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Brittany R. Clark, Ph.D.

@brittrclark.bsky.social

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Ph.D in American Studies. Lecturer in English. Lover of pop culture. My book Media Representations of Retail Work in America: http://bit.ly/3YIBAgT

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Brittany R. Clark, Ph.D. @brittrclark.bsky.social · Nov 8

Looking for books published in the last year or so for my 20th/21st century lit class in the Spring.
Ah, yes, the classic young adult autobiographies Heart of Darkness and Moby Dick.
Thanks AI! 🙄

Google’s AI suggests Heart of Darkness and Moby Dick as when i searched for young adult autobiographies.

Brittany R. Clark, Ph.D. @brittrclark.bsky.social · 19h

@theoatmeal.bsky.social absolutely nailing the sadness in AI art and dissecting the myth of “talent” in art/artist discourse.

Art is "emotional nutrition" and "consuming AI art is like eating Styrofoam."

theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal

This is a comic about AI art.

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Brittany R. Clark, Ph.D. @brittrclark.bsky.social · 1d

Birds are terrifying example 1,000,000

NANCY COMICS BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER @nancycomics.bsky.social · 1d

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller
August 24,1946

NANCY BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER
P1-NANCY:
DO YOU THINK YOU COULD HYPNOTIZE
THAT LITTLE BIRD?
SLUGGO I’LL TRY

P2-WITH A DEVIOUS EXPRESSION, SLUGGO HYPNOTIZED THE LITTLE BIRD
SLUGGO:
ABBA DABBA--YOU'RE AN EAGLE YOU'RE AN EAGLE

P3- NANCY AND SLUGGO LOOK ON AS THE BIRD FLIES TOWARDS NANCY’S BABYDOLL

P4- THE LITTLE BIRD THINKING IT’S AN EAGLE FLIES AWAY WITH NANCY’S BABYDOLL
NANCY: COME BACK WITH MY BABY!

Brittany R. Clark, Ph.D. @brittrclark.bsky.social · 3d

I also love that she really starts to feel herself in this montage.
#HATM #DirtyDancing

Brittany R. Clark, Ph.D. @brittrclark.bsky.social · 3d

I like the way they foreshadowed her being awkward at dancing so much so early on here.
#HATM #DirtyDancing

Brittany R. Clark, Ph.D. @brittrclark.bsky.social · 3d

Inflation calculator says that $250 in 1963 is about $2,600 today.
#HATM #DirtyDancing

Brittany R. Clark, Ph.D. @brittrclark.bsky.social · 3d

So, I don't remember the first time I saw this, but here is my Dirty Dancing memory: this was my Grandma Clark's favorite movie. She died when I was ~10 years old and we somehow got her vhs copy. So I used to watch this with my mom growing up.
#HATM #DirtyDancing

Jason Herbert @herberthistory.bsky.social · 3d

That brings us to tonight's #HATM questions:
1) What are your memories of the first time you saw this movie?
2) And hell, it's a furlough. What are we drinking tonight?

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Brittany R. Clark, Ph.D. @brittrclark.bsky.social · 3d

What cultural hole do you have that’s a bit weird for your generation?

If we're talking specific to my generation: I've never seen Independence Day, and didn't watch the first Men in Black until many years later. I somehow did not get sucked into the hype machine of Big Willy Weekend.

Hannah Fearn @hannahfearn.bsky.social · 4d

Inspired by a post I just saw in which someone admitted they hadn’t seen a single episode of Friends nor the film Love Actually… what cultural hole do you have that’s a bit weird for your generation?

I’ll go first: I haven’t seen Dirty Dancing.

Brittany R. Clark, Ph.D. @brittrclark.bsky.social · 7d

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 7d

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

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Encyclopaedia Britannica @britannica.com · 8d

(solemnly) You've had mail.

