John Funchion

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Educator and researcher in South Florida who writes alone (usually) on nineteenth-century US literature and writes collaboratively about the spread of online misinformation.
John FunchionDec 21, 2022
Robert Dale ParkerNov 5, 2022

Attracted to a more humane space for learning from others, connecting with others, & supporting people with shared interests, especially about literature & books. #introductions

Fascinating to watch as people learn the ropes on #Mastodon, & grateful to those who built this space over the years & have welcomed so many of us.

#books #literature #novels #poems #mysteries #CrimeFiction #LiteraryCriticism #AmericanLiterature #EnglishLiterature #Writing #Fiction #Poetry #LitStudies #USLitStudies

John FunchionDec 16, 2022
I haven't been able to quit the bird quite yet, but the banning of reporters and references to Mastadon have almost pushed me to the point of doing so.
John FunchionDec 14, 2022
manu chander (he/him)Nov 15, 2022

since more and more people are joining just wanted to re-announce that tricia matthew and i are editing a book series on race in nineteenth-century literature and culture -- details in the flyer below and more info at https://www.bigger6.com/oup. send us proposals and/or share with others!

#litstudies #race #empire
@litstudies

Book Series — The Bigger 6 Collective

The Bigger 6 Collective
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@profchander @litstudies this is exactly why i can't totally quit social media: learning about research/publication endeavors like this. looking forward to the books you help bring to print!
John FunchionDec 12, 2022
Jay 🆘Dec 12, 2022
My suggestion if you want the Fediverse to work, follow and favorite and boost the absolute hell out of people. It’s not about dopamine or clout chasing, it’s about letting people know they’re not just typing into a void.
John FunchionDec 11, 2022
RJ Boutelle (he/him)Nov 16, 2022
ok, finally sitting down to write a #introduction for @litstudies i'm an assistant professor of english and africana studies at U of Cincinnati. i work on Black print and organizing culture, transnationalism, and hemispheric studies in #C19. finishing a book on Black internationalism and beginning new projects on the UGRR in Cincy and theories of whiteness in Black literature. i'll also post a lot of cat pictures and like all of your pet photos.
John FunchionDec 11, 2022

So I largely stopped posting on Facebook and Twitter for a variety of reasons, and I especially ceased posting anything related to my research. So I am going to change that here, partially in the hopes it will help me devote more time to research again, returning to that unique affective space where one gets lost in and excited about ideas again.

To that end, let me begin by highlighting a book I keep returning to in mulitiple contexts, Nick Estes's Our Country is the Future (link posted below). Parts of my second book and an essay for another project intersect with indigenous studies, and Estes keeps challenging me to move away from settler epistomolgies through his study of indigenous resistence.

In Estes's book, Standing Rock in 2016 flows into a long history of colonialism and resistence that is less about perserving a clacificed past and more about imagining new futures. Much more could be said, but I'll let him say it:

https://www.versobooks.com/books/2953-our-history-is-the-future

#c19studies

Verso

Verso Books is the largest independent, radical publishing house in the English-speaking world.

John FunchionDec 9, 2022

#introduction

I'm a #c19studies teacher and scholar at #umiami who is currently working on finishing a book on #c19 #americanlit insurrection #lit. I have a short piece from that project appearing in Democracies in America (OUP, 2023; eds. Emerson and Laski). I am also part of a NSF funded team researching the spread of online conspiracy theories. Other interests include local politics organizing, and #F1 (a recent interest much to my own surprise).