just having a quick think about all the fun queer shows that never got greenlit so that peacock could make <checks notes> the miniature wife

super fun day to be teaching Milton's "Tenure of Kings and Magistrates."

they should invent a flight to Denver that's shorter

my contribution is a fun little essay on the materiality and queerness of literary influence, featuring brief appearances by Montaigne and Donne, but starring my favorite little weirdo of a poem, Henry King's THE DOUBLE ROCK

so delighted -- as I wing my way toward #shax2026 -- to see that LITERARY FORM AFTER MATTER is now published and available open access!!! all hail the brilliant Dianne Mitchell and Katharine Hunt!! edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-literar...

walking into Villa Rosa for the scariest meeting of my life

This is an *excellent*—albeit temporary—opportunity for an early modernist. 1 year VAP at Bates College in Maine. Very happy to answer questions about teaching at Bates (this is the position I'm currently in). Please pass along to anyone who might be interested! www.higheredjobs.com/faculty/deta...

This is an *excellent*—albeit temporary—opportunity for an early modernist. 1 year VAP at Bates College in Maine. Very happy to answer questions about teaching at Bates (this is the position I'm currently in). Please pass along to anyone who might be interested! www.higheredjobs.com/faculty/deta...

This looks set to be a great conference! Sign-up here (or scan the QR code): docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

somehow my syllabi synced up so that I'm teaching act 3 of Othello and book 9 of Paradise Lost tomorrow and yeah. I want to ruin someone's life.

RIP to everyone who agrees to a Chotiner interview but I'm different. and better. maybe even smart enough to crush a Chotiner interview

Fantastic-looking position for someone working in trans studies!! www.higheredjobs.com/institution/...

this is very cool and important

Fantastic-looking position for someone working in trans studies!! www.higheredjobs.com/institution/...

it is so not enough, but I'm giving what I can to tcpipeline.org, a trans and queer relocation nonprofit in Colorado -- perhaps you'll join me?

Me assigning papers: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!! Me watching the papers come in on the due date: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.

the nothing that is not there and the nothing that is

ok so one of the gags of Milton's "Paradise Regained" is that Satan cannot remember literally anything that happened in the previous book ("Paradise Lost") and that is the gag they're doing here, which really does it for me www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9HX...

ok so one of the gags of Milton's "Paradise Regained" is that Satan cannot remember literally anything that happened in the previous book ("Paradise Lost") and that is the gag they're doing here, which really does it for me www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9HX...

bread and roses

I feel like the caption here doesn't adequately explain that this is not just a suggestion, it is a literal New York City Program

LISTEN TO NIGELLA. one of my favorite movies.

Did Gregory of Nyssa write this ad copy

will we, as a society, ever recover from the Wirecutter recommending that one Panasonic toaster oven?

HEATED RIVALRY (2025)

everything is about sex except for sex. Sex is about hockey.

you can be mean to me again :)))))))))))))))))))))))

i'm in this!

The white pink, and the pansy freak'd with jet, The glowing violet, The musk-rose and the well-attir'd woodbine, With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head, And every flower that sad embroidery wears

ultimately, I accomplished what I set out to achieve this year: secure my Amtrak Select status for the second year running

this is, to the pixel, what a Harold Bloom seminar looked like

dammit. the production of "Travesties" with Tom Hollander about 8 years back was the best thing I've ever seen in a theater. I went 3 times.

they should kiss

be sweet to the gay men in your life today; they probably did not manage to get tickets in the presale for Robyn's NYE show in Brooklyn and are having a rough go of it.

the second biggest headline on the NYT right now is about the Harvard-Yale game you cannot make this up

I nor on his wood tilly “AI!”

Tonight’s about to pop off

hello friends! I'm giving a talk at the Columbia Shakespeare Seminar this friday -- it'll be on Ovid (ish), Petrarch (sorta), obscure 17th century English lyric (yes!), trans poetics, and maybe a hint of psychoanalysis. Abstract at the link below -- and if you want to Zoom in, DM me for a link :)

[driving to work in a completely normal way, but having seen one battle after another for the second time last night]: wow this is just like one battle after another. the scene with the cars.

hear me out............... macroplastics

hello friends! I'm giving a talk at the Columbia Shakespeare Seminar this friday -- it'll be on Ovid (ish), Petrarch (sorta), obscure 17th century English lyric (yes!), trans poetics, and maybe a hint of psychoanalysis. Abstract at the link below -- and if you want to Zoom in, DM me for a link :)

the shipment has arrived and the panic augmented. help!!!!!

terrible night for small liberal arts colleges in Maine that are not Bowdoin

pronouncing cisgender like an italian would

i have bean club panic

wake me up when this website is no longer the Platner Chatner

I am going to start a website called stupidgayjobs.com where if you're gay you can go and get a stupid job that you're just naturally good at even though you have no traditional qualifications for it

has a title ever more perfectly described its own show?