Prof. Devin gRiff
@devo3000.bsky.social
USC prof and writer, hiker and biker, science, humanities and eco theory fanboy interested in just about everything. Books: /Age of Analogy/ & /After Darwin/. Only one in the house who's NOT a Swiftie.
USC Faculty have just published a letter in the Chronicle of Higher Ed about recent staff layoffs in our college of arts and sciences. Please read and share! Title: "Giving Thanks by Giving Notice." www.chronicle.com/blogs/letter...
Letter | Giving Thanks by Giving Notice: Decrying Core Staff Firings at USC
The current financial crisis is not of our making — but we are being handed the bill.
www.chronicle.com
December 9, 2025 at 11:52 PM
USC Faculty have just published a letter in the Chronicle of Higher Ed about recent staff layoffs in our college of arts and sciences. Please read and share! Title: "Giving Thanks by Giving Notice." www.chronicle.com/blogs/letter...
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Excited to share 'Elemental Melodrama,' special issue of Textual Practice I edited w/ @moniquerooney.bsky.social & @gearuss.bsky.social! Essays by Sarah Balkin, Millie Schurch, Meg Brayshaw, @devo3000.bsky.social, and Marcie Frank on revisiting melodrama's elemental roots thru theatre, lit and film
Textual Practice
Elemental Melodrama. Guest Editors: Monique Rooney, Gillian Russell and Stefan Solomon. Volume 39, Issue 3 of Textual Practice
www.tandfonline.com
March 21, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Excited to share 'Elemental Melodrama,' special issue of Textual Practice I edited w/ @moniquerooney.bsky.social & @gearuss.bsky.social! Essays by Sarah Balkin, Millie Schurch, Meg Brayshaw, @devo3000.bsky.social, and Marcie Frank on revisiting melodrama's elemental roots thru theatre, lit and film
New album just dropped. Check it. www.publicbooks.org/b-sides-unde...
B-Sides: “Under the Sea-Wind” by Rachel Carson - Public Books
Bill McKibben proclaimed nature’s demise in 1989. But Americans who cared about DDT’s poisonous effect and the extinctions that would follow had been
www.publicbooks.org
March 14, 2025 at 9:30 PM
New album just dropped. Check it. www.publicbooks.org/b-sides-unde...
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From Michael Roth, president of Wesleyan University: slate.com/life/2025/02...
Dear Fellow College Presidents: We Need to Do More Than Wait This One Out
Why civil society needs university leaders to speak up.
slate.com
February 8, 2025 at 7:17 PM
From Michael Roth, president of Wesleyan University: slate.com/life/2025/02...
Saw this at the MLA exhibit. Beautiful!
i’m told you can get this for 30% off with the code 102277, brings it to like 20 bucks…
The Cambridge Companion to Romanticism and Race | English literature 1700-1830
www.cambridge.org
January 10, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Saw this at the MLA exhibit. Beautiful!
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Before long, I hope, this will all be over. Before long, I will be back home. In the meantime, it is tearing me up not to be there.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/09/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/09/o...
Opinion | Disasters Have Made L.A. What It Is
Los Angeles may have a reputation for being superficial, but it is in fact a territory that might, at any moment, upend (or even end) your life.
www.nytimes.com
January 9, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Before long, I hope, this will all be over. Before long, I will be back home. In the meantime, it is tearing me up not to be there.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/09/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/09/o...
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Like many, can confirm! This year really has been about becoming part of communities. Start with sitting in the back, if you need, but if it's the right community for you, they'll be happy to have you!
You really don't need to be religious to get this feeling of civic involvement. Whenever someone tells me they're lonely, I tell them to volunteer.
Help the homeless. Build queer community. Work with seniors. Do something to help people around you. Throw a party! Make friends. No church required.
Help the homeless. Build queer community. Work with seniors. Do something to help people around you. Throw a party! Make friends. No church required.
Hard to deny that the collapse of civic life is connected to:
1) the collapse of religious involvement among younger generations
2) the total collapse of local and regional news organizations.
Everyone wants to solve the problem without reversing these two changes, but that's very hard.
1) the collapse of religious involvement among younger generations
2) the total collapse of local and regional news organizations.
Everyone wants to solve the problem without reversing these two changes, but that's very hard.
December 15, 2024 at 11:41 PM
Like many, can confirm! This year really has been about becoming part of communities. Start with sitting in the back, if you need, but if it's the right community for you, they'll be happy to have you!
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Libraries are absolutely the first-stop for community building: you can find so many groups, learn about events, volunteer opportunities, it's all there.
