Im organizing this thing im proud of… please seop by if in Princeton effroncenter.princeton.edu/events/2025/...

Man Brooklyn College is a gem. Imagine if NYC invested in CUNY fr fr?

Someone asked if I was ready for the fall, and it actually took me a moment to realize that they meant autumn, not the complete collapse of democracy.

One of the key ways you refuse to comply with fascism is by becoming even louder and more fearless in supporting vulnerable people. You SHOW that you are unwilling to throw the "undesirables" under the bus if only for self-preservation because under fascism you will also become undesirable one day.

[clearing throat]

Stories of Black and Indigenous Newporters could connect families to their missing history www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/15/m...

Scandalized by the dinner conversation.

ABOUT DAMN TIME

Goddess. The *RSC.* The preeminent institution for Shakespeare *in the world.* This is horrifying.

Postdoc Opportunity: U of Notre Dame Institute for Latino Studies, deadline 10/31 latinxstudiesassociation.org/postdoctoral...

Scandalized by the dinner conversation.

Virtual open house for the MA program in Women's and Gender Studies at the CUNY Grad Center, Thursday, Sept 25 at 6:30 pm EST

Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks recorded an album as a duo before joining Fleetwood Mac. It wasn't a hit in 1973. But after much anticipation, it's due to get its first reissue.

#HispanicHeritageMonth My essay on Bilingual Shakespeares for the Folger Shakespeare Library. With photos of Martin Sheen as Hamlet, Elizabeth Peña as Juliet, and this one from the 2022 Measure for Measure at Chicago Shakespeare. #shakespeare #AcademicSky #latinx www.folger.edu/blogs/shakes...

If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.

The artist Coco Fusco gets her first U.S. survey after years of creating work that defies political orthodoxy, writes Madeline Leung Coleman.

FYI for anyone who would like to no longer be on the academia dot edu site 👇

Going watch some of Sheinbaum’s grito in class today as we talk about Hispanic Heritage Month.

Amid the mourning for Redford, a friend found this essay by Andrew Holleran on the gay origin story to The Way We Were. glreview.org/article/the-...

That small triumphant feeling when you submit the report late, but before the email asking about it arrives.

It’s pretty nice when the new state Poet Laureate is also such a great colleague.

The neighbors seem ready for Halloween

The 24 hour marathon to save AIDS research has begun! Come join us! saveaidsresearch.org

Big essay out by @sdileonardi.bsky.social in @publicbooks.bsky.social today, drawing on 100 years of translations and bestseller data to show that the US has seen three waves of translation: European; Latin American Boom; Nordic Noir. And what this means for us. www.publicbooks.org/how-translat...

I just had the great pleasure of finishing the most complex piece I have ever colored, a new version of George Pérez’s legendary Crisis on Infinite Earths poster. Originally painted by Alex Ross, this new version was inked by Jerry Ordway and digitally colored by me. New Absolute Edition of Crisis!

That thing when you write a letter of recommendation and just your signature appears on the final page, and then you spend a half hour waffling between adding or cutting or changing the font.

Very sad for Robert Redford’s family and friends, but scrolling through all the posts with old photos of one of the hottest men to ever grace the screen is a real consolation for the rest of us.

my favorite robert redford story is that mike nichols considered him for dustin hoffman's part in THE GRADUATE. during their conversation nichols asked redford something like, "have you ever struck out with a girl?" and redford's response was basically, "i don't understand the question"

For Latinx/Hispanic Heritage Month, I put together a @bookshop.org list of my favorite mystery books by Latine authors, including @cynthiapelayo.bsky.social @gabino.bsky.social @nodarse.bsky.social @latinasleuths.bsky.social @silviamg.bsky.social. bookshop.org/lists/must-r... @crimewoc.bsky.social

This technology is so clearly designed to profit off cheating and struggling students--its insidious. And yet universities keep announcing how they're allowing this company into its midst, to exploit and incapacitate our students even more

Judith Butler, “When Universities Become Informants”. www.chronicle.com/article/when...

Must read www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-g...

Late summer bloom

Have a piece in this volume, due out later this month.

ASAP Members! Are you a grad student who presented at our conference last year in NYC? Submit for this year’s Grad Student Paper Prize! Swipe to see the guidelines! Submissions due OCT 1!

Read a passage out loud in class that contained some Spanish, and students asked why I sound like a totally different person in Spanish.

Here you think koalas can’t get any cuter, and then they start showing up at libraries. ❤️❤️❤️

Totalitarianism Can Be Terrifying. It Can Also Be Thrilling. He Taught Us Why. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/o...

I said something last week that is more broadly applicable today: Calling for empathy is not neutral or apolitical when only one group of people have been socialized and brutalized into having empathy.

A student emailed me to ask what "affect theory" is and I responded. iykyk

A powerful essay from Joan Scott as universities become sites of fear.

Some of us have studied and understand regeneration through violence as a real rich historical phenomenon; its roots, which run deep and wide, are integral to US national identity, ideology, and mythology.

Teaching an article about the Falling Man photo today. Usually read this poem alongside it.

I overlapped with the instructor, Melissa, as grad students in Notre Dame's English department. One of her former ND colleagues has started a GoFundMe for her: gofund.me/3f5b12078