Chris Hanlon
@chrishanlon.bsky.social
Professor of United States literature, Arizona State; co-editor, ALH Review & The Dial; author, America’s England (2013) & Emerson’s Memory Loss (2018); allegedly storied; will bell the cat.
@johnubacon.bsky.social ‘s book on the Edmund Fitzgerald is pretty engaging but loses the plot @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social catches: the ship was part of a whole infrastructure of crazy, ecocidal, midcentury extraction the likes of which we seem to be returning.
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Disaster on Gichigami
What if the most famous disaster on Lake Superior never really ended?
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November 8, 2025 at 5:01 PM
@johnubacon.bsky.social ‘s book on the Edmund Fitzgerald is pretty engaging but loses the plot @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social catches: the ship was part of a whole infrastructure of crazy, ecocidal, midcentury extraction the likes of which we seem to be returning.
open.substack.com/pub/thecurre...
open.substack.com/pub/thecurre...
My co-editors Andrew Taylor, Sarah Ruffing Robbins, and I are so proud of this latest book in the Interventions series published by @edinburghuniversitypress. The Asian American Renaissance: Literary Encounters Across Time by Mai Wang will change the stories we tell about US literary history.
November 7, 2025 at 5:38 PM
My co-editors Andrew Taylor, Sarah Ruffing Robbins, and I are so proud of this latest book in the Interventions series published by @edinburghuniversitypress. The Asian American Renaissance: Literary Encounters Across Time by Mai Wang will change the stories we tell about US literary history.
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Apropos of nothing: "... we find that the number of lynching victims in a county is a positive and significant predictor of Confederate memorializations in that county, even after controlling for relevant covariates."
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
October 28, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Apropos of nothing: "... we find that the number of lynching victims in a county is a positive and significant predictor of Confederate memorializations in that county, even after controlling for relevant covariates."
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
This move toward English Department websites that do not list faculty members, or that place faculty behind labyrinths, is obviously intended to disempower said faculty, but the actual effect is to disrupt the establishment of connections and the flow of opportunities toward the institution.
October 27, 2025 at 6:55 PM
This move toward English Department websites that do not list faculty members, or that place faculty behind labyrinths, is obviously intended to disempower said faculty, but the actual effect is to disrupt the establishment of connections and the flow of opportunities toward the institution.
I’m listening in this coffee shop to two guys in their 60s wax on about A.I.—they actually believe it is a better source of medical information than their doctors; one believes it when it tells him he can get rich developing NFTs. So many boomers have lost their minds in their phones and its apps.
October 11, 2025 at 5:12 PM
I’m listening in this coffee shop to two guys in their 60s wax on about A.I.—they actually believe it is a better source of medical information than their doctors; one believes it when it tells him he can get rich developing NFTs. So many boomers have lost their minds in their phones and its apps.
If you’re in Phoenix, call David Schweikert (House R) and blame him for shutting down the government: (480) 946-2411, (202) 225-2190. Call him a radical.
October 1, 2025 at 8:32 PM
If you’re in Phoenix, call David Schweikert (House R) and blame him for shutting down the government: (480) 946-2411, (202) 225-2190. Call him a radical.
I can’t wait for the reporting to come informing us of the actual costs of firing all these coders to outsource their work to AI, as if it won’t hallucinate just as often as it does when a student uses it to write an essay on Whitman
September 30, 2025 at 7:13 PM
I can’t wait for the reporting to come informing us of the actual costs of firing all these coders to outsource their work to AI, as if it won’t hallucinate just as often as it does when a student uses it to write an essay on Whitman
I can’t wait for the reporting to come informing us of the actual costs of firing all these coders to outsource their work to AI, as if it won’t hallucinate just as often as it does when a student uses it to write an essay on Whitman
September 30, 2025 at 7:12 PM
I can’t wait for the reporting to come informing us of the actual costs of firing all these coders to outsource their work to AI, as if it won’t hallucinate just as often as it does when a student uses it to write an essay on Whitman
The staircase Harriet Jacobs was pushed down (producing injuries so extensive that she “was unable to turn myself in bed for days”) is in the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts in Winston-Salem and examined now by @molliebarnes.bsky.net and Susanna Ashton:
theconversation.com/a-staircase-...
theconversation.com/a-staircase-...
A staircase in a small, decorative arts museum tells a harrowing story of terror, abuse and enslavement
The staircase was originally acquired due to its craftsmanship. Only later did scholars realize that it was where Harriet Jacobs suffered abuse at the hands of her enslaver.
theconversation.com
September 29, 2025 at 2:33 PM
The staircase Harriet Jacobs was pushed down (producing injuries so extensive that she “was unable to turn myself in bed for days”) is in the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts in Winston-Salem and examined now by @molliebarnes.bsky.net and Susanna Ashton:
theconversation.com/a-staircase-...
theconversation.com/a-staircase-...
Guy I know passing me at the line at the coffee shop: “Hi Chris; how are you?” Me: “Reeling, thanks, how about you?” Him: “Good, thanks, see you later.”
September 28, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Guy I know passing me at the line at the coffee shop: “Hi Chris; how are you?” Me: “Reeling, thanks, how about you?” Him: “Good, thanks, see you later.”
