Jennifer Nolan
@jnolan.bsky.social
Associate Professor of English at NC State ||Print culture & periodical studies with emphasis on F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jazz Age illustration & magazines, and popular modernism
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I'm entering my 25th year in the job, having taught for 4 years at Yale and 20 at Berkeley.
The clearest trendline in my experience (fwiw) is the *dramatically* diminished willingness or capacity of undergrads to read. I used to assign 150 pp./week. Closer to 40 now—and even that is aspirational.
The clearest trendline in my experience (fwiw) is the *dramatically* diminished willingness or capacity of undergrads to read. I used to assign 150 pp./week. Closer to 40 now—and even that is aspirational.
July 15, 2025 at 4:22 PM
I'm entering my 25th year in the job, having taught for 4 years at Yale and 20 at Berkeley.
The clearest trendline in my experience (fwiw) is the *dramatically* diminished willingness or capacity of undergrads to read. I used to assign 150 pp./week. Closer to 40 now—and even that is aspirational.
The clearest trendline in my experience (fwiw) is the *dramatically* diminished willingness or capacity of undergrads to read. I used to assign 150 pp./week. Closer to 40 now—and even that is aspirational.
(Ostensibly, my youngest daughter’s middle name is Alice because that was my grandmother’s middle name and her paternal grandmother’s first name, but I can’t say this Alice - or Carroll’s at any rate - wasn’t a factor too)
July 11, 2025 at 12:40 PM
(Ostensibly, my youngest daughter’s middle name is Alice because that was my grandmother’s middle name and her paternal grandmother’s first name, but I can’t say this Alice - or Carroll’s at any rate - wasn’t a factor too)
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Teacher, reader, writer, editor, music lover, rescue dogs. The New School University, NYC. Working on an edition of Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald's letters and a Bob Dylan book. https://www.gofundme.com/f/pl...
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July 10, 2025 at 1:44 PM
And of course our site director, Anne Margaret! @annemargaretdaniel.bsky.social
Yes, she knows to sit on my left, but there are only 4 of us. OTOH, my mother came from a family of 5 children, 3 of whom were lefties, so holiday dinners always involved a complex seating chart!
June 7, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Yes, she knows to sit on my left, but there are only 4 of us. OTOH, my mother came from a family of 5 children, 3 of whom were lefties, so holiday dinners always involved a complex seating chart!
I, a righty, didn’t learn about left-handed scissors until my left-handed daughter was 4, and she spend the week after I bought her a pair delightedly using them on anything I’d let her!
June 7, 2025 at 6:40 PM
I, a righty, didn’t learn about left-handed scissors until my left-handed daughter was 4, and she spend the week after I bought her a pair delightedly using them on anything I’d let her!