Susannah Sharpless
@salsipotent.bsky.social
All men say “What” to me
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one of my brightest and most engaged students said to me last semester: “my friends and I use ChatGPT for everything. We joke we’re forgetting how to think.”
“Massive numbers of students are going to emerge from university with degrees, and into the workforce, who are essentially illiterate…Both in the literal sense and in the sense of being historically illiterate and having no knowledge of their own culture, much less anyone else’s.”
Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College
ChatGPT has unraveled the entire academic project.
nymag.com
May 7, 2025 at 1:11 PM
one of my brightest and most engaged students said to me last semester: “my friends and I use ChatGPT for everything. We joke we’re forgetting how to think.”
to remind yourself why we need the humanities I recommend reading the kinds of things people on Reddit are posting about prestige TV
May 1, 2025 at 8:00 PM
to remind yourself why we need the humanities I recommend reading the kinds of things people on Reddit are posting about prestige TV
in the widening gyre
April 24, 2025 at 7:09 PM
in the widening gyre
If this is all an elaborate ruse to finally make me donate to alumni giving it’s working
Relatedly: University President Christopher Eisgruber signaled that Princeton would not make concessions to the federal government in an interview with Bloomberg after news broke that the Trump administration had suspended dozens of the University’s research grants.
In Bloomberg interview, Eisgruber signals that Princeton will not make concessions
University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 signaled that Princeton would not make concessions to the federal government after news broke that the Trump administration had suspended dozens of the U...
www.dailyprincetonian.com
April 2, 2025 at 6:41 PM
If this is all an elaborate ruse to finally make me donate to alumni giving it’s working
I’ll be speaking with the brilliant Melissa Gniadek about my dissertation “The Terraqueous Romantic: Nineteenth-Century Women Writers Between Land and Sea” on this virtual panel on Wednesday - would love to see you there
Don't forget that in a couple of days you can attend this incredible-sounding pre-panel for the 2025 SSAWW conference! Just click on the link below!
March 31, 2025 at 3:21 PM
I’ll be speaking with the brilliant Melissa Gniadek about my dissertation “The Terraqueous Romantic: Nineteenth-Century Women Writers Between Land and Sea” on this virtual panel on Wednesday - would love to see you there
btw i sent the full diss to my committee yesterday
microsoft word said none of these words are in the bible
March 27, 2025 at 10:53 PM
btw i sent the full diss to my committee yesterday
microsoft word said none of these words are in the bible
March 26, 2025 at 2:44 PM
microsoft word said none of these words are in the bible
part of my love for 19c american writers is that any time i read a british novel i too am like "this slaps. how annoying"
March 24, 2025 at 1:13 PM
part of my love for 19c american writers is that any time i read a british novel i too am like "this slaps. how annoying"
I love 19c American lit but every time I learn something new about Mary Wollstonecraft I want to switch periods, continents, lives
March 22, 2025 at 1:57 PM
I love 19c American lit but every time I learn something new about Mary Wollstonecraft I want to switch periods, continents, lives
currently scouring 19c newspapers for mention of a sea captain named “A. Minor”
March 15, 2025 at 4:12 PM
currently scouring 19c newspapers for mention of a sea captain named “A. Minor”
sometimes I think back to being 11 in Indiana in 2004, where I was literally surrounded by republicans, and how excited I was about this country’s Democratic Party. Obviously I was a child, so I was stupid, but even stupidity can’t explain how bad they’ve let me down
March 14, 2025 at 12:37 AM
sometimes I think back to being 11 in Indiana in 2004, where I was literally surrounded by republicans, and how excited I was about this country’s Democratic Party. Obviously I was a child, so I was stupid, but even stupidity can’t explain how bad they’ve let me down
Pause in your despair about the world to share this reader’s absolute fury at Carl Bode’s reading of Thoreau
March 10, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Pause in your despair about the world to share this reader’s absolute fury at Carl Bode’s reading of Thoreau
Often i really curse the era i was born into. other times i play “stupify” by disturbed as loud as i can on my Bluetooth speaker and feel that i am living during the pinnacle of human achievement
March 6, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Often i really curse the era i was born into. other times i play “stupify” by disturbed as loud as i can on my Bluetooth speaker and feel that i am living during the pinnacle of human achievement
you ever look around at a seminar table and think “I can squat more than each and every one of you”?
