Kelly Swartz
@kellmswartz.bsky.social
Associate Professor of English at Adelphi University / 18C Lit & Philosophy
I’m very happy that this book is finally out in the world. Get yourself a copy if you want to hear how one of the shortest forms relates to one of the longest, or if you’re interested in whether or how we learn from fiction!
Happy #pubday to "Maxims and the Mind: Unknowing in the Early Novel from Bacon to Austen" by Kelly Swartz @kellmswartz.bsky.social!
Correcting the misunderstood role of maxims at the intersection of early science and literature.
www.upress.virginia.edu/title/10157/
#booksky
Correcting the misunderstood role of maxims at the intersection of early science and literature.
www.upress.virginia.edu/title/10157/
#booksky
October 21, 2025 at 4:22 PM
I’m very happy that this book is finally out in the world. Get yourself a copy if you want to hear how one of the shortest forms relates to one of the longest, or if you’re interested in whether or how we learn from fiction!
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Closing the Classics Library to make room for what will really be administrative offices (regardless of what it’s called).
Montclair students have been trying to save it.
www.northjersey.com/story/news/e...
Montclair students have been trying to save it.
www.northjersey.com/story/news/e...
Loss of classics library at Montclair State reflects larger fears over humanities
The battle to save Montclair’s classics library symbolizes an older one — higher education’s struggle to save the humanities.
www.northjersey.com
May 9, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Closing the Classics Library to make room for what will really be administrative offices (regardless of what it’s called).
Montclair students have been trying to save it.
www.northjersey.com/story/news/e...
Montclair students have been trying to save it.
www.northjersey.com/story/news/e...
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This is UNACCEPTABLE. It cannot be allowed.
Every Member of Congress and Senator, and every elected official with a brain and a heart should say so and put their shoulder to the wheel.
This study is how we know almost any true thing about women's health.
Every Member of Congress and Senator, and every elected official with a brain and a heart should say so and put their shoulder to the wheel.
This study is how we know almost any true thing about women's health.
NIH Cancels its First and Largest Study Centered on Women
WHI currently enrolls 42,000 women. Launched in 1991. >160k women participated in initial clinical trials or were later tracked.
Termination will "severely limit WHI’s ability to generate new insights into the health of older women."
WHI currently enrolls 42,000 women. Launched in 1991. >160k women participated in initial clinical trials or were later tracked.
Termination will "severely limit WHI’s ability to generate new insights into the health of older women."
I don't get how anyone can possibly be okay with ending the WHI. This study has accrued decades of data from 42000 women and it is still going. It helps to address critical research gaps that have been allowed to go unfilled because of durable misogyny and provides invaluable insight into aging.
April 23, 2025 at 1:18 PM
This is UNACCEPTABLE. It cannot be allowed.
Every Member of Congress and Senator, and every elected official with a brain and a heart should say so and put their shoulder to the wheel.
This study is how we know almost any true thing about women's health.
Every Member of Congress and Senator, and every elected official with a brain and a heart should say so and put their shoulder to the wheel.
This study is how we know almost any true thing about women's health.
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“May Heaven forfend that I should ever write a book about books.”
—Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, inadvertently expressing the dawning horror of every literary scholar working on a monograph
—Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, inadvertently expressing the dawning horror of every literary scholar working on a monograph
March 17, 2025 at 3:24 PM
“May Heaven forfend that I should ever write a book about books.”
—Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, inadvertently expressing the dawning horror of every literary scholar working on a monograph
—Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, inadvertently expressing the dawning horror of every literary scholar working on a monograph
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Scientists have just cured pancreatic cancer in some patients with personalized mRNA vaccines. Pancreatic cancer. And this Trump administration wants to throw it all away.
They’re throwing away a cure for cancer.
They’re throwing away a cure for cancer.
Exclusive: NIH officials have advised scientists to remove reference to mRNA vaccines from their grant applications, in expectation the Trump administration intends to abandon most research in the field.
By @arthurallen202.bsky.social
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
By @arthurallen202.bsky.social
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
Scientists Say NIH Officials Told Them To Scrub mRNA References on Grants - KFF Health News
Two senior scientists say National Institutes of Health officials advised them to remove references to mRNA vaccines in grant applications, and they fear the Trump administration will abandon a promis...
kffhealthnews.org
March 17, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Scientists have just cured pancreatic cancer in some patients with personalized mRNA vaccines. Pancreatic cancer. And this Trump administration wants to throw it all away.
They’re throwing away a cure for cancer.
They’re throwing away a cure for cancer.
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this is targeted erasure and will have very real and very many negative consequences
The CDC will no longer process transgender identity data in order to comply with Trump’s executive order, an agency rep told me today. This has immediate implications for the YRBS — the only nationally-representative source of data on trans youth — and more. www.statnews.com/2025/02/25/c...
CDC will no longer process transgender data
The agency's decision will likely affect a number of federal health surveillance systems that serve as critical resources for researchers.
www.statnews.com
February 25, 2025 at 9:56 PM
this is targeted erasure and will have very real and very many negative consequences
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The Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights has threatened to annihilate 60 years of advancements in equal opportunity by eliminating all federal funding for schools that support and celebrate students from diverse backgrounds.