Free internet, sometimes a little shop. Bonus all around.
Free internet, sometimes a little shop. Bonus all around.
December 15, 2024 at 11:37 PM
Libraries are absolutely the first-stop for community building: you can find so many groups, learn about events, volunteer opportunities, it's all there.
Free internet, sometimes a little shop. Bonus all around.
Free internet, sometimes a little shop. Bonus all around.
This is a must read! Excited, Manu!
December 9, 2024 at 8:39 PM
This is a must read! Excited, Manu!
I guess this question asked: can you tell what part of speech this is? A Better question: has it ever been effective (within or without a sentence)?
November 24, 2024 at 1:22 AM
I guess this question asked: can you tell what part of speech this is? A Better question: has it ever been effective (within or without a sentence)?
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Don't tempt me with questions like this, @nytimes.com
November 23, 2024 at 4:44 PM
Don't tempt me with questions like this, @nytimes.com
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Accidentally took a photo of my dog like she’s performed three miracles and is now a saint 😂😂😂
November 23, 2024 at 7:46 PM
Accidentally took a photo of my dog like she’s performed three miracles and is now a saint 😂😂😂
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I’m excited to announce this new CFP for scholarly chapters to be included in “Contemporary Indigenous Horror” edited by myself and Krista Collier-Jarvis! The CFP is open to self-identifying Indigenous scholars and creatives, as well as allies.
call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2024/11/...
call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2024/11/...
cfp | call for papers
call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu
November 15, 2024 at 6:32 PM
I’m excited to announce this new CFP for scholarly chapters to be included in “Contemporary Indigenous Horror” edited by myself and Krista Collier-Jarvis! The CFP is open to self-identifying Indigenous scholars and creatives, as well as allies.
call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2024/11/...
call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2024/11/...
Hi y’all—been off Bluesky and twitter for a few months. Anything happen while I was gone?
November 16, 2024 at 6:39 PM
Hi y’all—been off Bluesky and twitter for a few months. Anything happen while I was gone?
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Delighted to share the 2nd of 3 faculty openings in the Dept. of Media Studies, Univ. of Colorado Boulder. If you're focusing on ENVIRONMENTAL MEDIA, please consider applying. It's a tenured or tenure-track OPEN-RANK search. Deadline: Dec. 10 |
jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...
jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...
Professor in Environmental Media Studies
jobs.colorado.edu
November 16, 2024 at 1:34 PM
Delighted to share the 2nd of 3 faculty openings in the Dept. of Media Studies, Univ. of Colorado Boulder. If you're focusing on ENVIRONMENTAL MEDIA, please consider applying. It's a tenured or tenure-track OPEN-RANK search. Deadline: Dec. 10 |
jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...
jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...
Harris/Walz Kids Fundraiser, version 2.0!!!
Four years ago, Grey started a poster fundraiser, and her hand-drawn posters, which ended up all over the US, raised $600 for the Biden-Harris campaign.
This year, she and a group of friends created a web store instead ...
Four years ago, Grey started a poster fundraiser, and her hand-drawn posters, which ended up all over the US, raised $600 for the Biden-Harris campaign.
This year, she and a group of friends created a web store instead ...
September 23, 2024 at 5:07 PM
Harris/Walz Kids Fundraiser, version 2.0!!!
Four years ago, Grey started a poster fundraiser, and her hand-drawn posters, which ended up all over the US, raised $600 for the Biden-Harris campaign.
This year, she and a group of friends created a web store instead ...
Four years ago, Grey started a poster fundraiser, and her hand-drawn posters, which ended up all over the US, raised $600 for the Biden-Harris campaign.
This year, she and a group of friends created a web store instead ...
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BOOKS ARE WEAPONS IN THE WAR OF IDEAS
July 31, 2024 at 2:12 AM
BOOKS ARE WEAPONS IN THE WAR OF IDEAS
Bet her opponent wishes he’d seen this.
July 30, 2024 at 10:30 PM
Bet her opponent wishes he’d seen this.
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I had such fun talking about The Necromantics on the History of Literature podcast 🧛🏻♀️❤️ www.historyofliterature.com/620-necroman...
620 Necromantics (with Renee Fox) | Herman Hesse on What We Learn from Trees
What was the deal with the Victorians and their obsession with reanimating corpses? How did writers like Mary Shelley, Robert Browning, Charles Dickens, W.B. Yeats,…
www.historyofliterature.com
July 12, 2024 at 4:25 PM
I had such fun talking about The Necromantics on the History of Literature podcast 🧛🏻♀️❤️ www.historyofliterature.com/620-necroman...
