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Alex Moskowitz

@amoskowitz.bsky.social

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Assistant Professor of English at Mount Holyoke College | Early + C19 American Literature | Political Economy of Slavery | Literary Form | Sensory Perception

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Alex Moskowitz @amoskowitz.bsky.social · 9d

submitting my reappointment materials wish me luck ✌️✌️

Alex Moskowitz @amoskowitz.bsky.social · 13d

(it was a white rug)

Alex Moskowitz @amoskowitz.bsky.social · 13d

it’s a white rug 💀

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Alex Moskowitz @amoskowitz.bsky.social · 13d

i bought a new rug and my cat threw up on it within a week

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Alex Moskowitz @amoskowitz.bsky.social · 19d

will someone please write my reappointment statement for me

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Ashley Rattner @ashleyrattner.bsky.social · Sep 2

What are YOU doing to make Bluesky more hospitable to shitposting?

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Alex Moskowitz @amoskowitz.bsky.social · Aug 28

i'm teaching an insane course this semester. william wells brown and fredric jameson. toni morrison and harriet wilson. lukacs and ellen craft. ian watt and john ernest. what is going on

Alex Moskowitz @amoskowitz.bsky.social · Aug 22

i have drafts of 3 (out of 4) chapters of my book please clap

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · Aug 6

*Academics in early August

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Alex Moskowitz @amoskowitz.bsky.social · Aug 6

turning a dissertation chapter into a book chapter is literally impossible

Alex Moskowitz @amoskowitz.bsky.social · Jun 16

hegel is an underground c19 american thinker yes i agree www.c19society.org/2026-confere...

2026 Conference CFP | C19 Society

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Alex Moskowitz @amoskowitz.bsky.social · Jun 16

there's nothing like your chair telling you that you should start sending out your book proposal to make you actually write the thing

Alex Moskowitz @amoskowitz.bsky.social · Jun 16

help me i am writing a book proposal

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Alex Moskowitz @amoskowitz.bsky.social · Jun 13

me reading a novel that i will eventually write an article about

Alex Moskowitz @amoskowitz.bsky.social · Jun 12

one of the wonders of the summer schedule is actually having time to read

Alex Moskowitz @amoskowitz.bsky.social · Jun 12

syllabi looking more and more like online recipes that include the person's life story

Xina @ciw.bsky.social · Jun 12

Right, most of the syllabi I received in college were one-side of page, maybe two: a framing paragraph, a list of readings, paper due dates. Now they are 15 pp long, a freaking legal contract w/ the student. I often have to dig (scroll) to find the schedule of readings. Sign of the shifting times.

Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · Jun 12

Very much enjoying the prompt and syllabus discourse on here! It’s worth grounding the conversation in its fundamental cause, which is extreme cross-institutional precarity in the labor force.

Schools try to formalize their instruction bc the workforce itself is on short contracts.

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Alex Moskowitz @amoskowitz.bsky.social · Jun 12

everyone says this thing is bad. but have you considered that it might be good?

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Alex Moskowitz @amoskowitz.bsky.social · Jun 12

90% of my own scholarship is just “this bad thing is good, actually”

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The Second Mrs. de ShinyGoth👻 @ghostingdani.bsky.social · Jun 4

I know that I'm in my mid thirties because this used to be easier.

The Second Mrs. de ShinyGoth👻 @ghostingdani.bsky.social · Jun 4

Another day, another four hour process of getting my brain awake enough to write.

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Alex Moskowitz @amoskowitz.bsky.social · May 29

oh cool

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Alex Moskowitz @amoskowitz.bsky.social · May 29

like hell yeah i am going to tell the journal to publish this

Alex Moskowitz @amoskowitz.bsky.social · May 29

one thing that is legitimately awesome about academia is seeing a junior scholar give a kickass paper on a panel, and then having the article version of that paper land in your inbox for (blind) peer review

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · May 16

Do you guys remember crystal Pepsi

Picture of the changing HBO logos, from HBO max to Max and back to HBO max

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Alex Moskowitz @amoskowitz.bsky.social · May 3

one of those profs that when you look at their page you are like “they are an enemy of the people”

Alex Moskowitz @amoskowitz.bsky.social · May 3

successful navigated a potentially sensitive situation with an older ivy league style academic in another dept at my college please clap

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