iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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The follow up question: you’re back on campus for my 100th birthday party. You’re now retired: what are you doing with your time? What are you thinking about? How have you lived your values?

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Jonathan @jsench.bsky.social · 2h

Today in a class exploring the concept of the liberal arts and sciences (vs instrumental learning) I asked freshmen if they didn’t have to worry about money what theyd major in: the common answers: taking care of the earth & animals, learning languages, exploring culture & geography, seeing art.

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Matthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social · 4h

My students did such a good job today of working through the idea of noticing and making local claims. We started with some Degas and Monet and then two paragraphs from North and South. Huge props to @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social and @johannawinant.bsky.social for their amazing scaffolding

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Rachael King @rscar.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Cover reveal! The keywords I sent the press were “historical,” “natural,” and “multimedia” and I’d say they nailed it. Featuring my (book’s) main man Humphry Repton on the left there. Coming from Yale University Press this fall.

Image of a book cover with the title The Book of Improvement, subtitle Media Landscapes in the Global Enlightenment, and author Rachael King. The cover features a tree in the center with two men with surveying equipment to the left of the trunk and two men reclining under an umbrella to the right of the trunk. There are a river and rolling hills in the background.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Please, for the love of God, leave me behind with all the books because you don’t read. I want to be left behind!

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

the expert literary science, expert data analysis, and even more expert deep investigative reporting in this piece powerfully dispel PEN's insidious mythology of the publishing industry this jewish author is thankful for the research

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Vauhini Vara @vauhinivara.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This isn't just a think piece saying they disagree with PEN America; they actually went back and examined at the data and reporting — including a key claim that a literary agent was selling far fewer books by Jewish and Israeli authors in the US — and found it lacking. Fascinating work.

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Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Working on this reported essay, just published, increasingly took over my life for the last two months. PEN America did a terrible disservice with its sloppy reporting about American Jews and Israelis in publishing in July. Josh Lambert and I tried to do better. jewishcurrents.org/what-pen-ame...

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What PEN America Got Wrong About Antisemitism in Publishing

Misleading anecdotes, flawed data, and oversimplified analyses are at the heart of a narrative of Jewish exclusion promoted by the free expression…

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Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

my son‘s oldest friend—they became besties as toddlers in Pittsburgh and now they are third graders who live thousands of miles away from each other—wrote him this amazing letter

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Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I am constantly telling everyone about Gilgamesh

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

would anyone from a non elite college like to write about this for Contingent because you know we would publish it

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

AAUP, AFT, and HELU have a plan draft! College For All, in expansion now for 2026 and 2028 www.aaup.org/sites/defaul...

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Sarah Osment @smosment.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A great example of a postliteracy argument that seems rooted in pedagogical innovation (or Platonic retvrn, lol) but which will actually be used to justify further defunding and ed tech creep. It won't be the last www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/o...

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Opinion | I’m a College Professor. Writing Isn’t as Important as We Think. (Gift Article)

If I do not treat writing as essential for achieving thought, it is not clear why I should force my students to.

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Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

missing from this argument is the fact that Williams is an extraordinarily rich college with students who are overall very well-prepared for college—essentially none of this is generalizable even to a flagship university, much less any other higher education institution

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Opinion | I’m a College Professor. Writing Isn’t as Important as We Think. (Gift Article)

If I do not treat writing as essential for achieving thought, it is not clear why I should force my students to.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants.

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Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I stayed in hotels a few times this summer/fall and I have some tips: 1. Wash out glasses before using (housekeepers don’t—they don’t have time so they wipe them) 2. Pillowcases make perfect floursack towels for curly hair 3. All Hyatts have the same breakfast and the oatmeal is the best option

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Dr Laura Varnam @drlauravarnam.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I cannot recommend this book highly enough- CLOSE READING FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY, ed Sinykin & Winant. It’s inspiring me for the term ahead! Eng Lit tutors, what are your favourite ways of teaching close reading in a university context?

Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century book, ed Dan Sinykin & Johanna Winant

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Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

words I learned in the last 24 hours: soteriology, ruderal, thigmonasty

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Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The English department at Reed College—my department—is hiring a TT prof in post-45 US fiction and/or narrative. This position includes teaching in the interdisciplinary humanities program (mostly the freshman core course) as well as possibly contributing to upper level interdisciplinary programs.

