Jason Farr
@jsfarr.bsky.social
Associate prof of ENGL, Marquette U • c18 lit • disability studies • cat dad • gay married to @nyitray • mishearing you since 2009 🦻
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The latest @ecfjournal.bsky.social is out today, with a special section edited by Mona Narain on “Asian/Asia.” Articles in this cluster by @shruti-jain.bsky.social and @kaushiktekur.bsky.social, a Reflections essay by @travisclau.bsky.social, and a response by me!
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Contents | Eighteenth-Century Fiction 37, 2
Special Section: “Asian/Asia”: Provocations
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August 31, 2025 at 1:59 PM
The latest @ecfjournal.bsky.social is out today, with a special section edited by Mona Narain on “Asian/Asia.” Articles in this cluster by @shruti-jain.bsky.social and @kaushiktekur.bsky.social, a Reflections essay by @travisclau.bsky.social, and a response by me!
utppublishing.com/toc/ecf/37/2
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When Uncle Travis’s brand new poetry collection, WHAT’S LEFT IS TENDER, arrives, his kitty nephews celebrate. As for me, I’ll be teaching from this in my health humanities class this fall! @travisclau.bsky.social
August 15, 2025 at 2:33 AM
When Uncle Travis’s brand new poetry collection, WHAT’S LEFT IS TENDER, arrives, his kitty nephews celebrate. As for me, I’ll be teaching from this in my health humanities class this fall! @travisclau.bsky.social
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this is a disgrace and a national shame
"WASHINGTON, D.C. (August 1, 2025) – The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) announced today that it will begin an orderly wind-down of its operations"
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August 1, 2025 at 5:22 PM
this is a disgrace and a national shame
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“American Academy of Arts&Sciences reports 96.3% of humanities grads age 23-32 fully employed. Earnings in humanitiess comparable to social/life sciences, job satisfaction levels too. A serious mismatch bw actual employment for hum grads +general perception."
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Mellon Foundation
The Mellon Foundation makes grants to actively unlock the power in the arts and humanities that helps connect us all.
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August 1, 2025 at 3:20 PM
“American Academy of Arts&Sciences reports 96.3% of humanities grads age 23-32 fully employed. Earnings in humanitiess comparable to social/life sciences, job satisfaction levels too. A serious mismatch bw actual employment for hum grads +general perception."
www.mellon.org/voices/human...
www.mellon.org/voices/human...
Wild to me that this is out of print! Just got my hands on a copy off of eBay. It contains an introductory essay by Joe LeSueur.
April 22, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Wild to me that this is out of print! Just got my hands on a copy off of eBay. It contains an introductory essay by Joe LeSueur.
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Out today, the Academic Council of the University of California issues the following statement:
“Higher education is under direct and sustained attack.
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“Higher education is under direct and sustained attack.
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senate.universityofcalifornia.edu/_files/repor...
senate.universityofcalifornia.edu
April 9, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Out today, the Academic Council of the University of California issues the following statement:
“Higher education is under direct and sustained attack.
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senate.universityofcalifornia.edu/_files/repor...
“Higher education is under direct and sustained attack.
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senate.universityofcalifornia.edu/_files/repor...
Is it really a protest in Wisconsin if there isn’t at least one sign that says “fuck Ron Johnson”?
April 5, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Is it really a protest in Wisconsin if there isn’t at least one sign that says “fuck Ron Johnson”?
Milwaukee showing up to protest Trump and Musk fascism.
April 5, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Milwaukee showing up to protest Trump and Musk fascism.
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Pour one out tonight not only for the thousands of fantastic scholars whose NEH grants were wrongly terminated, but also for all of the junior scholars who have never—and now may never in their lifetimes—receive federal support for their research
April 5, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Pour one out tonight not only for the thousands of fantastic scholars whose NEH grants were wrongly terminated, but also for all of the junior scholars who have never—and now may never in their lifetimes—receive federal support for their research
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Another favorite more recently is @jasonfarrjokes.bsky.social's Novel Bodies: Disability and Sexuality in Eighteenth-Century British Literature. I was so inspired by this book's care and thoughtfulness, and it was a delight to read.
www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/bucknell/nov...
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Novel Bodies - Bucknell University Press
Novel Bodies examines how disability shapes the British literary history of sexuality. Jason Farr shows that various eighteenth-century novelists represent d...
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April 4, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Another favorite more recently is @jasonfarrjokes.bsky.social's Novel Bodies: Disability and Sexuality in Eighteenth-Century British Literature. I was so inspired by this book's care and thoughtfulness, and it was a delight to read.
www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/bucknell/nov...
www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/bucknell/nov...
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I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent, when we must speak up.
