Elizabeth A. Wilson
Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor WGSS Emory University | "A Silvan Tomkins Handbook: Foundations for Affect Theory" (with Adam Frank) UMinnesota Press | Co-editor differencesjournal.org
Current research: Valerie Solanas 🖤 bit.ly/valeriesolanas
- Reposted by Elizabeth A. WilsonFrom the Archives: The Deborah E. McDowell papers, available for research. McDowell is Alice Griffin Prof. Emerita of Literary Studies at UVA. Image is a program from Toni Morrison's 70th birthday, signed by Morrison, Ann DuCille, & Hortense Spillers. Finding aid: www.riamco.org/render?eadid...
- Reposted by Elizabeth A. WilsonRIP Carla Freccero. You were feisty & fabulous. Brilliant & bold. You thought my usage of the word 'oeuvre' was annoying (OK, ça va, I give you that one!), but read my and other folks' work with an eye for detail & care and embodied a type of intellectual generosity that is rarely found in academia.
- Reposted by Elizabeth A. WilsonNostalgic for snow days rather than shift to remote days.
- Reposted by Elizabeth A. WilsonThe annual Feminist Studies grad prize is open for submissions! December 31st deadline. Please spread the word.
- If you’re in the vicinity, we’d love to see you at Limits of Legibility #3!
- join us in Providence on March 6th for Limits of Legibility: History under Siege — a colloquium featuring Joan Wallach Scott, Omnia El Shakry, Gary Wilder, and Korey Williams: events.brown.edu/pembroke/eve...
- Reposted by Elizabeth A. WilsonThe Introduction, “What is the Future We Yearn For?,” to my book, *The Future That Was*, is now live and freely available to all on the book’s @princetonupress.bsky.social website press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
- Reposted by Elizabeth A. WilsonThe Weekly Read is “The Americanity of the 'American Lyric': Claudia Rankine in Ibero-American Translation” by Whitney Devos. The article appears in Lyric beyond Containment, a special issue of @differences.bsky.social (36:2-3). Read it for free: buff.ly/hj5wL6r
- Reposted by Elizabeth A. WilsonWishing you all a peaceful moment today! www.criterion.com/current/post...
- Reposted by Elizabeth A. Wilson"Lyric beyond Containment," a special issue of differences edited by Sarah Dowling and Claire Grandy, is now available. View the TOC, read the intro, and "The Americanity of the 'American Lyric',"all freely available: buff.ly/3RkT2Hv
- Reposted by Elizabeth A. Wilsondifferences 36.2–3 is out now — edited by Sarah Dowling and Claire Grandy, "Lyric beyond Containment" features essays from Jacques Khalip, David Marriott, Andrea Brady, Amy De'Ath, Whitney DeVos, Jan Mieszkowski, Ren Ellis Neyra, Susan Briante, more: read.dukeupress.edu/differences/...
- Reposted by Elizabeth A. WilsonIn "Sex Isn't Real," @beansvelocci.bsky.social traces the history of attempts to define sex and to create a world devoid of trans life, demonstrating that it is not the cis people who fit the categories but the categories that flex to make them fit. Read the intro for free now! buff.ly/TinoJLg
- Reposted by Elizabeth A. WilsonOne of my favorite things about Feminist Studies is our commitment to art. We regularly publish art essays with full color spreads of art work (have an idea to pitch us? Please send!) and our covers are stunning. Shout out to Duy-Khuong Van, our graphic designer.
- Reposted by Elizabeth A. WilsonWinter 2026 issue is coming soon!
- We are now accepting submissions for Volume Three of Intarsia: Undergraduate Journal of Queer and Feminist Inquiry. Please encourage your undergraduate students to submit! Intarsia is peer-reviewed, open-access, and student-led. It is sponsored by @emorywgss.bsky.social and @ecds-emory.bsky.social
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- Reposted by Elizabeth A. WilsonI have a new publication called Throwing Like a Girl sterlinga.substack.com/p/throwing-l... Open access link: bsd.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
- Queer Class/Room Symposium University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA April 15 and 16, 2026 Due date for proposals: November 15, 2025 Keynote: Justin Torres queerclassrelations.commons.gc.cuny.edu/graduate-stu...
- Reposted by Elizabeth A. WilsonYear 5 of the Black Feminist Theory Summer Institute: Applications are open, more info on our website. Please spread the word.
