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Harris Feinsod

@feinsod.bsky.social
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Cultural historian and lit prof, Baltimore. 💙⚓️💚🌱🖤📖. Speaking for myself, not for my employer.

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Harris Feinsod @feinsod.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Finishing a first book in literary studies? Don't miss the Helen Tartar First Book Subvention Award. Applications due Nov 15. (You can submit with or without a contract, though in either event there is a brief publisher's application to join your author submission). www.acla.org/prize-awards...
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Helen Tartar First Book Subvention Award | American Comparative Literature Association
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Harris Feinsod @feinsod.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Heyo, the Wisconsin Prize for Poetry in Translation is open
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Harris Feinsod @feinsod.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
*finally seem to have found a good place to do course packs in Baltimore
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Harris Feinsod @feinsod.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly invented the libidinal critique of petromodernity youtu.be/l2aDwnEtxRU?...
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I'll Oilwells Love You
YouTube video by Dolly Parton - Topic
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Harris Feinsod @feinsod.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Among the singularly recognizable enclaves of poetic enunciation--say, Shandong in 740, Paris in 1857, Havana in 1931, or what have you--I would rank Buffalo in 1991 pretty highly.
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Harris Feinsod @feinsod.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Looking forward to this one!
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Dr. Antje Gamble @drantjegamble.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Giving a master class on how to deal with these ridiculous attacks on academic freedom.
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Harris Feinsod @feinsod.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
n+1 comes out swinging www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...
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Large Language Muddle | The Editors
The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...
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Harris Feinsod @feinsod.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
💙
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Marcus Rediker @marcusrediker.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Next Monday & Tuesday, Sept. 15 & 16, I’ll give two talks in Baltimore, one at the Bird in Hand bookstore about *Freedom Ship*, the other at Johns Hopkins University about “How to Write (Maritime) History from Below.” sites.krieger.jhu.edu/tidewater/ev... sites.krieger.jhu.edu/tidewater/ev...
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Harris Feinsod @feinsod.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Join us
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Harris Feinsod @feinsod.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Next week! Marcus Rediker will be at the Tidewater Initiative in Baltimore for two events. First up: a conversation about the new book "Freedom Ship" at Bird in Hand, 6:30pm 9/15 @marcusrediker.bsky.social sites.krieger.jhu.edu/tidewater/ev...
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Humanities in the Village: Marcus Rediker, in conversation with Nadia Nurhussein and Harris Feinsod | The Tidewater Initiative
The Alexander Grass Humanities Institute will launch its fall 2025 programming with a special additional edition of Humanities in the Village, an event series dedicated to making scholarship publicly ...
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andy hines @andyhines.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
It's publication day for UNIVERSITY KEYWORDS. Across 27 sharp essays, the book offers a critical account of the political economy of US higher education, how it came to be structured this way, and how together we might build a better university together.
green and yellow cover of University Keywords, ed by Andy HinesTable of contents for University Keywords

University: An Introduction, Andy Hines

Academic Freedom, Jennifer Ruth and Ellen Schrecker
Adjunct, Heather Steffen
Admissions, Scott Gelber
Alternative Institutions, Andy Hines and Eli Meyerhoff
Athletics, Wayne L. Black
Board of Trustees, Asheesh Siddique Kapur
Budget, Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra
Campus, Davarian Baldwin
Classroom, Richard Simpson
Critical University Studies, Rana M. Jaleel, Isaac Kamola, and Heather Steffen
Debt, Eleni Schirmer and Jason Wozniak
Degree, Christopher Newfield
Discipline, Vineeta Singh
Diversity, p.s. kehal
EdTech, Annie McClanahan and Louise McCune
Endowment, Dennis M. Hogan
Entrepreneurship, Jesse Goldstein
Table of contents for university keywords

Fiction, Jeffrey J. Williams
Legislation, Elizabeth Tandy Shermer
Noncitizen Student, Abigail Boggs
Police, Yalile Suriel and Grace Watkins
Ranking, Jelena Brankovic and Stefan Wilbers
Revenue, Dan Nemser and Brian Whitener
Risk Management, Mattie Armstrong-Price
Sustainability, Kai Bosworth, Jesse Goldstein, Andy Hines, and Eli Meyerhoff
Title IX, Rana M. Jaleel
Union, Zach Schwartz-Weinstein

