Jay Shelat
@jshelat1.bsky.social
PhD. Assistant Professor of English at Ursinus College. Contemporary Literature. Writing a book about the War on Terror and domesticity. I know hundreds of Bollywood songs by heart. he/him. Views are my own. https://www.jayshelat.com
This is like a "choose your own adventure book". If you choose option A, it will do the next step for you, etc. This is not writing. This is producing text for a grade. Writing has value as a way to figure out what you think and why. If students see this possibility in a product that is/5
Ugh got into bed and now can’t sleep because I’m watching the polls
I’ve been doing copy edits for my book—one chapter a day—and it’s stressing me out because it’s all starting to feel very final! Like I can’t fix stuff after this and that’s freaking me out lol
Woman Stressing Out
ALT: Woman Stressing Out
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I’m really excited to index this book!
Jay Shelat@jshelat1.bsky.social · 5d agoFriends, my book—No Place for Home: Terror and Race in Literature After 9/11—has a cover! I’m so pleased with what Rachel Moeller and the design team at @uminnpress.bsky.social came up with! The book will be out in Spring 2027 and that I’ll post a pre-order link once it’s available! 1/2
Friends, my book—No Place for Home: Terror and Race in Literature After 9/11—has a cover! I’m so pleased with what Rachel Moeller and the design team at @uminnpress.bsky.social came up with! The book will be out in Spring 2027 and that I’ll post a pre-order link once it’s available! 1/2
Love that the Fall of man also creates anxiety: O conscience, into what abyss of fears And horrors hast thou driv’n me; out of which I find no way, from deep to deeper plunged! —Paradise Lost, Book X, 842-844
Isræl: A Rogue State From Its Foundation Edward Saaid, the late Columbia University professor, said: “Isræl is a country without a constitution, and it’s the ONLY country in the world without declared borders.” Then he dropped the bømb: “So when you say Isræl is ‘the only democracy in the
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“Closing the Writing Center and removing its leadership now sends a disturbing signal about how seriously Harvard actually takes [its] mission.” Closing a writing center or library or dept or program or university press—an attack on one is an attack on all. www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...
In Defense of the Harvard College Writing Center | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson
As current and former Harvard College Writing Center tutors, we write to condemn the dissolution of the Writing Center as an independent entity and the laying off of its director, Jane Rosenzweig.
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Excited to offer a fully funded PhD with Maeve Ryan and I at KCL. Details below. www.kcl.ac.uk/study/fundin...
CRSW / AHRC Doctoral Studentship: Narratives of Enslavement and their Legacies | King's College London
King’s College London’s Leverhulme Centre for Research on Slavery in War (CRSW) is pleased to announce a fully funded AHRC doctoral studentship, jointly supervised by English and War Studies.
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“I don’t think one has to agree with Wilson’s point of view to recognize that she is entitled to have it and knows more about the film’s source material than the rest of us do.” Yep!
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌@chanda.blacksky.app · last wk.WELP I WAS ANNOYED AND HAD THE TIME: “When men say she should be grateful for the attention, they’re saying a woman’s scholarship only gains true meaning when a famous man shines a light on it.” news.chanda.science/archive/an-o...
This phenomenon is very characteristic of the global war on terror. American men—esp white American men—must display a hypermasculinity metonymize the nation’s imperial stance. Of course, transphobia is as American as apple pie, but this iteration is particularly rooted in an anti-Muslim agenda.
Nick Turse@nickturse.bsky.social · last wk.Hegseth believes you can measure manhood by testing testosterone, the same way he believes you can kill your way to victory on the battlefield. It’s part of a mélange of flaccid fallacies and fantasies that seem to dominate [his] worldview..." theintercept.com/2026/07/25/p...
Hello from Italy where I’m taking my first vacation without my laptop since 2015! This is my done-with-the-book trip!
Y’all, I started reading Elena Ferrante’s MY BRILLIANT FRIEND and I’m obsessed
Book 9 of PARADISE LOST is perfect: O foul descent! that I who erst contended With Gods to sit the highest, am now constrained Into a beast, and mixed with bestial slime, This essence to incarnate and imbrute, "That to the heighth of Deity aspired; But what will not ambition and revenge Descend to?
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I’ve read and taught THE GREAT GATSBY at least 12 times, and I never ever ever get tired of the descriptions of Gatsby’s parties in Ch 3.
Roaring Twenties Gatsby Party
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Still thinking about act 3 of The Odyssey. The way the narrative pays off is so satisfying, my goodness
I want people to understand the full impact of the devastation that First Nations in Canada are facing. It's NOT just that people and wildlife are losing their homes...it's the history that is being lost for generations to come.
No one next to me on this flight!!!!
Everything's Coming Up Milhouse!
ALT: Everything's Coming Up Milhouse!
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“Based on simple math, these outbreak responses—which require rapid, timely responses—are going to be greatly diminished,” the former CDC lab director tells WIRED. www.wired.com/story/cdc-cy...
The CDC Has a Cyclospora Lab. DOGE Downsized It Last Year
“Based on simple math, these outbreak responses—which require rapid, timely responses—are going to be greatly diminished,” the former CDC lab director tells WIRED.
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I fear we have a certified banger on our hands! I loved this movie.
Jay Shelat@jshelat1.bsky.social · 3w agoVery excited for The Odyssey in IMAX
Or okra! Or celery! Lettuce suuuuuuuucks! Eat other greens!
Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 3w agoYou know what’s never killed anybody? Collard greens.
Reading PARADISE LOST is a transcendent experience. Reading one book a week, and every time I devote a quiet morning to reading Milton I feel moved in a way that no other piece of English literature has ever done. And I genuinely believe only poetry can do that.
