Amy Blair
@amyblair.bsky.social
Studying Reception and Periodicals and C19/C20 Book History; Edith Whartonian. Co-editor of the journal Reception (PSUP) with @ikax@bsky.social; Author, Tasting and Testing Books (UMass Press)
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"Let me be clear: we have disappeared a man who has committed no crime of any sort simply because he is a political dissident"
March 11, 2025 at 6:06 PM
"Let me be clear: we have disappeared a man who has committed no crime of any sort simply because he is a political dissident"
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March 3, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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The rare fireblizznado on its way
March 3, 2025 at 6:14 PM
The rare fireblizznado on its way
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At 1 point in Frankenstein Elizabeth says "now misery has come home, & men appear to me as monsters thirsting for each other's blood." When I taught the book over Zoom to Ukrainian students in summer 2022 this line grabbed us. Too many reasons to recall it today:
lareviewofbooks.org/article/teac...
lareviewofbooks.org/article/teac...
Teaching “Frankenstein” at the Flying University for Ukrainian Students | Los Angeles Review of Books
English professor Deidre Lynch ponders the lessons her Ukrainian students taught her about the place of the humanities in difficult times — and ponders, too, how these students altered her reading of ...
lareviewofbooks.org
February 19, 2025 at 12:48 PM
At 1 point in Frankenstein Elizabeth says "now misery has come home, & men appear to me as monsters thirsting for each other's blood." When I taught the book over Zoom to Ukrainian students in summer 2022 this line grabbed us. Too many reasons to recall it today:
lareviewofbooks.org/article/teac...
lareviewofbooks.org/article/teac...
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protest the theft of public money + public goods! TOMORROW all over!
protests, rallies + press conferences coordinated by AFCSME, AAUP, AFT, UAW, HELU+ others, for researchers+ public servants + their supporters.
find your local action!
www.labor4highered.org
chicago join us at 10am!
protests, rallies + press conferences coordinated by AFCSME, AAUP, AFT, UAW, HELU+ others, for researchers+ public servants + their supporters.
find your local action!
www.labor4highered.org
chicago join us at 10am!
February 18, 2025 at 10:46 PM
protest the theft of public money + public goods! TOMORROW all over!
protests, rallies + press conferences coordinated by AFCSME, AAUP, AFT, UAW, HELU+ others, for researchers+ public servants + their supporters.
find your local action!
www.labor4highered.org
chicago join us at 10am!
protests, rallies + press conferences coordinated by AFCSME, AAUP, AFT, UAW, HELU+ others, for researchers+ public servants + their supporters.
find your local action!
www.labor4highered.org
chicago join us at 10am!
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Iowa's House File 274, which would criminalize librarians, passes out of the House Education Committee. It can now be heard on the floor.
What this bill is, what it would mean for library and school workers, and why it was rushed through.
bookriot.com/iowa-rushes-...
What this bill is, what it would mean for library and school workers, and why it was rushed through.
bookriot.com/iowa-rushes-...
Iowa Rushes, Advances Librarian Criminalization Bill
Introduced last week, Iowa's librarian criminalization bill has already made it to the House floor.
bookriot.com
February 19, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Iowa's House File 274, which would criminalize librarians, passes out of the House Education Committee. It can now be heard on the floor.
What this bill is, what it would mean for library and school workers, and why it was rushed through.
bookriot.com/iowa-rushes-...
What this bill is, what it would mean for library and school workers, and why it was rushed through.
bookriot.com/iowa-rushes-...
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“Life under autocracy…is stultifying. It’s boring. It feels like trying to see and breathe under water — because you are submerged in bad ideas, being discussed badly, being reflected in bad journalism and, eventually, in bad literature and bad movies.”
REALLY worth reading.
Gessen is Russian-American and lived under autocratic rule. She knows of what she speaks.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/o...
Gessen is Russian-American and lived under autocratic rule. She knows of what she speaks.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/o...
Opinion | The Barrage of Trump’s Awful Ideas Is Doing Exactly What It’s Supposed To (Gift Article)
Amid an onslaught of bad ideas, Democrats need to muster a better vision for the future.
www.nytimes.com
February 19, 2025 at 1:10 PM
“Life under autocracy…is stultifying. It’s boring. It feels like trying to see and breathe under water — because you are submerged in bad ideas, being discussed badly, being reflected in bad journalism and, eventually, in bad literature and bad movies.”
Giddy-delighted that TASTING AND TESTING BOOKS was awarded an honorable mention by the RSAP 2023-4 Book Prize. And the cover is gorgeous so I'll repost it here.
Now that THE BOOK is out in the world, I think *I* can get back out in the world. Available now from UMass Press!
www.umasspress.com/978162534820...
www.umasspress.com/978162534820...
February 13, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Giddy-delighted that TASTING AND TESTING BOOKS was awarded an honorable mention by the RSAP 2023-4 Book Prize. And the cover is gorgeous so I'll repost it here.
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An answer to the question circulating this week about whether to use US flags at protests
February 10, 2025 at 1:52 AM
An answer to the question circulating this week about whether to use US flags at protests
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this is an extinction level event for university budgets, and mid-year. I imagine there will be lawsuits fast
8. It is difficult to overstate what a catastrophe this will be for the US research and education systems, particular in biomedical fields.
It is deliberate and wanton devastation entirely out of scale with any concern about DEI activities on campuses.
The goal is destroy US universities.
It is deliberate and wanton devastation entirely out of scale with any concern about DEI activities on campuses.
The goal is destroy US universities.
February 8, 2025 at 12:58 AM
this is an extinction level event for university budgets, and mid-year. I imagine there will be lawsuits fast
Now that THE BOOK is out in the world, I think *I* can get back out in the world. Available now from UMass Press!
www.umasspress.com/978162534820...
www.umasspress.com/978162534820...
January 15, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Now that THE BOOK is out in the world, I think *I* can get back out in the world. Available now from UMass Press!
www.umasspress.com/978162534820...
www.umasspress.com/978162534820...
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"SWORDS INTO PLOWSHARES": An ingot made from the melted-down head and sword of Charlottesville's Robert E. Lee statue — via @socialistdogmom.bsky.social
October 26, 2023 at 9:54 PM
"SWORDS INTO PLOWSHARES": An ingot made from the melted-down head and sword of Charlottesville's Robert E. Lee statue — via @socialistdogmom.bsky.social
Old-ish news but I'm pretty darn pleased with it: RECEPTION v15 (2023) Special Issue, READING TIME: OR, TL; DR. I co-edited this with @ikax.bsky.social; co-authoring intro with her reminded me: writing can be exhilarating. Contributors post tk
scholarlypublishingcollective.org/psup/reception
scholarlypublishingcollective.org/psup/reception
scholarlypublishingcollective.org
October 20, 2023 at 4:28 PM
Old-ish news but I'm pretty darn pleased with it: RECEPTION v15 (2023) Special Issue, READING TIME: OR, TL; DR. I co-edited this with @ikax.bsky.social; co-authoring intro with her reminded me: writing can be exhilarating. Contributors post tk
scholarlypublishingcollective.org/psup/reception
scholarlypublishingcollective.org/psup/reception
OK fine. I missed you people.
October 17, 2023 at 12:54 AM
OK fine. I missed you people.