Chris Cusack
@fearfuljoycuit.bsky.social
Reader | writer | teacher. Been there, done that, got the T. rex.🦖 Researching death, famine, and apocalypse. Irish Studies and beyond. Reviews books. Also writing about Moomins, because why not. Asst Prof at Radboud University, NL. He/him
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Chris Cusack
@fearfuljoycuit.bsky.social
· Nov 25
In addition to my academic work, I dabble as a critic (@thetls.bsky.social, @irishtimes.bsky.social, Poetry Review, @poetrylondon.bsky.social etc.) and writer (Poetry Ireland, Banshee, @abridgedmagazine.bsky.social, Honest Ulsterman, @manchesterreview.bsky.social etc.). Might one day finish a book.
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December 27, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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He ys ridinge a horse
He ys emerald and svelte
He will get reallye weirde
If you lie about beltes
The Greene Knighte
Ys Cominge
To Toun
He ys emerald and svelte
He will get reallye weirde
If you lie about beltes
The Greene Knighte
Ys Cominge
To Toun
December 25, 2025 at 9:08 PM
He ys ridinge a horse
He ys emerald and svelte
He will get reallye weirde
If you lie about beltes
The Greene Knighte
Ys Cominge
To Toun
He ys emerald and svelte
He will get reallye weirde
If you lie about beltes
The Greene Knighte
Ys Cominge
To Toun
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Last Christmas
I gave you my art
But the very next day
You gave it away
This year
I cut off my ear
- Vincent Wham Gogh
I gave you my art
But the very next day
You gave it away
This year
I cut off my ear
- Vincent Wham Gogh
November 27, 2023 at 1:46 PM
Last Christmas
I gave you my art
But the very next day
You gave it away
This year
I cut off my ear
- Vincent Wham Gogh
I gave you my art
But the very next day
You gave it away
This year
I cut off my ear
- Vincent Wham Gogh
My sister and I went to IKEA today with her two children, who loudly but obviously rightly berated us for not buying them every furry toy strategically placed in the showroom despite sybaritically splurging on luxuries for ourselves, such as *checks notes* a sieve, a bath curtain, and a dish rack.
December 24, 2025 at 12:45 AM
My sister and I went to IKEA today with her two children, who loudly but obviously rightly berated us for not buying them every furry toy strategically placed in the showroom despite sybaritically splurging on luxuries for ourselves, such as *checks notes* a sieve, a bath curtain, and a dish rack.
I desperately want this article to finish writing itself.
December 22, 2025 at 6:06 PM
I desperately want this article to finish writing itself.
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Calling all scholars of death in the Irish diaspora!
Chris Cusack & I are co-editing a special issue of Éire-Ireland @eire_ire on Death and the Irish Diaspora. Abstracts due 31 October (it seemed fitting) w/ final papers expected 1 May 2025. Full CfP 👇
eire-ireland.org/index.php/ei...
Chris Cusack & I are co-editing a special issue of Éire-Ireland @eire_ire on Death and the Irish Diaspora. Abstracts due 31 October (it seemed fitting) w/ final papers expected 1 May 2025. Full CfP 👇
eire-ireland.org/index.php/ei...
Hocus Pocus GIF
ALT: Hocus Pocus GIF
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October 21, 2024 at 9:02 PM
Calling all scholars of death in the Irish diaspora!
Chris Cusack & I are co-editing a special issue of Éire-Ireland @eire_ire on Death and the Irish Diaspora. Abstracts due 31 October (it seemed fitting) w/ final papers expected 1 May 2025. Full CfP 👇
eire-ireland.org/index.php/ei...
Chris Cusack & I are co-editing a special issue of Éire-Ireland @eire_ire on Death and the Irish Diaspora. Abstracts due 31 October (it seemed fitting) w/ final papers expected 1 May 2025. Full CfP 👇
eire-ireland.org/index.php/ei...
Have returned for however long it may last for some light lurking and book promo.
December 21, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Have returned for however long it may last for some light lurking and book promo.
In this week’s TLS: my review of @janjancl.bsky.social’s very interesting Immigration and Apocalypse (which I filed absolute ages ago). www.the-tls.com/religion/rel...
