Madeline Bedecarre
@mbedecarre.bsky.social
Prof: Sociology of Lit / Postcolonial Studies / African Lit / Francophone
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Back when I was writing regularly about baseball, circa 2012, I crunched the numbers & the likelihood of becoming a tenure-track professor in one of the MLA disciplines was almost precisely the same as getting from a college baseball team to a MLB roster.
Nothing has gotten easier since then.
Nothing has gotten easier since then.
Becoming a tenured professor is a bit like becoming an NBA forward or a successful recording artist. (Or a novelist or a working fine artist or a pediatric cardiologist.) The supply is massively greater than the demand, and everyone is excellent. This is a hedge fund of yourself, not a career goal.
December 19, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Back when I was writing regularly about baseball, circa 2012, I crunched the numbers & the likelihood of becoming a tenure-track professor in one of the MLA disciplines was almost precisely the same as getting from a college baseball team to a MLB roster.
Nothing has gotten easier since then.
Nothing has gotten easier since then.
taking any/all words of encouragement for finishing my book.
December 18, 2025 at 5:09 PM
taking any/all words of encouragement for finishing my book.
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Montclair State University has with no reasonable justification replaced all departments in the humanities and social sciences with four non-disciplinary units, seemingly randomly chosen by uni executive leadership with no regard for faculty input or governance. Terrible & portentous
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My colleague has captured what is currently happening at my institution. I have found the chipper rhetoric announcing it particularly depressing.
My colleague has captured what is currently happening at my institution. I have found the chipper rhetoric announcing it particularly depressing.
The Eternal Synergy of the Spotless Mind
BY ADAM RZEPKA A large public university is wiping out all of its humanities departments. It isn’t sure why. As I write this, our Interim Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHSS…
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November 14, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Montclair State University has with no reasonable justification replaced all departments in the humanities and social sciences with four non-disciplinary units, seemingly randomly chosen by uni executive leadership with no regard for faculty input or governance. Terrible & portentous
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UT Austin is discussing eliminating or consolidating our departments of African American and African Diaspora Studies, Mexican/American and Latino/Latina Studies, and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies. Here is what AAADS alumni have to say. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
November 7, 2025 at 2:15 PM
UT Austin is discussing eliminating or consolidating our departments of African American and African Diaspora Studies, Mexican/American and Latino/Latina Studies, and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies. Here is what AAADS alumni have to say. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
in grading purgatory. pray 4 moi
November 2, 2025 at 3:10 AM
in grading purgatory. pray 4 moi
Can someone send me this article who has access?
www.lefigaro.fr/vox/culture/...
www.lefigaro.fr/vox/culture/...
Éric Zemmour: «Quand la France était une nation littéraire»
CHRONIQUE - L’universitaire Anne-Marie Thiesse nous offre une analyse fouillée de la figure mythique et controversée de l’écrivain national.
www.lefigaro.fr
October 30, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Can someone send me this article who has access?
www.lefigaro.fr/vox/culture/...
www.lefigaro.fr/vox/culture/...
So no one is going to talk about that email on the H-France listserv? 🕵️
October 23, 2025 at 7:02 PM
So no one is going to talk about that email on the H-France listserv? 🕵️
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This book is officially out today. I feel pretty confident that everyone in my feed (academic and not) could use it — I certainly got a lot from reading it in process, and, also, hearing Sarah say these things to me live and in person over a period of many years. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
October 20, 2025 at 3:59 PM
This book is officially out today. I feel pretty confident that everyone in my feed (academic and not) could use it — I certainly got a lot from reading it in process, and, also, hearing Sarah say these things to me live and in person over a period of many years. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
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🚨🚨 @utaustin.bsky.social is working to eliminate its Black studies, Latin studies, and gender studies depts -- utterly reneging on its mission and depriving students of the full educational opportunities they deserve. Please--scholars AND publishers--share & write to UT leaders. #SaveUT
October 10, 2025 at 4:16 PM
🚨🚨 @utaustin.bsky.social is working to eliminate its Black studies, Latin studies, and gender studies depts -- utterly reneging on its mission and depriving students of the full educational opportunities they deserve. Please--scholars AND publishers--share & write to UT leaders. #SaveUT
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JOB ALERT: Assistant Professor of Art at Smith College, focusing on artists’ books and artist publications:
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September 28, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Reader, it does indeed go away.
6ish+ years of full time teaching and I still get so nervous before class the first few weeks. Does this ever go away?
September 21, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Reader, it does indeed go away.
