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nissaren.bsky.social
Teaching research writing @PWRStanford, writing about interwar expatriates (& passports & steamships & newspapers), UCLA/UCSB alum, book reviews editor @JMPS, SFUSD parent
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Reporting live from my mother's kitchen to tell you there's a Martha Stewart branded line of CBD gummies (?!?)

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PSA" even though the year is 2025 you’re still allowed to scream along to "Head Like A Hole" in your car if you need to.

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Without fail, week 8 of the quarter involves eating chips/crackers for breakfast.

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Hey periodicals people: if you wanted to help students manage the problem of plenitude and the difficulties of digital newspaper archives, what would you have them read? (I need something much shorter than the Collier/DiCenzo/and Putnam articles that are my own go-tos)

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Um, guys: I've just discovered that either the editors or the press swapped out all the images I'd submitted with different images (?!!?!). Would have figured this out a lot quicker if I hadn't last seen this article 18 months ago...

submitted 10 days ago • 10 comments

There are many problems with academic publishing timelines, and one of them is how hard it is to re-locate my sources when correcting proofs....

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THE RESIST LIST IS HERE. Proud my team just started this @resistlist.bsky.social, which will list actions that happened and that are slated to happen.

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Not sure on this one, but can say now’s a great time to read It Can’t Happen Here (it’s always a good time for more Sinclair Lewis!)

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Will rereading 1984 make me feel better or worse?

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Teaching Harlem Renaissance poetry? Try this visualization I put together -- an interactive network diagram bringing together a selection of magazines, editors, and poets, with a focus on women & less-discussed writers. (Aim is to be illustrative, not thorough.) scalar.lehigh.edu/aapada-perio...

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At least my nacho game is on point.

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McTeague hive, do your thing….

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Just got proofs for my May Birkhead chapter! I've truly never been so excited about something coming out, as May deserves to be known and loved by all!

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For good or ill, the voicemail boxes weren't full today and I actually spoke to someone in one of my senators' offices, so I think that means we need to CALL MORE.

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5 years in and I STILL cannot figure out how my students all leave a Zoom room instantaneously but it takes me 3 clicks/4 awkward faces.

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Do we have a name for when a book is really explicit in its foreshadowing? Like, when from the beginning the narrator tells you about things that are going to happen later? Anyways, I've decided I strongly dislike those.

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Never underestimate the ability of a good drawer reorganization to help you feel 3% more in control of your life.

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Well, at least when I wake up in a cold sweat in the middle of the night I no longer know which catastrophe I'm panicking about.

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