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Jennifer Greiman

@jennifergreiman.bsky.social
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WFU English / WFU Humanities Institute / Melville's Democracy: www.sup.org/books/title/?id=35599 / Leviathan: muse.jhu.edu/journal/601 / Should be going for that run.

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Time for this classic again.
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Dan Turner @ddt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"Algorithmic agnotology: How systems manufacture and legitimize not-knowing" That's a brilliant lens and tool for looking at how systems of PR, CEO interviews, and white papers work to keep us shrugging in epistemic powerlessness. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CRJ...
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Algorithmic Agnotology: On AI, Ignorance, and Power – Alondra Nelson | IASEAI '26
YouTube video by International Association for Safe & Ethical AI
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Jennifer Greiman @jennifergreiman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The White f'ing Lotus outranking Deadwood?! that's a @nytpitchbot.bsky.social headline. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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The 100 Best TV Shows of the 21st Century
More than 500 influential stars, showrunners and other notable names in the world of TV voted on the best series released since Jan. 1, 2000. See what they chose.
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Harris Feinsod @handle.invalid · 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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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
The Right taking Moby-Dick
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Jennifer Greiman @jennifergreiman.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Now Unfashionable now in ALH! It was a joy to be a part of the UIUC Trowbridge seminar in 2025 with brilliant folks like Michael Dango, Claudia Stokes, and Kinohi Nishikawa. The End of Dissensus; Or, Politics, Aesthetics, and Realism academic.oup.com/alh/article/...
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The End of Dissensus; Or, Politics, Aesthetics, and Realism
Abstract. In recent years, scholars across fields have privileged forms of literary realism to propose more affirmative and constructive critical models fo
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The Melville Society @melville-society.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Now you must choose.
Viral still of Darcy's flexed hand from Pride and Prejudice (2005)Close up of Melville's hand in the new statue. Image from the Boston Globe article linked in preceding post.
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Andromeda Yelton @thatandromeda.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Because we deserve nice things, news articles that are about NOTHING of import and zero horrors, please be advised: the new Melville statue at the New Bedford whaling museum is a smokeshow. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/08/13/a...
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The new Herman Melville statue in New Bedford is ... hot. - The Boston Globe
The statue, from sculptor Stefanie Rocknak, stands in front of the Seamen's Bethel.
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Jennifer Greiman @jennifergreiman.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
"Our critics are really fucking stupid, and we’ve given them way too much leeway to conjure senile fantasies out of their own illiteracy."
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 10/08/2026
"It’s not about prejudice: it’s the principle of the thing! A whaleship should be a meritocracy. One that recognizes my superior merit."
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I’d Be Lead Harpooner on the Pequod If It Wasn’t for These DEI Hires
“Look, I’ve got nothing against Queequeg. He’s a nice guy. And he can spy a whale spout in a hurricane. And hit a nickel-sized moving target in open water in...
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R.E.M. @remhq.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Here’s to 40 years of Lifes Rich Pageant
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Students from all 50 states just drafted an #AIBillofRights. They named cheating, bias, privacy mental health, environmental costs and more. The civic grammar of AI rights is traveling and we're fortunate that young people are leading the way and writing it. www.the74million.org/article/stud...
"High school students, steeped for nearly the past four years in generative artificial intelligence, face this reality daily, attending class largely without a set of agreed-upon guidelines. Over the weekend, a small group of students came together to hammer out a few basic principles for the technology, something akin to an AI Bill of Rights.

