Dr. Zoë L. Henry
@ZoeLaHenry
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Writer, scholar, teacher. Assistant Professor of English @Columbia | PhD in modernist literature, Black studies | Essays in @Mmodernity , @Slate , @HuffPost , etc.
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Some news: Earlier this week I successfully defended my dissertation, earning my PhD. In July, I will join the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University as an Assistant Professor.
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I know some other stuff happened, but today I am 30 🤷🏾♀️
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When I was 19, I sat huddled, breathless, finishing "Ulysses" in a broken armchair. This novel was not written for me--I am Black, a woman--so how was it that I could feel so profoundly seen in its pages?
@mervatim
articulates just this for
@NewYorker
. 🙏🏾
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Submitted the complete dissertation to my committee, now chilling in the path of totality. Feels momentous 🤞🏾🌞
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Today I had the pleasure of handling the 1922 Sylvia Beach edition of “Ulysses”- signed by Joyce.
@NewberryLibrary
🥹
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I passed my prospectus defense!! Your girl (and her pup) are officially ABD. 😀
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Well folks, I did it! I finished two pages of Finnegans Wake...Thanks as always to the brilliant
@avaunt_la_garde
@MyExplodingPen
@LauraGibbss
@mauricejblack
and
@Mod_Ireland
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Personal news: After 4 years with
@Inc
, I'll be freelancing as I work towards a PhD in Literature from Indiana University. S/o to my amazing editors--
@mariaaspan
@jonfine
@jledbetter
@daniellesacks
@dianaransom
, et al.
Pitches/thoughts/odes to zoe.lawson.henry
@gmail
.com. 🙅🏿
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Exciting collaboration b/w
@msatweet
and
@modernistudies
: CFP for a special issue of The Modernist Review, guest edited by me, on "Precarious Modernisms." Publication to coincide with the guaranteed graduate student panel at MSA Brooklyn!
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Starting today as an NEH summer fellow
@NewberryLibrary
! Looking forward to diving into the archives, and discussing modernism, dance + visual culture in Chicago with this stellar cohort. 📚
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I spoke to the one and only
@Nick_Offerman
about the value of going beyond 'good enough.' The respect/admiration he has for his wife, the incredible
@MeganMullally
, is palpable. 🙏🏾
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The world’s best writing spot (according to Wright and Baldwin!) ✍🏾 🇫🇷
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Indian actress
@priyankachopra
joins LinkedIn as an influencer, as program seeks more diversity:
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My grandma is 99 this week. Born in the segregated South in 1923, she migrated to Seattle in the early fifties where she became a librarian, helping to secure a better life for my family in the face of persistent racism. I am unspeakably grateful for her, today and everyday. ✊🏾
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For the last two years, I've been thinking about Langston Hughes and his poetic legacy in modernist studies. At the centenary of 1922, I wrote "Syncopating Commemoration" for
@MModernity
:
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Recently,
@TheSharkDaymond
opened up to me about loneliness, racism and entrepreneurship in America:
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Small potatoes in the grand scheme of things, but as of this morning, I have an MA degree! 🌈
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Amazon has invested in or acquired at least 128 startups. My latest explores its strategy for world domination:
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@rachsyme
This is Didier, our good French boi, from the Latin for ardent desire. We call him Diddy for short. The Little Diddy Dog!
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Thrilled to have been elected the Graduate Student Representative for the Modernist Studies Association! I look forward to cultivating more grad student programming, acting as a liaison to the executive board. Ideas for me? Get in touch...
@msatweet
Congratulations to our new Graduate Student Representative
@ZoeLaHenry
! And a huge thank you to all of our talented candidates for standing for election.
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Looking forward to chairing a panel on James Joyce and the Black Atlantic, “A Sea Change,” here at the O’Brien Science Hall at UCD- room H 2.32, 2nd floor, 11:00 a.m. Spread the word!
#ijjs22
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Deepak Chopra calls the GOP "by and large racist," explains who entrepreneurs should vote for
@deepakchopra
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A growing number of activists join Silicon Valley tech startups in the fight to make society more equal:
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For
@MModernity
, I wrote about privacy as an interior refuge-- one historically denied to women of color above
all, and a prerequisite for the forms of collective action the present moment demands.
