Farisa Khalid
@drfarisakhalid.bsky.social
PhD in English. Art historian. Academic. British & world literature, genre studies (science fiction), South Asian fiction & film, and the environmental humanities https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/734326
Jonathan Brown was a tough grader. I remember being annoyed by the A- I received on this paper. He had staggering knowledge of Spanish painters and history and was curiously possessive of El Greco.
October 8, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Jonathan Brown was a tough grader. I remember being annoyed by the A- I received on this paper. He had staggering knowledge of Spanish painters and history and was curiously possessive of El Greco.
The transition from summer to autumn (2/2)
September 28, 2025 at 11:10 AM
The transition from summer to autumn (2/2)
The transition from summer to autumn (1/2)
September 28, 2025 at 11:06 AM
The transition from summer to autumn (1/2)
Happy Birthday to Iris Murdoch, one of my favorite writers. She was one the most captivating intellectuals of the twentieth century. A few years ago when I was still a graduate student I published my first peer-reviewed academic article on some of Murdoch’s novels. muse.jhu.edu/pub/212/arti...
July 15, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Happy Birthday to Iris Murdoch, one of my favorite writers. She was one the most captivating intellectuals of the twentieth century. A few years ago when I was still a graduate student I published my first peer-reviewed academic article on some of Murdoch’s novels. muse.jhu.edu/pub/212/arti...
More pictures from the campus of William & Mary. I took these a few years ago when I was working as a lecturer there. I loved the Sunken Garden and the Wren Building with its elements of Flemish Revival architecture. @wm.edu
July 11, 2025 at 5:47 PM
More pictures from the campus of William & Mary. I took these a few years ago when I was working as a lecturer there. I loved the Sunken Garden and the Wren Building with its elements of Flemish Revival architecture. @wm.edu
It’s Jhumpa Lahiri’s birthday. A few years ago I taught her book ‘Unaccustomed Earth’ to my students at The College of William & Mary. This is one of my favorite books. It has a range of stories about transnational belonging, a theme she handles so well. indianexpress.com/article/expr...
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@wm.edu
July 11, 2025 at 5:39 PM
It’s Jhumpa Lahiri’s birthday. A few years ago I taught her book ‘Unaccustomed Earth’ to my students at The College of William & Mary. This is one of my favorite books. It has a range of stories about transnational belonging, a theme she handles so well. indianexpress.com/article/expr...
@wm.edu
@wm.edu
Coffee at the Illy Caffé at Merchants Square in Williamsburg, Virginia. This picture was taken a few years ago when I was teaching at the Department of English at The College of William & Mary. ☕️ 🍋
July 11, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Coffee at the Illy Caffé at Merchants Square in Williamsburg, Virginia. This picture was taken a few years ago when I was teaching at the Department of English at The College of William & Mary. ☕️ 🍋
What a brilliant campaign based on inclusion and integrity. Congratulations to Zohran Mamdani and to the New Yorkers who voted for him.
June 25, 2025 at 3:08 AM
What a brilliant campaign based on inclusion and integrity. Congratulations to Zohran Mamdani and to the New Yorkers who voted for him.
Pixar’s UP was on television the other day. It was released around this time 16 years ago. I thought of my book chapter on UP which I published a few years ago. Pixar has made a few science fiction films since, the newest one, ELIO, is coming out this month. www.bloomsbury.com/us/social-or...
June 3, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Pixar’s UP was on television the other day. It was released around this time 16 years ago. I thought of my book chapter on UP which I published a few years ago. Pixar has made a few science fiction films since, the newest one, ELIO, is coming out this month. www.bloomsbury.com/us/social-or...
One of the great examples of the importance of close looking, historical inquiry, and the usefulness of reproductions is the set of rooms that make up the Cast Courts at the V&A Museum in London. #WorldArtDay
April 15, 2025 at 3:56 PM
One of the great examples of the importance of close looking, historical inquiry, and the usefulness of reproductions is the set of rooms that make up the Cast Courts at the V&A Museum in London. #WorldArtDay
On #WorldArtDay from a recent visit to the Museum of Modern Art in NY. As a formally trained art historian I try to focus on what this profession means, especially now, and with my own ethnic & racial background. How do we convey the importance of cultural artifacts to our evolving human condition?
April 15, 2025 at 3:26 PM
On #WorldArtDay from a recent visit to the Museum of Modern Art in NY. As a formally trained art historian I try to focus on what this profession means, especially now, and with my own ethnic & racial background. How do we convey the importance of cultural artifacts to our evolving human condition?
More Ming-era paintings of fishermen. Wu Wei (1459-1508).‘Pleasures of Fishermen.’ Section of a handscroll. The presence of the active fishermen enliven the scene, while the brushstrokes are natural, vigorous, and graceful-a testament to the skill of the artist & the rapidity & prowess of his hand.
March 27, 2025 at 9:40 PM
More Ming-era paintings of fishermen. Wu Wei (1459-1508).‘Pleasures of Fishermen.’ Section of a handscroll. The presence of the active fishermen enliven the scene, while the brushstrokes are natural, vigorous, and graceful-a testament to the skill of the artist & the rapidity & prowess of his hand.
The Snow White Rachel Zegler controversy reminds me of Art Babbitt’s career at Disney and how the company tries to silence non-conformists.
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March 27, 2025 at 8:54 PM
The Snow White Rachel Zegler controversy reminds me of Art Babbitt’s career at Disney and how the company tries to silence non-conformists.
www.washingtonpost.com/history/2023...
www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/how...
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Fisherman in Ming paintings by Southern Chinese artists were prevalent because of the geo-cultural realities of the region—its rivers, lakes, ponds, wetlands.
The brushwork of the water, the trees, the rocks, while fluent & sure, never dominates or takes away from the realism of the representation.
