Harris Feinsod
@feinsod.bsky.social
Comp Lit and English Prof. Baltimore. 💙⚓️💚🌱🖤📖. *Speaking only for myself*
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Giving a master class on how to deal with these ridiculous attacks on academic freedom.
Martin Peterson's creative response to being banned from teaching Plato (shared with his permission).
January 9, 2026 at 3:00 AM
Giving a master class on how to deal with these ridiculous attacks on academic freedom.
Ok Three the Hard Way is a stretch but it has an A+ Chicago River scene
December 29, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Ok Three the Hard Way is a stretch but it has an A+ Chicago River scene
Three the Hard Way
December 29, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Three the Hard Way
Stony Island
Hoop Dreams
Chain Reaction
Medium Cool
About Last Night
Candyman
Bad Boys (sean penn)
Hoop Dreams
Chain Reaction
Medium Cool
About Last Night
Candyman
Bad Boys (sean penn)
December 29, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Stony Island
Hoop Dreams
Chain Reaction
Medium Cool
About Last Night
Candyman
Bad Boys (sean penn)
Hoop Dreams
Chain Reaction
Medium Cool
About Last Night
Candyman
Bad Boys (sean penn)
Lol while this was blowing up i was in a paper archive looking at ashes from a previous domain of human experience that was discarded in the slag heaps of automation
September 17, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Lol while this was blowing up i was in a paper archive looking at ashes from a previous domain of human experience that was discarded in the slag heaps of automation
n+1 comes out swinging www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...
Large Language Muddle | The Editors
The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...
www.nplusonemag.com
September 17, 2025 at 2:12 PM
n+1 comes out swinging www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...
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Next Monday & Tuesday, Sept. 15 & 16, I’ll give two talks in Baltimore, one at the Bird in Hand bookstore about *Freedom Ship*, the other at Johns Hopkins University about “How to Write (Maritime) History from Below.”
sites.krieger.jhu.edu/tidewater/ev...
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September 8, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Next Monday & Tuesday, Sept. 15 & 16, I’ll give two talks in Baltimore, one at the Bird in Hand bookstore about *Freedom Ship*, the other at Johns Hopkins University about “How to Write (Maritime) History from Below.”
sites.krieger.jhu.edu/tidewater/ev...
sites.krieger.jhu.edu/tidewater/ev...
sites.krieger.jhu.edu/tidewater/ev...
sites.krieger.jhu.edu/tidewater/ev...
Join us
Tuesday, Sept. 16, 10:30 am, I'll give a talk/workshop at Johns Hopkins entitled "How to Write (Maritime) History from Below." The event is sponsored by the Tidewater Initiative and the Maritime Committee of the Maryland Center for History and Culture. Join us!
sites.krieger.jhu.edu/tidewater/ev...
sites.krieger.jhu.edu/tidewater/ev...
September 13, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Join us
... and on 9/16 @ 10:30am, "How to Write (Maritime) History from Below: A Talk and Workshop with Marcus Rediker"
In partnership with the Maritime Committee of the Maryland Center for History and Culture @mdhistory.bsky.social
@marcusrediker.bsky.social
sites.krieger.jhu.edu/tidewater/ev...
In partnership with the Maritime Committee of the Maryland Center for History and Culture @mdhistory.bsky.social
@marcusrediker.bsky.social
sites.krieger.jhu.edu/tidewater/ev...
“How to Write (Maritime) History from Below”: A Talk and Workshop with Marcus Rediker | The Tidewater Initiative
Marcus Rediker visits the Literature and the Sea seminar at Johns Hopkins to lead a lecture and workshop on the topic "How to Write (Maritime) History from Below." This event is co-sponsored by the J...
sites.krieger.jhu.edu
September 9, 2025 at 1:12 PM
... and on 9/16 @ 10:30am, "How to Write (Maritime) History from Below: A Talk and Workshop with Marcus Rediker"
In partnership with the Maritime Committee of the Maryland Center for History and Culture @mdhistory.bsky.social
@marcusrediker.bsky.social
sites.krieger.jhu.edu/tidewater/ev...
In partnership with the Maritime Committee of the Maryland Center for History and Culture @mdhistory.bsky.social
@marcusrediker.bsky.social
sites.krieger.jhu.edu/tidewater/ev...
Next week! Marcus Rediker will be at the Tidewater Initiative in Baltimore for two events. First up: a conversation about the new book "Freedom Ship" at Bird in Hand, 6:30pm 9/15
@marcusrediker.bsky.social
sites.krieger.jhu.edu/tidewater/ev...
@marcusrediker.bsky.social
sites.krieger.jhu.edu/tidewater/ev...
Humanities in the Village: Marcus Rediker, in conversation with Nadia Nurhussein and Harris Feinsod | The Tidewater Initiative
The Alexander Grass Humanities Institute will launch its fall 2025 programming with a special additional edition of Humanities in the Village, an event series dedicated to making scholarship publicly ...