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Today I finished my PhD coursework. Next up: my qualifying exam in the fall. Feeling happy, hopeful, and filled with gratitude for the amazing authors I get to spend the summer with. 💫
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Calling all modernists: Please consider attending this virtual roundtable on making Joyce studies (and academic conferences more broadly) a safe place for marginalized and contingent folks--esp. women and POC.
@msatweet
The JJS will hold a virtual roundtable and open forum, "Making Joyce Studies Safe for All." Please save the date: Sep. 15, 12pm EST. Participants will include
@Katherine_Ebury
@ZoeLaHenry
Casey Lawrence and
@sbslote
, with
@CeliaMarshik
moderating.
@MyExplodingPen
@JoyceFound
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Still processing the incredible archival materials from
@NewberryLibrary
, including these stills from productions by modernist choreographer Ruth Page. Eerily a propos for our post-Roe moment…
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I return to NYC March 15th to give a talk at NYU through the James Joyce Society! I'll be presenting on "Ulysses" in conversation with Nella Larsen's "Quicksand", exploring aesthetic Blackness, equivocation and withholding in each. Come!
@JoyceSocietyNY
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“Joyce’s bones don’t need to be in Dublin, because Joyce is always and already in Dublin’s bones, investing its commonplace realities with a glow of significance.”
@mrkocnnll
’s beautiful homage to, and vexed relationship with the city is as luminous as what it describes.
#ijjs22
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That’s a wrap on
#MLA23
. I had a blast presenting my work, meeting with friends old and new, and hearing exciting ideas from some of the greatest minds around. I leave feeling energized and joyful heading into the new year. See you later, SF!
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These are all the authors we read this semester in my literary fiction survey course. Today, we all went around and read passages from our favorite works aloud. From Jhumpa Lahiri to Morrison, Larsen, Joyce and Borges, the class— and these students— were simply wonderful. 🥹🎉
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What do James Joyce's "Ulysses" and Nella Larsen's "Quicksand" have in common? Nothing, you say? Well you'd be wrong! I'll tell you about their important, shared assymetries as part of this
#MLA22
panel. Join us tomorrow morning (8:30 a.m.) to talk
#modernism
and race
@msatweet
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The brand was always about who Kate was as a woman--not just her aesthetic. "We were creating this world, which was about graciousness," said Andy. "We built it around Kate's personality." My obit for Kate Spade:
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This morning my puppy grabbed my PhD advisor’s first book, ran downstairs, and plopped it on the couch in front of me. What an agressive move, Sir.
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🚨Attention grad students working on global modernisms
@msatweet
: Please join our new listserv via Google Groups! This is a dedicated space to connect with other grads + see/post exciting opportunities in our shared field: . Request to join ASAP!
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Excited to be leading this seminar at
@msatweet
Portland in October! Join me,
@JunoRichards
, and Paul K. Saint-Amour for a spirited discussion of "transracial circuits, transnational modernism." Registration for seminars closes July 31st.
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WeWork could soon be worth more than Snapchat:
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"Contrary to the argument of body politics, confining scholars to specialties mirroring their identities risks thwarting, instead of advancing, our attempts at diversity and inclusion." A smart, urgent, and artful piece from the inimitable
@raf_walk
.
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What one page of Finnegans Wake looks like after brilliant conversation with the
@Mod_Ireland
reading group. Thanks for having me
@avaunt_la_garde
!
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Longest way round is the shortest way home: Very excited to be chairing a panel on Joyce's work in the context of critical race theory
@JoyceFound
. To the many friends, colleagues, and co-conspirators with whom I've Zoomed these last two years: See you in Dublin!!
@Mod_Ireland
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"We won't change our lives for them." How Paris businesses are moving on amid grief and fear:
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Today, as everyday, I love my Blackness. LOVE IT. I honor my ancestors for their beauty, tenacity and determination, and continue the work to build a better, more beautiful future. Most of all, I celebrate the sheer joys of Blackness.
#BlackTwitter
#Blackhistorymonth
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New author photo, attempting to capture the mind of winter... ❄️
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Looking forward to presenting on Ann Petry, the modernist gothic, and tenement housing conditions on this stellar
#MLA23
panel, "Reading Air." Join us tomorrow at 10:15 a.m. 🍃
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.
