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Vivian Nun Halloran

@vivianhalloran.bsky.social
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Puerto Rican born and raised. Caribbeanist. Literary food studies scholar. Lover of postmodern & contemporary ethnic & world literature. Museum nerd. Views my own.

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Vivian Nun Halloran @vivianhalloran.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
I really enjoyed presenting a paper today at the American Studies Association Meeting as part of the panel “Julia Alvarez: Histories of Lives(Un)lived”
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Vivian Nun Halloran @vivianhalloran.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Bad Bunny’s headlining the Super Bowl half-time show of 2026 will be his 2nd appearance on the Super Bowl stage. In 2020, he shared the stage with co-headliners Shakira and JLo. For my close reading of the 2020 show, read Chapter 6 of my book, ohiostatepress.org/books/titles...
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Caribbean American Narratives of Belonging
Analyzes an archive of contemporary cultural artifacts to show how Americans of Caribbean heritage narrate and celebrate their contributions to politics, art, and activism.
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Small Axe Project @smallaxeproject.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
"On Bad Bunny's Residency" 🐰🇵🇷 by Wilfredo José Burgos Matos smallaxe.net/content/1361...
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The Fragile Joy of Staying – If Only in Song: On Bad Bunny’s Residency
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Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Game on. “The American Academy of Pediatrics on Tuesday urged parents to get their youngest children vaccinated for covid, part of a broader effort by medical organizations to bypass Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his criticism of broadly administering coronavirus vaccines.” apple.news/As3JsZG1xSYm...
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Defying RFK Jr., pediatric group urges covid shots for young kids — The Washington Post
The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends all children ages 6 months to 23 months old receive a coronavirus vaccine as federal officials move to roll back recommendations.
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Chronicle of Higher Education @chronicle.com · 15/08/2025
Opinion | The art-history classroom is a place where divergent worldviews are brought into a kind of mutual coexistence and productive tension. chroni.cl/4oK0Qkb
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Opinion | Want to Save Democracy? Teach Art History.
Visual comparison cultivates thinking skills that are vital to political life.
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Vivian Nun Halloran @vivianhalloran.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Happy Summer Solstice! poets.org/poem/summer-2
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To Summer
O Thou who passest thro’ our vallies in
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Vivian Nun Halloran @vivianhalloran.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Tomorrow evening, Executive Dean Rick Van Kooten and I will do a faculty talk-back after this dramatic reading of Cat’s Cradle. Hope to see some of you there!
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Trans rights are human rights
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Thousands gather in London to support trans rights following UK ruling over definition of woman
Thousands of trans rights protesters gathered in central London, days after the U.K.‘s Supreme Court ruled that a woman is someone born biologically female and that transgender women are excluded from...
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Vivian Nun Halloran @vivianhalloran.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Images from my time in Kokomo, IN yesterday with Stellan the dog.
Photo of a park, with a brick building in the background. Curatorial note discussing Chief Kokomo. Black pitbull with harness on a leash standing by.Photo of a black pitbull wearing a harness and a leash looking at a large sculpture of a white whale with its mouth open.
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Vivian Nun Halloran @vivianhalloran.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Made me think of Wordsworth’s poem www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45521/...
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Durham Institute for Medical Humanities @durhamimh.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
🌍 👀 An interactive map of global medical & health humanities institutes, centres & networks! We are excited to launch this new resource to help raise the visibility & connectivity of researchers in the field. medhumsplatform.org/global-medic...
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Global Medical Humanities Map
An accessible database of the world’s medical and health humanities research organisations, institutions, and centres.
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Vivian Nun Halloran @vivianhalloran.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Happening this evening! A timely and relevant public humanities event.
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National Endowment for the Humanities @nehgov.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
#ICYMI this #NEHgrant-supported exhibition was named one of the best of 2024 by The Washington Post. Organized by The Clark Institute in partnership with the Louvre in Paris, Guillaume Lethière sheds light on Caribbean artists in France during the late 18th & early 19th centuries. ow.ly/mQsm50UGSHv
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National Endowment for the Humanities @nehgov.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Today at 1:45! Getting Funded in the Humanities: An NEH Workshop ow.ly/4QE350UB0oG #MLA25
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
"The Los Angeles Regional Food Bank is working with government agencies, nonprofit and faith-based partners and others to respond to the fires throughout Los Angeles County."
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Greater Los Angeles Wildfires Update | LA Regional Food Bank
Read updates about the Greater Los Angeles Wildfires that began in January of 2025.
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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Reminder that we are looking for papers using LLMs for humanities research, for a special issue of the Computational Humanities Research Journal. Deadline January 31st! #NLP #DigitalHumanities #CulturalAnalytics
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Expanding the Toolkit: Large Language Models in Humanities Research
Call for Papers: Expanding the Toolkit: Large Language Models in Humanities Research.
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
And so manye cheeres for kyndenesse and decencye and people just tryinge to helpe: www.latimes.com/food/list/lo...