Appendix: Questions to Consider for Composing a Keywords Entry

Contributor Bios
Acknowledgments
Index
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Harris Feinsod @feinsod.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Reading a copy of a book I’ve been teaching since the age of the course pack. Bring pack the course pack.
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Harris Feinsod @feinsod.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
"Anyway the wind blows doesn't really matter to me" www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/c...
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Transportation Dept. Cancels $679 Million for Offshore Wind Projects
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Harris Feinsod @feinsod.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
We’re kicking things off Sept 15 @ Bird in Hand with Marcus Rediker in conversation about his new book Freedom Ship: The Uncharted History of Escaping Slavery at Sea @marcusrediker.bsky.social sites.krieger.jhu.edu/tidewater/ev...
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Humanities in the Village: Marcus Rediker, in conversation with Nadia Nurhussein and Harris Feinsod | The Tidewater Initiative
The Alexander Grass Humanities Institute will launch its fall 2025 programming with a special additional edition of Humanities in the Village, an event series dedicated to making scholarship publicly ...
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Harris Feinsod @feinsod.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
We're launching a new Tidewater Initiative at JHU. Our research group on working waterfronts and coastal infrastructures includes a new student research lab, courses, programming partnerships with the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute, and more in the works. sites.krieger.jhu.edu/tidewater/
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Home | The Tidewater Initiative
We are a multidisciplinary research group devoted to study, stewardship, and stories of working waterfronts, coastal infrastructures, and oceans under conditions of globalization and environmental ins...
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Harris Feinsod @feinsod.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
“So long, Mom, I'm off to drop the bomb, So don't wait up for me.”
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Tom Lehrer, song satirist and mathematician, dies at 97 | CNN
Tom Lehrer, the popular and erudite song satirist who lampooned marriage, politics, racism and the Cold War, then largely abandoned his music career to return to teaching math at Harvard and other uni...
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Sheila Liming @seeshespeak.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
AI is the intellectual equivalent of styrofoam: it’s cheap and easy for the individual user, but poisoning the ecosystem for everyone forever.
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Natalia Cecire @ncecire.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Something about the way LLMs build in the idea that to find something out, you shouldn't read an already existing text that other people have also read (ew!); you should get fresh text generated just for you. Each time, new disposable text.
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andy hines @andyhines.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Friendly reminder that Instructure, parent company of Canvas, is owned by KKR, a private equity firm that purchased it for $4.8 billion last November.
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Harris Feinsod @feinsod.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
RIP Alice Notley whose poems are a Grave of Light
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Harris Feinsod @feinsod.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
When it comes to the cultivation of human subjectivity I plan to go down swinging.
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Harris Feinsod @feinsod.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Jayme Collins—who podcasts about archival loss in climate disaster—discovered this envelope of dried mud from the 1966 Arno flood in the Ransom Center archives of conservator Peter Waters (the pioneer in salvaging water damaged paper). Amazing relic & great story—> global.utexas.edu/news/ransom-...
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Harris Feinsod @feinsod.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Great experience—we all sat around talking about meter, metadata, and how various societies construe poetic knowledge. Made me want to be a literature professor. Poetry’s Data, out now, wherever University Press Books are sold
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Harris Feinsod @feinsod.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
I was privileged to have met Alain Peauroi a few times, and to have known many of the extraordinary landscapes he made with TERREMOTO. He was a gifted designer and beloved by all. Here is a beautiful tribute a few months after his passing. www.archpaper.com/2025/03/alai...
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Alain Peauroi, TERREMOTO cofounder, shied away from the spotlight but was foundational to the ethos of the West Coast firm
Alain Peauroi, cofounder of TERREMOTO, passed away earlier this year. Colleagues and other industry professionals remember him and his work.
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Harris Feinsod @feinsod.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Pierre Joris was one of the great and rare symposiasts of the whole.
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johannesg.bsky.social @johannesg.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Rip Pierre Joris. Probably the translator who influenced my own practice/thinking about translation the most.
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Harris Feinsod @feinsod.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Experiential learning surges as educators try to lure students back to phenomenal reality
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Aaron Bady @zunguzungu.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Just learned that James Ferguson died. That absolutely sucks. The Uses of Neoliberalism, Expectations of Modernity, The Anti-Politics Machine, those are incredible works of a kind of almost implausibly rare scholarly mind.
