DM Campbell
@dmcampbellwsu.bsky.social
Prof, AmLit, WSU Pullman; Bitter Tastes: Literary Naturalism & Early Cinema in Am Women’s Writing; ed. The House of Mirth for Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Oxford UP). Canada is a sovereign nation. None of these shenanigans are legal.
In yesterday's class on The House of Mirth, we started with Reynolds's Mrs. Lloyd and what it could tell us before moving back into Selden watching Lily at the train station. Starting with an image is never a mistake, I'm thinking.
November 14, 2025 at 10:20 PM
In yesterday's class on The House of Mirth, we started with Reynolds's Mrs. Lloyd and what it could tell us before moving back into Selden watching Lily at the train station. Starting with an image is never a mistake, I'm thinking.
11-11-18, from my grandfather's service record. We thank them today.
November 11, 2025 at 6:19 PM
11-11-18, from my grandfather's service record. We thank them today.
Just before the premiere of the beautiful new restoration of Sunset Boulevard on 7/19:: hearing Charlotte Barker, Paramount’s Director of Film Restoration & Steven Cohan, Syracuse U Emeritus Professor, introduce the film.
July 21, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Just before the premiere of the beautiful new restoration of Sunset Boulevard on 7/19:: hearing Charlotte Barker, Paramount’s Director of Film Restoration & Steven Cohan, Syracuse U Emeritus Professor, introduce the film.
Here are some raspberries and jars of freshly made raspberry jam to distract you for a minute from all the stuff.
July 10, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Here are some raspberries and jars of freshly made raspberry jam to distract you for a minute from all the stuff.
#1000wordsofsummer on Edmund Wilson and Edna St. Vincent Millay, including this lovely anecdote:
!["a memory she had of seeing [Millay] years ago in Greenwich Village running around the corner of Macdougal Street, flushed and laughing 'like a nymph,' with her hair swinging. Floyd Dell, also laughing, pursued her. . . . a glimpse of Edna as the fleeing and challenging Daphne of her Figs from Thistles poem--from the time when I did not yet know her, when she had first come from Vassar to the Village"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bxijm5msvuiowiacpuezachz/bafkreiejdjsa26r2sezgp4rsi4ucoowj3knmc3ctrp7xapmwft6bi77idi@jpeg)
June 4, 2025 at 11:28 PM
#1000wordsofsummer on Edmund Wilson and Edna St. Vincent Millay, including this lovely anecdote:
Missing everyone at ALA in Boston this year, but I think this is a fair exchange. Sometimes it’s about people & sometimes it’s about the road.
May 23, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Missing everyone at ALA in Boston this year, but I think this is a fair exchange. Sometimes it’s about people & sometimes it’s about the road.
Calming the timeline.
March 17, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Calming the timeline.
Review of Gus Trenor in the play version of Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth (1906): "He made love to Lily as if he expected to emphasize his pleadings with a blackjack." Ouch, in so many ways.
February 28, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Review of Gus Trenor in the play version of Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth (1906): "He made love to Lily as if he expected to emphasize his pleadings with a blackjack." Ouch, in so many ways.
Visiting the MASC (Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections) and seeing Mourning Dove’s correspondence & promotional materials for Cogewea was a treat for the grad class & for me on Monday.
February 26, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Visiting the MASC (Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections) and seeing Mourning Dove’s correspondence & promotional materials for Cogewea was a treat for the grad class & for me on Monday.
Listen to the sounds that the ice makes.
January 25, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Listen to the sounds that the ice makes.
Skyline with Steptoe Butte and windmills in the distance, 40 miles away. I can see for miles and miles and miles and miles and miles.
January 21, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Skyline with Steptoe Butte and windmills in the distance, 40 miles away. I can see for miles and miles and miles and miles and miles.
In case you could use a picture of a snowy path today.
January 20, 2025 at 7:11 PM
In case you could use a picture of a snowy path today.
Nothing to see here—just your average moose in the field.
December 20, 2024 at 3:08 AM
Nothing to see here—just your average moose in the field.
Grades have been turned in. Is it time to binge-watch all the glorious Barbara Stanwyck Columbia Pre-Codes on the Criterion Channel? Signs point to "yes."
December 17, 2024 at 4:59 PM
Grades have been turned in. Is it time to binge-watch all the glorious Barbara Stanwyck Columbia Pre-Codes on the Criterion Channel? Signs point to "yes."
Calming the timeline for Saturday.
November 16, 2024 at 5:58 PM
Calming the timeline for Saturday.
In case you’d like to see a field of wheat today.
July 20, 2024 at 4:57 PM
In case you’d like to see a field of wheat today.
Enough is enough. After 20 years of supporting you,
@nytimes.com , you no longer report the news but try to shape it against democracy, and I. am. done.
@nytimes.com , you no longer report the news but try to shape it against democracy, and I. am. done.
July 6, 2024 at 7:52 PM
Enough is enough. After 20 years of supporting you,
@nytimes.com , you no longer report the news but try to shape it against democracy, and I. am. done.
@nytimes.com , you no longer report the news but try to shape it against democracy, and I. am. done.
Delighted to see American Fiction since 1940, ed. Cyrus R.K.Patell & @mannahattamamma, in print! My essay's
"Regionalism." global.oup.com/academic/pro...
"Regionalism." global.oup.com/academic/pro...
June 20, 2024 at 3:23 PM
Delighted to see American Fiction since 1940, ed. Cyrus R.K.Patell & @mannahattamamma, in print! My essay's
"Regionalism." global.oup.com/academic/pro...
"Regionalism." global.oup.com/academic/pro...
Why the scare quotes around 'convicted criminal'? Let me clear that up for you, Washington Post: He. Is. A. Convicted. Criminal--on 34 felony counts. Why is the Washington Post so slanted in Trump's favor?
June 17, 2024 at 2:38 PM
Why the scare quotes around 'convicted criminal'? Let me clear that up for you, Washington Post: He. Is. A. Convicted. Criminal--on 34 felony counts. Why is the Washington Post so slanted in Trump's favor?
Deer in field of soon-to-be tall wheat and wheat field minus deer.
June 13, 2024 at 2:07 AM
Deer in field of soon-to-be tall wheat and wheat field minus deer.
Thought I would do a test drive with the subscription-based ChatGPT4o and see if it could read Wharton's handwriting. My favorite line: "They are her lovers not Satan worshipers." Are you SURE about that, GPT4?
May 18, 2024 at 7:13 PM
Thought I would do a test drive with the subscription-based ChatGPT4o and see if it could read Wharton's handwriting. My favorite line: "They are her lovers not Satan worshipers." Are you SURE about that, GPT4?
Was just there two weeks ago! It is a wonderful place.
April 6, 2024 at 10:49 PM
Was just there two weeks ago! It is a wonderful place.