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Carrie Shanafelt

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Assistant professor at Yeshiva College in #18thC & #19thC #Literature. #Bentham & #queer #aesthetics (wrote Uncommon Sense, UVaP 2022), national #debt and #slavery […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ c18.masto.host/@carrideen, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Carrie Shanafelt @carrideen.c18.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 3h
getting stuck on a packed rush hour train with a high school glee club is payback for all those years when i was an annoying choir kid, i just know it
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Carrie Shanafelt @carrideen.c18.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026
Today in #VanCortlandtPark a very chill little chipmunk was peeping at us from his little tree stump hole.
A tree root among bright green leaves in a forest dappled with sunlight reveals a tiny chipmunk face timidly peeping from a recess in the wood
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Carrie Shanafelt @carrideen.c18.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026
Oh my God, I just lost two days of work on an article because I kept getting blown up by a committee at work asking me to resubmit a proposal over and over, and I had a bunch of windows open and thought I was "Don't Save"ing the bad old proposal and instead I "Don't Save"d the article I've […]
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Spook-ass, Christ oh boo! boo! @loukas.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Ok I think I've packed all I need for the voyage.
A black handbag with a black cat head poking out of it
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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
In my quest for minimalism, I have made a relaxing game of balance 🧘 Please try it and let me know what you think? It’s real quick, and I’m proud of this one.
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A quiet black-and-white nonogram that starts at two by two and eases up to fifteen.
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Carrie Shanafelt @carrideen.c18.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026
Aw, beans! It's October so it is finally time to rewatch Over the Garden Wall!
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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever
A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities
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Carrie Shanafelt @carrideen.c18.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026
In researching current academic literature on Bentham, one of the things that cracks me up is how many scholars refuse to (or cannot) quote anything Bentham actually wrote, so they will just say "the likes of Bentham"--and sometimes "the likes of Bentham, X, Y, and Z." If you reference Bentham […]
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Carrie Shanafelt @carrideen.c18.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026
Six years after buying this apartment full of outrageously janky and poorly installed off-brand appliances, one failed, and I thought, I've got this. I've saved up enough that I can afford to get us a dishwasher. But in order to get the new dishwasher in, I had to catastrophically dismantle the […]
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Carrie Shanafelt @carrideen.c18.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026
Aurélie Knüfer (Université de Montpellier Paul-Valéry) and I are starting an online workshop on Sexual Nonconformity in Modern Philosophy (17-19th c) beginning in January. Our idea is that each hour-long meeting will focus on a shared text presented (10 mins) by a scholar, followed by […]
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Carrie Shanafelt @carrideen.c18.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026
I have eaten olive pizza, which I hate, twice in my life: in 2007, the night after I saw Charles Burnett's Killer of Sheep, on a date with a lawyer who was trying to elicit a response of some kind by ordering a pizza I hate, and today, in 2026, after seeing Charles Burnett's My Brother's Wedding […]
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Carrie Shanafelt @carrideen.c18.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026
I had one of those weeks when my calendar was a Tetris of meetings that prevented me from scheduling anything else, and they were all cancelled within an hour of beginning. It is all different people who all have different reasons, but surely some cancelling could be done in time to let a person […]
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Carrie Shanafelt @carrideen.c18.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026
As someone who teaches men, I am of course interested in and concerned about male loneliness. But having been at many points of my life a lonely woman, I am always shocked by sentences like this from Jeremy Gordon's review of Jon Ronson's The Castle. So men […] [Original post on c18.masto.host]
Women, too, suffer from deaths of despair--but it's the men, Ronson indicates, who have been raised to envision themselves as heroes, a self-image that can drive them to dark places.
