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Ria Banerjee @ria4983.bsky.social · Dec 20

I've rarely had reason to do year-end pub lists, but this year I published my first monograph which was a decade in the making.
It's about mainstream British modernists and how they conceived of pub+private spaces.
It's also about how we make intellectual space in classes and in #moderniststudies

Book title Drafty Houses in Forster, Eliot, and Woolf.

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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 16h

i feel like this story is particularly important right now, because protein-maxxing is *so* in vogue. before working on this, i believed i was woefully protein deficient

it turns out that's just a myth that has been floating around for decades—the average american gets more than enough protein!!

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Ria Banerjee @ria4983.bsky.social · 15h

A superb list! And I feel that Sej would be pretty chuffed to be on your list next to those names 🖤

Ria Banerjee @ria4983.bsky.social · 15h

Not tacky at all, ha! He's very uneven for sure. I find LCL quite boring but the Lawrence I love is in all his shorter prose, early and late fiction and essays. Have you come across The Man Who Died? Bizarre and bleak

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Rob Schmidt (Blue Corn Comics) @robschmidt.bsky.social · 19h

"There's been so much erasure of Native American people historically that we don't often get to hear their stories and their voices, especially compared to other racial and ethnic minority groups. This research brings Native voices to the table, literally." news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...

Native American stereotypes, as seen by Native Americans | Cornell Chronicle

A Cornell-led study is among the first to explore Native Americans’ perceptions of stereotypes about them, centering the voices of teenage citizens of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians.

news.cornell.edu

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 1d

Good morning! 🌅☕ It’s #livestream time!

The Internet Archive microfiche team is back, scanning away for another week. Tune in to watch preservation in action, accompanied by mellow #lofi vibes.

📡 www.youtube.com/live/SxUjwZY...

#DigitalPreservation #MondayMotivation @archive.org

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Ria Banerjee @ria4983.bsky.social · 1d

Anyone hating on D H Lawrence is at least partly repeating the class snobbery of high church Anglicanism, and also Lawrence is pretty good actually

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Public Books @publicbooks.bsky.social · 1d

The Common Core failed, secondary & higher-ed embraced its own demise, and proponents of “classical” (read, “conservative”) education are ready with their own ideas of what learning. Anne E. Clarks asks: What, now, is to be done?

Toward the Higher- and Secondary-Ed Alliance! - Public Books

The influence of K-12 policy and pedagogy on higher ed can perhaps be seen best in the trickle-up effect of the standards of the Common Core.

www.publicbooks.org

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Ria Banerjee @ria4983.bsky.social · 1d

Obligatory reminder for Indigenous People's Day 🙏🏾

Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 1d

Good Place:

Fun fact: Columbus is in the Bad Place
because of all the raping, slave trade, and genocide.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1d

don't worry, Sam Altman is confident that his efforts to eliminate vast numbers of jobs will all just sort of work out for the unemployed, eventually, possibly after they starve to death, which is technically a form of having it work out

futurism.com/artificial-i...

Sam Altman Says If Jobs Gets Wiped Out, Maybe They Weren't Even "Real Work" to Start With

Worried that AI will destroy work? Well, Sam Altman asks if you've considered what a farmer from half a century ago thinks of your job, first.

futurism.com

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Ria Banerjee @ria4983.bsky.social · 3d

No but that sounds great! Putting it on my list, thank you :)

Ria Banerjee @ria4983.bsky.social · 4d

Packed my Colm Tóibín biofiction about Henry James & off to MSA!

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 6d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Andrea Kaston Tange @aktange.bsky.social · 7d

PSA: Get yourself a Committee of No—a trusted group you can ask about opportunities, offers & obligations to figure out which you should accept and which you should decline. It's a real boon in thinking through workload issues. Plus, they'll inevitably text you funny things at stressful moments.

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 7d

it's national taco day! stellar mexicanist ignacio sanchez prado has a new book right on time!

TACO, in the bloomsbury object lessons series.

chicago, go celebrate with a taco and support our neighbors in little village, pilsen, logan, everywhere

www.bloomsbury.com/us/taco-9798...

Taco

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.Taco is a deep dive into the most iconic Mexican food…

www.bloomsbury.com

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Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 7d

Enough of acting the infant who has been told so often how he was found under a cabbage leaf that in the end he remembers the exact spot in the garden and the kind of life he led there before joining the family circle.

- Samuel Beckett, The Unnameable

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 7d

I’ve been super excited to share this. The full TOC for TEACHING POETRY NOW, ed by Caroline Gelmi and Lizzy LeRud, is online & chock full of assignments, experiences, and resources from a range of college classrooms. Out in Feb, available for preorder now.

sunypress.edu/Books/T/Teac...

