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Erin Elizabeth Greer

@erin-e-greer.bsky.social
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lit prof at UT Dallas working with novels, ordinary language philosophy, political theory, eco/animal stuff, and ethics| book: tinyurl.com/IdealOfConversation (30% off w code PAPER30)| profiles.utdallas.edu/erin.greer

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Erin Elizabeth Greer @erin-e-greer.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Summertime officemate 💗✨
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Erin Elizabeth Greer @erin-e-greer.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
my program's hiring! Lang & Lit at UT Dallas is searching for an Assistant Prof of Instruction in Rhetoric and Composition. App review starts at the end of May, and this full-time, ntt position begins in Fall 2026. More info & application here: jobs.utdallas.edu/postings/31753
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Assistant Professor of Instruction in Rhetoric and Composition
Position Description The Language & Literature Program in the Harry W. Bass Jr. School of Arts, Humanities, and Technologyat The University of Texas at Dallas invites applications for an Assistant Pro...
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Erin Elizabeth Greer @erin-e-greer.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
finding gifts from Simone Weil this morning, by way of the ever generous and generative Cora Diamond
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Erin Elizabeth Greer @erin-e-greer.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
It’s almost like we need some civics centers, amiright?
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Erin Elizabeth Greer @erin-e-greer.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
“Though often justified as required by state law… Governor-appointed Boards of Regents at public university systems are adopting policies that censor classes in ways that the Texas Legislature refused to pass… violat[ing] the freedom to teach and the freedom to learn protected by the 1st Amendment”
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Texas Conference of the AAUP @texasaaup.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
⭐️📢PRESS RELEASE: Across Texas, students and faculty at all seven public university systems face efforts to censor student learning and faculty teaching. See below for an overview of the ways AAUP members and leaders are fighting back! Join us! ✊ aaup-texas.org/blog/f/facul...
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Texas Faculty Fight Censorship of Students and Teachers
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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Matt McManus @mattpolprof.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
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Erin Elizabeth Greer @erin-e-greer.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
“…a spate of words from the loudspeakers and the politicians… tell us that we are a free people, fighting to defend freedom… Down here, … it is our business to puncture gas bags and discover seeds of truth. It is not true that we are free.”
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Virginia Woolf’s Call to Arms for Women
The author's views on women's rights during World War II.
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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 28/02/2026
“Their coalitions have the least to lose from war, and swearing off free trade makes seizing resources through force seem more attractive. This unfortunately means that the incoming "America First" coalition is likely to put the United States in greater, not less, risk of conflict.” (Dec 2024)
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The Bellicose Stance of the State
The incoming "America First" coalition is likely to put the United States in greater, not less, risk of conflict.
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Erin Elizabeth Greer @erin-e-greer.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
“I love beauty, therefore i am…” this is a resolution to skepticism i can get behind #cavell #irismurdoch #acknowledgment (thanks Fernando Pessoa)
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Erin Elizabeth Greer @erin-e-greer.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
happy birthday to Virginia Woolf—thank goodness for her ✨
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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
the Access of Evil (not a typo)
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Erin Elizabeth Greer @erin-e-greer.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
a special issue of Conversations, the journal dedicated to Stanley Cavell just came out, and it features an essay of mine about Indra Sinha's novel “Animal’s People” - it's in inspiringly/intimidatingly good company here: uottawa.scholarsportal.info/ottawa/index...
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No. 12 (2025): Table Talk: On Moral Perfectionism | Conversations: The Journal of Cavellian Studies
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Erin Elizabeth Greer @erin-e-greer.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Most comprehensive roundup of details I’ve seen re the drawdropping censorship of Plato at TX A&M dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...
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Texas A&M Bans Plato (further updates) - Daily Nous
Drop the race and gender material from your course and the Plato readings, or teach a different course. You have a day to decide. That's a paraphrase of what Martin Peterson, professor of philosophy a...
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Erin Elizabeth Greer @erin-e-greer.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
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PEN America @penamerica.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
PEN America: “We are witnessing the death of academic freedom in Texas." pen.org/press-release/swift-removal…
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Swift Removal of Academic Leaders at Texas A&M Signals the Death of Academic Freedom in the State, Warns PEN America - PEN America
Texas A&M purge over a student complaint sparks outcry over political interference in classrooms and suffocates free speech.
