‘Power to the People, Y’all’ will premiere in Winston-Salem, NC, at the RiverRun International Film Festival on April 18th.  Producer: Tressie McMillan Cottom Director, Cinematographer & Editor: Holland Gallagher Cinematographer: Patrick Lebby Producer:Johnica Rivers Key Art: Shefon N. Taylor

Winston-Salem is lowkey the best place to be a track fan

man Food, Inc. has not aged well...curious what the student reception is going to be in class tomorrow

everything is bad but teaching close reading remains so good

such a clear articulation of the stakes-- www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

It is sleeting and I’m in the middle of part five—if this keeps up we have optimal septology-finishing conditions

URGENT ACTION: the UNC System is planning to force instructors to publish their syllabi, claiming these are public records and not our intellectual property. We have a small window of time to redirect this decision. Please sign actionnetwork.org/petitions/pr...

also: my living lexicon entry for Environmental Humanities is out! I had to cut the part about the Vaucanson's Digesting Duck but still a sneak preview of ongoing metabolism project: read.dukeupress.edu/environmenta...

This was such a good week of 2024--and led to, among other things, a lovely continuing group chat. Apply! Apply!

enjoying this so much but I don’t think it’ll thrive on my contemporary lit syllabus…

I reviewed Daniel Saldaña París' dance plague novel for the new World Literature Today worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/novembe...

The 11th annual Post45 Graduate Symposium will be hosted by Duke University's Department of English, February 20-21, 2026! Check out the CFP (post45.org/graduate/202...) and please share with anyone who might be interested. Abstracts are due November 14.

Pawpaw field day was lit

Do I know any geographers? How does "Human Geography Without Scale" fare twenty years on?

Best spy shows are the ones mostly about paperwork

One of my favorite slides from #asle25 so far (from Hsuan Hsu’s excellent talk on olfactory world making)

I reviewed Irene Solà's latest and it is strange and wonderful and has lots of farting: www.full-stop.net/2025/07/04/r...

“While life in Gaza is being obliterated and the West Bank is under escalating assault, the present report shows why the genocide carried out by Israel continues: because it is lucrative for many.”

These “one year later” jumps in Andor are really not working for me

apologies for crowdsourcing but: does anyone have recs for contemporary novels (besides Luster) that feature IBS or adjacent digestive stuff?

I want to talk about the google earth ending of this with somebody

columbia, brown, georgetown, cornell and now tufts — they’re taking our students, our colleagues, our kin https://www.boston25news.com/news/local/international-student-tufts-university-reportedly-taken-into-federal-custody/2VK55QMAOZFIDBR2A6XNKC5XOU/?outputType=amp

This is a banger

We call for the immediate release of former Columbia University grad student Mahmoud Kahlil, a legal permanent resident of the US. His abduction is an assault not only on basic immigration law but on our 1st Amendment protections of freedom of speech & assembly. www.aaup.org/news/aaup-co...

Small good thing (Sally)

👀 this looks so good!

The billionaire class is waging a war on workers, putting our nation’s healthcare, research, education, + jobs at risk. Higher ed workers, students, +allies are mobilizing Join us! Feb 13 8pm ET National Strategy Call us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Some real aesthetic synergy in my January reads

I participated in the first book institute last summer and it was incredible—applications for this year due February 19! cals.la.psu.edu/programs-ser...

This movie is mostly making me want to wear a short skirt and a looong jacket

Hannkuah’s over but the French agriculture novels continue (I can’t decide if I like this or not)

Reading Creation Lake + revising Birnam Wood chapter = surveillance georgic Hanukkah

BREAKING: The AAUP condemns today’s faculty arrests at NYU. “This crackdown on NYU faculty is part of a distressing pattern of repression of pro-Palestinian speech on college campuses nationwide.” — AAUP President Todd Wolfson. ⬇️ www.aaup.org/news/aaup-co...

really enjoyed this review: www.clereviewofbooks.com/writing/becc...

Only halfway through this and already psyched to teach it next semester