Canaan Morse 莫楷
@canaanmorse.bsky.social
Assistant Prof (Teaching) @UVA 明清文学 Charlottesville, VA The long and unruly Chinese 17th century ‘21 National Book Award Finalist scholar poet translator farm boy
Bluesky a popular song Block This Way
emceekayvee@emceekayvee.bsky.social · 12h agoThese Mutes Were Made For Blockin’
On my 16th birthday party, I ate five lobsters and I don’t even remember what else. I straight-up caused food carnage wherever I went.
Lisa Carey@msleedy.bsky.social · 20h agoLiving with a 16yo boy is like having our own Very Hungry Caterpillar. Were out for dinner last night and he had bread, an octopus and potato salad, and a huge crab salad roll with chips, then went home and ate an entire box of breaded mozzarella sticks, a pot noodle, and a pint of chocolate milk.
Some of the biggest losers in this conservative resurgence in Western Civ courses are going to be those of us in African/a Studies, Asian Studies, Indigenous Studies, and Latin American Studies
Asheesh Kapur Siddique@asheeshks.org · 2d agoThe center-left abandoned the humanities in public higher ed, while the right embraced an authoritarian, non-scholarly approach to them. Unfortunately, it does not look like this situation will change anytime soon: asheeshksi.substack.com/p/why-the-de...
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No YOU’RE brilliant, as evidenced quite clearly here
emceekayvee@emceekayvee.bsky.social · 2d agoI cannot. I looked up the book and the one cover had an actual CAT on it. This might be the hastiest, dumbest thing I've ever made, and that's coming from someone who made a Hitler+ALF mashup called "ADALF HITLER."
Had my first full-on, question-and answer conversation in Spanish yesterday. Turns out being friendly and complimentary really, really helps
Imagine assigning The Giver in a college class now. It would break people.
Ducky 🦆@justducky.bsky.social · 4d agoAll I know is, the world was a much cooler place to live in when you could get free pizza just for reading books.
She ran a CrossFit gym, which is basically a swinger's club that produces orthopedic injuries
Amilal, a hidden bar in 鼓楼东大街 where the real ones hung out.
Sophia_Nyx 🐰@sophianyx.bsky.social · 6d agoName a place from your youth you miss.
Sorry - tornado warning for Charlottesville?! That means they’ve seen rotation.
I feel like we need to remember that it’s everyone’s first time living
Same. Then I met Lincoln, the ultra-competent head of UVA Readers, who saved me from myself. Getting ready for a no-laptops course for the first time ever!
Megan L. Cook@meganlcook.bsky.social · last wk.Gonna spend more time figuring out how to do a hard-copy reader for my course than I spend on the rest of prep combined
Reskeeting my grad school colleague, David, because it feels like he’s completely on the money with this entire thread
David Porter@dcporter.bsky.social · 2w agoMy impression is that 1) Bates is a pretty extreme case - a lot of the most over-the-top stuff is stuff I've never seen anything like (I can't imagine faculty being involved enough in students' lives for someone to tell me that a few students' interpersonal dispute was an "attempted lynching")
I don’t know OP, but let me speak from experience: I have been the adjunct internal candidate twice, and not only did it NOT confer any advantage, it widened the space for screw-ups and resulted in deep heartbreak. Do you want the comfortable shoes you know, or the sexy shoes you don’t?
noam@noamchompers.bsky.social · 2w agoagain, i think this is just not an accurate characterization of academic hiring. what tyler describes as 'routine' is, in my view, extremely unusual
Northwestern University is hiring an Assistant Professor in modern Japanese history, with an emphasis on connections across and w/in its empire, process of decolonization and aftermath, and global and regional contexts. Come work with @astanley711.bsky.social! Deadline is October 30.
Assistant Professor of Modern Japanese History: Department of History - Northwestern University
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I wish academic Bluesky would respond to the substance of the Bates College article in some straightforward fashion, ie, “This apparently unfair BS isn’t what happens,” or “Yes, this happens, it’s BS, and here’s why,” because scorn and dismissal don’t work w/ those of us standing outside looking in.
BE IT HERE KNOWN THAT: The presence of maple syrup on a plate constitutes an exception to decorum that justifies the lifting and licking of said plate. HIC DECRETUM EST
