Dr. Daniel Martin
@danielmartin.bsky.social
Associate Prof at MacEwan University in Edmonton AB, Canada. Victorian literature, dysfluency studies, literary theory, some trains and accidents. Writing a book about stuttering.
Co-director of Stuttering Commons: https://www.stutteringcommons.org
Co-director of Stuttering Commons: https://www.stutteringcommons.org
Serious question: can humanities scholarship be done with AI in some capacity? It doesn’t have to be a full investment or commitment. Does just some AI help at times?
May 11, 2026 at 5:03 PM
Serious question: can humanities scholarship be done with AI in some capacity? It doesn’t have to be a full investment or commitment. Does just some AI help at times?
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Hear Hours of Lectures by Michel Foucault: Recorded in English & French Between 1961 and 1983
Hear Hours of Lectures by Michel Foucault: Recorded in English & French Between 1961 and 1983
Tucked in the afterward of the second, 1982 edition of Hubert Dreyfus and Paul Rabinow’s Michel Foucault:
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April 14, 2026 at 11:42 PM
Hear Hours of Lectures by Michel Foucault: Recorded in English & French Between 1961 and 1983
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A Page of Madness: The Lost, Avant Garde Masterpiece from Early Japanese Cinema (1926)
A Page of Madness: The Lost, Avant Garde Masterpiece from Early Japanese Cinema (1926)
It’s a sad fact that the vast majority of silent movies in Japan have been lost thanks to human carelessness, earthquakes and the grim efficiency of the United States Air Force. The first films of hug...
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March 24, 2026 at 5:28 AM
A Page of Madness: The Lost, Avant Garde Masterpiece from Early Japanese Cinema (1926)
Day 3 of a new puppy in the house.
March 24, 2026 at 12:38 PM
Day 3 of a new puppy in the house.
Just saying that I won't read or listen to any critique of the state of the world if it begins with a complaint about students. That's a non-starter, even if it's just a poorly-conceived attempt to claim that the material conditions of existence determine consciousness. I'm not down with this.
March 23, 2026 at 5:53 PM
Just saying that I won't read or listen to any critique of the state of the world if it begins with a complaint about students. That's a non-starter, even if it's just a poorly-conceived attempt to claim that the material conditions of existence determine consciousness. I'm not down with this.
The problem for me is that I have yet to read a critique of AI and LLMs that truly interests me. Where is the Benjaminian critique?
March 11, 2026 at 5:27 AM
The problem for me is that I have yet to read a critique of AI and LLMs that truly interests me. Where is the Benjaminian critique?
“I like a weird flex” - Aesop Rock.
January 15, 2026 at 6:44 PM
“I like a weird flex” - Aesop Rock.
Just saying that I’m not receptive to those of us who are up in arms about AI. I’m suspicious of the romanticization of human writing. Writing has never been human.
December 17, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Just saying that I’m not receptive to those of us who are up in arms about AI. I’m suspicious of the romanticization of human writing. Writing has never been human.
I have commitment issues in friendships, social media, and writing.
November 18, 2025 at 4:42 PM
I have commitment issues in friendships, social media, and writing.
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Some of the most important and fulfilling moments of my life have happened while reading novels. It’s a very strange way to have found value on this earth. And society seems determined to give up on reading entirely.
October 26, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Some of the most important and fulfilling moments of my life have happened while reading novels. It’s a very strange way to have found value on this earth. And society seems determined to give up on reading entirely.
Anyone else checking out Matthew Rankin's Universal Language (2024) tonight? This nerd is excited, even though it's almost -30 C out of doors here.
February 4, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Anyone else checking out Matthew Rankin's Universal Language (2024) tonight? This nerd is excited, even though it's almost -30 C out of doors here.
Next time I teach our Studies in Screen Culture course, my topic will be "Slow Screens." Look for it in the 2028-29 academic year.
February 2, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Next time I teach our Studies in Screen Culture course, my topic will be "Slow Screens." Look for it in the 2028-29 academic year.
My wife sent me a link to Akerman's trailer for Jeanne Dielman and then called me the world's biggest nerd for liking a film that no one's ever heard of. I think I was set up, but I'm not completely sure.
February 2, 2025 at 4:49 PM
My wife sent me a link to Akerman's trailer for Jeanne Dielman and then called me the world's biggest nerd for liking a film that no one's ever heard of. I think I was set up, but I'm not completely sure.
My students' heads nodded vigorously and enthusiastically when a classmate suggested that Jane Eyre might be on the autism spectrum.
January 31, 2025 at 7:30 PM
My students' heads nodded vigorously and enthusiastically when a classmate suggested that Jane Eyre might be on the autism spectrum.
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Reposting--applications due in 2 weeks; open field tenure-track job in English.
TT job in my department! Please share widely. www.academicwork.ca/jobs/tenure-...
