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Matthew Harrison @matthewharrison.bsky.social · 23h

i have been writing about hamlet (don't worry--not for publication!) for weeks now and this is what it's like inside my brain

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 03/10/2026

University leaders seem to forget that "the public" includes students, faculty, and staff who study and work at the institutions they lead. The "public" is not some external, amorphous thing to the university. If you can't treat the people on your campus with decency, then yeah, they won't trust you

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Matthew Harrison @matthewharrison.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

woke up this morning to a draft text that just said 'nay, madam'

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Matthew Harrison @matthewharrison.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Sorry for my last post. I’ve been trying to better align my personal communication style with that of my university system.

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Matthew Harrison @matthewharrison.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I would like to announce that I have accidentally poured a cup of water in my lap. Contrary to mainstream media reports, I have not ‘had a wee wee’ nor do I intend to change garments at this time.

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Sophie Weinberg @sophie-rose-reads.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Putting out a #bookhistory bat signal: does anyone have any resources on the history+production of ink balls/ball leathers? Finding it difficult to locate sources on preparing sheepskin for non-leather, non-parchment purposes…

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Matthew Harrison @matthewharrison.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

would someone turn off all these tornadoes? i'm getting tired of being in my basement.

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Matthew Harrison @matthewharrison.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

@pointslikeaman.bsky.social (@aelagrand.bsky.social ) have been using the database recently, as I prep for teaching, just to broaden our sense of these roles. wanted to say thank you! it's wild seeing the 18th and 19th century history of cross-gender casting!

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Matthew Harrison @matthewharrison.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

sometimes! (i think?) was trying to read up on this, to prepare for the ongoing trials of having a seven year old

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Matthew Harrison @matthewharrison.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

My son, after learning about "adverbs": "Daddy, I just want to prepare myself. Are there any things like 'ad-adjectives'?"

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Matthew Harrison @matthewharrison.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

actually, all of Marlowe is another good one

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Matthew Harrison @matthewharrison.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I read all of Jonson at one point. I really liked it, but I'm not sure I recommend it.

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Matthew Harrison @matthewharrison.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

i read this as a bar chart at first and was very confused

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Megan L. Cook @meganlcook.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Academic friends: I have a delightful honors student who is hoping to produce a zine as an accompaniment to their thesis on transmasculine concepts in early modern drama. Do you have any good examples of academic arguments adapted to zines or other public-facing, DIY formats?

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Matthew Harrison @matthewharrison.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

i remember being slow at that myself!

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Matthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Someone has to explain to me the logic of 1) my thoughts on discourse are so necessary I must share them with the public; but 2) not important enough for me to actually author myself

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Matthew Harrison @matthewharrison.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

testing to see if the ideal amount of peanut butter on one's trouser is higher than usually thought

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Matthew Harrison @matthewharrison.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

there is very little purpose in promoting a poetry event in Canyon, Texas on here, but then there's little purpose in all human ambition. sorry, i've been reading hamlet.

ad for a poetry reading tonight (7 pm / Emilee Kinney and Chera Hammons). it's got a horse.

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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Chopines, platform leather shoes, c. 1540 made in #Milan or #Spain (Schloss Ambras Innsbruck)

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Matthew Harrison @matthewharrison.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

my mistress' dumps are nothing like a truck

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 10/09/2026

lol but also ouch! 😂https://cunooz.com/2026/09/09/english-department-receives-12-grant/

cunooz.com

English Department Receives $12 Grant – CU Nooz

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Matthew Harrison @matthewharrison.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

this is my least favorite part of being on the website for People Who Can't Read the Room

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Devin Garofalo @devingarofalo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Favorite collections of deep space / intergalactic / alien / sf poems? Along the lines of Tracy K. Smith’s Life on Mars or Gabrielle Calvocoressi’s Rocket Fantastic or even Tommy Pico’s Nature Poem? I would like some interstellar / celestial-terrestrial Earth poetry plz!

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Matthew Harrison @matthewharrison.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

sorry, i forgot this place let me save bad posts as drafts, so i hit send

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Matthew Harrison @matthewharrison.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

thinking through the sight lines in "Low": how could everyone in the whole club have been lookin' at her when she hit the floor? that place must have been shaped like an ampitheater.

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Matthew Harrison @matthewharrison.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

wait you're wearing your jeans more than once?

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Matthew Harrison @matthewharrison.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

if only there was any way to know what your position on schooling was

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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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David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Transcribing a 1660 treaty that, amongst other things, forced the English and French into agreeing to abolish the slave trade in Indigenous Caribbeans in exchange for peace. Quite remarkable, and I'm happy to stand corrected if anyone has ever come across a treaty like this.

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Matthew Harrison @matthewharrison.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

chuffed to announce that i find my own joke very funny.

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Matthew Harrison @matthewharrison.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

you, you got what i neeed (but you say he's just a friend)

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Matthew Harrison @matthewharrison.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

There is nothing I like more than a literary critic who hates Wordsworth.

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Matthew Harrison @matthewharrison.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

When I’ve been on hiring committees, we’re looking for evidence the candidate will excel at teaching the classes we need. Adjuncts often teach the classes we need most. List them!

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Matthew Harrison @matthewharrison.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

life hack: you can actually drink spring water any time of the year

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Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

HEY NERDS. I felt up some weird-ass 19thc US parchment this past week. Too thin. Poor finish. Yellow. Almost crumbly at edges. nearly CRACKED at creases! I literally looked for chain-lines. JUST SLIGHTLY too early to be vegetable parchment (acid-process invented 1847). Wth was this stuff?? Buckskin?

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Chloe Cumming @chloecumming.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Pylon with vermillion in the sky

A spidery dark ink drawing of a pylon to the left of a landscape format picture with strange sky colours , watery

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