Department of English at Arizona State University
@asuenglish.bsky.social
Official Bluesky account of the ASU Department of English. Our vision is to prepare student-citizens to think, read, and write critically and communicate effectively.
We turned 125 this year! https://english.asu.edu/english-125
We turned 125 this year! https://english.asu.edu/english-125
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Hello Bluesky community! Here we are. ☀️ Please enjoy this photo of Ross-Blakley Hall—our home on the ASU Tempe campus—and its symbolic "open book" architecture. #ASUHumanities
Kudos to three ASU English faculty members—@mdbell79.bsky.social, Josh Coleman and Jessica Early—who were awarded seed grants 🌱 from the ASU Humanities Institute for research and archival projects.
Learn more: ow.ly/SB5O50XQbA5 #ASUHumanities
Learn more: ow.ly/SB5O50XQbA5 #ASUHumanities
January 5, 2026 at 3:42 PM
Kudos to three ASU English faculty members—@mdbell79.bsky.social, Josh Coleman and Jessica Early—who were awarded seed grants 🌱 from the ASU Humanities Institute for research and archival projects.
Learn more: ow.ly/SB5O50XQbA5 #ASUHumanities
Learn more: ow.ly/SB5O50XQbA5 #ASUHumanities
🕵️ (Non)Fiction Friday: "The pessimistic slant, I’d argue, is both earned and verging on a trend."
From an essay by ASU English alum @romanolax.bsky.social about what the new wave of "boy" thriller titles tells us.
Learn more @crimereads.bsky.social: ow.ly/KHjR50XFLZb #ASUHumanities
From an essay by ASU English alum @romanolax.bsky.social about what the new wave of "boy" thriller titles tells us.
Learn more @crimereads.bsky.social: ow.ly/KHjR50XFLZb #ASUHumanities
From “Gone Girl” to Tortured Bad Boy: What the New Wave of “Boy” Thriller Titles Tells Us
Once upon a time, at the end of the last century, Nick Hornby’s million-copy bestseller About a Boy was released, to be followed four years later by a heartwarming movie adaptation starring Hugh Gr…
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January 2, 2026 at 8:01 PM
🕵️ (Non)Fiction Friday: "The pessimistic slant, I’d argue, is both earned and verging on a trend."
From an essay by ASU English alum @romanolax.bsky.social about what the new wave of "boy" thriller titles tells us.
Learn more @crimereads.bsky.social: ow.ly/KHjR50XFLZb #ASUHumanities
From an essay by ASU English alum @romanolax.bsky.social about what the new wave of "boy" thriller titles tells us.
Learn more @crimereads.bsky.social: ow.ly/KHjR50XFLZb #ASUHumanities
"I hope stories outlast the noise—holding light to what’s human, ordinary, and worth keeping."
—ASU's Alberto Ríos on what he hopes for 2026. More @azcentral.com: ow.ly/hZXv50XQ9St #ASUHumanities
—ASU's Alberto Ríos on what he hopes for 2026. More @azcentral.com: ow.ly/hZXv50XQ9St #ASUHumanities
January 2, 2026 at 4:52 PM
"I hope stories outlast the noise—holding light to what’s human, ordinary, and worth keeping."
—ASU's Alberto Ríos on what he hopes for 2026. More @azcentral.com: ow.ly/hZXv50XQ9St #ASUHumanities
—ASU's Alberto Ríos on what he hopes for 2026. More @azcentral.com: ow.ly/hZXv50XQ9St #ASUHumanities
"...the line who remembers herself, / is the line who can be returned to the future..."
From "lines in defense of my land" by ASU Professor Natalie Diaz.
Read the poem and see the associated artwork by Sara Flores at The FLAG Art Foundation: ow.ly/fW9Y50XLJHU #ASUHumanities
From "lines in defense of my land" by ASU Professor Natalie Diaz.
Read the poem and see the associated artwork by Sara Flores at The FLAG Art Foundation: ow.ly/fW9Y50XLJHU #ASUHumanities
December 31, 2025 at 4:22 PM
"...the line who remembers herself, / is the line who can be returned to the future..."
From "lines in defense of my land" by ASU Professor Natalie Diaz.
Read the poem and see the associated artwork by Sara Flores at The FLAG Art Foundation: ow.ly/fW9Y50XLJHU #ASUHumanities
From "lines in defense of my land" by ASU Professor Natalie Diaz.
