Eric Selinger
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Poetry maven turned popular romance scholar. Founding Editor of the Journal of Popular Romance Studies. Off-hours singer and lyricist for the JRC Alte Rockers.
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what else can we do? what do we want to do? what feels good? (thinking. making, making ideas....) how can I help you know you want to do this stuff? EDUCATION IS THE NONCOERCIVE REARRANGEMENT OF DESIRE and that includes the teacher's (thanks, Spivak)
October 24, 2025 at 11:35 PM
what else can we do? what do we want to do? what feels good? (thinking. making, making ideas....) how can I help you know you want to do this stuff? EDUCATION IS THE NONCOERCIVE REARRANGEMENT OF DESIRE and that includes the teacher's (thanks, Spivak)
There's a lovely passage in Akwaeke Emezi's novel "Bitter" about this, centered on a line she quotes from Mariame Kaba: "Hope is a discipline." I've been thinking about that a lot recently.
October 24, 2025 at 8:48 PM
There's a lovely passage in Akwaeke Emezi's novel "Bitter" about this, centered on a line she quotes from Mariame Kaba: "Hope is a discipline." I've been thinking about that a lot recently.
In fairness, there's a whole phrase that's different--see below--but since Hayden's first version dates to 1945, I think it's much more a poem of the WW2 era (remember the "Four Freedoms"?) than of 1966. saysomethingwonderful.blogspot.com/2014/10/robe...
Robert Hayden's "Frederick Douglass": 3 Versions
My senior capstone seminar this quarter is spending 10 weeks on Robert Hayden's sonnet "Frederick Douglass." Among the pleasures of the cou...
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October 22, 2025 at 9:54 PM
In fairness, there's a whole phrase that's different--see below--but since Hayden's first version dates to 1945, I think it's much more a poem of the WW2 era (remember the "Four Freedoms"?) than of 1966. saysomethingwonderful.blogspot.com/2014/10/robe...
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Poem: Frederick Douglass
A poem by Robert Hayden, published in The Atlantic in 1947
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October 22, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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I am an academic - hello from the Vice-President of the International Association for the Study of Popular Romance! - so if you want a book that shows what it's really like out there in universities (while still having a HEA!!): An Academic Affair is for you.
An Academic Affair
From the “masterly” (The New York Times) Jodi McAlister, a charming new romance about two English professors who embark on a fake relationship…only...
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October 22, 2025 at 8:22 PM
I am an academic - hello from the Vice-President of the International Association for the Study of Popular Romance! - so if you want a book that shows what it's really like out there in universities (while still having a HEA!!): An Academic Affair is for you.
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The Platner defenders can't even get their story straight. He doesn't claim growth; he claims he didn't know what it was until a few weeks ago.
And that's apparently a lie, because people heard him calling it "my Totenkopf" like 15 years ago, and lying shows the opposite of growth.
And that's apparently a lie, because people heard him calling it "my Totenkopf" like 15 years ago, and lying shows the opposite of growth.
October 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
The Platner defenders can't even get their story straight. He doesn't claim growth; he claims he didn't know what it was until a few weeks ago.
And that's apparently a lie, because people heard him calling it "my Totenkopf" like 15 years ago, and lying shows the opposite of growth.
And that's apparently a lie, because people heard him calling it "my Totenkopf" like 15 years ago, and lying shows the opposite of growth.
Drip, drip, drip...
October 22, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Drip, drip, drip...
