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Jennifer Nolan

@jnolan.bsky.social
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Associate Professor of English at NC State ||Print culture & periodical studies with emphasis on F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jazz Age illustration & magazines, and popular modernism

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Dave Mazella @davemazella.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
This is the endgame for TX "core reform": wiping out any traces of the last 100 yrs of scholarship in the humanities, but also wiping out the humanities. This is coming to every system in the state. www.statesman.com/news/educati...
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UT proposes cutting more than 100 'narrow' courses from core this spring
UT courses on slavery, race, sexuality and environmental history are among those that could stop counting toward UT's core.
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
So, I really hope I get to tell this story in longer form in the near future, but it it’s burning a hole inside me. Most of it comes from an interview with Bob Hirst this weekend. Bob has been Exec Editor of the Mark Twain Project for 47 years, before which he was part of its staff for ~15. 1/16
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Dickens Notes @dickensnotes.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Come hear Dickens Notes co-director Anna Gibson talk about Charles Dickens's working notes at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London on July 2! This is part of the V&A's free Lunchtime Lecture series.
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Lunchtime Lectures: Story Weaving: Charles Dickens's Working Notes - V&A Academy Talk at V&A South Kensington · V&A
This event is part of the free Lunchtime Lecture series. No booking is required.
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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Historical research does not need to be done faster or in greater volume for any social or intellectual purpose whatever; if anything, it needs to be done more slowly and deliberately than at present, by people allowed the training, time, space, and resources to do it that way.
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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Saw some discourse about the issue of older professors not retiring as if that’s the roadblock to younger academics securing jobs. This despite every institution I’ve worked at simply not filling lines when professors retire, which seems a much more prominent trend.
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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
For those hereabouts scrambling to remediate course materials in order to meet the end of the month deadline for compliance with new federal ADA Title II standards, here is the endgame as I see it: 🧵
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Jennifer Nolan @jnolan.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
So sad to hear this news. Some of my favorite classes at Texas were in the American Studies department
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Matthew Levay @matthewlevay.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Friends: @moderniststudies.bsky.social and @sharpweb.org are teaming up for a non-guaranteed panel on “Modernism in Ephemeral Print” at MLA 2027, in LA. Consider submitting!
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Call for Papers: Modernism in Ephemeral Print (2027 MLA Annual Convention)
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Laprofmme @laprofmme.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
THIS THIS THIS. ALL OF THIS THIS is why faculty resist technological strategies for teaching. There is no engaging with Edtech without this context
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Jennifer Nolan @jnolan.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Literary scholars too!
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Place and the Periodical @placeperiodical.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
The Harlem Renaissance and/in Periodicals American Literature Association Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, May 20-23, 2026 Organized by the Research Society for American Periodicals
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 17/11/2025
The vast body of research that Ken Burns relied upon to make his new documentary on the American Revolution would be practically impossible to be produced today, what with the defunding of humanistic scholarship, the collapse of stable academic jobs, the attack on public history & academic freedom.🗃️
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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 28/10/2025
Cheating with an LLM is the easiest thing in the world for a student to do, but it creates a massive, laborious headache for a prof, if you intend to take it seriously. There’s meetings, emails, discussions, moral dilemmas. It’s just incredibly burdensome, on top of everything else right now.
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Literary Arts Fund @literaryartsfund.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Today, a coalition of seven charitable foundations announced the launch of the Literary Arts Fund, a historic philanthropic investment of at least $50 million to strengthen the nonprofit literary arts field in the U.S.
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Sarah Tuttle @niais.cryptoanarchy.network · 26/10/2025
Just a reminder that tenure-track professors are usually paid 9 months out of 12, and that adjuncts are usually paid on a by-class basis, and none of that includes prep time or, for example, having to have your syllabus posted *45 days before the class*. Many folks are not *employed* then.
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 01/10/2025
We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
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Deborah Lynn @mrsdeborahlynn.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
apnews.com/article/covi... Governors of Arizona, Illinois, Maine and North Carolina on Friday joined the growing list of Democratic officials who have signed orders intended to ensure most residents can receive COVID-19 vaccines at pharmacies without individual prescriptions.