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Tenure-Track Assistant Professorship in Post-1945 Fiction and/or Narrative of the United States - Office of the Dean of the Faculty - Reed C...

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Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I'm thinking about how some of my most powerful memories of being a student are the moments when my professors were so moved—or stunned again?—by the material that they were teaching that their speaking ground to a halt and what I learned in those moments of silence

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John Downes-Angus @johndownesangus.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Took a play from @johannawinant.bsky.social and @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social and introduced the kids to finding details that could fit under a fingertip. Works like a charm. Pedagogy doesn’t need to be flashy!

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duckrabbit.bsky.social @duckrabbit.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Not even cancer, it turns out, can quash the irrepressible twenty-first-century human drive to generate content. Herewith this essay. I am more grateful than I can express to everybody at Ploughshares, and to Justin Torres, for publishing it.

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 22/09/2026

“It is simple enough, and true enough, to say that Annie was unlike anyone I’d ever met, then or since.” Robert Baird remembers Annie Dillard, who died last week, at 81. www.newyorker.com/culture/post...

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Annie Dillard’s Subject Was the Whole World

“It is simple enough, and true enough, to say that Annie was unlike anyone I’d ever met, then or since.” Robert Baird remembers Annie Dillard, who died last week, at 81.

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Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

one of the things that delights me about Reed is that they have refused to participate in this for thirty years now

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Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I felt a Cleaving in my Mind— As if my Brain had split— I tried to match it—Seam by Seam— But could not make them fit.

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Astrid Lorange @alorange.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

who has written about "I felt a Funeral, in my Brain"? cc @johannawinant.bsky.social @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social @glavey.bsky.social

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becimay @becimay.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

My TLS piece on the Exeter cuts ✨

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Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

tomorrow morning is when to start cutting back on caffeine, if I'm being smart

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Brian Glavey @glavey.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Tune in to this week's episode of Some Marvelous Experience to hear @seeshespeak.bsky.social and @emerpondfeeney.bsky.social discuss Wallace Stegner's Crossing to Safety. open.spotify.com/episode/5i3z...

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Crossing to Safety

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The Gurgling Cod (he/him) @thegurglingcod.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Curious if anyone else is teaching with @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social and @johannawinant.bsky.social's Close Reading for the 21st century this semester. Would love to compare notes on how students are managing scene setting, noticing, etc.

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Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

a student told me that my reputation is "do no harm and take no shit" and I'm thrilled

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Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

freedom from/freedom to remains useful when talking to students about how device-free classes might be more free In other ways as well

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Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I have figured out a very powerful curly hair/traveling tip and I feel unstoppable

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Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

my math professor friend recently answered the question, "what makes someone good at math?" with the word "sitzfleisch," which he then defined for us, and also that's the exact same answer as studying literature.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Yo. This is the union calling for a boycott. Here in America people like to say "Well I was already boycotting Starbucks!" No you were not. You were just choosing not to buy their stuff. That is not a boycott. A boycott is an organized, collective activity. "I" don't boycott: we do.

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Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

this was from when it was in such a basement that you had to be careful about hitting your head on pipes (complimentary)

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Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I'm going through some old photos and I found this one of my then-nonagenarian grandparents' freezer, which I sent to my brother, saying "Grandma and Grandpa know how to live."

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Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

It was not the first high school teacher reaching out to invite me to talk to their colleagues or students about close reading, I hope it wont be the last, but it was a teacher at my old high school—who didn’t seem to realize I‘m an alum?—inviting me and Dan to talk close reading that made me cry.

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Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

my in-class writing assignment today—students will complete one of: "I couldn't help but wonder about...[detail in the text, quote of just a few words on page number]" "What's the deal with...[detail in the text, quote of just a few words on page number]" yes, SaTC and Seinfeld set ups

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Kristin Grogan @kristingrogan.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

finally looked through a pile of unopened LRBs, under which there was an unopened Modernism/Modernity, feat. the physical copy of @keegancf.bsky.social’s review of my book! I guess this is a lesson about opening your mail in a timely fashion

Modernism/modernity journal open to review pages of stitch, unstitch

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Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

up late writing another close reading of "the red wheelbarrow" 😈

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