Read the poem and see the associated artwork by Sara Flores at The FLAG Art Foundation: ow.ly/fW9Y50XLJHU #ASUHumanities
The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at ASU is counting down its top stories of 2025. Coming in at # 8: ASU English Professor Mitchell Jackson discusses the history of Black influence on fashion.
Read more and see the list: ow.ly/uair50XJOLc #ASUHumanities
Read more and see the list: ow.ly/uair50XJOLc #ASUHumanities
December 30, 2025 at 4:23 PM
The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at ASU is counting down its top stories of 2025. Coming in at # 8: ASU English Professor Mitchell Jackson discusses the history of Black influence on fashion.
Read more and see the list: ow.ly/uair50XJOLc #ASUHumanities
Read more and see the list: ow.ly/uair50XJOLc #ASUHumanities
Congrats 🥳 to the ASU CoLang 2024 team—Saki Gejo, LaMonte Key, Tyler Peterson and Shahar Shirtz—who were honored with an ASU President's Award for "work on real-world solutions."
Learn more: ow.ly/ROC450XJTK3 #ASUHumanities
Learn more: ow.ly/ROC450XJTK3 #ASUHumanities
ASU employees earn recognition for their work on real-world solutions | ASU News
From a library that can be accessed anywhere in the world to an AI tool that analyzes speech to determine brain health, faculty and staff at Arizona State University are collaborating on projects that...
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December 29, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Congrats 🥳 to the ASU CoLang 2024 team—Saki Gejo, LaMonte Key, Tyler Peterson and Shahar Shirtz—who were honored with an ASU President's Award for "work on real-world solutions."
Learn more: ow.ly/ROC450XJTK3 #ASUHumanities
Learn more: ow.ly/ROC450XJTK3 #ASUHumanities
With contributions from ASU English PhD student Amber Hedquist, an exhibit in the @asubeinghuman.bsky.social Innovation Gallery explores how people across generations have met water challenges using technology and social ingenuity.
Learn more: ow.ly/JnrR50XJNtx #ASUHumanities
Learn more: ow.ly/JnrR50XJNtx #ASUHumanities
Arizona Water Innovation exhibit highlights 1,000 years of ingenuity, connection | ASU News
In Arizona, water and innovation are inseparable.
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December 29, 2025 at 6:22 PM
With contributions from ASU English PhD student Amber Hedquist, an exhibit in the @asubeinghuman.bsky.social Innovation Gallery explores how people across generations have met water challenges using technology and social ingenuity.
Learn more: ow.ly/JnrR50XJNtx #ASUHumanities
Learn more: ow.ly/JnrR50XJNtx #ASUHumanities
What's in a name? "When we think about sports arenas and names, it's really a site of connection, of civic pride between fans and the city and the team."
—ASU English Professor Kathleen Lamp.
Learn more @kjzz.org: ow.ly/UMcL50XJZiY #ASUHumanities
—ASU English Professor Kathleen Lamp.
Learn more @kjzz.org: ow.ly/UMcL50XJZiY #ASUHumanities
When arenas get new corporate names, these factors determine how sports fans react
Kathleen Lamp joined The Show to talk about the naming of sports stadiums and arenas and how some of those decisions are made. Lamp is an associate professor in the English Department at Arizona State...
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December 29, 2025 at 3:21 PM
What's in a name? "When we think about sports arenas and names, it's really a site of connection, of civic pride between fans and the city and the team."
—ASU English Professor Kathleen Lamp.
Learn more @kjzz.org: ow.ly/UMcL50XJZiY #ASUHumanities
—ASU English Professor Kathleen Lamp.
Learn more @kjzz.org: ow.ly/UMcL50XJZiY #ASUHumanities
ASU English alum Travis Franks was recently a @utahpublicradio.bsky.social guest, discussing his research on the life and work of John Rollin Ridge, a Cherokee journalist and the first Native American to publish a novel in English.
Listen: ow.ly/8Jjs50XK4pm #ASUHumanities
Listen: ow.ly/8Jjs50XK4pm #ASUHumanities
How 19th-century Indigenous writers explored trauma and creativity on Access Utah
We talk with Travis Franks about his article "The Elusive John Rollin Ridge: The Afterlives of ‘An Indian's Grave’ and His Ambiguous Literary Legacy" and much more.
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December 19, 2025 at 3:55 PM
ASU English alum Travis Franks was recently a @utahpublicradio.bsky.social guest, discussing his research on the life and work of John Rollin Ridge, a Cherokee journalist and the first Native American to publish a novel in English.
