There are only five good things left and this summer program is one of them. If you know any major donors, please send them my way thx www.ugeducation.ucla.edu/2025/08/26/s...

I’m going to review tf out of this

I wrote for @theatlantic.com about how archivists are contending with our digital detritus — whether we'll be able to save emails, texts, Discord chats, etc, and what that means for how we tell history: www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...

Here I am being extremely articulate about Susan Sontag’s digital archives in the Atlantic! www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...

Millie wants you to know that she’s on vacation

I rarely post on here but I'll give this a shot: anyone have any favorite reading (for undergrads doing research) on the idea of "me-search"?

she wants you to know that she has things to say

why yes I will be writing about this

I had a really nice conversation with a journalist today about the article I co-wrote about Susan Sontag’s born-digital archives over a decade ago and for an hour this morning it was nice to have an intellectual life that was not under attack lareviewofbooks.org/article/exce...

it’s national poetry month and not a single one of you has asked me what I think about poetry

my sweet pea

In other news happy 3rd birthday to my book!! When I wrote about poetry in the time of Trump I really did not think there would be a Trump 2.0 but here we are!! nyupress.org/978147981355...

I’m told they say buy low sell high

sending my lil university emails as the entire research university infrastructure of this country crumbles around me! also the infrastructure of everything else! 2025!

I think I have lost the will to tweet in Trump 2.0

do I dare to eat a peach

taking a break from the horrors to immerse myself in other horrors and omg who wants to discuss the latest ep of Yellowjackets!!

I wrote about the Trump administration's assault on higher education & what's really going on: "If, during the Cold War, the government funded universities as a way of strengthening America, Mr. Trump’s second administration treats them as a threat to be dismantled." www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/o...

Our groomer is getting a bit too gender normative

wtf are we even saying to our students these days

I, a scholar of poetry, will tell you everything that's wrong with every sentence of this article, but only if I am paid to because poetry is a thing that a person can have expertise in, NATURE

ignorance is bliss

where to even begin www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I am leaving work with three intact boxes of Girl Scout cookies; how many will I return home with on a 10-mile/70-minute LA commute in these anxious fascist times

we call this “smoosh face”

always fun to stumble on a @jaxwendy.bsky.social joint when looking for extra material before book group

Advice for applying to staff & admin jobs at colleges & unis, because tis the season: you cannot use your cover letter for TT job apps for staff or admin jobs. Start from scratch, include 1-2 sentences about your research max, & focus on how you are well-poised to support students, programs, etc.

“Working conditions are learning conditions, we like to say, and it is so obviously true you want to tattoo it on your clavicle.” New: Peter Coviello on austerity in the English department.

the two genders

My baby, my baby You're my baby, say it to me Baby, my baby Tell your baby that I'm your baby

who wants to discuss Love is Blind and are we surprised about Devin and Virginia

I will never forgive this country for what it is doing to my undocumented students

Richard Serra gets a bath

when you come to think of it, what good does education REALLY do

Silo is really scratching my Battlestar itch I have to say

If I had not found this book in a thrift shop in west LA when I was trying to figure out a dissertation topic: where would I even be now?!

wash day

home improvement

I am alone at a really beautiful jazz club waiting for my bf, who spent many years of his life as an actual jazz musician, and all I can think about is the episode of SATC when Big and Carrie go to a jazz club and he says “Carries likes jaaaaaazzzzz” in the cab on the way home

I know it’s been said before but I really cannot tell the difference between these men on Love is Blind

institutions are crumbling and here I am sending my emails

three people have complimented me on my 42yo skin lately and I want to recommend: having body fat, not having children, and getting into bed with many lotions at 8:30pm

well I have started writing again after ages of not writing so you can expect to see me posting here much more!!

nothing makes me feel agéd like an NPR retrospective on TLC and Destiny’s Child

my book just got another review of goodreads so I guess it’s time to rewatch the “face girl” ep of SATC

a dog who has definitely not been nosing around in the bathroom garbage

the good news is that my bf is moving in with me the bad news is that I have to reduce my book square footage

the going to sleep instead of doom scrolling era is probably good for me but soon I will be getting into bed at 5:30pm

it’s starting to become clear that I have too many books for a live-in boyfriend

currently channeling every feeling I have into choosing optimal wicker baskets at Home Goods