Thomas Hallock @tbhallock.bsky.social · 28/03/2025Teaching pro-tip. Stop grading online. Ask students to turn in their essays in print form. I am reading student work at dawn (okay, class at 2), and even as I grade, I feel fully human with them. 020
Thomas Hallock @tbhallock.bsky.social · 26/03/2025Humanities scholars, we've been training our whole lives for this moment. Call out bullshit. At every level. 140
Thomas Hallock @tbhallock.bsky.social · 24/03/202530 years into scholarly publishing, and I'm pretty sure, there's not much more humbling than proofing a bibliography. 010
Thomas Hallock @tbhallock.bsky.social · 07/03/2025Just ate a booger on a Zoom call. First time caught, I think. 000
Thomas Hallock @tbhallock.bsky.social · 04/03/2025Last night I dreamt that @robynhitchcock.bsky.social referenced my academic monograph in a song. It was glorious. 000
Reposted by Thomas HallockAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 21/02/2025This is how it’s done. 27327642210826
Thomas Hallock @tbhallock.bsky.social · 22/02/2025Love that classroom moment when you've read good stuff, taken them to a cool place ... and they start to write. 030
Thomas Hallock @tbhallock.bsky.social · 20/02/2025#Tampa cigar box #poetry from Tyler Gillespie. www.cltampa.com/arts/read-do...cltampa.comRead 'Donna Tampa,' a cigar label-inspired ekphrastic poem from the 'Now On View' installation in Ybor City'City Palimpsest' is another work that explains the arrival of FAX 727 289 3069 in Tampa. 060
Thomas Hallock @tbhallock.bsky.social · 18/02/2025Is there anything more #Florida than an e-trike? 000
Thomas Hallock @tbhallock.bsky.social · 14/02/2025I finished my annual review for work 11 1/2 hours before it was due. May I please have a pat on the head? 010
Thomas Hallock @tbhallock.bsky.social · 13/02/2025You can ban the music, you can't stop the song. 030
Thomas Hallock @tbhallock.bsky.social · 11/02/2025Five years ago, I traveled the southern coast of the #gulfofmexico by bus. Wrote about my journey in @zocalopublicsquare.bsky.social. Re-posting this article, in hopes my words reach the President. www.zocalopublicsquare.org/10-anniversa...zocalopublicsquare.orgWill Florida Still Draw Tourists If It Permits Oil Drilling?For five pesos, I could hold the crocodilio. The handler stood in the shadows of Veracruz's boardwalk. When I asked why he had an alligator, he told me 254
Thomas Hallock @tbhallock.bsky.social · 11/02/2025#TypewriterTuesday. Letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, concerning #USAID cuts, on the 1950s Royal Quiet DeLuxe my mom used in college. How are you contacting the government otday? 020
Thomas Hallock @tbhallock.bsky.social · 06/02/2025A call to typewriter enthusiasts: #TypewriterTuesday. I propose once a week, say lunch hour every Tuesday, we type (or hand write on stationery) a letter to an elected official. Personal, epistolary engagement with our politicians. We can share our letters on a common group or page. Who's in? 020
Thomas Hallock @tbhallock.bsky.social · 04/02/2025Gathering up people and shipping them off to camps. 000
Thomas Hallock @tbhallock.bsky.social · 04/02/2025Reading grad school applications. Advice: do NOT open a statement of purpose, "I have loved literature since I was a child." Definite no-no. Pass the word on to your graduating students. 030
Thomas Hallock @tbhallock.bsky.social · 02/02/2025Late to the party here, but damn--archivally grounded, connect-the-dots study. 110
Thomas Hallock @tbhallock.bsky.social · 30/01/2025Professor friends! Small step to bring back joy in teaching. Ask for hard copies, rather than reading work online. Encourage students to type, or if their handwriting is neat, go that route. Far more connected to their words when we are working from a shared page. 010
Thomas Hallock @tbhallock.bsky.social · 27/01/2025Scholar Friends: When gathering archival materials, when and where do you stop? I am pulling together a cultural history of the Seminole War, and 30 pages into the bibliography, no end in sight. State papers to lachrymose poetry to glass bottomed boat name. 110
Thomas Hallock @tbhallock.bsky.social · 25/01/2025Question about student reading. I have several who will not read or even buy books. One student, who had not completed the homework for one class, lamented the 15 page "wall of text" in another. I've cut back on page count. I feel old & out of touch, standing before a generational shift. Solutions? 000
Reposted by Thomas HallockAAUP @aaup.org · 23/01/2025As the Trump administration & many state governments appear poised to accelerate attacks on higher education as a public good, the AAUP urges colleges & universities to resist the coming onslaught of political interference & defend the core values of higher education. 🧵 www.aaup.org/news/against...aaup.orgAgainst Anticipatory ObedienceWhile administrators and faculty members may have to comply with legislation and court orders, even where these run counter to our values and to professional and constitutional principles, we are free... 6697365
