@ericafretwell
UAlbany English | The Art of Slight Living, 1900/2000 (in progress) | Sensory Experiments: Psychophysics, Race, and the Aesthetics of Feeling (Duke UP) | Co-editor (w Sarah Wasserman), Oxford Studies in American Literary History | she/her
the most german story possible: a nietzschean dentist-philosopher and his burro-loving mistress; misanthropy dressed up as libertarian settler life; a hausfrau who gives birth in a cave; a fractious polycule headed by a baroness; poisonous chicken www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tHu...
A letter-sized envelope decorated with a black ink drawing of two seated men, facing each other. On the left, the man is perched on a cushioned, tasseled chair and footrest atop a spindly stem, labeled "Art." On the right, a man perched in the branch point of a spindly tree branch, labeled "Nature." Addressed to "Miss Sylvia Simons 3240 Lake Shore Dr Chicago 13 ILL" across the bottom. A red 5¢ airmail stamp with a plane in the upper right corner and the franking mark is from Boston, MA, dated May 8, 1948, and also includes a statement to "BUY U.S. SAVINGS BONDS ASK YOUR POSTMASTER."
A thread of some of Edward Gorey's decorated envelopes in the collection of the @artinstitutechi.bsky.social.
Art—Nature, 1948
The deep deep yearning I have for course packs and mix tapes (same thing, different format)
“Paula Rabinowitz … argues the format’s genius was its physical intimacy and portability … ‘I consider [the mass market paperback] one of the significant technological interventions, of the 20th century.”
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"We are always haunted by the myth of our potential."
Damn, Adam Phillips, don't hold back!
look at my country man, we’re getting out-No Kings’d by the fuckin’ british
me: (living in a bog)
Emily Dickinson: How public - like a Frog -
had the honor of hosting archivist Dorothy Berry for Douglass Day celebrations. Her book THE HOUSE ARCHIVES BUILT is a beautiful meditation on the fitful relation between Black people and archival institutions. Please buy two copies -- one for yourself and one for a friend! www.weherepress.org
The John Hope Franklin Research Center is pleased to share that the archive of philosopher, scholar, and author Sylvia Wynter will be opened to the public beginning March 3
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A child of 1982, my phone is overfull with Jens, Sarahs/Saras, Jamies/Jaimes, and Lindseys/Lindsays.
I guess I have to say this too: staff worked ourselves ill to do our best for students and we didn't make the decisions that led to their dissatisfaction *but we know that we'll bear the fallout from it.* We are already losing jobs, departments, campuses, fields of expertise to government decisions.
In the off-chance you're in the upstate region... check out some of the fantastic events my colleague Wendy Roberts & I organized for Douglass Day! Free and open to the public!
I think the greatest gift college professors in the humanities can give to students right now is a seminar room where, for 80 minutes twice a week, nothing that happens to them is a sales pitch for an AI product.
(1/3) It is with deep sadness that we mourn the passing of Teresa de Lauretis (1938–2026), an internationally renowned feminist and film theorist whose work reshaped the fields of cinema studies, feminist theory, and queer thought.
watched that a couple weeks ago and said to my husband, "That appreciate the film and I am never watching it again."
The analog classroom is ironically the most innovative environment you can create in 2026. Cut out the noise and you create a superior learning situation.
But it is a battle to maintain, especially when admin pushes “no cost” or “low cost” online books like they do at my comprehensive public uni
Parents to kids,
1980s: Don't open the door because kidnappers & murderers may be pretending to be cops
2020s: Don't open the door because the kidnappers & murderers are cops
the people who need to hear it won't hear it but i will say it anyway: this has been fascism, and it is fascism.
well in other news, happy biannual 'google how to activate your course' day/week/month to those who celebrate
gonna start a 20th c food studies journal called Modernism/McDernity
sending big hugs, rebecca. whenever you need a break, come over for a hot toddy (and this time i'll order levain!)
Emily Doucet, Inventing Nadar: A History of Photographic Firsts - @dukepress.bsky.social, April 2026
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An author asked for guidance on how to write a response to reader reports. My answer was pretty quick and dirty for practical reasons, but here's what I said. It ends with a link to much more thorough, helpful advice:
Responses can take the form of a letter to the editor/press . . . 1/?
This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.
beatles last performance, rooftop 1969
b sharps last performance, rooftop 1993
there were only 24 years between these two events and yet the second one happened 32 years ago
if tumblr dies I need this video to make it's seasonal rotation here instead just in case, Happy holidays 🎄
People may not realize that this is the birth place of Ethnic Studies and the first Black Studies program. SFSU is a school of historic significance.
Rick Steves is a real one!