The gates and the wall
Religion continues to shape American politics. Evangelicalism has had a decisive influence on Donald Trump’s political trajectory, while apocalypticism – the belief in the imminent ending of the world...
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July 16, 2025 at 10:45 AM
In this week’s TLS: my review of @janjancl.bsky.social’s very interesting Immigration and Apocalypse (which I filed absolute ages ago). www.the-tls.com/religion/rel...
Read two collections from Tommy Pico’s Teebs tetralogy over the past month. Amazing.
July 15, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Read two collections from Tommy Pico’s Teebs tetralogy over the past month. Amazing.
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Made myself a new friend.
May 29, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Made myself a new friend.
Hiding from the world in a cabin somewhere. Have finished five books since I arrived two days ago. I could get used to this.
July 15, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Hiding from the world in a cabin somewhere. Have finished five books since I arrived two days ago. I could get used to this.
Received an extremely thoughtful and superbly executed homemade gift from a student this week. The world is burning and like many other teachers I often wonder why we still bother, but this is the kind of thing that reminds me it’s all worthwhile.
June 7, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Received an extremely thoughtful and superbly executed homemade gift from a student this week. The world is burning and like many other teachers I often wonder why we still bother, but this is the kind of thing that reminds me it’s all worthwhile.
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The single most infuriating thing about Office is that it resets your settings with every. fucking. update. No, Word, I do not EVER want you to auto-“correct” things as I type, particularly given the fact that half the time you don’t even recognise what language I’m working in.
June 3, 2025 at 7:09 AM
The single most infuriating thing about Office is that it resets your settings with every. fucking. update. No, Word, I do not EVER want you to auto-“correct” things as I type, particularly given the fact that half the time you don’t even recognise what language I’m working in.
A lovely thunderstorm, and the pitter-patter of much-needed rain!
May 31, 2025 at 10:45 PM
A lovely thunderstorm, and the pitter-patter of much-needed rain!
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If students are allowed or enabled or encouraged to compose text using AI, they will not learn to compose text. It’s that simple. All of the rest is waffle and bullshit propagated by philistine con artists and swallowed by craven PMC cadres
May 31, 2025 at 8:53 PM
If students are allowed or enabled or encouraged to compose text using AI, they will not learn to compose text. It’s that simple. All of the rest is waffle and bullshit propagated by philistine con artists and swallowed by craven PMC cadres
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Again, I cannot express how little I expected someone would usurp my position as "guy who takes ketamine in the company of a president".
May 30, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Again, I cannot express how little I expected someone would usurp my position as "guy who takes ketamine in the company of a president".
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People are always aghast at the “read pre-written paper aloud” format of humanities conferences but man when someone shows up and tries to wing it it’s a real good demonstration of why we do that
May 30, 2025 at 3:50 PM
People are always aghast at the “read pre-written paper aloud” format of humanities conferences but man when someone shows up and tries to wing it it’s a real good demonstration of why we do that
Marina Hyde just doesn’t miss.
May 30, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Marina Hyde just doesn’t miss.
I stopped eating meat almost a decade ago, but embarrassingly still fantasise about steaks, burgers, and stews. Will it ever end?
May 29, 2025 at 10:34 PM
I stopped eating meat almost a decade ago, but embarrassingly still fantasise about steaks, burgers, and stews. Will it ever end?
Made myself a new friend.
May 29, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Made myself a new friend.
As mentioned here, conditions are certainly much better here in NL, but the downside is that there are far fewer places available, so competition is gruelling, particularly in the humanities. Moreover, as a result of the far right govt’s HE budget cuts the number of positions has started to drop.
May 29, 2025 at 6:52 AM
As mentioned here, conditions are certainly much better here in NL, but the downside is that there are far fewer places available, so competition is gruelling, particularly in the humanities. Moreover, as a result of the far right govt’s HE budget cuts the number of positions has started to drop.
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Aww yes, been looking forward to @griffski.bsky.social’s new novel for years! And thank you to @kennysbookshop.bsky.social for the excellent service, as usual.
May 28, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Aww yes, been looking forward to @griffski.bsky.social’s new novel for years! And thank you to @kennysbookshop.bsky.social for the excellent service, as usual.