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Chris Hanlon
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Professor of United States literature, Arizona State; co-editor, ALH Review & The Dial; author, America’s England (2013) & Emerson’s Memory Loss (2018); allegedly storied; will bell the cat.
My co-editors Andrew Taylor, Sarah Ruffing Robbins, and I are so proud of this latest book in the Interventions series published by @edinburghuniversitypress. The Asian American Renaissance: Literary Encounters Across Time by Mai Wang will change the stories we tell about US literary history.
November 7, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Eternally grateful for recommendations on texts to include!
September 14, 2025 at 5:09 PM
The first query I made just over a year ago; the second, just this morning.
July 21, 2025 at 4:00 AM
June 14, 2025 at 7:38 PM
June 12, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Um the Arizona Department of Public Safety estimates yesterday’s crowd at the Capitol at 3k? This video capture a small fraction, maybe 1/20th of the ebullient gathering I witnessed.
April 6, 2025 at 7:17 PM
April 6, 2025 at 12:58 AM
April 5, 2025 at 7:59 PM
April 5, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Let’s just say that generation of UVA students wouldn’t have much liked this generation of UVA students.
March 22, 2025 at 7:36 PM
UVA Rotunda where Virginia students heckled and mocked an aging Emerson invited to speak in 1876.
March 22, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Hey @lastweektonight.com as author of an LA Times piece on fake Emerson quotes, I have to step in.

He isn’t talking about tipping as he writes: “I sometimes succumb and give the dollar, but it is a wicked dollar which by and by I shall have the manhood to withhold.”

He’s whining about charity.
March 7, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Apple Maps v Google Maps:
February 11, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Not on Apple Maps:
February 11, 2025 at 4:44 AM
What could possibly go wrong
February 9, 2025 at 8:26 PM
I mean why would you not
February 4, 2025 at 11:20 PM
As if drafted by some 22-yo frat bro who thinks he could ever fathom what motivates a career civil servant at the Justice Department.
February 2, 2025 at 4:29 PM
This chart no longer available on the CDC website bc it offers guidelines regarding contraception and STIs. Doctors use this—or used to—to advise on contraception and major medical co-morbidities.

Enjoying those cheaper eggs?
February 1, 2025 at 8:38 AM
January 28, 2025 at 3:25 AM
January 18, 2025 at 3:48 AM
I don’t know which is better: the brilliant work I heard today in New Orleans at #MLA25 or this Cajun shrimp i just ordered.
January 12, 2025 at 12:47 AM
December 12, 2024 at 11:21 PM
My student got so sick of watching me trying to scratch out whiteboard text using markers ASU hasn’t replaced in a decade that she got me in early Xmas present.
December 3, 2024 at 5:23 PM
This poor dog
November 28, 2024 at 3:11 AM
Hey look it’s Terry the Tarantula
November 22, 2024 at 3:35 AM