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profchander @profchander.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
our series keeps growing! global.oup.com/academic/con...
casie legette, the empire’s schoolbooksdevin garofalo, worlds unmannedporscha fermanis, settler fiction from the southern hemisphere
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profchander @profchander.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
dennis hopper in blue velvet
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profchander @profchander.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
i’m always nervous on the first day of classes but it helps to find mail like this at my office
porscha fermanis’s new book “settler fiction from the southern hemisphere “book series description

RACE IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURES AND CULTURES
Race in Nineteenth-Century Literatures and Cultures (RNCLC) brings together critical work on the material and intellectual histories of race across the long nineteenth century. The series considers such issues as enslavement, abolition, race science, colonial expansion, and indigeneity in relation to cultural production and consumption across the globe. Focused on underexplored nineteenth-century archives, RNCLC nevertheless pays particular attention to the relevance of the period's racial formations to the contemporary moment. Titles included proceed from the conviction that understanding this key moment in the history of race enables us to imagine revolutionary alternatives to the structures inherited from the nineteenth century.
Series Editors
Manu Samriti Chander, Georgetown University
Patricia A. Matthew, Montclair State University
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profchander @profchander.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
speaking of kehinde wiley
the cambridge companion to romanticism and race with wiley’s “prelude” on the cover
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profchander @profchander.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
no laptop just vibes
lounging on a beach chair
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profchander @profchander.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
girl, same
a cat sprawled out on the sidewalk under a table outside pete’s diner
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profchander @profchander.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
(ended up using this one from la raza, march 31, 1968)
clip from la raza newspaper with a collage under the title the establishment vs the people.
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profchander @profchander.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
spent hours trying to find the source of an image i’ve seen circulating, always unattributed or misattributed — no luck. if anyone knows hmu?
photograph of (i think) the chicano moratorium, august 29, 1970. features young chicano protestors on the hood of a car carrying signs, including one that says “brown is beautiful”
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profchander @profchander.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
🌮 🌮 🌮 🌮
nyt spelling bee says tacoholic is not a word
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profchander @profchander.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
this must be hurtful to ed
hospital trash can says ed on it
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profchander @profchander.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
seen on insta
If you're feeling worried about how little you've achieved, remember that Bram Stoker didn't write Dracula until he was 50, and Dracula didn't kill anyone until he was dead.
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profchander @profchander.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
fucking iago
THE CLASSICAL THEATRE OF HARLEM

Tonight's Performance of Othello Is Canceled

Due to ongoing severe weather conditions and concerns about air quality, this Thursday evening performance of Othello has been canceled. The earlier partner performance by the Harlem Chamber Players and the Harlem Night Market are also canceled tonight.

The safety of our audiences, artists, and staff remains our highest priority. We apologize for the disappointment and appreciate your understanding.
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profchander @profchander.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
3 years later i finally unpacked my office
my desk and bookshelves, some pictures hanging
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profchander @profchander.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
BREAKING: Mitch McConnell says he was hospitalized because of a fall and developed mild pneumonia, in first statement on his condition. His office released this photo:
tippy the turtle
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profchander @profchander.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
miles to go before i etc but printed out for the first time the nearly complete ms of a project i started over a decade ago 🥲
the printed 550+ pp manuscript of the collected works of egbert martin
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profchander @profchander.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
hey if you're coming into town for the INCS-INCSA-NCSA Conference and want to get a coffee, lmk (also come to our panel, it's thursday at 11) ncsaweb.net/revolution-r...
Panel 9-E: Revolving Movement, Aesthetic Thought, and Political Networks in the Anglophone Caribbean

Chair: Ryan Caroll, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Ryan Carroll, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, "Imperial Revolution and Revelation in Zorg: A Story of British Guiana"
Manu Chander, Georgetown University, "’In Beauty of Shape, Feature, and Complexion’: Aesthetics, Anthropology, and Late Eighteenth-Century Atlantic"
Chandrica Barua, University of Michigan, "Plantation Brownness: The Slave, the Coolie, and Racial Visualities"
Catie Peters, Harvard University, "The Coast and the Backdam: Afro-Asian Histories of Post-Emancipation Guyana"
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profchander @profchander.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
i need my own personal dictionary
ny times spelling bee telling me “depeche” is not a word
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profchander @profchander.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
love my kids
a father’s day magnet with a poop wearing glasses. it read: dad you’re not perfect but you’re ours. you’re a solid #2
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profchander @profchander.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
gringo says what
my times spelling bee telling me gringo is not a word
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profchander @profchander.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
“seems you’ve been missing a lot of work lately” “oh i wouldn’t say i’ve been missing it, bob”
email telling me my fall course books are overdue
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profchander @profchander.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
and are the people who say there’s no such thing as objectivity in the room with us now?
Wilentz: I do find a certain irony in this. People who rail against objectivity, say that there’s no such thing as objectivity, suddenly want more evidence.
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profchander @profchander.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
umm, that’s a pretty big ”except”?
On the other hand, because we were an immigrant nation, everybody here, except the Indians and the Negroes and those others who had been forcibly transported, was here because he or a recent ancestor (a father, a grandfather, or great-
grandfather) had chosen this place.
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profchander @profchander.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
update
clean cut brown man smiling into mirror selfie
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profchander @profchander.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
scruffy brown man wearing kids plastic blue star shaped glasses and drinking coffee
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profchander @profchander.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
that cat has a name, it’s xing xing, and it‘s his diner
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profchander @profchander.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
If you're feeling worried about how little you've achieved, remember that Bram Stoker didn't write Dracula until he was 50, and Dracula didn't kill anyone until he was dead.
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profchander @profchander.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
césaire
And now I ask: what else has bourgeois Europe done? It has undermined civilizations, destroyed countries, ruined nationalities, extirpated "the root of diversity," No more dikes, no more bulwarks.
The hour of the barbarian is at hand. The modern barbarian. The American hour. Violence, excess, waste, mercantilism, bluff, conformism, stupidity, vulgarity, disorder.
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profchander @profchander.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
at one point it was louder than nine inch nails at madison square garden. at the end it was dead quiet. we did run into two sabres fans from the kahnawake mohawk nation. one was wearing a pat lafontaine jersey, the other miroslav satan. also we saw this big leonard cohen mural but that’s separate
big leonard cohen mural in montreal
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profchander @profchander.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
let’s go buffalo
me and my oldest friend the lonely sabres fans at the bell centre
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profchander @profchander.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
“eat well”
walgreens snack aisle with the “eat well” sign from the next aisle in the background
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profchander @profchander.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
finals week

