Moral of the story : think twice before you cite translators who are serious about their work. Just because they're women doesn't mean they'll be grateful for whatever attention!
friends, I'm looking for a statistic on how many academic jobs there were in 2025-2026. where can I find this info? any recent year would be GRAND (hard to prove a negative, I know, but point me in a direction???) also looking to compare with a year in the 90s...just not sure where to find stats??
Help! My symbolism! It's so overt! And very explicit!
Sunken Nazi warships resurface as water levels drop
Scuttled German WW2 warships have reemerged from the Danube in drought-hit Europe.
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The extraordinary Dr Sarah Hoiland @sarahoiland.bsky.social at the culminating celebration of the summer program she dreamed up and made possible - the HOPE program funded by NSF, where student parents do college classes upstairs while their kiddos take summer classes in the same building #CUNYProud
Watched Nolan's Odyssey to finally resolve the burning question, was Matt Damon nekkid when he killed all the suitors and the answer is disappointingly, ahistorically, nope
More from Wollstonecraft's Scandinavian letters & their reports on the dawning of a modern extractivist economy ... outside Oslo the "view was almost spoilt by the depredations committed on the rocks to make alum." Alum? For dyeing? paper sizing? Environmental historians, what do you think? THANKS!
Deidre Lynch@drbibliomane.bsky.social · 2w agoWollstonecraft on forest fires & climate grief, from 1796: "The devastation must, indeed, be terrible, when this, literally speaking, wild fire, runs along the forest, flying from top to top, & crackling amongst the branches. . . the country, despoiled of beauty & riches, is left to mourn for ages."
Think everything is going downhill all the time? Notwithstanding the general enshittification of the interwebs, they brought paper maps back on the subway and that is unarguably a good thing
Local plumbers two steps ahead of every university administrator in america 👏
Metin Seven (Moon Child's dad 🌝)@seven.eurosky.social · 3w ago
utterly patient response to professional misconduct Appiah DOGEd disciplines and fields about which he knows nothing, incinerating his reputation in the process "He just hasn’t done the reading."
Gabriel Hankins@gabrielh.bsky.social · 3w agoMy response to Appiah's "field report" is up: please repost www.chronicle.com/article/kwam...
My response to Appiah's "field report" is up: please repost www.chronicle.com/article/kwam...
Opinion | Dear Critics of Literary Studies: Do the Reading
The philosopher’s report on the state of literary studies is a shambles.
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Climate humanities meets critical university studies! Please read Cari's fantastic letter about campus gardens and parking lots and how an English prof might be useful at Facilities and Grounds meetings if allowed in
Modernism/modernity@mmodernity.bsky.social · 3w agoThe latest installment of the "Letters from the Field" by Caroline Hovanec and Anne Raine continues to ask how we study modernism in an era of climate crisis, ecological loss, and ongoing catastrophe? Read the letters on Print Plus: modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts...
Today I - did an anon peer review, posted a call for papers, submitted a reimbursement request, which at CUNY deserves a special category of patience all its own, responded to emails, read some modernist stuff, worked on my Fall sem syllabus. This is off-contract "summer holiday" 🌻
Disability Works turns 2 today, somehow! Help celebrate by 1) Asking your library to buy a copy 2) Purchasing your own copy directly from NYU Press for 30% off with discount code NYUP30 3) Rate it on Amazon/Goodreads As always, I'm happy to do virtual class visits! nyupress.org/978147982487...
Disability Works
Winner, 2025 Midwest Modern Language Association Book AwardWinner, 2025 South Atlantic Modern Language Association Book AwardFinalist, 2025 Barnard Hewitt Aw...
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Ray came home from work during the half time in upper Manhattan and said the entire bus + subway ride back was like a fifa ad. People watching on their phones, the tinny sound of roars from no one using headphones. People in Arg gear, and he himself unwittingly in a light blue and white shirt
The Onion looks back on 250 years of American exceptionalism. Watch now on youtube.com/theonion
So I'm starting a podcast about friendship and aesthetic experience called "Some Marvelous Experience." I've posted a brief teaser that explains a little bit about the main idea and will drop the first episode soon. Please subscribe and help me spread the word! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
Some Marvelous Experience
Arts Podcast · Updated Biweekly · A podcast about friendship and art hosted by Brian Glavey. For each episode I'll talk to a pair of friends about a work of art or aesthetic experience that they share...
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vijay iyer@vijayiyer.bsky.social · 3w agoMeanwhile, here’s something far sweeter: Dafnis Prieto’s composition “Gently Trapped,” meant to conjure a tinier hell, perhaps. And let us bask in Henry Threadgill’s flute sound!!! The full album _Fifteen_ will be out August 21 on Nonesuch in all formats. Please enjoy. youtu.be/-27SnQ2zAPg?...
No one wants to hear it but tracking everyone in your life is pretty much the gateway drug to the Armageddon you’re so afraid of.
Nolen Gertz@ethicistforhire.bsky.social · 3w agoOur society has associated surveillance with security (CCTV) and with love (bluetooth tags) for so long that tech companies are betting (perhaps correctly?) that people prefer being surveilled to being ignored...
Now that ICE has killed again in Maine, reupping: The creators of this horrifying new reality are Trump and Stephen Miller. They pretended to want it done quietly this time, but that's just spin. The whole project is intrinsically geared toward exactly this outcome. newrepublic.com/article/2129...
The Modernist Review reviews @hopkinspress.bsky.social's BRILLIANT MODERNISMS by Nicoletta Asciuto—"a fresh and often quirky perspective to poets and artists who engaged with electric light" @modernistudies.bsky.social Book available in Europe! modernistreviewcouk.wordpress.com/2026/07/10/b...
Book Review: Brilliant Modernism: Cultures of Light and Modernist Poetry
10 July 2026 Oliver Dixon, Royal Holloway, University of London In her Introduction, Nicoletta Asciuto clearly aligns Brilliant Modernism: Cultures of Light and Modernist Poetry (2025) with the New…
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EVENT THIS WEEK at #WordUpBooks and #RecirculationNYC including a new gallery, Narcan training, monthly collage night, and a book talk with Turkish music 🎺
After four decades as a founding member of Red Hot Chili Peppers, Flea goes solo with a stellar jazz band. n.pr/44YC9HN
Flea and the Honora Band: Tiny Desk Concert
After four decades as a founding member of Red Hot Chili Peppers, Flea goes solo with a stellar jazz band.
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it's a monday morning in mid july so of course we're writing syllabi! against-a-i.com is here for you! and if you're a humanities teacher who's developed materials you'd like to contribute as we glow up for fall, please send! against-a-i.com
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Hell Gate *subscribe today!*@hellgatenyc.com · 3w agoAt a rally of Albanians in NYC Saturday, protesters said former Mayor Eric Adams's proximity to Albanian PM Edi Rama didn't sit well. "I will quote scripture,” said Ulysses, an Albanian protester. "If you touch pitch, you will remain stained by it."
Don’t live your life so that when you die people say “oh I was hoping it’d be the other guy, but I’ll take it”
Here it is, my 284th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more below, share as widely as possible, & enjoy, all! 🗃️ + blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...
#ScholarSunday Thread 284 (7/12/26) – Black and White and Read All Over
Here it is, my 284th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more below, share as widely as possible, & enjoy,...
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Uh why is the AI on google declaring a loss for Egypt while there's still time on the clock??