Dr. Amanda J Summers
@amandajsummers.bsky.social
Not aspiring to be humble.
Postdoc @ Queen’s University
PhD from Temple - History
Writes on colonial LatAm/Caribbean/Iberian Atlantic - embodied experiences of incarceration/sex/violence - identity performativity through gender/race/religions.
Postdoc @ Queen’s University
PhD from Temple - History
Writes on colonial LatAm/Caribbean/Iberian Atlantic - embodied experiences of incarceration/sex/violence - identity performativity through gender/race/religions.
Sharing this for us all, as it appears my shot at academia is nearing its end for real this time as well.
Does anyone have advice or resources on looking for alt ac jobs for a humanities PhD?
I'm having no luck on the academic job market and need to start branching out, but I'm not really sure where to look. I'd be heartbroken to give up on teaching, but I need a job.
I'm having no luck on the academic job market and need to start branching out, but I'm not really sure where to look. I'd be heartbroken to give up on teaching, but I need a job.
November 29, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Sharing this for us all, as it appears my shot at academia is nearing its end for real this time as well.
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Does anyone have a good sample of a letter of introduction to provide a student to use foreign archives? The AHA claims to have one but it is a broken link. We need one in Spanish, Italian, and German. C'mon, help a girl out, people!
November 29, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Does anyone have a good sample of a letter of introduction to provide a student to use foreign archives? The AHA claims to have one but it is a broken link. We need one in Spanish, Italian, and German. C'mon, help a girl out, people!
Today it brings me joy to see people who are not from Philly trying to make sense of our sports culture. 😂
November 29, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Today it brings me joy to see people who are not from Philly trying to make sense of our sports culture. 😂
1) hysterectomy. Immediately.
2) whatever magical dental work will fix what the last 4 dentists have done to me.
3) lasik
In that order. The rest of me is doing pretty ok I think.
2) whatever magical dental work will fix what the last 4 dentists have done to me.
3) lasik
In that order. The rest of me is doing pretty ok I think.
Honest question: If everyone got Universal Basic Income, no strings attached, what would YOU do with it?
Re-post with your quote or drop your take below.
Re-post with your quote or drop your take below.
November 29, 2025 at 1:34 AM
1) hysterectomy. Immediately.
2) whatever magical dental work will fix what the last 4 dentists have done to me.
3) lasik
In that order. The rest of me is doing pretty ok I think.
2) whatever magical dental work will fix what the last 4 dentists have done to me.
3) lasik
In that order. The rest of me is doing pretty ok I think.
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Fuck, Northwestern just caved. Reading the deal now. ( www.northwestern.edu/president/do... )
www.northwestern.edu
November 29, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Fuck, Northwestern just caved. Reading the deal now. ( www.northwestern.edu/president/do... )
Real Eagles fans don’t leave early
November 28, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Real Eagles fans don’t leave early
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November 28, 2025 at 10:01 PM
YAAAAAAAAAS
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a football player wearing a number 11 jersey stands next to a man wearing a number 1 jersey
Alt: AJ Brown and Jalen Hurts walking off the field as they slap hands. They are the loves of my life and are perfect.
media.tenor.com
November 28, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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I really let last season make me forget the absolute soul crushing agony of being a Philly sports fan...
November 28, 2025 at 9:27 PM
I really let last season make me forget the absolute soul crushing agony of being a Philly sports fan...
Anyone else praying Hurts overrides Patullo and just starts calling effective plays? I know he has it in him...
a football player with the number 1 on his jersey stands on the field
Alt: Jalen Hurts in a midnight green Eagles jersey with the number 1 because he IS QB1 shrugs as he walks across the field
media.tenor.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Anyone else praying Hurts overrides Patullo and just starts calling effective plays? I know he has it in him...
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you know what, friends? fuck it. I just pitched my editor at @chronicle.com for a piece about breaking the silence on suicide in the academy. with finals coming up, I think it’s urgent. if you’re an academic who’s been suicidal & met with violent attempts to shut you down—DM me.
November 28, 2025 at 2:44 AM
you know what, friends? fuck it. I just pitched my editor at @chronicle.com for a piece about breaking the silence on suicide in the academy. with finals coming up, I think it’s urgent. if you’re an academic who’s been suicidal & met with violent attempts to shut you down—DM me.
Everything is in process right now but I do have Chapter 2 in this excellent edited volume out:
www.routledge.com/Histories-of...
www.routledge.com/Histories-of...
November 27, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Everything is in process right now but I do have Chapter 2 in this excellent edited volume out:
www.routledge.com/Histories-of...
www.routledge.com/Histories-of...
"YOU GET ONE WIFE"
-Nick Miller, and the Pope
-Nick Miller, and the Pope
In a new doctrinal note, Pope Leo and the Vatican sharply reject polygamy and growing Western polyamory, praising monogamy as an exclusive union between one man and one woman.
Pope Leo and the Vatican reject polygamy in sweeping doctrinal praise of monogamy
In a new doctrinal note, Pope Leo and the Vatican sharply reject polygamy and growing Western polyamory, praising monogamy as an exclusive union between one man and one woman.
www.sltrib.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:05 PM
"YOU GET ONE WIFE"
-Nick Miller, and the Pope
-Nick Miller, and the Pope
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Pope's got your back, teachers.
November 26, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Pope's got your back, teachers.
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Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
www.vulture.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
All I want for Christmas is a copy of Cincuenta Años de Inquisición en el Tribunal de Cartagena de Indias, 1610-1660.
November 26, 2025 at 6:26 PM
All I want for Christmas is a copy of Cincuenta Años de Inquisición en el Tribunal de Cartagena de Indias, 1610-1660.
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one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
This period of my life has turned me into Miranda Priestly, and not in the "I have a reason to wear my couture closet every day" way.
an elderly woman wearing glasses and hoop earrings is sitting in a chair looking out a window .
Alt: Miranda Priestly, wearing glasses, a necklace, a white shirt, and hoop earrings is sitting in a black chair, turns, grabs her coffee off her desk, gives a disappointed look at someone's ongoing immense incompetence, and swivels her chair away.
media.tenor.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:45 PM
This period of my life has turned me into Miranda Priestly, and not in the "I have a reason to wear my couture closet every day" way.
You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who’s coming to save you?
November 25, 2025 at 2:44 PM
You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who’s coming to save you?
I hate the Cowboys so much. But maybe I hate Patullo more.
What a shit show.
What a shit show.
November 24, 2025 at 12:47 AM
I hate the Cowboys so much. But maybe I hate Patullo more.
What a shit show.
What a shit show.
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LMFAO THAT SHOT OF JERRY JONES AFTER THE TUSH PUSH TD.
HANG IT IN THE LOUVRE.
😂😈😂😈
💚🦅💚🦅💚
HANG IT IN THE LOUVRE.
😂😈😂😈
💚🦅💚🦅💚
November 23, 2025 at 10:20 PM
LMFAO THAT SHOT OF JERRY JONES AFTER THE TUSH PUSH TD.
HANG IT IN THE LOUVRE.
😂😈😂😈
💚🦅💚🦅💚
HANG IT IN THE LOUVRE.
😂😈😂😈
💚🦅💚🦅💚