Aarthi Vadde

@aarthivadde.bsky.social

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Associate Prof of English at Duke. My new book We the Platform: How the Internet Changed Twenty-First Century Literature (Columbia UP) comes out Summer 2026! More about me here: https://aarthivadde.com

Table of contents of LRB with Eagleton review circled.
Cover page of the journal Modernism/Modernity with images of South Asian periodicals and writing scripts.
Title page from my forthcoming book We the Platform: How the Internet Changed Twenty-First-Century Literature. Copyright Columbia University Press printed at the top.
Passage from "Shame in the Cybernetic Fold" by Eve Sedgwick and Adam Frank
A poster listing the dates and guests on the podcast, including Ken Liu, Rose Casey, Lauren Beukes, Andrew Pepper, Kim Stanley Robinson, Elizabeth Miller, Fernanda Trias, Heather Cleary, Vauhini Vara, Aarthi Vadde, Alvaro Enrigue and Maia Gil'Adi
A picture of Mahmoud Khalil with Columbia University in the background. The poster demands his release from detention.
Manuscript title page for book-in-progress called "We the Platform"
Book cover with picture of Victorian-style dining table with fancy food and flowers. Above and below picture is text describing picture generated by a chatbot
Bookshelf with Novel Languages, May 29-June 1, 2025, written on it.
Students protesting and holding their own ceremony in solidarity with Gaza