Historian of emotions in America.; co-author of Bored, Lonely, Angry, Stupid: Changing Feelings about Technology from the Telegraph to Twitter

Ogden, Utah
Joined October 2011
Great article by @fhill_official on staying connected to family and the pressure to leave home
The panic about young adults’ reliance on their family rests on an assumption: Growing up requires them to leave all that behind. But there’s another way to look at it, @fhill_official writes: theatlantic.com/family/archi…
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Great talk by Simone Natale today at U. of Tuebingen. Provoking super questions: Does the disposition to project intelligence (and autonomy) onto machines change across time? In what circumstances is that projection beneficial? What can we learn about AI from a 19th C. seance?
Always the hardest part. You think you’re done, the wine reception at hand, yet there is this last important bit. The conclusions
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Pub date, 22 Aug.; congrats all. The Business of Emotions in Modern History - bloomsbury.com/us/business-o…
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There is still plenty of time to add our next colloquium with @Imogen_Knox to your calendars ✨ Though the event is shown as being sold out, this is only due to Eventbrite's ticket limit - there is no cap on attendance and the Zoom link can still be accessed at the link below!
EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT: @NACHEmotion will be holding its next colloquium on 14 February at 11am (US Mountain Time): "Suicide in the History of Emotions" with @Imogen_Knox ✨ Find out more + register/save the Zoom link here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/713609915… #twitterstorians #emostorians
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Really looking forward to this!
EVENT: @NACHEmotion's co-chair Prof. Susan Matt (@ALongingForHome) will be giving this online talk on "Emotions, Individualism, and History" on 25 September for @ISREorg's history of emotions webinar series ✨ Register using the links below! #twitterstorians #emostorians
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ANNOUNCEMENT: Congratulations to Prof. Bradley Irish of Arizona State University on becoming the Co-Editor in Chief of 'Emotion Review', the interdisciplinary journal of the International Society for Research on Emotion. 👏 Here is a link to the journal: journals.sagepub.com/home/em…
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This coming Tuesday (26 Sept.) I will be at @WeberStateU talking about "Person, Thing, Robot" @mitpress Shout out to @luke_fernandez for the invitation and organizing the event.
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Susan Matt retweeted
✒️ Join us on an exciting exploration of the #history of #emotions this Sept 25. We're excited to welcome Prof. Matt @ALongingForHome to share insights on "Emotions, Individualism, and History." Please register to secure your spot 👉 us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi…
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CALL FOR PAPERS: We are holding our next conference on 7-8 June 2024 at UBC! We invite proposals from scholars working on any period or region in the history of emotions 🌎✨ See CFP flyer and our website for further info: nachemotion.wordpress.com/20… #twitterstorians #emostorians
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Historian and professor @ALongingForHome shared her research interviewing Americans on device use and boredom during our webinar on Boredom, #ScreenTime, and #ChildDevelopment. Full webinar here: bit.ly/3NbnTmU
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Susan Matt retweeted
Weber State is hiring a tenure-track historian of the American West. Required to teach Utah history/preference given to candidates who also specialize in historically marginalized communities in U.S. History. Position Announcement here: jobs.weber.edu/postings/1992… Come join us!
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Congratulations on the book! Can't wait to read it!
Hooray, hooray, it's Book Launch Day! So proud of #LosingEden and a BIG thanks to @UnivNebPress! Give it to your dad for Father's Day! Use it in class this fall (and I'll Zoom in for a discussion)! 40% off with Code 6AS23! nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebras…
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😁 first copy I’ve seen out in the world other than the author copies I received 👍👍
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No, you don't have a reptilian brain inside your brain sciencenorway.no/brain/no-yo… The myth of the reptilian brain is tenacious – but wrong.
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