Tricia Matthew
@triciamatthew.bsky.social
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Race and Regency Lab | raceandregency.org
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Hi new followers!
I’m also @race-regency.bsky.social where I talk about projects like “Visualizing Property, A Virtual Exhibition”
raceandregency.org/exhibition
I’m also @race-regency.bsky.social where I talk about projects like “Visualizing Property, A Virtual Exhibition”
raceandregency.org/exhibition
This proposed plan (not finalized?) at Montclair State to eliminate departments and disciplines is indeed “insane,” as English professor Adam Rzepka says in this truly wild article www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/n...
At This College, the English Dept. Is Out. ‘Human Narratives’ Is In.
www.nytimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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Friends, if you want to learn a bit more abt The Sweet Taste of Empire, watch this INCREDIBLE conversation with @triciamatthew.bsky.social w.bsky.social, Debapriya Sarkar, Jennifer Morgan, @kwazana.bsky.social & Tapiwa Gambura!
www.youtube.com/live/a-Npxq-...
Then you can buy it at 40% discount.
www.youtube.com/live/a-Npxq-...
Then you can buy it at 40% discount.
Kim F. Hall: The Sweet Taste of Empire
YouTube video by Barnard Center for Research on Women
www.youtube.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Friends, if you want to learn a bit more abt The Sweet Taste of Empire, watch this INCREDIBLE conversation with @triciamatthew.bsky.social w.bsky.social, Debapriya Sarkar, Jennifer Morgan, @kwazana.bsky.social & Tapiwa Gambura!
www.youtube.com/live/a-Npxq-...
Then you can buy it at 40% discount.
www.youtube.com/live/a-Npxq-...
Then you can buy it at 40% discount.
November 19, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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Doesn't seem like its trickled down to classes yet, but bould you imagine being at admissions at another school and trying to interpret equivalent classes & degrees for transfer? No one will be able to figure out what people were studying in class.
November 17, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Doesn't seem like its trickled down to classes yet, but bould you imagine being at admissions at another school and trying to interpret equivalent classes & degrees for transfer? No one will be able to figure out what people were studying in class.
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The vast body of research that Ken Burns relied upon to make his new documentary on the American Revolution would be practically impossible to be produced today, what with the defunding of humanistic scholarship, the collapse of stable academic jobs, the attack on public history & academic freedom.🗃️
November 17, 2025 at 9:43 PM
The vast body of research that Ken Burns relied upon to make his new documentary on the American Revolution would be practically impossible to be produced today, what with the defunding of humanistic scholarship, the collapse of stable academic jobs, the attack on public history & academic freedom.🗃️
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"[admin]...who regard the...students of their own universities with such contempt as to be undeserving of the education that in many cases those administrators themselves, or their parents, or their children received...are an enemy of the educational enterprise"
🎁 link
www.wsj.com/opinion/mont...
🎁 link
www.wsj.com/opinion/mont...
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 9:05 PM
"[admin]...who regard the...students of their own universities with such contempt as to be undeserving of the education that in many cases those administrators themselves, or their parents, or their children received...are an enemy of the educational enterprise"
🎁 link
www.wsj.com/opinion/mont...
🎁 link
www.wsj.com/opinion/mont...
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A quote: "In the Trump era, we’re familiar with the idea that Stage IV capitalism has collapsed satire into reality."
academeblog.org/2025/11/13/t...
My colleague has captured what is currently happening at my institution. I have found the chipper rhetoric announcing it particularly depressing.
My colleague has captured what is currently happening at my institution. I have found the chipper rhetoric announcing it particularly depressing.
The Eternal Synergy of the Spotless Mind
BY ADAM RZEPKA A large public university is wiping out all of its humanities departments. It isn’t sure why. As I write this, our Interim Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHSS…
academeblog.org
November 17, 2025 at 8:47 PM
A quote: "In the Trump era, we’re familiar with the idea that Stage IV capitalism has collapsed satire into reality."
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15 depts in College of Humanities and Social Sciences will be completely eliminated and replaced by
~ School of Human Behavior & Well-Being
~ Center for Interdisciplinary Programs & Writing Studies
~ Institute for Y (e.g. Intelligence, Value, and Societal Structures)
Wth? Sounds like BBC show W1A.
