Anna E. Clark
@annaeclark.bsky.social
Now: criticism, teaching, SoCal
Then: academia, 19thC, NYC
Always: "the novel," outdoor things, trying to figure it out
annaeclark.com
Then: academia, 19thC, NYC
Always: "the novel," outdoor things, trying to figure it out
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Anna E. Clark
@annaeclark.bsky.social
· Oct 10
Toward the Higher- and Secondary-Ed Alliance! - Public Books
The influence of K-12 policy and pedagogy on higher ed can perhaps be seen best in the trickle-up effect of the standards of the Common Core.
www.publicbooks.org
I wrote about the divide between high school and college English, and what we might do to bridge it, for @publicbooks.bsky.social—part of an excellent roundtable on higher ed under Trump organized by @dennismhogan.bsky.social
www.publicbooks.org/toward-the-h...
www.publicbooks.org/toward-the-h...
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I hope someone good applies for this and gets the offer and then writes a tell-all essay about it in like the @yalereview.bsky.social or @thebeliever.net
X is hiring a creative writing specialist at $40 an hour to make Grok better at writing and a true LOL at the qualifications
January 30, 2026 at 8:43 PM
I hope someone good applies for this and gets the offer and then writes a tell-all essay about it in like the @yalereview.bsky.social or @thebeliever.net
To my previous post, see also: calmatters.org/justice/2026...
Immigration arrests surge by 1,500% in San Diego: 'I feel the temperature rising'
Immigration agents escalated their presence in San Diego in the second half of 2025, where they made hundreds of arrests as part of President Trump's crackdown.
calmatters.org
January 30, 2026 at 4:24 PM
To my previous post, see also: calmatters.org/justice/2026...
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There’s one today at 2 pm, Teralta Park in City Heights
January 30, 2026 at 4:10 PM
There’s one today at 2 pm, Teralta Park in City Heights
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The government is using technology to identify protestors, and then using that information to track and intimidate them. The people using the devices are wearing masks, but we know the companies creating the technology.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/t...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/t...
January 30, 2026 at 1:46 PM
The government is using technology to identify protestors, and then using that information to track and intimidate them. The people using the devices are wearing masks, but we know the companies creating the technology.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/t...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/t...
I really miss living in a city lately. SD is more like an archipelago of burbs strung together by freeways. Getting meaningful action just physically together is a lift, + the very things that SHOULD make it key now—border status, the military—instead yield this mushy ambivalence. It realllly sucks
January 30, 2026 at 3:09 PM
I really miss living in a city lately. SD is more like an archipelago of burbs strung together by freeways. Getting meaningful action just physically together is a lift, + the very things that SHOULD make it key now—border status, the military—instead yield this mushy ambivalence. It realllly sucks
If you have to work tomorrow one cool thing you could do is ask your employer to cancel their business Amazon account and maybe try to get some coworkers to do the same
January 30, 2026 at 3:45 AM
If you have to work tomorrow one cool thing you could do is ask your employer to cancel their business Amazon account and maybe try to get some coworkers to do the same
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The Dept. of Appearing to Take Things Rather Seriously While Wearing a Navy Sport Coat and No Tie is actively searching for a Dean of Comfortably Ordering Wine in a DC Steakhouse Where Denny Hastert Used to Sit Right Over There. The position will pay $580,000. The history department is abolished
Yale is launching a new Presidential Senior Fellowship to expand access to the transformative work of universities. As part of this program, author and columnist David Brooks will join the Jackson School of Global Affairs starting February 1.
Read more in Yale News: bit.ly/49QpJoY
Read more in Yale News: bit.ly/49QpJoY
January 29, 2026 at 9:45 PM
The Dept. of Appearing to Take Things Rather Seriously While Wearing a Navy Sport Coat and No Tie is actively searching for a Dean of Comfortably Ordering Wine in a DC Steakhouse Where Denny Hastert Used to Sit Right Over There. The position will pay $580,000. The history department is abolished
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I wrote for the New York Times about how state violence that was hidden in the borderlands has burst into view in Minneapolis. The solution cannot be simply to send it back there www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/o...
Opinion | The Border Patrol Is the Problem. It Always Has Been.
www.nytimes.com
January 29, 2026 at 5:20 PM
I wrote for the New York Times about how state violence that was hidden in the borderlands has burst into view in Minneapolis. The solution cannot be simply to send it back there www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/o...
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imagine if all that money had gone to teachers instead
January 25, 2026 at 2:37 PM
imagine if all that money had gone to teachers instead
Pulled out a can opener to uncork a wine bottle so that’s where I’m at
January 25, 2026 at 3:51 AM
Pulled out a can opener to uncork a wine bottle so that’s where I’m at
Horrific, and also an important account of how a very profitable online ed company already contracted w/ standard public schools operates.
ICE is sending these kids to the concentration camp in Dilley, Texas, where they're preparing to have so many children that they're opening a new school there. They're actively hiring teachers now. I reported on it last month. We have to get people out of there.
January 23, 2026 at 3:04 PM
Horrific, and also an important account of how a very profitable online ed company already contracted w/ standard public schools operates.
