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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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I’m feeling pretty obsessed by @publicdomainrev.bsky.social / CP Cranch’s “literal renderings” of Emerson’s figures. The transparent eyeball! publicdomainreview.org/collection/c...

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

Writing the introduction to my book and basically trying to be reading and citing all of these books at the same time; gotta keep them all right next to me so I can delusionally attempt to simultaneously treat all of them in coherent sentences, going poorly…

submitted 15 days ago • 5 comments

Cleanth Brooks writing about “the much advertised demise of the Humanities” in 1947 😳

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

say it again: 4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities ROI for NIH and NSF for local economies is conservatively 4x, often close to 10x demolishing higher education is economic sabotage

submitted 37 days ago • 70 comments

Who Wore It Better, Met Gala 2025 celebrities or Duke University Press book covers? Ava DuVernay or Work! by Elspeth H. Brown? #MetGala

submitted 49 days ago • 3 comments

The muse of poetry, looking appropriately un-chill.

submitted 73 days ago • 1 comment

Fun etymology in class today as we talk about how the word “vaccine” is from the Latin word for “cow.” Also nice to see 18thc English folks being super chill about vaccination, no modern parallels here… 😳

submitted 77 days ago • 1 comment

Rhyme-lovers, a call for papers! David Caplan is hosting another symposium on poetic form at SMU—the first one was *fabulous*, generating real conversation among scholars & poets. Propose a paper to join us for the second iteration?! www.smu.edu/dedman/acade...

submitted 88 days ago • 1 comment

We’ve just started the show but I’m actually cackling at Parker Posey on White Lotus. People are saying it’s a bonkers accent or she’s unrealistic, but let me tell you I’ve MET this woman!

submitted 91 days ago • 0 comments

I write on Elizabeth Elstob in this book I’m trying to finish—she’s completely fascinating!

submitted 99 days ago • 2 comments

Posting again for the Friday crowd: What are some interesting models for non-workshop format creative writing courses, as a supplement (not replacement) for small workshops!?

submitted 109 days ago • 0 comments

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)

submitted 110 days ago • 6 comments

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...

submitted 142 days ago • 1 comment

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?!

submitted 172 days ago • 4 comments