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Nissa Ren Cannon

@nissaren.bsky.social
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Teaching research writing @PWRStanford, writing about interwar expatriate infrastructure (& passports & steamships & newspapers), book reviews editor @JMPS, MSA board member, SFUSD parent

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Nissa Ren Cannon @nissaren.bsky.social · 18h
I've read 8 student papers this weekend, and 2 of them have used the word "ginormous." Please point me towards the TikTok trend/AI humanizer causing this!
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Nissa Ren Cannon @nissaren.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I've posted this before but I'll try again: are you interested in writing a book review of any/all of the MANY amazing edited collections in 20th c. periodical studies EUP has published in the last couple years? (for JMPS) I think an omnibus review of these would be of incredible value to readers!
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Nissa Ren Cannon @nissaren.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
As a person obsessed with the ways Google no longer works, I enjoyed this sancho.bearblog.dev/google-weird...
sancho.bearblog.dev
When did Google get so f-ing weird?
I recently had an experience while doing a simple Google search that was so profoundly weird that it stopped me in my tracks. Understanding this Google se...
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Nissa Ren Cannon @nissaren.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Student referred to millennials as Gen Y. Is this a thing?
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Nissa Ren Cannon @nissaren.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The party invite phishing scam is its own particular form of tragedy.
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Nissa Ren Cannon @nissaren.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Real time capsule on facebook memories today.
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Nissa Ren Cannon @nissaren.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Weirdly excited to have a student who went to the same (public, fairly terrible) middle school as me!
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Nissa Ren Cannon @nissaren.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Ooops, once more fell into the "how can I start writing when there's so much to read???" well.
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Nissa Ren Cannon @nissaren.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
TFW you're peer reviewing and the paper takes a very unexpected turn!
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Nissa Ren Cannon @nissaren.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Nothing worse than when the spider living in one corner of your living room ceiling is no longer living in that corner.
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Nissa Ren Cannon @nissaren.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I've just replied to an email 6.5 years late.
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Nissa Ren Cannon @nissaren.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I've posted this before but I'll try again: are you interested in writing a book review of any/all of the MANY amazing edited collections in 20th c. periodical studies EUP has published in the last couple years? (for JMPS) I think an omnibus review of these would be of incredible value to readers!
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Andrew Goldstone @agoldst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026
LLMs bridge the gap between the honor still accorded to white-collar literacy and the dwindling capacity of educational institutions to reproduce it. andrewgoldstone.com/blog/f26nope
andrewgoldstone.com
Literacy, Language Models, Cultural Capital
The website of Andrew Goldstone, Associate Professor of English, Rutgers University, New Brunswick. Scholarship on the history and sociology of twentieth-century literature, pages for undergraduate and graduate literature courses, blog.
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Nissa Ren Cannon @nissaren.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
How is it the year 2026 and restaurants still don't all have their hours on their homepage?
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Nissa Ren Cannon @nissaren.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
May all of your internet rabbitholes lead you somewhere as pleasant as mine has tonight (to 23 archived years of a local naturalist newsletter) exhibits.stanford.edu/voices-for-t...
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Nissa Ren Cannon @nissaren.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
May I recommend blasting the same songs to cope with sandwich generation angst as teen angst?
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Nissa Ren Cannon @nissaren.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Trying to make a Tues/Thurs class into a Mon/Weds class that starts on a Weds and has Thanksgiving break in the middle of it is going to destroy me.
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Nissa Ren Cannon @nissaren.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
The clearest sign that Facebook misunderstands humans is their decision to pre-load birthday greetings for my friends (perhaps the least of their sins, but the one I find most galling).
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Nissa Ren Cannon @nissaren.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I miss the polite fiction where we all pretended we didn't see what anyone else did online.
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Nissa Ren Cannon @nissaren.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
You can now go to the bookstore and buy this jaw-droppingly gorgeous (thanks @unnamedpress.bsky.social !) copy of Sinclair Lewis' Dodsworth, with a little afterword from @seeshespeak.bsky.social and me.
Cover of Sinclair Lewis novel Dodsworth, out with Unnamed Press
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Nissa Ren Cannon @nissaren.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Friends, have we come up with a good way to let students type things without also allowing them access to all that other stuff?
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Nissa Ren Cannon @nissaren.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
The attention this is grabbing is, understandably, on the ban for students, but it's (alarmingly) noteworthy it's ALSO a ban for professors.
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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Its unfortunately a bit boring to repeat the same thing over and over again, but peer review, like the rest of academia and knowledge work in general, is under enormous duress bc the labor conditions of the people who do it have deteriorated beyond the point of the system functioning as intended.
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Nissa Ren Cannon @nissaren.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Let's just say you were 10 (+++) years into writing a book, and you had a major new epiphany about the whole project... Would you (a) feel really excited; or (b) just want to take a nap?
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Nissa Ren Cannon @nissaren.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
A reminder of how unintuitive the English language is to spell.