Listen: ow.ly/8Jjs50XK4pm #ASUHumanities
Listen: ow.ly/8Jjs50XK4pm #ASUHumanities
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Congratulations to @asuenglish.bsky.social MFA grads @haydenmcasey13.bsky.social and @jonathanin2k.bsky.social, both longlisted for this year's PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection!
Announcing the 2026 PEN America Literary Awards Longlists
PEN America is honored to announce the Longlists for the 2026 Literary Awards, which will confer nearly $350,000 to writers and translators.
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December 18, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Congratulations to @asuenglish.bsky.social MFA grads @haydenmcasey13.bsky.social and @jonathanin2k.bsky.social, both longlisted for this year's PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection!
An @asuhealthsolutions.bsky.social grad made data more accessible and human using poetry. 🥰🖋️💻 Sanyam Paresh Shah was mentored in a Barrett, The Honors College project by ASU professor Rosemarie Dombrowski (also an ASU English alum!).
Learn more: ow.ly/U5Vj50XH8Lc #ASUHumanities
Learn more: ow.ly/U5Vj50XH8Lc #ASUHumanities
Biomedical informatics and data science graduate humanizes scientific research through poetry | ASU News
College of Health Solutions biomedical informatics and data science student Sanyam Paresh Shah spent most of his life fascinated by science, technology and mathematics. When he began preparing for his...
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December 18, 2025 at 4:54 PM
An @asuhealthsolutions.bsky.social grad made data more accessible and human using poetry. 🥰🖋️💻 Sanyam Paresh Shah was mentored in a Barrett, The Honors College project by ASU professor Rosemarie Dombrowski (also an ASU English alum!).
Learn more: ow.ly/U5Vj50XH8Lc #ASUHumanities
Learn more: ow.ly/U5Vj50XH8Lc #ASUHumanities
This fall's crop of students graduating from ASU is nothing short of remarkable. Get to know a few of them: ow.ly/l3Ws50XFYZf #ASUHumanities
Get to know some of fall 2025's remarkable graduating students | ASU News
The fall season is known for many things — cooling temps, changing foliage, pumpkin spice. For more than 12,000 Arizona State University students, it also means graduation this year.This fall cohort i...
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December 17, 2025 at 2:44 PM
This fall's crop of students graduating from ASU is nothing short of remarkable. Get to know a few of them: ow.ly/l3Ws50XFYZf #ASUHumanities
Congrats ✨ to ASU English majors Brooke Campbell and Judith Guerrero and English minor Gabby Dicang + other Dean's Medalists from The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. You made it! You're going to soar. 🚀 ow.ly/UE5W50XFXSu #ASUHumanities
The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences recognizes academic excellence with 20 Dean’s Medalists | ASU News
On Dec. 16, The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Arizona State University will recognize its highest-achieving students from the humanities, natural sciences and social sciences at the fall 202...
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December 16, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Congrats ✨ to ASU English majors Brooke Campbell and Judith Guerrero and English minor Gabby Dicang + other Dean's Medalists from The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. You made it! You're going to soar. 🚀 ow.ly/UE5W50XFXSu #ASUHumanities
If you're on the ASU Tempe campus for graduation this week, be sure and stop by Hayden Library for a visit to the "Jane Austen at 250" collection (Austen's birthday is Dec 16), featuring our own Austen expert, Regents Professor of English @devoney.bsky.social. #ASUHumanities
December 15, 2025 at 3:23 PM
If you're on the ASU Tempe campus for graduation this week, be sure and stop by Hayden Library for a visit to the "Jane Austen at 250" collection (Austen's birthday is Dec 16), featuring our own Austen expert, Regents Professor of English @devoney.bsky.social. #ASUHumanities
Tune-in to @cbssundaymorning.bsky.social this weekend, 12/14 for a glimpse of ASU's own @devoney.bsky.social discussing the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen's birth.
Info.: ow.ly/ipVV50XIIA1 #ASUHumanities
Info.: ow.ly/ipVV50XIIA1 #ASUHumanities
This week on "Sunday Morning" (Dec. 14)
A look at the features for this week's broadcast of the Emmy-winning program, hosted by Jane Pauley.
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December 12, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Tune-in to @cbssundaymorning.bsky.social this weekend, 12/14 for a glimpse of ASU's own @devoney.bsky.social discussing the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen's birth.
Info.: ow.ly/ipVV50XIIA1 #ASUHumanities
Info.: ow.ly/ipVV50XIIA1 #ASUHumanities
After graduation from ASU, Judith Guerrero will put her BAs in English linguistics and Italian to good use doing social media and digitization at Italy's Biblioteca Classense. After that? Grad school.
