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Siva @sivav.bsky.social · 48m

The “compact” for higher ed is an unserious document written by unserious people from a position of spectacular ignorance. No one should take it seriously. Sadly, my bosses are taking it seriously.

newrepublic.com/article/2013...

Why This Essay Could Cause the University of Virginia to Shut Down

How Linda McMahon’s latest “compact” would do deep and permanent harm to American higher education

newrepublic.com

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1h

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."

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s.d. hernández adkins, phd @hernandezadkins.bsky.social · 20h

This looks amazing!

Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 22h

I’ve been super excited to share this. The full TOC for TEACHING POETRY NOW, ed by Caroline Gelmi and Lizzy LeRud, is online & chock full of assignments, experiences, and resources from a range of college classrooms. Out in Feb, available for preorder now.

sunypress.edu/Books/T/Teac...

Acknowledgments
List of Illustrations
Preface: Editors' Note on the Now
Introduction
Caroline Gelmi and Lizzy LeRud
Part 1: How We Think About Poems
1. A Conversation on Dinétics
Esther G. Belin and Jake Skeets
2. Post-Craft
Michael Leong
3. Unsettling Modernist Poetry
Erin Kappeler
4. Legacies of Empire in the Western Poetic Line:
The Problem of Caesura
Heather H. Yeung
5. Unpacking the Interpretive Toolbox: Historical
Poetics in Introductory Courses
Caroline Gelmi
6. "I hear it now"; or, Teaching Students to Read Poems in Novels
Annelise Chick and Gabrielle Stecher
7. Moving "Rooms" Across Borders: Putting Pressure on the Stanza
Reem Abbas and Heather H. Yeung

8. Under the Sonnet's Menace: Helping Students Navigate Race, Constraint, and Rage in the Post-Romantic Sonnet Anton Vander Zee
9. Rawest Radical Material: Teaching Poetry's Diction
William Fogarty
10. Reading, Misreading, and Rereading "We Real Cool" Mike Chasar
Part 1 Cluster: Ideas on Teaching Lyric
11. Retheorizing Lyric via the Pedagogy of Eighteenth-Century Antislavery Poetry
Chris Chan
12. Lyric Borders: Reading and Writing with Gloria
Anzaldúa's New Mestiza
Leah Huizar
13. Lorenzo Thomas's Griot Lyric: Reading Persona and Race in the Digital Age
Lukas Moe
14. Lyric After Lyricization: Learning and Unlearning the Lyric / in the Activist Classroom
Anastasia Nikolis
Part 2: What We Do With Poems
15. Poetry as Empathetic Praxis: Black Poetics and the Creative Writing Classroom
Monique-Adelle Callahan D.

16. Performing Desire: Collaborating with Sex Worker Poets in the Composition Classroom
Philippa Chun
17. Oral Poetries Are (Not) Lost to Us: Ethnopoetics in the Digital Age
Kenneth Sherwood
18. Against Mastery: Working Through the Desire for Order in Teaching M. NourbeSe Philip's Zong!
Jess A. Goldberg
19. Future-Facing Archives: Phillis Wheatley Peters and the Intertextual Poetic Past
Sarah Nance
20. Cultivating a Culture of Enjoyment in the Poetry
Classroom
Rachel B. Griffis
21. Reframing Modernism: Creative Composition and the Analysis of Modernist Poetry at an HBCU
Candis Pizzetta
22. Whose Voice Matters? Reading Aloud Across Language and Ability Eileen Sperry
23. Reimagining the Poet's Procedure: Imitation as
Literary Analysis
Lizzy LeRud
24. From Stifling to Expansive: Reimagining Poetry
Teaching and Learning with The South African
Poetry Project
Sooriagandhi Naidoo, Toni Gennrich, and Eunice Phiri

