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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 · 27/08/2026
The Scene! We gave our treasured copy of this to @mmcnma.bsky.social when we split town
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Harris Feinsod @feinsod.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Acco + tape binding 💅💅💅
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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 · 25/08/2026
Friendly volley! i have been on like half a dozen diss committees with one of the coeditors herself exploring annual, decadal, and secular responses to this question
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Harris Feinsod @feinsod.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
How are we ever going to settle on a year if we cannot decide on a day
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Harris Feinsod @feinsod.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Lol i appreciate that you thought of me and also that you thought i might not be aware of this
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Harris Feinsod @feinsod.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Thank you! I will listen to it just for you!
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Harris Feinsod @feinsod.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
So like what are some good songs for someone open to new things
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Harris Feinsod @feinsod.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Looking forward to this one!
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Harris Feinsod @feinsod.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Dada poet Hugo Ball dressed as the “magic bishop” for a performance of his “wordless verses” in Zurich, 1916
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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 · 29/12/2025
Ok Three the Hard Way is a stretch but it has an A+ Chicago River scene
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Harris Feinsod @feinsod.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Three the Hard Way
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Harris Feinsod @feinsod.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Stony Island Hoop Dreams Chain Reaction Medium Cool About Last Night Candyman Bad Boys (sean penn)
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Harris Feinsod @feinsod.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Lol while this was blowing up i was in a paper archive looking at ashes from a previous domain of human experience that was discarded in the slag heaps of automation
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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
... and on 9/16 @ 10:30am, "How to Write (Maritime) History from Below: A Talk and Workshop with Marcus Rediker" In partnership with the Maritime Committee of the Maryland Center for History and Culture @mdhistory.bsky.social @marcusrediker.bsky.social sites.krieger.jhu.edu/tidewater/ev...
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“How to Write (Maritime) History from Below”: A Talk and Workshop with Marcus Rediker | The Tidewater Initiative
Marcus Rediker visits the Literature and the Sea seminar at Johns Hopkins to lead a lecture and workshop on the topic "How to Write (Maritime) History from Below."  This event is co-sponsored by the J...
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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 · 08/09/2025
Amazing. Also, love the letterhead program. My close reading is that it faintly and ironically echoes the residual genre of the campus visit itinerary.
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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 · 17/08/2025
Proudly remembering the time I held my ground on “cahoots.” Be troo to yoo!
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Harris Feinsod @feinsod.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
We got you, Steelkilt
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Harris Feinsod @feinsod.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
And a follow up on Sept 16 in the seminar on Literature of the Sea: “How to Write (Maritime) History from Below”: A Talk and Workshop with Marcus Rediker sites.krieger.jhu.edu/tidewater/ev...
sites.krieger.jhu.edu
“How to Write (Maritime) History from Below”: A Talk and Workshop with Marcus Rediker | The Tidewater Initiative
Marcus Rediker visits the "Literature and the Sea" seminar to lead a lecture and workshop on the topic "How to Write (Maritime) History from Below."  This is an "open classroom" event. The JHU communi...
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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...
sites.krieger.jhu.edu
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 · 09/08/2025
Thanks, Nathan! We’ll reconnect soon!
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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 · 29/07/2025
My poet friend told me all I do is talk about ports these days. Can’t wait to tell her about this interaction. 😂
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Harris Feinsod @feinsod.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Recusatio?
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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 · 27/06/2025
I’ve never seen that Robert Bechtle before :)
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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 · 20/05/2025
One of my favorite places in salty balty
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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 · 27/04/2025
Niklas Luhmann?
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Harris Feinsod @feinsod.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Terrific
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Harris Feinsod @feinsod.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Would love to know your annotation prompts
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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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