- Reposted by Elizabeth A. WilsonOur first faculty book launch of the year is just around the corner! Join us for a discussion of @emorycollege.bsky.social Philsophy Prof. Lynne Huffer's new multi-media monograph "These Survivals: An Autobiography of Extinction" (@dukepress.bsky.social) 📚 RSVP here: forms.office.com/r/u9LDySx3FC
- Reposted by Elizabeth A. WilsonOur friends in Emory Film and Media are taking us back 50 years with this fall's Emory Cinematheque 1975, celebrating releases from that memorable year. Screenings, which are free and open to the public, happen every Wednesday at 7:30 pm in White Hall 208. Full schedule: bit.ly/41I3QUj
- Reposted by Elizabeth A. WilsonCome work with us! Emory Graduate Students - apply by September 9th: tinyurl.com/cfa-dstp2025
- Reposted by Elizabeth A. WilsonApplications open for 26-27 postdocs. Welcoming apps from any field that relates to the theme of the Seminar, "The Meanings of Merit: Labor, Categories of Difference, and the Creation of Knowledge." See: pembroke.brown.edu/funding-oppo.... Due 11/24/25. @pajaf.bsky.social @brownanthro.bsky.social
- Reposted by Elizabeth A. WilsonReminder! Sept 1 deadline!
- Feminist Studies is seeking three new editorial collective members. Application forms online: forms.gle/1CuqBvkBQe1g...
- Reposted by Elizabeth A. WilsonA fellowship at the National Humanities Center isn't just a break from teaching or a change of scenery. It's an opportunity to draft chapters, reimagine arguments, and follow ideas into unexpected terrain. Application Deadline: October 2, 2025 Learn more: bit.ly/nhc-scholarly-programs
- Reposted by Elizabeth A. WilsonApplications open for 26-27 postdocs. Welcoming apps from any field that relates to the theme of the Seminar, "The Meanings of Merit: Labor, Categories of Difference, and the Creation of Knowledge." See: pembroke.brown.edu/funding-oppo.... Due 11/24. @pajaf.bsky.social @brownanthro.bsky.social
- Reposted by Elizabeth A. WilsonAnnouncing The Parapraxis Film Festival Friday, September 19 - Thursday, September 25, 2025 361 Stagg Street, Suite 407, Brooklyn at @lightindustry.bsky.social Organized by Perwana Nazif and Hannah Zeavin For program, speaker list, & ticketing information: lightindustry.org/parapraxis
- From the pen of the very talented @wrisley.bsky.social recently graduated from @emorywgss.bsky.social and now faculty at WGSX at St Mary’s College, Maryland.
- Check out "Trans-Exclusionary Reactionary Feminism and the Politics of Ressentiment" from Signs and read how trans-exclusionary feminists' definition of womanhood is shaped by "ressentiment." Find it here: ow.ly/8NTH50WttHN @signsjournal.org
- Reposted by Elizabeth A. WilsonThe Weekly Read is "On Exhaustion: Toward a Post-Care Feminism" by Samantha Pinto and Jennifer C. Nash. The article was published in Dossier: Limits of Legibility—Questions of Blackness and Sexuality, a special issue of @differences.bsky.social (36:1). Read the article for free: buff.ly/XDrQAhF
- Reposted by Elizabeth A. WilsonWe are delighted to welcome two new Center staff. Scott Jackshaw joins differences as Managing Editor; Erin Perfect joins the archives team as Processing Archivist. Read about Scott : pembroke.brown.edu/news/2025-07... Read about Erin: pembroke.brown.edu/news/2025-05... @differences.bsky.social
- Oh, this is really great: new poetry from @differences.bsky.social managing editor, the super talented @scottjackshaw.bsky.social "apophatic theology, body horror, gardening, queer theory, classic films, poststructuralism, and bad sex" @talonbooks.bsky.social talonbooks.com/books/stigmata
- Reposted by Elizabeth A. WilsonFeminist Studies is seeking three new editorial collective members. Application forms online: forms.gle/1CuqBvkBQe1g...
