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Cleo is always cute but after a haircut she is ESPECIALLY cute
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If you're in Phoenix/Tempe today, come out to the Rift for the first Desert Grit Reading Series, with me, @shipraagarwal.bsky.social, @jonathanin2k.bsky.social, @sabrinahicks.bsky.social, @haydenmcasey13.bsky.social, and @stephanieaustin.bsky.social!
Poster for the Desert Grit Reading Series, which takes place October 4 at 3pm at Rift Wine Bar and Taphouse
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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.

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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
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by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen

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It's a great photo. Thanks for your good work against the stupidity of banning access to ... books. And to knowing things.
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a sweet and a happy / shana tova
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by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen

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the name of a neighborhood near me and every time I run or bike by it I curse myself for the missed opportunity of living there
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by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen

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related
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harbinger
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by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen

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Force animates the word (har comes from heri, a Germanic word for troop, martial band), but so does refuge (berga, a built space of safety, a secure dwelling in a world imagined as inimical). Harbinger is danger and omen at once, refuge and seeker, force and announcement.
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by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen — Reposted by: Jeffrey Jerome Cohen

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obsessed w the medieval origin of harbinger, it's an amazing word:
traveled from Old Saxon through medieval French, conveys in origins harbor, a place of safety. A medieval harbinger was one who provides lodging, as well as one who travels ahead in search of safe dwelling, a herald and guarantor.
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by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen

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year 5 of #ASUHumanities Week ahead: many of the events are streamed

humanities.asu.edu/week
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by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen

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updated my business cards
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Reposted by: Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, Hong, Southern Africa

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Important corrective to how we often talk about higher education and college students in America. Some facts and figures (see NYT article at end for further elucidation):

43 percent of (19 million) undergrads attend community college

75 percent of community college students enrolled part time
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In honor of National Dog Day, may we suggest one of these authentic and delightful medieval dog names for your next pet?

Tell us which is your favorite in the comments 👇
Medieval Dog Names (Real Names from medieval sources). Artus, Balbina, Bellina, Bembino, Bo, Borgettus, Curte, Dammast, Dyamant, Famia, Fortuna, Furstli, Gardiner, Gerland, Hapeguay, Hardy Hemmerli, Jakke, Lachne, Mamselle, Megastomo, Melesinn, Mignone, Monsieur, Mopsulus, Mopsus, Orsina, Petitcreiu, Purkoy, Rubino, Saphyrus, Sattin, Soldan, Speichli, Stosel, Sturdy, Terri, Turgk, Venus, Viola, Violina, Whitefoot, Zabot. List from Kathleen Walker-Meikle's book "Medieval Pets" @gettymuseum
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by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen

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I love the return of the notebook! Not that I ever abandoned them myself (and not that I am against good AI use either -- it is a career class so students have to be cognizant of how some jobs will desire proficiency).
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by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen — Reposted by: Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, Andrew Jacobs

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Back in 2018 I left the blog I founded and I miss the chance to write in public it used to offer. I have been trying to write more, we'll see what (if anything) this project becomes:
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old school
slowing down
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by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen

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(Not that it should ever be humanities vs natural sciences: we are all in it together. Or should be.)
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by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen

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it doesn't have to be this way

also: universities save very little money by reducing relatively low cost programs like most humanities disciplines

think of how many students you could fund for how many years if you forwent one piece of lab equipment

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by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen

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incoming haboob
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by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen — Reposted by: Jeffrey Jerome Cohen

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life on Dune
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(and yes I am well aware that some students will require an accommodation, that is 100% fine, that is what we do)

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sat outside to watch, it was amazing!! And the smell …
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by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen

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monsoon storms last night were something else — this was the prelude
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“The humanities are strong across ASU’s campuses,” says @jeffreyjcohen.bsky.social, Foundation Professor of English & dean of humanities at The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.

A new website highlights #ASUHumanities' career-focused academics & community impact.

Learn more: ow.ly/zfm250WIZux
ASU Humanities initiative launches as one-stop shop for all things humanities | ASU News
This August, Arizona State University launched ASU Humanities, which gives students and community members a one-stop shop for all things humanities at ASU.The initiative’s new website highlights caree...
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by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen — Reposted by: Jeffrey Jerome Cohen

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now is the time to build the strongest futures for the humanities, not diminish possibilities, to create through collaboration across our disciplines, not retreat into historically fragile configurations that isolate us from the good work of our peers

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Now is the Time to Build: Thinking Beyond Our Inherited Disciplines
Humanities Futures and Collaboration across Strengths
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Want to strengthen your humanities enrollments & student outcomes? W/ support from @mellon.org, MLA Pathways Step Grants provide up to $10,000 to improve recruitment, retention, and/or career readiness in undergraduate humanities programs. Please share & apply by 29 Oct!

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MLA Pathways Step Grants
Step grants of up to $10,000 to support faculty members or teams developing ways to improve the recruitment, retention, or career readiness of undergraduate students.
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by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen

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truly believe our best way forward as humanists is collaboration around our patent strengths -- even if that means inventing new ways for students to study with us
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U.S. Navy to drone pilot | Culture, technology and environment at ASU
YouTube video by Department of English, Arizona State University
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by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen

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Ricardo was a shining light — an excellent, valued collaborator from my GW days. I learnt of his passing via a friend’s text yesterday: what a loss to community.
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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · Aug 19
Some of you know from FB or elsewhere already, but our wonderful, funny, & unfailingly generous colleague Ricardo Ortiz died suddenly over the weekend. It is the most brutal possible news, and so profoundly sad. He was a source of joy and love and was a committed mentor to so many of us here.
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by Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò — Reposted by: Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, Rosie A. Fisher, Tom Clark , and 4 more

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My name is Graham Platner and I’m running for US Senate to defeat Susan Collins and topple the oligarchy that’s destroying our country.

I’m a veteran, oysterman, and working class Mainer who’s seen this state become unlivable for working people. And that makes me deeply angry.
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