Tita Chico
@titachico.bsky.social
Prof of English (18thc) @ U of Maryland
*Devices of Enlightenment* (current)
*On Wonder* (2025)
*The Experimental Imagination* (2018/20)
https://titachico.wixsite.com/home
*Devices of Enlightenment* (current)
*On Wonder* (2025)
*The Experimental Imagination* (2018/20)
https://titachico.wixsite.com/home
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Tita Chico
@titachico.bsky.social
· Feb 13
On Wonder
Cambridge Core - English Literature 1700-1830 - On Wonder
doi.org
Good news!
My beloved little wonder book is freshly published by @cambridgeup.bsky.social !
Digital access is available for free through 27 Feb 2025.
Please share! Please welcome this beauty into the world!
#C18L #18thcentury
DOI: doi.org/10.1017/9781...
My beloved little wonder book is freshly published by @cambridgeup.bsky.social !
Digital access is available for free through 27 Feb 2025.
Please share! Please welcome this beauty into the world!
#C18L #18thcentury
DOI: doi.org/10.1017/9781...
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Because this is a brand-destroying action by Senate Dems.
Interesting that NY gov Kathy Hochul felt compelled to put out a statement against Dems' deal to end the shutdown
November 11, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Because this is a brand-destroying action by Senate Dems.
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Interesting that NY gov Kathy Hochul felt compelled to put out a statement against Dems' deal to end the shutdown
November 10, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Interesting that NY gov Kathy Hochul felt compelled to put out a statement against Dems' deal to end the shutdown
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A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
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pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:55 AM
pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
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Someone should go there and show them the clips of Trump's Great Gatsby party. I bet they'd be so happy to know he's having fun.
This is the food distribution line at Nellis Air Force Base in Las Vegas 11/7/25. This is what Trump doesn't want you to see.
November 8, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Someone should go there and show them the clips of Trump's Great Gatsby party. I bet they'd be so happy to know he's having fun.
re-upping the 2021 @teenvogue.com piece, which has proved true in ways that were, for some, unimaginable:
"Campus Cancel Culture Freakouts Obscure the Power of University Boards"
@teenvogue.com, you inspired
www.teenvogue.com/story/campus...
"Campus Cancel Culture Freakouts Obscure the Power of University Boards"
@teenvogue.com, you inspired
www.teenvogue.com/story/campus...
The Modern American University Is a Right-Wing Institution
Just look at who is really in control.
www.teenvogue.com
November 8, 2025 at 8:04 PM
re-upping the 2021 @teenvogue.com piece, which has proved true in ways that were, for some, unimaginable:
"Campus Cancel Culture Freakouts Obscure the Power of University Boards"
@teenvogue.com, you inspired
www.teenvogue.com/story/campus...
"Campus Cancel Culture Freakouts Obscure the Power of University Boards"
@teenvogue.com, you inspired
www.teenvogue.com/story/campus...
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What an amazing essay from the former chair of Africana Studies at Bowdoin. I'll share a few sections in the reply but seriously, read the whole thing. It's all insightful and beautifully written.
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
lithub.com
November 8, 2025 at 7:11 PM
What an amazing essay from the former chair of Africana Studies at Bowdoin. I'll share a few sections in the reply but seriously, read the whole thing. It's all insightful and beautifully written.
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Thrive DC is a tremendous org in Mount Pleasant, 2 miles due north of the White House.
They serve those in need, and do so with grace and kindness.
Any donation helps.
www.thrivedc.org
They serve those in need, and do so with grace and kindness.
Any donation helps.
www.thrivedc.org
Thrive DC | Ending Homelessness in Washington, DC
Thrive DC is a one-stop shop committed to preventing and ending homelessness in Washington, DC by providing vulnerable individuals with comprehensive services.
www.thrivedc.org
November 8, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Thrive DC is a tremendous org in Mount Pleasant, 2 miles due north of the White House.
They serve those in need, and do so with grace and kindness.
Any donation helps.
www.thrivedc.org
They serve those in need, and do so with grace and kindness.
Any donation helps.
www.thrivedc.org
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Olivia Rodrigo has come out punching after the White House and the Department of Homeland Security used her song All-American Bitch to promote ICE.
November 8, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Olivia Rodrigo has come out punching after the White House and the Department of Homeland Security used her song All-American Bitch to promote ICE.
“People read Foucault,” the redoubtable David Brooks once wrote, in an actual column that I’ve all but committed to memory, “and develop an alienated view of the world.” God, did I love this. An “alienated view of the world”! Not by, like, trying to pay rent or having an insurance claim denied.
November 8, 2025 at 7:21 PM
“People read Foucault,” the redoubtable David Brooks once wrote, in an actual column that I’ve all but committed to memory, “and develop an alienated view of the world.” God, did I love this. An “alienated view of the world”! Not by, like, trying to pay rent or having an insurance claim denied.
HELLO, BLUESKY!
In 2021, @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social published our fantastic symposium, ANTIRACISM IN THE CONTEMPORARY UNIVERSITY.
It's worth a re-read. (Also I am sharing for the updated urls, as they've redesigned their site.)
READ/SHARE/READ AGAIN!
lareviewofbooks.org/feature/anti...
🙌🙌🙌
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In 2021, @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social published our fantastic symposium, ANTIRACISM IN THE CONTEMPORARY UNIVERSITY.
It's worth a re-read. (Also I am sharing for the updated urls, as they've redesigned their site.)
READ/SHARE/READ AGAIN!
lareviewofbooks.org/feature/anti...
🙌🙌🙌
1/8
“Antiracism in the Contemporary University,” a Symposium | Los Angeles Review of Books
lareviewofbooks.org
November 7, 2025 at 5:47 PM
HELLO, BLUESKY!
In 2021, @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social published our fantastic symposium, ANTIRACISM IN THE CONTEMPORARY UNIVERSITY.
It's worth a re-read. (Also I am sharing for the updated urls, as they've redesigned their site.)
READ/SHARE/READ AGAIN!
lareviewofbooks.org/feature/anti...
🙌🙌🙌
1/8
In 2021, @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social published our fantastic symposium, ANTIRACISM IN THE CONTEMPORARY UNIVERSITY.
It's worth a re-read. (Also I am sharing for the updated urls, as they've redesigned their site.)
READ/SHARE/READ AGAIN!
lareviewofbooks.org/feature/anti...
🙌🙌🙌
1/8
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Your cat when you're choking to death in your apartment
November 6, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Your cat when you're choking to death in your apartment
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RFK Jr's response to someone collapsing nearby him was to haul ass out of the room as quickly as possible
November 6, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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Every single woman you know has had this happen to her. Even the goddamn president of Mexico.
Brava: “If I don’t file a complaint, then what message does that send to all Mexican women?” Ms. Sheinbaum said at her daily news conference, noting sexual harassment was a crime… “If this can happen to the president, what’s going to happen to all the young women & women across our country?”
Mexico’s President Presses Charges Against Man Who Groped Her on the Street
www.nytimes.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Every single woman you know has had this happen to her. Even the goddamn president of Mexico.
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There were 13 elections last night for a statewide office.
Democrats swept all 13.
That’s 1 in NJ. 3 in VA. 2 in GA. And 7 in PA (all judges, retention and regular).
They won 12 of the 13 races by double-digits, with margins up to 24%. The only other race, the tightest, they won by 6%.
Democrats swept all 13.
That’s 1 in NJ. 3 in VA. 2 in GA. And 7 in PA (all judges, retention and regular).
They won 12 of the 13 races by double-digits, with margins up to 24%. The only other race, the tightest, they won by 6%.
November 6, 2025 at 12:29 AM
There were 13 elections last night for a statewide office.
Democrats swept all 13.
That’s 1 in NJ. 3 in VA. 2 in GA. And 7 in PA (all judges, retention and regular).
They won 12 of the 13 races by double-digits, with margins up to 24%. The only other race, the tightest, they won by 6%.
Democrats swept all 13.
That’s 1 in NJ. 3 in VA. 2 in GA. And 7 in PA (all judges, retention and regular).
They won 12 of the 13 races by double-digits, with margins up to 24%. The only other race, the tightest, they won by 6%.
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I so appreciate the opportunity to write about the legacies of Marxist feminism in this special cluster in PMLA. Thanks to James, Charlotte and Donna for inviting me. It's a theory essay that ends with a poem.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Marxist Feminism in Flight | PMLA | Cambridge Core
Marxist Feminism in Flight - Volume 140 Issue 3
www.cambridge.org
October 29, 2025 at 8:55 PM
I so appreciate the opportunity to write about the legacies of Marxist feminism in this special cluster in PMLA. Thanks to James, Charlotte and Donna for inviting me. It's a theory essay that ends with a poem.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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New #CFP on 'Embodied Knowledge Practices in the Early Modern World', to be held in June 2026 at the University of Amsterdam
Abstracts of >200 words due by the 1 February 2026
#18thc #skystorians 🗃️
Abstracts of >200 words due by the 1 February 2026
#18thc #skystorians 🗃️
CFP: “Embodied Knowledge Practices in the Early Modern World”
Conference at the University of Amsterdam
Monday, 15 June 2026
How do material conditions shape how & what we know about the natural world?
