It's no coincidence that the bloc of 7 Ds who cast the needed votes for ICE are also the reliable votes against climate action and DC home rule and also the heroes of the overpaid Democratic consultant class.

What I mean when I remind students that AI only reproduces dominant knowledge systems & further reinforces marginalization 🤢🤢🤢

i was today years old when i found out the mamdanis are related 🙃

Back at it this semester, and ... a plurality of my undergrads are saying they would prefer print materials and only read digital materials because that's what their professors assign. Are others hearing similar things? Because I, for one, would LOVE to go back to requiring print editions...

I am beyond shocked & delighted--and deeply honored--by this recognition. So many people gave so much support & time to this book, whose work & words I hope it honors. forms.mla.org/proxy/file.p...

I'm not sure what it says about me that Connections is my favorite NYT game, but it can't be good

ACLS, AHA, and MLA sue over the dismantling of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Read it: www.mla.org/content/down...

ooooh this looks so goooooood

Back at writing after a semester filled by administrative slog, and it feels so good. 🦋 Just wish I could write a 1500 word conference paper without writing 5000 words of background first.

if you thought archives were problematic, wait till you see no archives

Updating my slides for today's class on rhythm & meter

on days when I feel like my job is just TOO HARD and TOO MUCH, I remind myself that the **urgent** things I "have" to do today are (1) comment on a range of exciting ideas about poems I love, and (2) reread Things Fall Apart. (The job IS too much sometimes, but ... the gifts are real, too)

Is this "cold snap" just an LL Bean conspiracy theory?

a good day to teach "the master's tools," the importance of words, and how we tell stories about the past

Some day, I would like to write a 1500 word conference paper without writing an extra 8000 words first

Last day to submit to ACLA! We've received some amazing proposals, with exciting connections. We're hoping for as expansive a discussion as possible... so get yours in, too! How does development shape literature? Is it all a spiral? What happens when literary scholars dip a toe in economic waters?

Hi all! Lauren Horst & I are putting together an ACLA seminar on Literature & International Development. If you're interested in submitting an abstract (or know someone who might be), we'd love to have you! Please circulate & feel free to reach out with qs www.acla.org/literature-a...

My current project is shaping up to be increasingly about how international loans become individual debt. And while many brilliant humanists are tackling this dynamic, the prevailing orthodoxy in economics seems to be that loans=aid. Is that accurate? Whose scholarship might I be overlooking?

The NSF Grad Research Fellowship funds at least 2,500 STEM *grad students* at approx $159k (to be used over 3 years). The NEH Fellowships for *faculty* funds an avg of 71 awards up to $60k for one year. There is 0 funding available for hum grad students. The imbalance is astonishing and harmful.

Finally overcame my deep-seated fears of typos and ... opened the book. I would never have predicted how extraordinary it feels to peer into the physical object--to feel, immediately, the many hands that shaped it, from editor and indexer to typesetter and papermaker. It's truly awesome.

Sigh. Bet on 2; start doing 3.

Classes this week are ... - Intro to Marxist literary analysis - Impromptu pivot to time management & productivity hacks - Archives & information systems in literary analysis The week after spring break is, at last, my time to SHINE

Is Word's new default font actually ... good? Or am I imagining things?

Teaching in DC means that, when you're looking at Bill Maxwell's F. B. Eyes Digital Archive,* and a student asks a question about how FOIA works ... another student will know the answer because she manages FOIA requests for work *amazing teaching resource! omeka.wustl.edu/omeka/exhibi...

happy publication day to me, and a huge thanks to all the people whose time & thoughts brought this book to life

nothing better in the world than sharing my favorite poems with students ... except discovering new favorites with them

Sufficiently obsessed with my desk treadmill that I want to get a cat exercise wheel (because my cats are an extension of myself). 🤔

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Who's going to MLA? Would love to grab coffee or meal etc etc!

Thete's a pretty finite set of words for killing civilians where they stand after they have been corralled by force.

I haven't been able to stop thinking about the amazing contributions @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social & I had the privilege to work with in this cluster ... and now they're 🥳 HERE! 🥳 A huge thank you to @atpost45.bsky.social & esp @franciscondine.bsky.social for their heroic work seeing it through

I think spaghetti squash might be my ideal food? It takes on any flavor, absorbs olive oil beautifully, has a fun silly texture, and is ~~interactive~~

Proofs of Networked Poetics are in! Work on this book has introduced me to extraordinary thinkers & artists, whose visions of the world transformed mine. Can't believe it will actually be coming out - in a beautifully antiquated physical form, no less! - in just a few months.

a note to Washington Post readers: On Dec. 7, we ask you to respect our walkout by not crossing the picket line: For 24 hours, please do not engage with any Post content. That includes our print + online news stories, podcasts, videos, games and recipes.

EXTRAORDINARILY rude of Duke UP to hold its annual sale the week I move & am therefore confronted with the consequences of my bibliomania 😠 Everyone else buy books on my behalf, plz

Has anyone written a history of the SSRC?

African lit folks, has there been much (anything) written on trans identities & dysphoria in /A Question of Power/? Student comments got me thinking about how that would intersect with the book's broader social/structural critiques...

Sociology of literature is still a theory, right? So a class on "literary theory" that's just sociology ... that, uh, counts? asking for a friend.

#1 goal for book #2: develop good Zotero habits

today is my parents' 42nd anniversary. Asked if she'd imagined this day, my mom* responded in the sweetest possible way *the woman who thinks my father is responsible for my interest in poetry & symbolism 🙄

be careful who you ask to proofread, that's all I'll say 😵

Had the honor of reviewing April Sizemore-Barber's book, Prismatic Performances, for Africa Today. Check it out if you're interested in queer studies, national identity, digital cultures, and post-apartheid South African identities! muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...

At this point in article revision, we're just cutting out articles & hoping no one misses 'em

friend just described my research as 'digital autopsies' and ... yes.

The NEH is hiring a hiring a program officer ("humanities administrator") for their Office of Digital Humanities. See the announcement: usajobs.gov/job/748496600

it's finally here this is the week the week i teach the same text* in 2 classes cannot contain my joy * the text is Ngugi's "Language of African Literature" & I am secretly always teaching it