Jay Shelat
@jshelat1.bsky.social
PhD. Assistant Professor of English at Ursinus College. Contemporary Literature. Writing a book about the War on Terror and domesticity. I know hundreds of Bollywood songs by heart. he/him. Views are my own.
https://www.jayshelat.com
https://www.jayshelat.com
Tuesday is the second Monday in a row!
Tuesday is, historically and without question, the worst day of the week.
Grateful to the TL for demonstrating that I’m not the only passenger on the struggle bus this morning
February 10, 2026 at 3:54 PM
Tuesday is the second Monday in a row!
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Me to Reader 2
a woman in a pink jacket says that 's the point that 's the point youre missing
Alt: a woman in a pink jacket says that 's the point that 's the point youre missing
media.tenor.com
February 10, 2026 at 3:22 PM
Me to Reader 2
Convinced my friends to start the Real Housewives of Salt Lake City. My evangelism is working!
February 10, 2026 at 3:01 AM
Convinced my friends to start the Real Housewives of Salt Lake City. My evangelism is working!
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CALL FOR PITCHES
@dan-sinnamon.bsky.social and I are at work on a new version of Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century aimed at a more general audience.
We’re looking for new contributions: your model close readings of texts, canonical and not, from literary studies and not.
Details below!
@dan-sinnamon.bsky.social and I are at work on a new version of Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century aimed at a more general audience.
We’re looking for new contributions: your model close readings of texts, canonical and not, from literary studies and not.
Details below!
February 9, 2026 at 1:56 PM
CALL FOR PITCHES
@dan-sinnamon.bsky.social and I are at work on a new version of Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century aimed at a more general audience.
We’re looking for new contributions: your model close readings of texts, canonical and not, from literary studies and not.
Details below!
@dan-sinnamon.bsky.social and I are at work on a new version of Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century aimed at a more general audience.
We’re looking for new contributions: your model close readings of texts, canonical and not, from literary studies and not.
Details below!
The Testament of Ann Lee deserves so much more awards praise than it got. What a fantastic movie.
a woman with a surprised look on her face is surrounded by other people
ALT: a woman with a surprised look on her face is surrounded by other people
media.tenor.com
February 8, 2026 at 1:34 AM
The Testament of Ann Lee deserves so much more awards praise than it got. What a fantastic movie.
Formatting my book is actually really hard because of how many rules there are lolol i'm stressed!
February 7, 2026 at 3:53 PM
Formatting my book is actually really hard because of how many rules there are lolol i'm stressed!
Everyone knows for a fact that a staffer didn’t post that video 🙄
February 6, 2026 at 5:58 PM
Everyone knows for a fact that a staffer didn’t post that video 🙄
I’ve watched this like 4 times today
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
#Pinks #ProudBlue
February 5, 2026 at 7:39 PM
I’ve watched this like 4 times today
Formatting my book is such an interesting process because this years-long process is finally coming to an end, but at the same time I feel like I'm gonna fuck up the whole MS by adjusting stuff
February 4, 2026 at 2:50 PM
Formatting my book is such an interesting process because this years-long process is finally coming to an end, but at the same time I feel like I'm gonna fuck up the whole MS by adjusting stuff
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My brain is mush. I need to secure permissions for two famous C19 paintings to appear in my book. My recollection is there’s a database (or two, or…?) where you can get images of many C19 paintings for free or a small fee. Any tips? With thx from a person who deals mostly in words.
February 3, 2026 at 2:50 PM
My brain is mush. I need to secure permissions for two famous C19 paintings to appear in my book. My recollection is there’s a database (or two, or…?) where you can get images of many C19 paintings for free or a small fee. Any tips? With thx from a person who deals mostly in words.
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what's super fun is that i'm sick after traveling from india and just realized that the entire bibliography in my book is formatted wrong because I didn't realize the Chicago Manual was updated!
February 2, 2026 at 5:59 PM
what's super fun is that i'm sick after traveling from india and just realized that the entire bibliography in my book is formatted wrong because I didn't realize the Chicago Manual was updated!
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Oh cmon!!! The author of this season of Humanity is tripping.
February 2, 2026 at 1:18 PM
Oh cmon!!! The author of this season of Humanity is tripping.
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Happy February! Now’s a great time to submit your proposals for ASAP/17!
www.artsofthepresent.org/conference/3...
www.artsofthepresent.org/conference/3...
ASAP/17: Get It Together!
Madison, WI | October 15-17, 2026
www.artsofthepresent.org
February 1, 2026 at 1:20 PM
Happy February! Now’s a great time to submit your proposals for ASAP/17!
www.artsofthepresent.org/conference/3...
www.artsofthepresent.org/conference/3...
