Matthew Harrison
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pizza advocate; english professor
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Ned Hartley
5 days ago
Greg Davies: Great task, well done. Didnāt eat a thing. Persephone: Thank you. Alex Horne: Ah. Well. Letās take another look at that pomegranate.
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Naive of me, but I hadn't realized that all of the higher ed job boards cost hundreds of dollars to submit postings.
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kev, it is what it is
4 days ago
There is a person on here who is extremely wrong.
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Erin Grievances
5 days ago
Looking at social scientists and STEM folks worrying that AI is going to decimate the employment prospects for their fields, it's comforting to know that my field was already decimated using time-worn artisanal techniques like funny math and telling us our work isn't important or valuable.
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A student took her kid by my office today, so that he could see that people with ADHD can still be successful.
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My department at West Texas A&M is hiring a creative writer (with a Ph. D. required). Please encourage anyone you know who might be interested to apply. I'm also glad to answer any questions that anyone might have. Job listing here:
tamus.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/WTAMU_Extern...
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Assistant/Associate Professor of English
Job TitleAssistant/Associate Professor of English Agency West Texas A&M University Department English, Philosophy & Modern Languages Proposed Minimum SalaryCommensurate Job LocationCanyon, Tex...
https://tamus.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/WTAMU_External/job/Canyon-TX/Assistant-Associate-Professor-of-English_R-091229
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If you know you know
6 days ago
Dear all, I have a brilliant incarcerated student who is trying to interleave historical research with autoethnography in their work. I could really use help on lit on how to rigorously write auto ethnography. Suggestions?
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John McCafferty
6 days ago
Jellyfish, a Portuguese man-o'-war John White, c.1585-1593 'This is a lyuing fish, and flote vpon the Sea, Some call them Carvels' (British Museum)
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important for metal fans
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6 days ago
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have gotten obsessed with how indigenous feather art transformed European early modern aesthetics.
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6 days ago
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Helena
6 days ago
I just feel like if I put two words into your website's search bar, and it returns OR results instead of AND results, you should be put on a prison island.
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Megan L. Cook
7 days ago
The below is an eloquently detailed articulation of the sentiments in this print, which is now on my wall directly in front of where I sit to use my doomscrolling machines. It's exhortation has been a real challenge today
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kelly jensen
10 days ago
A nationwide book ban bill has been introduced in the House of Representatives. Here's what you need to know about HR7661, including who is behind it, the history behind such bills, and what you need to do to stop it.
bookriot.com/hr7661-book-...
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A Nationwide Book Ban Bill Has Been Introduced in the House of Representatives
Hours after the State of the Union address, House republicans introduced legislation banning LGBTQ+ books from public schools nationwide.
https://bookriot.com/hr7661-book-ban-legislation/
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Opposite Day is such a logistical nightmare.
9 days ago
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Gillian Gower, PhD
9 days ago
Thank you to the CHE for this incredible illustration of what academia is like now
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a swarm of slightly cold bugs
11 days ago
Love the glimpse into the beautiful mind that notated this used copy of Moby Dick I got
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michael lutz
3 months ago
in human life you are ALLOWED to be some writer i've never heard of who talks out your ass about an industry whose principles you have mostly assumed. surely i fill this role for others sometimes! but time was, you said it to your friends, and not nobody. it turns out nobody can get WAY angrier.
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Danielle Clarke
12 days ago
Detail from Crivelliās Virgin and Child with Saints Francis and Sebastian
@nationalgalleryuk.bsky.social
#snail
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Joseph Howley
13 days ago
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preordered!
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13 days ago
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I have some concerns with the politics of How to Train Your Dragon (2010) (1 of 323)
13 days ago
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#quakerbluesky
, any ideas?
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14 days ago
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Sonja Drimmer
14 days ago
For sport, I read passages like this out loud to my husband and offer no explanation other than to read it aloud in modern English so he gets the full effect.