Sponsored by a group that includes an MIT research initiative and a national superintendents’ association, 100 students from all 50 states gathered here to debate a first-of-its-kind set of recommendations, to be shared with district leaders nationwide as AI proliferates rapidly in the lives of both students and teachers."
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Jennifer Greiman @jennifergreiman.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Leviathan 28.2 is out now — with a nice thread on Melville, aesthetics, and visual arts AND a fancy color section! @melville-society.bsky.social
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Anti-Colonial History @anticolonialhistry.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
On this day in 1925, psychiatrist and anti-colonial theorist, Frantz Fanon is born in Martinique. anticolonialhistory.com/event/180/
Uncredited photo from first edition dust jacket of Black Skin, White Masks published in US in 1967, without an explicit copyright notice
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Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley @pressley.house.gov · 03/07/2026
For America's 250th, I read Frederick Douglass’ speech, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” on the House floor—for the first time in history. His speech endures as a mirror & mandate for us all—to confront our inequities while fighting for an America as good as its promise.
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Jennifer Greiman @jennifergreiman.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
In which I chat with Matthew Johnson of Wake Forest Magazine about a first-year seminar I've been teaching since I came to @wakeforest.bsky.social: American Democracy in Five Novels
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Jennifer Greiman @jennifergreiman.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
On Moby-Dick and other great novels (none of which is Middlemarch…)
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Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
"Centrists don’t fear bad government...They fear a left-wing that governs well. That’s the terrifying threat Mamdani poses to the status quo—and the massive opportunity his administration presents for all of those who want to transform it." Read the whole forum: hammerandhope.org/forums/mamda...
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How Is Zohran Mamdani Doing?
Nine New Yorkers discuss the first six months of the Mamdani administration.
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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Once again, inevitable question: if this is what they’re doing to Senator Kim in front of cameras, what are they doing to the detained people inside that facility bsky.app/profile/davi...
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
"The epistemic war on mass literacy, which aims to make casualties of our current & future students, will not be over if OpenAI folds."
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After OpenAI (Vandal Live at Wake Forest Humanities Institute)
Listen now (83 mins) | Apple Podcasts | Spotify
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Jennifer Greiman @jennifergreiman.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
"After OpenAI": two weeks ago, @mattseybold.bsky.social delivered this bracing, riveting keynote at the Wake Forest Humanities Institute's 15th Annual Symposium. Queue it up! @wfuhumanities.bsky.social @wakeforest.bsky.social
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
What I wish for everybody to remember when Canvas comes back online: The reason OUR data can be held for ransom is because Instructure, their owners (KKR private equity & Dragoneer venture capital), & our own employers (see ASU Atomic) monetize it. It's Canvas that hacked education & stole our IP.
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Chris Hanlon @chrishanlon.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
I’ve got some thoughts in today’s Chronicle. www.chronicle.com/article/dont... (Sans paywall:) archive.ph/Blzzk
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Opinion | Don’t Let Silicon Valley Turn Education into Slop
Against “academic content assetization.”
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
This article is like saying "Will Madden make football obsolete? We talked to Andy Wilson and five gamers who all beat Saquon Barkley in Ultimate Team mode."
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Chris Hanlon @chrishanlon.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Meet “ASU Atomic,” a subscription platform that claims to offer customized learning modules for fee-paying users. None of the ASU faculty whose course materials were harvested for the module I generated were aware that their image, lectures, lessons, or other teaching materials are being used.
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
“After OpenAI”
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Jennifer Greiman @jennifergreiman.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
The Wake Forest Humanities Institute is thrilled to be hosting Matt Seybold, next Wednesday, April 29th! WFU, Triad, and greater NC folks are welcome to join!
Flyer for the Wake Forest University Humanities Symposium's keynote address by Matt Seybold. Wednesday 29 April at 5pm in ZSR Library Auditorium.
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Nate Wolff @natewolff.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
FYI today's a great day to start reading this novel. It begins on April 1st — and it's widely considered Melville's most accessible and fun work after Clarel!
title page of The Confidence-ManCHAPTER I.
A MUTE GOES ABOARD A BOAT ON THE MISSISSIPPI.
At sunrise on a first of April, there appeared, suddenly as Manco Capac at the lake Titicaca, a man in cream-colors, at the water-side in the city of St. Louis.

His cheek was fair, his chin downy, his hair flaxen, his hat a white fur one, with a long fleecy nap. He had neither trunk, valise, carpet-bag, nor parcel. No porter followed him. He was unaccompanied by friends. From the shrugged shoulders, titters, whispers, wonderings of the crowd, it was plain that he was, in the extremest sense of the word, a stranger.
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Jennifer Greiman @jennifergreiman.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
The Humanities Institute is joining the annual WFU day of giving! deacsgive.wfu.edu/campaigns/wa...
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Wake Forest University Humanities Institute - Deacs Day of Giving
The Humanities Institute is celebrating its 15th year of cultivating the excellent research, teaching, and public engagement that enable the liberal arts to thrive at Wake Forest. We build and sustain...
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Kate Clancy @kateclancy.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
100 girls are dead because of generative AI
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
At LARB, they weren’t even allowed to discuss Gaza in editorial meetings. nobaddaysinla.substack.com/p/how-the-la...
But what really blew up Michelle’s employment at the mag, former staffers say, was her response to October 7, after she put an effective gag order on commissioning any pieces acknowledging the genocide in Gaza.

“Michelle told us variously that she was facing pressure from the board not to say anything anti-Israel, and also that she had, in her words, ‘Jewish people in her life whose feelings would be hurt,’” says another former editor. “It was a workplace issue and treated as such. People were saying, ‘This is sort of unconscionable. Like, what are we doing?”

“It’s important to note that in the last year of Boris’s tenure as editor-in-chief, we probably published forty things about the war in Ukraine,” that editor told me. “But Michelle told us we couldn’t even discuss Gaza in editorial meetings.”
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MdDoogie3 @mddoogie3.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it. I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.” 1/
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Elisabeth R. Anker @libankerdc.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Wise words from WEB DuBois to gird us today: "It would be shame and cowardice to surrender this glorious land and its opportunities for civilization and humanity to the thugs and lynchers, the mobs and profiteers, the monopolists & gamblers who today choke its soul and steal its resources."
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~Art+Rage~ @artrage.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Read the poem in it's entirety: poets.org/poem/renee-n...
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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
The first great American 250th anniversary date of the year arrives this Friday: the publication of Thomas Paine's COMMON SENSE, which occurred on January 9, 1776. Many sources have the date as January 10, 1776. This is incorrect. But what accounts for the confusion???? Friends, follow me.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/01/2026
Jacob Frey: "To ICE -- get the fuck out of Minneapolis"
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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom
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The Melville Society @melville-society.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Leviathan 26.3 is now online @projectmuse.bsky.social! "Melville's queer afterlives" special issue collects case studies that highlight the range of queer Melvilleana and in the process contribute to an understanding of the aesthetic shape assumed by queer creative impulses. muse.jhu.edu/issue/56015
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Project MUSE - Leviathan-Volume 27, Number 3, October 2025
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