Post45

Conferences

annual faculty and graduate conferences
works-in-progress symposia, pre-circulated papers, in-depth engagement
Prof. Pergadia and I participated in & organized grad conferences 2017-2020 (Berkeley/Stanford, Yale, Michigan/MSU, Princeton/Rutgers)
Met some good friends and colleagues (some of whom we’ve now been in a writing group with for ~7 years: Alexander Manshel, Laura B. McGrath, Sam Huber, and Anna Shechtman)
Highly recommended
- submitting an abstract for the Post45 Graduate Conference ($0 registration, often includes a small stipend to help offset travel costs). Updates available at X.com/Post_45 or https://post45.org/conferences/.
- keeping an eye out for a CFP for a large Post45 conference in 2025/2026 (currently completing a proposal for the Huntington Library in Pasadena, CA to host and sponsor)

Recent SUP x Post*45 Books

Online forum for timely clusters on contemporary literature, art, media, and culture (shorter pieces, more experimental, not peer-reviewed)
Some highlights:
- one of Lauren Berlant’s final publications, “The Traumic: On BoJack Horseman’s ‘Good Damage,’” in the “Leaving Hollywoo: Essays After BoJack Horseman” cluster (2020)
- Slow Burn 1: The Neapolitan Novels an epistolary cluster (exchange of letters) among four scholars on Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels, which later became The Ferrante Letters: An Experiment in Collective Criticism by Sarah Chihaya, Merve Emre, Katherine Hill, and Juno Jill Richards, an award-winning book published by Columbia University Press.

Post45 Contemporaries Cluster Titles

Began as copy editor (& web developer) -> managing editor -> co-editor with Annie McClanahan (UC Irvine)
Can talk more about the responsibilities of each editorial role, but as co-editors, Annie and I lead the review & publication processes: soliciting submissions, desk reviewing articles, deciding who to invite to peer review pieces, making decisions & providing guidance to authors about revisions,