Erica Fretwell
@ericafretwell.bsky.social
good enough professor | The Art of Slight Living, 1900/2000 (in progress) | Sensory Experiments (Duke UP, 2020) | she/her
shouldn't be, yet am, surprised to see the general course survey questions shift from they have been for decades about student perception of instructor preparedness and availability to student perception of whether the instructor is 'indoctrinating' students ("divergent viewpoints" etc)
September 22, 2025 at 9:11 PM
shouldn't be, yet am, surprised to see the general course survey questions shift from they have been for decades about student perception of instructor preparedness and availability to student perception of whether the instructor is 'indoctrinating' students ("divergent viewpoints" etc)
strawberry thief in our new bathroom!
June 18, 2025 at 6:07 PM
strawberry thief in our new bathroom!
bring back science journals including (bad) poems written by biochemists alongside peer review articles
June 6, 2025 at 4:34 PM
bring back science journals including (bad) poems written by biochemists alongside peer review articles
two high agency males
June 6, 2025 at 2:20 PM
two high agency males
March 2025
L: It was the worst of times (taylor's version)
R: It was the worst of times
L: It was the worst of times (taylor's version)
R: It was the worst of times
March 9, 2025 at 6:46 PM
March 2025
L: It was the worst of times (taylor's version)
R: It was the worst of times
L: It was the worst of times (taylor's version)
R: It was the worst of times
welcome to every week, for the rest of forever
February 6, 2025 at 1:41 AM
welcome to every week, for the rest of forever
Repurposed Harris Walz yard sign with a call for a general strike (in 2028?) and a quote from The Communist Manifesto: YES.
December 15, 2024 at 7:51 PM
Repurposed Harris Walz yard sign with a call for a general strike (in 2028?) and a quote from The Communist Manifesto: YES.
tfw when the critic who survived Stanley Fish-era Duke English and authored a foundational American Studies book appears in the the new scorcese Beatles documentary you're half-watching with your boomer parents over Thanksgiving
November 29, 2024 at 8:59 PM
tfw when the critic who survived Stanley Fish-era Duke English and authored a foundational American Studies book appears in the the new scorcese Beatles documentary you're half-watching with your boomer parents over Thanksgiving
In historically inconsequential but personally significant news, Premesh Lalu has done me the honor of writing a book review that thinks with and powerfully extends Sensory Experiments into the field of postcolonial studies. Forthcoming in History and Theory!
November 15, 2024 at 7:24 PM
In historically inconsequential but personally significant news, Premesh Lalu has done me the honor of writing a book review that thinks with and powerfully extends Sensory Experiments into the field of postcolonial studies. Forthcoming in History and Theory!
male pattern baldness is the origin story of so many villains.
January 22, 2024 at 7:41 PM
male pattern baldness is the origin story of so many villains.
(Troy McClure voice) Hi, I'm 'Auld Lang Syne'! You may remember me from such classics as Brit Lit II, The Norton Anthology of Poetry, and Sex and the City.
December 19, 2023 at 2:09 PM
(Troy McClure voice) Hi, I'm 'Auld Lang Syne'! You may remember me from such classics as Brit Lit II, The Norton Anthology of Poetry, and Sex and the City.
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a kitchen floor in possession of ugliness, must be covering up an even uglier kitchen floor.
November 28, 2023 at 10:40 PM
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a kitchen floor in possession of ugliness, must be covering up an even uglier kitchen floor.
but did a german take your photograph?
November 20, 2023 at 8:36 PM
but did a german take your photograph?
I'm not crying you're crying
October 15, 2023 at 7:56 PM
I'm not crying you're crying
honestly this is what we as a species deserve for having invented the pumpkin spice latte
October 3, 2023 at 4:52 PM
honestly this is what we as a species deserve for having invented the pumpkin spice latte
Judaism is so metal.
September 25, 2023 at 4:38 PM
Judaism is so metal.
This meal just cost me $78 at the Newark airport. This is why Americans think the economy is terrible.
September 21, 2023 at 3:03 PM
This meal just cost me $78 at the Newark airport. This is why Americans think the economy is terrible.
Phenomenal essays by Sylvie Boulette, Clare Mullaney, David Pham, Shouhei Tanaka, and Sunhay You come out next month! And an introductory essay on "Redistributions of the Sensible" by Hsuan Hsu & yours truly.
August 14, 2023 at 6:02 PM
Phenomenal essays by Sylvie Boulette, Clare Mullaney, David Pham, Shouhei Tanaka, and Sunhay You come out next month! And an introductory essay on "Redistributions of the Sensible" by Hsuan Hsu & yours truly.
"The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in Berlin."
August 6, 2023 at 1:18 PM
"The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in Berlin."