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stefansolomon.bsky.social @stefansolomon.bsky.social · Mar 21

Excited to share 'Elemental Melodrama,' special issue of Textual Practice I edited w/ @moniquerooney.bsky.social & @gearuss.bsky.social! Essays by Sarah Balkin, Millie Schurch, Meg Brayshaw, @devo3000.bsky.social, and Marcie Frank on revisiting melodrama's elemental roots thru theatre, lit and film

Textual Practice

Elemental Melodrama. Guest Editors: Monique Rooney, Gillian Russell and Stefan Solomon. Volume 39, Issue 3 of Textual Practice

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Prof. Devin gRiff @devo3000.bsky.social · Mar 14

New album just dropped. Check it. www.publicbooks.org/b-sides-unde...

B-Sides: “Under the Sea-Wind” by Rachel Carson - Public Books

Bill McKibben proclaimed nature’s demise in 1989. But Americans who cared about DDT’s poisonous effect and the extinctions that would follow had been

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · Feb 8

From Michael Roth, president of Wesleyan University: slate.com/life/2025/02...

Dear Fellow College Presidents: We Need to Do More Than Wait This One Out

Why civil society needs university leaders to speak up.

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Prof. Devin gRiff @devo3000.bsky.social · Jan 10

Saw this at the MLA exhibit. Beautiful!

dead manu walking @profchander.bsky.social · Jan 10

i’m told you can get this for 30% off with the code 102277, brings it to like 20 bucks…

The Cambridge Companion to Romanticism and Race | English literature 1700-1830

www.cambridge.org

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David Ulin @davidulin.bsky.social · Jan 9

Before long, I hope, this will all be over. Before long, I will be back home. In the meantime, it is tearing me up not to be there.

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/09/o...

Opinion | Disasters Have Made L.A. What It Is

Los Angeles may have a reputation for being superficial, but it is in fact a territory that might, at any moment, upend (or even end) your life.

www.nytimes.com

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Remco van Straten (he/him) @remcovans.bsky.social · Dec 15

Like many, can confirm! This year really has been about becoming part of communities. Start with sitting in the back, if you need, but if it's the right community for you, they'll be happy to have you!

Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · Dec 15

You really don't need to be religious to get this feeling of civic involvement. Whenever someone tells me they're lonely, I tell them to volunteer.

Help the homeless. Build queer community. Work with seniors. Do something to help people around you. Throw a party! Make friends. No church required.

Jonathan Ladd @jonmladd.bsky.social · Dec 12

Hard to deny that the collapse of civic life is connected to:
1) the collapse of religious involvement among younger generations
2) the total collapse of local and regional news organizations.

Everyone wants to solve the problem without reversing these two changes, but that's very hard.

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River Talesien🏳️‍🌈🖖🦉📖✒️ @rivertalesien.myatproto.social · Dec 15

Libraries are absolutely the first-stop for community building: you can find so many groups, learn about events, volunteer opportunities, it's all there.

Free internet, sometimes a little shop. Bonus all around.

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Prof. Devin gRiff @devo3000.bsky.social · Dec 9

This is a must read! Excited, Manu!

dead manu walking @profchander.bsky.social · Dec 9

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Prof. Devin gRiff @devo3000.bsky.social · Nov 24

I guess this question asked: can you tell what part of speech this is? A Better question: has it ever been effective (within or without a sentence)?

Anil Kalhan @akalhan.bsky.social · Nov 23

Don't tempt me with questions like this, @nytimes.com

NY Times Word of the Day: provost

Subhead: "This word has appeared in 87 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year. Can you use it in a sentence?"

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Anil Kalhan @akalhan.bsky.social · Nov 23

Don't tempt me with questions like this, @nytimes.com

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Lindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social · Nov 23

Accidentally took a photo of my dog like she’s performed three miracles and is now a saint 😂😂😂

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Prof. Devin gRiff @devo3000.bsky.social · Nov 21

Totally wild. I am happy they are now asking at least. But I’ve already found other @CUP work of mine in an AI search. Feels more like they are on to the “ask for permission later” step. I wonder what would happen if we fired off a legally couched letter of response?