Thomas Hallock @tbhallock.bsky.social · 23/01/2025Could someone please reach out to Reviewer #2, tell him to find a different hobby? 000
Thomas Hallock @tbhallock.bsky.social · 19/01/2025Most surprising thing I could have told my grad school self? Just how much scholarship would be collaborative. 010
Reposted by Thomas HallockJoshua R Greenberg @joshrgreenberg.bsky.social · 18/01/2025On this day in 1733, the first polar bear exhibited in the American colonies was shown in Boston after being brought back by Captain Thomas Coram. In celebration, here is one of my favorite bank note vignettes of a polar bear attacking a rowboat full of men. Continental Bank, Boston, MA, $3, 18--. 🗃️ 25716
Thomas Hallock @tbhallock.bsky.social · 18/01/2025I am working on a scholarly/creative project that is filled with poetry and stories and library geek knowledge about Tampa Bay. Launch, April 22 (Earth Day), 2025. The project fills me with joy and hope. That is all. 030
Thomas Hallock @tbhallock.bsky.social · 17/01/2025Literature and the Environment class. Friday afternoons, 2-4:45, my refuge. #usfsp 000
Thomas Hallock @tbhallock.bsky.social · 16/01/202530 years into professor life, I've got doctoral students. Surprised at how much I enjoy the work. 040
Thomas Hallock @tbhallock.bsky.social · 16/01/2025Blue Velvet. One of the first art films I ever saw in the theater. (Some joint off Times Square.) RIP, David Lynch, the world is smaller without you. 010
Thomas Hallock @tbhallock.bsky.social · 16/01/2025Loss for words. I'm preparing a manuscript, except it's not a manuscript, nor is it a typescript--it's a word processing file. So what's the term? What am I sending to my publisher? I did editorial work in a former scholarly life, and this prior self will not accept the lexical imprecision. 210
Reposted by Thomas HallockNew York Magazine @nymag.com · 13/01/2025Environmental historian Char Miller makes a case for retreating from the hills.nymag.comLos Angeles Shouldn’t Rebuild the Same Way AgainEnvironmental historian Char Miller makes a case for retreating from the hills. 0268
Thomas Hallock @tbhallock.bsky.social · 13/01/2025Wrap on #MLA25. Great food, great panels, great culture. Saw old friends, made new ones. So much has changed since my first, 30+ years ago. It's better, more collegial. Left NOLA feeling proud and hopeful for my profession. 050
Reposted by Thomas HallockLinguistic Society of America @lingsocam.bsky.social · 11/01/2025The American Dialect Society Word of the Year: RAWDOG To rawdog: taking on life without the usual protection, preparation, or comfort. Whether it’s diving into a challenge unprepared or skipping the safety net, rawdogging is about embracing risk, stone-cold sobriety, and rolling with it. #LSA2025 145821305
Reposted by Thomas HallockNicholas A. Christakis @nachristakis.bsky.social · 09/01/2025Fantastic illustration of the topic of social construction of pathology -- and of medical progress, since we no longer pathologies this. #socy126 #nosology #lefties #southpaws 2602433351
Thomas Hallock @tbhallock.bsky.social · 10/01/2025All badged up for @MLA25. I've been doing this for 30 years. 30 years! You can't shoot me down because my career has already flown its arc. 020
Thomas Hallock @tbhallock.bsky.social · 09/01/2025#MLA25. Editors talk social change; barges outside ply the Mississippi. 120
Thomas Hallock @tbhallock.bsky.social · 09/01/2025Heading to #MLA25 for a panel on this new book--a volume in which I have a small part, a book that makes me proud to be a professor. 070
Thomas Hallock @tbhallock.bsky.social · 08/01/2025Heading to #NOLA, plan to post from #MLA25. Who else will be there? 010
Thomas Hallock @tbhallock.bsky.social · 15/12/2024Scholarly article for fancy-dancy publisher sent, 5 hours and 44 minutes ahead of deadline. It's just a draft (they'll fix it in post) but please pat me on the head for powering through a chore I really did not want to do. 020
Thomas Hallock @tbhallock.bsky.social · 12/12/2024Love the meditation by Ilka Brasch on Philadelphia architecture and structures of the colonial archive in this cluster. @ibrasch.bsky.social 130
Thomas Hallock @tbhallock.bsky.social · 12/12/2024I'm ready to call it quits on #MLA form. Who's with me? Parenthetical citations were rendered obsolete by the word processor. 020
Thomas Hallock @tbhallock.bsky.social · 05/12/2024Thrilled to see this cluster of articles drop, from the German journal #Anglia. #MobileArchive www.degruyter.com/journal/key/...degruyter.comResearch Cluster: Archival Crossings – A Mobile Archive Research Cluster / Editors: Thomas Hallock and Marcel HartwigVolume 142, issue 4 of the journal Anglia was published in 2024. 010
Thomas Hallock @tbhallock.bsky.social · 04/12/2024#BlueSky is a nice, if quiet space for #AcademicTwitter. Happy to reconvene with colleagues. But I miss the meaningless conversations about sports on the ugly Elon's platform. 020
Thomas Hallock @tbhallock.bsky.social · 26/11/2024Worst week of the school year. The "what do I need to do to get a better grade?" from previously MIA student week. 000