Maria Anna Mariani
@mamariaanna.bsky.social
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A DEMOCRATIC argument for close reading. I loved every word and it was a balm today to me to focus on the detail.
The Claims of Close Reading - Boston Review
Literary studies have been starved by austerity, but their core methodology remains radical.
www.bostonreview.net
December 14, 2025 at 4:10 PM
A DEMOCRATIC argument for close reading. I loved every word and it was a balm today to me to focus on the detail.
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The Genocide and Holocaust Studies Crisis Network invites you to an online panel: "Denying Genocide: Comparative Reflections from Armenia, Bosnia, the Holocaust, and Palestine."
Register for this November 17 event here: wakeforest-university.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Register for this November 17 event here: wakeforest-university.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
November 3, 2025 at 10:22 PM
The Genocide and Holocaust Studies Crisis Network invites you to an online panel: "Denying Genocide: Comparative Reflections from Armenia, Bosnia, the Holocaust, and Palestine."
Register for this November 17 event here: wakeforest-university.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Register for this November 17 event here: wakeforest-university.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Georgia O'Keeffe carrying her canvas in the desert, c.1920
(via FB) #WomensArt
(via FB) #WomensArt
September 17, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Georgia O'Keeffe carrying her canvas in the desert, c.1920
(via FB) #WomensArt
(via FB) #WomensArt
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U Chicago AAUP fights back docs.google.com/document/d/1...
AAUP AHD open letter
This is an open letter from members of the University of Chicago community to the university administration. It is sponsored by UChicago AAUP, but you do not need to be a member to sign (though we enc...
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August 14, 2025 at 8:19 PM
U Chicago AAUP fights back docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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A new review of Alenka Zupancčič's Disavowal -- Patrick Pender gives a lucid account of Zupančič's Lacan, and her understanding of our inability to face climate change and capitalism as a shift from collective psychosis to perversion olrsupplement.com/2025/06/23/d...
Disavowal, by Alenka Zupančič - The OLR Supplement
Zupančič's Disavowal explains our inability to face up to climate change and capitalist forces as a shift in psychic structures from psychosis to perversion.
olrsupplement.com
June 23, 2025 at 3:48 PM
A new review of Alenka Zupancčič's Disavowal -- Patrick Pender gives a lucid account of Zupančič's Lacan, and her understanding of our inability to face climate change and capitalism as a shift from collective psychosis to perversion olrsupplement.com/2025/06/23/d...
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*International students represent about 15% of all higher ed students.
*They subsidize US students, so expect domestic student costs to increase
*Trump complains about tariffs but he is destroying an industry where the US is a huge net exporter
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/u...
*They subsidize US students, so expect domestic student costs to increase
*Trump complains about tariffs but he is destroying an industry where the US is a huge net exporter
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/u...
May 27, 2025 at 8:30 PM
*International students represent about 15% of all higher ed students.
*They subsidize US students, so expect domestic student costs to increase
*Trump complains about tariffs but he is destroying an industry where the US is a huge net exporter
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/u...
*They subsidize US students, so expect domestic student costs to increase
*Trump complains about tariffs but he is destroying an industry where the US is a huge net exporter
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/u...
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How in the world did I miss this in January .... Tom Geue (@tomgeue.bsky.social), Major Corrections: An Intellectual Biography of Sebastiano Timpanaro (@versobooks.bsky.social, 2025; #skystorians) www.versobooks.com/products/312...
Major Corrections
Sebastiano Timpanaro (1923-2000) was one of the most original leftist thinkers of the 20th century. His thought spans a unique range of subjects, from materialism to classical philology, from the Enli...
www.versobooks.com
May 23, 2025 at 6:43 PM
How in the world did I miss this in January .... Tom Geue (@tomgeue.bsky.social), Major Corrections: An Intellectual Biography of Sebastiano Timpanaro (@versobooks.bsky.social, 2025; #skystorians) www.versobooks.com/products/312...
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For the Monday morning crowd: a 🧵on how to appeal your NEH grant termination. Please share with NEH grantees.
I also summarized in a shareable google doc, available here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
I also summarized in a shareable google doc, available here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
April 28, 2025 at 3:21 PM
For the Monday morning crowd: a 🧵on how to appeal your NEH grant termination. Please share with NEH grantees.
I also summarized in a shareable google doc, available here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
I also summarized in a shareable google doc, available here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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AAUP has just published a memo laying out the many legal reasons why universities should not hand over the names & nationalities of their students or faculty, as the Trump admin has asked. Please share freely with your friendly university admin! @aaup.bsky.social www.aaup.org/news/institu...
Institutions Should Not Provide Student and Faculty Info To Enable Deportations
In response to news reports that the Office for Civil Rights in the US Department of Education has requested the names and nationalities of students and faculty who may have been involved in alleged T...
www.aaup.org
April 2, 2025 at 9:26 PM
AAUP has just published a memo laying out the many legal reasons why universities should not hand over the names & nationalities of their students or faculty, as the Trump admin has asked. Please share freely with your friendly university admin! @aaup.bsky.social www.aaup.org/news/institu...
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A flyer you can distribute on how to handle ICE if they come to your campus:
April 1, 2025 at 4:42 PM
A flyer you can distribute on how to handle ICE if they come to your campus: