Sharif Youssef
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Sharif Youssef
@syoussef.bsky.social
Lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania. JD/PhD. Writing about moral hazard. Opinions are free-floating.
By my former student Aditya Banerjee on corporate personhood and the Hastings trial. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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July 17, 2025 at 11:43 PM
From a humble conference at Ashoka to a real-life issue of Victorian Literature and Culture, Vernacular Victoria is up. It’s gone entirely digital, so I won’t get to hold my baby in my hands. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
April 18, 2024 at 4:32 PM
Fell outside the uni and broke my left elbow. Great start.
August 6, 2023 at 4:49 AM
Wow, it feels like twitter on here today.
July 26, 2023 at 6:37 PM
Refugees and the Rise of the Novel co-won the 2021 Max Novak award from the Defoe Society for best essay on Defoe.

https://muse.jhu.edu/article/802483

Sitting in on one of Max’s classes got me into this business, so it’s meaningful.
July 21, 2023 at 12:28 AM
Reposted by Sharif Youssef
We are all thinking it. Might as well say it.

Elon Musk made some mistakes.
July 12, 2023 at 5:29 PM
I didn’t intend to so quickly leave my VAP at Rollins College. I was grateful for a bridge out of rural India where I spent four years at Ashoka University. But the pressure DeSantis is exerting over higher ed in Florida is unbearable. Less than three weeks, then, Philly, here I come.
July 13, 2023 at 6:04 PM