Reposted by Jennifer GreimanMoby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. 120143
Reposted by Jennifer GreimanRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Time for this classic again. 156164875560
Reposted by Jennifer GreimanDan 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...youtube.comAlgorithmic Agnotology: On AI, Ignorance, and Power – Alondra Nelson | IASEAI '26YouTube video by International Association for Safe & Ethical AI 0187
Jennifer Greiman @jennifergreiman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026The White f'ing Lotus outranking Deadwood?! that's a @nytpitchbot.bsky.social headline. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...nytimes.comThe 100 Best TV Shows of the 21st CenturyMore 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. 010
Reposted by Jennifer GreimanHarris Feinsod @handle.invalid · 14/09/2026Finishing 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...acla.orgHelen Tartar First Book Subvention Award | American Comparative Literature Association 01511
Reposted by Jennifer GreimanMatt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 30/08/2026The Right taking Moby-Dick 3337
Jennifer Greiman @jennifergreiman.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Now 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/...academic.oup.comThe End of Dissensus; Or, Politics, Aesthetics, and RealismAbstract. In recent years, scholars across fields have privileged forms of literary realism to propose more affirmative and constructive critical models fo 020
Reposted by Jennifer GreimanThe Melville Society @melville-society.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Now you must choose. 1123
Reposted by Jennifer GreimanAndromeda Yelton @thatandromeda.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Because 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...bostonglobe.comThe new Herman Melville statue in New Bedford is ... hot. - The Boston GlobeThe statue, from sculptor Stefanie Rocknak, stands in front of the Seamen's Bethel. 811529
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." 020
Reposted by Jennifer GreimanMcSweeney'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."buff.lyI’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... 0638
Reposted by Jennifer GreimanR.E.M. @remhq.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Here’s to 40 years of Lifes Rich Pageant 33933147
Reposted by Jennifer GreimanAlondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Students 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... 09632
Jennifer Greiman @jennifergreiman.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Leviathan 28.2 is out now — with a nice thread on Melville, aesthetics, and visual arts AND a fancy color section! @melville-society.bsky.social 093
Reposted by Jennifer GreimanAnti-Colonial History @anticolonialhistry.bsky.social · 20/07/2026On this day in 1925, psychiatrist and anti-colonial theorist, Frantz Fanon is born in Martinique. anticolonialhistory.com/event/180/ 13613
Reposted by Jennifer GreimanCongresswoman Ayanna Pressley @pressley.house.gov · 03/07/2026For 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. 296135773887
Jennifer Greiman @jennifergreiman.bsky.social · 03/07/2026In 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 000
Jennifer Greiman @jennifergreiman.bsky.social · 02/07/2026On Moby-Dick and other great novels (none of which is Middlemarch…) 251
Reposted by Jennifer GreimanAstra 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...hammerandhope.orgHow Is Zohran Mamdani Doing?Nine New Yorkers discuss the first six months of the Mamdani administration. 330187
Reposted by Jennifer GreimanAnjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 26/05/2026Once 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... 111262508
Reposted by Jennifer GreimanMatt 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."theamericanvandal.substack.comAfter OpenAI (Vandal Live at Wake Forest Humanities Institute)Listen now (83 mins) | Apple Podcasts | Spotify 05715
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 0155
Reposted by Jennifer GreimanMatt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 07/05/2026What 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. 242052767
Reposted by Jennifer GreimanChris Hanlon @chrishanlon.bsky.social · 06/05/2026I’ve got some thoughts in today’s Chronicle. www.chronicle.com/article/dont... (Sans paywall:) archive.ph/Blzzkchronicle.comOpinion | Don’t Let Silicon Valley Turn Education into SlopAgainst “academic content assetization.” 33517
Reposted by Jennifer GreimanElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 05/05/2026This 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." 363147
Reposted by Jennifer GreimanChris Hanlon @chrishanlon.bsky.social · 21/04/2026Meet “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. 25537253
Jennifer Greiman @jennifergreiman.bsky.social · 22/04/2026The 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! 040
Reposted by Jennifer GreimanNate Wolff @natewolff.bsky.social · 01/04/2026FYI 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! 4336
Jennifer Greiman @jennifergreiman.bsky.social · 19/03/2026The Humanities Institute is joining the annual WFU day of giving! deacsgive.wfu.edu/campaigns/wa...deacsgive.wfu.eduWake Forest University Humanities Institute - Deacs Day of GivingThe 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... 000
Reposted by Jennifer GreimanKate Clancy @kateclancy.bsky.social · 05/03/2026100 girls are dead because of generative AI 11368193
Reposted by Jennifer GreimanNathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 21/02/2026At LARB, they weren’t even allowed to discuss Gaza in editorial meetings. nobaddaysinla.substack.com/p/how-the-la... 415247
Reposted by Jennifer GreimanMdDoogie3 @mddoogie3.bsky.social · 11/02/2026I 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/ 8452172636
Reposted by Jennifer GreimanElisabeth R. Anker @libankerdc.bsky.social · 22/01/2026Wise 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." 2262712192
Reposted by Jennifer Greiman~Art+Rage~ @artrage.bsky.social · 10/01/2026Read the poem in it's entirety: poets.org/poem/renee-n... 4285103
Reposted by Jennifer GreimanJoseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 05/01/2026The 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. 612352
Reposted by Jennifer GreimanAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/01/2026Jacob Frey: "To ICE -- get the fuck out of Minneapolis" 12293830111457
Reposted by Jennifer GreimanRyan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 12/12/2025There 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 1055651586
Reposted by Jennifer GreimanThe Melville Society @melville-society.bsky.social · 10/12/2025Leviathan 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/56015muse.jhu.eduProject MUSE - Leviathan-Volume 27, Number 3, October 2025 1169