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professor @ Wesleyan, editor @ History & Theory and Norton Anthology of English Literature, mother @ home, lover of poetry and tv and good cheese @ all the times…
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My department is brainstorming ways to scale up to some larger classes. We have plans on the scholarly side, but I want to ask hive mind: does anyone know of good innovative models for non-workshop style, slightly larger courses in creative writing? (To be taught in addition to small workshops ofc)

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Here are some neat historical resources for teaching if you, like me, are obsessed with Tyehimba Jess’ sonnet crown about the Fisk Jubilee singers! bookshop.org/p/books/olio...

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Will someone talk to me about this wild moment in Phillis Wheatley’s “On Messrs Hussey and Coffin” when she breaks her couplets with a prose (?) wish? I can’t think of anything like it in period poetry. Can you? Has anyone written on this?!

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I *loved* the tv show “somebody somewhere”—such a beautiful, funny, heartwarming vision of middle America. I have no idea if this’ll make a difference, but just in case: sign the petition! (And, for a move with even surer results, if you haven’t watched it DO THAT IMMEDIATELY !) chng.it/qb9RhhDB6n

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#ArticleSnapshot📸: Read Johanna Drucker's "Inventing the Alphabet: The Technologies of Knowledge Production" in our September issue. This article is a revised version of the lecture Drucker delivered at @RemarqueNYU in Feb. 2024 as the 9th H&T lecture. doi.org/10.1111/hith...

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Show me a picture on your phone that has your energy but isn’t a selfie.

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I am always looking for interesting but *compulsively* readable bedtime books that I can slurp down during bruising bits of semester when I need smthng fun to take my mind off life. Thought I’d share some recent favorites in this category, as everyone trudges through the end of the semester!

submitted 98 days ago • 3 comments

Fun fact: according to recieved wisdom in early modern thought, angels did not have imaginations.

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Come join us at @histandtheojrnl.bsky.social for all the latest news about publications and events for theory and philosophy of history! historyandtheory.org

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Christopher Ricks 🔥: “People often speak as though there were something inherently trivializing about the anagram against rhyme. This, as though there were sound effects and then those other things, unsound effects… That ‘room’ rhymes with ‘doom’ is in itself no more arbitrary than…”

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on what is otherwise a grim, muttering rock-paper-scissors on repeat day, what a pleasure to see this post and then read Clarke’s *stunning* poem! A day to hold on to meaningful language folklife-media.si.edu/docs/festiva... 💜

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I just bought the Virtual Sentence and I literally can’t wait for it to arrive!

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Alright, I’m ready to be here now. I like the vibes. Tonight, I want someone to talk to me about Steve Coogan chewing the scenery in What We Do In the Shadows. Did I catch a reference to the Hellfire club? LOL

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Thanks for all the ideas! I wasn’t clear enough about what I’m after. I am looking for scholarly writings about poetry or scholarly analyses of particular poems—so readings as in “close readings.” What essays or ideas will help get students thinking more generatively about poetry?

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Poetry people of the interwebs! I’m designing a new introduction to poetry course for first year students. What are your favorite secondary / scholarly / poetics readings to get students interested and excited? Accessible and mind blowing readings of particular poems welcome too!

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Virtual mentoring happening now. You don’t have to be registered for asecs—if you want to come chat, about anything, log on now!

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NYT flashback quiz is worried we haven’t talked enough about the Alexander Pope / Ariana Grande connection.

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I’m so glad you mention this—yes! Women took this (all-male author!) test. (Picture from special collections blog: sca.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2012/04/24/f...)

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Here is the Wesleyan English exam for students in 1899. Anyone want to take a stab at answering any of these?! 🤓

submitted 363 days ago • 11 comments

1/5 After three years of editing, annotating, headnote writing, and permissions getting, it is completely thrilling to hold a physical copy of Vol. F of The Norton Anthology of English Literature in my hands! A thread on its new features:

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