Stephanie DeGooyer @stephaniedegooyer.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Who do we think is behind this ad on the NYTimes today? 010
Reposted by Stephanie DeGooyerBook Post @bookpostusa.bsky.social · 08/08/2026. @stephaniedegooyer.bsky.social reflects on how a new history of the "Hobo" broadened her image from "jumbled and wrong . . . cultural references" to that of a "highly skilled seasonal laborer": books.substack.com/p/review-ste... @princetownpress.bsky.socialbooks.substack.comReview: Stephanie deGooyer on HobosThe rootless, unprotected seasonal workers who were America’s first climate migrants 002
Stephanie DeGooyer @stephaniedegooyer.bsky.social · 06/09/2026My first time writing for Book Post - about the history of the hobo, a uniquely American migrant. 073
Stephanie DeGooyer @stephaniedegooyer.bsky.social · 01/07/2026I interviewed Rachel Aviv for the Paris Review. She is gracious and generous, and you can completely understand why people are so unusually open with her - and willing to trust her with their archives. Read her new book! www.theparisreview.org/blog/2026/06...theparisreview.orgRachel Aviv’s Act of Revision: On You Won’t Get Free of It by Stephanie DeGooyerJune 30, 2026 – “I had written three stories with three lost babies, all of which I had left out.” 082
Stephanie DeGooyer @stephaniedegooyer.bsky.social · 30/06/2026John Roberts implicitly citing Hannah Arendt‘s “the right to have rights.” This is not the first time a CJ has quoted her without acknowledgment. In 1958, Chief Justice Earl Warren invoked the phrase in Perez v. Brownell without citation (though we have a paper trail that shows he had read her). 020
Stephanie DeGooyer @stephaniedegooyer.bsky.social · 30/06/2026www.nytimes.com/live/2026/06...nytimes.comLive Updates: Supreme Court Upholds Birthright Citizenship 010
Reposted by Stephanie DeGooyerThe de Groot Foundation @degrootfoundation.bsky.social · 13/06/2026Meet the 2026 Director's Grant Recipients! 🎉 We periodically award Director’s Grants to writers and artists who have contracts or projects well underway. Congratulations to our new grantees! 🔗 Learn more about the Director's Grantees: degrootfoundation.org/directors-gr... 111
Stephanie DeGooyer @stephaniedegooyer.bsky.social · 08/04/2026I‘m delivering a response to Teresa Bejan’s lecture on equality next week. The talk, entitled “First Among Equals: Redeeming Equality as a Political Ideal,” is part of the Adams symposium & previews her new book. I‘m looking forward to engaging her at UNC: humanities.unc.edu/event/the-ni...humanities.unc.eduThe Ninth Annual Adams Symposium for the Public Humanities - Carolina Public HumanitiesThe Ninth Annual Adams Symposium for the Public Humanities will feature Dr. Teresa Bejan, Professor of Political Theory at the University of Oxford, discussing equality as a guiding principal of polit... 030
Stephanie DeGooyer @stephaniedegooyer.bsky.social · 03/04/2026I've always considered Rooney an intelligent reader/inheritor of 18c fiction, but this opinion strikes me as confused: "The novel is not a historically radical form. How do we go about trying to encode some sort of political radicalism in a form that seems to resist it in its generic tendency?" 100
Stephanie DeGooyer @stephaniedegooyer.bsky.social · 25/02/2026Anyone else sense, in this new AI world, a turn from digital humanities to essential, irreducible value of what we do in humanities? 150
Reposted by Stephanie DeGooyerAstra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 09/02/2026Brilliant piece, and a public service to put these foul and upsetting pieces together. 011441
Stephanie DeGooyer @stephaniedegooyer.bsky.social · 08/02/2026What has kept me up is that if Chomsky couldn‘t withstand the allure of wealth & power, who will be able to? 2103
Stephanie DeGooyer @stephaniedegooyer.bsky.social · 08/02/2026It’s been an open secret about Chomsky & Epstein for awhile (WSJ reported two years ago), but I think many people will *finally* have to stop making exceptions for Chomsky now: www.bbc.com/news/article...bbc.comNoam Chomsky advised Epstein about 'horrible' media coverage, files showThe exchange was among the latest release of files from the US government's investigation into Epstein. 393
Stephanie DeGooyer @stephaniedegooyer.bsky.social · 04/02/2026Really painful to bear witness to the pile up of layoffs being announced on X right now. Devastating loss of book section and global reporting at a moment when we couldn’t need it more… 010
Stephanie DeGooyer @stephaniedegooyer.bsky.social · 30/01/2026My partner met Catherine O'Hara a few times backstage. One thing he noted about her was that she remembered everybody's name, including his, long after meeting. She was warm and excited to meet people even when the cameras were far away. RIP, to a Canadian Goddess.media.tenor.coma woman with red lipstick and a #schittscreek logoALT: a woman with red lipstick and a #schittscreek logo 060