Every time there’s a poll headline like “Trump’s support slipping” the substance is something like “50 percent of Americans believe this is all basically ok, down from 55 in August“ and I just don’t know you guys
January 23, 2026 at 2:51 PM
Every time there’s a poll headline like “Trump’s support slipping” the substance is something like “50 percent of Americans believe this is all basically ok, down from 55 in August“ and I just don’t know you guys
This should be the front page of every respectable American newspaper.
Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026
January 22, 2026 at 11:33 PM
This should be the front page of every respectable American newspaper.
I’m sorry was anyone else utterly and unexpectedly destroyed by the letter of recommendation dog stroller essay? Like, I think I might be sublimating some feelings about current events but still, holy shit
January 16, 2026 at 3:09 AM
I’m sorry was anyone else utterly and unexpectedly destroyed by the letter of recommendation dog stroller essay? Like, I think I might be sublimating some feelings about current events but still, holy shit
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Over the next year, about 100,000 spouses and minor children of legal permanent residents and even US citizens will be banned from immigrating legally to the United States. An utterly heinous policy, never envisioned by Congress.
January 14, 2026 at 10:20 PM
Over the next year, about 100,000 spouses and minor children of legal permanent residents and even US citizens will be banned from immigrating legally to the United States. An utterly heinous policy, never envisioned by Congress.
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happy first day of school to semester colleagues please enjoy this jameson syllabus from January 1996
January 12, 2026 at 5:23 PM
happy first day of school to semester colleagues please enjoy this jameson syllabus from January 1996
Every year, the new year becomes a little more "whew, we made it!" than "woohoo, the future!" and I can't tell if it's age or, you know, end times
January 1, 2026 at 10:52 PM
Every year, the new year becomes a little more "whew, we made it!" than "woohoo, the future!" and I can't tell if it's age or, you know, end times
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Happy to see this, written with the excellent @mattseybold.bsky.social , out in the world. Solidarity to everyone fighting for education and civil society!
www.chronicle.com/article/the-...
www.chronicle.com/article/the-...
The ‘Crisis of the Humanities’ Is Over. That’s Not a Good Thing.
All of higher ed now suffers the attacks of politics and technology.
www.chronicle.com
December 29, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Happy to see this, written with the excellent @mattseybold.bsky.social , out in the world. Solidarity to everyone fighting for education and civil society!
www.chronicle.com/article/the-...
www.chronicle.com/article/the-...
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Carnegie Mellon’s literature PhD is being liquidated in favor of “computation,” casualized labor, and AI.
That has profound ramifications for, students, faculty, and program alums like myself.
I wrote it about it (w/ Catherine Evans, a current PhD student).
www.chronicle.com/article/a-co...
That has profound ramifications for, students, faculty, and program alums like myself.
I wrote it about it (w/ Catherine Evans, a current PhD student).
www.chronicle.com/article/a-co...
Opinion | A Coup at Carnegie Mellon?
The university is replacing the humanities with more computers.
www.chronicle.com
December 12, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Carnegie Mellon’s literature PhD is being liquidated in favor of “computation,” casualized labor, and AI.
That has profound ramifications for, students, faculty, and program alums like myself.
I wrote it about it (w/ Catherine Evans, a current PhD student).
www.chronicle.com/article/a-co...
That has profound ramifications for, students, faculty, and program alums like myself.
I wrote it about it (w/ Catherine Evans, a current PhD student).
www.chronicle.com/article/a-co...
Maybe its helpful to remember how many very smart people had educations that basically consisted of haphazard reading from a large and varied supply of weighty books
December 12, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Maybe its helpful to remember how many very smart people had educations that basically consisted of haphazard reading from a large and varied supply of weighty books
Honestly I've been waiting for someone to confront me about my pencil usage
December 10, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Honestly I've been waiting for someone to confront me about my pencil usage
I think that sometimes when people say they want to turn their brain off or whatever what they actually crave is something to deeply, luxuriously absorb it
November 21, 2025 at 2:17 AM
I think that sometimes when people say they want to turn their brain off or whatever what they actually crave is something to deeply, luxuriously absorb it
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We asked our first-year students to take a survey about the ethics of using LLMs at various points in the writing process (research, brainstorming, drafting, spell-checking) and the results were sort of heartening. Especially in their comments, it was clear that they're really thinking about it.
November 20, 2025 at 12:44 AM
We asked our first-year students to take a survey about the ethics of using LLMs at various points in the writing process (research, brainstorming, drafting, spell-checking) and the results were sort of heartening. Especially in their comments, it was clear that they're really thinking about it.
I mean, shouldn’t we *want* to ruin the workplace?
November 13, 2025 at 4:07 PM
I mean, shouldn’t we *want* to ruin the workplace?
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New chalkbeat piece that highlights some of the less well-known realities of our current moment for higher ed. I got to chat at length with Matt about the actual trend in tuition (flat or decreasing at publics) versus the perception in the media.
www.chalkbeat.org/2025/11/11/i...
www.chalkbeat.org/2025/11/11/i...
Is college enrollment plummeting?
Reports of the death of the bachelor’s degree have been greatly exaggerated.
www.chalkbeat.org
November 12, 2025 at 1:56 PM
New chalkbeat piece that highlights some of the less well-known realities of our current moment for higher ed. I got to chat at length with Matt about the actual trend in tuition (flat or decreasing at publics) versus the perception in the media.
www.chalkbeat.org/2025/11/11/i...
www.chalkbeat.org/2025/11/11/i...