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Ria Banerjee @ria4983.bsky.social · Dec 20
I've rarely had reason to do year-end pub lists, but this year I published my first monograph which was a decade in the making.
It's about mainstream British modernists and how they conceived of pub+private spaces.
It's also about how we make intellectual space in classes and in #moderniststudies
Book title Drafty Houses in Forster, Eliot, and Woolf.
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triciamatthew.bsky.social
www.wsj.com/opinion/mont...

Another one of my colleagues weighs in on the “restructuring” of our home college. This time in the Wall Street Journal. It’s paywalled, so screenshots to follow.
Opinion | Montclair State’s Inhumanity to the Humanities
Goodbye, English department. Hello, Institute for Complex Systems and Algorithmic Infused Societies.
www.wsj.com
November 17, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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alixbeeston.bsky.social
My latest essay is available open access for the next two weeks! Pls read and share x
femmediahist.bsky.social Feminist Media Histories @femmediahist.bsky.social · 5d
What are the risks—and opportunities—of drawing close to one's objects of study as a feminist scholar? Alix Beeston reflects on her experience of writing a critical–creative account of women and girls in photography history. @alixbeeston.bsky.social

Open access now: doi.org/10.1525/fmh....
November 14, 2025 at 10:49 AM
ria4983.bsky.social
Today in To the Lighthouse book club, we talked about lot about the dinner scene at the end of section 1, especially Mrs Ramsay and Lily. And just as we were putting on our coats to leave for the next classes and meetings, one student goes: I wanted to ask you all, what is the price of friendship?
November 17, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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josh-kaplan.bsky.social
We’re still reporting on Kristi Noem, contracts at DHS, and the ad deal. If you have any information we should know, my email is joshua.kaplan@propublica.org and I’m on the encrypted messaging app Signal (you can message me at js_kaplan.85)
November 14, 2025 at 12:20 PM
ria4983.bsky.social
At that point in the semester when we are mixing our turmeric shots with vodka for a nightcap
November 13, 2025 at 3:51 PM
ria4983.bsky.social
I know that long assignments are not always good or appropriate. I also know it's a real skill to write succinctly about research. But if a composition course doesn't build writing stamina (and in this example, there was v little reading too) then what is the point
ria4983.bsky.social Ria Banerjee @ria4983.bsky.social · 5d
Kindof a shitpost but I just came across a 200-level Comp II writing course where the final paper is 1250 - 1500 words and I, erm...
November 13, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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bakerdphd.bsky.social
I never knew that my emails, filled to the brim with complete sentences and a coherent narrative, were such a work of art. I'm bout to start printing these out and hanging them on the walls.
November 13, 2025 at 2:45 AM
ria4983.bsky.social
Ada Palmer's Terra Ignota literally has a sex den at the center of the political world and then they have global civil war oh wait what
jbf1755.bsky.social Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 5d
Seems possible that this is about even more than underage women.

Perhaps money changing hands— corruptly and internationally, and intertwined with underaged women?

Man, oh man.
robertscotthorton.bsky.social Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 5d
The Kremlin disguised a nearly $100 mn payment to Trump in the form of a brokered real estate deal... and both Jeffrey Epstein and William Pulte were involved in the deal. That's very interesting.
November 13, 2025 at 1:42 AM
ria4983.bsky.social
Kindof a shitpost but I just came across a 200-level Comp II writing course where the final paper is 1250 - 1500 words and I, erm...
November 12, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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karlsteel.bsky.social
he was like: in the wake of our massive victory what issues do you want to see Mamdani focus on.

me: it's just a small one but I want to be the one to bulldoze the elizabeth street garden. lemme drive the machine. also: free CUNY.
November 11, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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jamesreath.bsky.social
Lee Miller’s Man and tar (c.1929-1931)
November 11, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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annakornbluh.bsky.social
"the heist film offers audiences a spectacle of highly choreographed expertise. From Rififi to Sneakers to Soderbergh canon (Out of Sight Logan Lucky Oceans 11–13), the genre has generated some of cinema’s most powerful allegories of collective action"

homework: read.dukeupress.edu/south-atlant...
November 11, 2025 at 2:16 PM
ria4983.bsky.social
Yessssss, e! 🙌🏾
Public enthusiasm for the recent Louvre theft-seemingly accomplished with little more than a ladder, a scooter. and some French moxie- -confirms it: people love a good heist. But what about a bad one? As much as we enioy a dose of "competence porn," it's the ineptitude on display in Reichardt's ironically titled film that may serve the more salient social function. These days, it's no secret that we're surrounded by men who hiiack first and think later; who want to "move fast and break things"; who feel entitled to take what they want, when they want it, and expect to get away with its who think they're much, much smarter than they are.
November 11, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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andizeisler.bsky.social
Did women ruin the workplace? No! Did I personally ruin my own weekend writing about the cynical fuckery that led to the New York Times asking that question? I sure did!

