Erin Elizabeth Greer
@erin-e-greer.bsky.social
lit prof at UT Dallas working with novels, ordinary language philosophy, political theory, eco/animal stuff, and ethics| book: https://tinyurl.com/IdealOfConversation (30% off w code PAPER30)| https://profiles.utdallas.edu/erin.greer
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paperbacks of my book are now available for preorder at a 30% discount, using the code PAPER30 on @edinburghup.bsky.social's website! Please share w/ anyone who might be interested in thinking about the political and ethical ideal of "conversation" via literature & philosophy 🌺
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I don't know how to get people to read this article, but I really think many more should.
November 11, 2025 at 1:53 AM
I don't know how to get people to read this article, but I really think many more should.
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PEN America: “We are witnessing the death of academic freedom in Texas." https://pen.org/press-release/swift-removal-of-academic-leaders-at-texas-am-signals-the-death-of-academic-freedom-in-the-state-warns-pen-america/
Swift Removal of Academic Leaders at Texas A&M Signals the Death of Academic Freedom in the State, Warns PEN America - PEN America
Texas A&M purge over a student complaint sparks outcry over political interference in classrooms and suffocates free speech.
pen.org
September 10, 2025 at 1:37 AM
PEN America: “We are witnessing the death of academic freedom in Texas." https://pen.org/press-release/swift-removal-of-academic-leaders-at-texas-am-signals-the-death-of-academic-freedom-in-the-state-warns-pen-america/
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We are delighted to share the exciting news that the CFP for the @moderniststudies.bsky.social 2026 conference - next year called Weird Modernisms - jointly held with @modernistudies.bsky.social at @lborouniversity.bsky.social is now live! More info here: moderniststudies.org/conference/MSA2026/CFP/
August 19, 2025 at 8:29 AM
We are delighted to share the exciting news that the CFP for the @moderniststudies.bsky.social 2026 conference - next year called Weird Modernisms - jointly held with @modernistudies.bsky.social at @lborouniversity.bsky.social is now live! More info here: moderniststudies.org/conference/MSA2026/CFP/
looking forward to @texasaft.org's virtual "Summer School" event this week - Higher Ed: Updates on governance, academic freedom, and faculty rights - anyone interested in joining can sign up here: www.mobilize.us/texasaft/eve...
Summer School · Texas AFT
Texas AFT Summer School 2025: Legislative & Policy Updates for Educators
Get up to speed on the latest K-12, higher education, and federal policy changes with Texas AFT Summer School, a virtual train...
www.mobilize.us
July 26, 2025 at 6:57 PM
looking forward to @texasaft.org's virtual "Summer School" event this week - Higher Ed: Updates on governance, academic freedom, and faculty rights - anyone interested in joining can sign up here: www.mobilize.us/texasaft/eve...
@aaup.org has released an excellent report on trends and concerns re the rollout of AI in higher ed. They've also shared a fantastic doc offering recommendations for campus policies to protect academic labor rights, quality education, our students' privacy, etc. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
July 26, 2025 at 4:56 PM
@aaup.org has released an excellent report on trends and concerns re the rollout of AI in higher ed. They've also shared a fantastic doc offering recommendations for campus policies to protect academic labor rights, quality education, our students' privacy, etc. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Today, the AAUP released a new report, "Artificial Intelligence & Academic Professions." The report calls for policies that prioritize economic security, faculty working & student learning conditions as AI tech accelerates.
www.aaup.org/news/new-rep...
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www.aaup.org/news/new-rep...
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New Report Calls for Faculty Control in AI Decisions
Today, the AAUP released a new report, Artificial Intelligence and the Academic Professions, sharing survey findings and calling for the establishment of policies in colleges and universities that pri...
www.aaup.org
July 22, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Today, the AAUP released a new report, "Artificial Intelligence & Academic Professions." The report calls for policies that prioritize economic security, faculty working & student learning conditions as AI tech accelerates.
www.aaup.org/news/new-rep...
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www.aaup.org/news/new-rep...
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They finally made the milk from that hotel
July 6, 2025 at 3:42 PM
They finally made the milk from that hotel
paperbacks of my book are now available for preorder at a 30% discount, using the code PAPER30 on @edinburghup.bsky.social's website! Please share w/ anyone who might be interested in thinking about the political and ethical ideal of "conversation" via literature & philosophy 🌺
July 6, 2025 at 6:08 PM
paperbacks of my book are now available for preorder at a 30% discount, using the code PAPER30 on @edinburghup.bsky.social's website! Please share w/ anyone who might be interested in thinking about the political and ethical ideal of "conversation" via literature & philosophy 🌺
I loved this: “The Silence” www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
“The Silence,” by Zadie Smith
She could sit on a bench in Europe completely unmolested, without a single human being saying a word to her, until the sun fell out of the sky.
www.newyorker.com
July 4, 2025 at 3:46 AM
I loved this: “The Silence” www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Taking heart from iris Murdoch>>“we are moral agents before we are scientists, and the place of science in human life must be discussed in *words*.”
June 25, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Taking heart from iris Murdoch>>“we are moral agents before we are scientists, and the place of science in human life must be discussed in *words*.”
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Now is the winter of our discontent
Made glorious summer by this son of York
Made glorious summer by this son of York
June 25, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Now is the winter of our discontent
Made glorious summer by this son of York
Made glorious summer by this son of York
thank goodness but also
A reminder for context that Mahmoud Khalil was never once charged with a crime and yet he was still held in detention for over 100 days.
Mahmoud Khalil – a pro-Palestinian activist at the center of a long-running deportation fight – has been released from the Louisiana ICE detention center where he has spent more than three months after he was arrested outside his apartment on Columbia University's campus, his attorneys said.
