nikkihessell.bsky.social
Prof in 18th Century & Romantic Literature at Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington, she/her, Pākehā/settler scholar, #toitūtetiriti, 🏀
Books on Romanticism + settler colonialism + Indigenous studies
https://people.wgtn.ac.nz/nikki.hessell
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Here's a perspective from a US college president (the equivalent of our Vice-Chancellors). This should be required reading for NZ university leadership
slate.com/life/2024/10...
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Here's a perspective from a US college president (the equivalent of our Vice-Chancellors). This should be required reading for NZ university leadership
slate.com/life/2024/10...
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And this, too, is what institutional neutrality leads to👇
There is a reason why well-funded, internationally linked right-wing pressure groups are all pushing for "institutional neutrality" statements from universities, including in Aotearoa
stanforddaily.com/2025/02/20/u...
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Excellent - DM me your email address and I will forward you the invitation to her talks when we send them out in April
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They see our disciplines as hobbies and/or as ones in which they have some expertise. The language of advanced study makes it hard to maintain the self-delusion that "serious amateur historian" or "something of a poetry nerd myself" is the same as being an expert. And they don't like that feeling 🤷♀️
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I had a budget line for "time machine" but it got cut!
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Congratulations!!
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We hope so too!
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Couldn't agree more. You will not be surprised to find that that is very much NOT the default they've gone with 👀
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That might be the undergrad one? The PG one is now out for comment
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If you haven't already done so, can I encourage you to look at the PG student AI guidelines that are out for consultation and send in a response by Friday?
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🧵3/3
In our third-year courses:
🗻"Romantic Literature"
🗽"American Literature: 20th Century"
🌱"Writing Ecologies"
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In our second-year courses:
🌔"Dark Unknowing in Māori Literature"
📰"Literature & Journalism"
🏵️"Modernist Literature"
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Settling into your leave nicely I see!
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I'm not keen on blurbs & I also think we have a problem with a small literary ecosystem in Aotearoa. The merry-go-round of people blurbing for each other makes the blurbs feel too cosy and unreliable, even though that doesn't reflect my feelings about either the books or the authors!
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Thanks Eddie!
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Roth: "It's beyond me how you can be the leader of an ed institution + not defend diversity + inclusion instead of trying to scrub it." Some say: "we shld only speak abt things that are rlvnt to our mission," but are "artistic experimentation + scholarly adventurousness not part of our mission?"
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Excellent news - congratulations!
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Oh, great! I look forward to reading that, Danielle. Hope all's well with you
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Thank you! Not something I've encountered, but I will look it up