Nissa Ren Cannon
@nissaren.bsky.social
Teaching research writing @PWRStanford, writing about interwar expatriate infrastructure (& passports & steamships & newspapers), book reviews editor @JMPS, MSA board member, SFUSD parent
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Last call, friends! @hartmann-villalta.bsky.social and I are finishing up our annual list of lit studies publications—articles, books, book chapters—by NTT scholars for @contingent-mag.bsky.social. Please spread the word and send me your pubs by tomorrow/Tues 12/9! 🙏🫡
Adjuncts, indie scholars, publishers, journal eds: please spread the word about this and help me do recon! It's so hard w/ social media being so fragmented to learn about all the great lit studies articles and books pub'd this year by contingent/indie folx. I know there's lots! Deadline: end of Nov.
It’s that time of year friends! Thanks to @erinbartram.bsky.social and our friends at @contingent-mag.bsky.social, Laura and I are putting together a list of 2025 articles & books by contingent & indie lit critters. DM, reply, email me @ suny press. And spread the word!!
December 9, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Last call, friends! @hartmann-villalta.bsky.social and I are finishing up our annual list of lit studies publications—articles, books, book chapters—by NTT scholars for @contingent-mag.bsky.social. Please spread the word and send me your pubs by tomorrow/Tues 12/9! 🙏🫡
Flashback to that time in 1966 Seventeen Magazine found my dad on the beach and put him in their photoshoot.
December 8, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Flashback to that time in 1966 Seventeen Magazine found my dad on the beach and put him in their photoshoot.
Nothing screams "googledocs isn't made for writers" like the fact that it now takes 4 subsequent levels of drop down menu to add page #s.
December 5, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Nothing screams "googledocs isn't made for writers" like the fact that it now takes 4 subsequent levels of drop down menu to add page #s.
An exciting thing is that the MLA now has a bi-annual competition for short form work by contingent and independent scholars (and I got honorable mention) forms.mla.org/proxy/file.p...
forms.mla.org
December 3, 2025 at 11:50 PM
An exciting thing is that the MLA now has a bi-annual competition for short form work by contingent and independent scholars (and I got honorable mention) forms.mla.org/proxy/file.p...
Last night I had an existential crisis about the nature of (my own) human consciousness. Everything's going great.
December 3, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Last night I had an existential crisis about the nature of (my own) human consciousness. Everything's going great.
Was just contemplating doing something similar!
I’m struggling with my focus today. So I wrote out everything I’ve done this year, long hand and in a proper notebook.
I decided that the problem may be that I’ve done enough.
I decided that the problem may be that I’ve done enough.
December 3, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Was just contemplating doing something similar!
I've fallen down the annual "there's a big sale on the moisturizer that MIGHT change my life" rabbit hole.
December 1, 2025 at 10:27 PM
I've fallen down the annual "there's a big sale on the moisturizer that MIGHT change my life" rabbit hole.
Ok teaching friends: tell me about your tricks for getting students to take notes during class!
November 26, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Ok teaching friends: tell me about your tricks for getting students to take notes during class!
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Haven't received as many contributions as usual for this year's lists--could be many things, but one aspect is surely that our ability to get this in front of people is much diminished. If you know folks whose stuff should be on here, please suggest it! contingentmagazine.org/yearly-pub-l...
Publications by Non-Tenure-Track Historians
Since we began publishing in 2019, Contingent has published end-of-year lists of books and articles by non-tenure-track historians released in the past calendar year. To submit something for inclusion...
contingentmagazine.org
November 24, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Haven't received as many contributions as usual for this year's lists--could be many things, but one aspect is surely that our ability to get this in front of people is much diminished. If you know folks whose stuff should be on here, please suggest it! contingentmagazine.org/yearly-pub-l...
My 11 year old city kid has just learned that, if you have a mailbox, the postal worker will pick up your mail 😂
November 23, 2025 at 10:25 PM
My 11 year old city kid has just learned that, if you have a mailbox, the postal worker will pick up your mail 😂
IMPORTANT NEWS!
Important news: the deadline for the joint BAMS/MSA conference in Loughborough has been extended to December 29, 2025! You can review the CFP, and find links to the submission platform, here. www.moderniststudies.org/conference/M...
The Modernist Studies Association is devoted to the study of the arts in their social, political, cultural, and intellectual contexts from the later nineteenth through the mid-twentieth century. The o...
www.moderniststudies.org
November 21, 2025 at 12:14 AM
IMPORTANT NEWS!