HOYAlert: Canvas is currently experiencing a global outage impacting Georgetown's
Canvas system.
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profchander @profchander.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
never been to montreal, can’t think of a better occasion
tickets to game 4 of sabres-canadiens series
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profchander @profchander.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
folger shakespeare library gala 🎩
patricia and me in fancy clothes
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profchander @profchander.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
is the question “do you teach an art course?” because…no
spam email:

Quick question about your art course
Hi Professor Chander,
One thing we hear a lot from art instructors is how hard it i to get students to slow down and really look at the work—
not just skim it.
That's something Revel Art does really well. It brings the…
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profchander @profchander.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Funch
@RonFunches
When society admits Outkast is better than The Beatles then we can truly start healing.
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profchander @profchander.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
delivery guy replaced expensive restaurant ramen with like maruchan
uber eats page has a review for a ramen place that says “delivery driver stole our meal and gave packs of grocery ramen”
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profchander @profchander.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
me exactly one percent of the time when someone tells me to come check out their friends band
duolingo teaching me how to say “i was surprised the music was really good” in german
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profchander @profchander.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
a colleague sent this email last year and i was heartbroken i couldn’t go
The role of literature/lyric/ art now
Hi!
If anyone is interested in discussing the role of art and activism in the current moment, please join us in ENGL 189: Beats and Subculture as we engage with DMV artist, producer and co-founder of Dischord Records lan MacKaye (formerly of Minor Threat and Fugazi).
2:00 - 3:15 pm
Maguire 101
All my best,
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profchander @profchander.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
how to recognize me
selfie
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profchander @profchander.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
from my not-online friend dave
text message

Today 9:33 AM
I'm a little sad that homonym also doesn't mean something else.
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profchander @profchander.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
kant's description for his 1775 lecture on the difference races of men begins by saying the course will basically be a useful chat [nützliche unterhaltung] instead of a tiresome slog [mühsame beschäftigung], and, honestly i'm stealing this
I. Von der Verschiedenheit der Fabel überhaupt

Die Vorlesung, welche ich ankündige, wird mehr eine nützliche Unterhaltung,	als eine mühsame Beschäftigung sein; daher die Untersuchung, womit ich diese Ankündigung begleite, zwar etwas für den Verstand, aber mehr wie ein Spiel desselben, als eine tiefe Nachforschung enthalten wird.
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profchander @profchander.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
toshiro mifune was beautiful
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profchander @profchander.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
i don’t understand this
weather forecast: high of 78, snow expected
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profchander @profchander.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
my penguins fan friend sending sabres love
text exchange 

Today 1:14 PM
It's very positive for the universe that the Sabres are good.

i don't know how to even feel. it's been so long
Read 1:21 PM
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profchander @profchander.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
this was intentional right?
spelling bee letters spell out BARACK OBAMA (not a word)
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profchander @profchander.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
from columbia protests: i ain’t reading all that free palestine
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profchander @profchander.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
never get involved in a land war is asia and never go up against @benwurgaft.bsky.social when puns are on the line
a text exchange in which we swap puns that blend cultural critics with 80s and 90s bands
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profchander @profchander.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
not to be that poetry professor but this part of byron’s don juan reads like that eminem line where he lists the best rappers (reggie jay z 2pac biggie et al)

Your bays may hide the baldness of your brows?— Perhaps some virtuous blushes;-let them go-
To you l envy neither fruit nor boughs-And for the fame you would engross below,
The field is universal, and allows
Scope to all such as feel the inherent glow:
Scott, Rogers, Campbell, Moore, and Crabbe, will try
'Gainst you the question with posterity.
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profchander @profchander.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
text chain: kids school tells me they're closed and i reply "fuck no," and they say "replies to this number are not monitored." it happens three days in a row.
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profchander @profchander.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
he tried
snowman
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