Ben Bascom @Ben_Bscm

Prof. of early and 19th-century American literatures | LGBTQ studies, queer affects | wrote a book on singularity & feeling queer in early U.S. lit global.oup.com/academic/produ… Indianapolis, IN Joined November 2012

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Ben Bascom @Ben_Bscm

7 months ago

Black Studies | Oxford Academic academic.oup.com/pages/black-st…

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Ben Bascom @Ben_Bscm

8 months ago

Such a dream to see my book Feeling Singular at @OxUniPress’s booth at the MLA—and the code AAFLYG6 will still work for a 30% discount! global.oup.com/academic/produ…

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Dr. Kristin Moriah @DarkStars__

9 months ago

If you’re going to New Orleans for the #MLA Convention this January, plz come to the launch of some fabulous new #C19 books by @AdamMckible, @sarahechinn, John Ernest, @Ben_Bscm and myself! We’ll be at @bluecypressbooks on Jan 9th from 6:30-8 PM. I’d love to see you there!

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Ben Bascom @Ben_Bscm

11 months ago

Hey Indianapolis! I’ll be talking about my book FEELING SINGULAR at @IvyTech_Indy next week! It’s open to the public, too—and sponsored by the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Belonging. ivylife.ivytech.edu/event/10534409

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Sarah Chinn @sarahechinn

11 months ago

Hi all -- the new J19 is up on the Johns Hopkins University Press website! It's full of treasures and pleasures, from a fabulous essay by @BrigField about birds, extinction, and mourning to a recovery of Black New Orleans actress Virginie Gireaudeau! muse.jhu.edu/issue/53475

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Ben Bascom @Ben_Bscm

a year ago

5 Indiana writers talk creativity and queerness mirrorindy.org/indiana-queer-… via @mirrorindy

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Ben Bascom @Ben_Bscm

a year ago

Just sitting here thinking about Mary Ann Willson (circa 1820s) and wondering how terrific her work will look on my lesbian-focused queer lit syllabus that is still very much a work in progress.

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Ben Bascom @Ben_Bscm

a year ago

“A photograph gives shape to history; it allows us to fashion a landscape of feeling, . . . A photograph is a ladder that goes backward in time, a ladder we can push away whenever we want. With photographs, we can obscure the past as much as illuminate it.” ~Billy-Ray Belcourt

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Ben Bascom @Ben_Bscm

a year ago

Federalism in Drag: Timothy Dexter’s Pickle and Other Perverse Properties academic.oup.com/book/56187/cha…

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Ben Bascom @Ben_Bscm

a year ago

Oxford University Press has released a free chapter from _Feeling Singular: Queer Masculinities in the Early US_ "Federalism in Drag: Timothy Dexter’s _Pickle_ and Other Perverse Properties." It begins with @sasha_velour and ends with wooden statues. academic.oup.com/book/56187/cha…

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Ben Bascom @Ben_Bscm

a year ago

Reading Victor Heringer's THE LOVE OF SINGULAR MEN and had to share and re-gender these sentences: "Last time I saw [him], about two years ago, it looked like [he'd] slept in a bath of bleach. [He's] old in the damp, flaccid way of someone who loved being young a bit too much."

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Ben Bascom @Ben_Bscm

a year ago

Still feeling the love from FEELING SINGULAR’s book release party at my favorite Indianapolis bookstore, Golden Hour Books! Huge thanks to @esj312 for the terrific questions!! And @saragelston for creating the space! @OUPAcademic @OxUniPress

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Early American Literature @Early_Am_Lit

a year ago

Happy Pride! Celebrate by reading Ben Bascom’s “Feeling Solitary in the Seductive Republic: Narrative Deviance in Elizabeth ‘Harriot’ Wilson and William ‘Amos’ Wilson” in 59.1 and Jennifer Putzi’s “Charity Bryant and the Queer Affordances of the Early American Acrostic” in 58.2.

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Ben Bascom @Ben_Bscm

a year ago

One week away from FEELING SINGULAR's book release event, where I'll be in conversation with @esj312 about the process of writing this book and the insights it provides for thinking about queerness. global.oup.com/academic/produ… Use code AAFLYG6 for a 30% discount at check out.