”I am sure that as a doctor of philosophy, you have a better comprehension of a poet’s ideas than the poet him“ -McKay’s SCORCHING 1927 letter to Alain Locke
Reading Claude McKay’s letters and doing my best not to just live-tweet the whole thing at you BUT I do need you all to know that in 1925 McKay wrote Langston Hughes a letter about meeting Jean Toomer at Le Dôme!!!!
November 17, 2025 at 10:36 PM
”I am sure that as a doctor of philosophy, you have a better comprehension of a poet’s ideas than the poet him“ -McKay’s SCORCHING 1927 letter to Alain Locke
11 year old and I are working on our sushi skills.
November 17, 2025 at 3:20 AM
11 year old and I are working on our sushi skills.
Even weirder was the time I gave a conference paper in a hotel room with the bed folded up against the wall (I get that the power dynamics on this are different, but it was WEIRD).
I thing I sometimes thing about is that university departments were still doing job interviews in hotel rooms in the mid aughts
November 16, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Even weirder was the time I gave a conference paper in a hotel room with the bed folded up against the wall (I get that the power dynamics on this are different, but it was WEIRD).
TFW your ILL comes from the library you were a student worker in 24 years ago...
November 14, 2025 at 6:59 PM
TFW your ILL comes from the library you were a student worker in 24 years ago...
Pretty sure if you haven’t experienced multiple Thanksgiving day fires by the time you’re an adult youre doing something wrong
Can confirm, as an avid turkey fryer of more than three decades, a onetime volunteer firefighter in a rural area, and a current EMT.
Reminder - when turkey frying, things can go from "wholesome family cooking memory" to "traumatic family cooking memory" very quickly.
A few precious decisions separate, "That's the year we fried the turkey!" and "That's the year we burned down the deck."
Make good choices. Children are watching.
A few precious decisions separate, "That's the year we fried the turkey!" and "That's the year we burned down the deck."
Make good choices. Children are watching.
November 12, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Pretty sure if you haven’t experienced multiple Thanksgiving day fires by the time you’re an adult youre doing something wrong
Now is obviously the perfect time for me to remind you of two early 20th c. passport facts that always entertain me: (1) the most common adjective used to describe peoples' facial features (forehead, nose, mouth, you name it!) was "medium"; and (2) Ezra Pound had an imperial chin.
November 8, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Now is obviously the perfect time for me to remind you of two early 20th c. passport facts that always entertain me: (1) the most common adjective used to describe peoples' facial features (forehead, nose, mouth, you name it!) was "medium"; and (2) Ezra Pound had an imperial chin.
Aging parents are no joke, but at least I get to add the legal title "Responsible Person" to my resume.
November 7, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Aging parents are no joke, but at least I get to add the legal title "Responsible Person" to my resume.
Kind of feel like as a society we've moved past the point of "out of office" replies.
November 7, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Kind of feel like as a society we've moved past the point of "out of office" replies.
Reading Claude McKay’s letters and doing my best not to just live-tweet the whole thing at you BUT I do need you all to know that in 1925 McKay wrote Langston Hughes a letter about meeting Jean Toomer at Le Dôme!!!!
November 5, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Reading Claude McKay’s letters and doing my best not to just live-tweet the whole thing at you BUT I do need you all to know that in 1925 McKay wrote Langston Hughes a letter about meeting Jean Toomer at Le Dôme!!!!
Bummed that I voted by mail instead of finally seizing my opportunity to vote in a neighbor's garage! (this article old, but proof we have garage voting!) www.sfgate.com/bayarea/arti...
190 SF garages are being turned into polling stations today
On Election Day, 190 garages across San Francisco will be converted into polling...
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November 4, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Bummed that I voted by mail instead of finally seizing my opportunity to vote in a neighbor's garage! (this article old, but proof we have garage voting!) www.sfgate.com/bayarea/arti...
It’s a truth universally acknowledged that any time you have a deadline for one project you’ll be full of thoughts about another.
November 4, 2025 at 7:03 PM
It’s a truth universally acknowledged that any time you have a deadline for one project you’ll be full of thoughts about another.
One of those pesky days where the more emails I send the more emails I get!
November 3, 2025 at 8:06 PM
One of those pesky days where the more emails I send the more emails I get!
Can't believe I've only this year realized my inevitable lazy Halloween form.
October 31, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Can't believe I've only this year realized my inevitable lazy Halloween form.
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Also, maybe we come up with, like, two more holidays, say in the early and late spring, that involve walking around the neighborhood and talking to your neighbors?
October 31, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Also, maybe we come up with, like, two more holidays, say in the early and late spring, that involve walking around the neighborhood and talking to your neighbors?