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Loughborough English @lboroenglish.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
We are delighted to share the exciting news that the CFP for the @moderniststudies.bsky.social 2026 conference - next year called Weird Modernisms - jointly held with @modernistudies.bsky.social at @lborouniversity.bsky.social is now live! More info here: moderniststudies.org/conference/MSA2026/CFP/
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Erin Elizabeth Greer @erin-e-greer.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
looking forward to @texasaft.org's virtual "Summer School" event this week - Higher Ed: Updates on governance, academic freedom, and faculty rights - anyone interested in joining can sign up here: www.mobilize.us/texasaft/eve...
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Summer School · Texas AFT
Texas AFT Summer School 2025: Legislative & Policy Updates for Educators Get up to speed on the latest K-12, higher education, and federal policy changes with Texas AFT Summer School, a virtual train...
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Erin Elizabeth Greer @erin-e-greer.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
@aaup.org has released an excellent report on trends and concerns re the rollout of AI in higher ed. They've also shared a fantastic doc offering recommendations for campus policies to protect academic labor rights, quality education, our students' privacy, etc. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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AAUP AI Committee Policy Resources for AI & EdTech
Contributors: Lisa Kresge, UC Berkley Labor Center /AAUP ad hoc committee on AI Eric Rader, Henry Ford Community College/AFT Grace Musilli, AFT Monica Owens, AAUP Table of Contents Resource 1: Contra...
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AAUP @aaup.org · 22/07/2025
Today, the AAUP released a new report, "Artificial Intelligence & Academic Professions." The report calls for policies that prioritize economic security, faculty working & student learning conditions as AI tech accelerates. www.aaup.org/news/new-rep... 🧵1/9
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New Report Calls for Faculty Control in AI Decisions
Today, the AAUP released a new report, Artificial Intelligence and the Academic Professions, sharing survey findings and calling for the establishment of policies in colleges and universities that pri...
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Erin Elizabeth Greer @erin-e-greer.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 06/07/2025
They finally made the milk from that hotel
a ½ gallon of neutral milk
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Erin Elizabeth Greer @erin-e-greer.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
paperbacks of my book are now available for preorder at a 30% discount, using the code PAPER30 on @edinburghup.bsky.social's website! Please share w/ anyone who might be interested in thinking about the political and ethical ideal of "conversation" via literature & philosophy 🌺
https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-fiction-philosophy-and-the-ideal-of-conversation.html
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Erin Elizabeth Greer @erin-e-greer.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
I loved this: “The Silence” www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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“The Silence,” by Zadie Smith
She could sit on a bench in Europe completely unmolested, without a single human being saying a word to her, until the sun fell out of the sky.
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Erin Elizabeth Greer @erin-e-greer.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Taking heart from iris Murdoch>>“we are moral agents before we are scientists, and the place of science in human life must be discussed in *words*.”
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 25/06/2025
Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this son of York
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Erin Elizabeth Greer @erin-e-greer.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
thank goodness but also
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Erin Elizabeth Greer @erin-e-greer.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
wowowow so excited! congrats to the kind, brilliant @keegancf.bsky.social
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Erin Elizabeth Greer @erin-e-greer.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
paperback versions of my book with @edinburghup.bsky.social are available for pre-order - and discounted! edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-fiction...
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Fiction, Philosophy and the Ideal of Conversation
Fiction, Philosophy and the Ideal of Conversation
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Erin Elizabeth Greer @erin-e-greer.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
doggo tolerated his first protest pretty well. He dislikes clapping and honking but met some bleeding hearts handing out free butt scratches
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Erin Elizabeth Greer @erin-e-greer.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
this looks terrific!
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Erin Elizabeth Greer @erin-e-greer.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
just learned with great delight and gratitude of this thoughtful, generous review of my book by Philip Mills (himself author of a wonderful new OA book on poetry & OLP) www.nordicwittgensteinreview.com/article/view...
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Benjamin Park @benjaminepark.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Texas legislators just passed a bill that gives politically-appointed regents control over faculty curriculum, hiring, & governance. It does what they accuse academics of doing: privileging ideas, biases, & agendas on political grounds, & silencing those that do not follow their ideology.
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Political appointees would have more control over Texas universities’ courses and hiring under bill OK’d by House
Senate Bill 37 would give more power to university regents, who are appointed by the governor, to vet and veto new curricula and administrators.
