Dustin Friedman
@dustinfriedman.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Literature at American University. Aesthete and queer humanist. Author of *Before Queer Theory* and co-editor of *Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition: The 1890s*. He/him/his 🏳️🌈🐻👨❤️👨
Hey everyone! I edited a special issue of Nineteenth-Century Literature on the “Fin de Fin de Siècle”. Check it out!
University of California Press@ucpress.bsky.social · last mo.New issue alert: "Nineteenth-Century Literature" has just released a new special issue, 'Fin de Fin de Siècle,' convened by @dustinfriedman.bsky.social. online.ucpress.edu/ncl/issue/81/1
“Call Me By Her Name” drag race acting challenge when? Each queen has to cry on command in front of a fireplace. Surprise: they all do amazing. No one goes home. Lip sync for the win.
“We as gay people get to choose our eating disorders.”
I think my issue was that the guy was not believably hot enough for her to risk it all. I understand that she’s getting something else from him, but he’s a rat face (which ok I can go for sometimes), but you’re going to go for that twerp when you’re getting railed by Antonio Banderas on the regs??
Dustin Friedman@dustinfriedman.bsky.social · 2y agoDespite lack of engagement this will likely become a Babygirl hot take account.
Despite lack of engagement this will likely become a Babygirl hot take account.
Dustin Friedman@dustinfriedman.bsky.social · 2y agoSpoiler warning, I guess?? I can’t figure out if the use of “Father Figure” in Babygirl is ironic or not, and this is actually a major determining factor of my feelings about the film.
Spoiler warning, I guess?? I can’t figure out if the use of “Father Figure” in Babygirl is ironic or not, and this is actually a major determining factor of my feelings about the film.
Fordham UP's spring catalogue is out! I'm glad to see my forthcoming monograph there! You can preorder Aesthetic Impropriety: Property Law & Postcolonial Style from all good bookstores, including indies, B&N, & Am**on. Now we just need the press to get on Bluesky :) issuu.com/fordhamup/do...
Spring 2025 Catalog
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Drag name: Vera Similitude. (Courtesy of my husband)
Maybe one of the reasons there are so many unhinged academics is that in order to keep your job, you’re constantly required to tout yourself as a Scholar of World-Historical Significance, even as your office’s ceiling tiles slowly dislodge themselves to fall on your head.
After 42 years, I think I’m finally ready to come out as shallow.
I have a student interested in investigating the concept of the weird. Not the horror/sci fi genre, per se, but rather the disposition/descriptor more generally. Any leads would be appreciated!
How to get access to block lists? I think I would find them helpful but still not quite sure how they work.
Remembering the political science professor on Twitter who a little over a year ago was certain--certain!--that the next president would be Ron DeSantis.
Please help spread the word! The English Department at Harvard is hoping to hire an assistant professor of post-45 Anglophone literature. I'm not on the committee, but would be happy to answer your questions. academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/14143
Tenure-Track Professor in Post45 Anglophone Literature
The Department of English seeks to appoint a tenure-track professor in Post45 Anglophone Literature. The appointment is expected to begin on July 1, 2025. The tenure-track professor will be responsibl...
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10000000000% here for Pre-Raphaelite coded Chappell Roan.
Rad O'Brien, Chief Engineer@radobrien.myatproto.social · 2y agooh my goddddddddddd
"The Department of History invites applications for an assistant professor who will make enough leftist remarks to annoy conservative talk radio hosts but whose politics will ultimately support the neoliberal mission of the university." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/hon...
Honest Academic Job Postings
English department seeks a tenure-track assistant professor specializing in Shakespeare, Romanticism, Victorianism, modernism, post-modernism, post...
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