@erinktwohig.bsky.social
Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies at Georgetown University. Here for all things academia, football, and Maghrebi lit. Personal accout/opinions my own, etc.
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the moment the second person comes into the frame to stand with his neighbor is so incredibly beautiful
This administration is cooked. Literally no one is scared of them.
January 25, 2026 at 9:01 PM
the moment the second person comes into the frame to stand with his neighbor is so incredibly beautiful
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January 25, 2026 at 4:10 AM
The Star-Tribune is taking donations to help fund the purchase vital newsroom supplies and equipment, including protective and tactical gear for street reporters and photogs. If you live in MSP, pls subscribe. If you don't and want to help, here's a way -- www.startribunecompany.com/donate-payme....
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Friends & Colleagues in Oxford: @rosschwa.bsky.social and I will be presenting my #novel "Venice Requiem" @hoperoadpublish.bsky.social on Friday 6 Feb. 5:15pm at @mfoxford.bsky.social. We will be in conversation with Jane Hiddleston @exeter.ox.ac.uk mfo.web.ox.ac.uk/event/book-p... #VeniceRequiem
Book Presentation: 'Venice Requiem' by Khalid Lyamlahy, translated by Ros Schwartz
With author Khalid Lyamlahy (University of Chicago) and translator Ros Schwartz I Chaired by: Jane Hiddleston (Exeter)
mfo.web.ox.ac.uk
January 21, 2026 at 6:50 PM
Friends & Colleagues in Oxford: @rosschwa.bsky.social and I will be presenting my #novel "Venice Requiem" @hoperoadpublish.bsky.social on Friday 6 Feb. 5:15pm at @mfoxford.bsky.social. We will be in conversation with Jane Hiddleston @exeter.ox.ac.uk mfo.web.ox.ac.uk/event/book-p... #VeniceRequiem
My article on women's football and feminist discourse in 1970s France is nearing completion and... HOW is it that the last paragraph of the conclusion is always the hardest part to write?
"IN conclusion, please just read what I wrote already, and, idk, you tell me what *you* think" 😭
"IN conclusion, please just read what I wrote already, and, idk, you tell me what *you* think" 😭
January 21, 2026 at 4:25 PM
My article on women's football and feminist discourse in 1970s France is nearing completion and... HOW is it that the last paragraph of the conclusion is always the hardest part to write?
"IN conclusion, please just read what I wrote already, and, idk, you tell me what *you* think" 😭
"IN conclusion, please just read what I wrote already, and, idk, you tell me what *you* think" 😭
The world is falling apart, and it's also very cold, and I'm really not sure how to continue working under these circumstances?
January 21, 2026 at 2:34 PM
The world is falling apart, and it's also very cold, and I'm really not sure how to continue working under these circumstances?
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“Poor Visibility: Seeing Algerian Victims of the French Bomb”
Gibson Art Museum
SFU Burnaby
Wed, Jan 28th, 12:00
I’ll be giving a talk re: some of my research as part of the Gibson’s new “Test Kitchen” series in a couple of weeks. Come hang out!
gibson.sfu.ca/whats-on/tes...
Gibson Art Museum
SFU Burnaby
Wed, Jan 28th, 12:00
I’ll be giving a talk re: some of my research as part of the Gibson’s new “Test Kitchen” series in a couple of weeks. Come hang out!
gibson.sfu.ca/whats-on/tes...
Test Kitchen
Test Kitchen is an informal, interdisciplinary public forum where SFU graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and faculty share their work publicly with others.
gibson.sfu.ca
January 16, 2026 at 3:20 PM
“Poor Visibility: Seeing Algerian Victims of the French Bomb”
Gibson Art Museum
SFU Burnaby
Wed, Jan 28th, 12:00
I’ll be giving a talk re: some of my research as part of the Gibson’s new “Test Kitchen” series in a couple of weeks. Come hang out!
gibson.sfu.ca/whats-on/tes...
Gibson Art Museum
SFU Burnaby
Wed, Jan 28th, 12:00
I’ll be giving a talk re: some of my research as part of the Gibson’s new “Test Kitchen” series in a couple of weeks. Come hang out!
gibson.sfu.ca/whats-on/tes...
Hey hey, it’s my forthcoming translation getting a shoutout in Words Without Borders “Most Anticipated Books of 2026” 🥳
January 15, 2026 at 8:31 PM
Hey hey, it’s my forthcoming translation getting a shoutout in Words Without Borders “Most Anticipated Books of 2026” 🥳
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this is a great point & helps expose a key limitation in the way people tend to think abt "taking action": the truth is that activities have far-reaching, ultimately unknowable future effects, + even things that seem & feel like failure in the present can set conditions for future transformations:
We tend to think of things happening in the present as the endpoint of stuff that's been percolating for decades, but it's also the beginning of new things: These are formative events that nobody living through them will forget, and we have no idea what seeds are being sown for the future.
I keep thinking about how Frances Perkins, maybe the most transformational cabinet secretary in modern history, witnessed the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire in her youth, and the things the people on the ground in Minneapolis may live to do.
January 15, 2026 at 5:48 PM
this is a great point & helps expose a key limitation in the way people tend to think abt "taking action": the truth is that activities have far-reaching, ultimately unknowable future effects, + even things that seem & feel like failure in the present can set conditions for future transformations:
Bought a gigantic new blank notebook, so clearly I'm also about to become an entirely different, entirely more productive person!