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Joel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · 26/02/2025
This general-interest book by legendary troubadour scholar Linda Paterson is a delight to read
A library copy of The Troubadours, by Linda M. Paterson
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Harris Feinsod @feinsod.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Greg Barnhisel gave a great talk at JHU last Thurs on Code Name Puritan: Norman Holmes Pearson at the Nexus of Poetry, Espionage, and American Power. There were shades of a requiem for the bygone age of multifarious collaboration between academia and the state.
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Harris Feinsod @feinsod.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Now is the time of wee, sleeket, cowran, tim’rous beasties
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Harris Feinsod @feinsod.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Great to see Francisco Robles’s Coalition Literature in my mailbox. This book puts together some broken shards of a US literary history fired in the kilns of the late thirties and helps me see how to embrace a “collective” dimension of our aesthetic politics. @franciscondine.bsky.social
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Harris Feinsod @feinsod.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Claire Seiler's excellent new article about a 'lost' J.G. Farrell polio novel exemplifies what literary studies can do when it dares not to police the horizons and idioms of literary studies. An untimely meditation on an untimely book, it arrives exactly on time. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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J. G. Farrell's Lost Polio Novel | PMLA | Cambridge Core
J. G. Farrell's Lost Polio Novel - Volume 139 Issue 5
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Harris Feinsod @feinsod.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
In college there was this thing called a campus bookstore. People groused that Barnes & Noble had taken over management, but the shelves were educational in themselves. Imagine like this whole room engineered to display knowledge production across the disciplines.
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Harris Feinsod @feinsod.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Great mail day courtesy of Nico Campisi
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Harris Feinsod @feinsod.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
RIP Beatriz Sarlo, who was among the most extraordinary critics of Argentine literature and society since the 1970s
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Harris Feinsod @feinsod.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Once again in its signature “reverse spoiler” maneuver, the NYer would like me to read to the end to find out the name of the book nominally under review
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Harris Feinsod @feinsod.bsky.social · 07/08/2024
Unbelievable to me that it is 5 years since David Berman took his life. Thinking of him today. Wrote this last year about his indelible poems and their insights into the despoliation of American landscapes post45.org/2023/01/davi...
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David Berman’s Edge Cities: Poetry, Commercial Real Estate, Municipal Feeling - Post45
In Roe Ethridge’s cover photograph for David Berman’s book of poems Actual Air (1999), two glass office towers rise over a row of pines (fig. 1). Below, a dry and grassy wastage does a poor impression...
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Harris Feinsod @feinsod.bsky.social · 29/07/2024
I’d been back in Baltimore about 3 weeks when John Waters sidled up to my 5y.o. & friends as they gazed into the fountainwater at the BMA sculpture garden & asked “seen any sharks?” At first I disbelieved the truth before my eyes because JW sports the same, shameful “final sale beige” Allbirds as me
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Harris Feinsod @feinsod.bsky.social · 22/07/2024
RIP James Scott, anarchic anthropologist and political scientist. I will continue to contemplate his accounts of tubers and taxation with deep admiration and a fragment of wonder. yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
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Against the Grain
An Economist Best History Book 2017  “History as it should be written.”—Barry Cunliffe, Guardian  “Scott hits the nail squarely on the head by expo...
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Harris Feinsod @feinsod.bsky.social · 12/07/2024
Shelley Duvall was many things besides her early Altman gigs, but she was the very Virgil to the infernal Astrodomes of the 1970s New West. RIP to a great guide www.youtube.com/watch?v=chqS...
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Brewster McCloud (1970) - Welcome To The Astrodome | Shelley Duvall
First appearance of Shelley Duvall in her debut as tour-guide Suzanne in Robert Altman’s Brewster McCloud, 1970.
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Harris Feinsod @feinsod.bsky.social · 18/06/2024
Volunteer tomato plant growing in a crack in the pavement 🌱
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Harris Feinsod @feinsod.bsky.social · 09/06/2024
Self portrait of the gardener as a garlic scape medusa 🌱
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Harris Feinsod @feinsod.bsky.social · 08/06/2024
Could not figure out why I kept this shabby copy of Frank Lloyd Wright’s The Living City then I realized it comes from Walter Netsch’s library. Wish I knew how I got it
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Harris Feinsod @feinsod.bsky.social · 22/05/2024
Spring haulz: Radish, rhubarb, arugula, mizuna, merlot, sorrel 🌱
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Harris Feinsod @feinsod.bsky.social · 22/04/2024
RIP Jerry Rothenberg (1931–2024), anthologizer and anthropologist and symposiast of world expression in its whole aspect. It was breathtaking to encounter his anthologies and assemblages in the out-setting process of breaking out of one's little world. Here is a way I once tried to characterize him
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