successfully indoctrinated the kid who said to me before bed “good night daddy, good work, sleep well, i’ll most likely kill you in the morning”

motion to eliminate "the former/latter" we all have adhd

be like devin, teach dave’s book

Not me putting “Just Like Heaven” on a mixtape this morning and spending my evening plotting how to teach this essay…

tigers doing everything in their power to break my heart

If you, like I, owned a cassette of Poison’s Open Up and Say … Aah, are a big fan of David Ben-Merre & @profchander.bsky.social’s, and can’t get enough of theories of address & apostrophe, you truly must read the epilogue to David’s wonderful book forthcoming from @sunypress.bsky.social

why yes i am ready for some football

Undoubtedly the best thing about writing about lyric poetry is being about to use Mary J. Blige in your argument.

free dc

Major new piece from David Ben-Merre (Buffalo State) and Manu Chander @profchander.bsky.social (Georgetown), in epilogue of David's excellent new book "O: Apostrophic Ghosts and the Disappearing Acts of Lyric Poetry."

❤️

my friend dave wrote this book, it’s really good sunypress.edu/Books/O/O

carrot cake o clock

so much stupid

Done! NORTHANGER ABBEY, next on the Reread Austen Project!

still occupied

tigers with the best record in the al

got my copy of tricia matthew’s penguin classics deluxe edition of northanger abbey, you should too. if it ain’t deluxe, your edition sucks

i always think i’m a bad romanticist for not really caring about romantic-era literature but then every time i teach (william godwin in this case) i remember i actually like the field i specialize in

Make America Hack up its vital organs Again

this was unbelievable www.mlb.com/video/tigers...

So, I wrote a thing about my vase-fucking skeet and resulting thread with thanks to @romgothsam.bsky.social, @profchander.bsky.social, @philistella.bsky.social, & @gothicbodies.bsky.social for inspiration PLUS a shout out to a very old *undergraduate* essay by @joanpassey.bsky.social

oh troy aikman i hate it when you talk

My reading group has been reading _A Dying Colonialism_ by Frantz Fanon for the past few weeks. I'm getting ready to post reflections on Chapter 3 ("The Algerian Family") later, but first... Here are some quotes from Chapter 2: "This Is the Voice of Algeria"

remember that bills season opener when they came back from a 15 point deficit to win with a last second field goal by a rental kicker who’d joined the squad three days earlier?

smiling thinking about the ravens fans at highmark chanting mvp for lamar. good night baltimore, see you in the postseason. go bills.

ed oliver tho

prater is going to kick the game winner in the super bowl. right hash mark. 47 yards. go bills.

HEY EY EY EY

was that dawson kincaid or dalton knox?

go bills

bo nix got his name when they misspelled “inbox”

this comes out next week (i’m teaching it the week after!) Northanger Abbey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) By Jane Austen Introduction by Patricia A. Matthew Edited by Patricia A. Matthew

Delighted to see my blogpost for @nichecanada.bsky.social on Humour & Climate Crisis in High Potential up and live - with thanks to @nulybranch.bsky.social for her patient editing of the piece - check out the rest of the series!

Professors Jarrar and Mohammed discuss the relationship between Romantic literature and Palestinian literature, as well as what it looks like to teach such literature during a genocide.

i assume the bowser they’re talking about is the king koopa

bad batch of peyote: toxic mescalinity

this is the most appropriately under-optimistic welcome back greeting i’ve seen.

This cluster of essays emerged from one of the most special panels I've ever been on at my home conference. Thank you Mona and @zugenia.bsky.social for giving me this space to write about, for the first time, my identity as a Hong Kong-born scholar of the eighteenth century.

foucault's discussion of kant's "what is enlightenment" may be my second favorite thing he wrote (the first is "on the archaeology of the sciences," which i think should be required reading before anyone reads the major works)

New article! "Open Educational Resources for a More Just Romanticism." I couldn't include acknowledgments, but I'm so grateful to @zugenia.bsky.social, @reneemc.bsky.social, @profchander.bsky.social, Andrew McKinney, and Duncan Faherty for helping make this happen. utppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3...

puzzling my way through the occupation of dc

um hi, my name is inigo montoya. sooo, you killed my father…prepare to, like, die?

Hello everyone. Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax has a tenure-track job in Enlightenment rhetoric and / or 18th-century literature. Tell everyone. www.msvu.ca/about-msvu/c...

bringing back “what the deuce”

PSA: when you buy my book, make sure to get a second copy so that the first doesn’t get lonely. 😂😂

i never think twice before agreeing to write a rec letter; i never don’t feel like i’m imposing when i ask for a rec letter