The brushwork of the water, the trees, the rocks, while fluent & sure, never dominates or takes away from the realism of the representation.
March 18, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Fisherman in Ming paintings by Southern Chinese artists were prevalent because of the geo-cultural realities of the region—its rivers, lakes, ponds, wetlands.
The brushwork of the water, the trees, the rocks, while fluent & sure, never dominates or takes away from the realism of the representation.
The brushwork of the water, the trees, the rocks, while fluent & sure, never dominates or takes away from the realism of the representation.
The depiction of fishermen has a long history in the development of Chinese landscape painting, dating to the art of the early Tang.
Depictions represent tranquility and humanity’s deep connection to Nature in a world removed from the struggle of court politics. Wang Fu. ‘Joys of the Fisherman’
Depictions represent tranquility and humanity’s deep connection to Nature in a world removed from the struggle of court politics. Wang Fu. ‘Joys of the Fisherman’
March 17, 2025 at 11:42 PM
The depiction of fishermen has a long history in the development of Chinese landscape painting, dating to the art of the early Tang.
Depictions represent tranquility and humanity’s deep connection to Nature in a world removed from the struggle of court politics. Wang Fu. ‘Joys of the Fisherman’
Depictions represent tranquility and humanity’s deep connection to Nature in a world removed from the struggle of court politics. Wang Fu. ‘Joys of the Fisherman’
Wang Fu. ‘Joys of the Fisherman.’ c. 1410. Handscroll. Ink on paper. @metmuseum.org Court official & scholar-painter Wang Fu was known for his water & mountain genre landscape paintings. This gem from the Met is one of his best works, especially in the depiction of the fishermen.
March 17, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Wang Fu. ‘Joys of the Fisherman.’ c. 1410. Handscroll. Ink on paper. @metmuseum.org Court official & scholar-painter Wang Fu was known for his water & mountain genre landscape paintings. This gem from the Met is one of his best works, especially in the depiction of the fishermen.
Thinking of this for St. Patrick’s Day. ☘️ Take a look at photographer Sam Wright’s photos of the Traveller community in Galway and Cork from his book from Pillar to Post. This picture is beautiful. Bobby Doherty and His Horse. The expression on the boy’s face. gostbooks.com/en-us/produc...
March 16, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Thinking of this for St. Patrick’s Day. ☘️ Take a look at photographer Sam Wright’s photos of the Traveller community in Galway and Cork from his book from Pillar to Post. This picture is beautiful. Bobby Doherty and His Horse. The expression on the boy’s face. gostbooks.com/en-us/produc...
“The wise man finds pleasure in the waters, the virtuous man finds pleasure in the hills.” Confucius. ‘Travelers in Mountains.’ Late Ming to Qing dynasty. The genre of blue-green (qinglu) landscape paintings in Chinese art evokes the worlds of past, present, and an imaginative longing for an ideal.
March 10, 2025 at 1:31 PM
“The wise man finds pleasure in the waters, the virtuous man finds pleasure in the hills.” Confucius. ‘Travelers in Mountains.’ Late Ming to Qing dynasty. The genre of blue-green (qinglu) landscape paintings in Chinese art evokes the worlds of past, present, and an imaginative longing for an ideal.
Family members have been asking me about buying copies of the books I’m published in—but some of them are so expensive. Especially this one from Rowman & Littlefield: rowman.com/ISBN/9781793...
The other is out in paperback. rowman.com/ISBN/9781793... Please consider ordering them for your library.
The other is out in paperback. rowman.com/ISBN/9781793... Please consider ordering them for your library.
March 9, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Family members have been asking me about buying copies of the books I’m published in—but some of them are so expensive. Especially this one from Rowman & Littlefield: rowman.com/ISBN/9781793...
The other is out in paperback. rowman.com/ISBN/9781793... Please consider ordering them for your library.
The other is out in paperback. rowman.com/ISBN/9781793... Please consider ordering them for your library.
Winter landscape. Attributed to Jiang Song. First half of the 16th century. Handscroll. Ink and color and paper. Beautiful brushwork on this late Ming dynasty painting of a winter landscape by the Nanjing painter Jiang Song. It captures the barrenness and tranquility of winter.
December 31, 2024 at 11:47 AM
Winter landscape. Attributed to Jiang Song. First half of the 16th century. Handscroll. Ink and color and paper. Beautiful brushwork on this late Ming dynasty painting of a winter landscape by the Nanjing painter Jiang Song. It captures the barrenness and tranquility of winter.
Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas. 🎄
December 22, 2024 at 2:35 PM
Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas. 🎄
Some photos I took in the 2010s during December in New York City when I was living there (taken over the span of a few years). The photos were taken all over the city from the Lower East Side to the Upper West. 🌃🎄
December 19, 2024 at 11:00 AM
Some photos I took in the 2010s during December in New York City when I was living there (taken over the span of a few years). The photos were taken all over the city from the Lower East Side to the Upper West. 🌃🎄
Grief and the pain that comes from grief, both physical and emotional, isn’t something you can fear. It’s something you have to learn to manage and from which you have to evolve.
December 1, 2024 at 5:05 PM
Grief and the pain that comes from grief, both physical and emotional, isn’t something you can fear. It’s something you have to learn to manage and from which you have to evolve.
Grief never subsides but evolves. Sometimes you feel a loved one’s loss in a more intense way months and years after they’re gone. My father died a year ago. His birthday is tomorrow. We will always celebrate his life and achievements but it never gets easier. 🌒🖤
December 1, 2024 at 4:02 PM
Grief never subsides but evolves. Sometimes you feel a loved one’s loss in a more intense way months and years after they’re gone. My father died a year ago. His birthday is tomorrow. We will always celebrate his life and achievements but it never gets easier. 🌒🖤