Learn more about this #ASUGrad: ow.ly/427O50XH3uk #ASUHumanities
Learn more about this #ASUGrad: ow.ly/427O50XH3uk #ASUHumanities
Dean’s Medalist’s transfer story leads to Italian summer experience | ASU News
After leaving her previous university, Casa Grande, Arizona, native Judith Guerrero wasn’t sure when she’d return to the classroom. That changed when she realized her passion while scrolling through a...
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December 12, 2025 at 5:19 PM
After graduation from ASU, Judith Guerrero will put her BAs in English linguistics and Italian to good use doing social media and digitization at Italy's Biblioteca Classense. After that? Grad school.
Learn more about this #ASUGrad: ow.ly/427O50XH3uk #ASUHumanities
Learn more about this #ASUGrad: ow.ly/427O50XH3uk #ASUHumanities
ASU student Hannah Benefiel, who studies the language of eating disorder recovery, is graduating this fall with a PhD in English and a mission: To tackle the crisis of eating disorder care and education.
Learn more: ow.ly/Owwb50XBCR7 #ASUHumanities
Learn more: ow.ly/Owwb50XBCR7 #ASUHumanities
PhD grad decodes rhetoric of eating disorder recovery | ASU News
Hannah Benefiel had gotten used to learning in a competitive environment and was expecting the same at Arizona State University.But when this PhD student from Knoxville, Tennessee, set foot on the Tem...
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December 11, 2025 at 4:05 PM
ASU student Hannah Benefiel, who studies the language of eating disorder recovery, is graduating this fall with a PhD in English and a mission: To tackle the crisis of eating disorder care and education.
Learn more: ow.ly/Owwb50XBCR7 #ASUHumanities
Learn more: ow.ly/Owwb50XBCR7 #ASUHumanities
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This Sunday #JaneAusten will be on @cbssundaymorning.bsky.social & I'll be a part of it. Wonderful Seth Doane & crew put me at ease. I didn't feel nervous then. I do feel so now at the idea of millions of people watching whatever I said! Here's hoping I did justice to the great novelist & #janeites
December 10, 2025 at 1:06 PM
This Sunday #JaneAusten will be on @cbssundaymorning.bsky.social & I'll be a part of it. Wonderful Seth Doane & crew put me at ease. I didn't feel nervous then. I do feel so now at the idea of millions of people watching whatever I said! Here's hoping I did justice to the great novelist & #janeites
Grad students (any field) interested in linguistics & AI: There's still time to enroll in a spring '26 ASU class—LIN 610: Language, Experience & Artificial Intelligence co-taught by Tyler Peterson (English) & Lindsey Reymore (School of Music, Dance & Theatre).
Info: ow.ly/cyGK50XFW8p #ASUHumanities
Info: ow.ly/cyGK50XFW8p #ASUHumanities
December 10, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Grad students (any field) interested in linguistics & AI: There's still time to enroll in a spring '26 ASU class—LIN 610: Language, Experience & Artificial Intelligence co-taught by Tyler Peterson (English) & Lindsey Reymore (School of Music, Dance & Theatre).
Info: ow.ly/cyGK50XFW8p #ASUHumanities
Info: ow.ly/cyGK50XFW8p #ASUHumanities
Theresa Zimm is a full-time staff member at ASU's Melikian Center; she's also graduating from ASU this fall with an MTESOL degree. "It has been my passion to champion language-learning," Zimm said of her career and academic pursuits.
Read more: ow.ly/WLgi50XBzQV #ASUHumanities
Read more: ow.ly/WLgi50XBzQV #ASUHumanities
ASU staff member earns master’s degree, embraces cultural bridge-building | ASU News
Arizona State University student Theresa Zimm is an avid traveler, community volunteer, former K–12 classroom teacher, fluent speaker of Russian, former website administrator, current university staff...
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December 9, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Theresa Zimm is a full-time staff member at ASU's Melikian Center; she's also graduating from ASU this fall with an MTESOL degree. "It has been my passion to champion language-learning," Zimm said of her career and academic pursuits.
Read more: ow.ly/WLgi50XBzQV #ASUHumanities
Read more: ow.ly/WLgi50XBzQV #ASUHumanities
Graduating ASU film student Simon Gill has faced many obstacles in his quest for a degree, but he's learned not to define himself by failures. Instead he sees his journey as part of a character arc: "I get to shape my own story."
