John Garganourakis
@johngarganourakis.bsky.social
Faculty, English (Mercy University, Queens College, St. John’s) / PhD Student (St. John’s University). Shakespeare. Ecocriticism. Film Theory.
About to settle in for a performance of Henry IV at Theatre for a New Audience in Brooklyn. This conflation of Parts I and II gets me two plays closer to my goal of seeing all of Shakespeare’s plays on the stage! 🙂 #Shakespeare #theatre
March 2, 2025 at 12:00 AM
About to settle in for a performance of Henry IV at Theatre for a New Audience in Brooklyn. This conflation of Parts I and II gets me two plays closer to my goal of seeing all of Shakespeare’s plays on the stage! 🙂 #Shakespeare #theatre
My favorite kind of plagiarism is when I assign an essay on James Joyce’s “Araby” in my short story class and the student submits a comparative analysis of “Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man,” “Ulysses” and “Finnegans Wake.” #academia
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March 1, 2025 at 5:34 PM
My favorite kind of plagiarism is when I assign an essay on James Joyce’s “Araby” in my short story class and the student submits a comparative analysis of “Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man,” “Ulysses” and “Finnegans Wake.” #academia
RIP Gene Hackman. So many great performances. The French Connection, Night Moves, Unforgiven, but my favorite is probably The Conversation, just as relevant today as it was when it was first released in 1974.
February 27, 2025 at 12:32 PM
RIP Gene Hackman. So many great performances. The French Connection, Night Moves, Unforgiven, but my favorite is probably The Conversation, just as relevant today as it was when it was first released in 1974.
RIP Jamie Muir. I’ll never forget the first time I saw their 1972 performance on Beat Club and thinking “who is this mad man on percussion?!” Larks’ Tongues is easily one of King Crimson’s best albums and Muir’s contributions make it a singular record in their discography. #kingcrimson #progrock
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February 18, 2025 at 2:12 PM
RIP Jamie Muir. I’ll never forget the first time I saw their 1972 performance on Beat Club and thinking “who is this mad man on percussion?!” Larks’ Tongues is easily one of King Crimson’s best albums and Muir’s contributions make it a singular record in their discography. #kingcrimson #progrock
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🏺 "Greek tragedy is a place where unpalatable questions can get asked... Greek plays go to extremes. We need that: we live in extreme times." by Charlotte Higgins via @theguardian.com
#ancientbluesky #classics #culture #Greek
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#ancientbluesky #classics #culture #Greek
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Why is Sophocles storming the West End? Because in our extreme times, his plays say the unsayable | Charlotte Higgins
The Greek tragedies ask unpalatable questions. That is why they’re enjoying a revival in 2025, says Charlotte Higgins, the Guardian’s chief culture writer
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January 25, 2025 at 10:49 AM
🏺 "Greek tragedy is a place where unpalatable questions can get asked... Greek plays go to extremes. We need that: we live in extreme times." by Charlotte Higgins via @theguardian.com
#ancientbluesky #classics #culture #Greek
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
#ancientbluesky #classics #culture #Greek
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This one hurts... RIP. :(
David Lynch, Visionary Director of ‘Twin Peaks’ and ‘Blue Velvet,’ Dies at 78
Director David Lynch, who radicalized American film with with a dark, surrealistic artistic vision in films like 'Blue Velvet,' has died. He was 78.
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January 16, 2025 at 6:30 PM
This one hurts... RIP. :(
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In 1977, Vincent Price starred in a one-man-show where he played openly gay Oscar Wilde; it was condemned by Anita Bryant. When asked about her condemnation, Price replied that Wilde had already written a play about Anita: “A Woman of No Importance”
January 10, 2025 at 11:32 AM
In 1977, Vincent Price starred in a one-man-show where he played openly gay Oscar Wilde; it was condemned by Anita Bryant. When asked about her condemnation, Price replied that Wilde had already written a play about Anita: “A Woman of No Importance”
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Don’t mIss our first Shakespeare webinar: Monday 6pm GMT, link below. Buckle in: this is the first of ….41!
