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Nissa Ren Cannon
@nissaren.bsky.social
1.2K followers 1.1K following 1.5K posts
Teaching research writing @PWRStanford, writing about interwar expatriates (& passports & steamships & newspapers), UCLA/UCSB alum, book reviews editor @JMPS, SFUSD parent
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Nissa Ren Cannon @nissaren.bsky.social · 6m
Grocery store spice sections always lead me to question whether I understand the alphabet.
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Nissa Ren Cannon @nissaren.bsky.social · 5h
This whole article left me screaming THIS IS ALREADY WHAT WE DO!!
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Nissa Ren Cannon @nissaren.bsky.social · 6h
After 25 years of intimate involvement in higher ed, this is the first time I’m learning that students are paying for “access to specialized knowledge.”
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Nissa Ren Cannon @nissaren.bsky.social · 20h
One of the main things I have going for me as a teacher is I'm really good at Google (and therefore really mad at what's happening to its results).
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Nissa Ren Cannon @nissaren.bsky.social · 21h
You can’t ruin Tiny Dancer for me because the EDM remix playing in the Boston airport this weekend already did that.
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Nissa Ren Cannon @nissaren.bsky.social · 2d
Sometimes I, a renter, consider buying my own fridge because it would probably be worth it.
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Nissa Ren Cannon @nissaren.bsky.social · 2d
I love this game, and cannot play it without taking and inflicting wounds!
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Nissa Ren Cannon @nissaren.bsky.social · 2d
Truthfully I fully read it this way the first time I read it, and then was confused when no one knew what I was referring to.
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Nissa Ren Cannon @nissaren.bsky.social · 3d
I've exhausted my bi-annual quota (2) of James-brother-related posts this week. You'll have to wait until 2027 for any further Jamesian thoughts. Sorry!
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Nissa Ren Cannon @nissaren.bsky.social · 3d
Good news is this means you made it home?
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Nissa Ren Cannon @nissaren.bsky.social · 3d
In Turn of the Screw, the uncle and Peter Quint are hooking up.
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Nissa Ren Cannon @nissaren.bsky.social · 4d
(One of the top 10 things I missed about Cambridge)
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Nissa Ren Cannon @nissaren.bsky.social · 4d
There are few things that make me happier than the fact that William James’ house looks like this at Halloween.
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Nissa Ren Cannon @nissaren.bsky.social · 4d
Met these dudes today
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Nissa Ren Cannon @nissaren.bsky.social · 5d
I don’t miss tweeting through conference panels, but I do miss the restaurant recs and other tidbits of a good conference hashtag @moderniststudies.bsky.social
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Nissa Ren Cannon @nissaren.bsky.social · 6d
Just had the world’s best bus experience. I love Boston!
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Nissa Ren Cannon @nissaren.bsky.social · 7d
I continue to find it the least predictable part of my biography that I used to live here.
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Nissa Ren Cannon @nissaren.bsky.social · 7d
Moon lighting up the bay on the way in to Boston. See you soon @moderniststudies.bsky.social
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Nissa Ren Cannon @nissaren.bsky.social · 8d
(Made weirder and more wonderful by being the last live theatre I saw pre-COVID)
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Nissa Ren Cannon @nissaren.bsky.social · 8d
It was weird and (debatably) wonderful.
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Nissa Ren Cannon @nissaren.bsky.social · 8d
No, but this whole sentence did make sense to me.
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Nissa Ren Cannon @nissaren.bsky.social · 8d
Very old news now, but did you see the Moby Dick musical when it was at ART?
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Nissa Ren Cannon @nissaren.bsky.social · 8d
If Flight Cooperates I arrive mid afternoon
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Nissa Ren Cannon @nissaren.bsky.social · 8d
Yes
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Nissa Ren Cannon @nissaren.bsky.social · 9d
!!!
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