#earlymodern #C18L
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Conference at the University of Amsterdam
Monday, 15 June 2026
How do material conditions shape how & what we know about the natural world?
#earlymodern #C18L
1/6
November 4, 2025 at 6:32 AM
New #CFP on 'Embodied Knowledge Practices in the Early Modern World', to be held in June 2026 at the University of Amsterdam
Abstracts of >200 words due by the 1 February 2026
#18thc #skystorians 🗃️
Abstracts of >200 words due by the 1 February 2026
#18thc #skystorians 🗃️
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Very proud to have worked on this statement of the Modern Language Association with @annamillsoer.bsky.social and other colleagues on the MLA’s task force on AI in Research and Teaching. It is a direct call for faculty input into Ed Tech decision-making, especially AI: www.mla.org/Resources/Ad... 🧵
November 4, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Very proud to have worked on this statement of the Modern Language Association with @annamillsoer.bsky.social and other colleagues on the MLA’s task force on AI in Research and Teaching. It is a direct call for faculty input into Ed Tech decision-making, especially AI: www.mla.org/Resources/Ad... 🧵
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No more Black or trans staffers. No politics of any kind. The cowardice of mainstream media isn't just insulting, it's *boring.* Now TV is just like any other beauty rag. Why not just kill it quickly? Why the slow-motion pretense?
thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
November 4, 2025 at 12:35 AM
No more Black or trans staffers. No politics of any kind. The cowardice of mainstream media isn't just insulting, it's *boring.* Now TV is just like any other beauty rag. Why not just kill it quickly? Why the slow-motion pretense?
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thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
November 3, 2025 at 11:25 PM
thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
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A huge range of studies covered by @charlottegoodge.bsky.social & Thomas Leonard-Roy, from @brycchancarey.bsky.social’s The Unnatural Trade to @rhyskamjones.bsky.social's ‘Queering Thomas Gray’s Celticism’. Itching to get reading & #editing!
@englishassociation.bsky.social
@cecs-york.bsky.social
@englishassociation.bsky.social
@cecs-york.bsky.social
October 29, 2025 at 1:46 PM
A huge range of studies covered by @charlottegoodge.bsky.social & Thomas Leonard-Roy, from @brycchancarey.bsky.social’s The Unnatural Trade to @rhyskamjones.bsky.social's ‘Queering Thomas Gray’s Celticism’. Itching to get reading & #editing!
@englishassociation.bsky.social
@cecs-york.bsky.social
@englishassociation.bsky.social
@cecs-york.bsky.social
@joshuajfriedman.com is a treasure.
November 3, 2025 at 10:12 PM
@joshuajfriedman.com is a treasure.
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Join #AAUP and local #FortCollins groups for the Nov. 7 National Day of Action for Higher Education.
* 10am-1pm - community action tables and mutual aid donation collections
* 11am-12pm - rally
* 12pm-1p - march on campus
* 6:30pm - free movie
More info: aaupcsu.org/2025/11/02/a...
* 10am-1pm - community action tables and mutual aid donation collections
* 11am-12pm - rally
* 12pm-1p - march on campus
* 6:30pm - free movie
More info: aaupcsu.org/2025/11/02/a...
AAUP National Day of Action for Higher Education
In partnership with more than a dozen other local groups, the CSU will be participating in the AAUP National Day of Action for Higher Education on November 7. Planned events include: Community acti…
aaupcsu.org
November 3, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Join #AAUP and local #FortCollins groups for the Nov. 7 National Day of Action for Higher Education.
* 10am-1pm - community action tables and mutual aid donation collections
* 11am-12pm - rally
* 12pm-1p - march on campus
* 6:30pm - free movie
More info: aaupcsu.org/2025/11/02/a...
* 10am-1pm - community action tables and mutual aid donation collections
* 11am-12pm - rally
* 12pm-1p - march on campus
* 6:30pm - free movie
More info: aaupcsu.org/2025/11/02/a...
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The corporate media isn't reflecting how unpopular Trump is right now, but his approval rating is primed to go even lower -- consumers are now feeling the price hikes from tariffs, the government shutdown has claimed SNAP, and ICE lawlessness is ramping up. At some point soon, it will break through.
People fucking hate this guy. They fucking hate ICE. They fucking hate how much power he has. He is at 63% overall disapproval to 37% approval. That's lower than their poll after January 6th. And this poll was done before he started intentionally starving people. I wish our media would reflect this.
November 3, 2025 at 10:08 PM
The corporate media isn't reflecting how unpopular Trump is right now, but his approval rating is primed to go even lower -- consumers are now feeling the price hikes from tariffs, the government shutdown has claimed SNAP, and ICE lawlessness is ramping up. At some point soon, it will break through.