Let the Oxford English Faculty help with your new year resolutions:
1) Learn about poetry with A.E. Stallings' newsletters
2) Brush up on Shakespeare with monthly webinars with Prof Emma Smith
3) Take on a writing challenge & enter our storytelling competition
#PoetrySky #BookSky
Links below👇
1) Learn about poetry with A.E. Stallings' newsletters
2) Brush up on Shakespeare with monthly webinars with Prof Emma Smith
3) Take on a writing challenge & enter our storytelling competition
#PoetrySky #BookSky
Links below👇
January 4, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Don’t mIss our first Shakespeare webinar: Monday 6pm GMT, link below. Buckle in: this is the first of ….41!
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Jimmy Carter is a hero of the renewable energy revolution, and if we’d listened to him we could have gotten where we are now decades earlier.
December 29, 2024 at 9:35 PM
Jimmy Carter is a hero of the renewable energy revolution, and if we’d listened to him we could have gotten where we are now decades earlier.
I loved #Nosferatu! Like Werner Herzog in his remarkable version, Eggers takes a familiar story and expertly weaves in his own obsessions, including folk traditions, the occult, and pre-modern art. The final shot is a Renaissance painting come to life. #filmsky
December 29, 2024 at 2:31 PM
I loved #Nosferatu! Like Werner Herzog in his remarkable version, Eggers takes a familiar story and expertly weaves in his own obsessions, including folk traditions, the occult, and pre-modern art. The final shot is a Renaissance painting come to life. #filmsky
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I don't know why Bookshop or Barnes & Noble don't stock my book IN THE BREWING LUMINOUS: THE LIFE & MUSIC OF CECIL TAYLOR, but you CAN get it from Abebooks, JazzMessengers, Soundohm, Bis Aufs Messer in Berlin, or direct from the publisher, Wolke Verlag.
December 14, 2024 at 6:01 PM
I don't know why Bookshop or Barnes & Noble don't stock my book IN THE BREWING LUMINOUS: THE LIFE & MUSIC OF CECIL TAYLOR, but you CAN get it from Abebooks, JazzMessengers, Soundohm, Bis Aufs Messer in Berlin, or direct from the publisher, Wolke Verlag.
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Brush up your Shakespeare! Read along with our monthly webinar or just drop in to hear the conversation: english.web.ox.ac.uk/english-facu...
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English Faculty / Oxford World's Classics Shakespeare Webinar Series with Professor Emma Smith
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December 13, 2024 at 5:54 PM
Brush up your Shakespeare! Read along with our monthly webinar or just drop in to hear the conversation: english.web.ox.ac.uk/english-facu...
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The End of the Semester, a play in one act:
Me: I suspect you did not write this essay.
Student: *denies accusation of plagiarism*
Me: Just to confirm, you do understand the assignment was about Macbeth, right?
Student: *agrees*
Me: Then why did you submit a paper on Hamlet?
Student: *silence*
Me: I suspect you did not write this essay.
Student: *denies accusation of plagiarism*
Me: Just to confirm, you do understand the assignment was about Macbeth, right?
Student: *agrees*
Me: Then why did you submit a paper on Hamlet?
Student: *silence*
December 11, 2024 at 2:38 PM
The End of the Semester, a play in one act:
Me: I suspect you did not write this essay.
Student: *denies accusation of plagiarism*
Me: Just to confirm, you do understand the assignment was about Macbeth, right?
Student: *agrees*
Me: Then why did you submit a paper on Hamlet?
Student: *silence*
Me: I suspect you did not write this essay.
Student: *denies accusation of plagiarism*
Me: Just to confirm, you do understand the assignment was about Macbeth, right?
Student: *agrees*
Me: Then why did you submit a paper on Hamlet?
Student: *silence*
A question for professors… is there a particular edition of Shakespeare’s sonnets that you use in your undergraduate classes?
I usually recommend the Folger, but I'm open to exploring other options. #shakespeare #academia
I usually recommend the Folger, but I'm open to exploring other options. #shakespeare #academia
December 7, 2024 at 9:39 PM
A question for professors… is there a particular edition of Shakespeare’s sonnets that you use in your undergraduate classes?
I usually recommend the Folger, but I'm open to exploring other options. #shakespeare #academia
I usually recommend the Folger, but I'm open to exploring other options. #shakespeare #academia
Now playing: Chick Corea’s collaboration with the Trondheim Jazz Orchestra at the Molde Festival in 2000. The big band arrangement of the track "Return to Forever" highlights the spacey, moody brilliance of this fusion classic. #jazzsky
December 3, 2024 at 1:35 PM
Now playing: Chick Corea’s collaboration with the Trondheim Jazz Orchestra at the Molde Festival in 2000. The big band arrangement of the track "Return to Forever" highlights the spacey, moody brilliance of this fusion classic. #jazzsky
Here’s a look at two translations of the chorus’s final lines in Oedipus the King. Many scholars believe that Sophocles didn’t write this passage (Kitto’s translation relegates them to the footnotes) but even if they are a later addition they strike a powerful concluding note to the tragedy. (1/3)
December 3, 2024 at 4:18 AM
Here’s a look at two translations of the chorus’s final lines in Oedipus the King. Many scholars believe that Sophocles didn’t write this passage (Kitto’s translation relegates them to the footnotes) but even if they are a later addition they strike a powerful concluding note to the tragedy. (1/3)
Did you know that Luchino Visconti collaborated with Salvador Dalí on a 1948 production of As You Like It? Here are the backdrops for the court and forest scenes, along with some costume designs. #Shakespeare
November 25, 2024 at 10:48 AM
Did you know that Luchino Visconti collaborated with Salvador Dalí on a 1948 production of As You Like It? Here are the backdrops for the court and forest scenes, along with some costume designs. #Shakespeare
I’m teaching August Wilson’s Fences this week, and there’s a new adaptation of The Piano Lesson on Netflix… any excuse to dip into this gorgeous boxset of the Century Cycle. A thing of beauty! #booksky
November 25, 2024 at 12:48 AM
I’m teaching August Wilson’s Fences this week, and there’s a new adaptation of The Piano Lesson on Netflix… any excuse to dip into this gorgeous boxset of the Century Cycle. A thing of beauty! #booksky
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Giving the starter pack for people interested in early modern women another little boost. Lots of great scholars here! go.bsky.app/Cqqbspt
November 24, 2024 at 5:54 PM
Giving the starter pack for people interested in early modern women another little boost. Lots of great scholars here! go.bsky.app/Cqqbspt
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Seen some demand for a Shakespeare starter pack, so I’ve half-heartedly made one. I know I’m missing A LOT of people, so if you’re a scholar/student/practitioner working on/with/against Shakespeare, let me know and I’ll add you (someone else can do an early modern one!)
go.bsky.app/UrSRue1
go.bsky.app/UrSRue1
November 18, 2024 at 8:22 PM
Seen some demand for a Shakespeare starter pack, so I’ve half-heartedly made one. I know I’m missing A LOT of people, so if you’re a scholar/student/practitioner working on/with/against Shakespeare, let me know and I’ll add you (someone else can do an early modern one!)
go.bsky.app/UrSRue1
go.bsky.app/UrSRue1
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One thing I find interesting about the echo chamber complaint is that an echo chamber just won a presidential election.
Put aside the convo of whether it’s “good” or “bad” for a moment. The far right has devoted enormous resources + time to building echo chambers & loathes spaces they don’t control
Put aside the convo of whether it’s “good” or “bad” for a moment. The far right has devoted enormous resources + time to building echo chambers & loathes spaces they don’t control
The "bluesky is an echo chamber" think pieces that keep popping up really tickle me because they show how certain people genuinely believe social media should be for debating and arguing and not talking about the things that make you happy and sharing art with the world.
November 23, 2024 at 1:29 AM
One thing I find interesting about the echo chamber complaint is that an echo chamber just won a presidential election.
Put aside the convo of whether it’s “good” or “bad” for a moment. The far right has devoted enormous resources + time to building echo chambers & loathes spaces they don’t control
Put aside the convo of whether it’s “good” or “bad” for a moment. The far right has devoted enormous resources + time to building echo chambers & loathes spaces they don’t control
It’s a Symposium Saturday, and I just encountered this wonderful footnote by translator Christopher Gill: “The significance of the hiccups has been much debated by scholars.” 😁 #Plato #philosophy
November 23, 2024 at 3:18 PM
It’s a Symposium Saturday, and I just encountered this wonderful footnote by translator Christopher Gill: “The significance of the hiccups has been much debated by scholars.” 😁 #Plato #philosophy