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Allison Schachter

@theschach.bsky.social
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Modern Jewish lit, Yiddish translation, women in the arts, author of Diasporic Modernisms and Women Writing Jewish Modernity.

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Allison Schachter @theschach.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
“The humanities are not a luxury,” said MLA executive director Paula M. Krebs. “They are a necessity, teaching people vital skills, including how to effectively communicate, construct arguments, evaluate evidence, and build connections across cultures. www.mla.org/Resources/Ad...
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Joint Lawsuit over Dismantling of National Endowment for the...
(New York, NY) — The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), the American Historical Association (AHA), and the Modern Language Association (MLA) filed a lawsuit in federal district court today,...
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Allison Schachter @theschach.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
If you are considering applying for the Paula Hyman Mentorship Program @AJS I am holding an workshop on writing a successful applications this Friday 2/25 @ 10am CST. Details here: associationforjewishstudies.org/professional...
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Paula Hyman Mentorship Program
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Allison Schachter @theschach.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
My NEH grant to translate and annotate the selected works of Rokhl Brokhes has been terminated. I knew this was coming but I am still devastated by the news.
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Allison Schachter @theschach.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
So honored to share the MLA Leviant Award in Yiddish Studies with @aglaser.bsky.social.
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Allison Schachter @theschach.bsky.social · 22/08/2023
And today in TN news: tennesseelookout.com/2023/08/16/c...
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Allison Schachter @theschach.bsky.social · 21/08/2023
I was startled by a deer and baby doe on my run today. We paused to look each other in the eye and then went on our way. So quietly back to the nature of things.
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Allison Schachter @theschach.bsky.social · 19/08/2023
When Gee was at Vanderbilt he spent extravagant sums entertaining and remodeling the Vanderbilt mansion. He was also a supporter of the humanities and chipped away at Vanderbilt's elitist isolationism. He then fled under the cover of night. Since then he's left behind a trail of disaster.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 19/08/2023
You’ll be shocked - <shocked> - that when the NYT finally bothered to get around to covering the most important higher education story in the country, that they framed it entirely around the stale Narrative™️ of what majors/degrees are vocationally useful.
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Allison Schachter @theschach.bsky.social · 16/08/2023
A colleague claims that the academic book review is a dying genre. Folks are just too tired to write them, the profession is a in a new state of emergency, etc...Is this true for literary studies? Other fields?
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 15/08/2023
lack of federal funding for research is terrible. mellon divestment also terrible! www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view…
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Does humanities research matter anymore? (opinion)
The rapid collapse in available research funding is one crisis in the humanities we aren’t talking enough about, Asheesh Kapur Siddique writes.
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Allison Schachter @theschach.bsky.social · 15/08/2023
I am jumping in and hoping to rediscover my twitter feed here!
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