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Robert T. Tally Jr. is a professor of English at Texas State University. His research and teaching focuses on the… more

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Wonderful!
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Thank you! I was honored and delighted to take part in the event!

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extramural nonprofessional political speech. no freedom.
statement from Tom Alter
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Sure! Thank you so much!
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by Robert T. Tally

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A nice review of my "Mismeasure of Orcs" book in the Journal of Tolkien Research: scholar.valpo.edu/journaloftol...
The Mismeasure of Orcs: A Critical Reassessment of Tolkien’s Demonized Creatures (2025), by Robert T. Tally, Jr.
Book review, by Andrew Higgins, of The Mismeasure of Orcs: A Critical Reassessment of Tolkien’s Demonized Creatures (2025), by Robert T. Tally, Jr.
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Thank you! I'd love to see/hear the paper.
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Nobody puts Dr. Kornbluh in a corner!
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by Robert T. Tally

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Remembering Fredric Jameson, who died one year ago today. spectrejournal.com/the-generosi...
The Generosity of Fredric Jameson – Spectre Journal
Robert T. Tally pays tribute to Fredric Jameson's tremendous generosity, that is, the late theorist's drive to both know the world and change it for the better.
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by Robert T. Tally

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J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Hobbit" was published on Sept. 21, 1937. Almost exactly 85 years later, my critical study of that novel appeared. Coincidence? Well, yes, but still, you should read it! www.amazon.com/J-Tolkiens-H...
J. R. R. Tolkien's "The Hobbit": Realizing History Through Fantasy: A Critical Companion (Palgrave Science Fiction and Fantasy: A New Canon)
J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit : Realizing History Through Fantasy: A Critical Companion (Palgrave Science Fiction and Fantasy: A New Canon) [Tally Jr., Robert T.] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit : Realizing History Through Fantasy: A Critical Companion (Palgrave Science Fiction and Fantasy: A New Canon)
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by Robert T. Tally

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When I was young, my dad played the "Cabaret" movie soundtrack a lot. I think it's partly because he was stationed in West Berlin, but also, of course, the catchy tunes.
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stimulating conversation with blake oetting from january just finally came out in november mag! www.novembermag.com/content/anna...
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Thanks, @roberttally.bsky.social !
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Many thanks to Robert T. Tally Jr. for joining us for a special session on A Mismeasure of Orcs: A Critical Reassessment of Tolkien's Demonized Creatures! It was great to hear some of this critical text and have a discussion with its author.
#VICFA4 #FantasticArts #IAFA #UnabashedOrcSympathizer
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by Robert T. Tally

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@markbould.bsky.social There is a brief shout out to "Anthropocene Unconscious" in there!
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I talk about Zombie Apocalypse in this podcast -- I get the first 17 minutes or so -- which also features Texas State professors with expertise in diseases and fungi, respectively. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f...
Fungi, Disease, and the Zombie Apocalypse
Podcast Episode · Enlighten Me · 08/28/2025 · 53m
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by Robert T. Tally

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Wow, thank you! I look forward to hearing more about the conference.
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by Robert T. Tally

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Thanks! I just wrote an article on Orc women titled "Bolg's Mother." I like to imagine that she would pack Bolg's lunchbox before sending him off to his warg-riding or scimitar-wielding lessons.
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My latest in Field Notes on the decay and demise of the modern state as we knew it

brooklynrail.org/2025/09/fiel...
The Suicide State | The Brooklyn Rail
In an illuminating account of a recent Department of Homeland Security job fair, Yanis Varoufuckice relates an encounter with a gaggle of fresh Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) recruits looki...
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by Robert T. Tally

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Thank you!

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A fantastic review of Bruce Robbins's recent works by @roberttally.bsky.social, with, of course, some Jameson woven in.
The Politics of Criticism and the Criticism of Politics
Abstract. As practiced, literary and culture criticism is always in some sense metacritical—that is, finding itself inevitably drawn to discussing its own conditions of possibility. Bruce Robbins's Cr...
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by Robert T. Tally

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Feel free to email me!
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Final installment of The Jameson Tapes. Your guide to becoming an “ideological lexicologist”!
"Ideology: Marx & Lukacs" by Fredric Jameson
1977 Institute On Culture & Society
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by Robert T. Tally

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Honored to be among the folks talking about Jameson on the new American Vandal podcast episode! theamericanvandal.substack.com/p/the-jameso...
The Jameson Tapes, Side A
with Isabel Bartholomew, Anna Kornbluh, Caleb Smith, Robert Tally, & Fredric Jameson
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incredible pedagogy, kid!
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NEW!
1st of 2 installments contextualizing Jameson's lectures at the 1977 Institute On Culture & Society, discusses "Marxism & Historicism," historicizing the lectures, recovering them, the commodity as its own ideology, long arc of Jameson's influence

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The Jameson Tapes, Side A
with Isabel Bartholomew, Anna Kornbluh, Caleb Smith, Robert Tally, & Fredric Jameson
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👇 🫵 👉 🎧 👍 🫶
The Jameson Tapes, Side A
with Isabel Bartholomew, Anna Kornbluh, Caleb Smith, Robert Tally, & Fredric Jameson
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by Robert T. Tally

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Hey Poe fans! My brief piece "On Poe's Late Style," examining his handful of tales published in 1849, is now out. muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/artic...
Project MUSE - On Poe’s Late Style
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by Robert T. Tally

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Speaking of Orcs, the new book is on sale: save six bucks! mcfarlandbooks.com/product/the-...
The Mismeasure of Orcs – McFarland
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by Robert T. Tally

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Such an honor to appear on the American Vandal podcast, where I talk Tolkien. (The whole episode is amazing, but I start around the 1:18:00 mark.)
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · Jul 18
In today's episode: @profdgd.bsky.social's exegesis of J.D. Vance's Thanksgiving meme, @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social & @jdconnor.bsky.social reassess their 2018 review of "Hillbilly Elegy," @roberttally.bsky.social shows us how to read for redemption not resentment, & more.
Spitesgiving in Flyover Country (A Tale of Today, Episode #21)
with J.D. Connor, Douglas Dowland, Samuel Freedman, Dan Sinykin, Robert Tally, and Andie Tucher
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mattseybold.bsky.social
In today's episode: @profdgd.bsky.social's exegesis of J.D. Vance's Thanksgiving meme, @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social & @jdconnor.bsky.social reassess their 2018 review of "Hillbilly Elegy," @roberttally.bsky.social shows us how to read for redemption not resentment, & more.
Spitesgiving in Flyover Country (A Tale of Today, Episode #21)
with J.D. Connor, Douglas Dowland, Samuel Freedman, Dan Sinykin, Robert Tally, and Andie Tucher
theamericanvandal.substack.com
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