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Nissa Ren Cannon

@nissaren.bsky.social

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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 · 18h

Sometimes I, a renter, consider buying my own fridge because it would probably be worth it.

Nissa Ren Cannon @nissaren.bsky.social · 1d

I love this game, and cannot play it without taking and inflicting wounds!

Nissa Ren Cannon @nissaren.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

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!

Nissa Ren Cannon @nissaren.bsky.social · 1d

Good news is this means you made it home?

Nissa Ren Cannon @nissaren.bsky.social · 1d

In Turn of the Screw, the uncle and Peter Quint are hooking up.

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Nissa Ren Cannon @nissaren.bsky.social · 3d

(One of the top 10 things I missed about Cambridge)

Nissa Ren Cannon @nissaren.bsky.social · 3d

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 · 3d

Met these dudes today

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Nissa Ren Cannon @nissaren.bsky.social · 3d

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 · 5d

Just had the world’s best bus experience. I love Boston!

Nissa Ren Cannon @nissaren.bsky.social · 6d

I continue to find it the least predictable part of my biography that I used to live here.

Nissa Ren Cannon @nissaren.bsky.social · 6d

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 · 6d

(Made weirder and more wonderful by being the last live theatre I saw pre-COVID)

Nissa Ren Cannon @nissaren.bsky.social · 6d

It was weird and (debatably) wonderful.

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Nissa Ren Cannon @nissaren.bsky.social · 6d

No, but this whole sentence did make sense to me.

Nissa Ren Cannon @nissaren.bsky.social · 6d

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 · 7d

If Flight Cooperates I arrive mid afternoon

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Nissa Ren Cannon @nissaren.bsky.social · 7d

Yes

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Nissa Ren Cannon @nissaren.bsky.social · 8d

!!!

Nissa Ren Cannon @nissaren.bsky.social · 8d

(that's me, driving the bulldozer)

Nissa Ren Cannon @nissaren.bsky.social · 8d

Plus, check the MSA program for details on our CCIS meet-up Friday evening!

Nissa Ren Cannon @nissaren.bsky.social · 8d

Hi @moderniststudies.bsky.social friends! We hope you'll join Friday's workshop "What Do People Do All Day (Off the Tenure Track)?" A conversation about understanding and navigating precarity (whether you're contingent or want to best support your colleagues). Workshop registration not necessary!

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Nissa Ren Cannon @nissaren.bsky.social · 8d

The lesson to be learned here is that you should always do this, because otherwise the bird would have pooped on your head.

Nissa Ren Cannon @nissaren.bsky.social · 10d

Lucked into a big batch of quince last week, poached it all and have been eating it for breakfast (with yogurt or oats) every day! One of fall's great joys!

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