Early 18c pop culture, disability, technology; prof of literature teaching in Virginia; fascinated by gory movies and strange people from the past.
Washington DC
Joined March 2009
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Q&A w/ co-PIs re. @NEH grant to expand "Literature in Context"—a rigorously edited anthology of digital texts—also an open educational resource.
#OER #OA #Literature #DigitalHumanities. @englishatuva @johnobrienuva
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Actual billboard sponsored by University of Arizona school of humanities. Excellent. @uahumanities
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Over the last two years, our Norton Literature Team surveyed over 2,000 current & former English students to ask what their English degree has meant to them. While you can go to seagull.wwnorton.com/NSEM to see the full report, here are some highlights #iwasanenglishmajor
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Hey @marymountu, looking for something to read? Join us for book club on November 30th at 6:30pm to discuss Jane Austen's #Persuasion and the 2022 Netflix film starring Dakota Johnson! #MUReads
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The first proof (without ink for now) on our new Craftsmen letterpress... there are some problems, but nothing we can't fix! Can you tell what's wrong? Bonus points if you know what the quote is from! @marymountu #marymountuniversity
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Iranian women explain what they are protesting for. It’s been 8 weeks since protests erupted across Iran following the killing of Mahsa Amini in police custody.
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Hey @marymountu - See the wonderful writer #SandraCisneros tomorrow night at @PoliticsProse and learn about her new collection of poems "Woman Without Shame" which hits shelves TODAY! The event will be livestreamed! For event details: ow.ly/BRE950KI6xe
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Hey @marymountu, check out a reading presentation with Nikole Hanna-Jones, a Pulitzer Prize winner and best-selling author of "The 1619 Project," on September 20, 2022, at 7 pm through Zoom. Register through this link: ow.ly/ecTU50KvYz6. See you there! #marymountuniversity
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Happy Labor Day Weekend, @marymountu! Check out the 2022 National Book Festival tomorrow 9/3 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center for some great author talks and activities. The festival is FREE! #NatBookFest #MarymountUniversity
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Coming soon! Can you guess what fun new material object we're bringing to the English and Digital Writing & Narrative Design programs next week? Here's a hint: Johannes Gutenberg wasn't actually the first to "invent" it! #marymountuniversity
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“pro life” but no baby formula on the shelves? yeah okay.
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@MU_English faculty member @howet is representing our @AAUP chapter today at the biennial meeting—Want to support democracy on campus? Reach out!
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Still trying to wrap my head around the idea that this country is rapidly making it criminal to assist someone in having an abortion, but okay to have supplied the shooting of kids at school…
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Call for Papers: Conversations on “The Eighteenth Century and Reproductive Rights.” This “Conversations” cluster is focused on what is unfolding in the United States regarding reproductive rights as well as different locations across the globe. See the attached CFP with alt text.
ALT We invite submissions discussing the historical and literary antecedents essential to understanding reproductive rights (and Roe vs Wade in the United States) now: - How literary and historical antecedents affect gender and sexuality norms - How they impact child-bearing people and reproductive rights - How race and class have historically intersected with gender and sexuality to inflect reproductive rights’ discourses, laws, and norms and the ensuing’ consequences for individuals and or society - The larger issue of rights and their constitutional enshrinement in different national and cultural contexts - Discussion of scholarly resources for pedagogy and research - Teaching the new generation of students about reproductive rights through the contexts and texts of 1640-1830 - Eighteenth-century archives regarding reproductive rights - Activisms, then, now, and in the future
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Spring 2022 ABO is here and we hope your summer reading will include these #openaccess scholarship, #dh, pedagogy, and reviews; because we have such a great line-up for you this spring.
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Kiese Laymon, a novelist, essayist, and memoirist, will visit Marymount main campus on May 19th. He will talk about his acclaimed memoir, Heavy, which won the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction and made the New York Times list of the 50 best memoirs of the last 50 years.
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THURSDAY MAY 19TH!! Come out and hear the awesome Kiese Laymon speak at #marymountuniversity. 1pm, Gerard Dining Hall. All are welcome--masks required! @marymountu #learnwithpurpose
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Gouverneur Morris, who wrote the final draft of the constitution, died because he put a whale bone up his dick. I think it's OK to edit the document.
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The Supreme Court has decided to overturn Roe v. Wade and allow states to outlaw abortion, according to a draft of the justices’ decision obtained by Politico.
@DLeonhardt looks at the case and its implications in The Morning newsletter. nyti.ms/39mi0BZ