Stephanie DeGooyer @stephaniedegooyer.bsky.social · 30/01/2026"ICE...is also using cellphone and social media tools to monitor people’s online activity and potentially hack into phones. And agents are tapping into a database...that combines government and commercial data to identify real-time locations for individuals they are pursuing..." 120
Reposted by Stephanie DeGooyerZach D Roberts @zdroberts.bsky.social · 29/01/2026Everyone read this and share it - Reece is the guy that literally wrote THE book on the history of the Border Patrol. I've been screaming that everyone needs to talk to him and read his book NOBODY IS PROTECTED for years. HAVE HIM ON YOUR SHOW. 03517
Reposted by Stephanie DeGooyerPrinceton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 20/01/2026"The Revolution to Come brilliantly reveals the genealogy of the modern concept of revolution. After it, the study of revolution will never look the same again," says @davidrarmitage.bsky.social for @historytoday.com. Read the full review of Dan Edelstein's new book here:historytoday.com‘The Revolution to Come’ and ‘Revolutions: A New History’ review 0158
Stephanie DeGooyer @stephaniedegooyer.bsky.social · 18/01/2026I wore my Roots sweatpants to the gym this morning and met four Canadians. 190
Stephanie DeGooyer @stephaniedegooyer.bsky.social · 16/01/2026I thought this book was done and settled, but the wonderful Jeaninne DeLombard, whose work I admire, has taken the time to review it for Novel. She really gets the stakes of my book, esp. its interdisciplinary lens and her words are helpful as I write my new book. read.dukeupress.edu/novel/articl...read.dukeupress.eduThe Art of NaturalizationStephanie DeGooyer revises the early history of the English novel by contextualizing it in the legal and political history of immigration and naturalization. Rather than charting the rise of the self-... 170
Stephanie DeGooyer @stephaniedegooyer.bsky.social · 11/12/2025Swoon! Jarvis Cocker is going to be a Booker prize judge next year… 170
Reposted by Stephanie DeGooyerPrinceton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 05/12/2025The life and times of a uniquely American testament. The Jefferson Bible by @petermanseau.bsky.social is now available in #paperback! Check out a free sample and save 30% with code PUP30 : press.princeton.edu/books/paperb... #ThomasJefferson #History 087
Stephanie DeGooyer @stephaniedegooyer.bsky.social · 18/11/2025Thank you, Rebecca. There is no finer gift than that having one’s work read with critical attention. Can’t wait to read this - 010
Stephanie DeGooyer @stephaniedegooyer.bsky.social · 18/11/2025The Denmark way… www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/w...nytimes.comWhy Britain Is Embracing ‘Negative Nation Branding’ 010
Stephanie DeGooyer @stephaniedegooyer.bsky.social · 13/11/2025Why don’t lit fields use the workshop model like law and history? I get so much more, and I think the audience does as well, from the workshop experience than from talking for 45 minutes and taking 10 minutes of random questions. Just had a fantastic experience at Duke Law and want to replicate. 151
Stephanie DeGooyer @stephaniedegooyer.bsky.social · 11/11/2025I’m actually of the mindset that I wish Hollywood et al would find some new muses. 2103
Stephanie DeGooyer @stephaniedegooyer.bsky.social · 10/11/2025My new project is on the history of a concept rather than the law per se, but nonetheless delighted (nervous, too) to workshop some of it with a very legal crowd. 250
Stephanie DeGooyer @stephaniedegooyer.bsky.social · 03/11/2025lol, I guess folks i follow on here haven‘t read much in this way. Fair enough! 110
Stephanie DeGooyer @stephaniedegooyer.bsky.social · 17/10/2025You can get pumpkin beverages, pecan beverages, protein cold foam beverages (???), but no black tea… 330
Stephanie DeGooyer @stephaniedegooyer.bsky.social · 17/10/2025Thank you, Minnesota Law, for hosting me during my (very unlikely) founding father era. I came to talk about my new book and ended up in great conversations with brilliant history and law students. Also: a basement coffee bar and a rare legal books library…Peak academic midlife crisis fantasy! 240
Stephanie DeGooyer @stephaniedegooyer.bsky.social · 16/10/2025The refugee caps have been very low for a long time. What is happening here is of a more ideological nature. The humanitarian world post-1967 is over: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...nytimes.comTrump Considers Overhaul of Refugee System That Would Favor White PeopleThe proposals would transform a program aimed at helping the most vulnerable people in the world into one that gives preference to mostly white people who say they are being persecuted. 314949
