Kevin Spencer
@kevinspencer.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of English at Wenzhou-Kean University. First-generation college graduate. Writing on the American influence on and inheritance of French existentialism. 경기도 안산, 浙江温州, Alberta. Typos are a given
https://wku.edu.cn/faculty/kevin-spencer/
https://wku.edu.cn/faculty/kevin-spencer/
I’m reminded of the time I talked ChatGPT into justifying confiscating a migrant worker’s passport and administering corporal punishment for cooking eggs wrong.
August 27, 2025 at 1:41 AM
I’m reminded of the time I talked ChatGPT into justifying confiscating a migrant worker’s passport and administering corporal punishment for cooking eggs wrong.
Excitd to listen. For what it's worth, I found this three-year old email from Fred Jameson, one of the last times I corresponded with him.
I'd asked him what was good to read, and he said he was rereading Andrew Miller's Now We Shall Be Entirely Free. I'm not sure if he ended up writing about it.
I'd asked him what was good to read, and he said he was rereading Andrew Miller's Now We Shall Be Entirely Free. I'm not sure if he ended up writing about it.
August 8, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Excitd to listen. For what it's worth, I found this three-year old email from Fred Jameson, one of the last times I corresponded with him.
I'd asked him what was good to read, and he said he was rereading Andrew Miller's Now We Shall Be Entirely Free. I'm not sure if he ended up writing about it.
I'd asked him what was good to read, and he said he was rereading Andrew Miller's Now We Shall Be Entirely Free. I'm not sure if he ended up writing about it.
The Boomer-Gen Z harmonic.
July 23, 2025 at 11:54 AM
The Boomer-Gen Z harmonic.
There used to be a bar in Seoul (신촌) called The Doors, and when you entered you saw a painting of Jim Morrison. Except it was actually Val Kilmer as Jim Morrison.
July 15, 2025 at 7:51 AM
There used to be a bar in Seoul (신촌) called The Doors, and when you entered you saw a painting of Jim Morrison. Except it was actually Val Kilmer as Jim Morrison.
Are you worthy of this cocktail?
July 5, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Are you worthy of this cocktail?
“If you sit down, it’s warm.”
Parts of South Korea have warm benches at bus stops..
Parts of South Korea have warm benches at bus stops..
January 21, 2025 at 5:28 AM
“If you sit down, it’s warm.”
Parts of South Korea have warm benches at bus stops..
Parts of South Korea have warm benches at bus stops..
Will I get fired if I open this app that my employer provides?
August 29, 2024 at 6:45 AM
Will I get fired if I open this app that my employer provides?
Which way, Western Man?
June 20, 2024 at 10:58 AM
Which way, Western Man?
Many students seem to think each submission’s baseline is a perfect grade and that every comment I give them is a deduction, so they nitpick every point instead is taking them as examples of larger trend. They seem to approach class with no sense of adventure or hope for transformation.
May 13, 2024 at 12:49 PM
Many students seem to think each submission’s baseline is a perfect grade and that every comment I give them is a deduction, so they nitpick every point instead is taking them as examples of larger trend. They seem to approach class with no sense of adventure or hope for transformation.
Spotted at a local festival in Wenzhou, China. Nice reminder not to reify the language of critique.
May 3, 2024 at 11:41 AM
Spotted at a local festival in Wenzhou, China. Nice reminder not to reify the language of critique.
Jameson, A Singular Modernity, pg 170 talks about how “the ideology of modernism” is the idea that artistic expression is essentially about itself, and how it’s an essentially an anti-Stalinist reactionary political position. It’s only odd to see it here because now is 2024, not 1956.
April 24, 2024 at 2:23 PM
Jameson, A Singular Modernity, pg 170 talks about how “the ideology of modernism” is the idea that artistic expression is essentially about itself, and how it’s an essentially an anti-Stalinist reactionary political position. It’s only odd to see it here because now is 2024, not 1956.
A “safe space,” if you will.
April 9, 2024 at 11:45 AM
A “safe space,” if you will.
post a PERFECT album from the 90s that isn’t nirvana or pearl jam or soundgarden or alice in chains
April 6, 2024 at 12:47 PM
post a PERFECT album from the 90s that isn’t nirvana or pearl jam or soundgarden or alice in chains
Just learned that in Hangzhou, China, there is a bookstore called Ulysses that for its first two years of existence sold exclusively various editions of Joyce’s Ulysses.
April 2, 2024 at 4:28 AM
Just learned that in Hangzhou, China, there is a bookstore called Ulysses that for its first two years of existence sold exclusively various editions of Joyce’s Ulysses.
Educational experts keep waving the term “discovery-led learning” around like a magic wand. Do they know it’s been at the heart of the humanities since Socrates? If they’re serious about this method, reduce class sizes.
March 11, 2024 at 11:46 PM
Educational experts keep waving the term “discovery-led learning” around like a magic wand. Do they know it’s been at the heart of the humanities since Socrates? If they’re serious about this method, reduce class sizes.
How am I meant to grade “a technology map”? Do I tell students the “proper” route for using technology? If so, doesn’t that just invite the same sort of dishonestly I’m trying to curb? Sounds like a lot of wasted time for student and teacher.
March 11, 2024 at 11:39 PM
How am I meant to grade “a technology map”? Do I tell students the “proper” route for using technology? If so, doesn’t that just invite the same sort of dishonestly I’m trying to curb? Sounds like a lot of wasted time for student and teacher.
Fascinating to find in China advertisements that would be denounced on cultural grounds were they in North America.
December 9, 2023 at 8:33 AM
Fascinating to find in China advertisements that would be denounced on cultural grounds were they in North America.
0 stars for this restaurant.
November 15, 2023 at 4:03 AM
0 stars for this restaurant.
New departmental profile pic idea
November 3, 2023 at 1:18 AM
New departmental profile pic idea
If this is an objection, it’s a really weak one.
September 28, 2023 at 1:35 AM
If this is an objection, it’s a really weak one.
Finally getting around to this book, and it’s definitely engaging—I find myself variously nodding and frowning at Guillory’s account of the state of the discipline.
September 23, 2023 at 2:44 AM
Finally getting around to this book, and it’s definitely engaging—I find myself variously nodding and frowning at Guillory’s account of the state of the discipline.
Advertise your account with just one image.
September 10, 2023 at 2:19 AM
Advertise your account with just one image.
Back on my bullshit (ordering 6-packs of Canadian ginger beer off the Internet).
September 8, 2023 at 1:20 AM
Back on my bullshit (ordering 6-packs of Canadian ginger beer off the Internet).