Min Hyoung Song
@minsong.bsky.social
English Professor with focus on ecology, race, and aesthetics. Latest book is Climate Lyricism (Duke UP), which is also open access:
https://read.dukeupress.edu/books/book/2985/Climate-Lyricism. Viewpoints my own and not my employer’s.
https://read.dukeupress.edu/books/book/2985/Climate-Lyricism. Viewpoints my own and not my employer’s.
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Min Hyoung Song
@minsong.bsky.social
· Aug 13
BC English GenAI Framework
Min Hyoung Song, Chair Department of English Boston College, August 2025 GenAI FRAMEWORK FOR BC ENGLISH COURSES While Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) programs have become ubiquitous as ...
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Some things I've been working on as chair of my department - sharing in case anyone finds its useful.
1. A GenAI Framework for English Courses
1. A GenAI Framework for English Courses
Love this!
Here is a new poem. Already revised, alas. But for what it’s worth: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Many thanks to Jeff Shotts and Kevin Young.
Many thanks to Jeff Shotts and Kevin Young.
January 20, 2026 at 2:46 AM
Love this!
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Read @andreapitzer.bsky.social, folks.
January 19, 2026 at 10:15 PM
Read @andreapitzer.bsky.social, folks.
What a great thread.
Had an intriguing editorial discussion recently: how did people in the past talk about 'minutes' when they didn't have watches or standardised times? How does that affect your thinking?
Come down an Elizabethan/Jacobean rabbit hole with me.
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Come down an Elizabethan/Jacobean rabbit hole with me.
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January 17, 2026 at 1:01 PM
What a great thread.
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somali know very well what it means for men in masks to come to your house in broad daylight and take you away or take your father away or take your brother away and to never see them again. it’s how they’ve ended up in minnesota.
January 12, 2026 at 9:12 PM
somali know very well what it means for men in masks to come to your house in broad daylight and take you away or take your father away or take your brother away and to never see them again. it’s how they’ve ended up in minnesota.
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That last paragraph..man
"You think you’re watching a woman drive away with an ICE agent following, then shooting her four times in the face, but what you’re really watching is an ICE agent in fear of his life and acting in self-defense."
What You’re Watching Isn’t What You’re Really Watching
“Federal and local officials dispute the circumstances that led an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer to fatally shoot a 37-year-old woman...
buff.ly
January 10, 2026 at 3:19 AM
That last paragraph..man
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Stephen Colbert on the ICE murder of Renee Nicole Good: “The message from this administration is clear. Only they determine the truth. And when their forces come to your city: obey or die. And if you die, you clearly didn’t obey. This should be an alarm bell for the entire country.”
January 9, 2026 at 8:15 PM
Stephen Colbert on the ICE murder of Renee Nicole Good: “The message from this administration is clear. Only they determine the truth. And when their forces come to your city: obey or die. And if you die, you clearly didn’t obey. This should be an alarm bell for the entire country.”
“Entering Hell was easy; leaving was hard.” - RF Kuang
January 9, 2026 at 7:22 PM
“Entering Hell was easy; leaving was hard.” - RF Kuang
Ok but why did he call his chain “Mexican Chicken”?
this guy is a fucking hero
the man widely regarded as creator of Korean fried chicken has died www.koreaherald.com/article/1065...
January 9, 2026 at 2:46 AM
Ok but why did he call his chain “Mexican Chicken”?
By the brilliant Michelle Huang!
In "Racial Beings," Michelle N. Huang @nancyhelicopter.bsky.social brings a feminist new materialist lens to bear on contemporary Asian American literature’s innovative play with discourses of science and technology. #AsianAmericanStudies Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/eWFhHKY
January 8, 2026 at 7:01 PM
By the brilliant Michelle Huang!
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Here is the excellent reply by the A&M professor to the censoring of his course on Plato. Note that he emphasizes that the course does not advocate a race or gender ideology—which is the text of the law in question. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
While there is so much that is disturbing about this case study in the destruction of academic freedom, one high point is the refusal of the targeted professor to submit
January 7, 2026 at 10:12 PM
Here is the excellent reply by the A&M professor to the censoring of his course on Plato. Note that he emphasizes that the course does not advocate a race or gender ideology—which is the text of the law in question. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
We went to a vinyl cafe (you buy an expensive drink and listen to albums on headphones all you want) and I took this photograph as the sunlight came through a record.
December 26, 2025 at 9:56 PM
We went to a vinyl cafe (you buy an expensive drink and listen to albums on headphones all you want) and I took this photograph as the sunlight came through a record.
Finished rereading Moby-Dick (very slowly!) and the last pages show that Melville really knew how to write taut, fast-paced, plot-driven prose, and so just chose not to for hundreds of pages.