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Hi friends! I'm super happy that we have an opening for a tenure-track assistant professor in Gender & Sexuality Studies at Davidson College. Job ad just posted (link below). Please share widely.
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Assistant Professor of Gender & Sexuality Studies
The Department of Gender and Sexuality Studies (GSS) at Davidson College invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor starting July 1, 2026. This position is open to candidates from all...
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August 15, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Hi friends! I'm super happy that we have an opening for a tenure-track assistant professor in Gender & Sexuality Studies at Davidson College. Job ad just posted (link below). Please share widely.
fa-exci-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
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The texture of cottage cheese doesn't bother me.
These AAUP “Tips for Engaging with Social Media” don’t seem to have a realistic sense of how & why people use social media. I mean I’m sorry but I’m not going to post “the faculty united will never be divided” over & over
September 18, 2025 at 11:36 PM
The texture of cottage cheese doesn't bother me.
BA/MA/PhD in French, African Studies, Gender Studies, etc. cut. Are our professional associations speaking out about this?
The attack on public higher ed is mostly about class: Indiana Gov Braun went to Harvard; he has a net worth of 100m. He does not think working class people deserve to engage ideas, to read, understand science, to have a few years to explore what might be a different future
July 3, 2025 at 10:47 PM
BA/MA/PhD in French, African Studies, Gender Studies, etc. cut. Are our professional associations speaking out about this?
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The concern about the decline of the male novelist is the dumbest moral panic I’ve seen in a minute.
July 3, 2025 at 2:08 PM
The concern about the decline of the male novelist is the dumbest moral panic I’ve seen in a minute.
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“This article shows how interlibrary loan, conceived as a form of academic traffic, played a crucial role in postwar reconstruction efforts, facilitating the xchg of resources + info among libraries… [It] focuses on the elaborate procedures librarians developed to create union catalogs.”
Libraries as “Academic Traffic Facilities”: Interlibrary Loan Imaginations after 1945 | Critical Inquiry: Vol 51, No 4
Abstract The devastation of World War II left German libraries partly in ruins, collections and catalogs lost or destroyed, prompting a need to reconstruct and reimagine the library system. This artic...
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June 26, 2025 at 3:56 PM
“This article shows how interlibrary loan, conceived as a form of academic traffic, played a crucial role in postwar reconstruction efforts, facilitating the xchg of resources + info among libraries… [It] focuses on the elaborate procedures librarians developed to create union catalogs.”
easily 400 people protesting in Davidson, North Carolina this morning.
June 14, 2025 at 6:11 PM
easily 400 people protesting in Davidson, North Carolina this morning.
www.youtube.com/watch?app=de... Dark Academia themed pomodoro timer. This has been a delightful addition to my summer writing days
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June 5, 2025 at 6:47 PM
www.youtube.com/watch?app=de... Dark Academia themed pomodoro timer. This has been a delightful addition to my summer writing days
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Wow ...
Mort de Pierre Nora, figure centrale de la vie intellectuelle, éditeur et historien, à 93 ans ➡️ bit.ly/3FkwHWR
June 2, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Wow ...
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humanities major hiring on the rise against the hallucination plagiarism arson machine www.cnbc.com/2025/05/16/c...
College majors with the best and worst job prospects — art history beats finance
In general, what college students choose to major in has significant implications for job prospects and future earnings potential.
www.cnbc.com
May 19, 2025 at 11:07 PM
humanities major hiring on the rise against the hallucination plagiarism arson machine www.cnbc.com/2025/05/16/c...
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MONTREAL! I hope you'll join me for the launch of @benlibman.bsky.social's outstanding new book! DE STIIL BOOKSELLERS | Friday, May 16 at 6:00 pm!
In The Third Solitude, Benjamin Libman looks to the past — of his community, of his family, and of himself — in an attempt to escape the inadequate narratives around Zionism that he grew up with.
Pre-order: buff.ly/QgAS7en
#ThirdSolitude #JewishIdentity #Memoir #BookSky
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#ThirdSolitude #JewishIdentity #Memoir #BookSky
May 8, 2025 at 12:26 PM
MONTREAL! I hope you'll join me for the launch of @benlibman.bsky.social's outstanding new book! DE STIIL BOOKSELLERS | Friday, May 16 at 6:00 pm!
Grief is so weird. I lost my dad almost a month ago. Some days are totally normal. And some days I'm in an absolute fog.
April 25, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Grief is so weird. I lost my dad almost a month ago. Some days are totally normal. And some days I'm in an absolute fog.