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Anna E. Clark

@annaeclark.bsky.social
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Now: criticism, teaching, SoCal Then: academia, 19thC, NYC Always: "the novel," outdoor things, trying to figure it out annaeclark.com

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michael röbbins @alienvsrobbins.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Lots of people will weigh in with thoughts on Anne Carson in the coming days, but I will just note that she wins the epigraph game
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Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Among other excellent reasons, I’m glad the Nobel went to someone whose work is really great to teach with.
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Jennifer Szalai @jenszalai.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
It was a short call, Carlberg said: All the poet would say was she
was "in Iceland," where she was
"listening to the wind."
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Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
If you want to really lean in to the darkness, look on Amazon for AI slop picturebooks
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Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Hot dog vendors will be glad to know they have a chorus of support
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Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Exception made for hot dog vendors.
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Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Petition to ban the verb “relish” from all job and/or career-adjacent material.
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Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I have such low expectations for any true progress in the quashing of misogyny but I am allowing myself to dream about the end of fraternities/”greek life” 🤞
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Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Private schools are a scourge on civic life, and I say this as someone who has taught in the “best” of them.
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Mike Vincent @mikevincent.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is truly bonkers. I can have zero experience, refuse any certification, curriculum, or accreditation AND take public money while teaching literally whatever the hell I want to in my choice of 9 states
You could open Ye Olde Free-Range Academy in South Carolina and eight other states.
Your school's name comes from your answers to Question 3, "No. I want the freedom to teach whatever I see fit, whether it's Scripture or homesteading," and Question 10, "Old-timey words like 'Heritage' or "Ye Olde!"
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Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Picking "Worldly Gray," "Kilim Beige" or "Urbane Bronze" will definitely get you on a list.
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Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Also, I kid you not, "Useful Gray, "Amazing Gray," and "Passive."
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Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Browsing exterior paint colors and wow, have I got some fodder for the aesthetics of fascism crowd:
Swatches of bland taupe paint titled "agreeable gray" and "accessible beige."
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Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
So much has fallen on us elder millennials and now we’re responsible for keeping all the cute natural wine shops solvent too.
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Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
All the money in the world apparently buys you this version of the humanities
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Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
She’s very committed to the bit.
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Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
No idea what I’ll be for Halloween, but my cat will be going as a Fat Bear Week contestant.
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
👇🏻
302 END TIMES FASCISM
We are convinced that our collective safety will come only when our elites are forced to imagine living and surviving here, with the rest of us. They will see this as a cruel and terrible punishment at first.

They will have to get over it.
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Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
So much of the teaching of writing and reading has been an attempt to circumscribe the very freedom they yield, which in part explains why it is often done so badly.
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Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Never has stasis been so charming or nuanced
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Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Anything Trollope
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Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Pretty sure Hyrox is one of the lesser Greek sea deities and that’s fine.
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Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This has been a great week for adding to my list of people and events of which I can feel ok about maintaining near total ignorance
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 15/09/2026
Has anyone considered orienting college education around the practice of sitting together and discussing real books, read on paper? www.nytimes.com/2026/09/15/u...
nytimes.com
Universities Sound Warnings About A.I. Even as They Embrace It
As A.I. upends education, university leaders have been all over the map about how to respond. It can be very confusing for students.
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Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
chat, please curse in a pointedly inconvenient but not fatal way the following individuals:
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Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
One of my favorite parts of Bluesky is the spicy version of Kai Ryssdal
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I feel so confident saying the native intelligence of this generation is not the problem. The looting & wholesale sabotage of their educational infrastructure is.
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Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
“‘’destructive scanning sacrifices multiple potential future human readings to a single instance of machine reading.‘“
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Imagine if you just gave mathematicians 22 million dollars
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Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I think something similar is happening with many faculty (and teachers) too: they know they can’t prevent ai use, trying to do so means exhaustion on top of exhaustion, they turn a blind eye and feel like it’s a horrible compromise. Meanwhile, the institution pretends this is all tenable.
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Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
“Institutions capitulate or dodge; students who don’t want to cheat with AI do; and then students believe it’s their individual failing. Some become cynical; some are filled with guilt.”
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Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
One thing I always see: ai does not know when to stop. Claude‘s professional voice is gratuitous drama masquerading as assertive precision.
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Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I have gone from being the person family call on to help polish a cover letter to the person they call on to de-Claude it. This does not feel like progress.
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Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
More of this please
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
"A projected 111,000 fewer international students are expected in the U.S. this fall — a more than 9% drop in enrollment. A coalition of higher education organizations (AND UNIONS) sued the Department of Homeland Security to prevent the rule from taking effect." www.wuky.org/wuky-news/20...
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U.S. colleges, universities brace for loss of international students
The Trump administration is capping the length of time international students can legally remain in the U.S., and declines in their enrollment could spell disaster for colleges and universities.
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Sarah Osment @smosment.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
has anyone encountered any good critical history of writing in the university? especially as it concerns labor
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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I finally read this review and I’m moved by the extent to which Dwight Garner praises the novel and also the depth of his work here—it’s not a simple rave, by any means, but a class on how to read. If you want that.
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Mario Trujillo @mariotrujillo.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
There is no comprehensive tally of ICE subpoenas to tech companies in the second Trump administration. But this is a start www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
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A List of ICE Subpoenas to Tech Companies
This is likely an undercount. The full scope is hard to pin down because these subpoenas typically only come to light when a user is given notice and challenges them in court, or when a company docume...
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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 27/08/2026
MIT report is superb. It acknowledges disruption, concedes different disciplines will handle this differently, foregrounds people and social interaction — but also says something obvious I had just about given up hope institutions could say: aiandeducation.mit.edu/report/
3.1.1. Revisit course goals
Before considering how to construct Al-aware assessments, instructors should reconsider their goals for student learning- in every subject they teach. What should students know or be able to do by the end of the course?
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Nick Kapur @nickkapur.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Making university faculty sit in their offices from 8 am to 5 pm every day, 5 days a week, is insane and serves no conceivable academic purpose. The fact that admins and even *staff* are exempt from this absurd requirement shows the real goal is to make tenured faculty quit.
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Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
She was *such* a human being, but the thing I keep thinking about is how Dolly’s voice makes me feel—one of so few singers who, in listening, produce in me the same physiological joy as the act of singing itself, like I could open my mouth and those same pure notes would pour out. Nothing like it.
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Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Full disclosure: it’s 80% Gruyere and butter
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Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
semester time, tomato time
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
cognitive sabotage, you can ban it extra credit to U Chicago for bans on professional AND undergrad programs; smart SLACs are going to market AI free campuses soon chicagomaroon.com/53262/news/s...
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Sosc Core to Institute AI Ban, Technology-Free Classrooms This Fall
All social science Core classes will transition to an “analog” approach for the upcoming academic year, restricting in-classroom technology use and banning AI-assisted writing and grading for students...
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Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
oh for a time machine to go back to, oh, 2012 or so and talk to every English department trying to endure by hawking ”writing skills” to business and criminal justice majors…
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Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Please do report back!
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Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
I‘d love to know more about where ed schools are in all this, or, like, teacher education in general. You go to school, get a degree and a certificate, just to do …. this??
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Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Not a big deal in the grand scheme of things, but another instance of bland, lazy ed speak that dishonors students’ intellectual and creative capacity
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