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Nissa Ren Cannon @nissaren.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I love my job but also this made me cry a little.
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Nissa Ren Cannon @nissaren.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Sometimes spending 30 minutes searching the stacks of a library with terrible signage and a mysterious floor plan is the best.
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Nissa Ren Cannon @nissaren.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Thrilled to report I have found a way to mention this in my book.
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
when arday was hired, cambridge had five black professors. does that sound like an institution in thrall to DEI? does that sound like an institution that's handing out jobs to black academics?
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Nissa Ren Cannon @nissaren.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Ok, let's say you had an interesting idea that you raised while peer reviewing someone's article, and they thank you (anonymously) in the published article's footnotes, and then you want to use that idea in your own writing: do you cite the earlier work?
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Nissa Ren Cannon @nissaren.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Sinclair Lewis invented a fictional cereal called "puffy wuffles."
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Nissa Ren Cannon @nissaren.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Back to school PSA: the denim chore coat from Quince has my full endorsement.
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Nissa Ren Cannon @nissaren.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Guys, I think we need more decorating holidays so the stores aren't all trying to sell me Halloween decorations during summer break.
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Nissa Ren Cannon @nissaren.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
An amazing public service! Adding to my syllabus now!
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Nissa Ren Cannon @nissaren.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
HELP! Where do I direct my anger about everything needing its own phone app instead of letting me just do it on my computer? I DON'T WANT TO DOWNLOAD THE APP.
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Nissa Ren Cannon @nissaren.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
WRITERS LOVE THEIR JOBS. WRITERS DO NOT WANT AI TO DO THEIR JOBS! (preaching to the choir, I know, but can you believe there are people who think THESE are the things AI should do???)
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Nissa Ren Cannon @nissaren.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
It's almost here!!!!! (all credit to @sinsleyh.bsky.social for knowing I'm not on Instagram and sending me this) www.instagram.com/p/DbObKAFCTw_/
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Smith & Taylor Classics on Instagram: "SNEAK PEEK unboxing! “Dodsworth” by Sinclair Lewis in conversation with Nissa Ren Cannon and Sheila Liming coming soon ♥️🧳💃🏻 Smith & Taylor’s 2026 Subscription ...
109 likes, 4 comments - smithandtaylorclassics on July 25, 2026: "SNEAK PEEK unboxing! “Dodsworth” by Sinclair Lewis in conversation with Nissa Ren Cannon and Sheila Liming coming soon ♥️🧳💃🏻 Smith & ...
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Nissa Ren Cannon @nissaren.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Hi friends! Do you have experience working with tech AND writing programs? My department is hiring an Academic Technology Specialist. We're great people to work with and it's a cool job for those with a foot in both these worlds careersearch.stanford.edu/hcmUI/Candid...
careersearch.stanford.edu
Academic Technology Specialist
Work with faculty to integrate technology into teaching, learning, and/or research activities.
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Nissa Ren Cannon @nissaren.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Turns out this was a really good movie! Don't sleep on it ;)
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Nissa Ren Cannon @nissaren.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
In 1931, Nella Larsen sent Carl van Vechten this postcard of a man with a skirt full of kittens.
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Nissa Ren Cannon @nissaren.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Hi friends! Do you have experience working with tech AND writing programs? My department is hiring an Academic Technology Specialist. We're great people to work with and it's a cool job for those with a foot in both these worlds careersearch.stanford.edu/hcmUI/Candid...
careersearch.stanford.edu
Academic Technology Specialist
Work with faculty to integrate technology into teaching, learning, and/or research activities.
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Nissa Ren Cannon @nissaren.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
I might be incapable of recovering from my smugness about leading a Middlemarch book club at summer camp.
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Nissa Ren Cannon @nissaren.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
My kid is turning 12 next week and I still find it utterly weird to sign anything "mom."
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Kate Jewell @katejewell.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Here’s the thing: I could probably come up with lots of creative, AI-proof online approaches. But finding the time to reflect an innovate comes at a premium. I often revamp my courses, but this is an order of magnitude much higher in redesign. AI is not a pedagogical crisis, it’s a labor crisis.
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Lucy Bellwood @lubellwoo.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
New 44-track playlist from Smithsonian Folkways documenting sea shanties, nautical ballads, work songs, and other maritime musical treasures from the English-speaking world:
folkways.si.edu
Folkways Goes... to Sea | Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
Long before modern instant communication, and even before the days of highways and railroads, ships and waterways connected communities with each other. These waterborne connections spanned distances…
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Nissa Ren Cannon @nissaren.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
It can't be a good thing that I'm now embarrassed by how long it's taking me to write this book.
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Nissa Ren Cannon @nissaren.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
AMAZING!!!
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Nissa Ren Cannon @nissaren.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Timed my 24 hours in London to perfectly coincide with the heatwave.
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Nissa Ren Cannon @nissaren.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Something I'm not sure we talk about enough is how editing and peer review of our fellow scholars makes us better at giving students feedback, and vice versa.
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