Learn more: ow.ly/Qt8w50XBvAz #ASUHumanities
Learn more: ow.ly/Qt8w50XBvAz #ASUHumanities
ASU film and media studies grad looks forward to shaping own story | ASU News
When Simon Gill first arrived in the U.S. in 2016, he wasn’t thinking about making art.At the time, the then-26-year-old was focused on survival. He came alone, the only one of his four siblings eligi...
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December 8, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Graduating ASU film student Simon Gill has faced many obstacles in his quest for a degree, but he's learned not to define himself by failures. Instead he sees his journey as part of a character arc: "I get to shape my own story."
Learn more: ow.ly/Qt8w50XBvAz #ASUHumanities
Learn more: ow.ly/Qt8w50XBvAz #ASUHumanities
Fall 2025 ASU graduation ceremonies take place Dec. 13-18 🎓 A record-setting 12K students—a number that includes more than 300 #ASUGrads from the Department of English alone!—will earn their degrees.
Read more: ow.ly/4cqt50XBrOz #ASUHumanities
Read more: ow.ly/4cqt50XBrOz #ASUHumanities
Record-setting 12,000 ASU graduates set to celebrate fall 2025 graduation | ASU News
More than 12,000 students will join the ranks of Arizona State University alumni during this year’s fall commencement ceremonies on Dec. 15.
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December 5, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Fall 2025 ASU graduation ceremonies take place Dec. 13-18 🎓 A record-setting 12K students—a number that includes more than 300 #ASUGrads from the Department of English alone!—will earn their degrees.
Read more: ow.ly/4cqt50XBrOz #ASUHumanities
Read more: ow.ly/4cqt50XBrOz #ASUHumanities
Congrats 🎉 to ASU English Professor @nnedi.bsky.social, whose novel "Death of the Author" was named among the best fiction of 2025 by @readbookpage.bsky.social.
See the full list: ow.ly/WIHk50XAjC9 #ASUHumanities
See the full list: ow.ly/WIHk50XAjC9 #ASUHumanities
The Best Fiction of 2025
The greatest novels of 2024 were notably unafraid to rewrite the past. Even better: Many of them made us laugh along the way.
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December 4, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Congrats 🎉 to ASU English Professor @nnedi.bsky.social, whose novel "Death of the Author" was named among the best fiction of 2025 by @readbookpage.bsky.social.
See the full list: ow.ly/WIHk50XAjC9 #ASUHumanities
See the full list: ow.ly/WIHk50XAjC9 #ASUHumanities
Thing # 341 you can do with an English degree: Research and teach about quantum networks, like ASU doctoral alum Sarah Young, now a lecturer at @uarizona.bsky.social College of Information Science.
Learn more about Young's career trajectory: ow.ly/hYUS50XAj7a #ASUHumanities
Learn more about Young's career trajectory: ow.ly/hYUS50XAj7a #ASUHumanities
Giving Order to the Chaos: Sarah Young, Lecturer
With a background in federal investigations and a passion for exploring the social-technical nexus, Lecturer Sarah Young says the College of Information Science is “the perfect place”—a community wher...
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December 3, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Thing # 341 you can do with an English degree: Research and teach about quantum networks, like ASU doctoral alum Sarah Young, now a lecturer at @uarizona.bsky.social College of Information Science.
Learn more about Young's career trajectory: ow.ly/hYUS50XAj7a #ASUHumanities
Learn more about Young's career trajectory: ow.ly/hYUS50XAj7a #ASUHumanities
"I’m alive and I have an appetite / for longing. So let them all in: the birds, / the strays. Even the / things that buzz / in my ear. "
From "Flight Path" by ASU English alum @susanpoet.bsky.social. Read the whole poem @aaww-nyc.bsky.social The Margins: ow.ly/wgmy50XyqHe #ASUHumanities
From "Flight Path" by ASU English alum @susanpoet.bsky.social. Read the whole poem @aaww-nyc.bsky.social The Margins: ow.ly/wgmy50XyqHe #ASUHumanities
Flight Path
I’m alive and I have an appetite/ for longing.
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December 2, 2025 at 3:47 PM
"I’m alive and I have an appetite / for longing. So let them all in: the birds, / the strays. Even the / things that buzz / in my ear. "
From "Flight Path" by ASU English alum @susanpoet.bsky.social. Read the whole poem @aaww-nyc.bsky.social The Margins: ow.ly/wgmy50XyqHe #ASUHumanities
From "Flight Path" by ASU English alum @susanpoet.bsky.social. Read the whole poem @aaww-nyc.bsky.social The Margins: ow.ly/wgmy50XyqHe #ASUHumanities