Paul Benzon

Contemporary literature, media studies, digital culture, @SkidmoreEnglish. He/him/his. All opinions mine. Archival Fictions out now from @umasspress!

[Paul Benzon @pbenzon]

My essay on Noah Purifoy, decaying books, and Black time (among other things) is out in a special issue of Criticism on "New Approaches to Critical Bibliography and the Material Text!!" This is a blockbuster issue, edited by @lmaruca and Kate Ozment -- https://t.co/YFPmTcdEgk

[Paul Benzon @pbenzon]

@melnickjeffrey1 I don’t see this in the comments but remember it being persuasive at the time: https://t.co/RTDh26VtqG

[Paul Benzon @pbenzon]

@toby_altman @Micah_Bateman Loving these suggestions! I’ve done Voyage of the Sable Venus and The Ferguson Report in a similar context.

[AMALGAM @amalgam_journal]

🚨 Amalgam 4 (Collapse) is now available for pre-order via https://t.co/esBjs9qWMX 🚨

[Paul Benzon @pbenzon]

🚨 Job Alert! My department is hiring a medievalist specializing in premodern critical race studies -- link below, deadline 10/1. I'm happy to chat about the department or institution more generally -- please RT and DM me with any questions!🚨

https://t.co/mBzXYgXrcy

[Paul Benzon @pbenzon]

🚨 Job Alert! My department is hiring a medievalist specializing in premodern critical race studies -- link below, deadline 10/1. I'm happy to chat about the department or institution more generally -- please RT and DM with any questions! 🚨
https://t.co/mBzXYgXrcy

[Paul Benzon @pbenzon]

I’m on vacation and it seems like this place is going south again…so re-upping this thread with more thanks to all always

[Paul Benzon @pbenzon]

It seems like I only pop my head out of my little hole on here these days for professional self-promotion or big ruminations, and I’m all out of projects to self-promote, sooo…

[Paul Benzon @pbenzon]

Don’t look back, you can never look back

[Paul Benzon @pbenzon]

@AliceWickenden Thanks so much! Glad you appreciate it and that it's getting out into the world.

[Paul Benzon @pbenzon]

Just a few more days to sign up for this great event next Tuesday on critical bibliography, materiality, objecthood, etc., sponsored by @bibsocamer, Criticism, @lmaruca, and Kate Ozment -- join us!

[Paul Benzon @pbenzon]

our amazing editors have organized a roundtable launch event on Zoom with @bibsocamer on June 20, 2023, 12-1:15 pm ET / 9-10:15 am PT. Register and join us!! https://t.co/w5XDCPHZA7

[Georgina Wilson @GeorginaEMW]

**What's Critical About Critical Bibliography?**
1 week until the launch of this special issue of Criticism, edited by Lisa Maruca and Kate Ozment!
20 June 5pm BST, 12 noon ET https://t.co/38wpAFC9sk

[Paul Benzon @pbenzon]

@KLeuner @MeganPeiser @kawaiilovesarah @rebeccaromney @rachael_scar @dlspratt Yes, likewise! And looking forward to talking and hearing more about all this great work at the launch event and beyond. https://t.co/w5XDCPHZA7

[Kirstyn Leuner, PhD @KLeuner]

Can't wait to read our neighboring articles by @MeganPeiser @kawaiilovesarah @pbenzon, Amanda Stuckey, @rebeccaromney @rachael_scar @dlspratt et al., more than I can list here. See full TOC: https://t.co/gkS0jJEaob

[Kirstyn Leuner, PhD @KLeuner]

Out today, "Activist Bibliography as Abolitionist Pedagogy in the American Prison Writing Archive" co-authored with Catherine Koehler + Doran Larson @PrisonWitness in Criticism 64.3-4, a double issue edited by Kate Ozment and @lmaruca https://t.co/qjhIHsDACv

[Paul Benzon @pbenzon]

our amazing editors have organized a roundtable launch event on Zoom with @bibsocamer on June 20, 2023, 12-1:15 pm ET / 9-10:15 am PT. Register and join us!! https://t.co/w5XDCPHZA7

[Paul Benzon @pbenzon]

My essay on Noah Purifoy, decaying books, and Black time (among other things) is out in a special issue of Criticism on "New Approaches to Critical Bibliography and the Material Text!!" This is a blockbuster issue, edited by @lmaruca and Kate Ozment -- https://t.co/YFPmTcdEgk

[Paul Benzon @pbenzon]

..., the racial politics of junk, installation, and patina, and the time of the desert, with inspiration from @sprawlingtext on the archive and @_blackpoetics on J Dilla, among others. And if this great issue isn't enough...

[Paul Benzon @pbenzon]

@stephenscollis @jscottwrites Thanks — any and all leads appreciated!

[Paul Benzon @pbenzon]

@jscottwrites I'm a scholar of contemporary literature and found mention of a screening you did around "decomp" in 2014 -- can I ask what the film was, and if it's accessible anywhere? I'm interested in possibly showing it in a film program around book objects...