I, a very fancy professor at the state flagship university with a named lil mini endowment, teach in a room where my only option is to use chalkboards or a quite old manual projector and I must bring my laptop from home because there is no computer in the room. But sure, do this.

Worth thinking through!

I don't want to hear another fucking word about graffiti.

Wait, what

I would love to see orders of magnitude more discussion about what "swing voters" should figure out, deal with, suck up, get a clue about, etc and orders of magnitude less discussion about how protestors should coddle random third party's hallucinations about this section of the electorate

Great recs from @mattseybold.bsky.social on resisting technofeudal education: prioritize print, practice ungrading, "Luddify" the classroom; de-mobilize computer infrastructure (root technology in social place!); faculty governance over SaaS subscriptions; instructor choice re: ed-tech

If y'all haven't caught on I'm going to annoy the shit out of y'all with examples on how democracy is being fought for and saved on the local level. I want to unshackle y'all from the thinking that only the national horse race matters.

Writers: back up your work. Love, victim of laptop crash who could have used this reminder a week ago and may have to add “Rewrite first half of Ch. 4” to the summer task list.

Timothy McVeigh raised the profile of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building

we need a slew of witty clapbacks for when we hear that “i wrote that with AI” “i was going to ask, do you also cut your own hair?” “i wrote that with AI” “what does the word ‘wrote’ mean to you?” “i wrote that with AI” “i’ll have my robot assistant throw it in the trash”

Teen Vogue, once again running laps around NYT.

I hope this school gets like 5 applications next admissions season.

what the actual fuck

This is Utah in case anyone’s wondering how pissed off people are. I have never seen anything like this.

The biggest thing we need to do is let people know that the protests are FUN. Yelling fuck the man is fun. You will meet fun people. We also need to make them more fun. Bring grills like the French. Bring instruments like it’s Mardi Gras. Give people a reason to spend their weekend in the streets.

This pointless stunt by Cory Booker is accomplishing nothing but drawing attention to the Trump administration’s wrongdoing and delaying the work of the Senate and energizing the Democratic base and, wait, hang on, let me come in again

In an effort to make scholarship on African film and media at #SCMS25 visible, please note and share widely these papers and panels with an African focus.

RIP. Here's an homage from Zimbabwean artist Chaz Maviyane-Davies.

If you’re writing a book right now you just have to pretend you’re a surgeon. Can’t look at your phone during surgery.

These bills are all “unlikely to pass” until one of them passes.

A great loss for the Haitian people, and for Latin America, the Caribbean, and the world as a whole www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/w...

This news about my book launch cancellation has been so disappointing. But I’m grateful to share that Decatur Library will now host the event, and I’m even more thrilled to announce that I’ll be in conversation with the brilliant @malaikajabali.bsky.social. Atlanta friends—hope to see you there!

Oof. A great loss.

🙌 Made a flyer and card printouts with calls to action to fight this administration and care for our neighbors! I’ll be distributing these in my own neighborhood, and others are welcome to use if it seems helpful! Png files here drive.google.com/drive/folder...

Proof that wokeness has run amok: Nearly 7% of Fortune 500 CEOs are women. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Hi, I am @motherjones.com' disability reporter. In the following weeks, I am very interested in hearing how tariff nonsense impacts getting your meds and medical equipment. My email to get in touch is [email protected]. Reposts appreciated.

So interesting that adolescent black boys are perceived as hardened adults but a rich white man who uses his wealth to influence politics around the world and is eligible for AARP benefits gets infantilized as just a little silly goose. You don’t know how much this shit right here pissed me off:

My vote for winning hot take on the whole Colombia tariff thing today.

Civil rights were won through protests and lawsuits and literally fighting back. We are not in unprecedented times. We are in a horrible reboot of Reconstruction. Fight in every way possible. Flood those anti DEI tiplines with misinformation, spend 10 minutes every day telling your reps to stop this

A little ray of something good that came out of something awful yesterday: this particular racist, misogynist troll got held accountable for his actions.

Budgeting is so, so much more work now, but it's got to be done. Needed someone to tell me this today.

Deadline extended for the University of South Carolina's 2025 Comparative Literature conference on Fin-de-Siècle modernisms! Come to Columbia SC at a time of year when the weather is basically hideous everywhere else!

Calling all #modernists! @madisonstorrs.bsky.social and I are organizing a panel, “The New Woman in Space,” for the USC Comp Lit conference. We are seeking 1-2 more participants to present. If your research corresponds to the topic, we welcome you to submit an abstract!

A little reminder: I am still updating this continuously, as I see more colleagues arriving on the platform, or realise some I’ve missed. Keep checking in occasionally, and let me know if I should add someone

AMAZING. Love this. Our campus is so big and weird, this would work really well.

Have you taught Critical University Studies to undergrads (even 1st-years)? Would love advice +/or sample syllabi as I plan an ENGL 102 course at the last minute. Tagging some heroes here... @cathyndavidson.bsky.social @danicasavonick.bsky.social @newfieldchris.bsky.social @elimeyerhoff.bsky.social

@brittlepaper.bsky.social's 100 Notable African Books of 2024 list just dropped! brittlepaper.com/100-notable-...

Launching this today! It’s open access, so everyone can enjoy the work within.

Florida State University had to cancel 432 courses because the state won't allow teaching about gender theory or post-colonialism, and the University of Texas system is restricting teaching about critical race theory and queer theory, and yet we're still doing this sort of story?

Trump is on track to hire more sexual assaulters into the highest ranks of his administration than there are transgender athletes competing in US high school sports.

As usual, Republicans do not object to "language policing," they object to terminology that represents greater societal acceptance of marginalized groups.

Archives amirite???

Poll. You teach a 14-wk semester with 28 sessions. You want to assign a grade to reflect student preparation for class on a daily basis. Full prep 100% of the time is of course too much to ask. What # of class sessions should students be fully prepared in order to earn an A on this requirement?

Well, this is excellent.

Is there are starter pack for African lit folks? *Are* there African lit folks here? Anyway, Brittle Paper is awesome: brittlepaper.com/2024/11/afri...

The Univ. of South Carolina's Comparative Literature program is putting together a BANGER of a spring conference on Fin-de-Siècle Modernisms. Please circulate widely and consider submitting an abstract!

The problem with this platform, at present, is that the people I probably most want to reach with this Call aren't on here. But maybe you know them!

Delighted to be co-proposing a roundtable for African Literature Association's annual conference in Nairobi, June 2025, on Spaces and Contexts for Teaching African Literature. Please circulate widely, and consider joining us!

Princess Bride quote that captures your writing experience/challenge today? Mine is: "Let me explain… No, there is too much, let me sum up."

I've got my own list at this point, but: tips for getting lots of good writing and thinking done while on sabbatical? How to organize one's day, etc.?