Finishing my tenure statement has made me simultaneously feel thrilled, lucky, exhausted, shocked at how much I’ve done but feeling like I haven’t done enough. I suppose that’s normal? Honestly, we need to start funding education so everyone can have this feeling about whatever they study.

Wait. Technically he could, right? I mean TECHNICALLY.

CHRISTINA KOCH GREETING HER DOG AFTER RETURNING FROM THE MOON IM GONNA CRYYY 😭😭😭

With my friends writing so many books, how do I have time to read those by strangers.

Are you teaching Arden of Faversham next semester? Do you just love the play? He’s a full audio recording!

Good morning! I'm getting texts letting me know that people who signed up for alerts are able to preorder today!! Preorders officially open tomorrow. www.routledge.com/Shakespeare-...

Someone sent me this.

When the birthright citizenship decision comes out, people will say it could never have gone any other way, that the law was obvious. But the mere fact that SCOTUS took on the case is evidence enough that we are living in a time of democratic precarity.

This is a verified GoFundMe for librarian Luanne James from the Rutherford County Library Alliance. gofund.me/f7704eb98 Read what happened to this hero: www.newschannel5.com/news/rutherf...

Alice Augusta Ball found the cure for leprosy at 23. She died in a mysterious lab accident at 24. Arthur Dean stole her research, stole it and renamed it from "The Ball Method" to "The Dean Method." It took 90 years before her original research papers were found and she got the credit due to her.

always read tricia matthew

I don’t think I’ll ever understand why we don’t talk about the training data used for LLMs. It comes from humans. Having another human explain something works just as well?

The US just denied a visa to a Tanzanian man coming to visit to remains of his grandfather in the American Museum of Natural History where they're - bafflingly - still held. You can still support him by coming to a free screening of this gorgeous doc about his quest in Manhattan on 3/26!

and that's why when we took down our robert e lee statue here in charlottesville, we melted that bitch.

This place lives in my head rent free, so a pleasure & privilege to visit Almagro’s 1628 corral de comedias. One of world’s oldest surviving theatres, an uncanny analogue to the Curtain playhouse #CurtainBook. Grateful to the city & Councillor Genaro Galàn Garcia for their generous hospitality.

Oscar-winner Ryan Coogler recalling how a college writing professor pushed him to become a screenwriter & the possibility of #Sinners being taught in film curriculums someday: “I have so much respect for professors…for dedicating their life to future generations & making sure their minds are solid.”

Michael B Jordan won an Oscar on Professor McDowell’s birthday. This is NOT a coincidence! Hooray!

Palantir CEO promises that his technology will reduce educated women's economic and political power newrepublic.com/post/207693/...

WBAL in Baltimore helping viewers understand the difference between watches and warnings

Another tough day for team “there’s no point in complaining about AI, just accept it.”

Congratulations, WaPo, you did it, you published the worst take

This is a sheer indulgence on my part, but it turns out I never actually shared the poem here, so: 🍃

move slow and repair things

As the laid off Middle East News Editor, I concur. Management eliminated the positions of every single staff correspondent and bureau chief in the Middle East.

🔎 Rare 18th-century punches used to create the original Baskerville typeface have been digitised and released online. Designers, historians and the wider public now have the opportunity to study the physical tools that shaped modern typography. 🔗https://loom.ly/1ulLaFI

I have been thinking a lot about how and why I majored in English Literature lately—and how I grew to respect it more as a discipline when I worked in Computer Science and EECS departments. 1/5

The only reason we are alive to debate this is because Stanislav Petrov decided not to trust a computer.

This was published today lol

Also, while I am enjoying my first glass of something in a week. Next week I'm delivering a talk on material that I've been working on for a while but haven't gotten to speak with people about, and this, too, is giving me life. Excited to be in conversation with folks about this.

JOB ALERT! 📜📚 Who wants to be director & curator of special collections & archives at Middlebury College (Vermont!) — & work for a wonderful boss (& one of my favorite people), Rebekah Irwin? apply.workable.com/middleburyco...

BREAKING: Columbia President Claire Shipman says DHS agents entered a residential buliding this morning and detained a student. "Our understanding at this time is that the federal agents made misrepresentations to gain entry to the building to search for a 'missing person.'"

NEW: The New York Times confirms my reporting that the DOJ is withholding several FBI interviews with a woman who accused Trump of sexually assaulting her as a child www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/u...

In honor of the publication day of The Enclosures of Free Verse (uncpress.org/978146969306...), here's a little thread about what the book does and does not offer.

The BBC should never have aired the N-word racist slur, directed at Michael B Jordan & Delroy Lindo. It had a two-hour delay! This is painful & unforgivable. I've requested an urgent explanation.

The Price Lab’s Critical Approaches to AI Working Group has released a white paper in which we advocate for AI-free instruction in reading, writing, & research. These are fundamental skills in the humanities (& in general), & with decisive action we can keep teaching them well in the age of AI!

J'adore la posture qui prétend que tu peux contrer ça en rendant tes cours plus intéressants

Join us for our next OWC #Shakespeare webinar on 2 March at 6pm. In this online event, Emma Smith @oldfortunatus.bsky.social will be discussing #CYMBELINE with Kim Gilchrist. Register for your free ticket: shakespeare-webinar-cymbeline.eventbrite.co.uk

I listened to an interview with Alysa Liu yesterday and I can see that the interviewers are unsettled by her and do not know what to do with her responses. She challenges so much of what USians are taught about competition and frankly about how to live a life.

CALL FOR PITCHES @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social and I are at work on a new version of Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century aimed at a more general audience. We’re looking for new contributions: your model close readings of texts, canonical and not, from literary studies and not. Details below!

Publication-day book launch event. Poem and response. Come and join me to celebrate the release of A Twist of Rotten Silk #ATwistOfRottenSilk at Blacksburg Books, Virginia, USA, on Saturday 28 February 2026. Details here – www.blacksburgbooks.com/events/autho...

It’s always such a thrill to visit the @texaspublicradio.bsky.social studios and to speak with @normdog1.bsky.social and @mariannavarro.bsky.social on their marvelous #Fronteras program. I’m grateful for the opportunity to discuss Shakespeare in Tongues on the most recent episode. Check it out!

BREAKING: The Supreme Court STRIKES DOWN Trump's "emergency" tariffs. The vote is 6–3. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

“When Liu, 20, decided to return to skating, she did so with conditions. She’d wear what she wants. Dance to the music she wants. Eat what she wants. Take breaks when she wants…. [Skating] would be the vehicle through which she displayed the real Alysa.” she did it! her! way!!

The judge is also stating that South Korean society as a whole has suffered immeasurable damage due to Yoon's insurrection, a cost that the entire nation must now bear.

The court has found both Yoon Suk-yeol and former Defense Minister Kim Yong-hyun guilty of insurrection.

BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide. This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.

ProPublica published children's letters and drawings documenting their sadness and suffering at Dilley. And Dilley staff are now retaliating by confiscating kids' letters and drawings. www.sacurrent.com/news/san-ant...

Seattle gonna Seattle 😅