Brandi K. Adams
@bkadams.bsky.social
I am an Assistant Professor of English Literature at Arizona State University who works on book history, premodern critical race studies and early modern English drama. I spend a lot of time with Barnabe, an adorable dog. These posts are my opinion.
Four professors and a national faculty group asked a federal judge Monday to block the Texas A&M University System's restrictions on teaching about race, gender and sexuality and to reinstate courses canceled under the policy.
Professors sue Texas A&M System over limits on teaching race, gender
Four professors and a national faculty group asked a federal judge Monday to block the Texas A&M University System’s restrictions on teaching about race, gender and sexuality and to reinstate courses canceled under the policy.
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I cannot rest from discourse. I will see that film again tomorrow. I will drink life to the lees. Again I will enjoy greatly, will suffer greatly, both with those that love me, and in Pleasantville NY. I am become a meme. Film showing: burnsfilmcenter.org/booking/the-...
The Odyssey : Jacob Burns Film Center
The Odyssey, Matt Damon, Tom Holland, Christopher Nolan, Zendaya, Robert Pattinson, Odysseus, Greek, Classic, Antiquity
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IMPACT: that company that was offering to buy books for AI companies’ training data — and probably destroy them in the process — says it will no longer offer this service following 404 Media’s exposure of it www.404media.co/ai-company-t...
Company Offering Printed Books to Train AI Stops After 404 Media Coverage
Citing backlash, ISBNdb removed its webpages about training AI, denied ever buying, scanning, or selling a book for AI training, and said the site was a "test of market interest."
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As always, @dbellingradt.bsky.social shares the greatest images! Such a fabulous book historian!
Daniel Bellingradt@dbellingradt.bsky.social · 4mo agoText mining before the age of LLM training.
I saw the Odyssey. Christopher Nolan made some choices for sure. But one thing I’m going to pretend was purposeful: Casting Zendaya as Athena is a hat tip to Martin Bernal’s trilogy Black Athena.
JOBS! We’re currently looking for two people to join us in the School of English @universityofleeds.bsky.social: Lecturer in Creative Writing jobs.leeds.ac.uk/AHCEN1086; Lecturer in English Language (with interests in DH) jobs.leeds.ac.uk/AHCEN1087 Both are FT ongoing appointments
People who think Emily Wilson is being mean have clearly never presented a paper at an academic conference
Pleased to see it out at last! Digging down into the lived experience and ways of thinking that objects, fabrics, scents etc brought with them onto the stage, in short chapters based around particular things (with colour images!).
The Arden Shakespeare@ardenpublisher.bsky.social · 2w agoBeds, perfumes, doublets, torches, lutes, clocks, handkerchiefs… Who owned these objects in early modern England? How were they used? @profcatheriner.bsky.social's 'Shakespeare's Objects' explores 33 significant objects in full colour illustration. Out today! https://bit.ly/4f7YOaM
it's fascinating that the Atlantic is not fine with DSA but fine with Hanania
Oh! They gave millions to Trump lol. people.com/taylor-farms...
Taylor Farms Met with Trump White House Days Before FDA Backtrack on Cyclosporiasis Findings, Sparking Controversy
Executives at lettuce supplier Taylor Farms met with Trump White House officials days before the FDA walked back a ‘false positive’ detection of the cyclosporiasis parasite that is causing ‘explosive’...
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Just one of the many things that UT has and continues to keep doing to suppress academic freedom. This one hits hard as Dr. Chaar López is my advisor and mentor of the past 6 years. I have grown as a scholar bc of him, and it’s his guidance that has made realize what type of academic I could be.
Texas Conference of the AAUP@texasaaup.bsky.social · 2w ago🚨Lauren Gutterman, former chair of the American Studies department and AAUP UT Austin Chapter VP: “Iván’s case is a warning for all faculty across the university, because it suggests that achieving excellence in your field is no longer enough to secure tenure and promotion.” ⬇️
OK so it turns out this Colesworthy is my great great great grandfather. I asked S if I should quit my job to write a bio of him but that seems ill-advised—not least because actual historians already know about him. Let the research begin! (His desk is still in my family!)
