Caitlin Smith
@csqueequeg.bsky.social
Professor of Early American Literature at St. Bonaventure University. I write about things and think about words.
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one thing i keep thinking about is how there is simply no way to design a constitutional system that can resist authoritarian incursion if participants in that system do not actually care that much
March 12, 2025 at 2:50 PM
one thing i keep thinking about is how there is simply no way to design a constitutional system that can resist authoritarian incursion if participants in that system do not actually care that much
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None of this had to be this way.
March 12, 2025 at 12:12 AM
None of this had to be this way.
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🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
February 4, 2025 at 1:26 AM
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
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[everybody:] “Nate, please don’t try to make this about Moby-Dick. Not everything is about Moby-Dick!”
[vengeance-fueled antihero on obsessive doomed quest:]
[vengeance-fueled antihero on obsessive doomed quest:]
December 11, 2024 at 2:05 PM
[everybody:] “Nate, please don’t try to make this about Moby-Dick. Not everything is about Moby-Dick!”
[vengeance-fueled antihero on obsessive doomed quest:]
[vengeance-fueled antihero on obsessive doomed quest:]
Shoutout to the troll student who used direct quotes from "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" in their close reading essay of Dimmesdale's final scaffold scene.
December 11, 2024 at 1:47 PM
Shoutout to the troll student who used direct quotes from "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" in their close reading essay of Dimmesdale's final scaffold scene.
I just wrapped up two upper-level sections of "The American Novel to 1865." The final quiz asked students what they'll take away from the course.
Student: "I can now say that I read Moby-Dick and didn't understand it."
Student: "I can now say that I read Moby-Dick and didn't understand it."
December 4, 2024 at 9:25 PM
I just wrapped up two upper-level sections of "The American Novel to 1865." The final quiz asked students what they'll take away from the course.
Student: "I can now say that I read Moby-Dick and didn't understand it."
Student: "I can now say that I read Moby-Dick and didn't understand it."
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I learned a little bit ago that my research won the 2024 Society of Early Americanists Essay Award. The competition is in memory of my late colleague, Sarah Schuetze, a friend and generous reader of the work when we were fellows in Philly years ago. #c18 #c19 #NativeAmericanHistory #VastEarlyAmerica
November 13, 2024 at 11:59 PM
I learned a little bit ago that my research won the 2024 Society of Early Americanists Essay Award. The competition is in memory of my late colleague, Sarah Schuetze, a friend and generous reader of the work when we were fellows in Philly years ago. #c18 #c19 #NativeAmericanHistory #VastEarlyAmerica
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[every american institution:] yes?
November 20, 2024 at 1:18 PM
[every american institution:] yes?