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Torsa Ghosal Aug 23, 2023

if you've included my articles/essay/story/any writing in a course/workshop/reading group at any point, could you please let me know?
it will help me a lot to know & get a copy of your syllabus for a professional + personal situation
#academicchatter #writingcommunity #literature

Torsa Ghosal Apr 14, 2023

- proofs ✔️
- index ✔️

look out for this #book on #digital #literature that i’ve worked on for 4.5 years in June 2023, featuring exciting work by contributors @Reham_Hosny_S @CMejeur @haze20091 et al.

https://www.routledge.com/Global-Perspectives-on-Digital-Literature-A-Critical-Introduction-for-the/Ghosal/p/book/9781032103495

#digitalliterature #digilit #game #globalStudies #ContemporaryLit #academic #academicmasdoton @academicchatter #academicchatter #electronicliterature

Global Perspectives on Digital Literature: A Critical Introduction for the Twenty-First Century

Global Perspectives on Digital Literature: A Critical Introduction for the Twenty-First Century explores how digital literary forms shape and are shaped by aesthetic and political exchanges happening across languages and nations. The book understands ‘global’ as a mode of comparative thinking and argues for considering various forms of digital literature—the popular, the avant-garde, and the participatory—as realizing and producing global thought in the twenty-first century. Attending t

Routledge & CRC Press

Torsa Ghosal Mar 31, 2023

The Tournament of Books Mar 28, 2023

Today: @torsa's judgment brings the semifinals to a close at the 2023 Tournament of Books, presented by Field Notes! https://tournamentofbooks.com/2023/sea-of-tranquility-v-the-rabbit-hutch

#books #tournamentofbooks #booksports #bookstodon

Sea of Tranquility v. The Rabbit Hutch — The Tournament of Books

Torsa Ghosal's judgment ends the semifinals at the 2023 Tournament of Books, presented by Field Notes.

The Tournament of Books

Torsa Ghosal Dec 21, 2022

Grace Loh Prasad Dec 20, 2022

Last year I published this essay in the NYT about folding origami cranes during the pandemic. We folded 1 crane each day until my whole family was vaccinated & our community ended all COVID restrictions—465 cranes total ending on June 22, 2021. Things were looking good but then Delta & Omicron hit. I remember thinking how sad it would be if we got up to 1000 cranes (senbazuru). If we had continued, we’d be up to 1,011 today https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/26/style/pandemic-origami-cranes.html

Marking a Pandemic, One Crane at a Time

My son and I took on what seemed like a simple project: fold one origami crane every day during the pandemic. Together, we discovered over the year how making art helps people bear the unbearable.

Torsa Ghosal Dec 20, 2022

grantpotter Dec 20, 2022

#highered #chatgpt #ai "Instead of asking questions solely based around 'who wrote this,' we could be looking for opportunities to frame the rise of AI writing as a need to teach new types of writing and research and ethical thinking about what a "person" is instead of freaking out about plagiarism or fears of being replaced by bots who can grade basic grammar." https://boingboing.net/2022/12/19/chatgpt-arrives-in-the-academic-world.html

ChatGPT arrives in the academic world | Boing Boing

AI art and text generators are all the rage right now. As an academic, I’ve seen an uptick in colleagues issuing warnings about students using tools like ChatGPT to create assignments, but I haven’…

Boing Boing

Torsa Ghosal Dec 20, 2022

my first pub of the year was this @PublicSeminar essay on the US literary review culture, its prejudices, & value judgements against BIPOC and Queer writers. https://publicseminar.org/essays/literary-imperialism-and-scenes-of-high-melodrama/
#YearInReview2022 #YearInWriting

Literary Imperialism and Scenes of High Melodrama - Public Seminar

The term melodrama is a value judgment—and as such, it can be careless.

Public Seminar

Torsa Ghosal Dec 12, 2022

I am one of the judges of The Morning News Tournament of #Books 2023. An exciting #Literary competition with a bizarre prize🐔. Check out the list of books to read along with me and the other judges. There’s also a zombie poll 🧟‍♀️
https://themorningnews.org/article/the-2023-tournament-of-books-shortlist-and-judges
#reading #writingcompetitions #literaryprizes

Announcing the 2023 Tournament of Books - The Morning News

Here are the books, judges, and Zombie poll for the 2023 Tournament of Books, presented by Field Notes.

The Morning News

Torsa Ghosal Dec 8, 2022

this year, for @CatapultStory
i wrote about #colonial attitudes to #wilderness, overcrowding of National Parks, & what American outdoors have meant to me, an international student & desi economic migrant. gratitude to Tajja Isen for the edits.
https://catapult.co/stories/torsa-ghosal-hiking-colonial-history-america-national-parks-nature-environment-colonization-racism-yosemite-yellowstone-tourism-travel
#YearInReview2022

Hiking Through the Colonial History of America's National Parks | Torsa Ghosal

As a South Asian woman, a first-generation immigrant in the contemporary US, I am not a welcome pilgrim to the country's public lands.

Catapult

Torsa Ghosal Dec 5, 2022

Ilana Masad Dec 5, 2022

RT @[email protected]

Delighted to share my latest essay! I wrote for @[email protected] about Lytton Strachey, his "indiscreet" biographical legacy, and two of his works, Eminent Victorians and his biography of Queen Victoria.

https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/viewer-discretion-advice

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/RVoronaCote/status/1599756058230083584