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Lucy Allen-Goss
14 days ago
Did you know that in 1633, a woman called Catherine Tuggy had a plant nursery getting rave reviews, on the site of an old monastic garden in Westminster? Women belong in horticulture.
lucyallengoss.substack.com/p/catherine-...
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Catherine Tuggy's Plant Nursery in 1630s Westminster: Women in Horticulture
.... aaaand a bit on the gender pay gap.
https://lucyallengoss.substack.com/p/catherine-tuggys-plant-nursery-in
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My problem is that I donāt trust that most humanities professors know anything about ethics or computers.
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15 days ago
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just fyi!
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JosƩ Guadalupe Posada - Ballad of the Snail (Corrido del Caracol) - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/735338
15 days ago
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People who have run a faculty search committee before: any non-obvious advice about what would be smart to do?
15 days ago
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Courtney Milan
about 1 month ago
I think people often wonder this, and it's a great question, so let me explain the advantages of 3D printing whistles. There are many. The 3D printing effort started from one of our organizers who started by sourcing mass-produced whistles.
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hear me out: Hootie and the Blow Phish
16 days ago
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Norma Martinez
16 days ago
On
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: Poems like "To be a pocha or not to be" take the Bard's influence and transform them to address colonialism, slavery, and the erasure of language and culture.
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writes about this in "Shakespeare in Tongues."
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shorturl.at/Cjbmw
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FRONTERAS: āShakespeare in Tonguesā explores how the Bardās works are being used to reframe migration and colonialism
The book is part of a series that explores how contemporary movements shed new light on Shakespeare's work.
https://shorturl.at/Cjbmw
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ktb ā§
4 months ago
we're not really confronting a "misinformation apocalypse" so much as we're being forced to confront how others interpret information on a mass scale for first time in human history.
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i don't know who needs to hear this but the book i ordered about the spoons of africa has arrived
16 days ago
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man whoever left that cake out in the rain must feel like a real idiot now
16 days ago
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Zachary Levenson
17 days ago
Yesterday, those who teach Intro to Sociology at Florida colleges (as opposed to universities) received a ready-made curriculum from the state and were ordered to teach it. Yes, you read that correctly. The *state* is enforcing a curriculum on college profs, complete w/ the following restrictions:
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teaching 80 Days (game version) today by making students try their hand at writing a scene, and man that game is just brilliant
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Sangsin Lee
17 days ago
I don't know why, but the judge is now citing the historical precedent of Charles I of England. This is an incredibly ominous sign for Yoon.
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John McCafferty
17 days ago
The Magdalen Reading by Rogier van der Weyden, c.1399ā1464 (The National Gallery, London)
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Joseph Rezek
18 days ago
A queer reading of Franklinās Poor Richard that really digs into āa Ploughman on his Legs is higher than a Gentleman on his kneesā ššš
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has been a major inspiration in my own dipping my toe into print!
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18 days ago
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alternatively, send clowns on figure skates to chase the skaters.
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18 days ago
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Naomi Baker
19 days ago
Back in the time when the sun was pink
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happy humiliating pedagogical error day to all who celebrate
19 days ago
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Hesse Phillips
20 days ago
If, as Judith Butler says, "gender consists of the social meanings that sex assumes," then to be a person in a bear suit is to resist the materialist act of gendering the (performer) human body while inviting the semiotic act of "sexing" the (performative) animal body. In this essay I will
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Ted Underwood
20 days ago
For secret reasons, I'm trying to extract paragraphs with topic sentences that do what our 8th grade teachers told us they do ā preview the thesis, focus, or thrust of the whole paragraph. They are *rare* in 19c and early 20c books. Less than 1 in 200 paragraphs have them.
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when i lived in austin, there was some musician who performed in a full body bunny suit. so when i started hearing about the success of bad bunny, i assumed it was the bunny costume guy. for twenty years.
20 days ago
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new maronite chronicle just dropped
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21 days ago
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