Matthew Harrison
@matthewharrison.bsky.social
pizza advocate; english professor
@pointslikeaman.bsky.social (@aelagrand.bsky.social ) have been using the database recently, as I prep for teaching, just to broaden our sense of these roles.
wanted to say thank you! it's wild seeing the 18th and 19th century history of cross-gender casting!
wanted to say thank you! it's wild seeing the 18th and 19th century history of cross-gender casting!
September 25, 2026 at 1:05 PM
@pointslikeaman.bsky.social (@aelagrand.bsky.social ) have been using the database recently, as I prep for teaching, just to broaden our sense of these roles.
wanted to say thank you! it's wild seeing the 18th and 19th century history of cross-gender casting!
wanted to say thank you! it's wild seeing the 18th and 19th century history of cross-gender casting!
My son, after learning about "adverbs": "Daddy, I just want to prepare myself. Are there any things like 'ad-adjectives'?"
September 25, 2026 at 12:48 AM
My son, after learning about "adverbs": "Daddy, I just want to prepare myself. Are there any things like 'ad-adjectives'?"
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Academic friends: I have a delightful honors student who is hoping to produce a zine as an accompaniment to their thesis on transmasculine concepts in early modern drama. Do you have any good examples of academic arguments adapted to zines or other public-facing, DIY formats?
September 22, 2026 at 3:13 PM
Academic friends: I have a delightful honors student who is hoping to produce a zine as an accompaniment to their thesis on transmasculine concepts in early modern drama. Do you have any good examples of academic arguments adapted to zines or other public-facing, DIY formats?
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Someone has to explain to me the logic of 1) my thoughts on discourse are so necessary I must share them with the public; but 2) not important enough for me to actually author myself
A fancy provost allegedly using AI to write papers and op-eds is a big problem, but a bigger problem is why we all have no problem believing a fancy provost used AI write papers and op-eds. I should find that hard to believe. I don’t.
September 22, 2026 at 1:04 AM
Someone has to explain to me the logic of 1) my thoughts on discourse are so necessary I must share them with the public; but 2) not important enough for me to actually author myself
Lacan, 1958
Had a dream last night where I finally got an X. I had been dreaming of an X, and I was so proud and delighted that I had an X. I was going to put stickers all over the X, and it was going to be my most important possession ever. Then, I woke up, and I have no idea what the X was.
September 18, 2026 at 6:28 PM
Lacan, 1958
testing to see if the ideal amount of peanut butter on one's trouser is higher than usually thought
September 17, 2026 at 6:58 PM
testing to see if the ideal amount of peanut butter on one's trouser is higher than usually thought
there is very little purpose in promoting a poetry event in Canyon, Texas on here, but then there's little purpose in all human ambition.
sorry, i've been reading hamlet.
sorry, i've been reading hamlet.
September 17, 2026 at 1:06 PM
there is very little purpose in promoting a poetry event in Canyon, Texas on here, but then there's little purpose in all human ambition.
sorry, i've been reading hamlet.
sorry, i've been reading hamlet.
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September 15, 2026 at 2:21 PM
my mistress' dumps are nothing like a truck
September 14, 2026 at 6:43 PM
my mistress' dumps are nothing like a truck
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lol but also ouch! 😂https://cunooz.com/2026/09/09/english-department-receives-12-grant/
English Department Receives $12 Grant – CU Nooz
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September 10, 2026 at 1:54 AM
lol but also ouch! 😂https://cunooz.com/2026/09/09/english-department-receives-12-grant/
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Favorite collections of deep space / intergalactic / alien / sf poems? Along the lines of Tracy K. Smith’s Life on Mars or Gabrielle Calvocoressi’s Rocket Fantastic or even Tommy Pico’s Nature Poem? I would like some interstellar / celestial-terrestrial Earth poetry plz!
September 10, 2026 at 3:02 PM
Favorite collections of deep space / intergalactic / alien / sf poems? Along the lines of Tracy K. Smith’s Life on Mars or Gabrielle Calvocoressi’s Rocket Fantastic or even Tommy Pico’s Nature Poem? I would like some interstellar / celestial-terrestrial Earth poetry plz!
thinking through the sight lines in "Low": how could everyone in the whole club have been lookin' at her when she hit the floor?
that place must have been shaped like an ampitheater.
that place must have been shaped like an ampitheater.