~ School of Human Behavior & Well-Being
~ Center for Interdisciplinary Programs & Writing Studies
~ Institute for Y (e.g. Intelligence, Value, and Societal Structures)
Wth? Sounds like BBC show W1A.
November 14, 2025 at 10:30 PM
15 depts in College of Humanities and Social Sciences will be completely eliminated and replaced by
~ School of Human Behavior & Well-Being
~ Center for Interdisciplinary Programs & Writing Studies
~ Institute for Y (e.g. Intelligence, Value, and Societal Structures)
Wth? Sounds like BBC show W1A.
~ School of Human Behavior & Well-Being
~ Center for Interdisciplinary Programs & Writing Studies
~ Institute for Y (e.g. Intelligence, Value, and Societal Structures)
Wth? Sounds like BBC show W1A.
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It feels like we’re well into this process at my institution.
academeblog.org/2025/11/13/t...
My colleague has captured what is currently happening at my institution. I have found the chipper rhetoric announcing it particularly depressing.
My colleague has captured what is currently happening at my institution. I have found the chipper rhetoric announcing it particularly depressing.
The Eternal Synergy of the Spotless Mind
BY ADAM RZEPKA A large public university is wiping out all of its humanities departments. It isn’t sure why. As I write this, our Interim Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHSS…
academeblog.org
November 17, 2025 at 12:36 AM
It feels like we’re well into this process at my institution.
Reposted by Tricia Matthew
More devastating "restructuring," this time at Montclair State.
academeblog.org/2025/11/13/t...
My colleague has captured what is currently happening at my institution. I have found the chipper rhetoric announcing it particularly depressing.
My colleague has captured what is currently happening at my institution. I have found the chipper rhetoric announcing it particularly depressing.
The Eternal Synergy of the Spotless Mind
BY ADAM RZEPKA A large public university is wiping out all of its humanities departments. It isn’t sure why. As I write this, our Interim Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHSS…
academeblog.org
November 17, 2025 at 2:17 PM
More devastating "restructuring," this time at Montclair State.
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.
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
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.
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.
Reposted by Tricia Matthew
Reposted by Tricia Matthew
This is a grotesque assault on faculty expertise and self-governance. I was fortunate enough to start my academic career as an assistant professor at Montclair State. Solidarity with MSU humanists being buzzworded into a new School of Human Narratives and Creative Expressions none of them want.
academeblog.org/2025/11/13/t...
My colleague has captured what is currently happening at my institution. I have found the chipper rhetoric announcing it particularly depressing.
My colleague has captured what is currently happening at my institution. I have found the chipper rhetoric announcing it particularly depressing.
The Eternal Synergy of the Spotless Mind
BY ADAM RZEPKA A large public university is wiping out all of its humanities departments. It isn’t sure why. As I write this, our Interim Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHSS…
academeblog.org
November 14, 2025 at 7:07 PM
This is a grotesque assault on faculty expertise and self-governance. I was fortunate enough to start my academic career as an assistant professor at Montclair State. Solidarity with MSU humanists being buzzworded into a new School of Human Narratives and Creative Expressions none of them want.
Reposted by Tricia Matthew
Ghastly. I am not surprised to see the increasingly sinister term 'Well-Being' deployed in these plans.
academeblog.org/2025/11/13/t...
My colleague has captured what is currently happening at my institution. I have found the chipper rhetoric announcing it particularly depressing.
My colleague has captured what is currently happening at my institution. I have found the chipper rhetoric announcing it particularly depressing.
The Eternal Synergy of the Spotless Mind
BY ADAM RZEPKA A large public university is wiping out all of its humanities departments. It isn’t sure why. As I write this, our Interim Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHSS…
academeblog.org
November 14, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Ghastly. I am not surprised to see the increasingly sinister term 'Well-Being' deployed in these plans.
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Montclair State University has with no reasonable justification replaced all departments in the humanities and social sciences with four non-disciplinary units, seemingly randomly chosen by uni executive leadership with no regard for faculty input or governance. Terrible & portentous
academeblog.org/2025/11/13/t...
My colleague has captured what is currently happening at my institution. I have found the chipper rhetoric announcing it particularly depressing.