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Brittany R. Clark, Ph.D. @brittrclark.bsky.social · 10d

I’m tapping out this week because this one is a little bit too scary for me. Enjoy your fast zombies and I’ll be over here prepping for the week/grading. See everyone next week!
#HATM #28DaysLater

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ALT: a cartoon of winnie the pooh wearing a purple hat

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Brittany R. Clark, Ph.D. @brittrclark.bsky.social · 16d

I think I was secretly hoping for All is Lost or A Walk in the Woods which are his later films and are both on Prime. But I totally get that you have a schedule and I don't mean to encroach.

Brittany R. Clark, Ph.D. @brittrclark.bsky.social · 16d

No Robert Redford movie this week?
#HATM

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Brittany R. Clark, Ph.D. @brittrclark.bsky.social · 17d

When this movie came out I was dating a guy who didn't think Costco was a real place. Like, he knew about warehouse stores, but didn't think the name sounded real.
#HATM #Idocracy

Brittany R. Clark, Ph.D. @brittrclark.bsky.social · 17d

There was an interesting biographical doc/short series from a couple of years ago on Grant. It's on Prime.
#HATM
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Ver Grant - Season 1 | Prime Video

Grant tells the unbelievable and quintessentially American story of a humble man who overcomes incredible obstacles, rises to the highest ranks of power and saves the nation.

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Brittany R. Clark, Ph.D. @brittrclark.bsky.social · 17d

1. John Quincy Adams played by either Mark Strong or Nick Offerman.
#HATM

Jason Herbert @herberthistory.bsky.social · 17d

That brings us to tonight’s #HATM questions:
1) what president is most deserving of a new biopic and who would you cast?
2) and what’s on the menu at your home tonight?

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Brittany R. Clark, Ph.D. @brittrclark.bsky.social · 17d

Watch out for the eugenics-adjacent opening of this movie. Otherwise, very funny, iirc.
#HATM #Idocracy

Brittany R. Clark, Ph.D. @brittrclark.bsky.social · 17d

Dirty Dancing is coming to Netflix Oct. 1!!!
Please, please, please can we do it at #HATM @herberthistory.bsky.social ?

www.whats-on-netflix.com/coming-soon/...

What's Coming to Netflix in October 2025

Your preview of all the new movies and series coming up on Netflix throughout October 2025.

www.whats-on-netflix.com

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Brittany R. Clark, Ph.D. @brittrclark.bsky.social · 17d

This is like on Superstore when they fired Myrtle because she was too old and replaced her with a hologram that she later met when she came into the store (from 2019).

Myrtle (an older woman) meets a hologram version of herself working as a greeter at a store she was fired from. From the show Superstore.

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Brittany R. Clark, Ph.D. @brittrclark.bsky.social · 17d

Today's goal: become a grading machine to catch up on all the grading I got backed-up on when I had a cold a week-ish ago.

a cartoon of beavis using a computer with a green screen

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Marcus Luther @marcusluther.bsky.social · 21d

Student feedback is an opportunity to build rapport.
Student feedback is an opportunity to build rapport.
Student feedback is an opportunity to build rapport.

(Don't forfeit that.)

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 22d

The thing that worries me is the possibility that students en masse internalize the idea that composition instruction is simply smoothing out the “problems” of their voice relative to an idealized normative templated prose proficiency. That “education” is the purposeful annihilation of voice.

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 22d

A tool that signals how far they diverge from an aspirational norm is not that useful for the task of learning that student’s unique entrance into critical thought, and any process that separates me from the difficult work of learning the student’s language is an obstacle to helping them.

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 22d

I think quite a bit about commenting on student work. It is, in some ways, the most consistently onerous part of the job of instruction, but, to me, that labor is not detached from the broader project of learning in a way that makes it impossible to comment on student work with a tool.

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Brittany R. Clark, Ph.D. @brittrclark.bsky.social · 22d

Also love the book covers lining your whiteboard. So cool. (The assignment also looks really interesting, too, of course).