I just submitted my sixth academic chapter or article for review this year. Sabbaticals are magical

On Sat Sept 27, 7pm, join The Land and Labour Poetry Collective for the Wpg launch of I’ll Get Right On It:Poems on Working Life in the Climate Crisis. Hosted by @sjonespoet.bsky.social, @jamieparis.bsky.social & Melanie Dennis Unrau. (THIN AIR 2025)- mailchi.mp/grant/land-a... @fernpub.bsky.social

I’m overjoyed to announce that my article “Becoming a Wolf: Indigenous Pedagogies and Settler Supervision in Sayet's Where We Belong” has been published open access in Literature Compass: compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #shakerace #adaptation #pedagogy

I am not a fan of academics being fired for saying the wrong thing about someone’s death on social media

The discourse in America today is exactly what you would expect in a destabilizing democracy, where a majority party was about to outlaw a political opposition party

The boat attack is a war crime and/or a mass murder! You can’t execute people based on the suspicion that they are trafficking drugs. This administration has already made high profile intelligence mistakes and cannot be given the benefit of the doubt here

I think I want to start a book club. I want the book club to bring together very smart people to discuss a BIPOC authored book with little to no literary merit. We would read joyful smut, melodramatic horror, or silly pulp and just take a little break from the world

Hello everyone. Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax has a tenure-track job in Enlightenment rhetoric and / or 18th-century literature. Tell everyone. www.msvu.ca/about-msvu/c...

Submitting an AI article with fake references to a peer reviewed journal should be a friable offence

The question, I think, is not how we ought to handle AI in university classrooms, but how do we ensure that university classrooms are not used to aid in the deskilling of our students

Just finished a revision for an essay I think could be really useful addition to my field

2026 CSRS Conference, June 6-8, l'Université de Montréal. 2026 SCÉR colloque, juin 6-8, l'Université de Montréal. Announcement with Call for Article Abstracts / Annonce avec Appel à communications: csrs-scer.com/congress-202...

I was so happy to be a guest on Stuart Murray’s Humans, on Rights podcast. We spoke about love, kindness and contemporary masculinity: open.spotify.com/episode/7MVi...

If Trump is going to make homeless people move out of Washington and destroy their encampments, where is he going to make them move to? Doesn’t he have a hotel in Washington? Maybe he can have them stay at his hotel. Maybe they can be invited to stay at any one of his hotels and resorts, for free

What is happening in Washington? This looks really bad. Is the city still safe?

JOB: Associate or Full Professor, Palestinian Literature & Culture, University of Toronto universityaffairs.ca/search-job/?...

If you are putting together a creative nonfiction syllabus soon, I highly recommend Roxane Gay’s The Portable Feminist Reader. She picks a powerful cross-section of diverse, engaging and accessible essays that will generate great classroom conversations about contemporary feminist thought

(In the voice of a cartoon villain who just had his dastardly plot ruined by meddling teenagers) I would like to formally object to CMOS changing the citation structure! No more city names!? Preposterous. Repeating the full name of authors I cite multiple times!? Absurd. What are we, discount MLA!?

Medieval History Job Alert! University of Tennessee, where I used to work. Unbelievably strong medieval studies. Unbelievable that they are hiring in this climate! Please share this post. jobs.chronicle.com/job/37862790...

This is huge. apnews.com/article/musc...

People with scholarly websites: do any of you work with editors or developers you would like to recommend? I want to put together a decent personal website this summer that will be easy to update and look pretty

I’m re-reading Amber Dawn’s How Poetry Saved My Life, A Hustler’s Memoir and I am absolutely astounded by how much compassion and honesty she writes with. Arsenal press is a natural treasure

CfP for 6-6500 word articles for publication in "Shakespeare’s 21C/The 21 Century’s Shakespeare", the first issue of "Shakespeare Quarterly" under editorial leadership of Vanessa I Corredera, Arthur L Little, Jr., & @davidmcinnis.bsky.social Deadline: October 3 2025 www.rensoc.org.uk/event/shakes...