September 8, 2026 at 3:05 AM
thinking through the sight lines in "Low": how could everyone in the whole club have been lookin' at her when she hit the floor?
that place must have been shaped like an ampitheater.
that place must have been shaped like an ampitheater.
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Whoever at @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk assigned this to Anne Carson, thank you. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Anne Carson · On Rosalía
We require heroism of our entertainers. We want them sacrificing themselves to a certain ultimate degree of input. No...
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September 3, 2026 at 8:00 PM
Whoever at @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk assigned this to Anne Carson, thank you. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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So, I really hope I get to tell this story in longer form in the near future, but it it’s burning a hole inside me.
Most of it comes from an interview with Bob Hirst this weekend. Bob has been Exec Editor of the Mark Twain Project for 47 years, before which he was part of its staff for ~15.
1/16
Most of it comes from an interview with Bob Hirst this weekend. Bob has been Exec Editor of the Mark Twain Project for 47 years, before which he was part of its staff for ~15.
1/16
August 2, 2026 at 2:42 PM
So, I really hope I get to tell this story in longer form in the near future, but it it’s burning a hole inside me.
Most of it comes from an interview with Bob Hirst this weekend. Bob has been Exec Editor of the Mark Twain Project for 47 years, before which he was part of its staff for ~15.
1/16
Most of it comes from an interview with Bob Hirst this weekend. Bob has been Exec Editor of the Mark Twain Project for 47 years, before which he was part of its staff for ~15.
1/16
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Transcribing a 1660 treaty that, amongst other things, forced the English and French into agreeing to abolish the slave trade in Indigenous Caribbeans in exchange for peace. Quite remarkable, and I'm happy to stand corrected if anyone has ever come across a treaty like this.
September 2, 2026 at 1:06 PM
Transcribing a 1660 treaty that, amongst other things, forced the English and French into agreeing to abolish the slave trade in Indigenous Caribbeans in exchange for peace. Quite remarkable, and I'm happy to stand corrected if anyone has ever come across a treaty like this.
chuffed to announce that i find my own joke very funny.
September 2, 2026 at 2:08 AM
chuffed to announce that i find my own joke very funny.
you, you got what i neeed (but you say he's just a friend)
I cannot tell you how deeply overjoyed I am that it took just 2% reporting to project a win for Markey over Moulton in the MA Senate Dem primary.
September 2, 2026 at 2:06 AM
you, you got what i neeed (but you say he's just a friend)
There is nothing I like more than a literary critic who hates Wordsworth.
September 1, 2026 at 4:29 PM
There is nothing I like more than a literary critic who hates Wordsworth.
life hack: you can actually drink spring water any time of the year
August 30, 2026 at 10:46 PM
life hack: you can actually drink spring water any time of the year
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HEY NERDS. I felt up some weird-ass 19thc US parchment this past week. Too thin. Poor finish. Yellow. Almost crumbly at edges. nearly CRACKED at creases! I literally looked for chain-lines. JUST SLIGHTLY too early to be vegetable parchment (acid-process invented 1847). Wth was this stuff?? Buckskin?
August 29, 2026 at 9:02 PM
HEY NERDS. I felt up some weird-ass 19thc US parchment this past week. Too thin. Poor finish. Yellow. Almost crumbly at edges. nearly CRACKED at creases! I literally looked for chain-lines. JUST SLIGHTLY too early to be vegetable parchment (acid-process invented 1847). Wth was this stuff?? Buckskin?
@smosment.bsky.social Your grad school was ahead of the game!
August 28, 2026 at 2:30 PM
@smosment.bsky.social Your grad school was ahead of the game!
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Pylon with vermillion in the sky
August 28, 2026 at 2:04 PM
Pylon with vermillion in the sky
was posting poems into Google Docs before class today, and Google AI offered to rewrite them to match my style.
is this feature exclusively intended for people to claim credit for others' work?
is this feature exclusively intended for people to claim credit for others' work?
August 26, 2026 at 10:36 PM
was posting poems into Google Docs before class today, and Google AI offered to rewrite them to match my style.
is this feature exclusively intended for people to claim credit for others' work?
is this feature exclusively intended for people to claim credit for others' work?