@LeoDiCaprio
invests in
#inc500
startup
@DrinkRuna
, pledges to donate shares to indigenous peoples in Ecuador:
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This book came to me when I needed it most. In a week when my own, Black madness felt intolerable, intractable, this gorgeous provocation made it possible to dream again. May the camaraderie I feel in its pages one day extend to real life,
@Afromanticist
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Having arrived back in my beloved West Coast 🌲, I have two
#MSA2022
sessions to plug. On Saturday at 10:30 am, I'll be chairing a panel on modernism and autoscholarship, featuring the fabulous
@EricaGene5
,
@charnamarna
,
@inisfree66
, and
@ria4983
.
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Goooob morning. Today the hell water fell from the sky and mother put me in this cotton prison. I have become a reluctant winter hipster.
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Very excited to announce that I’ll be leading a seminar at
@msatweet
Chicago! Consider joining myself, Kevin Quashie, and Jennifer Fleissner for a spirited discussion of “transracial circuits, transnational modernism.” Description here:
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Just dancing to James Brown with a puppy on my birthday. 💕🥰
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🙏🏾 ✨ thank you
@JoyceSocietyNY
for having me!
Tonight
@ZoeLaHenry
addresses
@JoyceSocietyNY
on James Joyce’s Ulysses in conversation with Nella Larsen's Quicksand.
@GIHNYU
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"When people smell success, they take it away if you're naive," says Joy Mangano
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This is just to say
I have eaten
The snacks
That were in the cat bowls.
And which
You were probably
Saving
For them.
Forgive me
They were delicious
So sweet and
So cold.
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"Muhammad Ali taught us to put principle above profit and excellence above all else,"
@BenJealous
on
#MuhammadAli
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.
@Spotify
is now a public company, and its unusual IPO could inspire the next generation of tech startups to eschew Wall Street. My story:
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Thrilled to see my article, "Queer Persistence", published in the Virginia Woolf Miscellany! Thanks go to the incredible community of Woolf scholars who helped me to develop these ideas, and to the brilliant Vara Neverow, a dream editor.
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Billionaire Jack Ma just released a kung fu movie-- and it's awesome.
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The top 10 fastest-growing private companies led by African American CEOs:
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.
@Hometeamcare
has some of the "lowest margins" in healthcare tech -- but that's the secret sauce.
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Rainy sojourn to Powell’s Books, inspired by the brilliant
@JunoRichards
and
@scriblerian
☔️
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On Election Eve, here's what you need to know about moving your startup to Canada:
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"It's important for founders to think about how they would build their company from scratch-- again," says
@juliahartz
#CollisionConf
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Last year, you thought Macron was a cookie. Now he's slated to take 425 of the 577 seats in French parliament:
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Got to meet one of my idols tonight, the brilliant
@namwalien
. She read from “The Furrows,” and afterward we talked Gayl Jones, affective ambivalence, and the pleasures of breaking (interrogating?) narrative expectation. Thank you, Namwali! 🙏🏾 🔥 ✨
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Tens of thousands of women are now running for political office--entrepreneurs included.
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This holiday season, I’m thankful for the Senegalese sisters who made me feel more beautiful than I thought possible.
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Under Trump, startups get serious about International Women's Day:
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Startups respond to
#HarveyFlood
: "We've got a rainy day fund. We're going to use it for one hell of a rainy day."
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Lessons from
@MichellePhan
and
@pewdiepie
on starting a YouTube channel people actually want to watch.
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Facebook is losing young users at an even faster than expected rate:
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I feel so very lucky to have shared space with
@LieslMOlson
for a tour of her “Chicago Avant-Garde” exhibit. What an amazing scholar and human. Still sad about the cancellation of MSA, but our weekend getaway was such a treat. Thanks
@carallewis
for organizing!
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Gwyneth Paltrow: "I believe in food and sex and alcohol and laughing, but I also believing achieving what you can."
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Currently reading 🔥 papers for my
@msatweet
seminar on transnational/transracial modernism, featuring work by
@scriblerian
,
@JunoRichards
,
@Lost_Modernists
,
@ShinjiniChatto2
, and many others. Room still for an auditor or two-- get in touch, if interested!
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