“Roblox aesthetic is key to 2010s nostalgia"

is a sentence I just wrote for a handout.
That's how my morning is going.

Congratulations Sheila! One of my spring favorites is orange wine, especially Slovenian. It’s not expensive.

#ResearchDispatch 2

Sad that they don't really fit into the book project, but I will one day write about Amrita Sher-Gil's wondrous portraits in some way so help me...

Tired: footlong
Wired: longform

This is the best adaptation. Such wonderful little moments. The intercut of different Musgroves complaining to Ann, Judy Cornwell’s scream when she hears about Louisa, and the circus parade that comes out of nowhere but so good

Made Melissa Clark’s Vietnamese Coffee Brownies and my swirl action is not the best.

Hers look like foliage. Mine not so much.

Non-Aligned A revelatory look at modernism in India, exploring art’s role in decolonization and aesthetic discourse across the Global South   Modernism’s peak in th...

I’m gonna try posting a few #ResearchDispatch skeets every week as offerings to the book fairy.

#ResearchDispatch 1:

Excited to finally start reading this book

This essay over the new Wuthering Heights

Post the best picture you have ever taken of your pet.

An Aesthecat.

Tomato The Scent: We love this scent so much. It's really a verb; picking tomatoes. The scent the tomato leaves leave on your hands. The Inspiration: It reminds our co-founder Christopher Gable of his grandf...

It’s not exactly the smell of the vegetable (fruit?) but of the leaves and the plant. It’s herbal but not floral

demeterfragrance.com/collections/...

Huge fan, I know it sounds a bit strange but the tomato one is so good

My colleague’s brilliant work has been such a blessing as I begin to plan my art chapters

He’s always hated Mondays

Lambs prancing - or gamboling - in a field

Worrying signs that the lambs in the fields around here are developing a gamboling addiction

the first thing that came to mind was "did you know?" in Tik Tok AI voice and for this I want to apologize to the world, to literature, and to the Beowulf poet

Actually there’s a great Bengali expression for this, which literally translates something like “the critter inside the head is moving again”

Happy Easter, also saving these for my image and text course!

Is there mutual aid setup for no-judgement financial advice?

Cats in my life: ours, friends’, deli’s, pet shop’s

Scone Pie Quiche Rusk

Four guardians of my mental health

Salil Chowdhury - Madhumati?

Hi Deidre, This looks amazing, I would love to join! Could you send me the link?

Can’t tell you how fun it is to wake up in cold sweat on March nights

because d e c a d e s ago annual exams used to be held in March

Margaret’s obsession with geography and fantasies about travel, in collaboration with EF, are such an excellent touch

Two movies that proved to be decidedly much better than word of mouth had me believe -

‘Babylon’ and ‘Materialists’.

The first is exquisite, the second I’m hoping to teach soon.

Wondering if ‘The Bride’ is suffering from a similar problem.

someone should seriously do this. I've been using 'core' in my writing classes, and it's proven popular. i do begin with the disclaimer that i'm not pretending to be younger than i am

lol they are not wrong! i might use this haha

a milestone has been reached i feel because yesterday in class i said the word "aura-farming" while teaching benjamin

I'm at the airport on my way to the east coast for series of events for Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century!

Weds, 2/18: Princeton's McGraw Center
Thurs, 2/19: Rutgers English
Fri, 2/20: CUNY Grad Center

Details and RSVP info threaded below -- hope to see some of you!