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Alexander Starre
@astarre.bsky.social
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Asst Prof, American Studies @ JFK Institute, FU Berlin - knowledge cultures, book studies, literary institutions, AmLit C19-C21

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Sheila Liming @seeshespeak.bsky.social · 1d
Carnegie Mellon’s literature PhD is being liquidated in favor of “computation,” casualized labor, and AI.

That has profound ramifications for, students, faculty, and program alums like myself.

I wrote it about it (w/ Catherine Evans, a current PhD student).

www.chronicle.com/article/a-co...
Opinion | A Coup at Carnegie Mellon?
The university is replacing the humanities with more computers.
www.chronicle.com

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Alexander Starre @astarre.bsky.social · 3d
apropos of Times New Roman suddenly being anti-woke
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/u...
At State Dept., a Typeface Falls Victim in the War Against Woke
www.nytimes.com

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Alexander Starre @astarre.bsky.social · 3d
By accident, I discovered that if you google the names of some standard typefaces, the search results will appear in this very font. See below Time New Roman and (of course) Comic Sans.
google result page for "comic sans" set in comic sans google results page for Times New Roman set in Times New Roman

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Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 3d
Turns out sans serif is woke. At least they didn't switch to White House gilded script.
At State Dept., a Typeface Falls Victim in the War Against Woke www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/u...
At State Dept., a Typeface Falls Victim in the War Against Woke
www.nytimes.com

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Alexander Starre @astarre.bsky.social · Oct 30
Congrats, Günter! Looks great - can't wait to read.

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Günter Leypoldt @guenterleypoldt.bsky.social · Oct 29
Thrilled to announce my new book (electronic version out now, print next month) — it proposes a new value theory grounded in the longue durée of literary institutions, 1800–present.
Cover of my book: Literature's Social Lives: A Socio-Institutional History of Literary Value. The Cover depicts a bookseller in 1930s Cambridge, with a book rack on her back, and a customer perusing one of her books

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Alexander Starre @astarre.bsky.social · Oct 7
Also available at your local english philology library

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Alexander Starre @astarre.bsky.social · Oct 7
Close Reading for the winter term in Germany @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social
Copy of close Reading for the 21st century by sinykin / winant on a table at U Bochum

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Public Books @publicbooks.bsky.social · Oct 6
New at PB: As part of a series exploring higher ed under Trump, curated by Dennis M. Hogan (@dennismhogan.bsky.social), Christopher Newfield tells us how waiting out Trump will inevitably fail. Instead, we must build a new cultural order.
Academics Must Seize the Means of Knowledge Production - Public Books
Trumpism has canceled the knowledge society.
www.publicbooks.org

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Alexander Starre @astarre.bsky.social · Sep 23
The language of the AI policy for my fall courses is really taking shape.
selection of lyrics from Natasha Bedingfield's song "Unwritten" starting with "Staring at the blank page before you Open up the dirty window"

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Fachbereich 09 Philologie der Universität Münster @fb09public.bsky.social · Sep 19
🎓✨ Apply Now: PhD Scholarships in Literature ✨🎓

Fully funded 3-year PhD scholarships at our Graduate School Practices of Literature @uni-muenster.de in Germany, with the possibility of a 4th-year extension. Apply by December 31, 2025! #PhD #Scholarship #LiteraryStudies

More info: uni.ms/gssp
PHD Scholarships For International Applicants - Program in Literary Studies - Funding for up to four years - Start date: 1 Oct. 2026 - Deadline: 31 Dec. 2025 Apply now!

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Alexander Starre @astarre.bsky.social · Sep 17
Cf.
www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...
Large Language Muddle | The Editors
The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...
www.nplusonemag.com

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Alexander Starre @astarre.bsky.social · Sep 17
Life's little victories: writing n+1 headlines 4 months in advance.
astarre.bsky.social Alexander Starre @astarre.bsky.social · May 7
Large Language Muddle

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · Aug 18
Hello. I wrote a nice long essay about AI and this very strange moment where we're constantly told we're living in the dawn of a strange new future but the only thing that's actually clear is that everyone feels pretty unmoored and uncertain. I hope you'll read it
AI Is a Mass-Delusion Event
Three years in, one of AI’s enduring impacts is to make people feel like they’re losing it.
www.theatlantic.com

