Ryan Carroll
@ryancarroll.bsky.social
PhD candidate @ UNC-Chapel Hill - C19 Anglophone literature; lover of information, narration, sensation, and interpretation - He/him
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Ryan Carroll
@ryancarroll.bsky.social
· May 10
My article “The Form of Information and Informational Form in The Woman in White” was published in Studies in the Novel (@studiesinthenovel.bsky.social)—give it a read!!
muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
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Life folded Death; Death trellised Life; the grim god wived with youthful Life, and begat him curly-headed glories.
November 14, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Life folded Death; Death trellised Life; the grim god wived with youthful Life, and begat him curly-headed glories.
Vernon Lee is 90% Merleau-Ponty?
October 31, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Vernon Lee is 90% Merleau-Ponty?
successfully discovered the true identity of an author about Guyana from 1893, currently levitating. all fans of ZORG: A STORY OF BRITISH GUIANA, our time has come
October 7, 2025 at 7:39 PM
successfully discovered the true identity of an author about Guyana from 1893, currently levitating. all fans of ZORG: A STORY OF BRITISH GUIANA, our time has come
paying a nominal fee for a library digitization
October 6, 2025 at 10:32 PM
paying a nominal fee for a library digitization
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Thrilled to be included among fabulous contributors to the latest edition of Dilettante Army, “Ekphrasis.”
Read on for speculations about AI boyfriends, avant-garde burlesque shows, killer machines, and the Freudian death drive.
dilettantearmy.com/articles/ekp...
Read on for speculations about AI boyfriends, avant-garde burlesque shows, killer machines, and the Freudian death drive.
dilettantearmy.com/articles/ekp...
Ekphrasis Ex Machina: Desire and the Death Drive in the Age of AI
Emily Singeisen contextualizes AI, a technologically novel way of exploiting language, within some very old fantasies.
dilettantearmy.com
September 9, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Thrilled to be included among fabulous contributors to the latest edition of Dilettante Army, “Ekphrasis.”
Read on for speculations about AI boyfriends, avant-garde burlesque shows, killer machines, and the Freudian death drive.
dilettantearmy.com/articles/ekp...
Read on for speculations about AI boyfriends, avant-garde burlesque shows, killer machines, and the Freudian death drive.
dilettantearmy.com/articles/ekp...
wake up at 3 AM. find it impossible to get back to sleep. read Ode to a Nightingale to pass the time. think of sudden amazing insight about poem. fall asleep, completely forget insight
September 4, 2025 at 11:37 AM
wake up at 3 AM. find it impossible to get back to sleep. read Ode to a Nightingale to pass the time. think of sudden amazing insight about poem. fall asleep, completely forget insight
great-grandfather to ferdinand de saussure. signification dynasty
August 23, 2025 at 11:27 AM
great-grandfather to ferdinand de saussure. signification dynasty
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I tell you, the sperm whale will stand no nonsense.
June 22, 2025 at 6:47 AM
I tell you, the sperm whale will stand no nonsense.
I wrote for @newinquiry.bsky.social about the psycho-political agons of 90s sitcom neighbors like Kimmy Gibbler, Steve Urkel, and co.—why they showed up, why they were thrown out, and why they kept coming back. Give it a read!
thenewinquiry.com/new-neighbor...
thenewinquiry.com/new-neighbor...
June 12, 2025 at 9:42 PM
I wrote for @newinquiry.bsky.social about the psycho-political agons of 90s sitcom neighbors like Kimmy Gibbler, Steve Urkel, and co.—why they showed up, why they were thrown out, and why they kept coming back. Give it a read!
thenewinquiry.com/new-neighbor...
thenewinquiry.com/new-neighbor...
My article “The Form of Information and Informational Form in The Woman in White” was published in Studies in the Novel (@studiesinthenovel.bsky.social)—give it a read!!
muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
May 10, 2025 at 1:23 PM
My article “The Form of Information and Informational Form in The Woman in White” was published in Studies in the Novel (@studiesinthenovel.bsky.social)—give it a read!!
muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
Reposted by Ryan Carroll
"Victorian Studies: Who Cares?" Come to the Victorians Institute 2025 conference at Furman University in Greenville, SC this Sept 14-15. CFP deadline now May 31. Please submit and share! vi2025.wordpress.com
Victorian Studies: Who Cares?