It makes me sad that people will dismiss this horrible statement as a “joke.” This is a white woman with a national platform commenting about killing more Indigenous people. This kind of “joke” normalizes ongoing violence against Indigenous peoples

Today is the first day of my first sabbatical. In theory, I don’t have to teach or do service until January. I’m looking forward to being a ghost

Happy pub day to Shakespeare in Tongues! www.routledge.com/9781032274492 #ShakeRace #RaceB4Race #Shakespeare

Calls for Chapters. Shakespeare: New Voices [BOOK] Deadline for submissions: June 30, 2025 call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2023/05/... Contributors are asked to provide an Abstract (300 words) and an Author bio (150 words) by 30 June 2025. Dr Ian McCormick

Remember when the US said that attacking a nuclear facility was a war crime? Way back in 2022 they said “It is a war crime to attack a nuclear power plant. Putin's shelling of Europe's largest nuclear plant takes his reign of terror one step further.” www.reuters.com/world/us-emb...

Everyone should read Kyo Lee’s debut poetry collection “I Cut My Tongue on a Broken Country.” It is, perhaps, the best debut poetry collection by a Canadian author since Vermette

The energy of these Tucker Carlson and Ted Cruz interview clips reminds me so much of Will McAvoy in The Newsroom and his proposal for the Republican Debates. Conservative media influencers could have prevented so many wars by acting this way for the past few decades

I think that academics stop calling all LLM cheating devices “ChatGPT,” as if the company is the q-tips of plagiarism machines. Instead, I say we should start calling them “discount Jarvis.”

I don’t work on international law, but I have a question. It seems to me that an unprovoked, preemptive strike against a sovereign nation that leads to the deaths of civilians (including children) is a war crime. Am I missing something? Why is bombing Iran legal?

My hot take on just about every political issue at the moment is that I think people should be kinder to themselves and to others

Read "Early Modern Neurodiversity: A Preliminary Research Agenda" by Bridget M. Bartlett and Bradley J. Irish, free in the new issue of ELH #S2O #OpenAccess via @projectmuse.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

The images from LA are terrifying and the videos of families being broken apart by ICE are heartbreaking. This looks like a nightmare and I hope it ends in what King called positive peace. Riots are the language of the unheard

It is a little unfair that the University of Toronto campus is centrally located and beautiful

It is day three of #DHSI and I think I’m starting to understand what is happening in my linked open data seminar. Being a student again is humbling

I love how wild UdeM campus is. I have never seen an actual groundhog outside of a zoo before. They are like Hulk squirrels

Sitting in a DHSI class where I only understand about 50-75% of what is being said has given me a whole new level of empathy for students dealing with cognitive exhaustion

Canada, I love you, and we need to talk. You need to stop building urban universities on mountains. Yes, SFU and UdeM are beautiful, but they are accessibility nightmares.

After a good 12 hours in Montreal, I am starting to feel like my Duolingo French is not as strong as my perfect scores led me to believe it was

To understand the jet issue, we have to think about whiteness. Ask yourself: What if Canada gave Obama a stretched, bulletproof, fancy hummer that was pimped out and would be donated to his presidential library when he left office. How would the American right be discussing Obama’s hummer?

Today I finished a draft of the afterword for my book, Clothed Villainy. I am on pace to submit my final draft to the publisher next week, with a hoped for publication next spring

One thing to consider is what education would look like if it were free with no grades and no punitive frameworks that make learning about fear.

We don’t think enough about the human cost of AI for students. Conversations with students who have been caught using AI are so sad. The stories are almost always tragic. They tend to be burnt out and overwhelmed. AI is a sign of a student mental health crisis that we’re not adequately addressing

@bsky.app, please verify academic accounts. We often don’t have big following numbers, but in an age of misinformation and disinformation, we provide an important service to the community

Gonna be real with you, this feels like an advertisement for spiritual death

I picked up Rose LaMay’s Ally is A Verb” on a whim from my local bookstore and wow is this an enjoyable read. It is about Reconciliation, sure, but underlying it is a compelling Indigenous theory of adult education: www.raincoastgroup.com/item/9781774...

My heart goes out to my Catholic friends and colleagues today. I didn’t agree with Francis on major issues, but I respected the fact that he came to Canada to apologize for Residential Schools and that he cared about the environment. May he find rest in the next life.

In these dark times, I am so grateful to be surrounded by kind people in my department, academic field, and creative life. Kindness, as a mindful praxis, can be a method of resistance