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Anthony Obst @aobst.bsky.social · Jun 25
After Robert Gooding-Williams’ stint at the @ktbberlin.bsky.social summer school, @schlawinerkreis.bsky.social, Andreas-Johann Sorger and I are hosting a discussion at the Kennedy Institute on his new book @columbiaup.bsky.social www.jfki.fu-berlin.de/faculty/cult...
Poster for event with Robert Gooding-Williams at the Kennedy Institute in Berlin on July 7

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Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · Jun 24
The best ( @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social ) is here to clear up a very confused discourse

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Christian Lammert @profausberlin.bsky.social · Jun 19
Die FAZ berichtete in dieser Woche über Die Jahrestagung der #DGfA Gruss and die local organizer der diesjährigen Tagung!
zeitung.faz.net/faz/geistesw...
Lust, den Schwur von damals zu erneuern
zeitung.faz.net

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Katrin Horn @katrinhorn.bsky.social · Jun 15
#dgfa2025 if I didn't shove a flyer into your hand the last few days, let me make up for that digitally:
the volume co-edited with @improbable.bsky.social has finally seen the light of day and you can see it, too, at 30% off if you add EVENT30 at checkout
www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781...

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Alexander Starre @astarre.bsky.social · Jun 14
Absolute highlight of my academic year ⬇️⬇️
juliafaisst.bsky.social Julia Faisst @juliafaisst.bsky.social · Jun 14
On day 3 of #DGfA2025, @astarre.bsky.social leads the way by introducing @kinohi.bsky.social s wonderful keynote on Toni Morrison’s Literary Archaeology & Productive Disremeberings

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Julia Faisst @juliafaisst.bsky.social · Jun 14
On day 3 of #DGfA2025, @astarre.bsky.social leads the way by introducing @kinohi.bsky.social s wonderful keynote on Toni Morrison’s Literary Archaeology & Productive Disremeberings

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Library of Anglo-American Culture & History @libraryaac.bsky.social · Jun 14
Day 3 of #DGfA2025: Alexander Starre @astarre.bsky.social introduces the conference's 3rd keynote - Kinohi Nishikawa on Toni Morrison's Beloved.

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Alexander Starre @astarre.bsky.social · Jun 13
That's a wrap on our panel on literary institutions & periodicals. Great turnout, innovative contributions. C19 studies going strong! #dgfa2025

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Alexander Starre @astarre.bsky.social · Jun 13
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Alexander Starre @astarre.bsky.social · Jun 13
Archival brilliance by @katrinhorn.bsky.social at #dgfa2025
DGfA keynote by Katrin horn

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Alexander Starre @astarre.bsky.social · Jun 12
I have a chapter in here on Du Bois and his first, unpublished novel. Not open access, but I'm happy to share.

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Alexander Starre @astarre.bsky.social · Jun 12
Only now seeing this advertised on Bluesky. Get your open access essays from this wonderful volume ⬇️⬇️
katrinhorn.bsky.social Katrin Horn @katrinhorn.bsky.social · Jun 10
Update: my chapter on #gossip and @gothamscholar.bsky.social 's chapter on financial knowledge of immigrants are now #openaccess
manchesterup.bsky.social Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · Apr 30
Out now!

Speculative endeavors, Cultures of knowledge and capital in the long nineteenth century
By Selina Foltinek Karin Hoepker and @katrinhorn.bsky.social

Analyses insider information, rumour, gossip and slander in #C19th #AmericanSociety

⬇️
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526182159/

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Alexander Starre @astarre.bsky.social · Jun 11
Or vice versa

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Alexander Starre @astarre.bsky.social · Jun 11
For you and Christina I'll bring both the mullet and the blanket to the dance floor

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Alexander Manshel @manshel.bsky.social · Jun 11
More than 30 years worth of data on UK literary prizes (and their winners) goes live today @post45data.bsky.social! Bravo to researchers Katherine Binhammer, Kanika Batra, Theo Gray, and Maryse Jayasuriya for compiling and publishing this incredible resource! data.post45.org/posts/britis...
Selected British Literary Prizes (1990-2022) – Post45 Data Collective
The Selected British Literary Prizes (SBLP) dataset contains information on nine major literary prizes in the U.K. from 1990 to 2022 and demographic information on 682 prize winners and shortlisted au...
data.post45.org

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Corinna Norrick-Rühl @corinnanorue.bsky.social · Jun 10
When a big @nytimes.com feature about #reeesesbookclub dropped in mid-May 2024, @astarre.bsky.social and I had just submitted our manuscript about - you guessed it - the club to @cl-journal.bsky.social. #Academicpublishing is slow, but here we are, 13 months later... (1/4)