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September 9, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Next week! Marcus Rediker will be at the Tidewater Initiative in Baltimore for two events. First up: a conversation about the new book "Freedom Ship" at Bird in Hand, 6:30pm 9/15
@marcusrediker.bsky.social
sites.krieger.jhu.edu/tidewater/ev...
@marcusrediker.bsky.social
sites.krieger.jhu.edu/tidewater/ev...
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It's publication day for UNIVERSITY KEYWORDS. Across 27 sharp essays, the book offers a critical account of the political economy of US higher education, how it came to be structured this way, and how together we might build a better university together.
September 9, 2025 at 12:40 PM
It's publication day for UNIVERSITY KEYWORDS. Across 27 sharp essays, the book offers a critical account of the political economy of US higher education, how it came to be structured this way, and how together we might build a better university together.
Reading a copy of a book I’ve been teaching since the age of the course pack. Bring pack the course pack.
September 9, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Reading a copy of a book I’ve been teaching since the age of the course pack. Bring pack the course pack.
Amazing. Also, love the letterhead program. My close reading is that it faintly and ironically echoes the residual genre of the campus visit itinerary.
September 8, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Amazing. Also, love the letterhead program. My close reading is that it faintly and ironically echoes the residual genre of the campus visit itinerary.
Transportation Dept. Cancels $679 Million for Offshore Wind Projects
www.nytimes.com
August 30, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Proudly remembering the time I held my ground on “cahoots.” Be troo to yoo!
August 17, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Proudly remembering the time I held my ground on “cahoots.” Be troo to yoo!
We got you, Steelkilt
August 9, 2025 at 8:06 PM
We got you, Steelkilt
And a follow up on Sept 16 in the seminar on Literature of the Sea: “How to Write (Maritime) History from Below”: A Talk and Workshop with Marcus Rediker sites.krieger.jhu.edu/tidewater/ev...
“How to Write (Maritime) History from Below”: A Talk and Workshop with Marcus Rediker | The Tidewater Initiative
Marcus Rediker visits the "Literature and the Sea" seminar to lead a lecture and workshop on the topic "How to Write (Maritime) History from Below." This is an "open classroom" event. The JHU communi...
sites.krieger.jhu.edu
August 9, 2025 at 3:12 PM
And a follow up on Sept 16 in the seminar on Literature of the Sea: “How to Write (Maritime) History from Below”: A Talk and Workshop with Marcus Rediker sites.krieger.jhu.edu/tidewater/ev...
We’re kicking things off Sept 15 @ Bird in Hand with Marcus Rediker in conversation about his new book Freedom Ship: The Uncharted History of Escaping Slavery at Sea @marcusrediker.bsky.social
sites.krieger.jhu.edu/tidewater/ev...
sites.krieger.jhu.edu/tidewater/ev...
August 9, 2025 at 3:09 PM
We’re kicking things off Sept 15 @ Bird in Hand with Marcus Rediker in conversation about his new book Freedom Ship: The Uncharted History of Escaping Slavery at Sea @marcusrediker.bsky.social
sites.krieger.jhu.edu/tidewater/ev...
sites.krieger.jhu.edu/tidewater/ev...
Thanks, Nathan! We’ll reconnect soon!
August 9, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Thanks, Nathan! We’ll reconnect soon!
We're launching a new Tidewater Initiative at JHU. Our research group on working waterfronts and coastal infrastructures includes a new student research lab, courses, programming partnerships with the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute, and more in the works. sites.krieger.jhu.edu/tidewater/
Home | The Tidewater Initiative
We are a multidisciplinary research group devoted to study, stewardship, and stories of working waterfronts, coastal infrastructures, and oceans under conditions of globalization and environmental ins...
sites.krieger.jhu.edu
August 8, 2025 at 9:28 PM
We're launching a new Tidewater Initiative at JHU. Our research group on working waterfronts and coastal infrastructures includes a new student research lab, courses, programming partnerships with the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute, and more in the works. sites.krieger.jhu.edu/tidewater/
My poet friend told me all I do is talk about ports these days. Can’t wait to tell her about this interaction. 😂
July 29, 2025 at 7:52 PM
My poet friend told me all I do is talk about ports these days. Can’t wait to tell her about this interaction. 😂
“So long, Mom,
I'm off to drop the bomb,
So don't wait up for me.”
I'm off to drop the bomb,
So don't wait up for me.”
Tom Lehrer, song satirist and mathematician, dies at 97 | CNN
Tom Lehrer, the popular and erudite song satirist who lampooned marriage, politics, racism and the Cold War, then largely abandoned his music career to return to teaching math at Harvard and other uni...
www.cnn.com
July 28, 2025 at 12:29 AM
“So long, Mom,
I'm off to drop the bomb,
So don't wait up for me.”
I'm off to drop the bomb,
So don't wait up for me.”