Huge thanks to @moiradonegan.bsky.social for lending her expertise and insight to my ranting
Women didn’t ruin the workplace. Capitalism did
When your debate centers on whether women should exist in public, you’ve already lost.
www.salon.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:27 PM
ria4983.bsky.social
It's a small thing but I've recently taken to strategically accusing all my young researcher friends of hating Woolf. This jolts them into saying what they like about her ideas. Additionally, they are all wonderful humans who don't want to hurt me so they insist they will read more of her work 💁🏾‍♀️
November 10, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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racheledini.bsky.social
The whole piece is excellent but these paragraphs here are absolute bangers. And boy but it’s refreshing to see the New Yorker critique centrist views (here’s the archived version if you haven’t got a subscription: archive.ph/UNdFj).
Women, it should be noted, have dominated the teaching profession since the nineteenth century not because it's a misandrist job-protection racket but because early public-education advocates found that they could expand the school system more quickly by hiring women teachers, whom they could pay less than men. One might ask if difficult, essential work might be well paid, at this moment in history, regardless of a person's sex. But then much of the centrist manosphere's rhetoric is predicated on refusing to see half of what's in front of you. Newsom's executive order concerning men and boys acknowledges the strong correlation between social-media usage and mental-health disorders such as depression and anxiety, but it doesn't note that these effects manifest in girls at significantly higher rates. In "Notes on Being a Man," Galloway writes, "The deliberate transfer of wealth from the young to the old in the United States over the past century has led to unaffordable and indefensible costs for education and housing, and skyrocketing student debt, all of which directly affect young men." He could have said "young people," unless college bursars and landlords run a discount program for the ladies which I haven't heard about. Emanuel, in his Washington Post op-ed, endorses a double standard with even greater frankness. The cost of housing, he writes, "is, of course, a problem for all Americans—men and women alike. But, unpopular as it might be to say in some quarters of my party, the crisis affects one gender with particular potency." In other words, men and women pay the same bill, but we are obligated to understand that the social and spiritual price it extracts from men is higher. (If women want an emergency to call their own, it can be that they are not having enough babies.) What these pundits are nudging us to do, ever so politely, is accept that women, in the main, are accustomed to being a little degraded, a little underpaid and ignored and dampened in their ambitions, in ways that men are not and never will be. The "female-coded" person, to borrow Krugman's terminology, may feel overwhelmed by child-care costs, ashamed that she can't acquire a mortgage, or hollowed out by long hours as an I.C.U. nurse, but such feelings do not disturb the order of the universe. This person's duties to protect, provide, and procreate are real, but they do not take the capital "P."This person's opinions matter, but not decisively. The Times pundit Ezra Klein has lately suggested that Democrats consider running anti-abortion candidates in red states, even though more than three-quarters of Gen Z women support abortion rights. Rights, like jobs, can be gender-coded, and these rights are valued accordingly. "You need Dad," Galloway, who has two sons, said on a recent podcast. The nuclear family he imagines seems to be one in which the mom is the default parent ("They look to her for nurturing. When they really have a problem, I find they go to Mom"), while the necessary dad is the authority figure to whom Mom can appeal as the occasion demands. "There are certain moments when my partner needs me to weigh in," Galloway explained. "I don't know if it's the depth of my voice, my physical size." Boys, he went on, "begin tuning out their mom over time." One might wonder how boys lose these frequencies in the first place. One might long for a deep voice to explain it. Reeves frets that fatherless homes will beget more lost boys, more twentysomething men living in their childhood bedrooms, and more fractured families. If we do not update our "obsolete model of the breadwinner father," he warns, "we will continue to see more and more men being left out of family life." As for what authority has decreed that these absent fathers should be "left out" of their own families, Reeves never says—the culprit's identity is shrouded in passive voice. Nor does Reeves explain how women's attainment of economic independence would cause their husbands to be "stripped" of anything, much less the many non-economic aspects of being a spouse or parent. The notion that fathers wander away from their families owing to some gnawing sense of existential dislocation—some humiliating certainty of their own uselessness or usurpation—s especially pungent when one takes into account the enormous gender gap in housework and child-rearing in heterosexual marriages. According to the Gender Equity Policy Institute, mothers who work full time do almost twice as much household labor as fathers. Research by the Nobel-winning economist Claudia Goldin has suggested that married men's disinclination toward housework and other "draggy business of family life" may be holding back birth rates, which should pique the interest of Republican pronatalists such as J. D. Vance. The deeper one sinks into our nation's alleged man-boy problem and its potential solutions, the more the woman reader may begin to feel something stronger than resentment or intellectual disdain. She may begin to feel a chauvinistic gratitude in her sex. The familiar flatness of feeling a little degraded seems preferable to the anger, entitlement, and alienation that (we are told over and over) gnaws away at so many male specimens. What a gift it is, really, to have no choice in the matter. To have to move out of your parents' house, to show up for your shift, to change the diaper, not because any of it…
November 10, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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bgrueskin.bsky.social
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
I Want You to Understand Chicago Politics Chicago 2025-11-08 I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st. Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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davidrussellmoore.bsky.social
Today at Flaming Hydra, I interviewed film and media historian @alicelovejoy.bsky.social on her deeply-researched new book uncovering the role played by Kodak—the household brand that popularized the snapshot—and other film manufacturers in industrial warfare.
Kodak, for the Wartimes of Your Life
Kodak, the company that popularized the “snapshot” and made photography accessible to the world, produced much more than the friendly, once-ubiquitous film rolls sold worldwide in their small, vivid y...
flaminghydra.com
November 6, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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citizense.bsky.social
This is fine