December 21, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Finished rereading Moby-Dick (very slowly!) and the last pages show that Melville really knew how to write taut, fast-paced, plot-driven prose, and so just chose not to for hundreds of pages.
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Grades are submitted; the semester is officially done; the students were amazing; I’m ready for a drink, and a goodbye to a terrible, no good, awful year.
December 19, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Grades are submitted; the semester is officially done; the students were amazing; I’m ready for a drink, and a goodbye to a terrible, no good, awful year.
Grading season is here.
December 8, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Grading season is here.
Note to self!
Our special issue of differences is out! Claire and I were asked to suggest one article that would be open access, and (although it was VERY hard to choose) we picked Whitney’s, which is about Claudia Rankine’s “American lyric” in Ibero-American translation:
read.dukeupress.edu/differences/...
read.dukeupress.edu/differences/...
December 8, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Note to self!
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"Today’s microwave can cook a frozen burrito. Tomorrow’s microwave will be able to cook an entire Thanksgiving Dinner. Ten years from now a microwave may even be able to run the country."
December 7, 2025 at 5:32 PM
"Today’s microwave can cook a frozen burrito. Tomorrow’s microwave will be able to cook an entire Thanksgiving Dinner. Ten years from now a microwave may even be able to run the country."
We seem to have finally reached a moment of epistemic collapse because we can no longer tell if a photo is machine generated.
www.theverge.com/report/83797...
www.theverge.com/report/83797...
Google’s AI model is getting really good at spoofing phone photos
We’re cooked.
www.theverge.com
December 6, 2025 at 9:39 PM
We seem to have finally reached a moment of epistemic collapse because we can no longer tell if a photo is machine generated.
www.theverge.com/report/83797...
www.theverge.com/report/83797...
I love the design of this cover.
Our Spring 2026 catalog is out now, featuring #NewBooks by @biidaasamose.bsky.social,
@julesboykoff.bsky.social, @jcmezo.bsky.social, @jacobengelberg.bsky.social, @woeser.bsky.social, @policingblack.bsky.social, @hannobrankamp.bsky.social, and many others! Explore the #NewBooks: bit.ly/3Ki2ha5.
@julesboykoff.bsky.social, @jcmezo.bsky.social, @jacobengelberg.bsky.social, @woeser.bsky.social, @policingblack.bsky.social, @hannobrankamp.bsky.social, and many others! Explore the #NewBooks: bit.ly/3Ki2ha5.
December 5, 2025 at 8:04 PM
I love the design of this cover.
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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...
Re-upping this piece, and also thinking about how in discussions of GenAI and the humanities we remain focused on writing to the exclusion of reading.
My colleague Carlo Rotella wrote this as a response to doom-and-gloom reporting on genAI's impact on the humanities and as a framework for thinking about what works. I think it's pretty good.
Gift link.
Gift link.
I’m a Professor. A.I. Has Changed My Classroom, but Not for the Worse.
www.nytimes.com
December 2, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Re-upping this piece, and also thinking about how in discussions of GenAI and the humanities we remain focused on writing to the exclusion of reading.
My colleague Carlo Rotella wrote this as a response to doom-and-gloom reporting on genAI's impact on the humanities and as a framework for thinking about what works. I think it's pretty good.
Gift link.
Gift link.
I’m a Professor. A.I. Has Changed My Classroom, but Not for the Worse.
www.nytimes.com
December 1, 2025 at 5:11 PM
My colleague Carlo Rotella wrote this as a response to doom-and-gloom reporting on genAI's impact on the humanities and as a framework for thinking about what works. I think it's pretty good.
Gift link.
Gift link.
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Paris: Air pollution fell substantially as the city restricted car traffic and made way for parks and bike lanes.
I said in this @washingtonpost.com piece that our city has developed “an urban policy based on well-being”.
❇️ PM 2,5 & NO2 levels have fallen 50%
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solu...
I said in this @washingtonpost.com piece that our city has developed “an urban policy based on well-being”.
❇️ PM 2,5 & NO2 levels have fallen 50%
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solu...
Paris said au revoir to cars. Air pollution maps reveal a dramatic change.
Air pollution fell substantially as the city restricted car traffic and made way for parks and bike lanes.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 30, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Paris: Air pollution fell substantially as the city restricted car traffic and made way for parks and bike lanes.
I said in this @washingtonpost.com piece that our city has developed “an urban policy based on well-being”.
❇️ PM 2,5 & NO2 levels have fallen 50%
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solu...
I said in this @washingtonpost.com piece that our city has developed “an urban policy based on well-being”.
❇️ PM 2,5 & NO2 levels have fallen 50%
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solu...
Rental Family is such a treat. See it if you can.
November 30, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Rental Family is such a treat. See it if you can.