Elizabeth Barnett
@elizabarnett.bsky.social
Commuting through Texas on I-10, pretending I'm a trucker, teaching English, making little notes on index cards, writing Egads! about queer picture books in the seventies and eighties. Book of poems,The Law at Night, coming in '27 from U of Nebraska Press.
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For anyone who uses archival methods, we’ve offering a $4,000 fellowship to use any of our holdings on site in Storrs, CT. Easy application! Please apply! Please repost! library.uconn.edu/location/asc...
December 9, 2025 at 8:50 PM
For anyone who uses archival methods, we’ve offering a $4,000 fellowship to use any of our holdings on site in Storrs, CT. Easy application! Please apply! Please repost! library.uconn.edu/location/asc...
Bitchiness very acceptable from ladies who run estate sales. You're right, I should have gotten a ticket before standing in line. It's only fair that I go find someone in an apron and then stand in line again. Yes, I do see that everyone else is holding a ticket.
December 8, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Bitchiness very acceptable from ladies who run estate sales. You're right, I should have gotten a ticket before standing in line. It's only fair that I go find someone in an apron and then stand in line again. Yes, I do see that everyone else is holding a ticket.
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It is disgusting that Trump’s hateful words of calling Somali Americans “garbage” have continued to go unchecked by members of the Republican Party.
These are US citizens he is denigrating.
We have a duty as Americans to call out his hateful rhetoric.
These are US citizens he is denigrating.
We have a duty as Americans to call out his hateful rhetoric.
December 7, 2025 at 10:06 PM
It is disgusting that Trump’s hateful words of calling Somali Americans “garbage” have continued to go unchecked by members of the Republican Party.
These are US citizens he is denigrating.
We have a duty as Americans to call out his hateful rhetoric.
These are US citizens he is denigrating.
We have a duty as Americans to call out his hateful rhetoric.
Bemused by how quickly I went from thinking debate moms are intense to texting my sweet daughter "FINISH HIM!!!!!!!!"
December 7, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Bemused by how quickly I went from thinking debate moms are intense to texting my sweet daughter "FINISH HIM!!!!!!!!"
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Or better yet: make GenAI about an assault on civics. Because if you are selling a product that necessarily attempts to con one person into believing they are engaging with another person when they are not, you’re not just ruining education. You’re dismantling society’s foundations in social trust.
December 4, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Or better yet: make GenAI about an assault on civics. Because if you are selling a product that necessarily attempts to con one person into believing they are engaging with another person when they are not, you’re not just ruining education. You’re dismantling society’s foundations in social trust.
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Framing GenAI as a battle between teachers and students is a red herring. Students and educators are on the same side. The real opposition are the data extraction firms and brokerages and their allies among the managerial class.
December 4, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Framing GenAI as a battle between teachers and students is a red herring. Students and educators are on the same side. The real opposition are the data extraction firms and brokerages and their allies among the managerial class.
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AI Is Not Inevitable
join AAUP for a conversation with educators, educator unions, and the Collaborative Research Center for Resilience
zoom.us/webinar/regi...
join AAUP for a conversation with educators, educator unions, and the Collaborative Research Center for Resilience
zoom.us/webinar/regi...
December 5, 2025 at 1:18 PM
AI Is Not Inevitable
join AAUP for a conversation with educators, educator unions, and the Collaborative Research Center for Resilience
zoom.us/webinar/regi...
join AAUP for a conversation with educators, educator unions, and the Collaborative Research Center for Resilience
zoom.us/webinar/regi...
It Happened to Me: I Put LED Lights On My Tree and Ruined Christmas
December 5, 2025 at 11:43 AM
It Happened to Me: I Put LED Lights On My Tree and Ruined Christmas
Revisiting Kathryn Nuernberger's "Little Lesson on How to Be" to teach with Auden's "Musée des Beaux Arts." What if the Old Masters were wrong about suffering?
Little Lesson on How to Be
The woman at the Salvation Army who sorts and prices is in her eighties and she underestimates the value of everything, for which I am grateful. Her mother inspects drapes for stains. I am careful not...
www.poetryfoundation.org
December 4, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Revisiting Kathryn Nuernberger's "Little Lesson on How to Be" to teach with Auden's "Musée des Beaux Arts." What if the Old Masters were wrong about suffering?
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I have always advocated the use of pots in the garden. How valuable it is to have a few pots which may be carried indoors on an evening when one smells frost in the air. #gardening
December 4, 2025 at 11:14 AM
I have always advocated the use of pots in the garden. How valuable it is to have a few pots which may be carried indoors on an evening when one smells frost in the air. #gardening
Is Julius Caesar super campy or am I?
December 2, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Is Julius Caesar super campy or am I?
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December 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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Columbia University Press titles are 50% off. I know this because I ordered copies of Poetry in General today for artists and poets who gave me permission to print their work in the book. Thank you, brilliant poets! Thank you discounts! cup.columbia.edu/book/poetry-...
Poetry in General | Columbia University Press
In the second half of the twentieth century, poetry leapt out of books and became an interdisciplinary public form. Poetry entered bureaucratic systems of or... | CUP
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December 1, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Columbia University Press titles are 50% off. I know this because I ordered copies of Poetry in General today for artists and poets who gave me permission to print their work in the book. Thank you, brilliant poets! Thank you discounts! cup.columbia.edu/book/poetry-...