www.nature.org/en-us/get-in...
November 6, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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lukewaltzer.bsky.social
Hell yes, @mattseybold.bsky.social.
November 5, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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npr.org
Famine has now been declared in regions of Sudan. What does it take for such a declaration to be issued?
A declaration of famine is rare. It's now happened twice in 2025, this time in Sudan
Famine declarations are relatively rare. But the leading international authority on hunger crises this week declared that regions of war-torn Sudan face catastrophic shortages of food.
n.pr
November 5, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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marypezzulo.bsky.social
Maybe nobody in the great big world cares about this.
But the public libraries in tiny Jefferson County in Northern Appalachia were in danger of losing their tax funding thanks to right-wing book banners. And we won. The library's funding is safe!!!!!
Issue 1 Jefferson CO library, FOR 52.18% AGAINST 47.82%.
November 5, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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victorerikray.bsky.social
I'm happy that Mamdani won. But I won't let that get in the way of my celebrating Cuomo losing.
November 5, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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intleliotsociety.bsky.social
Once more for the evening crowd - pls spread the word?

The Eliot Studies Annual is looking for an editor! Work with a great team and provide a real service to the discipline! Publication experience is plenty, editorial chops will be developed on the job
intleliotsociety.bsky.social The International T. S. Eliot Society @intleliotsociety.bsky.social · 24d
The Eliot Studies Annual - our Society journal and one of the best places for cutting edge modernist studies scholarship! - is looking for an editor. Please see below for more information and consider applying!

Deadline: Friday November 21, 2025
#modernism #litstudies

RTs much appreciated 🙏
Eliot Studies Annual editorial position The T. S. Eliot Studies Annual is seeking a new editor. Now in its seventh volume, the Annual features the best new scholarship on the poet, dramatist, critic, and editor T. S. Eliot, published once a year by the International T. S. Eliot Society and Clemson University Press in association with Liverpool University Press. The Annual is available on JSTOR Books and University Scholarship Online, as well as Project Muse. Access is provided to all Eliot Society members on the Liverpool UP platform. The new editor will join the existing team as associate editor for an initial term of six months starting January 1, 2026 and become a full-fledged co-editor with the publication of the current volume in July 2026. The total duration of service is three and a half years, through July 2029, and the new editor will assist in the selection of a second co-editor for 2027. The co-editors supervise each volume from the first call for papers through the referee and editorial process, production, and promotion/circulation. The position affords opportunities to develop the journal, impact Eliot scholarship, and build professional relationships. Record of scholarly publication necessary, but not editorial experience; learn on the job. Send CV, writing sample, and letter of application stating qualifications and reason for interest to tseliot.studies.annual@gmail.com by Friday, Nov 21st, 2025.
November 3, 2025 at 8:23 PM
ria4983.bsky.social
Hey what could be better on a chilly Thursday in November than to edit those abstracts destined for MSA/BAMS?

Doing so with the Eliot Society grad reps, of course!
intleliotsociety.bsky.social The International T. S. Eliot Society @intleliotsociety.bsky.social · 14d
#ModWrite Mondayers - know how it's easier to TALK ABOUT writing than sitting down to it? The Eliot Society grad student reps have a solution for you: a writing group for all!

November 20 - 5 pm CET - QR code to registration form is on the poster. Please RT and share, ty 🙏
Eliot Writing Group poster - November 20 2025
November 3, 2025 at 8:57 PM