My colleague has captured what is currently happening at my institution. I have found the chipper rhetoric announcing it particularly depressing.
The Eternal Synergy of the Spotless Mind
BY ADAM RZEPKA A large public university is wiping out all of its humanities departments. It isn’t sure why. As I write this, our Interim Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHSS…
academeblog.org
November 14, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Montclair State University has with no reasonable justification replaced all departments in the humanities and social sciences with four non-disciplinary units, seemingly randomly chosen by uni executive leadership with no regard for faculty input or governance. Terrible & portentous
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Weapons in the dissolution of the humanities are "Born-old buzzwords": “synergy,” “multipliers,” “mindset,” “vision” (as a verb), “agility,” “impactfulness,” “clients,” “entrepreneurship,” “branding,” “future-proofing.”
Adam Rzepka on the pursuit of “excellence.”
academeblog.org/2025/11/13/t...
Adam Rzepka on the pursuit of “excellence.”
academeblog.org/2025/11/13/t...
The Eternal Synergy of the Spotless Mind
BY ADAM RZEPKA A large public university is wiping out all of its humanities departments. It isn’t sure why. As I write this, our Interim Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHSS…
academeblog.org
November 14, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Weapons in the dissolution of the humanities are "Born-old buzzwords": “synergy,” “multipliers,” “mindset,” “vision” (as a verb), “agility,” “impactfulness,” “clients,” “entrepreneurship,” “branding,” “future-proofing.”
Adam Rzepka on the pursuit of “excellence.”
academeblog.org/2025/11/13/t...
Adam Rzepka on the pursuit of “excellence.”
academeblog.org/2025/11/13/t...
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"This urgent order to clear away the entire, centuries-old idea of disciplinary governance in one fell swoop is both radical and without even a functional ideology—an especially pure plane of the empty-mind austerity satirized from Office Space to Severance." Adam Rzepka wp.me/p8xr4h-dil
The Eternal Synergy of the Spotless Mind
BY ADAM RZEPKA A large public university is wiping out all of its humanities departments. It isn’t sure why. As I write this, our Interim Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHSS…
wp.me
November 13, 2025 at 9:53 PM
"This urgent order to clear away the entire, centuries-old idea of disciplinary governance in one fell swoop is both radical and without even a functional ideology—an especially pure plane of the empty-mind austerity satirized from Office Space to Severance." Adam Rzepka wp.me/p8xr4h-dil
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This is definitely coming to many more public universities. Particularly the dissolution of departments and creation of large schools/institutes.
academeblog.org/2025/11/13/t...
My colleague has captured what is currently happening at my institution. I have found the chipper rhetoric announcing it particularly depressing.
My colleague has captured what is currently happening at my institution. I have found the chipper rhetoric announcing it particularly depressing.
The Eternal Synergy of the Spotless Mind
BY ADAM RZEPKA A large public university is wiping out all of its humanities departments. It isn’t sure why. As I write this, our Interim Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHSS…
academeblog.org
November 14, 2025 at 3:14 PM
This is definitely coming to many more public universities. Particularly the dissolution of departments and creation of large schools/institutes.
1. These changes aren’t about budgets or enrollments.
2. My colleague has been deeply involved in this :waves hands: all along the way. What he shares here isn’t performative handwringing wrapped in clever rhetoric.
2. My colleague has been deeply involved in this :waves hands: all along the way. What he shares here isn’t performative handwringing wrapped in clever rhetoric.
academeblog.org/2025/11/13/t...
My colleague has captured what is currently happening at my institution. I have found the chipper rhetoric announcing it particularly depressing.
My colleague has captured what is currently happening at my institution. I have found the chipper rhetoric announcing it particularly depressing.
The Eternal Synergy of the Spotless Mind
BY ADAM RZEPKA A large public university is wiping out all of its humanities departments. It isn’t sure why. As I write this, our Interim Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHSS…
academeblog.org
November 14, 2025 at 3:15 PM
1. These changes aren’t about budgets or enrollments.
2. My colleague has been deeply involved in this :waves hands: all along the way. What he shares here isn’t performative handwringing wrapped in clever rhetoric.