- Reposted by Elizabeth A. Wilson📣 MEET THE 2025–26 LIFE/STORY FELLOWS 📣 The Fox Center is delighted to announce our 2025-26 Fellows, who will be joining us during our Life/Story theme year! 🌟 Learn more about our incoming fellows & their projects: bit.ly/3IhaoSM
- Reposted by Elizabeth A. WilsonPost 1/4. 2025 marks the 50th anniversary of Louise Lamphere vs. Brown University, the landmark sex discrimination case that changed the face of Brown. Lamphere was an assistant professor of anthropology who was denied tenure. @brown.edu @brownanthro.bsky.social
- Reposted by Elizabeth A. WilsonTo read: this interview of Elizabeth Weed and Elizabeth A. Wilson, differences editors, by Eugenia Zuroski, president of the Council of Editors of Learned Journals. www.celj.org/featured-jou.... differences is CELJ's newest featured journal. @differences.bsky.social @elizwilsonemory.bsky.social
- How about: Silvan Tomkins Handbook (Frank & Wilson) www.upress.umn.edu/978081668000... + The User Unconscious (Clough) www.upress.umn.edu/978151790422... + Political Affect (Protevi) www.upress.umn.edu/978081666510...
- Reposted by Elizabeth A. WilsonSIS Call for Summer Proposals! For faculty & graduate students working in areas related to race, sexuality, and gender! Proposal deadline is June 30, 2025. Please send proposals to fsheth@emory.edu, with your name, department, rank or year, and theme for proposal.
- Worn out by an afternoon in front of microfilm, but did locate terrific series of letters from Solanas to her college newspaper in 1957 “my pen is dipped in blood”
- Reposted by Elizabeth A. WilsonFinally my essay on a 5E approach to mental distress in adversity is published! It is open access at doi.org/10.1177/1363...
- Reposted by Elizabeth A. Wilson"Limits of Legibility: Questions of Blackness and Sexuality" is dedicated to the memory of Selamawit D. Terrefe.
- Reposted by Elizabeth A. Wilsondifferences 36.1 is out now — featuring a dossier of essays from Selamawit D. Terrefe, David Marriott, and Lee Edelman, alongside writing from Jennifer C. Nash, Samantha Pinto, Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli, Matthew Helm, and Iván A. Ramos: read.dukeupress.edu/differences/...
- Reposted by Elizabeth A. WilsonWe’ve had so many great conversations, proposals, and ideas come to us already— we love learning what cutting edge ECRs are up to and need in the field, and we love the creative ideas we’ve been fielding from already established authors. @jennifercnash.bsky.social @dukepress.bsky.social
- Black Feminism on the Edge, our @dukepress.bsky.social book series, has 2 new titles coming out - Dana Murphy and Justin Mann. Want to chat more about it? Book ideas you want to discuss? Contact us! (with @samanthapinto.bsky.social) dukeupress.edu/series/black...
- Reposted by Elizabeth A. WilsonWe thought we knew tired when we wrote this. Exhausted with @jennifercnash.bsky.social @differences.bsky.social doi.org/10.1215/1040...
- Reposted by Elizabeth A. WilsonCalling all Emory WGSS alumni! Please take our alumni survey at bit.ly/WGSSALUMNI
- Reposted by Elizabeth A. WilsonSummer issue is coming soon!
- Reposted by Elizabeth A. WilsonWe are very excited for this partnership!
- I’ve wasted most of the morning writing prose for a learning assessment report based on a class I taught in the Fall. I got half way thru this pointless exercise and I decided to ask an AI ChatBot to write the rest for me, and you know what, it reads *much* better than what I have done 🤔
- Look what turned up in the mail today! Beautiful work by Lynne Huffer and @dukepress.bsky.social www.dukeupress.edu/these-surviv...
- I guess Emory's president didn't want to sign this? www.aacu.org/newsroom/a-c...
- An amazing legacy Prof. Rose!
- Heartfelt thanks to my dear colleagues in the BioSocieties editorial collective for this incredibly generous ´tribute’ as I step down from my editorial role after 20 years. I’ll continue to support this terrific journal from the sidelines. biosocieties.org/our-thanks-t...
- Reposted by Elizabeth A. WilsonWelcome to Diacritics on Bluesky
- Full house for John Cameron Mitchell’s lunchtime masterclass today! @emorycollege.bsky.social @emorywgss.bsky.social
- Let’s do this, Freudians!
- Reposted by Elizabeth A. WilsonLet the countdown begin! We are about one week away from @johncameronmitchell ‘s visit to Emory. 5pm on March 25/ White Hall 208: film screening
- Reposted by Elizabeth A. WilsonCongratulations to WGSS undergraduate student, Soju Hokari, for being named one of the 100 Senior Honorary members of the Emory University Class of 2025! This honor goes to students who embody excellence in leadership, scholarship, mentorship and other important contributions to the Emory community
- Reposted by Elizabeth A. WilsonStarts Thursday!
