Love that classroom moment when you've read good stuff, taken them to a cool place ... and they start to write.

#TypewriterTuesday. Letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, concerning #USAID cuts, on the 1950s Royal Quiet DeLuxe my mom used in college. How are you contacting the government otday?

Late to the party here, but damn--archivally grounded, connect-the-dots study.

Professor friends! Small step to bring back joy in teaching. Ask for hard copies, rather than reading work online. Encourage students to type, or if their handwriting is neat, go that route. Far more connected to their words when we are working from a shared page.

Scholar Friends: When gathering archival materials, when and where do you stop? I am pulling together a cultural history of the Seminole War, and 30 pages into the bibliography, no end in sight. State papers to lachrymose poetry to glass bottomed boat name.

Florida.

I am working on a scholarly/creative project that is filled with poetry and stories and library geek knowledge about Tampa Bay. Launch, April 22 (Earth Day), 2025. The project fills me with joy and hope. That is all.

Literature and the Environment class. Friday afternoons, 2-4:45, my refuge. #usfsp

Wrap on #MLA25. Great food, great panels, great culture. Saw old friends, made new ones. So much has changed since my first, 30+ years ago. It's better, more collegial. Left NOLA feeling proud and hopeful for my profession.

All badged up for @MLA25. I've been doing this for 30 years. 30 years! You can't shoot me down because my career has already flown its arc.

#MLA25. Baby in the king cake.

#MLA25. Editors talk social change; barges outside ply the Mississippi.

Heading to #MLA25 for a panel on this new book--a volume in which I have a small part, a book that makes me proud to be a professor.

Graffiti.