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Matt Crow
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History @HWS, working on the ocean in US intellectual history. NorCal LA convert, CNY resident, kelp forest pilgrim, books on Jefferson and next Melville. Gillian Rose stan, Pocock/Gibbon apologist. P.I., Mellon Maters of Memory Grant. A citizen of Geneva.
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It's true!
Sarah Wasserman, assistant dean for faculty affairs, was named co-editor of the eminent Oxford Studies in American Literary History book series. The scholar of 20th- and 21st-century American literature will lead the series alongside @ericafretwell.bsky.social of the University of Albany.
Wasserman Appointed Co-Editor of Oxford’s American Literary History Series | Faculty of Arts and Sciences
The prestigious book series offers an expansive approach to American literary and cultural history.
fas.dartmouth.edu
December 17, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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Students should indicate whether they would like my standard or bespoke grading service.
December 17, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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This is pretty wild ngl!
December 17, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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🚨 JOB JOB JOB!!! 🚨
Late-breaking job! Indigenous history at University of Colorado Boulder. Assistant or eatly associate. Been trying to get this line for forever. It’s finally happening 🙏 Great place to live and work. Fabulous colleagues (ask me how I know!) networks.h-net.org/jobs/69637/u...
University of Colorado - Boulder - Assistant or Associate Professor of History | H-Net
The Department of History at the University of Colorado Boulder seeks a tenure-track Assistant Professor or early Associate Professor specializing in Native American history with a focus on the North American West, broadly defined. The successful applicant will have access to funds associated with the Walter and Lucienne Driskill Professorship in Western American History. Specialization is open, but the department particularly encourages applications from scholars whose research focuses on the early American West (pre-1920s) and engages with legal history, the history of women and gender, environmental history, and/or the history of medicine and public health.  Scholars with demonstrated commitments to engaging Native American communities and/or supporting Native and Indigenous students are especially encouraged to apply, as are those who bring relevant lived and individual experiences and achievements to this position.
networks.h-net.org
December 16, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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someone should invent a thing that's like a university but it's goal is to facilitate learning
December 11, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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“What most struck me is the brutality and physical violence involved in every story,” said Sen. Richard Blumenthal. “This is stuff that should be unrecognizable as America. It should make everyday Americans outraged.”

By @nicolefoy.bsky.social
Immigration Agents Have Often Grabbed and Mistreated Citizens, Congressional Investigators Find
Prompted by ProPublica’s reporting, an investigation by Senate Democrats documented the experiences of nearly two dozen citizens wrongly detained by immigration agents, contradicting the Trump adminis...
www.propublica.org
December 11, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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#WaterfallWednesday

📍Watkins Glen, NY
December 10, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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Another of the Ocean Beach Pier shortly after sunset in San Diego, California. The tides were very exaggerated from the recent supermoon.

#sandiego #sdca #oceanbeach #beach #surfing #surf #dogbeach #ocean #waves #kingtides #lowtide #surfob #supermoon
December 11, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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December 10, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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Such a joy to talk about The Predatory Sea with Karin Wulf as part of the JCB Reads series! 🗃️

youtu.be/Z6VZAD6BBuU?...
JCB Reads 2025 with Casey Schmitt
YouTube video by The John Carter Brown Library
youtu.be
December 10, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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Feels like the US has spent the last 5+ years on the verge of some kind of secular moral revival that keeps getting channeled into weirdo lifestyle puritanism
Cafes across the U.S. are embracing the low- and no-caffeine lifestyle, with options that are a far cry from dusty tea bags and rewarmed decaf. nyti.ms/3XKlqoj
December 10, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.”

Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
December 9, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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Leviathan 26.3 is now online @projectmuse.bsky.social! "Melville's queer afterlives" special issue collects case studies that highlight the range of queer Melvilleana and in the process contribute to an understanding of the aesthetic shape assumed by queer creative impulses. muse.jhu.edu/issue/56015
Project MUSE - Leviathan-Volume 27, Number 3, October 2025
muse.jhu.edu
December 10, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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The special issue I co-edited on "Melville's Queer Afterlives" is here and it's queer. This issue has EVERYTHING: gay pirates, dirty pictures, racist internet fanfic, Gilbert Gottfried, original poetry, and just so many French people.

Available at your library, but LMK if you're paywalled...
Project MUSE - Leviathan-Volume 27, Number 3, October 2025
muse.jhu.edu
December 8, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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are we still on about em dashes and ai. imo human writers should just use the em dashes even harder. we should be out here pummeling out those em dashes like we're emily dickinson
December 10, 2025 at 3:22 AM
“whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul…”

Happy T-day from the sea
November 26, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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I'm so excited Dan, Johanna, & Emory have made it possible for me to record the entirety of their book launch symposium next month as an arc in the "Vandal Live" series.

Symposia are, in my opinion, the very best of academic programming, & everybody should have the good fortune of partaking.
October 24, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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it's national taco day! stellar mexicanist ignacio sanchez prado has a new book right on time!

TACO, in the bloomsbury object lessons series.

chicago, go celebrate with a taco and support our neighbors in little village, pilsen, logan, everywhere

www.bloomsbury.com/us/taco-9798...
Taco
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.Taco is a deep dive into the most iconic Mexican food…
www.bloomsbury.com
October 7, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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My colleague Jack Bouchard's book Terra Nova is out today! It's about early 16th-century mariners and the seasonal fishery around present-day Newfoundland, and its place within the Atlantic World. I cannot wait to read it

yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
Terra Nova
A bottom-up story of the fishworkers, whalers, First Nations, merchantwomen, oceans, and animals who together made a new colonial world in the early Atlantic...
yalebooks.yale.edu
October 7, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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I'm teaching the Boston Massacre tomorrow and it just feels surreal.
October 7, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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Holy, dread leviathan, we are not worthy spectators of your lunching
I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
September 25, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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When Jefferson trashed Wheatley’s book, he hadn’t yet published a book of his own. I think about that sometimes.
September 25, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Even in the Lawless Seas: Legal Imagination and Oceanic History in the World of Herman Melville, coming from this historian, of sorts, and Cambridge University Press in the not too distant future!
So I read Moby Dick for the first time this summer. I read it slowly, and I took a lot of notes (selections in the 🧵⬇️). I was motivated in part by learning more over the last few years about the 18th c spermaceti candle business of the Browns in our collections @jcblibrary.bsky.social. But also 1/
September 18, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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Read an excerpt from “The Predatory Sea: Human Trafficking and Captivity in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean” by @csschmitt.bsky.social. @pennpress.bsky.social www.hnn.us/article/free...
Freedoms Lost in Translation
In the 17th-century Caribbean, a person’s legal status depended on who controlled the land where they labored.
www.hnn.us
September 17, 2025 at 6:58 PM