Rebecca Colesworthy@rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 2mo agoGoing to Portland, ME, for the first time ever this summer. Some of you c19-ers may remember from twitter days of yore how I discovered shockingly recently that my great something grandfather ran an anti-slavery bookstore and printshop in a church basement there. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_...
I am once again begging Hollywood to stop using the Greek alphabet for an Ancient World movie, if they can't afford to even throw a couple of quid at anyone with an inkling of the language. Unless they really think audiences are dying to see THS THDPSSSSPS
Only one student enrolled in West Virginia University’s new Washington Center after GOP lawmakers mandated the creation of the program Lawmakers allocated around $3 million to the program in the last two years
One student enrolled in WVU Washington Center after GOP lawmakers mandate creation of program • West Virginia Watch
Only one student has registered for courses at WVU's Washington Center, an academic program mandated by Republican lawmakers for the campus.
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miles to go before i etc but printed out for the first time the nearly complete ms of a project i started over a decade ago 🥲
BREAKING: The Vatican excommunicates bishops from a breakaway group of traditionalist Catholics that consecrated them without Pope Leo's consent.
Vatican declares Society of St. Pius X in schism, excommunicates bishops and invalidates sacraments
The Vatican has responded aggressively to a traditionalist society that consecrated bishops without the pope’s consent.
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If you're someone who like a hard copy, but you've been holding off because of the price, I'm happy to say that my book is being paperbacked at the end of the month and it's available to preorder now!
Trans Histories of the Medieval Book - Arc Humanities Press
Archival collections are political spaces: the decisions that govern whose histories are preserved, when, and by whom are not neutral. They reflect the commu...
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I'm spending this summer drafting my next nonfiction book: TYPO, coming soon from Bloomsbury's Object Lessons series! As part of my research, I'm collecting stories and anecdotes about memorable typos and similar errors from other writers/readers, if you'd like to contribute. More at the link!
Have a Good Story about Typos? Want to Appear in My Next Book?
Typo, coming from Bloomsbury's Object Lessons series in 2027
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This is a dream I didn’t know I could have. To live at the library.
Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis@kendrawrites.com · last mo.NYC city council has issued a proposal to build housing on public libraries. It's kind of a fun throwback - did you know Carnegie libraries used to have housing in them?
A lot of media coverage of the ‘AI’ reading of the Herculaneum scrolls really fails to understand what’s happened here. There’s no language processing happening, the AI/ML is not trained on a corpus of texts or language. It can detect ink to see shapes. HUMAN EXPERTS are then transcribing the text.
helpful coverage from @elpais.com english.elpais.com/usa/2025-08-...
In the heart of the Miccosukee, the Native American tribe that shut down Alligator Alcatraz
The community found refuge from white persecution deep in the Everglades swamps centuries ago. Together with environmental groups, they succeeded in forcing the closure of the immigration detention ce...
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Rebecca Nagle@rebeccanagle.bsky.social · last mo.BREAKING: Alligator Alcatraz has officially closed. A lot of outlets won’t report on this, but the Miccosukee Tribe played a key role in the fight.
A thought experiment: Let’s say Shakespeare is a perennially white hot topic on Bluesky. Someone who identifies as a credentialed early modernist posts something about Shakespeare. You arrive in their mentions to tell them about the existence of one Christopher Marlowe. How should they respond?
It's only Algae if it comes from the L'Algae region of France, otherwise it's Sparkling Slime
The Cheese and the Worms definitely in my top-five favorite histories of all time (it’s a crowded field at the top…) www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/b...
Carlo Ginzburg, Who Told the History of the Obscure, Dies at 87
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Classics and Race [ OPEN ACCESS ] "a series of readings of historical primary sources from the late medieval period until the mid-twentieth century, bringing to light how the classical tradition and post-ancient constructions of race have informed each other." uclpress.co.uk/book/classic...
Classics and Race
Classics and Race: A historical reader provides scholars and students with an exploratory intellectual history of the complex relationships between Classics and racist/anti-racist thought-systems. It ...
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Congratulations Kandice Chuh! How lucky we are to have you @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social @cuny.edu www.gc.cuny.edu/news/kandice...
Kandice Chuh Named CUNY Graduate Center Associate Provost
Prominent cultural studies scholar and longtime professor will play a lead role in overseeing academic programs and research centers.
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