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stitch 🔞 @stitch.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The end (of season four) is nigh for #pagesandprejudice! If you're behind or just getting started, start with Monsters on My Mind! It's our season four opener on monster boning with thee brilliant thinker who pioneeree monster studies: @jeffreyjcohen.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/3MLC...

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E61: Monsters on My Mind

Pages and Prejudice · Episode

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Cristina Santos @drcristinasantos.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Excited to see this published and what a great team of co-editors @sarah-revilla.bsky.social and rachel._.davidson_ and amazing contributors. Thank you to demeterpress_ for believing in the project! Cover art by @nataliagregorini.bsky.social

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Jeffrey J Cohen @jeffreyjcohen.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

copyedits

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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I truly hope the courthouse is just called Zeus’ law.

Water tower as I drive through Xenia Ohio

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Jeffrey J Cohen @jeffreyjcohen.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

all monsters are siblings but some have greater family resemblance than others

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Jeffrey J Cohen @jeffreyjcohen.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

all monsters are siblings but some have greater family resemblance than others

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Jeffrey J Cohen @jeffreyjcohen.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

in the wake of Nolan’s Odyssey all I can think about are Laestrygonians

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Jeffrey J Cohen @jeffreyjcohen.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Do you like Yōkai (妖怪)? What could be more creepy cute? Sharing a link to a podcast I did with one of my favorite ASU students, Izabella Schalk. Learn all about Tofu Boy and others if you have a little time this weekend. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxlP...

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The Asia Center Talk: Monsters & Yōkai (妖怪)

YouTube video by The Asia Center at ASU

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The Asia Center Talk: Monsters & Yōkai (妖怪)

YouTube video by The Asia Center at ASU

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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

On the language of Homeric Greek, and the language of a certain forthcoming film: here are a few simple observations.

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Jeffrey J Cohen @jeffreyjcohen.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

catalog copy!

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Anna 🌿👁️ @annacwebs.bsky.social · 04/08/2023

I'd like to propose an addendum. Thesis 8: the monster is always kissable if you're not a coward

The title page of Monster Culture (Seven Theses) by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen

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Sam Mickey @sammickey.bsky.social · 02/01/2024

Wonderful definition of metaphor from Jeffrey Jerome Cohen: “A conveyance device that is at once linguistic, story-laden, thingly, and agentic, a metaphor is an ontological sliding, a tectonic veer, materiality coming in and out of figure, ‘matterphor.’” (Stone, p. 4)

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proxeneta luminosa @ciudadsinsueno.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

"queering is at its heart a process of wonder" (jeffrey jerome cohen)

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

"Hiring of college grads is down across the board. But certain majors are able to access opportunities in a wider array of industries, new LinkedIn data shows." ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH 69% VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS 68% www.forbes.com/sites/courtn...

The Most Versatile Majors Chart, TOPPED BY ENGLISH and VISUAL&PERFORMING ARTS

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Jeffrey J Cohen @jeffreyjcohen.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

social justice and that report on the humanities futurelostarchive.beehiiv.com/p/social-jus...

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social justice

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social justice and that report on the humanities futurelostarchive.beehiiv.com/p/social-jus...

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social justice

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Jeffrey J Cohen @jeffreyjcohen.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

on requiring a career class for English majors (and teaching it myself) futurelostarchive.beehiiv.com/p/i-don-t-en...

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“I don’t envy the bull he’s got to peddle"

on requiring a career course for English majors

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Jason Rhody @jasonrhody.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

"The report acknowledges many of its own weaknesses, such as its thin evidentiary foundation upon which to rest such strong and confident conclusions.” I highly recommend reading his discussion of the report in full: futurelostarchive.beehiiv.com/p/on-the-spe...

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On the Special Commission Report on the State of Scholarship in the Humanities and the Humanistic Social Sciences

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Jason Rhody @jasonrhody.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

More on the Vanderbilt report. In “The Nature of the Problem” section, the authors claim that “liberal skew in the professoriat” plays a role in “discouraging full participation in academia on the part of students who find themselves culturally and politically alienated from their professors.”

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

“The belief that every field in the humanities is secretly controlled by social justice warriors has always been a false conspiracy theory, but to make these fantastical claims during the middle of a war against the humanities is a particularly dangerous delusion.”

