I felt similarly about RSA last month. It was such a RELIEF to be with colleagues who are all going through it.
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I felt similarly about RSA last month. It was such a RELIEF to be with colleagues who are all going through it.
It was wrong and harmful - and quite possibly unlawful - to cut already approved NEH grants because Donald Trump hates "DEI."
But the way DOGE went about doing it was even dumber than you probably imagined.
They fed abstracts into ChatGPT and demanded an answer in fewer than 120 characters.
I do like the shirt, but for some reason I thought the second pic would be of the book you read.
RIP, Einstein bot? companion.ai/einstein
very important video please watch
Evergreen skeet
my local park is full of hundreds of snow sculptures and someone has been adding museum labels
Good luck 🍀
I think if there are details about how you will use the fellowship—libraries, sources, methods, etc—that you couldn’t go into in the proposal, you should be prepared to expand on that.
The booke of love ys long & boringe
No folk kan lyft the damned thinge
Crammid ful of charters & lore & rubrics
And ynstructiouns for daunsing -
But Ich? Ich love it whan thou readest to me;
And thee, thou kanst reade me eny thinge.
("The Book of Love" by The Magnetic Fields)
Delighted to be series editor for Cambridge Elements in Women, Gender and Sexuality in Premodern Literature and Culture. If you have something cool and interesting you’d like to work with us on please get in touch (micrograph 20-30k)
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I second this! Today colleagues received messages purporting to share files from their Department Head (me!) which I did not send. Be careful!
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Why I will never get rid of my Buffy the Vampire Slayer DVD.
Something good??
Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
Thanks for looking out for me, Mira!
This is the second time I’ve seen reference to this phrase in two days. I definitely don’t know what it means,
If you are an author who is writing about reproductive justice, well I have good news. The University of Iowa is launching a special book series focused on RJ and we are looking for contributors. Details on the website and a kick off event tomorrow! lrj.sites.uiowa.edu
Today marks six months since nearly 70% of staff at the National Endowment for the Humanities were fired without cause.
If you do nothing else today, please read and *share* this recent article outlining what this year, mostly without us, has looked like at #NEH.
archived: archive.is/LgVyh
Upcoming Margaret Cavendish Society Conference! Call For Papers: www.unb.ca/fredericton/...
If you’re in the Deep South and you want EC on hand, we’ve got you.
Discreet, free, and delivered with the kind of care our state refuses to provide.
I also don’t use Google Scholar. MLA bibliography all the way!!
She shouldn't have to keep doing this by herself. She is supposedly a member of a political party and every single one of her *colleagues* should be BLASTING the fascist in chief. ALL OF THEM. Where is the solidarity???
Your review made me want to read Atonement again, but I doubt I would pick up this again. I might reread Possession or Station Eleven instead!
Thank you for the review. I also didn’t love the second half. I didn’t feel it gave me greater insight.
"[R]eflecting on the harms of AI is not itself harm reduction. It may even contribute to rationalizing, normalizing, and enabling harm. Critical reflection without appropriate action is thus quintessentially critical washing." zenodo.org/records/1567...
Headshots of Michelle Dowd and Lara Dodds and an image of the cover of their 2025 book, with details of the virtual talk, superimposed on a background of Artemisia Gentilleschi's painting Judith Slaying Holofernes.
The seminar on Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early Modern World invites YOU to our December 4 Zoom seminar with @laradodds.bsky.social and Michelle M. Dowd! They will discuss their new book on early modern women's writing. 5:30pm Eastern. Register here: wellesley.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Y'all, It's TOMORROW.
Imani Perry and Tananarive Due discuss a titan of Afrofuturist fiction, Octavie E. Butler, and her masterwork,
"Lilith’s Brood: The Xenogenesis Trilogy". My favorite is"Dawn"
Mon, Nov 24 from 6- 7pm EST
Online, Free
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#Lit #OctaviaEButler