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Carrie Shanafelt @carrideen.c18.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026
My post on our Tristram Shandy reading group is up! We have only just started last week and we are reading very slowly, so there is plenty of time to join us. tristramshandy2026.substack.com/p/a…
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A Novel Is a Dioptrical Bee-Hive
Volume I, Ch. XIII-XXV || Carrie D. Shanafelt
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Carrie Shanafelt @carrideen.c18.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026
Today one of my students pulled me aside before class to ask if I am being funny. Often, I think?? So it is OK if we laugh at you? Uhh, sure. Some of the things you say are slightly ridiculous. Oh yeah, I know. Like, when you use slang, that is you being funny, right? I don't like where this is […]
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Carrie Shanafelt @carrideen.c18.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026
If you are in the NYC area, you may need to know that Wake In Fright is showing at Metrograph on Thursday night! It gets better every time I see it. metrograph.com/film/?vista_film_id=… youtu.be/yqwDmHioWcE
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Back to films # Wake in Fright ##### SELECT SHOWTIME BELOW TO PURCHASE TICKETS ###### Thu Sep 10 8:10pm ##### Director: Ted Kotcheff ##### 1971 / 109min / 4K DCP It’s the eve of the Christmas holiday, and polite, young middle-class schoolteacher John Grant (Gary Bond), tied to a position at a tiny township in the outback, is on his way to Sydney to see his girlfriend by way of a stopoff in the grubby mining burg Bundanyabba (“The Yabba” to locals) when he pops into the pub for a drink… Five days of debauchery with local degenerates Donald Pleasence and Chips Rafferty later, the fresh-faced Grant has been replaced by a desperate, unshaven, beer-and-booze-pickled maniac, acquainted with species of depravity he could scarcely have imagined a week ago, and with the barbaric rites of the bush. A furious fever dream from Canuck director Kotcheff, who knew a thing or two about chronic self-degradation as practiced in far-flung outposts of the British Commonwealth, and one of the greatest of Australian films. Distributor: AGFA Part of The Worldwide West Click here to accept Marketing cookies and load this content # Save $7 on tickets Become a Metrograph Member for as little as $5/month to enjoy Member pricing and exclusive access to pre-sales Sign Up Today Already a member? Log in now ### RECOMMENDED Series ### The Worldwide West ### In Theater ACE Presents: Pumping Iron ### In Theater Goodbye, Dragon Inn
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highly praised and little read @hannah.posts.rat.pictures.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026
RE: mastodon.social/@gutenberg_new/1172… This is one of mine! The second novel by the author of Lolly Willowes, also on PG and which you should absolutely read if you get a chance
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Carrie Shanafelt @carrideen.c18.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026
Dominos delivery guy just biked past me whistling Total Eclipse of the Heart
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Carrie Shanafelt @carrideen.c18.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026
Excited for Chronovisor at Lincoln Center! #movies #film
Looking up at the big screen at Walter Reade. The left half of the screen is a black and white blurry negative of ghostly people in a crowd, and the right side says Chronovisor, "Inspired by the true story of a 'fake' invention..."
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Carrie Shanafelt @carrideen.c18.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026
@drsyntax.bsky.social Interestingly, I got Connecticut specifically, though I have never lived there and grew up in Kansas! The cold over Oklahoma and the Gulf would upset my parents, from Skiatook and Mobile!
A dialect heap map showing bright red New England, cold Texas/Louisiana, medium shades elsewhere.
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Carrie Shanafelt @carrideen.c18.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026
RE: c18.masto.host/@carrideen/116500432… This post from May might be more useful to teachers now:
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Carrie Shanafelt @carrideen.c18.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026
RE: kinkycats.org/@aces_funhouse/117196… Seconding this reminder about bi visibility and making sure you know that bisexuals are far more likely to experience domestic violence and sexual assault than straight, gay, or lesbian people. We are far more likely to experience poor […]
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Carrie Shanafelt @carrideen.c18.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026
I just got an unnerving spam call in Mandarin pretending to be a Verizon rep. When I said hello in English, the guy was unnerved and asked if I speak Mandarin. I said a little,what are you calling about? He said they are interested in my phone number and want to find out about me. So I hung up […]
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highly praised and little read @hannah.posts.rat.pictures.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026
I think wikipedia does this intentionally to taunt people with adhd. Like hold on tell me about the cat
United States Treasury security

"Treasury Bill" redirects here. For the cat, see Rufus of England.
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Carrie Shanafelt @carrideen.c18.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026
Professor of the Year, reporting for duty! First day of the fall term, first day back on tenure track, first day in these new trousers. Let's go!
A middle-aged white woman with short bleached hair and a goofy open-mouthed smile sitting in an office. Behind her there are two photographs of a cedar waxwing by Loren and a poster of four Enlightenment philosophers in British 1960s-style caricatures by John Holbo
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Carrie Shanafelt @carrideen.c18.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026
Today is the 10-year anniversary of when I met @mxtiffanyleigh , who has been the only person I have ever been in a long-term relationship with, the only romantic partner I've ever lived with, the only person I've ever wanted to marry. I didn't think I wanted or needed any of that before 10 […]
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Carrie Shanafelt @carrideen.c18.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026
Dolores is being as cute as possible to stop my partner from leaving for an overnight trip. #Caturday #CatsOfMastodon
A middle-aged brown tabby cat with a white chin is posed on the edge of a cat bed with her paws dangling off the edge. She is looking up at the camera with a smug smile on her face. In front of her on the floor there is a surprisingly lifelike fish toy and a catnip toy shaped like a strawberry.
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Carrie Shanafelt @carrideen.c18.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026
For everyone about to start teaching classes for the fall, try to keep in mind that they are *different* students. (We have to remind ourselves or else we become hysterical.) youtu.be/8AeCo3AD1cM
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Carrie Shanafelt @carrideen.c18.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026
Too many songs jump immediately to mind on receiving this news about Dolly, but this one, "If I Lose My Mind," was on repeat in my 20s, when I was pretty constantly in some phase of moral trauma from trying to date guys. Bless her memory forever--Dolly described a whole ontology of pain […]
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Carrie Shanafelt @carrideen.c18.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026
[Cake] It has been a while since I made a rhubarb ribbon cake. This one is quite excellent. Rub square pan w butter and shake sugar around in it. Shave two rhubarb stalks into ribbons, put the best ones in the pan. Chop the rest and sauté in a T sugar, set […] [Original post on c18.masto.host]
A shiny glazed golden brown cake with stripes of caramelized rhubarb running down it, on a blue plastic plate.