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Naomi Simone Borwein @nsborwein.bsky.social · Nov 15

I’m excited to announce this new CFP for scholarly chapters to be included in “Contemporary Indigenous Horror” edited by myself and Krista Collier-Jarvis! The CFP is open to self-identifying Indigenous scholars and creatives, as well as allies.

call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2024/11/...

cfp | call for papers

call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu

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Prof. Devin gRiff @devo3000.bsky.social · Nov 16

[Too bad he doesn’t speak German.]

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Prof. Devin gRiff @devo3000.bsky.social · Nov 16

Hi y’all—been off Bluesky and twitter for a few months. Anything happen while I was gone?

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Ted Striphas @striphas.bsky.social · Nov 16

Delighted to share the 2nd of 3 faculty openings in the Dept. of Media Studies, Univ. of Colorado Boulder. If you're focusing on ENVIRONMENTAL MEDIA, please consider applying. It's a tenured or tenure-track OPEN-RANK search. Deadline: Dec. 10 |
jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...

Professor in Environmental Media Studies

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Prof. Devin gRiff @devo3000.bsky.social · Sep 23

This week, the Griffiths of Houston, TX have volunteered as the matching family.
Please use this link to find the store, and please share widely. Info about the donations, etc., are all posted to the website.
Forward!

Prof. Devin gRiff @devo3000.bsky.social · Sep 23

that will raise money for the Harris/Walz campaign. You can buy campaign T-shirts, hoodies, and totes *all designed by kids.* Plus, your contribution ($10-$15 per item, depending on type) will be matched by a second family. www.bonfire.com/store/kids-4...

Kids 4 Kamala | Proceeds matched! Info below. | Bonfire

We are a group of kids raising money for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz. All proceeds will be donated to the Harris Victory Fund (more info below).

www.bonfire.com

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Prof. Devin gRiff @devo3000.bsky.social · Sep 23

Harris/Walz Kids Fundraiser, version 2.0!!!
Four years ago, Grey started a poster fundraiser, and her hand-drawn posters, which ended up all over the US, raised $600 for the Biden-Harris campaign.
This year, she and a group of friends created a web store instead ...

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Hale @jehale.bsky.social · Jul 31

BOOKS ARE WEAPONS IN THE WAR OF IDEAS

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Prof. Devin gRiff @devo3000.bsky.social · Jul 30

Bet her opponent wishes he’d seen this.

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Renee Fox @cookiegoth.bsky.social · Jul 12

I had such fun talking about The Necromantics on the History of Literature podcast 🧛🏻‍♀️❤️ www.historyofliterature.com/620-necroman...

620 Necromantics (with Renee Fox) | Herman Hesse on What We Learn from Trees

What was the deal with the Victorians and their obsession with reanimating corpses? How did writers like Mary Shelley, Robert Browning, Charles Dickens, W.B. Yeats,…

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John MacNeill Miller @snarlsdickens.bsky.social · Jun 4

What a pleasure it was to review the excellent new collection *After Darwin: Literature, Theory, and Criticism in the Twenty-First Century* edited by @devo3000.bsky.social and @doctorwaffle.substack.com! The review is below…but if you’re into Darwin, just buy it already!

Review: After Darwin: Literature, Theory, and Criticism in the Twenty-First Century, edited by Devin Griffiths and Deanna Kreisel

Darwin’s theories of natural and sexual selection established that survival is a matter of adaptation. To pass on its way of life, a population must show a certain degree of variation among its own me...

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · Jun 2

I don't know if he's on here but in case he isn't, Nathan Goldwag wrote a blog essay on "The Moral Economy of the Shire" looking at how a society can function based on custom & clientalism rather than the state and you should read it, it's fantastic.

nathangoldwag.wordpress.com/2024/05/31/t...

The Moral Economy of the Shire

Who paid for this? There's a certain meme that I see making the rounds on Facebook every so often about the bucolic nature of life in the Shire, from Tolkien's The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, an...

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Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · May 22

Here's a great summary of last night's ACLU NorCal event that I spoke at about police surveillance and resistance.

www.santacruzsentinel.com/2024/05/21/s...

Santa Cruz ACLU panel examines privacy rights

With the technologies that now exist, how could anyone reasonably expect that anything that they do is private?

www.santacruzsentinel.com

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