- Two weeks from today! A RETURN TO FREUD? NEW HISTORIES OF PSYCHOANALYSIS. Full program and livestream registration, available here: www.thepsychosocialfoundation.org/events
- Volume Two of Intarsia is here! Check out three amazing essays (edited by the journal's undergraduate editorial board: Olivia Gilbert, Gabriella Shapcott, Emilio Rosas Gutierrez, Stella Fox, Elle Deppe, Jade Wu, Elizabeth Brubaker, Nava Klopper). www.intarsiajournal.org @emorywgss.bsky.social
- Reposted by Elizabeth A. WilsonICYMI: Watch Heather Love give this year's Shauna M. Stark '76, P'10 Out of the Archive Lecture. "Repeat What We Don’t Understand: In the Barbara Johnson Papers." Now available on the Pembroke Center YouTube playlist: buff.ly/YpN41Kv
- Reposted by Elizabeth A. WilsonWe'd love to see you at the launch of Volume Two of Intarsia: 6pm Candler Library 125, Tuesday March 18. Intarsia is a peer-reviewed and open-access journal of undergraduate scholarship that addresses feminism, sexuality, sex, and gender from queer and feminist theoretical perspectives.
- Reposted by Elizabeth A. WilsonCongratulations to Emory WGSS Associate Professor, Dr Sameena Mulla, for receiving an NEH fellowship, alongside Dr Christina Crawford of the Art History department. We are so proud of Dr Mulla! 🎉
- May 19, 1973 letter from Church of Solanas to publisher of SCUM Manifesto 🙃 “Just a line telling you about the new church and the continuing transformation of S.C.U.M into the nucleus of the vanguard party” Some terrific material in the Mary Harron papers at NYU Special Collections
- Really delighted to hear Heather Love’s terrific paper on Barbara Johnson this afternoon @pembrokecenter.bsky.social Part of her new project “To Be Real: On the Uses of the Personal in Queer Theory.” Keen to read more.
- Reposted by Elizabeth A. WilsonTwo weeks from today! A RETURN TO FREUD? NEW HISTORIES OF PSYCHOANALYSIS. Full program and livestream registration, available here: www.thepsychosocialfoundation.org/events
- Reposted by Elizabeth A. WilsonEmory University's Studies in Sexualities Program seeks submissions for its 2025 Student Essay Prize! All current Emory University students may submit to the contest. 250-word abstract to Falguni Sheth by Friday, March 21, 2025 at falguni.sheth@emory.edu.
- Volume 2 of “Intarsia: Undergraduate Journal of Queer and Feminist Inquiry” is almost here. Launching March 18! www.intarsiajournal.org @emorywgss.bsky.social
- First 50 downloads of my article @criticalinquiry.bsky.social essay are free (no subscription needed), using this URL Pass it on to someone without library support www.journals.uchicago.edu/eprint/9W7AN...
- Yay! Excited to see this.
- Happy to share that I just received a contract for my next book, "Artificial Women: Mass Culture, the 1970s, and Feminism." Thank you @dukepress.bsky.social and in particular, @lizault.bsky.social, for guiding me through the process. I am excited to have the project out in the world--finally!
- The first essay from my Solanas project @criticalinquiry.bsky.social 🖤 "Corroded with SCUM: Valerie Solanas’s Theories of Mind" www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10.... bit.ly/valeriesolanas
- Reposted by Elizabeth A. Wilson"If the manifesto is about male and female, but not really in any kind of recognizably feminist way, what work are these terms doing for Solanas?" From our new issue, read Elizabeth A. Wilson's "Corroded with SCUM": www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....
- Reposted by Elizabeth A. WilsonA collage-style work in fragments, Lynne Huffer’s "These Survivals" brings together philosophy, memoir, poetry, and original multimedia artworks to articulate an ethics of living on a devastated planet. Read a free sample now: buff.ly/434IhP3
- Reposted by Elizabeth A. WilsonJoin us for The Climate of Critique in two weeks feat. Lynne Huffer, Axelle Karera, Dixa Ramírez D’Oleo, and Jean-Thomas Tremblay, moderated by Elizabeth A. Wilson.
- join us in Providence on March 7th for Limits of Legibility: The Climate of Critique — a colloquium featuring Lynne Huffer, Axelle Karera, Dixa Ramírez D’Oleo, and Jean-Thomas Tremblay, moderated by Elizabeth A. Wilson: events.brown.edu/pembroke/eve...