Acknowledgments
List of Illustrations
Preface: Editors' Note on the Now
Introduction
Caroline Gelmi and Lizzy LeRud
Part 1: How We Think About Poems
1. A Conversation on Dinétics
Esther G. Belin and Jake Skeets
2. Post-Craft
Michael Leong
3. Unsettling Modernist Poetry
Erin Kappeler
4. Legacies of Empire in the Western Poetic Line:
The Problem of Caesura
Heather H. Yeung
5. Unpacking the Interpretive Toolbox: Historical
Poetics in Introductory Courses
Caroline Gelmi
6. "I hear it now"; or, Teaching Students to Read Poems in Novels
Annelise Chick and Gabrielle Stecher
7. Moving "Rooms" Across Borders: Putting Pressure on the Stanza
Reem Abbas and Heather H. Yeung

8. Under the Sonnet's Menace: Helping Students Navigate Race, Constraint, and Rage in the Post-Romantic Sonnet Anton Vander Zee
9. Rawest Radical Material: Teaching Poetry's Diction
William Fogarty
10. Reading, Misreading, and Rereading "We Real Cool" Mike Chasar
Part 1 Cluster: Ideas on Teaching Lyric
11. Retheorizing Lyric via the Pedagogy of Eighteenth-Century Antislavery Poetry
Chris Chan
12. Lyric Borders: Reading and Writing with Gloria
Anzaldúa's New Mestiza
Leah Huizar
13. Lorenzo Thomas's Griot Lyric: Reading Persona and Race in the Digital Age
Lukas Moe
14. Lyric After Lyricization: Learning and Unlearning the Lyric / in the Activist Classroom
Anastasia Nikolis
Part 2: What We Do With Poems
15. Poetry as Empathetic Praxis: Black Poetics and the Creative Writing Classroom
Monique-Adelle Callahan D.

16. Performing Desire: Collaborating with Sex Worker Poets in the Composition Classroom
Philippa Chun
17. Oral Poetries Are (Not) Lost to Us: Ethnopoetics in the Digital Age
Kenneth Sherwood
18. Against Mastery: Working Through the Desire for Order in Teaching M. NourbeSe Philip's Zong!
Jess A. Goldberg
19. Future-Facing Archives: Phillis Wheatley Peters and the Intertextual Poetic Past
Sarah Nance
20. Cultivating a Culture of Enjoyment in the Poetry
Classroom
Rachel B. Griffis
21. Reframing Modernism: Creative Composition and the Analysis of Modernist Poetry at an HBCU
Candis Pizzetta
22. Whose Voice Matters? Reading Aloud Across Language and Ability Eileen Sperry
23. Reimagining the Poet's Procedure: Imitation as
Literary Analysis
Lizzy LeRud
24. From Stifling to Expansive: Reimagining Poetry
Teaching and Learning with The South African
Poetry Project
Sooriagandhi Naidoo, Toni Gennrich, and Eunice Phiri

25. Transgressive Teaching and Subverting
Censorship in the Dual-Credit Classroom
Ronnie K. Stephens
26. The Florence Poetry Collective: Death Row as a
Site of Poetic Production and Expressive
Sovereignty
Joe Lockard
Part 2 Cluster: Project-Based Learning
27. Engaging Poetry: The Review as Critique and
Conversation
Victoria Chang and Dean Rader
28. City, State, and Self: A Collaborative Book Project
James Innis McDougall
29. Experimental Indexes: Quantifying Poetic
Patterns and Project-Based Reading
Nick Sturm
30. Teaching Anti-Racist Research Practices Beyond Research Papers: Emma Lazarus, Esther Schor, and My First-Year Composition Students Mollie Barnes
31. Student Research, Digital Humanities, and Cross-Campus Collaboration: Building Mina Loy:
Navigating the Avant-Garde
Susan Rosenbaum, Suzanne W. Churchill, Linda A.
Kinnahan
List of Contributors

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Stephanie Insley Hershinow @sinsleyh.bsky.social · 8d

Truly think this volume is great, and I can’t wait for you to read it!

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Ria Banerjee @ria4983.bsky.social · 8d

In a constant, almost unending scream fest in my head with a particular young conservative relative of mine who never posts anything on fbook except photos of her young child but took the time to write a message about those nasty liberals and that poor podcaster

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Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society @signsjournal.org · 8d

Rejected everywhere, staged as a hoax, and finally published in a lesbian sex mag — Sarah Schulman’s “A Short Story About a Penis” has quite a history. Rachel Corbman uncovers its fascinating legacy in Signs’ new issue: check it out here! (sub. req’d):

Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society | Vol 51, No 1

This introduction to “Lesbian Studies, Now” reflects on the affective, intellectual, and political stakes of invoking “lesbian” as a generative scholarly category in the present as well as the three…

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Contingent Magazine @contingent-mag.bsky.social · 11d

If you're interested in pitching us but aren't familiar with the magazine, read a few articles but also take a quick glance at our About Us page. It will help you pitch better! contingentmagazine.org/about/

Who We Are

Contingent is a non-profit history magazine. Our writers are adjuncts, museum workers, independent scholars—all people who work outside the tenure-track professoriate. Contingent is rooted in three pr...

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Ria Banerjee @ria4983.bsky.social · 12d

I'm running a "for fun" book club with undergrads, and their first thought was spooky/horror (of course). They rejected Frankenstein and were about pick Dracula when I manipulated them into a sharp left turn. We are now reading To the Lighthouse. That's got plenty of ghosts right?

Ria Banerjee @ria4983.bsky.social · 12d

Yesterday evening like a little cocoon – at a bookshop literally named the Big Red Bookstore, on a sweet couch, grilling @markhussey.bsky.social about his superb new book, Mrs Dalloway: Biography of a Novel, to a full room of regular "common readers"