Tenure Track Assistant Professor in the Department of English & Writing Studies - CAUT | Academic Work
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January 31, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Reposting--applications due in 2 weeks; open field tenure-track job in English.
In my upper English undergrad courses, students write three Demonstrations of Learning in a semester. Each DL includes a range of assignment options they can complete (traditional essays, unessays, presentations, personal responses, etc). They're game-changers for grading and students love them.
January 23, 2025 at 6:25 PM
In my upper English undergrad courses, students write three Demonstrations of Learning in a semester. Each DL includes a range of assignment options they can complete (traditional essays, unessays, presentations, personal responses, etc). They're game-changers for grading and students love them.
If you're interested in scholarly and aesthetic work on stuttering pride and Dysfluency Studies, check out our library of resources from The Stuttering Commons: www.stutteringcommons.org/library
Stuttering Commons – Library
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January 21, 2025 at 7:58 PM
If you're interested in scholarly and aesthetic work on stuttering pride and Dysfluency Studies, check out our library of resources from The Stuttering Commons: www.stutteringcommons.org/library
All I want to do right now: talk with my students about awesome literary, theoretical, and cinematic texts; coach my son's soccer team; hang out with my wife and son; read some new books; exercise; eat; sleep; listen to music; watch good film and television; watch crappy film and television.
January 21, 2025 at 6:10 PM
All I want to do right now: talk with my students about awesome literary, theoretical, and cinematic texts; coach my son's soccer team; hang out with my wife and son; read some new books; exercise; eat; sleep; listen to music; watch good film and television; watch crappy film and television.
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Trying to decide which novel to read in installments all semester in my 1859 class: *The Woman in White* or *A Tale of Two Cities*. Both are on the syllabus, so it's a matter of which will most benefit from being done in small pieces weekly for 14wks vs in a more traditional 2wk format. Thoughts?
January 21, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Trying to decide which novel to read in installments all semester in my 1859 class: *The Woman in White* or *A Tale of Two Cities*. Both are on the syllabus, so it's a matter of which will most benefit from being done in small pieces weekly for 14wks vs in a more traditional 2wk format. Thoughts?
I've always struggled with reading. I'm slow and impatient, but so far I've been loving Ned Beauman's Venomous Lumpsucker. I also loved The Teleportation Accident from 2012, so I'm wondering if Beauman is one of my favourite writers now.
January 21, 2025 at 4:11 PM
I've always struggled with reading. I'm slow and impatient, but so far I've been loving Ned Beauman's Venomous Lumpsucker. I also loved The Teleportation Accident from 2012, so I'm wondering if Beauman is one of my favourite writers now.
Another book my brain will never be able to write would focus on visual cultures of speech-language therapy (1800-2025).
January 7, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Another book my brain will never be able to write would focus on visual cultures of speech-language therapy (1800-2025).
From Leslie J. Meacham's Lessons in Hypnotism (1898). One of Meacham's plans for inducing hypnotic states focuses on filling the mouth with stutters.
January 7, 2025 at 5:03 PM
From Leslie J. Meacham's Lessons in Hypnotism (1898). One of Meacham's plans for inducing hypnotic states focuses on filling the mouth with stutters.
I'm not up to the task of writing it, but I would love to read the book about how knowledge only ever moves toward dysfluency, despite broad systemic efforts to the contrary.
January 7, 2025 at 4:57 PM
I'm not up to the task of writing it, but I would love to read the book about how knowledge only ever moves toward dysfluency, despite broad systemic efforts to the contrary.
Jane Eyre Great
Expectations
Cranford
In Memoriam
Goblin Market
Lady of Shalott
Fra Lippo Lippi
Cry of the Children
Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point
History of Mary Prince
Curse for a Nation
A Musical Instrument
Soul's Expression
Stanzas from the Grand Chartreuse
Scholar Gypsy
Expectations
Cranford
In Memoriam
Goblin Market
Lady of Shalott
Fra Lippo Lippi
Cry of the Children
Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point
History of Mary Prince
Curse for a Nation
A Musical Instrument
Soul's Expression
Stanzas from the Grand Chartreuse
Scholar Gypsy
December 28, 2024 at 7:55 PM
Jane Eyre Great
Expectations
Cranford
In Memoriam
Goblin Market
Lady of Shalott
Fra Lippo Lippi
Cry of the Children
Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point
History of Mary Prince
Curse for a Nation
A Musical Instrument
Soul's Expression
Stanzas from the Grand Chartreuse
Scholar Gypsy
Expectations
Cranford
In Memoriam
Goblin Market
Lady of Shalott
Fra Lippo Lippi
Cry of the Children
Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point
History of Mary Prince
Curse for a Nation
A Musical Instrument
Soul's Expression
Stanzas from the Grand Chartreuse
Scholar Gypsy