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Jeffrey J Cohen @jeffreyjcohen.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

does anyone else write in longhand to slow down their brain and be with words?

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Paula Krebs @paulakrebs.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Joy Connolly: “Americans have not lost trust in higher education because of scholar-activism or relativistic thinking, but because public investment in the system has shrunk, tuition is prohibitively expensive, and other priorities crowd out the student experience.” www.chronicle.com/blogs/letter...

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Letter | Preconceived Beliefs Plague Humanities Report

Its authors committed one of the faults they criticize most sharply, writes Joy Connolly.

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Jeffrey J Cohen @jeffreyjcohen.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Fellow academics, it would be easy to reject the Special Commission Report on the State of Scholarship in the Humanities and the Humanistic Social Sciences out of hand but I tried to find what is most of value within it: futurelostarchive.beehiiv.com/p/on-the-spe...

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On the Special Commission Report on the State of Scholarship in the Humanities and the Humanistic Social Sciences

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Jeffrey J Cohen @jeffreyjcohen.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

small piece on anger (and Angus Fletcher's new book) futurelostarchive.beehiiv.com/p/anger

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Anger 😡

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

On this #memorialday, thinking of children who have lost parents, parents who have lost children, and all who have lost homelands. Matthew Arnold, closing lines of “Dover Beach,” c.1851 #everynightapoem

Ah, love, let us be true
To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams, So various, so beautiful, so new,
Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain;
And we are here as on a darkling plain
Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,
Where ignorant armies clash by night.

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Jeffrey J Cohen @jeffreyjcohen.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

This is a beautiful piece of historical work across a "debris field" of an archive.

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American Historical Association @historians.org · 22/05/2026

She made history for decades. Now she has a degree in it. Congratulations to Billie Jean King on earning her BA in history from from Cal State LA, 65 years after first enrolling.

A person speaking at a podium, wearing a graduation gown and eyeglasses, with a diploma over the podium. The image includes text: “It's never too late to finish what you started.” Billie Jean King, newly graduated history major.

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Jeffrey J Cohen @jeffreyjcohen.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

This book turned thirty (!!!) this year and a new version will be released with more than 20 fresh essays this cover is so 1990s -- the challenge for the new book is to find a way to cite it without being stuck in its design

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Modern Language Association @modernlanguage.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

In the lawsuit by the MLA, @acls1919.bsky.social, & @historians.org, the court has ruled that termination by the NEH of grants to support scholars, research institutions, and humanities organizations was “unlawful, unconstitutional, ultra vires, and without legal effect.” www.mla.org/Resources/Ad...

“In a time when it is increasingly urgent to provide a human context for decisions in science, tech, health, and more, we now have a confirmation that the work our members do is essential.” Paula M. Krebs

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American Council of Learned Societies @acls1919.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

BREAKING: Federal Judge Rules to Restore National Endowment for the Humanities Funding In Historic Case This afternoon's ruling declared that the mass termination of more than 1,400 grants by the NEH was “unlawful, unconstitutional, ultra vires, and without legal effect.” bit.ly/4wmbFg8

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Jeffrey J Cohen @jeffreyjcohen.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

been good to be back to writing about monsters

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been good to be back to writing about monsters

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Jeffrey J Cohen @jeffreyjcohen.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

monsters, fandoms, attention, curiosity, academic elitism, and love: this is the most fun I have ever had doing a podcast. Thank you @adrierising.bsky.social and @stitch.bsky.social !!

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Jeffrey J Cohen @jeffreyjcohen.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

I grew up not so far from Walden Pond: my mom would pack the kids into the car to take them there and swim on hot summer days. Only later did I realize why the pond matters -- and in high school I became a Thoreau fan after my 10th grade English teacher told us the book Walden had ruined his life

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Lincoln Center at Arizona State University @asulincolncenter.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

We had an amazing turnout at our first Founding Values event on Wednesday! What an insightful reflection on the virtue of "Reflective Patriotism." We will see you again today at 4pm for Speech and Press with the Cronkite School.

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Jeffrey J Cohen @jeffreyjcohen.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

I'm big in Hungary! (thank you Ildikó Limpár) www.apertura.hu/2025/osz/coh...

Hungarian translation of "Monster Culture (Seven Theses)"

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