Thrilling! Can’t wait to read!

💥 New publication out on the alignment of AI & authoritarianism 💥

We argue that AI is not simply extending, but actively modulating, key dynamics of authoritarianism, and present a flexible analytical framework to account for these changes.

rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

There’s a Literacy Crisis. One Classroom Solution Should Be Obvious. You can't get better at reading until you care about a text.

In which Johanna Winant (@johannawinant.bsky.social) and I make the case for teaching whole books. And argue for a model of close reading that would bridge high school, college, and professional practice slate.com/life/2025/10...

Fascinating

What a great conference! So nice to meet you too!

Coming soon at NAVSA: Aftermaths: "Revisiting Cornelia Sorabji" with Jesse Cordes Selbin, Kellie Holzer, & Sarita Mizin. #NAVSA2025

Remember how at the end of Hoffmann’s “The Sandman” all the men are thrilled when their women sneeze and roll their eyes because it’s proof they’re not automatons? That’s how I feel now when students submit imperfect papers they wrote themselves. #hallelujah 🤗

Bit nervous to step into my children’s literature course this morning.

Eating a taco (true story)

Same! Defended in 2007 and worked as an adjunct for five years on the market every year until I caught my unicorn job.

I asked her if We should write our own and she quipped “I Survived My Hair Brushing” and practically waggled her eyebrows. She is such a trip.

8YO giving me a full genre analysis of the I Survived series after reading four of them. Now that she’s figured out the formula, should we try writing one?

AI policy and guidelines - Joe McVeigh.docx You are strictly prohibited from using Generative AI (GenAI) or Large Language Models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Copilot, and Grok, for research or writing assignments. Any submitted wor...

Unfortunately, my policy on AI has grown by quite a few sources over the last year. Here it is for anyone who wants to adopt or adapt it for their courses. And if you have ideas, I'm all ears.

Yay, my team!

Page from Romila Thapar’s edition of Shakuntala

Romila Thapar’s elegant prose style plus incredible erudition putting all of us to shame

ALoRoWaHAiBA Abbreviated List of Resources on Why and How AI is Bad, Actually Worsening Climate Change, Pollution, Environmental Racism, and Associated Negative Health Consequences On the pollution and health con...

Academic pals: I'm starting a shared doc to collect info on exactly why/how AI is indefensible—specifically in humanities classrooms, but also across the board. Please share/add as you see fit. I plan to lecture from this in the first week; many students don't know.
docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Column: The Corporation for Public Broadcast is ‘winding down.’ What does that mean for public radio and TV? The Corporation for Public Broadcasting announced it is “wind-down” operations. What does this mean for public radio and TV?

Column: The Corporation for Public Broadcast is ‘winding down.’ What does that mean for public radio and TV?

I talk with media studies professor and public media expert Josh Shepperd for an explainer. In short, it's dire

Gift 🔗

Just one of my kids

Jules Verne legit wildly underrated as a namer of characters, Phineas Fogg is just an all time Victorian protagonist name

The two best beers of my trip, both IPAs (Maine and Prince Edward Island)

The Rumpus Submission Manager The Rumpus publishes original fiction, poetry, literary humor writing, comics, essays, book reviews, and interviews with authors and artists of all kinds. Founded in 2009 and independent from the star...

Some personal news…

@roxanegay.bsky.social and @debbiemillman.bsky.social are relaunching @therumpus.net!!! And I’m excited to be joining their team as poetry editor! 🤓 WEEEEE!!! You can submit your poetry for consideration here: therumpus.submittable.com/submit

Screengrab of a Muppet of a Swedish fisherman and a Muppet seal with the number 7 on a card around its neck. The Seventh Seal, in other words.

Never forget that #SesameStreet once did a sketch based on Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal, which involved a Swedish fisherman counting seals until he found the seventh one.

Today’s harvest
#gardening #bigzucchini #morepeppersthanicaneat

Manhunt underway after Minnesota Democratic House leader killed in ‘politically motivated’ attack | CNN Police are searching for 57-year-old Vance Boelter, the suspect in the assassination of a Minnesota lawmaker and the shooting of another. Follow for live updates.

But why aren’t we talking about THIS more?

www.cnn.com/us/live-news...

.@Empirepoduk has just begun a new series on all the countries that Trump wants to invade and colonise. Panama, Canada, Gaza and beginning this week... Greenland

Episode 1, just released from @EmpirePodUK
THE VIKING DISCOVERY OF GREENLAND
podcasts.apple.com/il/podcast/v...

Welp #ageism occurred again today.

Most people don’t know this but you can actually die from not getting straight A’s

To clarify this a little. In conversations with a lot of professors across disciplines, the amount of time and energy professors are dedicating to restructuring around cheating or detecting cheating has increased exponentially in the last 3 years. This is a completely uncompensated additional labor.

Take Five: Trans and Nonbinary Characters in 2025 Middle Grade Novels It's probably not wholly accurate to say that representation of trans and nonbinary characters seems more important than ever (again, it's always been important), but wow, does it sure feel extra nece...

Take Five: Trans and Nonbinary Characters in 2025 Middle Grade Novels

The Cost of Losing IMLS Funding From the loss of Hoopla, databases, and Wi-Fi hotspots to the closing of rural branches, librarians document the devastating effect of the end of IMLS funding.

From the loss of Hoopla, databases, and Wi-Fi hotspots to the closing of rural branches, librarians document the devastating effect of the end of IMLS funding.