25. Transgressive Teaching and Subverting
Censorship in the Dual-Credit Classroom
Ronnie K. Stephens
26. The Florence Poetry Collective: Death Row as a
Site of Poetic Production and Expressive
Sovereignty
Joe Lockard
Part 2 Cluster: Project-Based Learning
27. Engaging Poetry: The Review as Critique and
Conversation
Victoria Chang and Dean Rader
28. City, State, and Self: A Collaborative Book Project
James Innis McDougall
29. Experimental Indexes: Quantifying Poetic
Patterns and Project-Based Reading
Nick Sturm
30. Teaching Anti-Racist Research Practices Beyond Research Papers: Emma Lazarus, Esther Schor, and My First-Year Composition Students Mollie Barnes
31. Student Research, Digital Humanities, and Cross-Campus Collaboration: Building Mina Loy:
Navigating the Avant-Garde
Susan Rosenbaum, Suzanne W. Churchill, Linda A.
Kinnahan
List of Contributors

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 14h

What we’re seeing now is not people “[beginning] to view their own government’s security forces as an occupying army”—the federal agents are becoming an occupying army, and the violence is theirs. The violence is already here.

Caleb Crain @calebcrain.bsky.social · 15h

Chilling insight by @barbarafwalter.com: "Once citizens view their own government’s security forces as an occupying army, violence becomes inevitable. Trump’s team knows this… They’re trying to trigger the very unrest that would justify further crackdowns."

via www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/o...

Screenshot from a NYT article by Thomas Edsall, quoting Barbara Walter of UC-San Diego: "The quickest way to piss people off is to send soldiers into their neighborhoods especially when there’s no reason for them to be there. It’s inherently provocative, and Trump and his team understand this. Research by the political scientist Robert Pape shows that the single most powerful predictor of suicide terrorism is the presence of foreign troops on local soil. People hate, hate, hate that. They hate the humiliation, the powerlessness, the feeling of being occupied.

"Once citizens begin to view their own government’s security forces as an occupying army, violence becomes inevitable. Trump’s team knows this. In fact, that’s the point. They are not trying to restore order; they’re trying to trigger the very unrest that would justify further crackdowns. In the end, violence serves their ultimate end: They want to create the illusion of disorder so they can tighten control and stay in power indefinitely."

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 21h

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

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 19h

lol I’m really excited about that one! A v cool “South-South” comparative study of Cuban and Egyptian cultural production that will — I think! I hope! — be of interest to comparatists more broadly

sunypress.edu/Books/U/Utop...

Utopia Incarnate

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 19h

$41 million: The amount of money we’ve raised for indie bookstores since 2020.

$0: The amount of money Amazon has raised for indie bookstores since 1994.

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 19h

Very cool books with very cool covers bombardment because we all need a little beauty and brilliance, surely

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 22h

Doing a quick run to the store to buy soup while blasting early Sarah McLachlan like the impossibly cool middle-aged lady I am

Vox by Sarah McLachlan from her 1989 album Touch. It’s good, I swear!

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 22h

I’ve been super excited to share this. The full TOC for TEACHING POETRY NOW, ed by Caroline Gelmi and Lizzy LeRud, is online & chock full of assignments, experiences, and resources from a range of college classrooms. Out in Feb, available for preorder now.

sunypress.edu/Books/T/Teac...

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 1d

I didn't know Debra while at Cornell but she was so welcoming when I started at SUNY & so generous--giving extensive feedback on an author's draft just wks ago. The loss is unfathomable. My deepest sympathies to her students, colleagues, & collaborators worldwide.
www.cornellsun.com/article/2025...

‘A Tremendous Loss’: Prof. Debra Castillo Dies After 40 Years at Cornell

Prof. Debra Castillo, comparative literature and Emerson Hinchliff professor of Hispanic Studies, died over the weekend, according to an email.

www.cornellsun.com

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Col. Boozy Badger @boozybadger.lawyersandliquor.com · 1d

Dunno man, seems a little misleading to write an article about Trump describing activity in Portland and Chicago as “insurrection” with a 33 year old photo of a burning donut shop taken in the 1992 LA Riots (sans caption explaining that) as the header on all your posts about it.

The picture from
The article with a picture of an armed men standing in front of a burning donut shop. You must click through to read the caption “
Two National guardsmen stand guard outside a burning donut shop in Los Angeles on April 30, 1992.
The National Guard was called in to aid police during the second day of rioting in the city.”

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Pat Inverted Vibe Curve Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 2d

Sick with worry over the ongoing detention of Alex Colston, journalist at @dropsitenews.com. I have known Alex for nearly a decade as a student, teacher, colleague, editor, publisher, and dear, dear friend. He and his comrades must be let free, now. Please read this, share, it and demand action.