2. My colleague has been deeply involved in this :waves hands: all along the way. What he shares here isn’t performative handwringing wrapped in clever rhetoric.
academeblog.org/2025/11/13/t...
My colleague has captured what is currently happening at my institution. I have found the chipper rhetoric announcing it particularly depressing.
My colleague has captured what is currently happening at my institution. I have found the chipper rhetoric announcing it particularly depressing.
The Eternal Synergy of the Spotless Mind
BY ADAM RZEPKA A large public university is wiping out all of its humanities departments. It isn’t sure why. As I write this, our Interim Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHSS…
academeblog.org
November 14, 2025 at 3:07 PM
academeblog.org/2025/11/13/t...
My colleague has captured what is currently happening at my institution. I have found the chipper rhetoric announcing it particularly depressing.
My colleague has captured what is currently happening at my institution. I have found the chipper rhetoric announcing it particularly depressing.
Reposted by Tricia Matthew
If you have tenure at Texas A&M and aren't maliciously emailing the president a dozen times every day to ask if you can say this or you can say that, then what's the point in having tenure?
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Texas A&M adopts policy requiring professors to get OK from school president to discuss certain race and gender issues.
November 13, 2025 at 11:18 PM
If you have tenure at Texas A&M and aren't maliciously emailing the president a dozen times every day to ask if you can say this or you can say that, then what's the point in having tenure?
Completed full rotations today! 😀🥹
I’m in physical therapy to recover my mobility after breaking my femur. Each session I sit on a recumbent bike pushing the pedals a tiny bit forward and a tiny bit backward. I have great support. I still can’t complete a full rotation.
This is a post about trying to get my manuscript to my editor.
This is a post about trying to get my manuscript to my editor.
November 12, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Completed full rotations today! 😀🥹
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The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 AM
The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
Reposted by Tricia Matthew
ICYMI, my piece in @pghreviewofbooks.bsky.social on what Zohran Mamdani learned from his mother's films. I published a book on Mira Nair's films in 2018..
Here I focus on "Mississippi Masala" (-->immigration/ refugees) and "The Reluctant Fundamentalist" (-->Palestine).
pghrev.com/what-mamdani...
Here I focus on "Mississippi Masala" (-->immigration/ refugees) and "The Reluctant Fundamentalist" (-->Palestine).
pghrev.com/what-mamdani...
What Mamdani Learned from His Mother’s Films - Pittsburgh Review of Books
Zohran Mamdani, as most readers know by now, is the son of a filmmaker, Mira Nair. His parents met while she was working on Mississippi Masala (1992); his
pghrev.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:49 PM
ICYMI, my piece in @pghreviewofbooks.bsky.social on what Zohran Mamdani learned from his mother's films. I published a book on Mira Nair's films in 2018..
Here I focus on "Mississippi Masala" (-->immigration/ refugees) and "The Reluctant Fundamentalist" (-->Palestine).
pghrev.com/what-mamdani...
Here I focus on "Mississippi Masala" (-->immigration/ refugees) and "The Reluctant Fundamentalist" (-->Palestine).
pghrev.com/what-mamdani...
More:
I remember that my tweet had only noted I was reading and enjoying the article (no critique in the guise of friendly observation), that the women were senior to us both, that I wrote the scholar **immediately** to clarify that I thought the article was very smart. We shared amused emojis.
I remember that my tweet had only noted I was reading and enjoying the article (no critique in the guise of friendly observation), that the women were senior to us both, that I wrote the scholar **immediately** to clarify that I thought the article was very smart. We shared amused emojis.
Just had a Twitter flashback: The time I tried to promote a junior scholar’s really good article and these aggressive white women academics came out of the woodwork to stop the bullying…THAT WASN’T actually happening. Like AT ALL. Anyway, I like it here better.
November 6, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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I remember that my tweet had only noted I was reading and enjoying the article (no critique in the guise of friendly observation), that the women were senior to us both, that I wrote the scholar **immediately** to clarify that I thought the article was very smart. We shared amused emojis.
I remember that my tweet had only noted I was reading and enjoying the article (no critique in the guise of friendly observation), that the women were senior to us both, that I wrote the scholar **immediately** to clarify that I thought the article was very smart. We shared amused emojis.