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The Complete Works/Mike & Mike Go to the Movies @completeworkspod.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

We're back for a deep dive into THE TOWN THAT DREADED SUNDOWN (1976) with our friend @lauracolaneri.bsky.social! open.spotify.com/episode/1xxY...

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 06/06/2026

I hope that people are aware that one of the primary political objectives of this ascending right-wing effort to remake higher education through things like the Vanderbilt Report, the Chicago Principles, and the AEI Future of the American University project is to crush the academic labor movement.

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Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com · 06/06/2026

Iowa Undergrads Will Have to Take History Courses Picked by Civics Centers bit.ly/4ob30co

The gold dome of the Iowa State Capitol, or the Iowa Statehouse, against a sunny blue sky.

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andy hines @andyhines.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

One of the chancellors that commissioned this report claims scholarly expertise in “reputational risk” and also considers himself to be Churchill-esque. Important data points to consider when reading what a committee he charged has to say about the humanities

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Public Opinion For Companies, Reputation Rules: Strategies for Building your Company's Most Valuable Asset, and, perhaps most relevantly, Corporate Reputation and Social Activism (co-authored with David Besanko and Jose Miguel Abito). Leveraging crisis to bolster an institution's reputation: this would appear to be the reason that Diermeier was appointed to become Vanderbilt's chancellor in 2020. (It also didn't hurt that he had a record of managing-graduate education and warding off unions at his previous position as Provost of the University of Chicage.)
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The "shock doctrine" employed by. university administrators during the coronavirus pandemic has been well-documented. Yet, under Diermeier, Vanderbilt deployed an inversion of this strategy at least in its public communications: he brought students back to campus more quickly than many other institutions, prioritizing function over student, worker, and community safety. After students returned in the fall of 2020 and Diermeier became one of the protagonists in what can only be described as an institutional
hagiography—a book titled A Year Like No Other: How a Global Pandemic Led to Vanderbilt University's Proudest Moment by Ryan Underwood. In his preface to the book, Diermeier casts himself as equivalent to Winston Churchill during World War II.
Disaster provides an opportunity for making austerity and favorable.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

The commanding heights of universities are not liberal spaces

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J Patrice McSherry @jpmcsherry.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Un día como hoy de 1974, el general Carlos Prats fue asesinado junto a su esposa Sofía Cuthbert en un atentado perpetrado en Buenos Aires. Fue uno de los primeros crímenes de la Operación Cóndor, que operaba sin nombre en clave.

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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

In Chicago/Chicagoland or anywhere else in Illinois: -Call Gov Pritzker; tell him you agree w ⬇️: 217-782-0244 -Find & call your state electeds & US Rep & Senators - tell them this unconstitutional power grab is wholly unacceptable: www.elections.il.gov/electionoper... -Ask others to do the same 7/7

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Teri G @terilg.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Get ready #chicago Save and share this image. It will be helpful when the #iceraids begin

Illinois Coalition for immigrant and refugee rights family support network, for ICE sightings, arrests, immigration legal help 7am-9pm: 855-435-7693

Cook County public defender’s arrest response hotline, free lawyers for people in custody or in court Chicago/Cook County 24/7: 844-817-4448

First Defense Legal Aid Help Not Jail Hotline: 1-800-LAW-REP4 / 529-7374

National Lawyers Guild Chicago, free lawyers if arrested during protests or for political activity while in custody or in court: 872-4NLG-CHI / 872-465-4244

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Isabela Fraga @isabelaf.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

¡CFP! The LASA 19th Century Section invites proposals (papers or full panels) for LASA 2026 in Paris. We're casting a wide net to see what work is shaping the field now. Deadline: Aug 22. Email abstracts to lasasigloxix@gmail.com. Spread the word!

