our Clarissa reading group celebrated finishing the novel yesterday by visiting the Morgan Library for a personal display of their Richardson holdings. I just love this Edward Gorey-ish frontispiece to a children's adaptation (!) of Clarissa.

The amount of nihilist edgelords with almost indecipherable and always inconsistent assassination messages is getting somewhat concerning

Totally normal setup outside 1 Pace Plaza where Google Gemini is giving students a free premium subscription for a year

Charlie Kirk’s direct legacy.

pretty wild that it so quickly became normalized that immigrants don’t have even basic free speech rights www.axios.com/2025/09/11/c...

Sharing our Toni Morrison Grendel reading from class today, for definitely no specific reason

Often thinking about when I was a very pregnant teacher and my high school sophomores told me if we ever go into lockdown, I should move to the safest corner of the room right away and they would move the bookcase to barricade the door on their own. "You have the baby," they (babies) said.

flags half mast and bottomless media hagiography for a man who spent his days tricking dim children into thinking black women are worthless

Took 9 yo who I’ve been watching since she was 8 months old to school this AM and she told me, totally randomly, “hey Cullin I really like that saying you told me ‘who painted the lion?’” 😭 I’ve raised a feminist medievalist

Netanyahu fleeing Israel after instigating potentially a world war, leaving Israelis to bear the brunt of his impetuous actions — like who is really concerned with Jewish lives here exactly

“protecting women"

I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.

😩❤️

Brilliant students bringing in Angela Davis totally unprompted we love to see it

If anyone needs me for the next week, I will be in my grading cave where my students are brilliant, etc., etc.

I’m in Ohio for a wedding and was at my mother’s restaurant and this ancient man asked me if I’m still in school and what for and I said I’m working on a PhD and he said “so will you be a doctor or nurse?” And I said no it’s a humanities degree and he goes “so nurse” 💀

Mandy Patinkin on my flight I talked to him I’m crying

A Pope from Chicago………great, as if we don’t already hear enough from people in Chicago 🙄🙄

Currently in the most annoying possible place to be when a new pope is announced (trapped on a campus with hundreds of medievalists)

So this!!! 👇

This would’ve done numbers on Twitter if I wasn’t still in Twitter jail

Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimage to mythological Kalamazoo

A student called me “mother Chaucer” at the end of our last Chaucer class today which I’ll be promptly putting on my CV

Lena Dunham New Yorker op-ed and I’m banned from posting and liking on Twitter for 5 more days what a cruel punishment

In Twitter jail for the next week for calling Pete Hegseth an alcoholic lol

I need chisme soon or it's over for me

I wish this featured also some of its humanities research which is also extremely vital but yes like this a lot

important context about the concentration camps in el salvador:

Miserable mayoral campaign per usual

Dissolution of the Office of Digital Humanities is confirmed. #DigitalHumanities

I'm not going to stop saying this. We need to stop calling it "deporting." It may not always be fair or humane, but deportation has a process. And it means you're sent back to where you came from. These people are being trafficked and sold to slave prisons. Not deported.

Fret not everyone! April Fools is over and we are back in action with a wonderful post today from our favorite Victorianist @taliaschaffer.bsky.social !

We’ve had so many great posts on our Clarissa substack lately!! Catch up today here: open.substack.com/pub/clarissa... Ft amazing CUNY folks like Mary McGlynn, Ryan Rosenberg, and Dave Hershinow. Next week we start hearing from some non CUNY people too so subscribe and get reading!

Are you bored this Sunday? And want to read about Clarissa?? Check out @frnkfrtrschool.bsky.social ‘s post on swooning! open.substack.com/pub/clarissa...

If you miss me, come join our (121-subscriber strong!) Substack. substack.com/@clarissa202... cc: @clarissa2025.bsky.social

Check out our first community post from @karlsteel.bsky.social who brings a much needed medieval flair to Clarissa. Ps! If you would like to contribute a post to our substack this year, please reach out!

Has anyone written about Alisoun’s “teehee” in the miller’s tale in communication with the horses in the Reeve’s tale’s “wehee”

In twitter jail for telling Elon to kill himself is this app fun yet :/

My wonderful grad students have made a Substack and an ambitious meeting/posting schedule for #clarissa2025. Read with us or lurk like a louche rake in the corner. Follow @clarissa2025.bsky.social and subscribe here. open.substack.com/pub/clarissa...

Dear Reader, We invite you, with kind affection and verve, to read Samuel Richardson’s novel Clarissa with us in real time. Make haste to our substack for more!! substack.com/@clarissa202... Your ever-affectionate and faithful, @sinsleyh.bsky.social, @imcullin.bsky.social, and Koyuki Smith

I don’t like it!! (America)

They’re doing this the same day a GOP congressman suggests children should work to earn money in order to eat at school.

Enraged every time I hear about ChatGPT inventing citations. And here is a prof getting caught with that. It’s completely deplorable, he should be fired.

If I love teaching Mrs. Dalloway and every semester all of my extremely diverse students of all genders have really enjoyed it and I need a slightly shorter text next semester what do you suggest I make them read for a similar classroom vibe

I love him I miss him

Was talking about genre today and modes of writing and I asked what makes something poetry and a student said it has to be “vertical enough” and I thought it was great

Is anyone watching Bad Sisters season 2 bc Fiona Shaw is doing some crazy Catholic self flagellation thing that’s giving ~hair shirt~ and I desperately need to talk about it with someone