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What a pleasure it was to review the excellent new collection *After Darwin: Literature, Theory, and Criticism in the Twenty-First Century* edited by @devo3000.bsky.social and @doctorwaffle.substack.com! The review is below…but if you’re into Darwin, just buy it already!
Review: After Darwin: Literature, Theory, and Criticism in the Twenty-First Century, edited by Devin Griffiths and Deanna Kreisel
Darwin’s theories of natural and sexual selection established that survival is a matter of adaptation. To pass on its way of life, a population must show a certain degree of variation among its own me...
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June 4, 2024 at 2:44 PM
What a pleasure it was to review the excellent new collection *After Darwin: Literature, Theory, and Criticism in the Twenty-First Century* edited by @devo3000.bsky.social and @doctorwaffle.substack.com! The review is below…but if you’re into Darwin, just buy it already!
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I don't know if he's on here but in case he isn't, Nathan Goldwag wrote a blog essay on "The Moral Economy of the Shire" looking at how a society can function based on custom & clientalism rather than the state and you should read it, it's fantastic.
nathangoldwag.wordpress.com/2024/05/31/t...
nathangoldwag.wordpress.com/2024/05/31/t...
The Moral Economy of the Shire
Who paid for this? There's a certain meme that I see making the rounds on Facebook every so often about the bucolic nature of life in the Shire, from Tolkien's The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, an...
nathangoldwag.wordpress.com
June 2, 2024 at 4:38 AM
I don't know if he's on here but in case he isn't, Nathan Goldwag wrote a blog essay on "The Moral Economy of the Shire" looking at how a society can function based on custom & clientalism rather than the state and you should read it, it's fantastic.
nathangoldwag.wordpress.com/2024/05/31/t...
nathangoldwag.wordpress.com/2024/05/31/t...
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Here's a great summary of last night's ACLU NorCal event that I spoke at about police surveillance and resistance.
www.santacruzsentinel.com/2024/05/21/s...
www.santacruzsentinel.com/2024/05/21/s...
Santa Cruz ACLU panel examines privacy rights
With the technologies that now exist, how could anyone reasonably expect that anything that they do is private?
www.santacruzsentinel.com
May 22, 2024 at 12:50 AM
Here's a great summary of last night's ACLU NorCal event that I spoke at about police surveillance and resistance.
www.santacruzsentinel.com/2024/05/21/s...
www.santacruzsentinel.com/2024/05/21/s...
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Very excited about Victorian Poetry’s new Early Career Essay Prize! Deadline for submissions is June 30. Details below! Please share widely — and encourage untenured scholars working on great projects to submit their work!
CFP: Early Career Essay Prize (Deadline: 6/30/24) bit.ly/4bq1JqW
CFP: Early Career Essay Prize (Deadline: 6/30/24) | NAVSA
bit.ly
May 20, 2024 at 8:20 PM
Very excited about Victorian Poetry’s new Early Career Essay Prize! Deadline for submissions is June 30. Details below! Please share widely — and encourage untenured scholars working on great projects to submit their work!
It's time to start talking about the new academic security complex. It is not simply administrators -- there is a revolving door of security experts and a growing industry of private contractors who have captured the minds and fueled the nightmares of uni leaders. I see it every day at USC.
UNC Chapel Hill bureaucrats secretly record professors' classes, without notice or consent, "using the existing Panopto camera in the classroom" to investigate "reports concerning class content and conduct"
Letter says UNC Chapel Hill secretly records professors
A business school professor was startled to learn that the university had recorded his classes as part of a ‘review’ he didn’t know about. The university says it has no formal policy on filming classe...
www.insidehighered.com
May 20, 2024 at 3:14 PM
It's time to start talking about the new academic security complex. It is not simply administrators -- there is a revolving door of security experts and a growing industry of private contractors who have captured the minds and fueled the nightmares of uni leaders. I see it every day at USC.
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Every time I teach my Luxury class, the potential final projects become more and more disturbing
The super wealthy are giving themselves saline IV injections even though there is absolutely no scientific evidence that it is better than drinking water, and even though people have been hospitalized and have even died from it. Tax reform now. www.nytimes.com/2024/05/14/r...
At-Home IV Drips Are the Latest Luxury Building Amenity
High-end condos and rentals now offer the medically dubious therapy as a regular wellness practice, not just a vacation splurge.
www.nytimes.com
May 19, 2024 at 3:53 AM
Every time I teach my Luxury class, the potential final projects become more and more disturbing