can relate

Reading the Epic of Gilgamesh alongside one of my favorite children’s books

Repetition and Difference

From The Epic of Gilgamesh to Contemporary Children's Literature

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"For the PhD garnish, mix all the dry ingredients together, drown them in coffee, and tip them onto a diaper."

if I were a cocktail

Try this smoky margarita recipe with angst, anti-nationalism, and red crushed peppers. We’ve added irony to the rim for an extra kick.

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ten lessons from Rita Indiana

Yesterday I drove up north to Tufts to attend a book reading by the Dominican writer and singer/song writer Rita Indiana, organized by my dear comrade from University Chicago years, Isabela Fraga.

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New post! Join me for some serial fun in the Ottoman Empire.

The Ottoman Detective

now that's some serious serialized fun

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I started a substack. Goal: to talk about literature (and stuff) with no jargon. Ideal reader: my father. Subscribe if you want low-key posts you can read at Costco. The first post is on worms. alikulez.substack.com

New pub, where I theorize a notion of “literary misencounter” to think about solidarities in the global South.

The Literary Misencounter: South-South Hermeneutics in Asli Erdoğan’s The City in Crimson Cloak

ABSTRACT. This article examines the award-winning Turkish author Aslı Erdoğan’s The City in Crimson Cloak (Kırmızı Pelerinli Kent, 1998) to explore how post-1989 literature may theorize transnational ...

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I’m always drawn to images of food: “Dice que ella escondía sus pies entre las piernas de él. Sus pies helados como piedras frías y que allí se calentaban como en un horno donde se dora el pan. Dice que él le mordía los pies diciéndole que eran como pan dorado en el horno.”

Pedro Páramo pairs well with this artisanal mezcal from Oaxaca. Side effect: I want to answer every question with “un rencor vivo.” Example: —How is grading going? —Un rencor vivo.

There was this couple at Costco with a black plastic sheet and electric candles on one of the dining tables, sharing a plate of hot chocolate cookies over champagne (or Gatorade who knows) in plastic glasses. I’m not sure if it’s a level of nof.csgiven to aspire for or be afraid of. #happyvalentines

Truly the gift most desired. Along with chocolate-dipped strawberries and a couple’s massage.

Ida Tolgensbakk@idatolgensbakk.bsky.social · last yr.

#academicvalentines

I had no idea Baldwin had a strict religious upbringing and had even become a preacher for the Pentecostal church when he was 14. It’s a novel full of heartbreak, racial violence, and familial dysphoria, but also of transcendence and religious ecstasy.

Cooking with my students—still the best pedagogical experience for me. While listening to the latest tunes of Bad Bunny, the students of #foodandidentity learned how to cook mofongo.

Already done. It’s being repatriated.

Caitlin G. DeAngelis@caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 2y ago

Harvard should consult Afro-Brazilian communities about returning the remains of the Malê Revolt leader it currently keeps on a shelf in storage.

Just when I’m teaching a course on indigeneity in Latin America.

Happy Saturday, food history folks! Please share this call for the Global Food History Prize for an Emerging Food Historian, with a deadline of January 1: rachelbherrmann.com/global-food-...

Marcel Proust after eating a tiny little cake

Choose your fighter

What do you think is the bigger problem in higher ed? Woke indoctrination or half the profs making $3,000 per semester? Hard to say

Preparing a course on indigeneity in Latin American culture, and came across this fantastic game called Mulaka, developed through a collaboration with anthropologists and Tarahumara leaders. Can’t wait to play and “read” it with the students.

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #Books #BookSky #BookChallenge Day 6

chop from top chop from the cop chop from the coach

Ian Carrillo@iansociologo.bsky.social · 2y ago

Wonder if there's any consulting firms out there making the pitch to higher ed administrators that replacing football coaches with AI could save unis and athletic departments hundreds of millions of dollars. www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

Sabbatical rental posts are the closest academia gets to MTV Cribs

🔊🔔🎤 Check out a sneak peek of my edited volume! www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/1...

This weekend marked the first Thinking Food colloquium, the materialization of a question I have been mulling over since I was a grad student. How can I, as a scholar of the early modern past, contribute to addressing the inequities in our food systems and cultures?

My book (February 2025) , Caribbean Inhospitality: The Poetics of Strangers at Home, is available for pre-order at Rutgers University Press. 😀 www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/caribbean-in...

Proofs are in! It’s a pleasure to publish an article on Aslı Erdoğan, an award-winning, exiled Turkish author still little known in the US. I can’t think of a better home for this essay than Comparative Literature Studies. #newpub #globalSouth

When your favorite artist reposts you on #bluesky. This made my day, and it was only 7am.

Jorge Amado: "The attitude of pious admiration for European and North American culture while continuing to close our eyes to the rest of the world keeps us in a narrow, provincial, and colonial position. Why should we know everything about France and nothing about Syria or Lebanon?" #globalSouth

how power pushes one into self-contradiction. Those two final adverbs do "interfere," big time: "From the day I took office, I said I would not interfere with the Justice Department's decision-making, and I kept my word even as I have watched my son being selectively, and unfairly, prosecuted."