Drop Site Urges the Immediate Release of Global Sumud Flotilla Participants, Including Drop Site Journalist Alex Colston

All of us at Drop Site News are deeply disturbed by the reports of inhumane and abusive treatment of nonviolent activists and journalists detained by the Israeli military while on board the Global Sum...

www.dropsitenews.com

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Professor KPA 🗃️😷 @kpanyc.bsky.social · 1d

I was 11 when Ferris Bueller came out and I first heard of trickle-down economics. My dad explained and I said that was stupid & my dad laughed & agreed. Recently we watched the movie w/ my kids and had the same damn conversation. Can we pretty please not keep up this bullshit any longer?

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2d

Still waiting for it to trickle down...

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 1d

FYI happening this Thursday—free and open to all. Just click the link to register. Featuring @dwcongdon.com, @dawnd.bsky.social, and Alyssa Napier talking all things diss to book—what’s the diff b/w them, how to find a press/approach an editor, tips for proposal writing. Join us & spread the word!

Association of University Presses @aupresses.bsky.social · 1d

All are invited to the first in Publishing with University Presses Webinar Series, "Turning Your Dissertation into a Book," Oct 9 at 1pm ET. Organized by our Faculty Outreach Committee with the Rutgers Ctr for Minority Serving Institutions.

Register here: https://buff.ly/UiOAr5M

Turning You Dissertation into a Book webinar promotional tile

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 2d

If you'd told me in fall 2008, during the last year of my PhD, that in fall 2025 I'd be an editor and Doug would be filling in for me on an MSA panel I would have told you I had a really nice bridge to sell you right before asking if you would write the other 3/4 of my diss for me.

Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 2d

I'm not going to MSA at this year but lucky for you someone much smarter and cooler than I -- my very own diss chair, Doug Mao -- is, I just discovered, filling in for me in the grad publishing workshop.

Life is weird, time is a flat circle, it's a small world, etc, etc.

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 2d

I'm not going to MSA at this year but lucky for you someone much smarter and cooler than I -- my very own diss chair, Doug Mao -- is, I just discovered, filling in for me in the grad publishing workshop.

Life is weird, time is a flat circle, it's a small world, etc, etc.

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 2d

brown alums sign and share standstrongbrown.org/reject-trump...

Brown must reject Trump’s so-called “Compact for Academic Excellence” – Stand Strong Brown

standstrongbrown.org

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 3d

It’s not twist-off which makes it already fancier than what I usually get lol

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 3d

Will report back on whether it lives up to the name

A bottle of rosé called Good Fucking Rosé

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BOOOOlioraptor, PhD (spooky version) @biblioraptorphd.bsky.social · 4d

This is called a communications degree. Or an English degree. My uni library has a podcast studio and several programs have classes that allow students to create a podcast for an assignment. This is like making a degree in Excel or Word

"spooky sukkot" daniel s. @self.agency · 4d

Syracuse University, which costs $100,000 per year, has opened a school to give degrees in podcasting and social media influencing 🫥

Betting on the Creator Economy, Syracuse University Opens Academic Center for Podcasters and Influencers

The shift in course offerings follows a recent decision to pause admission for 20 undergraduate majors, including fine arts and digital humanities.

www.artnews.com

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 4d

I said what I said.

The Briefing with Jen Psaki @briefingwithpsaki.bsky.social · 4d

IL Congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh: "I think Kristi Noem should have consequences. I think she should be tried at The Hague."

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 4d

I think we’re really going to have to do a lot more of this. A massive deprogramming so that people can read more than ten words at a time without anxiety.

www.thetimes.com/uk/education...?

Universities teaching literature students how to cope with long novels

Critics blame GCSE English for deterring teenagers from the subject, describing the literature syllabus as boring and repetitive

www.thetimes.com

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roxanne panchasi @rpanchasi.bsky.social · 4d

@rcolesworthy.bsky.social um excuse me have you seen this

A Little Golden children’s book biography of Keanu Reeves with an illustration of the actor in a dark grey suit on a red carpet surrounded by photographers and flashes of light.

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 4d

Hahahahaha amazing

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