June 21, 2025 at 2:27 AM
thank goodness but also
wowowow so excited! congrats to the kind, brilliant @keegancf.bsky.social
I am excited to share that four scholars that I deeply admire have written beautiful endorsements for my forthcoming book, Poetry In General. cup.columbia.edu/book/poetry-...
June 20, 2025 at 7:41 PM
wowowow so excited! congrats to the kind, brilliant @keegancf.bsky.social
paperback versions of my book with @edinburghup.bsky.social are available for pre-order - and discounted! edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-fiction...
Fiction, Philosophy and the Ideal of Conversation
Fiction, Philosophy and the Ideal of Conversation
edinburghuniversitypress.com
June 20, 2025 at 7:39 PM
paperback versions of my book with @edinburghup.bsky.social are available for pre-order - and discounted! edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-fiction...
doggo tolerated his first protest pretty well. He dislikes clapping and honking but met some bleeding hearts handing out free butt scratches
June 15, 2025 at 4:17 AM
doggo tolerated his first protest pretty well. He dislikes clapping and honking but met some bleeding hearts handing out free butt scratches
this looks terrific!
Join us Mon. June 9 - 2pm EG / 7pm UK for
"The Political Aesthetics of W.E.B. Du Bois"
Robert Gooding-Williams in conversation with Brandon Terry
Beauty has a distinctive role to play in the struggle against white supremacy.
#Philosophy
Register here to watch the discussion and ask questions:
"The Political Aesthetics of W.E.B. Du Bois"
Robert Gooding-Williams in conversation with Brandon Terry
Beauty has a distinctive role to play in the struggle against white supremacy.
#Philosophy
Register here to watch the discussion and ask questions:
The Political Aesthetics of W E B Dubois
www.thephilosopher1923.org
June 4, 2025 at 12:28 PM
this looks terrific!
just learned with great delight and gratitude of this thoughtful, generous review of my book by Philip Mills (himself author of a wonderful new OA book on poetry & OLP)
www.nordicwittgensteinreview.com/article/view...
www.nordicwittgensteinreview.com/article/view...
June 2, 2025 at 11:19 AM
just learned with great delight and gratitude of this thoughtful, generous review of my book by Philip Mills (himself author of a wonderful new OA book on poetry & OLP)
www.nordicwittgensteinreview.com/article/view...
www.nordicwittgensteinreview.com/article/view...
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Texas legislators just passed a bill that
gives politically-appointed regents control over faculty curriculum, hiring, & governance. It does what they accuse academics of doing: privileging ideas, biases, & agendas on political grounds, & silencing those that do not follow their ideology.
gives politically-appointed regents control over faculty curriculum, hiring, & governance. It does what they accuse academics of doing: privileging ideas, biases, & agendas on political grounds, & silencing those that do not follow their ideology.
Political appointees would have more control over Texas universities’ courses and hiring under bill OK’d by House
Senate Bill 37 would give more power to university regents, who are appointed by the governor, to vet and veto new curricula and administrators.
www.texastribune.org
May 24, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Texas legislators just passed a bill that
gives politically-appointed regents control over faculty curriculum, hiring, & governance. It does what they accuse academics of doing: privileging ideas, biases, & agendas on political grounds, & silencing those that do not follow their ideology.
gives politically-appointed regents control over faculty curriculum, hiring, & governance. It does what they accuse academics of doing: privileging ideas, biases, & agendas on political grounds, & silencing those that do not follow their ideology.
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Al Gore quoting Adorno while New Left Review interviews Ross Douthat feels like a real Freaky Friday kind of situation
'It was...Habermas’ mentor...Adorno, who wrote that the first step in that nation’s descent into hell was, and I quote, ‘the conversion of all questions of truth into questions of power,”’ Gore said. “The Trump administration is insisting on trying to create their own preferred version of reality.'
Al Gore compares Trump administration to Nazi Germany
The former vice president said the administration was "insisting on trying to create their own preferred version of reality."
www.politico.com
April 25, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Al Gore quoting Adorno while New Left Review interviews Ross Douthat feels like a real Freaky Friday kind of situation
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One of the happiest updates I’ve written since I started following this story. 12 students back in status and maybe more to come. Across the country, students are saying their SEVIS is back.
www.dailycal.org/news/campus/...
www.dailycal.org/news/campus/...
12 UC Berkeley students' visas restored by ICE in nationwide reversal
At UC Berkeley, 12 students have had their status restored today after 23 were terminated since April 4.
www.dailycal.org
April 25, 2025 at 2:03 AM
One of the happiest updates I’ve written since I started following this story. 12 students back in status and maybe more to come. Across the country, students are saying their SEVIS is back.
www.dailycal.org/news/campus/...
www.dailycal.org/news/campus/...
this invitation from my university's Center for Teaching and Learning to a workshop on using AI to boost "professional influence" on LinkedIn is... almost too much food for (human) thought
April 23, 2025 at 9:24 PM
this invitation from my university's Center for Teaching and Learning to a workshop on using AI to boost "professional influence" on LinkedIn is... almost too much food for (human) thought
Arendt: "Surely the scientist cannot permit himself to ask: What consequences will the result of my investigations have for the stature (or... for the future) of man? It has been the glory of modern science that it has been able to emancipate itself completely from all such... humanistic, concerns"
April 21, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Arendt: "Surely the scientist cannot permit himself to ask: What consequences will the result of my investigations have for the stature (or... for the future) of man? It has been the glory of modern science that it has been able to emancipate itself completely from all such... humanistic, concerns"
Hard to imagine a greater gift of/in education than what Stanley Cavell says of working with JL Austin
April 19, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Hard to imagine a greater gift of/in education than what Stanley Cavell says of working with JL Austin