Nate Wolff
@natewolff.bsky.social
Professor of heterodox humanistic cetology
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American Studies and a variety of other programs under under threat at the University of Nottingham. Lend your voice to the petition.
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SAVE AMERICAN STUDIES TEACHING AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM
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November 13, 2025 at 3:01 PM
American Studies and a variety of other programs under under threat at the University of Nottingham. Lend your voice to the petition.
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November 13, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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me when I see your aurora borealis pics
Nature absolutely paints like the harlot, whose allurements cover nothing but the charnel-house within
November 12, 2025 at 4:37 PM
me when I see your aurora borealis pics
hey nerds! Any recommended critical/theoretical reading on digression—its pleasures, frustrations, etc. Whether in literature (e.g. Tristram Shandy), film or tv, video games ("side quests"), etc.? Other fun examples welcome too. (My favs are "Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" and whale facts obvs 🐳)
November 7, 2025 at 1:49 PM
hey nerds! Any recommended critical/theoretical reading on digression—its pleasures, frustrations, etc. Whether in literature (e.g. Tristram Shandy), film or tv, video games ("side quests"), etc.? Other fun examples welcome too. (My favs are "Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" and whale facts obvs 🐳)
ummm it was actually Walt Whitman who first called a NYC ferry the friendship express
November 7, 2025 at 12:55 PM
ummm it was actually Walt Whitman who first called a NYC ferry the friendship express
this is also the phrase I used to start my Émile Zola reading marathon
November 5, 2025 at 4:41 PM
this is also the phrase I used to start my Émile Zola reading marathon
so happy for but also jealous of NYC right now! Sounds like the zohran election parties were LIT
I found myself unwittingly squeezing my co-laborers’ hands in it, mistaking their hands for the gentle globules.
November 5, 2025 at 11:53 AM
so happy for but also jealous of NYC right now! Sounds like the zohran election parties were LIT
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This makes me happy to no end—not least because I've had the pleasure of explaining to my mom how I'm known among Whitman scholars.
Pleased to announce it was crotch comparison day in Whitman class.
#pedagogy #crotch @genoways.bsky.social
#pedagogy #crotch @genoways.bsky.social
November 2, 2025 at 12:24 AM
This makes me happy to no end—not least because I've had the pleasure of explaining to my mom how I'm known among Whitman scholars.
bluesky introduces new “backhanded likes” and “pity likes” beta
November 1, 2025 at 2:10 AM
bluesky introduces new “backhanded likes” and “pity likes” beta
Still thinking about this fyi
Our nation has never really grappled with the fact that a central aesthetic and epistemological principle of 80s halloween costumes was that the thing you are pretending to be should be on the shirt.
October 31, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Still thinking about this fyi
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To dress in the dark, and eat in the dark, and stumble in darkness to his pallet, this is his usual lot.
October 30, 2025 at 10:47 AM
To dress in the dark, and eat in the dark, and stumble in darkness to his pallet, this is his usual lot.
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Pleased to announce it was crotch comparison day in Whitman class.
#pedagogy #crotch @genoways.bsky.social
#pedagogy #crotch @genoways.bsky.social
October 28, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Pleased to announce it was crotch comparison day in Whitman class.
#pedagogy #crotch @genoways.bsky.social
#pedagogy #crotch @genoways.bsky.social
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I'm so excited Dan, Johanna, & Emory have made it possible for me to record the entirety of their book launch symposium next month as an arc in the "Vandal Live" series.
Symposia are, in my opinion, the very best of academic programming, & everybody should have the good fortune of partaking.
Symposia are, in my opinion, the very best of academic programming, & everybody should have the good fortune of partaking.
October 24, 2025 at 2:39 PM
I'm so excited Dan, Johanna, & Emory have made it possible for me to record the entirety of their book launch symposium next month as an arc in the "Vandal Live" series.
Symposia are, in my opinion, the very best of academic programming, & everybody should have the good fortune of partaking.
Symposia are, in my opinion, the very best of academic programming, & everybody should have the good fortune of partaking.
Everybody's talking about the vaguely mystical masturbatory subculture where doomed young men find self-destructive community.
October 23, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Everybody's talking about the vaguely mystical masturbatory subculture where doomed young men find self-destructive community.
This is my out-of-office message
This is the Pequod, bound round the world! Tell them to address all future letters to the Pacific ocean!
October 23, 2025 at 12:11 PM
This is my out-of-office message
💯 build a cabin, build a chair, hoe beans, grow some beans, manufacture pencils, repair an axe handle, make a fishing rod, fish, philosophize about fishing, think about not fishing, get into a passive aggressive emotional standoff with a loon, wait I forgot what I was listing.
every adult should know how to craft something. i use that loosely: cook a meal, do a bit of DIY, sew a button, grow a plant.
if there is nothing in this world that you can make yourself... why. what are you doing
if there is nothing in this world that you can make yourself... why. what are you doing
Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?
October 17, 2025 at 2:47 PM
💯 build a cabin, build a chair, hoe beans, grow some beans, manufacture pencils, repair an axe handle, make a fishing rod, fish, philosophize about fishing, think about not fishing, get into a passive aggressive emotional standoff with a loon, wait I forgot what I was listing.
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Also, New Zealand Tom was *right there*
October 15, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Also, New Zealand Tom was *right there*
Thanks to everyone who tagged me on this. I am in touch with NZ officials. I have called for an urgent inquiry into the real possibility that this is the monomaniac incarnation of all those malicious agencies which some deep men feel eating in them.
October 15, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Thanks to everyone who tagged me on this. I am in touch with NZ officials. I have called for an urgent inquiry into the real possibility that this is the monomaniac incarnation of all those malicious agencies which some deep men feel eating in them.
“Shakespeare’s” plays were authored by Sir Francis Bacon, as revealed to me in a complex cypher contained within the plays.
Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat
October 14, 2025 at 2:05 AM
“Shakespeare’s” plays were authored by Sir Francis Bacon, as revealed to me in a complex cypher contained within the plays.
RIP Thoreau you would've loved zillow
October 13, 2025 at 2:05 PM
RIP Thoreau you would've loved zillow
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This was such a treat to be with @mattseybold.bsky.social @aprilanson.bsky.social @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social @jlb.bsky.social @natewolff.bsky.social( & others not on here?) to think through the knots of energy, aesthetics, politics & the hell we inhabit. Thanks Matt, Jeff, & Joe for having us.
Quarry Farm Symposium, my favorite event on our annual calendar, kicks off tonight with a discussion of everyday ecofascism with @aprilanson.bsky.social & Alexander Menrisky.
This year’s theme is Energy Studies, co-organized with @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social.
marktwainstudies.com/2025-quarry-...
This year’s theme is Energy Studies, co-organized with @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social.
marktwainstudies.com/2025-quarry-...
October 12, 2025 at 12:08 PM
This was such a treat to be with @mattseybold.bsky.social @aprilanson.bsky.social @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social @jlb.bsky.social @natewolff.bsky.social( & others not on here?) to think through the knots of energy, aesthetics, politics & the hell we inhabit. Thanks Matt, Jeff, & Joe for having us.
Lots of options but let's go classic on this one and say that time we shitposted so hard they put it in a peer reviewed journal and then that issue won a prize 🐳
October 9, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Lots of options but let's go classic on this one and say that time we shitposted so hard they put it in a peer reviewed journal and then that issue won a prize 🐳
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This project would not have happened were it not for Nate's book.
October 6, 2025 at 12:52 PM
This project would not have happened were it not for Nate's book.