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States are taking steps to ease access to COVID-19 vaccines as they await federal recommendation
The governors of Arizona, Illinois, Maine and North Carolina have signed orders intended to make COVID-19 vaccines available in pharmacies for people without individual prescriptions.
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Natalia Cecire @ncecire.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
lot of people out here laboring under the misapprehension that uni is just further high school and there is some higher authority on content than the professor who is a live, working researcher in the field
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WUNC News @wunc.org · 09/09/2025
Anti-DEI groups claim they belong to the public. University leaders say they are faculty members' intellectual property. A look at the copyright debate. www.wunc.org/education/20...
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Who owns a public university syllabus?
Anti-DEI groups claim they belong to the public. University leaders say they are faculty members' intellectual property. A look at the copyright debate.
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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
My job now is to go school to school, university to university trying to help them sort through the challenge of teaching in a world with AI and the first thing I recommend to improve the teaching of writing is cut the number of students per instructor in half. No one is going to do that, though.
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
say it again: 4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities demolishing higher education is economic sabotage
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Erin Gretzinger @eringretzinger.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
BREAKING: @theassemblync.bsky.social obtained an email in which UNC-Chapel Hill's ex-provost said Chancellor Lee Roberts agreed to the Board of Trustees’ controversial move to delay tenure votes for financial reasons. From me & @themhartman.bsky.social www.theassemblync.com/education/hi...
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Provost: UNC-CH Chancellor Signed Off On Plan To Delay Tenure
Chris Clemens wrote in an email obtained by The Assembly that Chancellor Lee Roberts agreed to delay tenure votes for financial reasons.
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Jeff Melnick @melnickjeffrey1.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
"When the first of August came round, the Professor realized he had pleasantly trifled away nearly two months at a task which should have taken little more than a week." --Willa Cather, 1925 and timeless
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Jennifer Nolan @jnolan.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Certainly true a couple weeks ago at the F. Scott Fitzgerald Society conference in New York! @eetempleton.bsky.social @kirkcurnutt.bsky.social @pipmcgowan.bsky.social @sarahchurchwell.bsky.social @rosstangedal.bsky.social (& many others!)
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Erin Templeton (@eetempleton.bsky.social)
Dean & English professor (Converse University), runner, Steeler fan, avid reader, dog walker, cat food dispenser. Always up for pizza. Academically: literary modernism, F. Scott & Zelda Fitzgerald, ...
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durhamcounty @durhamcounty.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
This morning, we're seeing a number of road closures due to high water. Please be advised that the following roads are currently impacted: Portions of Old Oxford Rd Moores Mill Rd Roxboro Rd near the Person County Line John Jones Rd Snow Hill Rd
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
The child in this trustee’s scenario? Faculty. Who submitted their tenure files for consideration in accordance with the terms of their employment. Both sides have a responsibility in that contract, one to submit and one to review. I hope everyone really hears this.
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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 04/06/2025
UNC's board has belatedly confirmed faculty's tenure awards, but made some incredibly alarming remarks along the way. On public outcry to the board's silence, one trustee wrote, "It is not good governance to give your child a cookie every time they lay on the floor and scream that they want one."
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The Assembly @theassemblync.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Some UNC-Chapel Hill faculty say they are concerned about a recent Board of Trustees decision—or, rather, non-decision—on faculty tenure and promotion cases. www.theassemblync.com/education/hi...
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UNC-Chapel Hill Has Delayed Tenure Votes in Most Departments This Spring
UNC-Chapel Hill trustees didn't approve tenure cases outside of health-related schools at the last two meetings.
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Eric Muller @elmunc.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Something's up (down?) at #UNC. The Bd of Trustees, which has authority over tenure decisions, tabled all at its March mtg & re-tabled all from the College of Arts & Sciences & the non-health professional schools (Law, Biz, etc) at its next mtg. All w/o explanation. #AcademicSky #academicfreedom
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Jennifer Nolan @jnolan.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Took 115+ years, but the world Forster imagined in “The Machine Stops” is finally upon us www.cs.ucdavis.edu/~koehl/Teach... Though I’m an Americanist, I’ve begun teaching it in most classes
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Well yes that’s the plan. Also, not a secret. Also, never been so close to achieving it before. Wealthy, powerful people are generally such because they never, ever let a good crisis pass without breaking their enemies and stealing their stuff.
