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profchander.bsky.social
profchander
@profchander.bsky.social
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teaching/researching race and empire in the 19th c.
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i think about this fanon quote at least two or three times a week
In Europe and in every country characterized as civilized or civilizing, the family is a miniature of the nation.
November 27, 2025 at 5:31 AM
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i just found this email from 2013, right after @nikkihessell.bsky.social and i met at the romantic studies association of australasia conference in sydney -- i had no idea i would come to feel such a strong kinship with this brilliant, generous, and committed scholar
email from 2013, nikki hessell sending me a copy of her conference paper after we first met
November 26, 2025 at 5:47 AM
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kiwiana (not pictured, hokey pokey ice cream)
toffee pops, pineapple lumps, and l&p
November 23, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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this real estate agent is named after the last 2 weeks of my nineteenth century novel class
sold sign featuring the agent named conrad doyle
November 22, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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starfish, maunganui beach, nz
November 21, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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hobbiton
a yellow-doored hobbit hole! (sam’s house actually)
November 20, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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mama emperor penguin
emperor penguin with egg at auckland aquarium
November 19, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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saw a volcanic crater
mt eden, auckland
November 18, 2025 at 4:54 AM
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almost time for new zealand trip, better dust off the old ooo
Thank you for your email. I am not actually away from my computer or checking email less frequently than usual because that, apparently, is not a thing I'm capable of. I have, however, decided that an auto-reply is the easiest way to say "no" to things without risking actual confrontation. I appreciate your understanding and wish you the best of luck with the thing you needed from me. Bye now, Manu
November 13, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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😑
duolingo asking if i’ll turn my article in on time
November 10, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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@nikkihessell.bsky.social sent it me — the serendipity of the poem going up just as i’m getting ready to go to nz! (i will in fact be speaking about brownness)
text from nikki: This poem, "Brown Optimism," has just gone up on the side of the public library, which is about to reopen. I feel like Wellington might be welcoming you!
November 6, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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“brown optimism”

newsroom.co.nz/2025/09/30/a...
When Sturm was 18 a chance meeting with her older sister led to her reconnecting with her birth family. It was this first meeting with her father's whanau in late 1946 that compelled her to write 'Brown Optimism? The poem captures her shock at their poverty, her grief at the loss of Mãori language and culture, and her anger at the bleak future being offered to Māori children. Having grown up in the Pakeha world, she understood Pakeha attitudes to Mãori, knew how Pakeha systems entrenched Mãori disadvantage, and recognised that Mãori assimilation was considered by many Pakehā a desirable and inevitable outcome of colonisation. 'Brown Optimism's' righteous anger burns powerfully, coming as it does from the perspective of a young Mãori woman who has for her entire life been nurtured and trained to profit from assimilation, and demonstrate its advantages.
November 6, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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ugh fine i’ll do it myself, you people suck
title slide for a talk on race beauty and flow in the long c 18
November 6, 2025 at 4:51 AM
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“no, dan, the blend is great but do we have to call it that?”
“creamy earl tea”
November 1, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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yeah sorry not making my syllabi public in the present climate
email from admin asking to upload syllabi
November 1, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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brown pirate
October 31, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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drawing
a sketch of a skeleton coming out of the ground with the caption rise and shine
October 31, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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that time when they fired the whole staff of the Pisa Commission of Fine Arts
the leaning tower of pisa
October 30, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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ok fuck it here goes
PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION [of the critique of pure reason] 1781 Human reason, in one sphere of its cognition, is called upon to consider questions, which it cannot decline, as they are presented by its own nature, but which it cannot answer, as they transcend every faculty of the mind.
October 27, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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the city remains occupied, i remain puzzling
jigsaw puzzle of a library
October 27, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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October 23, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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🎶and pierre said…🎶
maurice sendak’s pierre twirling in front of a lion and singing “i don’t care”
October 21, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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wegmans, had to do it.
reusable josh allen shopping bag
October 12, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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romanticism across borders 2025-26 seminar series
ROMANTICISM ACROSS BORDERS Online Seminar 2025 - 2026, monthly Wednesday 5:30pm - 7pm (London time) 2025-2026 Programme 2025 October 22: Angela Roumpani (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki): 'The Politics of Mourning Against Malleable Borders and "Deathscapes" in Charlotte Smith's The Emigrants' December 10: Dr Paul Hamann-Rose (University of Passau): 'Print Mediations: Romantic Authorship and the Problem of Control' 2026 January 21: Dr Manu Samriti Chander (Georgetown University): 'Unnoticed Passages and Intermediate Shades": Race, Beauty and Flow in the Long Eighteenth Century' February 18: Dr Rahul Markovits (École Normale Supérieure PSL): 'A British Black Legend? The East India Company, the Conquest of Bengal and European Public Opinion' March 18: Pr Caroline Bertonèche (Université Grenoble Alpes): 'Romanticism Across Colours: A Painful Revolution' April 15: Dr Deven Parker (University of Glasgow): 'Performing Authorship in the Romantic Theatre: Drama, Print, and Intellectual Property' May 13: Eleanor Franzen (Birkbeck, University of London): 'Romantic Individualism in the Romans à Clefs of Harriette Wilson, Celebrity Courtesan'
October 7, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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virginia woolf could write
from "street haunting": How beautiful a London street is then, with its islands of light, and its long groves of darkness, and on one side of it perhaps some tree–sprinkled, grass–grown space where night is folding herself to sleep naturally and, as one passes the iron railing, one hears those little cracklings and stirrings of leaf and twig which seem to suppose the silence of fields all round them, an owl hooting, and far away the rattle of a train in the valley. But this is London, we are reminded; high among the bare trees are hung oblong frames of reddish yellow light—windows; there are points of brilliance burning steadily like low stars—lamps; this empty ground, which holds the country in it and its peace, is only a London square, set about by offices and houses where at this hour fierce lights burn over maps, over documents, over desks where clerks sit turning with wetted forefinger the files of endless correspondences; or more suffusedly the firelight wavers and the lamplight falls upon the privacy of some drawing–room, its easy chairs, its papers, its china, its inlaid table, and the figure of a woman, accurately measuring out the precise number of spoons of tea which——She looks at the door as if she heard a ring downstairs and somebody asking, is she in?
October 4, 2025 at 10:13 PM