Elizabeth Maddock Dillon
@emdillon.bsky.social
Literature professor at Northeastern University. Book-in-progress: Sweetness and Ruin: A History of Sugar, Race, and Capitalism (Dutton 2026). From the 17th-century plantation to 21st-century diabetes epidemic.
Writing: https://emdillon.substack.com
Writing: https://emdillon.substack.com
What fresh hell?
October 30, 2025 at 3:13 PM
What fresh hell?
Be it ever so humble. But heartfelt. Let’s go!
October 18, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Be it ever so humble. But heartfelt. Let’s go!
From romcom to Shakespearean tragedy: my life on hold in the broken insurance loop: open.substack.com/pub/emdillon...
July 22, 2025 at 10:59 PM
From romcom to Shakespearean tragedy: my life on hold in the broken insurance loop: open.substack.com/pub/emdillon...
What is the telltale sign of a great American President?
April 19, 2025 at 1:44 PM
What is the telltale sign of a great American President?
Boston shows up!
April 5, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Boston shows up!
It’s Boston: we prefer Frost to ICE.
March 26, 2025 at 11:02 PM
It’s Boston: we prefer Frost to ICE.
This new braided memoir by Eiren Caffall about climate change and chronic illness is stunning!
December 10, 2024 at 10:16 PM
This new braided memoir by Eiren Caffall about climate change and chronic illness is stunning!
For those who celebrate Tom Hanksgiving: what is your viewing schedule this year? Here’s mine:
November 24, 2024 at 3:37 PM
For those who celebrate Tom Hanksgiving: what is your viewing schedule this year? Here’s mine:
Trust the narrative:
November 23, 2024 at 10:41 PM
Trust the narrative:
Gorgeous new stack! Also: how am I going to carry these home ?? = cruel optimism of conference book exhibits.
November 16, 2024 at 11:54 AM
Gorgeous new stack! Also: how am I going to carry these home ?? = cruel optimism of conference book exhibits.
Ghost pipes from White Mountain National Forest. Monotropia uniflora. Also called corpse flower. Emily Dickinson’s favorite flower. No sun, no photosynthesis. Doubly parasitic (or resourceful); lives off fungi that live off tree roots. A flower that “could not see to see.”
November 12, 2024 at 1:08 AM
Ghost pipes from White Mountain National Forest. Monotropia uniflora. Also called corpse flower. Emily Dickinson’s favorite flower. No sun, no photosynthesis. Doubly parasitic (or resourceful); lives off fungi that live off tree roots. A flower that “could not see to see.”