Rafael Walker

I write on American literature & higher ed || Associate Prof. at Baruch, CUNY || Editor of Nella Larsen’s *Passing*

[Rafael Walker @raf_walk]

My book, Realism after the Individual: Women, Desire, and the Modern American Novel, is now out with @UChicagoPress! Use discount code UCPNEW for 30% off. I'm so excited! 🥳
https://t.co/5CtWwPua02

[Tom Koenigs @tomkoenigs]

Deadline today!

[Tom Koenigs @tomkoenigs]

I’m looking to put together a panel on “New Approaches to Early American Fiction” for SEA 2027. Open to all but I especially want to highlight work by graduate students/early career folks working on early American fiction. Consider submitting a proposal and please share widely!

[Rafael Walker @raf_walk]

https://t.co/QwBtFrO2iy

[Rafael Walker @raf_walk]

Just got my copy of this banger, edited by David Bergman and Guy Davidson and including essays by many hands, among them one from yours truly on Walt Whitman! And I promise that the book—dealing though it does with gay men AND autobiography—is not as solipsistic as it sounds.

[[email protected] Citizen of Somewhere Else fr @CitizenSE]

This open letter will be SUNY University Senate’s most-viewed doc in our SUNY Digital Repository when the new stats drop tomorrow morning. But with close to 1M possible signatories among SUNY and CUNY faculty, staff, and students, we need to accelerate the letter’s reach!

[Nate Wolff @proffwolff]

Hey! Is there a place where the dream of the 90s (sustained, ambitious scholarly attention to the fin de siècle American novel) is alive?

Yes! In this @Ariz_Quarterly @JHUPress special issue that @raf_walk and I co-edited with intro by us & afterword by Jennifer Fleissner😎

[Hopkins Press @JHUPress]

NEW ISSUE OUT NOW
Arizona Quarterly
82.1, Spring 2026

Special Issue: The American Novel at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Guest Editors: Rafael Walker and Nathan Wolff
https://t.co/O1OPzuqxnQ

CONTRIBUTORS
Philip Ellefson
Gary Totten
Cameron Loftis
Max Chapnick
and more

[Hopkins Press @JHUPress]

NEW ISSUE OUT NOW
J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists
13.2, Fall 2025

https://t.co/AwnNYjrQnc

CONTRIBUTORS
Kristin Moriah
Rafael Walker
Susannah Sharpless
Rachel Conrad Bracken
Alexandra Burgess
Matt Sandler
Sabrina Evans
Koritha Mitchell
and more

[Rafael Walker @raf_walk]

🙏🙏🙏

[Tom Koenigs @tomkoenigs]

Nothing gets me out of bed in the morning like a fresh account of historically significant novels that have come to be completely neglected! Couldn’t be more excited to dive into @raf_walk’s new book.

[Rafael Walker @raf_walk]

And what an encouraging blurb it is! Thank you, and let us hope the book lives up to your kind praise for it. #grateful

[Nate Wolff @proffwolff]

Honored to blurb @raf_walk ’s brilliant and gorgeous new book — alongside the incomparable Jen Fleissner no less!

[Rafael Walker @raf_walk]

We're hiring in black and/or latino queer studies and have extended the app deadline to 1/5. The terms are sweeter than HR will permit us to disclose in the ad; feel free to get in touch with me with any questions. Thanks for helping to spread the word!

https://t.co/M6cGsA5yxh

[Rafael Walker @raf_walk]

Proofs for the Cambridge History of American Gay Autobiography, which includes my essay on Whitman! I'm sure it'll appeal widely—because who doesn't wanna read generations of gays talking about themselves, or, in Whitman's case, as I argue, artfully refusing to?!

[Thomas Chatterton Williams @thomaschattwill]

Might not be as attention grabbing as what the administration is doing these days, but this kind of woke illiberalism is insidious. I was also told it was over (if it had ever happened):

“In effect, [Junot] Díaz had been canceled, not just informally but in a final, official way. Removal from an anthology is far more consequential for a writer than ephemeral, even if viral, tweets or sensational feature stories. The Norton anthologies are one of the primary channels through which we establish and preserve literary canons. Assembled by the profession’s most influential scholars, they shape what instructors pass down to the next generations and what those next generations, in turn, will view as their cultural inheritance. In expunging Díaz’s work from such a high-profile anthology, the academy was conferring its imprimatur upon a smear campaign against a once-revered author based on reliably discredited rumors.”

[Rafael Walker @raf_walk]

@vjoshuaadams 😊

[Rafael Walker @raf_walk]

I've been uneasy about Junot Díaz's treatment by the mainstream media for a while now, but seeing him get nixed from the Norton anthology was the last straw for me. I've put my thoughts down here. Thanks, as usual, to my editor, @GutkinLen!

https://t.co/4uOyH3U0Gu

[Rafael Walker @raf_walk]

@ProfMcInnis And congrats again on yours, which I’ve also been excited about! 🙌🏾

[Rafael Walker @raf_walk]

Elated to announce that my baby, "Realism after the Individual," has a stunning cover and is available for preorder! University of Chicago Press remains undefeated for making beautiful books.

https://t.co/5CtWwPtCau

[Tom Koenigs @tomkoenigs]

I could not be more excited about this book.