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Jennifer Nolan @jnolan.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Catching up on this week’s #VibeCheck & reminded of this quote from firebrand, and fellow Texan, Molly Ivins: “So keep fightin’ for freedom and justice, beloveds, but don’t you forget to have fun doin’ it.” open.spotify.com/episode/0U6q...
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If You Don’t Want to Be Edged, Get Out of My Bed
Vibe Check · Episode
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 10/04/2025
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic “The Great Gatsby” turns 100 today. Revisit a 1926 Profile of the author, who described himself as “one of the most notorious drinkers of the younger generation.”
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F. Scott Fitzgerald, That Sad Young Man
John C. Mosher’s 1926 Profile of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald: “All was quiet on the Riviera, and then the Fitzgeralds arrived.”
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Jennifer Nolan @jnolan.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Happy Gatsby day to those who celebrate! Remarkably relevant for 100 years and counting
Original dust jacket of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, published 100 years ago today
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Sarah Churchwell @sarahchurchwell.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
The Great Gatsby turns 100 next week and in honor of its centenary I’ve written a piece that says something I’ve been wanting to say for a while now. www.ft.com/content/dd6f...
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How Gatsby foretold Trump’s America
A century after it was published, F Scott Fitzgerald’s masterpiece is more relevant than ever. Sarah Churchwell on the trouble with ‘careless people’
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John Gallagher @johnrgallagher.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
The 2024 NEH budget: $207M. One F-35 jet: ~$100M. The cost of two jets exceeds the entire NEH budget.
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Brandon Walsh @walshbr.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Cognitive dissonance is the humanities being at the same time both a useless waste of time and an imminent threat to the government.
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Jennifer Nolan @jnolan.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Hoping to get down to see this in May! #gatsby
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Anne Margaret Daniel 🌻 @annemargaretdaniel.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
When F. Scott Fitzgerald hit a carabineri in the nose and ended up in a jail cell in Rome, beaten up, in the winter of 1924. He was trying to finish The Great Gatsby. You'd have gone a little wild, too. Quite a find by Sara Antonelli, via NYT: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/b...
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The Truth About F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Drunken Brawl in Rome
Biographers took an account of a scuffle in “Tender Is the Night” as a record of a real-life event. But uncovered documents suggest Fitzgerald may have behaved worse than he wrote.
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Maggie Simon @maggiesimon.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Some good news at NC State! Very excited to welcome our new chancellor. news.ncsu.edu/2025/03/18/k...
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Kevin Howell Named NC State’s 15th Chancellor
He succeeds Randy Woodson, who is retiring after 15 years of service.
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Jennifer Nolan @jnolan.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Alex Mitchell and I are delighted to have Michelle E. Moore’s review essay on our edition, The Complete Magazine Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1921-1924 and David Earle’s excellent, Where All Good Flappers Go, included in this volume too! @vincennes.bsky.social
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Nadine Whitney @nadinewhitney.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Happy New Year from Dorothy Parker (and me).
Telegram sent by author Dorothy Parker to Robert Benchley on December 31st 1929. 

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You come right over here and explain why they are having another year.
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Jennifer Nolan @jnolan.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Delighted to be a part of this symposium on Jazz Age Illustration tomorrow and thrilled these illustrators are getting their due! #DelArt If you can make it to Delaware while the exhibition is still on (through Jan 26), go! delart.org/event/illust...
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Illustration Symposium - Delaware Art Museum
Join curators, catalogue authors, and scholars of American illustration for a deep dive into "Jazz Age illustration" and beyond at this daylong symposium sponsored by Heritage Auctions.
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Jennifer Nolan @jnolan.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Beautiful evening back where it all began #UTAustin
In front of Parlin Hall at the University of Texas at Austin at nightLit up Bevo on the Drag at the University of Texas
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Jennifer Nolan @jnolan.bsky.social · 05/11/2024
As a North Carolinian prepping to teach my Literature, Art, & Society class this afternoon, finding this helpful right now - thank you @theferocity.bsky.social!
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Jennifer Nolan @jnolan.bsky.social · 05/11/2024
My 5-yo’s final appeal after a weekend of canvassing for her future #vote
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