Stephanie DeGooyer @stephaniedegooyer.bsky.social · 10/10/2025Reading request! If you could recommend one text that explored the history of an idea/concept in a riveting and surprising way what would it be? Please re-skeet if you can. I know this is a niche ask. 294432
Stephanie DeGooyer @stephaniedegooyer.bsky.social · 07/10/2025Wonderful to see my colleague (and occasional bus stop companion) as a finalist for the poetry section of National Book Award!!! www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/b...nytimes.comHere Are the Finalists for the 2025 National Book Awards 070
Stephanie DeGooyer @stephaniedegooyer.bsky.social · 04/10/2025Saw that thing about how much critics read and how they can do it upside down, anywhere and then saw this, which is really truly where our game is heading: www.thetimes.com/uk/education...thetimes.comUniversities teaching literature students how to cope with long novelsCritics blame GCSE English for deterring teenagers from the subject, describing the literature syllabus as boring and repetitive 3146
Stephanie DeGooyer @stephaniedegooyer.bsky.social · 04/10/2025And just like that we return the word "refugee" to its original meaning: White European Protestant www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/u...nytimes.comTrump Administration Is Said to Plan to Cut Refugee Admissions to a Record Low 041
Stephanie DeGooyer @stephaniedegooyer.bsky.social · 27/09/2025This is correct. Klein is wrong. Liberal & left parties in the US & Europe have not been reacted by defending immigration. This is an area they are willing to let go. The leader of the social democrat party in Denmark, for ex, has called on European leaders to veer right on immigration for years… 081
Reposted by Stephanie DeGooyerCourtney E. Thompson @cethompson.bsky.social · 26/09/2025My institution had 43 faculty H-1B visas approved in 2024. "To maintain the current level of hiring of foreign talent under new Trump administration policies, the institution must pay an H-1B fee equivalent to 2.85% of its annual federally funded research and development expenditures." 0128
Reposted by Stephanie DeGooyerAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2025Awful news: someone appears to have shot up the Dallas ICE Field Office. The shooter is dead of a self-inflicted gunshot and three other people are "critically wounded." www.wfaa.com/article/news...wfaa.com3 people critically wounded at Dallas ICE facility, 1 shooter found dead as police search for possible sniper, sources sayThree people were critically wounded at a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in Dallas, sources say. 44798259
Stephanie DeGooyer @stephaniedegooyer.bsky.social · 24/09/2025www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/w...nytimes.comJamaican Citizen Deported to African Prison by U.S. Returns Home 0174
Reposted by Stephanie DeGooyerAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 20/09/2025Oh my GOD. This is the first official confirmation that the new H-1B entry ban does not apply to people with current visas (despite the text not containing ANY exception for people with current visas), and it’s not even something on an official website, it’s a passive aggressive tweet! 54993293
Reposted by Stephanie DeGooyerAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 20/09/2025To recap, Trump signed a proclamation saying that after midnight tonight, no one with an H-1B visa may enter the US unless they have paid $100,000. However, anonymous White House officials are saying it doesn't apply to people with current H-1B visas — yet there is NO official guidance! None! 601708548
Reposted by Stephanie DeGooyerAllen Orr @allenorr.bsky.social · 20/09/2025The Trump Administration has announced measures to gut longstanding pathways based on exceptional ability, national interest, & merit in favor of pay-to-play immigration. @urbanviewradio.bsky.social This sends a signal to the world’s top talent that the U.S. is closing its doors. bit.ly/4nz1XBEbit.lyAILA: Trump Administration H-1B Crackdown and “Gold Card” Visa Imperil Jobs, Innovation, and Rural HealthcareAILA President Jeff Joseph and ED Ben Johnson responded to the Trump Administration attempting to apply a new $100,000 fee to H-1Bs and supplant existing visa programs with a “Gold Card” visa, noting ... 29933
Reposted by Stephanie DeGooyerAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 20/09/2025I have started just outright blocking people who respond to “that’s illegal” with nihilism. It is not helpful, it is not useful, it is not productive. 2533141
Reposted by Stephanie DeGooyerPhysicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 20/09/2025@nickmark.bsky.social apnews.com/article/h1b-... 1416273