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my book is 50% off on the Columbia site today - for $18 you can have the perfect gift for an uncle you don’t like or that one cousin who won’t stop talking about social reproduction theory
cup.columbia.edu/book/stitch-...
cup.columbia.edu/book/stitch-...
Stitch, Unstitch | Columbia University Press
The labor of literature is often thought of as a specialized craft, distinct from everyday work. In Stitch, Unstitch, Kristin Grogan traces an alternative vi... | CUP
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December 1, 2025 at 3:04 PM
my book is 50% off on the Columbia site today - for $18 you can have the perfect gift for an uncle you don’t like or that one cousin who won’t stop talking about social reproduction theory
cup.columbia.edu/book/stitch-...
cup.columbia.edu/book/stitch-...
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Between diffusion models and LLMs, tech has inflated a trillion dollar bubble around automating activities that have immense social and cultural capital—writing, art, photography—but little actual capital. It’s harmful to education, culture, and society with minimal overall benefit
November 30, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Between diffusion models and LLMs, tech has inflated a trillion dollar bubble around automating activities that have immense social and cultural capital—writing, art, photography—but little actual capital. It’s harmful to education, culture, and society with minimal overall benefit
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Papillons; Paris, Tolmer[ca. 1925] (source: http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/48852965) #nature #illustration #art
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Paris, Tolmer[ca. 1925]
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November 30, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Papillons; Paris, Tolmer[ca. 1925] (source: http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/48852965) #nature #illustration #art
imaginary Romans with real knives in them
Experience: I was stabbed in the back with a real knife while performing Julius Caesar
Our student theatre group had the bright idea of using actual knives on stage for authenticity. The blade missed my aorta by about a centimetre
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 12:09 PM
imaginary Romans with real knives in them
Holiday tradition of googling “new donna tartt when”
November 28, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Holiday tradition of googling “new donna tartt when”
One day you're young, the next you're making a zoned grocery list for when H-E-B opens at 6am
November 26, 2025 at 10:47 AM
One day you're young, the next you're making a zoned grocery list for when H-E-B opens at 6am
Something like convergent evolution happening as humanities professors respond to ai with a similar set of practices that we each hunkered down and came up with out of desperation over the summer of 2025.
A fantastic piece that gets into the details of what a great Humanities classroom looks like. I love the focus on what to do versus what not to do—and why.
🧍Non-AI summary: it’s human and paper-based.
#GiftLink #GiftArticle
🧍Non-AI summary: it’s human and paper-based.
#GiftLink #GiftArticle
I’m a Professor. A.I. Has Changed My Classroom, but Not for the Worse.
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Something like convergent evolution happening as humanities professors respond to ai with a similar set of practices that we each hunkered down and came up with out of desperation over the summer of 2025.
I saw the image before the artist, and was surprised that Picasso made this good-natured turkey.
Pablo Picasso - Turkey, from Picasso: Original Etchings for the Texts of Buffon - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
www.metmuseum.org
November 25, 2025 at 11:09 AM
I saw the image before the artist, and was surprised that Picasso made this good-natured turkey.
Things I am trying as migraine medication runs out and insurance denies refills: meditation, fish oil, zyrtec, daily pages, haphazard food elimination, magnesium, neck stretches (family mocks)...
November 21, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Things I am trying as migraine medication runs out and insurance denies refills: meditation, fish oil, zyrtec, daily pages, haphazard food elimination, magnesium, neck stretches (family mocks)...
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Upending this cultural compromise by effectively destroying trust that the institutions can effectively and consistently diagnose merit is an existential crisis for the entire sector, but we seem to be sleeping on a parallel crisis in knowledge acquisition/production as such
November 21, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Upending this cultural compromise by effectively destroying trust that the institutions can effectively and consistently diagnose merit is an existential crisis for the entire sector, but we seem to be sleeping on a parallel crisis in knowledge acquisition/production as such
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The gentlest, firmest, weapon for us to use in the culture wars, from Goethe:
"A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul."
"A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul."
October 31, 2025 at 6:13 PM
The gentlest, firmest, weapon for us to use in the culture wars, from Goethe:
"A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul."
"A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul."
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Adjuncts, indie scholars, publishers, journal eds: please spread the word about this and help me do recon! It's so hard w/ social media being so fragmented to learn about all the great lit studies articles and books pub'd this year by contingent/indie folx. I know there's lots! Deadline: end of Nov.
It’s that time of year friends! Thanks to @erinbartram.bsky.social and our friends at @contingent-mag.bsky.social, Laura and I are putting together a list of 2025 articles & books by contingent & indie lit critters. DM, reply, email me @ suny press. And spread the word!!
We are at it again! Myself & the wonderful @rcolesworthy.bsky.social😍
Seeking pubs -- articles, book chapters, monographs -- by contingent lit scholars for the 2025 list 👇👇 please spread the word!!!
contingentmagazine.org/2024/12/08/2...
Seeking pubs -- articles, book chapters, monographs -- by contingent lit scholars for the 2025 list 👇👇 please spread the word!!!
contingentmagazine.org/2024/12/08/2...
November 19, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Adjuncts, indie scholars, publishers, journal eds: please spread the word about this and help me do recon! It's so hard w/ social media being so fragmented to learn about all the great lit studies articles and books pub'd this year by contingent/indie folx. I know there's lots! Deadline: end of Nov.