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Rachel Banner

@ishmaelcallme.bsky.social

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chips & dips; poor sense of direction ; prof & union member ; writing about c19 U.S. literature - wives, violence, energy; Detroit, Philly, Joel Embiid forever

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Rachel Banner @ishmaelcallme.bsky.social · 1d

I joke that it took me twenty years to figure out how to get this off my chest about Herman Melville, starting from my first encounter as an undergrad in 2005. But it kind of did. So thrilled that this essay has a home at J19: Project MUSE - Melville's Idea of a Wife muse.jhu.edu/article/970112

Project MUSE - Melville's Idea of a Wife

muse.jhu.edu

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Rachel Banner @ishmaelcallme.bsky.social · 4h

my grandma let me consume unlimited amounts of minty carnauba wax at her house back in the day. The candy bowls hated to see me coming.

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Rachel Banner @ishmaelcallme.bsky.social · 6h

someone drew a “rat disco” on the board in a classroom, and who am I to erase it 🪩

Rachel Banner @ishmaelcallme.bsky.social · 18h

these disgusting, delicious little things

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Rachel Banner @ishmaelcallme.bsky.social · 1d

Mellvillainy, or, Shitty Husband Studies

Rachel Banner @ishmaelcallme.bsky.social · 1d

sure, if you dm me an email I’m happy to send pdf

Rachel Banner @ishmaelcallme.bsky.social · 1d

that’s so kind, Laurel! Thank you!

Rachel Banner @ishmaelcallme.bsky.social · 1d

Project MUSE - Melville's Idea of a Wife

muse.jhu.edu

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Rachel Banner @ishmaelcallme.bsky.social · 1d

except Herman Melville, he did it a few times

Rachel Banner @ishmaelcallme.bsky.social · 1d

“We’re attracted to ideas of self-managed craft and nonmarket investigation…Yet we regard them as best suited to exceptional people who have merited tenure and the like…less a necessary feature of democracy than an individual privilege, the result of personal merit rather than its collective cause.”

Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 2d

"the solution is still the one that can succeed: to build a new cultural order, a new civilization. To do so, academics must embrace an unusual new role: as knowledge workers, they must seize the means of knowledge production."

www.publicbooks.org/academics-mu...

Academics Must Seize the Means of Knowledge Production - Public Books

Trumpism has canceled the knowledge society.

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Rachel Banner @ishmaelcallme.bsky.social · 2d

I’d say I’m a fan but not a Swiftie, and that distinction emerges bc I think several of her albums / songs are dogshit. And I really love others!

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Rachel Banner @ishmaelcallme.bsky.social · 2d

Nevada, Imogen Binnie for a novel maybe? But I guess it’s not that short. For short stories, have had some luck w Kelly Link’s “The New Boyfriend”

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APSCUF @apscuf.org · 2d

Mark your calendar for upcoming sessions of Science on Tap, a series led by West Chester University professors.

Science on Tap - WCU of PA

Address: Office of the Dean College of the Sciences and Mathematics Anderson Hall, Room 320 725 S. Church St West Chester, PA 19383

www.wcupa.edu

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Rachel Banner @ishmaelcallme.bsky.social · 2d

Went to an 80th bday party this weekend, and their home decor is excellent

Rachel Banner @ishmaelcallme.bsky.social · 4d

Things in the attic bedroom of old hudson valley rental. Have not dared to turn it on.

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Rachel Banner @ishmaelcallme.bsky.social · 5d

charged lemonade dispenser added to 5th floor bottle filler

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Rachel Banner @ishmaelcallme.bsky.social · 5d

I got this.

Rachel Banner @ishmaelcallme.bsky.social · 5d

he was so cunty sometimes

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Rachel Banner @ishmaelcallme.bsky.social · 5d

ok but are you sure you’re not just being very precious about when / how you can read

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Rachel Banner @ishmaelcallme.bsky.social · 5d

we all want the lemonade that can kill you at this point in semester 🍋 ⚰️

Dylan Lewis @iamdylanlewis.bsky.social · 5d

in the mood for the panera bread charged lemonade

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Rachel Banner @ishmaelcallme.bsky.social · 6d

"Friend, this cake is meant to signal the end-ive of our relationship"

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liz polcha @lpolcha.bsky.social · 6d

I’m trying to understand why universities think students would be interested in paying $$$$ and going into debt for chatgpt edu, a thing they can use for free

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Rachel Banner @ishmaelcallme.bsky.social · 6d

Or the endive cake is longing for the good old days, when it could just be a normal plant instead of a cake no one asked for

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Rachel Banner @ishmaelcallme.bsky.social · 7d

if you want your friend to know that you actually hate them, make them the endive & radicchio cake for their bday

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Rachel Banner @ishmaelcallme.bsky.social · 6d

apparently there’s rye cake and cream cheese inside? that just makes it all worse.