@jeffreyinsko.bsky.social just this afternoon took home an award the @sierraclub.org named for another Michigan environmentalist, Burton V. Barnes. If you haven’t read Insko’ relentless work on pipelines and especially @enbridge.bsky.social here’s your daily quota:
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Against the Environment
But what if 'the environment' is actually the problem?
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September 20, 2025 at 6:43 PM
@jeffreyinsko.bsky.social just this afternoon took home an award the @sierraclub.org named for another Michigan environmentalist, Burton V. Barnes. If you haven’t read Insko’ relentless work on pipelines and especially @enbridge.bsky.social here’s your daily quota:
open.substack.com/pub/thecurre...
open.substack.com/pub/thecurre...
“A foreigner of any nation, not in open war with us, becomes naturalized by removing to the state to reside, and taking an oath of fidelity: and thereupon acquires every right of a native citizen […]”
Thomas Jefferson, Query 14, Notes in the State of Virginia
Thomas Jefferson, Query 14, Notes in the State of Virginia
September 16, 2025 at 5:08 PM
“A foreigner of any nation, not in open war with us, becomes naturalized by removing to the state to reside, and taking an oath of fidelity: and thereupon acquires every right of a native citizen […]”
Thomas Jefferson, Query 14, Notes in the State of Virginia
Thomas Jefferson, Query 14, Notes in the State of Virginia
Eternally grateful for recommendations on texts to include!
September 14, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Eternally grateful for recommendations on texts to include!
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From “The Times” forum on higher ed now in the current issue of The Dial, @jennifergreiman.bsky.social ‘s statement on the criminalization of student activism: muse.jhu.edu/pub/562/arti...
Project MUSE - The Friction Has Its Universities
muse.jhu.edu
September 12, 2025 at 2:45 PM
From “The Times” forum on higher ed now in the current issue of The Dial, @jennifergreiman.bsky.social ‘s statement on the criminalization of student activism: muse.jhu.edu/pub/562/arti...
Now they’re going to get the sixties they wanted
September 11, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Now they’re going to get the sixties they wanted
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Luminous, urgent issue of @thedial2024.bsky.social. Thinking this am about Stephanie Foote's challenge to us:
"Now is the time for the unglamorous daily work of collective meaning-making, as difficult as that is for universities under threat."
muse.jhu.edu/pub/562/arti...
"Now is the time for the unglamorous daily work of collective meaning-making, as difficult as that is for universities under threat."
muse.jhu.edu/pub/562/arti...
Project MUSE - Almost Heaven: West Virginia University and the Transcendental Grifter
muse.jhu.edu
September 6, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Luminous, urgent issue of @thedial2024.bsky.social. Thinking this am about Stephanie Foote's challenge to us:
"Now is the time for the unglamorous daily work of collective meaning-making, as difficult as that is for universities under threat."
muse.jhu.edu/pub/562/arti...
"Now is the time for the unglamorous daily work of collective meaning-making, as difficult as that is for universities under threat."
muse.jhu.edu/pub/562/arti...
I decided to write about the backlash against Emerson’s Divinity School Address as a controversy over college students receptive to radical moral independence.
muse.jhu.edu/pub/562/arti...
muse.jhu.edu/pub/562/arti...
Project MUSE - When Harvard Canceled Emerson, or, Anticipatory Obedience in 1838
muse.jhu.edu
September 5, 2025 at 2:40 PM
I decided to write about the backlash against Emerson’s Divinity School Address as a controversy over college students receptive to radical moral independence.
muse.jhu.edu/pub/562/arti...
muse.jhu.edu/pub/562/arti...
Reposted by Chris Hanlon
The Ralph Waldo Emerson Society invites participants in a panel on "Emerson and Power" at the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy from March 12-14, 2026 at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
More info:
american-philosophy.org/saap2026/
More info:
american-philosophy.org/saap2026/
SAAP2026
Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy53rd Annual MeetingMarch 12–14, 2026University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV Fantasy, Reality, and Ideals SAAP2026 CFPDownload Submit Here!
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August 26, 2025 at 8:24 PM
The Ralph Waldo Emerson Society invites participants in a panel on "Emerson and Power" at the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy from March 12-14, 2026 at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
More info:
american-philosophy.org/saap2026/
More info:
american-philosophy.org/saap2026/
The first query I made just over a year ago; the second, just this morning.
July 21, 2025 at 4:00 AM
The first query I made just over a year ago; the second, just this morning.
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Two new very C19-oriented journals, _The Dial_ and _American Gothic Studies_, covering all things between the sunlight and the darkness.
The debut issue of American Gothic Studies has now been published! To access, join The Society for the Study of the American Gothic at www.americangothicsociety.com. Free article from this issue at scholarlypublishingcollective.org/psup/ags/art....
July 11, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Two new very C19-oriented journals, _The Dial_ and _American Gothic Studies_, covering all things between the sunlight and the darkness.
Woman next to me on the train just asked if I’d watch her pockabook while she finds the toilet and I know I’m in Massachusetts
July 3, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Woman next to me on the train just asked if I’d watch her pockabook while she finds the toilet and I know I’m in Massachusetts
