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Shirley Samuels
@shirleyinithaca.bsky.social
Writer, teacher, friend, mother, sister.

October 28: “Haunted by the Civil War” (PUP, 2025)

Now writing: “Women & Democracy in the C19 U. S.” (Edinburgh UP)

Also (for now) a humanities chair

https://english.cornell.edu/shirley-samuels
Friends helped me eat ghosts. Thank you! #haunted #cake/book #diadelosmuertos
November 3, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Unboxing done.

#hauntedbook #halloween
October 16, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Just for a moment — taking a break
September 6, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Visit to @metmuseum.bsky.social to see Harlem Renaissance show

Crowded— and worth it

Here: Laura Wheeler Waring
March 3, 2024 at 6:35 PM
Rainbow last night expressed hope— at least for now.
January 12, 2024 at 1:34 PM
The Day of the Dead altar in old San Juan commemorates women killed by their partners. Ongoing violence exacerbated by the pandemic.
January 11, 2024 at 7:32 AM
Still daydreaming about flying over the Sacramento River delta at dawn last week.
November 15, 2023 at 10:01 PM
Pacifica— Mori Point. With gratitude to the friend who made sure I had my ocean fix before heading back to Ithaca.
November 11, 2023 at 1:49 AM
Listening to Jodi Byrd via #ICM on Monday, October 16 in Goldwin Smith G22.

#Cornell
October 10, 2023 at 2:25 PM
Excitement in Klarman Hall right now.

N. J. Jemisin at #Cornell
October 4, 2023 at 9:39 PM
On Friday, September 29, at 4:30 — at the A. D. White House at #Cornell — we will welcome Britt Rusert. We will follow that on Saturday, September 30, with a half day of grad student panels on the topic of “Collectivity,” focused on the C19 U. S.

Join us! Food for minds and bodies will be offered.
September 8, 2023 at 10:10 AM
A moving Alison Saar—> “Bareroot” (2007)
September 2, 2023 at 7:35 PM
Huge Mickalene Thomas at the Buffalo ABK gallery. Somehow I missed coming here in years past. What a collection!
September 2, 2023 at 7:34 PM