Ali Kulez
@alikulez.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at #BostonCollege. Latin American literature. Food Studies. Dad. Turco. Comparativist at heart. South-South shenanigans. Views mine.
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Ali Kulez
@alikulez.bsky.social
· Mar 9
I started a substack. Goal: to talk about literature (and stuff) with no jargon. Ideal reader: my father.
Subscribe if you want low-key posts you can read at Costco. The first post is on worms.
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Subscribe if you want low-key posts you can read at Costco. The first post is on worms.
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Reading the Epic of Gilgamesh alongside one of my favorite children’s books
Repetition and Difference
From The Epic of Gilgamesh to Contemporary Children's Literature
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March 26, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Reading the Epic of Gilgamesh alongside one of my favorite children’s books
"For the PhD garnish, mix all the dry ingredients together, drown them in coffee, and tip them onto a diaper."
if I were a cocktail
Try this smoky margarita recipe with angst, anti-nationalism, and red crushed peppers. We’ve added irony to the rim for an extra kick.
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March 15, 2025 at 1:50 AM
"For the PhD garnish, mix all the dry ingredients together, drown them in coffee, and tip them onto a diaper."
New post! Join me for some serial fun in the Ottoman Empire.
The Ottoman Detective
now that's some serious serialized fun
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March 11, 2025 at 11:37 AM
New post! Join me for some serial fun in the Ottoman Empire.
I started a substack. Goal: to talk about literature (and stuff) with no jargon. Ideal reader: my father.
Subscribe if you want low-key posts you can read at Costco. The first post is on worms.
alikulez.substack.com
Subscribe if you want low-key posts you can read at Costco. The first post is on worms.
alikulez.substack.com
March 9, 2025 at 1:20 AM
I started a substack. Goal: to talk about literature (and stuff) with no jargon. Ideal reader: my father.
Subscribe if you want low-key posts you can read at Costco. The first post is on worms.
alikulez.substack.com
Subscribe if you want low-key posts you can read at Costco. The first post is on worms.
alikulez.substack.com
New pub, where I theorize a notion of “literary misencounter” to think about solidarities in the global South.
The Literary Misencounter: South-South Hermeneutics in Asli Erdoğan’s The City in Crimson Cloak
ABSTRACT. This article examines the award-winning Turkish author Aslı Erdoğan’s The City in Crimson Cloak (Kırmızı Pelerinli Kent, 1998) to explore how post-1989 literature may theorize transnational ...
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March 6, 2025 at 1:51 AM
New pub, where I theorize a notion of “literary misencounter” to think about solidarities in the global South.
I’m always drawn to images of food:
“Dice que ella escondía sus pies entre las piernas de él. Sus pies helados como piedras frías y que allí se calentaban como en un horno donde se dora el pan. Dice que él le mordía los pies diciéndole que eran como pan dorado en el horno.”
“Dice que ella escondía sus pies entre las piernas de él. Sus pies helados como piedras frías y que allí se calentaban como en un horno donde se dora el pan. Dice que él le mordía los pies diciéndole que eran como pan dorado en el horno.”
February 16, 2025 at 6:31 PM
I’m always drawn to images of food:
“Dice que ella escondía sus pies entre las piernas de él. Sus pies helados como piedras frías y que allí se calentaban como en un horno donde se dora el pan. Dice que él le mordía los pies diciéndole que eran como pan dorado en el horno.”
“Dice que ella escondía sus pies entre las piernas de él. Sus pies helados como piedras frías y que allí se calentaban como en un horno donde se dora el pan. Dice que él le mordía los pies diciéndole que eran como pan dorado en el horno.”
Pedro Páramo pairs well with this artisanal mezcal from Oaxaca. Side effect: I want to answer every question with “un rencor vivo.” Example:
—How is grading going?
—Un rencor vivo.
—How is grading going?
—Un rencor vivo.
February 16, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Pedro Páramo pairs well with this artisanal mezcal from Oaxaca. Side effect: I want to answer every question with “un rencor vivo.” Example:
—How is grading going?
—Un rencor vivo.
—How is grading going?
—Un rencor vivo.
There was this couple at Costco with a black plastic sheet and electric candles on one of the dining tables, sharing a plate of hot chocolate cookies over champagne (or Gatorade who knows) in plastic glasses. I’m not sure if it’s a level of nof.csgiven to aspire for or be afraid of. #happyvalentines
February 15, 2025 at 1:34 AM
There was this couple at Costco with a black plastic sheet and electric candles on one of the dining tables, sharing a plate of hot chocolate cookies over champagne (or Gatorade who knows) in plastic glasses. I’m not sure if it’s a level of nof.csgiven to aspire for or be afraid of. #happyvalentines
Truly the gift most desired. Along with chocolate-dipped strawberries and a couple’s massage.