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Thomaz Amancio @thomazamancio.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Plants and Animals in Latin American Cultural Production is available for pre-order (Jan 2026). Honored to have contributed to this volume under the brilliant vision and guidance of @cristinaele.bsky.social and @oaperez.bsky.social , and excited to read and teach all of it: upf.com/book.asp?id=...

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Plants and Animals in Latin American Cultural Production

Learn more about this book at UPF.com

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Carolyn Fornoff @c4noff.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Ah yes, as a Latin Americanist it will be so easy to write projects focused on the US's "moral leadership" 🙄🤪

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Carolyn Fornoff @c4noff.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

So messed up! The state Dept is implementing new vetting standards of foreign students' social media to look for "terrorist and antisemitic" sympathies. A front to slow student enrollments, chill free speech, and dissuade students from studying in the US 😡

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AAUP @aaup.org · 27/05/2025

The Trump administration is unlawfully seeking to destroy higher education in the United States. It now demands that we sacrifice our international students in the process. Universities cannot acquiesce to such extortion.

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Élika Ortega @elikaortega.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Review of dear @ambliopia.bsky.social’s not to be missed The Company — finally published in English! @cetracey.bsky.social does a great job threading Verónica Gerber Bicecci’s previous work, so if you’re new to her fabulous books, this is a good starting point.

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Laura Colaneri @lauracolaneri.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Although I’m mostly off social media at this point, I did want to mark my last day teaching at UChicago. It’s been a truly rich experience getting to work with such wonderful students. Happily, I’ll be continuing my career as Assistant Professor of Spanish at Wartburg College this fall!

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

"What if, rather than blaming Palestinians, Arab Americans, and American Muslims, these pundits had seen their treatment—under Biden and for decades before him—as central to the Trump-led repression looming before us?" Noura Erakat on the imperial boomerang www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...

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The Boomerang Comes Back - Boston Review

How the U.S.-backed war on Palestine is expanding authoritarianism at home—from Project Esther to violence at the border.

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Carolyn Fornoff @c4noff.bsky.social · 02/02/2024

My book is out! I was waiting to post a pic holding it IRL, but alas, it is yet to arrive. I hope you will check it out, and ask your library to buy a copy! www.vanderbiltuniversitypress.com/978082650617...

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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 18/01/2024

The latest installment of my column for Atlas Obscura, "Eerie Feeling," on places and spaces that generate that sense of the eerie, is live. It's about lake monsters! Who doesn't love a lake monster?

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Toward a Unifying Theory of Lake Monsters

From Champ to Bessie to lake sturgeon, these cryptids represent what lies beneath the surface of the familiar.

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Laura Colaneri @lauracolaneri.bsky.social · 03/01/2024

I’ll be at the MLA on Thursday presenting with colleagues on the panel “Beyond Magical Realism: Revindicating the Irreal in Contemporary South America.” Hope to see you there to discuss folklore, the occult, and science fiction!

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Jon @thelitcritguy.bsky.social · 03/01/2024

Typeset and finished. Will be getting in touch with people who might want to write endorsements over the next few days.

The title page for a book. The title is Capitalism A Horror story: Gothic Marxism and the Dark Side of the Radical Imagination. It is by Jon Greenaway and published by Repeater Books

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andy hines @andyhines.bsky.social · 03/01/2024

It has never been more urgent to strategize and to build a more democratic university. If you’re around on Sunday at MLA, I would love to see you for our discussion of how unions and senates have worked together (or not) in the past and the present.

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Kaneesha Parsard @kaneeshaparsard.bsky.social · 03/01/2024

For my first Bluesky post, some #mla24 promo: It's here! Wake up with "Jerks" this Friday at 8:30 am. We'll hear about Oscar Zeta Acosta's pugnacious leadership in the Chicano movement, Coetzee’s jerk poetics, dyspeptic dads, Larry David, and the valences of "nothing" in Naipaul's work.

Description of an MLA 2024 roundtable, titled "Jerks," on the dyspeptic, cantankerous, and disagreeable in literature.