January 7, 2026 at 2:11 PM
Bought a gigantic new blank notebook, so clearly I'm also about to become an entirely different, entirely more productive person!
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Forthcoming in February: "British Travel Writers in Morocco, 1856–1937: Discursive Encounters" by Lahoucine Aammari (Sidi Mohamed ben Abdellah University, Fes) @livunipress.bsky.social liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10.... #travelwriting #travelwriters
January 6, 2026 at 8:50 PM
Forthcoming in February: "British Travel Writers in Morocco, 1856–1937: Discursive Encounters" by Lahoucine Aammari (Sidi Mohamed ben Abdellah University, Fes) @livunipress.bsky.social liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10.... #travelwriting #travelwriters
Enjoying DC as it slowly empties out, pre-holidays, to get some reading done for an upcoming project 👀
December 22, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Enjoying DC as it slowly empties out, pre-holidays, to get some reading done for an upcoming project 👀
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Algerian writer Mohammed Dib's seminal novel "L'Incendie" (1954) finally available in English. Translated by Chaker Mohamed Benali and Nicolas P. Taylor. Published by Editions Sédia in Algiers sedia.dz/librairie/la... #MohammedDib #Algerianliterature #literatureintranslation #translation
December 17, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Algerian writer Mohammed Dib's seminal novel "L'Incendie" (1954) finally available in English. Translated by Chaker Mohamed Benali and Nicolas P. Taylor. Published by Editions Sédia in Algiers sedia.dz/librairie/la... #MohammedDib #Algerianliterature #literatureintranslation #translation
Flew to London, talked about football, got to meet a lot of lovely and smart people, and hear a truly impressive number of inspiring papers. Feeling very lucky today that this is what I get to do for my *job*!
Given @erinktwohig.bsky.social would be too modest to share her own paper on the @sfps.bsky.social account, I'll do it for her. Great paper on Fanon and football through the FLN organised Algerian team.
December 7, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Flew to London, talked about football, got to meet a lot of lovely and smart people, and hear a truly impressive number of inspiring papers. Feeling very lucky today that this is what I get to do for my *job*!
Happy day off from me and my current Victorian paving-stone
November 27, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Happy day off from me and my current Victorian paving-stone
My former professor and one of the most brilliant thinkers out there: how I wish I was close enough to attend this!
My former colleagues at French in Bristol are hosting the wonderful Prof Soulemayne Bachir Diagne, one of the most interesting contemporary philosophers thinking critically about the limits and potential of universalism.
November 24, 2025 at 11:47 AM
My former professor and one of the most brilliant thinkers out there: how I wish I was close enough to attend this!
A new step in my journey to get everyone I know to read this book because I love it so much: I translated it 😂 Coming out with GUP in April, 2026!
press.georgetown.edu/Book/Blue-Wh...
press.georgetown.edu/Book/Blue-Wh...
Blue White Green
press.georgetown.edu
November 6, 2025 at 6:09 PM
A new step in my journey to get everyone I know to read this book because I love it so much: I translated it 😂 Coming out with GUP in April, 2026!
press.georgetown.edu/Book/Blue-Wh...
press.georgetown.edu/Book/Blue-Wh...
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I set up a recurring donation here. I encourage anybody who is able to give some money to help take care of hungry folks in your region. www.capitalareafoodbank.org
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October 27, 2025 at 12:44 AM
I set up a recurring donation here. I encourage anybody who is able to give some money to help take care of hungry folks in your region. www.capitalareafoodbank.org
weirdly and somewhat unexpectedly, the most moving moment for me each time I've published a book (one monograph, one forthcoming translation) is when it gets assigned an ISBN ?
Like, all my favorite books have ISBNs!! What do you *mean* I get one too!?!
Like, all my favorite books have ISBNs!! What do you *mean* I get one too!?!
October 21, 2025 at 10:09 PM
weirdly and somewhat unexpectedly, the most moving moment for me each time I've published a book (one monograph, one forthcoming translation) is when it gets assigned an ISBN ?
Like, all my favorite books have ISBNs!! What do you *mean* I get one too!?!
Like, all my favorite books have ISBNs!! What do you *mean* I get one too!?!
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the Muppets have been real quiet since the Louvre heist
October 19, 2025 at 10:19 PM
the Muppets have been real quiet since the Louvre heist
Finding myself in a constant cycle of being energized by my teaching and my wonderful students, yet exhausted by the news and general state of the world is... taking a lot out of me, it must be said!
October 7, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Finding myself in a constant cycle of being energized by my teaching and my wonderful students, yet exhausted by the news and general state of the world is... taking a lot out of me, it must be said!
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We will accept submissions for our annual book prizes from 01 Jan to 28 Feb 2026. Books of any academic discipline will be considered providing that they approach the French colonial experience from a historical perspective. Please contact [email protected] with any questions.
October 1, 2025 at 2:56 PM
We will accept submissions for our annual book prizes from 01 Jan to 28 Feb 2026. Books of any academic discipline will be considered providing that they approach the French colonial experience from a historical perspective. Please contact [email protected] with any questions.
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September 30, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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They've lost the 9yos
September 24, 2025 at 4:03 PM
They've lost the 9yos