Rivky Mondal

@graceelavery happy birthday Grace 💖

also it’s my birthday so you can engage with that if it is more relatable

my publisher wants me to come back to Twitter, so hello again everyone. please expect me to be mostly promoting the best thing I’ve ever written, PERSONAL DEMONS: POSSESSION NARRATIVES OF LATE LIBERALISM, which @DukePress is putting out on October 20th. cover drop imminent

@raf_walk @UChicagoPress Congratulations, Rafael. I'm so excited to read!

My book, Realism after the Individual: Women, Desire, and the Modern American Novel, is now out with @UChicagoPress! Use discount code UCPNEW for 30% off. I'm so excited! 🥳 press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book…

UChicago’s annual Arts & Humanities Day features faculty talks + conversations with Nick Offerman (Parks & Rec, The Last of Us), Stephen J. Dubner (Freakonomics), Roxane Gay (Bad Feminist), and more. #UChicagoAHDay ➡️ Learn more + preview the schedule: ms.spr.ly/6013sQ7OT

@lilyscherlis @Harpers this is brilliant. thank you, lily!

My essay on the "crisis" of social skills is on the cover of this month's @Harpers harpers.org/archive/2025/0…

Every year I look forward to the day I take my students outside and we perform Ono's Grapefruit and every year I'm delighted by the instant pact we create with each other thru "Scream" piece

if you think close reading is a “rare” practice you do not know what happens in countless girls’ group chats every day

@ShwethaChandra3 No MLA for me this year, sadly. Hope you have a great time -- for us both!

@ShwethaChandra3 gosh this looks SO good

Chicago/@msatweet #MSAChicago friends, if you're in town on Wed 6 Nov, I'd love to see you at a talk I'm giving for @UChicago's film + media folks: "Creativity in Motion: Unfinishing Feminist Film and Literary History", 3pm in Cobb 310, Cobb Hall, 5811 S. Ellis Ave. Abstract👇

Does anyone else divide their workday like days of the week? Monday is 8-11am, Tuesday is 11am-noon, Wednesday is noon-3pm, Thursday is 3-4pm, Friday is 4pm- ...

@nplusonemag this was terrific in all senses

The contemporary American book review is first and foremost an audition — for another job, another opportunity, another day in the content mine. nplusonemag.com/issue-40/the-i…

@oliviastowell if you ever need another pair of eyes 🤓

diss ch2 first draft has now crossed the 4000 word mark we're finally cooking

@oliviastowell at a random bar in chi! he was very demure and mindful keeping a low profile with his cubby hat

@_discoursis YOU MET JON HAMM OMG

remembering when i met jonathan bailey in 2016 and he asked me how to pronounce the word “calves” in an american accent

My first article, "Reductive," is out in this summer's issue of @SignsJournal -- about Andrea Dworkin's style and what we're still missing about her thinking even as we return, re-read, and re-evaluate her. Throwing my hand in at "solving" the sex wars, nbd.

@seandileonardi This looks fascinating!

writing my microsocial project got me like

the server at Parlor Pizza Bar will never know what I hold inside my purse: Benjamin's Theses on the Philosophy of History