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L.A. restaurants offering shelter, discounts and food to fire evacuees and first responders
These L.A. restaurants and coffee shops are staying open to shelter evacuees, offering discounts and, in some cases, free food to evacuees and first responders to the numerous ongoing fires in Souther...
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
These extraordinary photos of the LA fires have been shared widely on social media, often without crediting the photographer. These are all the work of Ethan Swope, an LA-based photojournalist working for AP. You can follow his remarkable reporting here👇 www.instagram.com/ethanswopeph...
A street is orange from flames and you can see the high winds in the palm trees. Sparks fly down the streetA fire truck is engulfed in parks and flames are seen on the hill. The entire photo is red and orange from the fireA fireman with a hose runs across the front of a house in flames in the backgroundThe inside of a house is a ball of flames. The only visible thing inside is a burning Christmas tree
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Vivian Nun Halloran @vivianhalloran.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
The College of Arts and Sciences at IU Bloomington promotes and supports professional development in AI and encourages College faculty to consider participating in the ICHE's 2025 Faculty Leadership Conference which will take place on our campus on February 7th. www.linkedin.com/posts/iche_r...
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Indiana Commission for Higher Education on LinkedIn: Registration is now open for the 2025 Faculty Leadership Conference on…
Registration is now open for the 2025 Faculty Leadership Conference on Friday, February 7, at Indiana University Bloomington. The 2025 Faculty Leadership…
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Jorell Meléndez-Badillo @jmelendezbadillo.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Working on the revised paperback edition of “Puerto Rico: A National History” coming out later this year with @PrincetonUPress.
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Vivian Nun Halloran @vivianhalloran.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Mood:
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Vivian Nun Halloran @vivianhalloran.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
As a member of the editorial board of the Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association, I'd like to remind folks of the Jan. 15 deadline for article submissions for the Spring volume on the theme Solidarity: www.midwest-mla.org/current-call...
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Current Calls for Submissions
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PeetieWheatstraw @peetiewheatstraw.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
www.axios.com/2025/01/01/p...
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Most Puerto Ricans have power restored after massive New Year's Eve blackout
Around 85% of Puerto Rican customers had their power restored as of Wednesday morning.
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News Breaking LIVE @newsbreakinglive.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
NEWS: “A blackout hit nearly all of Puerto Rico early Tuesday as the U.S. territory prepared to celebrate New Year’s, leaving more than 1.3 million clients in the dark. Officials said it could take up to two days to restore power.” - AP
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Nearly all of Puerto Rico is without power on New Year's Eve
A blackout has hit nearly all of Puerto Rico as the U.S. territory prepares to celebrate New Year’s.
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National Endowment for the Humanities @nehgov.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
New funding opportunity: #NEHgov has issued a call for proposals to produce K-12 curricular and educational resources on the history of government-sponsored boarding schools for Native American children in the U.S. Deadline is Jan. 15, 2025. For more information, visit ow.ly/ZnZ850UvXwN
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Vivian Nun Halloran @vivianhalloran.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Just watched Wicked with two die-hard L. Frank Baum fans: my daughter and mom in law. I’m halfway through the Wicked novel. The spectacle was great but it made me want to go back to reading.
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National Endowment for the Humanities @nehgov.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Feeling more “Bah, Humbug” than ever? Festivus is here, and no one would enjoy airing their grievances better than Scrooge himself! “A Christmas Carol” was not Dickens’ favorite holiday book. Read about four more options in this #HumanitiesMagazine article: ow.ly/5n7550UuYus
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A Christmas Carol Was Not His Best Holiday Novel, Charles Dickens Thought
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National Endowment for the Humanities @nehgov.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Applications for NEH’s Preservation Assistance Grants for Smaller Institutions program are open through Jan. 9, 2025. This #NEHgrant program helps small and mid-sized organizations preserve and manage humanities collections. Learn more: ow.ly/jPU850UmoPV
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Vivian Nun Halloran @vivianhalloran.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Little things giving me life in Jacksonville, FL. November, 2024.
Photo shows a lot of sand leading to the water’s edge on the beach with the sun low on the morning skyWhite amaryllis growing from a curbside planter, surrounded by green leaves.
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The Ohio State University Press @ohiostatepress.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
“With all the garbage talk from 45 about the beautiful island of Puerto Rico, it’s imperative to learn the truth about it from the people themselves.” — @karlajstrand.com includes @patriciacoral.bsky.social’s new memoir in her November roundup! msmagazine.com/2024/11/05/b...
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November 2024 Reads for the Rest of Us - Ms. Magazine
The best feminist books written by women, Black, brown, AAPI, LGBTQ, Native, disabled, trans, nonbinary writers in November 2024.
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Vivian Nun Halloran @vivianhalloran.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
As I was setting up my email bounce-back, I realized this presents a wonderful opportunity to share the gift of poetry. I can’t believe it took me this long to do so! Here’s what I picked: www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49622/...
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Perhaps the World Ends Here
The world begins at a kitchen table. The gifts of earth are brought and prepared, set on the table. We have given birth on this table, and have prepared our parents for burial here. Perhaps the world ...
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