March 3, 2025 at 9:41 PM
you ever look around at a seminar table and think “I can squat more than each and every one of you”?
I’m in an airplane waiting to take off reading all the insane news about new detention facilities and hiring freezes and NIH funding and Ebola protection still being paused and I feel like I might stand up and just start screaming at the top of my lungs
February 28, 2025 at 12:12 AM
I’m in an airplane waiting to take off reading all the insane news about new detention facilities and hiring freezes and NIH funding and Ebola protection still being paused and I feel like I might stand up and just start screaming at the top of my lungs
my thoughts on the Minneapolis love is blind season as someone who dated in Minneapolis from ages 23-27: HAHA suckers
February 21, 2025 at 3:21 PM
my thoughts on the Minneapolis love is blind season as someone who dated in Minneapolis from ages 23-27: HAHA suckers
one of the most complicated experiences you can have as a woman is to talk to a man about how spicy something is
February 17, 2025 at 5:31 PM
one of the most complicated experiences you can have as a woman is to talk to a man about how spicy something is
the set design on all Apple TV shows is so unnerving, so sparse and clean - like an iPhone became a house
February 11, 2025 at 4:37 AM
the set design on all Apple TV shows is so unnerving, so sparse and clean - like an iPhone became a house
My kindergarten bully just appeared on a Super Bowl commercial
February 10, 2025 at 12:42 AM
My kindergarten bully just appeared on a Super Bowl commercial
Love this
Next up, Farah Bakaari writes about her many aliases, the challenges and comedy of living in small rural towns.
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Have I Seen You Before?
I manage my ubiquity by running copies of myself. “How was your run today?” asks the clerk at the wine store. It takes me a few seconds to catch up to the question. At first I think I mishear…
mid-theory.com
February 5, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Love this
student emailed to let me know I got them off the STEM track 😈😈😈😈😈😈
February 5, 2025 at 2:42 PM
student emailed to let me know I got them off the STEM track 😈😈😈😈😈😈
95 year old grandpa just told me he’s been reading the LRB and is “very impressed by the prose stylings of a woman named Patricia Lockwood”
February 2, 2025 at 11:46 PM
95 year old grandpa just told me he’s been reading the LRB and is “very impressed by the prose stylings of a woman named Patricia Lockwood”
lol the thing I was anxiously fixating on for weeks indeed came to pass. mindfulness found dead in a ditch
January 27, 2025 at 10:02 PM
lol the thing I was anxiously fixating on for weeks indeed came to pass. mindfulness found dead in a ditch
No idea how to behave on this app / in this historical moment but… an article of mine appears in a special issue of ESQ focused on Thomas Wentworth Higginson, a woefully understudied figure. I focus on his postbellum republication of his Black Rebellion essays: muse.jhu.edu/pub/84/artic...
Project MUSE - White Regionalism and Black Rebellion in Thomas Wentworth Higginson's <i>Travellers and Outlaws</i>: <i>Episodes in American History</i>
muse.jhu.edu
January 22, 2025 at 4:19 PM
No idea how to behave on this app / in this historical moment but… an article of mine appears in a special issue of ESQ focused on Thomas Wentworth Higginson, a woefully understudied figure. I focus on his postbellum republication of his Black Rebellion essays: muse.jhu.edu/pub/84/artic...
realized last night love actually is a movie about successful, artistic, intellectual men and the women who work for them
December 26, 2024 at 4:16 PM
realized last night love actually is a movie about successful, artistic, intellectual men and the women who work for them