagazine.org
November 25, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Same for literary studies. Non-tenure-track lit studies scholars I know you're out there and publishing articles and books. And if you're tenure-track and know NTT authors, let me know about their work! I can reach out and confirm that they're cool with being listed.
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Haven't received as many contributions as usual for this year's lists--could be many things, but one aspect is surely that our ability to get this in front of people is much diminished. If you know folks whose stuff should be on here, please suggest it! contingentmagazine.org/yearly-pub-l...
Publications by Non-Tenure-Track Historians
Since we began publishing in 2019, Contingent has published end-of-year lists of books and articles by non-tenure-track historians released in the past calendar year. To submit something for inclusion...
contingentmagazine.org
November 24, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Haven't received as many contributions as usual for this year's lists--could be many things, but one aspect is surely that our ability to get this in front of people is much diminished. If you know folks whose stuff should be on here, please suggest it! contingentmagazine.org/yearly-pub-l...
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official beginning of the holiday season and it's time to revisit Richard E. Grant's Christmas decorations and his garden sculpture of Barbra Streisand's head www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUGV...
Inside Richard E. Grant’s Georgian House at Christmas | Design Notes
YouTube video by House & Garden
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November 24, 2025 at 2:08 PM
official beginning of the holiday season and it's time to revisit Richard E. Grant's Christmas decorations and his garden sculpture of Barbra Streisand's head www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUGV...
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NYC book launch event “Fifty Years of Marxist Feminism” featuring Alyssa Battistoni, Robyn Marasco, Aaron Jaffe, & Rachel Schreiber is coming up on December 2. Register to make sure you get a spot, and tell your friends who may be interested.
November 22, 2025 at 1:09 PM
NYC book launch event “Fifty Years of Marxist Feminism” featuring Alyssa Battistoni, Robyn Marasco, Aaron Jaffe, & Rachel Schreiber is coming up on December 2. Register to make sure you get a spot, and tell your friends who may be interested.
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I tried a couple new things this term. It has been my best term since 2019.
Among my trial runs was self-directed reading, following the advice of Mary Isbell on @c19podcast.bsky.social
I highly recommend this & it should be part of your 2025 best of public humanities, @americanstudier.bsky.social
Among my trial runs was self-directed reading, following the advice of Mary Isbell on @c19podcast.bsky.social
I highly recommend this & it should be part of your 2025 best of public humanities, @americanstudier.bsky.social
S09 E02 | How Do We Teach Literature When Students Won’t Read What We Assign?
Podcast Episode · C19: America in the 19th Century · 08/14/2025 · 37m
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November 22, 2025 at 2:44 AM
I tried a couple new things this term. It has been my best term since 2019.
Among my trial runs was self-directed reading, following the advice of Mary Isbell on @c19podcast.bsky.social
I highly recommend this & it should be part of your 2025 best of public humanities, @americanstudier.bsky.social
Among my trial runs was self-directed reading, following the advice of Mary Isbell on @c19podcast.bsky.social
I highly recommend this & it should be part of your 2025 best of public humanities, @americanstudier.bsky.social
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The Weekly Read is "Lexicon for a Capitalist Image" by Pietro Bianchi and Joshua Harold Wiebe. The article introduces Filming Capital, a special issue of SAQ (124:4). Read it for free through 1/31/26: buff.ly/5naaEnu
November 22, 2025 at 2:02 PM
The Weekly Read is "Lexicon for a Capitalist Image" by Pietro Bianchi and Joshua Harold Wiebe. The article introduces Filming Capital, a special issue of SAQ (124:4). Read it for free through 1/31/26: buff.ly/5naaEnu
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Important news: the deadline for the joint BAMS/MSA conference in Loughborough has been extended to December 29, 2025! You can review the CFP, and find links to the submission platform, here. www.moderniststudies.org/conference/M...
The Modernist Studies Association is devoted to the study of the arts in their social, political, cultural, and intellectual contexts from the later nineteenth through the mid-twentieth century. The o...
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November 20, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Important news: the deadline for the joint BAMS/MSA conference in Loughborough has been extended to December 29, 2025! You can review the CFP, and find links to the submission platform, here. www.moderniststudies.org/conference/M...
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My darling. I write from the battlefield. It's so cold today; there is ill news throughout the mid-Atlantic—is what they say about Montclair true?—yet here are good tidings: the pararhyme disarmed them and we plan to turn the tide with metonymy. Their armies are vast but we are not without hope.
Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
November 20, 2025 at 9:50 PM
My darling. I write from the battlefield. It's so cold today; there is ill news throughout the mid-Atlantic—is what they say about Montclair true?—yet here are good tidings: the pararhyme disarmed them and we plan to turn the tide with metonymy. Their armies are vast but we are not without hope.
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Some contributors have begun to receive their copies of our special issue!! Looks like it will become more widely available next week!
November 21, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Some contributors have begun to receive their copies of our special issue!! Looks like it will become more widely available next week!
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Delighted to announce that vol 30 of 'Review of Scottish Culture' is now available online. It's another super issue, ranging through Scotland and across genres, from senior scholars and emerging voices. All free to download. Now open, for new submissions!
journals.ed.ac.uk/rosc
journals.ed.ac.uk/rosc
November 21, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Delighted to announce that vol 30 of 'Review of Scottish Culture' is now available online. It's another super issue, ranging through Scotland and across genres, from senior scholars and emerging voices. All free to download. Now open, for new submissions!
journals.ed.ac.uk/rosc
journals.ed.ac.uk/rosc
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My most/least favorite thing about this book is that it includes a blank chapter in the TOC & the book itself in honor of the many contributors who ultimately didn’t contribute. Grateful to all who told and tell their stories. Thinking even more about those who can’t. sunypress.edu/Books/B/Brok...
November 21, 2025 at 4:08 PM
My most/least favorite thing about this book is that it includes a blank chapter in the TOC & the book itself in honor of the many contributors who ultimately didn’t contribute. Grateful to all who told and tell their stories. Thinking even more about those who can’t. sunypress.edu/Books/B/Brok...
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Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door.
This is who it was:
This is who it was:
November 21, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door.
This is who it was:
This is who it was: