Jan Mieszkowski
@janm.bsky.social
Professor of German & Comparative Literature at Reed College. Recently finished a book about the languages of botany.
I taught this about 10 years ago. I think it went over quite well, as I recall.
July 19, 2025 at 9:25 PM
I taught this about 10 years ago. I think it went over quite well, as I recall.
Spent most of the day in an online symposium – 6 excellent papers and a cool roundtable discussion of texts by Hemingway and Hans Christian Andersen.
April 12, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Spent most of the day in an online symposium – 6 excellent papers and a cool roundtable discussion of texts by Hemingway and Hans Christian Andersen.
Exactly. I tell them: "Overreading? We aren't even close to getting out of the realm of underreading!"
February 27, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Exactly. I tell them: "Overreading? We aren't even close to getting out of the realm of underreading!"
(There's a newer version in Crises of the Sentence, but this should probably do.)
What's in a Slogan? | Mediations | Journal of the Marxist Literary Group
Jan Mieskowski traces the reception of the slogan as a form in Marxist criticism from Marx and Engels through Lenin, Luxembourg, and Lukács. These slogans are…
mediationsjournal.org
February 15, 2025 at 4:35 PM
(There's a newer version in Crises of the Sentence, but this should probably do.)
I was going to try to guess what sort of software it might be, but then you gave it away.
January 14, 2025 at 1:44 AM
I was going to try to guess what sort of software it might be, but then you gave it away.