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February 19, 2025 at 7:44 PM
The Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights has threatened to annihilate 60 years of advancements in equal opportunity by eliminating all federal funding for schools that support and celebrate students from diverse backgrounds.
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Great to see Francisco Robles’s Coalition Literature in my mailbox. This book puts together some broken shards of a US literary history fired in the kilns of the late thirties and helps me see how to embrace a “collective” dimension of our aesthetic politics. @franciscondine.bsky.social
January 24, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Great to see Francisco Robles’s Coalition Literature in my mailbox. This book puts together some broken shards of a US literary history fired in the kilns of the late thirties and helps me see how to embrace a “collective” dimension of our aesthetic politics. @franciscondine.bsky.social
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Book Giveaway🚨
I’m giving away 3 copies of Revolting Indolence (@utexaspress.bsky.social) to graduate students in any discipline who are based in the U.S!
To enter, DM or email me:
Your name, institution
Current research topic
I’ll announce the winners December 1.
(reposts appreciated!)
I’m giving away 3 copies of Revolting Indolence (@utexaspress.bsky.social) to graduate students in any discipline who are based in the U.S!
To enter, DM or email me:
Your name, institution
Current research topic
I’ll announce the winners December 1.
(reposts appreciated!)
November 26, 2024 at 2:38 PM
Book Giveaway🚨
I’m giving away 3 copies of Revolting Indolence (@utexaspress.bsky.social) to graduate students in any discipline who are based in the U.S!
To enter, DM or email me:
Your name, institution
Current research topic
I’ll announce the winners December 1.
(reposts appreciated!)
I’m giving away 3 copies of Revolting Indolence (@utexaspress.bsky.social) to graduate students in any discipline who are based in the U.S!
To enter, DM or email me:
Your name, institution
Current research topic
I’ll announce the winners December 1.
(reposts appreciated!)
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🦃 tradition, @kellmswartz.bsky.social wins a 🥧 .🥇 5k in the ☔️ kicking 🍑
November 28, 2024 at 3:52 PM
🦃 tradition, @kellmswartz.bsky.social wins a 🥧 .🥇 5k in the ☔️ kicking 🍑
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A reminder to my academic colleagues that the incoming freshman class was born in 2006 which means that they
-have not seen attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion
-don’t know how C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser Gate
-All these moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain
-have not seen attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion
-don’t know how C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser Gate
-All these moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain
August 20, 2024 at 7:31 PM
A reminder to my academic colleagues that the incoming freshman class was born in 2006 which means that they
-have not seen attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion
-don’t know how C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser Gate
-All these moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain
-have not seen attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion
-don’t know how C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser Gate
-All these moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain
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I'll make a 🧵 of my notes on this book here. To get us started:
"There's no such thing as the scientific method, and there never was.
And yet, 'the scientific method' is alive and well. […] Why? Because 'the scientific method' is a myth—and myths are powerful things."
🧪#metasci #philsci #STS
"There's no such thing as the scientific method, and there never was.
And yet, 'the scientific method' is alive and well. […] Why? Because 'the scientific method' is a myth—and myths are powerful things."
🧪#metasci #philsci #STS
August 11, 2023 at 10:14 PM
I'll make a 🧵 of my notes on this book here. To get us started:
"There's no such thing as the scientific method, and there never was.
And yet, 'the scientific method' is alive and well. […] Why? Because 'the scientific method' is a myth—and myths are powerful things."
🧪#metasci #philsci #STS
"There's no such thing as the scientific method, and there never was.
And yet, 'the scientific method' is alive and well. […] Why? Because 'the scientific method' is a myth—and myths are powerful things."
🧪#metasci #philsci #STS
Creative Writing VAP at my Uni for 24/25. Please share and/or apply!
“Adelphi University's Department of English is seeking a published writer and effective teacher for a Visiting Assistant Professorship in the 24/25 academic year. The successful candidate will teach a multi-genre curriculum…” 1/
“Adelphi University's Department of English is seeking a published writer and effective teacher for a Visiting Assistant Professorship in the 24/25 academic year. The successful candidate will teach a multi-genre curriculum…” 1/
July 19, 2024 at 8:11 PM
Creative Writing VAP at my Uni for 24/25. Please share and/or apply!
“Adelphi University's Department of English is seeking a published writer and effective teacher for a Visiting Assistant Professorship in the 24/25 academic year. The successful candidate will teach a multi-genre curriculum…” 1/
“Adelphi University's Department of English is seeking a published writer and effective teacher for a Visiting Assistant Professorship in the 24/25 academic year. The successful candidate will teach a multi-genre curriculum…” 1/
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Jack Doyle and I put together a reading list for a workshop on Teaching Trans History that we ran at the Oxford History Faculty last week (featuring Kit Heyam as our wonderful guest speaker). Here's the reading list! docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Teaching Trans History Reading List & Resources
Teaching Trans History Reading List and Resources This non-exhaustive reading list is intended to offer practical tools and resources to academics wanting to include more trans history in university...
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November 2, 2023 at 6:19 PM
Jack Doyle and I put together a reading list for a workshop on Teaching Trans History that we ran at the Oxford History Faculty last week (featuring Kit Heyam as our wonderful guest speaker). Here's the reading list! docs.google.com/document/d/1...