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Benjamin McKean @blmckean.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Al Gore quoting Adorno while New Left Review interviews Ross Douthat feels like a real Freaky Friday kind of situation
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Ava Hu @avahu.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
One of the happiest updates I’ve written since I started following this story. 12 students back in status and maybe more to come. Across the country, students are saying their SEVIS is back. www.dailycal.org/news/campus/...
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12 UC Berkeley students' visas restored by ICE in nationwide reversal
At UC Berkeley, 12 students have had their status restored today after 23 were terminated since April 4.
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Erin Elizabeth Greer @erin-e-greer.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
this invitation from my university's Center for Teaching and Learning to a workshop on using AI to boost "professional influence" on LinkedIn is... almost too much food for (human) thought
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Erin Elizabeth Greer @erin-e-greer.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Arendt: "Surely the scientist cannot permit himself to ask: What consequences will the result of my investigations have for the stature (or... for the future) of man? It has been the glory of modern science that it has been able to emancipate itself completely from all such... humanistic, concerns"
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Erin Elizabeth Greer @erin-e-greer.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Hard to imagine a greater gift of/in education than what Stanley Cavell says of working with JL Austin
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AFL-CIO @aflcio.org · 15/04/2025
Musk and the DOGE want to use NLRB data to intimidate workers, whistleblowers, unions and anyone who may want to hold them accountable for their disgusting union-busting. Let's be clear: the labor movement will not back down.
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A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data
A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
DOGE has reportedly gained access to sensitive NLRB data — including info on union activity, workplace complaints, and names of organizers. Coincidentally, the NLRB has multiple lawsuits against SpaceX and Tesla. The conflicts of interest just keep getting more blatant.
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Erin Elizabeth Greer @erin-e-greer.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
from reality tv to authoritarian collapse, Pepe to doge, there’s a rhyming with kierkegaard’s supposition…
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Erin Elizabeth Greer @erin-e-greer.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
this from Kierkegaard's "Either/Or"...!
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Kevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
It was never about controlling spending or paying down the federal debt. "[A]bout $17 million from the National Endowment for the Humanities and about $17 million from the National Endowment for the Arts would be directed to the Garden of Heroes." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/a...
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Canceled Humanities Grants to Help Pay for Trump’s ‘Garden of Heroes’ (Gift Article)
The National Endowment for the Humanities, which supports museums and historical sites, will redirect funds to the president’s planned patriotic sculpture garden.
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Liam Knox @liamknox.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
As of this morning, we've tracked over 600 student visa revocations at more than 100 colleges. That's double yesterday morning's count. Send updates to me or @amowreader.com and follow @insidehighered.com interactive visa map here: www.insidehighered.com/news/global/...
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Where Students Have Had Their Visas Revoked
The Trump administration has quietly revoked hundreds of student visas across the country, wreaking havoc on the system.
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Erin Elizabeth Greer @erin-e-greer.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
this article helpfully notes that some students have had visas revoked, whereas others have had immigration status summarily "terminated" in the Student & Exchange Visitor Information System database (SEVIS). SEVIS termination is even more abrupt & lacking in due process than visa revocation
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Erin Elizabeth Greer @erin-e-greer.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
118 international students’ immigration statuses revoked across Texas universities www.texastribune.org/2025/04/09/t... via @texastribune.org
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118 international students’ immigration statuses revoked across Texas universities
Students from University of North Texas, UT-Dallas, Texas A&M, UT-Rio Grande, Texas Women’s University, Texas Tech and other schools have been affected.
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Erin Elizabeth Greer @erin-e-greer.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Learned that one of our literature PhD students had his visa revoked. No explanation of course. Soft spoken, sensitive young man from the Middle East, working on 19th c American women writers and transcendentalism. This is maddening. I think around 20 UTD students have had visas revoked so far
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Kim Knight (she/they) @purplekimchi.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Maybe pause doomscrolling for a second to check out this CFP for The De Gruyter Handbook of Feminist Scholarship: DS/DH at the Kitchen Table, edited by @anitaconchita.bsky.social and me? We would love to hear from you! Proposals due May 1, 2025. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Call for Proposals - Degruyter Handbook of Feminist Digital Scholarship
Call for Proposals - De Gruyter Handbook of Feminist Digital Scholarship: DS/DH at the Kitchen Table Edited by Anne Cong-Huyen & Kim Brillante Knight Overview This collection will bring together eme...
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