February 14, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Truly the gift most desired. Along with chocolate-dipped strawberries and a couple’s massage.
I had no idea Baldwin had a strict religious upbringing and had even become a preacher for the Pentecostal church when he was 14. It’s a novel full of heartbreak, racial violence, and familial dysphoria, but also of transcendence and religious ecstasy.
February 13, 2025 at 12:20 AM
I had no idea Baldwin had a strict religious upbringing and had even become a preacher for the Pentecostal church when he was 14. It’s a novel full of heartbreak, racial violence, and familial dysphoria, but also of transcendence and religious ecstasy.
Cooking with my students—still the best pedagogical experience for me. While listening to the latest tunes of Bad Bunny, the students of #foodandidentity learned how to cook mofongo.
February 4, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Cooking with my students—still the best pedagogical experience for me. While listening to the latest tunes of Bad Bunny, the students of #foodandidentity learned how to cook mofongo.
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Already done. It’s being repatriated.
Harvard should consult Afro-Brazilian communities about returning the remains of the Malê Revolt leader it currently keeps on a shelf in storage.
#OTD The Malê Revolt was the most important slave rebellion staged in Brazil. It remains, 190 years later, a symbol of resistance against slavery and the fight against anti–Black African racism both in Brazil and across the Americas. #slaveryarchive africasacountry.com/2025/01/when...
January 25, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Already done. It’s being repatriated.
Just when I’m teaching a course on indigeneity in Latin America.
January 25, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Just when I’m teaching a course on indigeneity in Latin America.
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Happy Saturday, food history folks! Please share this call for the Global Food History Prize for an Emerging Food Historian, with a deadline of January 1: rachelbherrmann.com/global-food-...
![The editors of Global Food History are pleased to announce that in 2025 the journal will once again offer a Prize for an Emerging Food Historian. Award winners will receive $100, the opportunity to have their contribution peer-reviewed and—pending successful reviews and revisions—published in the journal with an acknowledgment of the prize win. Articles should be 8,000 to 10,000 words (including notes), and should be based on primary source research. Articles should deal with at least one of the following historical concepts: time (change or continuity), causation and causality, context (historical and historiographical), or complexity. A full description of the journal’s aims and scope is available [link]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:orcj752fwqwrcgjxrricyilc/bafkreib3l5ony4rkyctk7qanc2xz3icod5asl7shebu2kgrwqtzbjjuhee@jpeg)
December 7, 2024 at 11:04 AM
Happy Saturday, food history folks! Please share this call for the Global Food History Prize for an Emerging Food Historian, with a deadline of January 1: rachelbherrmann.com/global-food-...
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Marcel Proust after eating a tiny little cake
December 27, 2024 at 9:50 PM
Marcel Proust after eating a tiny little cake
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Choose your fighter
December 27, 2024 at 9:50 PM
Choose your fighter
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What do you think is the bigger problem in higher ed? Woke indoctrination or half the profs making $3,000 per semester? Hard to say
December 16, 2024 at 10:27 PM
What do you think is the bigger problem in higher ed? Woke indoctrination or half the profs making $3,000 per semester? Hard to say
Preparing a course on indigeneity in Latin American culture, and came across this fantastic game called Mulaka, developed through a collaboration with anthropologists and Tarahumara leaders. Can’t wait to play and “read” it with the students.
December 17, 2024 at 2:35 PM
Preparing a course on indigeneity in Latin American culture, and came across this fantastic game called Mulaka, developed through a collaboration with anthropologists and Tarahumara leaders. Can’t wait to play and “read” it with the students.
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
Day 6
#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
Day 6
December 17, 2024 at 1:27 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
Day 6
#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
Day 6
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chop from top
chop from the cop
chop from the coach
chop from the cop
chop from the coach
Wonder if there's any consulting firms out there making the pitch to higher ed administrators that replacing football coaches with AI could save unis and athletic departments hundreds of millions of dollars.
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December 15, 2024 at 4:10 AM
chop from top
chop from the cop
chop from the coach
chop from the cop
chop from the coach
Sabbatical rental posts are the closest academia gets to MTV Cribs
December 13, 2024 at 3:13 AM
Sabbatical rental posts are the closest academia gets to MTV Cribs
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🔊🔔🎤 Check out a sneak peek of my edited volume! www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/1...
December 4, 2024 at 1:39 PM
🔊🔔🎤 Check out a sneak peek of my edited volume! www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/1...
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This weekend marked the first Thinking Food colloquium, the materialization of a question I have been mulling over since I was a grad student. How can I, as a scholar of the early modern past, contribute to addressing the inequities in our food systems and cultures?
December 10, 2024 at 11:05 AM
This weekend marked the first Thinking Food colloquium, the materialization of a question I have been mulling over since I was a grad student. How can I, as a scholar of the early modern past, contribute to addressing the inequities in our food systems and cultures?