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Douglas Dowland @profdgd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

My grading assistant might have the right idea.

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Douglas Dowland @profdgd.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Look at this terrific batch of books.

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Douglas Dowland @profdgd.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

My coffee snobbery journey is about to take a new turn.

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Douglas Dowland @profdgd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Someone got tons of attention at the department picnic and is now totally pooped out.

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Douglas Dowland @profdgd.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Trying my highly experimental blue book and Biscoff pedagogy today.

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Douglas Dowland @profdgd.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Good thinking on my part to run the disgust course mid-afternoon.

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Douglas Dowland @profdgd.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Catching up on my reading with this fascinating article by @matthewlevay.bsky.social.

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Douglas Dowland @profdgd.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

When you're department chair and your university switches to multi-year scheduling.

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Douglas Dowland @profdgd.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The disgust students might be getting a treat next week.

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Douglas Dowland @profdgd.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Looking forward to sharing my thoughts at this roundtable for MLA in January.

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Douglas Dowland @profdgd.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Getting ready for the first day of the disgust course.

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Douglas Dowland @profdgd.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I do not quite know what to make of this.

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Douglas Dowland @profdgd.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

When faculty need to decide who’s chairing a committee.

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Douglas Dowland @profdgd.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Me trying to land this Didion chapter I've been working on.

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Douglas Dowland @profdgd.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Joanie took my spot while I was out of the room and expresses no repentance.

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Douglas Dowland @profdgd.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Catching up on my reading with this timely issue of @asapjournal.bsky.social.

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Douglas Dowland @profdgd.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

This is going to be great. For my part, I'll be talking about the multidisciplinary chair as bearer of radical hope.

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Douglas Dowland @profdgd.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

The department chair during final exam week.

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Douglas Dowland @profdgd.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

If we're going to talk about brutal buildings at Iowa, the Boyd is a palace compared to the infamous (and easily floodable) EPB.

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Douglas Dowland @profdgd.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Some of the work of the department chair is political. Much of the work is ideational. And just a sliver of it is ridiculously capturing students attention at Honors Day so the campus photographer can take this awesome photo.

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Douglas Dowland @profdgd.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Me: “Joanie, I have to go to work.” Joanie:

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Douglas Dowland @profdgd.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

The reading list for next semester's Literature of Mental Illness course. I feel like I'm missing a book of poems or another play. Suggestions?

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Douglas Dowland @profdgd.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

This was the mainstay at my grandparents for decades. preview.redd.it/chef-boyarde...

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Douglas Dowland @profdgd.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

The department chair works out next year's schedule.

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Douglas Dowland @profdgd.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Snowless path shoveled for the one who refuses to wear booties.

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Douglas Dowland @profdgd.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Me lounging in the MLA book exhibit hall.

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Douglas Dowland @profdgd.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

And now it’s time for some midwestern deliciousness.

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Douglas Dowland @profdgd.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

In my mailbox today. Much appreciated and timely; a perfect gift for any department chair.

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Douglas Dowland @profdgd.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Reading Sontag’s journals. The note here is so minimal it’s hard to tell if it’s anxiety, pride, or both.

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Douglas Dowland @profdgd.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Status: imprisoned on the recliner.

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Douglas Dowland @profdgd.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

The books for Literature and Medicine next semester.

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Douglas Dowland @profdgd.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Next semester's reading in the Medical Humanities course.

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Douglas Dowland @profdgd.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

That my review is #3 @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social suggests that the strategies (and politics) of reading continue to fascinate.

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Douglas Dowland @profdgd.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

The close reader and text relationship gone askew.

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