April 2, 2025 at 1:09 AM
I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent, when we must speak up.
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Cory Booker is doing something incredible on the Senate floor. If you're not watching, you need to watch: www.youtube.com/live/Ej6locU...
LIVE: Cory Booker goes for floor speech RECORD
YouTube video by Brian Tyler Cohen
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April 1, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Cory Booker is doing something incredible on the Senate floor. If you're not watching, you need to watch: www.youtube.com/live/Ej6locU...
Proudly casting my vote for #SusanCrawford and against Musk-Trump here in Wisconsin.
April 1, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Proudly casting my vote for #SusanCrawford and against Musk-Trump here in Wisconsin.
Here’s an essay I wrote about accessibility as an improvisational mindset that we can cultivate in our classrooms & communities, & as a principle that aligns uncannily with some strains of Romantic thought. #disability #disabilitystudies
Improvisational Accessibility and Romanticism | Romantic Circles
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February 12, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Here’s an essay I wrote about accessibility as an improvisational mindset that we can cultivate in our classrooms & communities, & as a principle that aligns uncannily with some strains of Romantic thought. #disability #disabilitystudies
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From an idea in 2008 to a book in 2025, ECHOES OF CARE: DEAFNESS IN MODERN BRITAIN has been published by @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social ! It explores how changing perceptions of deafness intersected with healthcare, disability, and eugenics in 19th-century Britain.
www.mqup.ca/echoes-of-ca...
www.mqup.ca/echoes-of-ca...
February 11, 2025 at 2:56 PM
From an idea in 2008 to a book in 2025, ECHOES OF CARE: DEAFNESS IN MODERN BRITAIN has been published by @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social ! It explores how changing perceptions of deafness intersected with healthcare, disability, and eugenics in 19th-century Britain.
www.mqup.ca/echoes-of-ca...
www.mqup.ca/echoes-of-ca...
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Very disturbing anti-disability rhetoric here, where Trump blames the recent American Airlines crash on DEI efforts, specifically hiring disabled folks, into the FAA. thehill.com/homenews/adm...
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January 30, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Very disturbing anti-disability rhetoric here, where Trump blames the recent American Airlines crash on DEI efforts, specifically hiring disabled folks, into the FAA. thehill.com/homenews/adm...
Oh shit, it’s Robert Wringhim from Private Memoirs & Confessions of a Justified Sinner, appearing in a Brocken spectre. 🫣😱
December 26, 2024 at 10:07 PM
Oh shit, it’s Robert Wringhim from Private Memoirs & Confessions of a Justified Sinner, appearing in a Brocken spectre. 🫣😱
We don’t have to be stars exploding in the night / or electric eels under the covers / we don’t have to be anything quite so unreal / let’s just be lovers
December 22, 2024 at 10:32 PM
We don’t have to be stars exploding in the night / or electric eels under the covers / we don’t have to be anything quite so unreal / let’s just be lovers
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Dear colleagues,
In abject humility, I write to recommend ______, whose achievements are so monumental, so profound, as to leave me debased, worthless, by their measure. Do I “warmly” recommend them? Hell would seem an arctic tundra next the respectful inferno of my professional esteem
In abject humility, I write to recommend ______, whose achievements are so monumental, so profound, as to leave me debased, worthless, by their measure. Do I “warmly” recommend them? Hell would seem an arctic tundra next the respectful inferno of my professional esteem
December 16, 2024 at 1:15 PM
Dear colleagues,
In abject humility, I write to recommend ______, whose achievements are so monumental, so profound, as to leave me debased, worthless, by their measure. Do I “warmly” recommend them? Hell would seem an arctic tundra next the respectful inferno of my professional esteem
In abject humility, I write to recommend ______, whose achievements are so monumental, so profound, as to leave me debased, worthless, by their measure. Do I “warmly” recommend them? Hell would seem an arctic tundra next the respectful inferno of my professional esteem
They are submitted. The grades. 🥳
December 16, 2024 at 4:57 PM
They are submitted. The grades. 🥳
Hi #RunningPunks, I completed a 10-miler along icy Lake Michigan today. Heard a punk band called Memo PST on KEXP that really got me excited. 😆🤘🏻
December 15, 2024 at 8:12 PM
Hi #RunningPunks, I completed a 10-miler along icy Lake Michigan today. Heard a punk band called Memo PST on KEXP that really got me excited. 😆🤘🏻
It just seems like the perfect night—frigid and dark here in Milwaukee—for a rye manhattan + some early Silver Jews.
December 13, 2024 at 11:26 PM
It just seems like the perfect night—frigid and dark here in Milwaukee—for a rye manhattan + some early Silver Jews.