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Neil Hultgren @profneilh.bsky.social · 2d

This semester it is probably 30% handouts and 70% books in terms of pages. I supplement my photocopy strategy with asking students to get cheap print editions of the major class texts. For this semester, for instance, it's three Oxford World's Classics editions.

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Neil Hultgren @profneilh.bsky.social · 2d

I used to do the course packets, but our campus switched to nearly 100% digital course materials. As a result, I’ve gone to printing out and copying what would have been in the course pack and then just handing it out. Not ideal but I like it better than a bunch of students in their phones.

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Clint Smith @clintsmithiii.bsky.social · 2d

Join me and @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social virtually tonight at 7pm Eastern to discuss writing for young audiences, speaking honestly about American history, and whether this is finally the year Arsenal wins the title. Join us!

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Clint Smith and John Green will be discussing Clint’s young readers adaptation of How the Word Is Passed tonight at 7pm eastern

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Neil Hultgren @profneilh.bsky.social · 2d

Reading a passage from the 1890 Lippincott’s version of _The Picture of Dorian Gray_ at our campus’s banned book week event. So glad our library organized this!

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Neil Hultgren @profneilh.bsky.social · 3d

When is it that she is accountable to the American people and to Californians who elect their representatives?

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Alma Katsu (FIEND is out now) @almakatsu.bsky.social · 4d

New Yorker, naturally

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Neil Hultgren @profneilh.bsky.social · 3d

Yet another way I have become a SoCal stereotype…I get a headache every time it’s not sunny in the fall or winter.

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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 7d

Want to attend NAVSA 2025: Aftermaths but can't make it to DC? Want MORE brilliant Victorianist scholarship than you can get at the in-person event? The NAVSA 2025 DIGITAL PRESESSION is free and open to all —registration required for security

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NAVSA 2025 @navsa2025.bsky.social · 7d

#NAVSA2025 is running special digital panels on Fri, Nov 7 and Sat Nov 8! Registration is FREE but required: tinyurl.com/hy2zhe2y

NAVSA 2025: Aftermaths // Digital Pre-Session Registration

Attendance at the NAVSA 2025 digital pre-sessions is free but you must register in order to receive zoom links for both dates (Friday, November 7th and Saturday, November 8th). Please register if you ...

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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 4d

"Caring about thought in time means caring about scholarship."

Please allow yourself the pleasure of reading Kathy Psomiades, reading a bunch of other people, reading her award-winning book, *Primitive Marriage* (cluster of response-essays now out in VLC)

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Article header:
THINKING IN TIME
Kathy Alexis Psomiades, Duke University

Caring about thought in time means caring
about scholarship as well—it has always seemed strange to me that the call
to deepen and enrich our readings of the literature of the past so often
goes hand in hand with a shallow and impoverished reading of the texts of
our more recent critical past, as if we could throw away the past fifty years
of reading practice to encounter the text in all its purity. This is not so
much an ethics for me—though I think we might inquire about what it
means if you have different ethics for reading one kind of text than
another—but a problem of misrecognition of our own thinking and
reading.

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Neil Hultgren @profneilh.bsky.social · 4d

Nothing feels more like home than touching down at LAX and overhearing the woman in the row ahead recruiting for Scientology. “Come by the celebrity Centre, though usually other people help Tom…”

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Neil Hultgren @profneilh.bsky.social · 5d

Your keynote was great!

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Neil Hultgren @profneilh.bsky.social · 5d

The third season is so brilliant! Dana Delaney! Simu! The fake Applebees! The multi-night gay play!

Neil Hultgren @profneilh.bsky.social · 5d

Amazing moment of communal singing during @badvictorianist.bsky.social’s great magic lantern show. We don’t always ask god to bless England at VISAWUS. The constitution only requires we do it at every other meeting. #visawus2025

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Neil Hultgren @profneilh.bsky.social · 5d

It was great to meet you, Eleanor!

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AAUP @aaup.org · 7d

Say NO to Trump’s loyalty oaths and extortion of our universities!

We will NOT throw our students, faculty, and staff under the bus to comply with undemocratic and partisan ideological agendas.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 8d

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 8d

"Jones, 27, is among the residents left at 7500 S. South Shore Drive who are trying to piece together what remains after an early morning, high-powered federal immigration raid led to the arrests of dozens of their neighbors at their South Shore apartment building."

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'

The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

chicago.suntimes.com

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Neil Hultgren @profneilh.bsky.social · 8d

VISAWUS 2025 is lit!

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Neil Hultgren @profneilh.bsky.social · 8d

That's awful.

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Neil Hultgren @profneilh.bsky.social · 8d

The university administration or the federal administration?

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Neil Hultgren @profneilh.bsky.social · 8d

Your column yesterday was great. Thanks for that.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 9d

Flagging this bit: “Some of the members whose names were removed from the website had been appointed by Trump.”

www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...