The 2025 conference of the Victorians Institute
vi2025.wordpress.com
April 29, 2025 at 6:14 PM
"Victorian Studies: Who Cares?" Come to the Victorians Institute 2025 conference at Furman University in Greenville, SC this Sept 14-15. CFP deadline now May 31. Please submit and share! vi2025.wordpress.com
another year, another analysis of the humanoid NCAA championship mascots. first up is an old favorite, the St. Mary’s Gael, a living 19th century caricature of a Scotsman
March 23, 2025 at 11:07 PM
another year, another analysis of the humanoid NCAA championship mascots. first up is an old favorite, the St. Mary’s Gael, a living 19th century caricature of a Scotsman
Michael Mann’s Heat is a movie equally perfect for adults who love moody Italians and small children who really like trucks, construction equipment, infrastructure, etc
February 2, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Michael Mann’s Heat is a movie equally perfect for adults who love moody Italians and small children who really like trucks, construction equipment, infrastructure, etc
Reposted by Ryan Carroll
The Snowy Day — Ezra Jack Keats, 1962
January 19, 2025 at 2:53 AM
The Snowy Day — Ezra Jack Keats, 1962
Reposted by Ryan Carroll
Founding a New Cato Institute. Instead of taking inspiration from the politics of Cato the Younger, this one will evangelize Cato the Elders’s views on the healing properties of cabbage.
October 18, 2023 at 5:48 PM
Founding a New Cato Institute. Instead of taking inspiration from the politics of Cato the Younger, this one will evangelize Cato the Elders’s views on the healing properties of cabbage.
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In this post and the next two, we will introduce the contributors to 66.3!
66.3’s first essay cluster, “Stretch*,” is organized and introduced by Priti Joshi @pritijoshi.bsky.social, and features essays written by Hosanna Krienke, Ryan Carroll @ryancarroll.bsky.social, and M.A. Miller.
66.3’s first essay cluster, “Stretch*,” is organized and introduced by Priti Joshi @pritijoshi.bsky.social, and features essays written by Hosanna Krienke, Ryan Carroll @ryancarroll.bsky.social, and M.A. Miller.
January 15, 2025 at 3:36 PM
In this post and the next two, we will introduce the contributors to 66.3!
66.3’s first essay cluster, “Stretch*,” is organized and introduced by Priti Joshi @pritijoshi.bsky.social, and features essays written by Hosanna Krienke, Ryan Carroll @ryancarroll.bsky.social, and M.A. Miller.
66.3’s first essay cluster, “Stretch*,” is organized and introduced by Priti Joshi @pritijoshi.bsky.social, and features essays written by Hosanna Krienke, Ryan Carroll @ryancarroll.bsky.social, and M.A. Miller.
Excited to share my article “Revision and the Politics of Truth-Telling in the Autobiography of Juan Francisco Manzano, which was published in Victorian Studies @victstudies.bsky.social!! Give it a read to think with me on truth, translation, and slave narrative
muse-jhu-edu/pub/3/articl...
muse-jhu-edu/pub/3/articl...
January 10, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Excited to share my article “Revision and the Politics of Truth-Telling in the Autobiography of Juan Francisco Manzano, which was published in Victorian Studies @victstudies.bsky.social!! Give it a read to think with me on truth, translation, and slave narrative
muse-jhu-edu/pub/3/articl...
muse-jhu-edu/pub/3/articl...
Reposted by Ryan Carroll
Obviously the b-sides are great too but it's always a thrill when Moby Dick bot plays the hits.
December 6, 2024 at 1:52 PM
Obviously the b-sides are great too but it's always a thrill when Moby Dick bot plays the hits.
“No: it means being honest in committing to action—and sometimes, it means being honest about when action is impossible.”
csalateral.org/section/apor...
csalateral.org/section/apor...
December 4, 2024 at 1:55 AM
“No: it means being honest in committing to action—and sometimes, it means being honest about when action is impossible.”
csalateral.org/section/apor...
csalateral.org/section/apor...
Dispatches from another world
November 12, 2024 at 1:51 PM
Dispatches from another world