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Boris Mann @boris.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 23/08/2026
A lovely excuse to learn some Australian slang as part of a write up of how Canada walked away from negotiating with Trump ifloz.substack.com/p/king-carney-ac…
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Carrie Shanafelt @carrideen.c18.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026
As a former blogger from the mid-00s, I'm finding it pretty wild that Jamelle Bouie is just straight-up reading John Rogers' incredible 2005 blog post on what he called "the crazification factor": kfmonkey.blogspot.com/2005/10/lunch… I re-read this old […]
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Carrie Shanafelt @carrideen.c18.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026
Please forgive the Substack link but I wanted to make sure anyone who might want to participate in a group reading of Tristram Shandy knows about it. (I am not the organizer, but I know them!) Meetings are hybrid, in person in NYC and on Zoom twice a month on Fridays, and there will be weekly […]
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Carrie Shanafelt @carrideen.c18.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026
This WSJ video about the slow-motion demise of the stupid, cruel Neom "Line" project in Saudia Arabia provides a satisfying resolution to the flood of people RTing "woah if true" about the silly CGI video the SA government published to drown out videos by people whose relatives they murdered to […]
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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2026
Wow. "AI adoption raises homework scores by 18% and reduces completion time by 30%, but lowers monthly exam scores by 20% within six months. High-stakes entrance-exam scores fall by 18 and 24%, with the full penalty emerging only after about two years. " […]
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Carrie Shanafelt @carrideen.c18.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026
@lizrdbreath.bsky.social I figured out where your brid.gy was! Mine is here: bsky.app/profile/carrideen.c18.mast…
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Carrie Shanafelt @carrideen.c18.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026
[Self-harm NOT in the news] For some reason, 2026 seems to be the year that everyone just stopped reporting causes of death when it might be from self-harm, and it is starting to feel like society-wide gaslighting. We lost a friend earlier this year, no cause or conditions named, as if he […]
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 15/08/2026
First I was banned from X/Twitter. Then Facebook banned my newsletter. Then X/Twitter banned me permanently. Now YouTube disables my channel the week of my book launch. Was it something I said? 👉 www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...
Stack of books. The nerd Reich, Gil Duran.
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Carrie Shanafelt @carrideen.c18.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026
Saw The Invite last night and Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma and now I am becoming concerned that Millennials all think Gen Xers want to put on Sade and teach them how to have sex. I cannot stress enough that Gen Xers do not do volunteer work!
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Carrie Shanafelt @carrideen.c18.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026
Camilla won't put her tongue away. She is trying to tell us something. #CatsOfMastodon
A silky black cat on a gray couch has her pink tongue sticking out at least half an inch, looking at the camera
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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 11/08/2026
I now consider it rude to cite a scientific paper in an internet discussion or argument if you haven't read the whole paper. If you don't *know* it don't cite it. What is the point? If you are just pointing to the paper because you read the abstract and think it's interesting you need to say […]
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Carrie Shanafelt @carrideen.c18.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 11/08/2026
Oh hey, the Travelling at Night demo is out on Steam, if you need to know that. It is lovely.
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Carrie Shanafelt @carrideen.c18.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 10/08/2026
Most of my friendships with faculty at R1 schools reveal that my assumptions about their access to research support, colleagues in their field, and a general sense of professionalism are wrong, and so much of that culture of nurturing scholarship eroded long ago. But today I get to serve as a […]
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Carrie Shanafelt @carrideen.c18.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 09/08/2026
On my website, I still have a document up that I made in 2019 that contains "Profiles in the Humanities," featuring paragraphs from people saying what they do and how studying the humanities (whether as a major or gen ed) contributed to their life, whatever that means to them. There are people […]
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Carrie Shanafelt @carrideen.c18.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 09/08/2026
My spouse is out of town so I have been eating girl dinners, which in my case means pumpkin and oyster mushroom congee and lima beans stewed with saffron, zucchini, and heirloom tomatoes--texturally challenging fragrant bubbling hot stews. In August!
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Carrie Shanafelt @carrideen.c18.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 08/08/2026
What did I do in my whole life to deserve this perfect child? #CatsOfMastodon
A beautiful silky long-haired black cat with pretty yellow-ringed eyes sitting on a coffee table
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Carrie Shanafelt @carrideen.c18.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 07/08/2026
Here is a great--and even optimistic--interview with Tim Cain, a scholar of academic freedom at the University of Georgia, about the current legal challenges to Stop WOKE and other attacks on faculty teaching and research, as well as speech outside the university about the world or one's […]
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Carrie Shanafelt @carrideen.c18.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 06/08/2026
Beginning the fall term with a statement that course and university policies apply to every student whether they understand them or not may seem like an intense flex until you spend a year on the Academic Standards committee. (Unlike Academic Integrity, we don't review cheating, but we do see a […]
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