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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 04/12/2023

Hey all, I've started a new column at Atlas Obscura! It's called "Eerie Feeling," and it takes Mark Fisher's definition of the "eerie" as a jumping off point to delve into some of the weirder aspects of history. You can read the first installment, on the Mad Gasser of Mattoon, Illinois, here:

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Airing Out the Mystery of the Mad Gasser of Mattoon

What a strange spate of "gas attacks" tells us about what was really lurking in mid-century America.

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Bat 🦇 Borus @matthewborus.bsky.social · 04/12/2023

There is something pretty galling about the fact that Agnes Callard gets space in major outlets to free-associate about "Why are the humanities?" and Why It's Actually Fine To Marry Your Student, while some of us are applying to dozens of jobs and polishing manuscripts that may get rejected anyway.

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Frank, Utopian Marxist @frankgothic.bsky.social · 30/11/2023

Kissinger, the war criminal who, amidst many horrific crimes, was responsible for the support for Pinochet and the coup in Allende’s Chile One of the great hopes and potency for Latin America brutally snuffed out and stamped out there. We remember!

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Jon @thelitcritguy.bsky.social · 21/11/2023

In light of two books coming out next year, and in the hopes of trying to persuade people to buy 'em, I am slowly starting to try and figure out tiktok -- if you are over there, please come say hi... www.tiktok.com/@thelitcritguy

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thelitcritguy (@thelitcritguy) on TikTok | 69 Likes. 79 Followers. writer, editor and academic patreon.com/thelitcritguy.Watch the latest video from thelitcritguy (@thelitcritguy).

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Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 19/11/2023

When I was at UNCC, we worked for 10 years on a proposal for a Women's & Gender Studies major bc we had *600+ minors*. The proposal got all the way to the Board of Governors for the UNC System, & they tabled it indefinitely as a way to kill it. The students WANTED that major.

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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 13/11/2023

Being a professor is 95% underlining SATAN on the chalkboard

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Samuel Baudinette @sambaudinette.bsky.social · 06/11/2023

University of Chicago friends and mutuals it would be great if you can make it to the union rally on Wednesday at noon! 🙌🙌🙌 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Guillaume Candela @guillaumecandela.bsky.social · 29/10/2023

The Florentine Codex, the oldest Indigenous encyclopedia, a manuscript that documents the language, culture, politics, natural science, and the History of the Mexica and other Indigenous People of Mesoamérica is online, after seven years of work! Start exploring: florentinecodex.getty.edu

Florentin Codex, Book 11, de las hierbas medicinales

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Laura Colaneri @lauracolaneri.bsky.social · 10/10/2023

So awesome to be on the job market right now, where you can watch the universities you’re applying to literally hack away at themselves before your eyes

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Laura Colaneri @lauracolaneri.bsky.social · 27/09/2023

It’s nice to be back to teaching but even when things go objectively pretty well in the classroom, it often creeps over me by the end of the day that I did terribly

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Carolyn Fornoff @c4noff.bsky.social · 24/09/2023

We are hiring a lecturer in Spanish at Cornell: 3-3 load, elementary thru advanced lang classes, 59-65k. Apps due Oct 20. jobs.chronicle.com/job/37530916...

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 21/09/2023

This meal just cost me $78 at the Newark airport. This is why Americans think the economy is terrible.

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Laura Colaneri @lauracolaneri.bsky.social · 17/09/2023

I had a lovely afternoon watching the documentary Satan Wants You yesterday at the Chicago Underground Film Festival with a bunch of Chicago goths. Check out the film when it comes out on streaming!

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adam @damfales.bsky.social · 15/09/2023

Posted this on the other site but yesterday, Chicago Review released a massive triple issue on Small Press Poetry in the US. It's my last issue as editor, and I'm proud of what we made together. Find it here or at some of the nation's finest bookstores: www.chicagoreview.org/issues/66-03...

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