Question, friends! I'm working on the author questionnaire for my book and I'm not sure how what the protocol is for endorsements. Do I just list scholars I think should comment? What if I don't know them personally??
January 31, 2026 at 3:34 PM
Question, friends! I'm working on the author questionnaire for my book and I'm not sure how what the protocol is for endorsements. Do I just list scholars I think should comment? What if I don't know them personally??
Beating jet lag after coming back from India feels like getting run over by a boulder
January 31, 2026 at 1:46 AM
Beating jet lag after coming back from India feels like getting run over by a boulder
This is bc of the DoD’s 1033 Program, which allows for the transfer of weapons used abroad by the military to local law enforcement. The 1033 program is a legal framework that brings empire home. It blurs together the international and domestic fronts of empire by militarizing police.
There is no reason any of these men need any of this gear. This entire situation is not only dangerous and illegal. It is absurd and stupid.
www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...
www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...
Video: How Battlefield Tech Was Used in Minneapolis
Our reporter Thomas Gibbons-Neff, who deployed twice to Afghanistan as a Marine and later was our Kabul bureau chief, looks at the battlefield technology used for an immigration arrest at a home in Mi...
www.nytimes.com
January 30, 2026 at 12:32 PM
This is bc of the DoD’s 1033 Program, which allows for the transfer of weapons used abroad by the military to local law enforcement. The 1033 program is a legal framework that brings empire home. It blurs together the international and domestic fronts of empire by militarizing police.
WHO ON THIS SIXTEEN HOUR FLIGHT FROM INDIA IS SLATHERING THEIR BODY IN BENGAY
January 29, 2026 at 3:08 PM
WHO ON THIS SIXTEEN HOUR FLIGHT FROM INDIA IS SLATHERING THEIR BODY IN BENGAY
I did this in all of my courses and it fundamentally changed the classroom, the students’ work, our conversations, and my pedagogy.
We all see the beauty and magic of learning if we actually put in the labor necessary to grow.
We all see the beauty and magic of learning if we actually put in the labor necessary to grow.
Forth Worth teacher Chanea Bond says sticking with pen and paper keeps generative artificial intelligence out of her American literature classes. n.pr/4c3cdzs
To keep AI out of her classroom, this high school English teacher went analog
Forth Worth teacher Chanea Bond says sticking with pen and paper keeps generative artificial intelligence out of her American literature classes.
n.pr
January 28, 2026 at 12:23 PM
I did this in all of my courses and it fundamentally changed the classroom, the students’ work, our conversations, and my pedagogy.
We all see the beauty and magic of learning if we actually put in the labor necessary to grow.
We all see the beauty and magic of learning if we actually put in the labor necessary to grow.
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"Take a second and think about it. Would you rather really grow from an experience of actually doing some work and critically thinking about the things you're writing or talking about, or just taking nothing away from it and just use a robot?"
Listen to the students, not the tech companies.
Listen to the students, not the tech companies.
Forth Worth teacher Chanea Bond says sticking with pen and paper keeps generative artificial intelligence out of her American literature classes. n.pr/4c3cdzs
To keep AI out of her classroom, this high school English teacher went analog
Forth Worth teacher Chanea Bond says sticking with pen and paper keeps generative artificial intelligence out of her American literature classes.
n.pr
January 28, 2026 at 12:08 PM
"Take a second and think about it. Would you rather really grow from an experience of actually doing some work and critically thinking about the things you're writing or talking about, or just taking nothing away from it and just use a robot?"
Listen to the students, not the tech companies.
Listen to the students, not the tech companies.
This is how you know AI made this logo
I cannot stop staring at this gold plated Board of Peace logo that for some reason seizes the entire Greater Toronto Area and erases the border with Mexico
January 27, 2026 at 11:41 PM
This is how you know AI made this logo
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Stormtrumpers.
January 10, 2026 at 1:09 PM
Stormtrumpers.
Hello from Udaipur where I’m having a marvelous time!
January 21, 2026 at 12:19 PM
Hello from Udaipur where I’m having a marvelous time!
Everyone could tell you this was gonna happen
‘Summer House’ stars Amanda Batula and Kyle Cooke are breaking up just before the premiere of season ten.
Amanda Batula and Kyle Cooke Are Seperating
‘Summer House’ stars Amanda Batula and Kyle Cooke are breaking up just before the premiere of season ten.
www.vulture.com
January 19, 2026 at 11:57 PM
Everyone could tell you this was gonna happen