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Dustin Friedman

@dustinfriedman.bsky.social
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Associate Professor of Literature at American University. Aesthete and queer humanist. Author of *Before Queer Theory* and co-editor of *Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition: The 1890s*. He/him/his 🏳️‍🌈🐻👨‍❤️‍👨

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Dustin Friedman @dustinfriedman.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Hey everyone! I edited a special issue of Nineteenth-Century Literature on the “Fin de Fin de Siècle”. Check it out!
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Dustin Friedman @dustinfriedman.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
“Call Me By Her Name” drag race acting challenge when? Each queen has to cry on command in front of a fireplace. Surprise: they all do amazing. No one goes home. Lip sync for the win.
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Dustin Friedman @dustinfriedman.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Mickey 17 is not good.
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Dustin Friedman @dustinfriedman.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
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Dustin Friedman @dustinfriedman.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
“We as gay people get to choose our eating disorders.”
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Dustin Friedman @dustinfriedman.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
I think my issue was that the guy was not believably hot enough for her to risk it all. I understand that she’s getting something else from him, but he’s a rat face (which ok I can go for sometimes), but you’re going to go for that twerp when you’re getting railed by Antonio Banderas on the regs??
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Dustin Friedman @dustinfriedman.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Despite me not really liking the movie.
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Dustin Friedman @dustinfriedman.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
Despite lack of engagement this will likely become a Babygirl hot take account.
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Dustin Friedman @dustinfriedman.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Spoiler warning, I guess?? I can’t figure out if the use of “Father Figure” in Babygirl is ironic or not, and this is actually a major determining factor of my feelings about the film.
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futuredadOfTwo🙋🏻‍♂️ @lacroixboi.dadguy.pro · 23/12/2024
kate bush running past sisyphus
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Dustin Friedman @dustinfriedman.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Leo Bersani, “Is the Rectum a Grave?”
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Dustin Friedman @dustinfriedman.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
A big fat meh.
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Dustin Friedman @dustinfriedman.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Drag name: Vera Similitude. (Courtesy of my husband)
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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 06/12/2024
Maybe one of the reasons there are so many unhinged academics is that in order to keep your job, you’re constantly required to tout yourself as a Scholar of World-Historical Significance, even as your office’s ceiling tiles slowly dislodge themselves to fall on your head.
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Dustin Friedman @dustinfriedman.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
After 42 years, I think I’m finally ready to come out as shallow.
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Dustin Friedman @dustinfriedman.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Ok see I read this very differently.
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Dustin Friedman @dustinfriedman.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Now is the brat winter of our discontent.
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Dustin Friedman @dustinfriedman.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
I have a student interested in investigating the concept of the weird. Not the horror/sci fi genre, per se, but rather the disposition/descriptor more generally. Any leads would be appreciated!
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Dustin Friedman @dustinfriedman.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
How to get access to block lists? I think I would find them helpful but still not quite sure how they work.
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Dustin Friedman @dustinfriedman.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Witches of Eastwick ride at Disneyland when??
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Dustin Friedman @dustinfriedman.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
So, what’s Avital Ronell up to these days?
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Dustin Friedman @dustinfriedman.bsky.social · 08/10/2024
Remembering the political science professor on Twitter who a little over a year ago was certain--certain!--that the next president would be Ron DeSantis.
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Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 27/09/2024
Please help spread the word! The English Department at Harvard is hoping to hire an assistant professor of post-45 Anglophone literature. I'm not on the committee, but would be happy to answer your questions. academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/14143
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Tenure-Track Professor in Post45 Anglophone Literature
The Department of English seeks to appoint a tenure-track professor in Post45 Anglophone Literature. The appointment is expected to begin on July 1, 2025. The tenure-track professor will be responsibl...
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Dustin Friedman @dustinfriedman.bsky.social · 17/09/2024
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #3,326,835! #sad
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Dustin Friedman @dustinfriedman.bsky.social · 12/09/2024
10000000000% here for Pre-Raphaelite coded Chappell Roan.
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Dustin Friedman @dustinfriedman.bsky.social · 12/09/2024
Zac Efron
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Dustin Friedman @dustinfriedman.bsky.social · 11/09/2024
Evergreen.
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 09/09/2024
"The Department of History invites applications for an assistant professor who will make enough leftist remarks to annoy conservative talk radio hosts but whose politics will ultimately support the neoliberal mission of the university." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/hon...
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Honest Academic Job Postings
English department seeks a tenure-track assistant professor specializing in Shakespeare, Romanticism, Victorianism, modernism, post-modernism, post...
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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 08/09/2024
There should be a core undergraduate course called 'Useless Things' where you just enjoy stuff that cannot possibly be part of a career track.
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Dustin Friedman @dustinfriedman.bsky.social · 08/09/2024
Should I order y/y?
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Dustin Friedman @dustinfriedman.bsky.social · 01/09/2024
Just found out that two lovely young people who befriended each other in my Victorian Literature, Culture, and Power course back in 2018 are getting gay married to each other! Seriously a career highlight. As I told them, “See? The marriage plot works!”
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Dustin Friedman @dustinfriedman.bsky.social · 27/08/2024
First concert: The Allman Brothers Last concert: Madonna Next concert: Chappell Roan (hopefully) Worst: Bob Dylan Loudest: Lizzo Best: Lady Gaga Most surprising: The Chemical Brothers Happy I got to see: Prince Wish I could have seen: Bowie
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Dustin Friedman @dustinfriedman.bsky.social · 16/08/2024
While walking by the movie theater this morning I passed by two women c. 25 years old. One of them looked me directly in the eye and said in an excited and almost deranged whisper, “Twisters.” The other made eye contact and said, in an equally deranged whisper, “Twisters for the second time.”
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Dustin Friedman @dustinfriedman.bsky.social · 28/06/2024
Well, I guess it’s gonna be what it’s gonna FUCKING BE then, isn’t it?
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Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 28/06/2024
Man, where’s a hypothetical republic run by philosopher kings when you need one.
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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 28/06/2024
“If you don’t absorb that it’s people in charge of anything it’s really funny” — my scintillating commentary
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Dustin Friedman @dustinfriedman.bsky.social · 27/06/2024
True confession: Chappell Roan is everything I wanted Taylor Swift to be.
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Dustin Friedman @dustinfriedman.bsky.social · 27/06/2024
I don’t know if you could pay me enough to watch the presidential debate tonight.
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Dustin Friedman @dustinfriedman.bsky.social · 27/06/2024
True confession: Chappell Roan is everything I wanted Taylor Swift to be.
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Dustin Friedman @dustinfriedman.bsky.social · 25/06/2024
When Johns Hopkins is both your publisher and your medical provider, their emails can cause a lot of false excitement.
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Sam Thielmonster @samthielman.com · 25/06/2024
Some unusual stuff on the Golden Girls
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Dustin Friedman @dustinfriedman.bsky.social · 09/06/2024
Happy Pride!!!
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skáld @danglinghemmie.bsky.social · 08/06/2024
elder millennialhood is having a facebook profile wall with nothing but 14 years of happy birthday posts from people you haven't seen in over a decade
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Dustin Friedman @dustinfriedman.bsky.social · 07/06/2024
The bitch is back.
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Dustin Friedman @dustinfriedman.bsky.social · 07/06/2024
The bitch is back.
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Dustin Friedman @dustinfriedman.bsky.social · 06/06/2024
Big fish, little fish, swimmin’ in the water / Would you rather gay son or thot daughter?
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Dustin Friedman @dustinfriedman.bsky.social · 06/06/2024
Big fish, little fish, swimmin’ in the water / Would you rather gay son or thot daughter?
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