Brandon Menke
@bamenke.bsky.social
Poet and assistant professor at Notre Dame | 20/21 c. American poetry and visual art | Queer aesthetics and transnational intimacies | Poetics and place | Intermediality and translation | Ekphrasis enthusiast | Insta: queer_lyricism
Early Americanists! Be sure to check out this extraordinary job opportunity for an Assistant Professor in American Literature, Pre-WWI, in our fabulous English department at @notredame.bsky.social. Expertise in multiethnic lit., religion & lit., media studies, and/or transnational approaches a plus!
October 10, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Early Americanists! Be sure to check out this extraordinary job opportunity for an Assistant Professor in American Literature, Pre-WWI, in our fabulous English department at @notredame.bsky.social. Expertise in multiethnic lit., religion & lit., media studies, and/or transnational approaches a plus!
An awesome cross-disciplinary opportunity for job seekers: *six* Provost's Postdoctoral Fellowships in the College of Arts and Letters at @notredame.bsky.social in Anthro, Music, Philosophy, PoliSci, Theology, and the Institute for Latino Studies as part of the university's Strategic Framework.
October 1, 2025 at 6:52 PM
An awesome cross-disciplinary opportunity for job seekers: *six* Provost's Postdoctoral Fellowships in the College of Arts and Letters at @notredame.bsky.social in Anthro, Music, Philosophy, PoliSci, Theology, and the Institute for Latino Studies as part of the university's Strategic Framework.
Get you a man who can do both: 1) singlehandedly hauling 242-lbs. of glassed-in bookshelves up a flight of stairs while 2) belting out Kym Mazelle's cover of "Young Hearts Run Free," as performed by Mercutio at the Capulets' masked ball in Baz Luhrman's Romeo + Juliet
August 21, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Get you a man who can do both: 1) singlehandedly hauling 242-lbs. of glassed-in bookshelves up a flight of stairs while 2) belting out Kym Mazelle's cover of "Young Hearts Run Free," as performed by Mercutio at the Capulets' masked ball in Baz Luhrman's Romeo + Juliet
Yeah, it's even worse today here in South Bend.
August 1, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Yeah, it's even worse today here in South Bend.
I can’t tell if my body hurts from core day yesterday at the gym or from inhaling a bunch of particulate matter today on my walk home through the Canadian wildfire smoke
July 31, 2025 at 11:14 PM
I can’t tell if my body hurts from core day yesterday at the gym or from inhaling a bunch of particulate matter today on my walk home through the Canadian wildfire smoke
Clearly for me 2002 was a high water mark in terms of cinematic achievement for this century.
June 26, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Clearly for me 2002 was a high water mark in terms of cinematic achievement for this century.
What's the strangest—or one of the strangest—books you've ever read? And what made it so?
June 23, 2025 at 6:05 PM
What's the strangest—or one of the strangest—books you've ever read? And what made it so?
Huh—I guess he tweeted about it so often back when Obama was President because he actually thought it would be a good political strategy.
June 22, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Huh—I guess he tweeted about it so often back when Obama was President because he actually thought it would be a good political strategy.
Watching Errol Morris's THE FOG OF WAR & thinking with horror—now that Trump has made this terrible choice—about the prospect of Pete Hegseth being this generation's Robert McNamara. I mean, they do share a penchant for mendacity. But I can't imagine that ol' Pete even knows what "fallacy" means.
June 22, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Watching Errol Morris's THE FOG OF WAR & thinking with horror—now that Trump has made this terrible choice—about the prospect of Pete Hegseth being this generation's Robert McNamara. I mean, they do share a penchant for mendacity. But I can't imagine that ol' Pete even knows what "fallacy" means.
A thing of beauty for April 14, 2025: "Amaryllis" (c. 1923), watercolor over graphite, by Charles Demuth.
April 14, 2025 at 7:37 PM
A thing of beauty for April 14, 2025: "Amaryllis" (c. 1923), watercolor over graphite, by Charles Demuth.
Another way is possible.
April 12, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Another way is possible.
Happy publication day to this beauty! Congratulations, @franciscondine.bsky.social! 🩷📕🩷
March 12, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Happy publication day to this beauty! Congratulations, @franciscondine.bsky.social! 🩷📕🩷
I can just picture it now
March 3, 2025 at 3:18 AM
I can just picture it now
A thing of beauty for February 25, 2025: "Vorhor, the Green Wave" (1896-7), egg tempera on canvas by Georges Lacombe.
February 25, 2025 at 8:10 PM
A thing of beauty for February 25, 2025: "Vorhor, the Green Wave" (1896-7), egg tempera on canvas by Georges Lacombe.
A thing of beauty for February 23, 2025: "Peinture, 130 x 102 cm, 27 août 1986" (1986), oil on canvas, by Pierre Soulages.
February 23, 2025 at 8:45 PM
A thing of beauty for February 23, 2025: "Peinture, 130 x 102 cm, 27 août 1986" (1986), oil on canvas, by Pierre Soulages.
Bernie agrees—all arguments to the contrary are moot!
February 10, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Bernie agrees—all arguments to the contrary are moot!
"The Chiefs find themselves in a monstrous hole."
February 10, 2025 at 2:32 AM
"The Chiefs find themselves in a monstrous hole."
I love Kendrick's thoughtfully flared, delightfully snug boot-cut jeans
February 10, 2025 at 1:50 AM
I love Kendrick's thoughtfully flared, delightfully snug boot-cut jeans
A thing of beauty for January 5, 2025: "The Grey Iris" (1923), pencil and watercolor on paper, by Charles Rennie Mackintosh.
January 6, 2025 at 12:21 AM
A thing of beauty for January 5, 2025: "The Grey Iris" (1923), pencil and watercolor on paper, by Charles Rennie Mackintosh.
Just back in South Bend and I'm already missing my mom's cream cheese wontons a.k.a. crabless rangoons—a Christmastime staple!
January 4, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Just back in South Bend and I'm already missing my mom's cream cheese wontons a.k.a. crabless rangoons—a Christmastime staple!
Each semester, I teach Brooks's Maud Martha. I was told by the campus bookstore that it's out of print & unsourceable: "Would you like to replace it?" Checked on Third World Press's site—still in print & affordable! The bookstore is apparently just unwilling to work with a small Black-owned press.
December 26, 2024 at 4:59 PM
Each semester, I teach Brooks's Maud Martha. I was told by the campus bookstore that it's out of print & unsourceable: "Would you like to replace it?" Checked on Third World Press's site—still in print & affordable! The bookstore is apparently just unwilling to work with a small Black-owned press.
From the trailer, Babygirl looks pretty retrogressive, right? Also: Kidman's character cheats on all-star DILF Antonio Banderas just so that she can be degraded by some nondescript twink? Even if her character weren't a "high-powered CEO," she deserves every predictably bad thing coming to her!
December 24, 2024 at 3:51 PM
From the trailer, Babygirl looks pretty retrogressive, right? Also: Kidman's character cheats on all-star DILF Antonio Banderas just so that she can be degraded by some nondescript twink? Even if her character weren't a "high-powered CEO," she deserves every predictably bad thing coming to her!