Paul Barrett
@paulbarrett1.bsky.social
Associate Professor of English and DH at the University of Guelph
Every A&M professor should teach bell hooks tomorrow and the next day and the next day and the next...
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Texas A&M adopts policy requiring professors to get OK from school president to discuss certain race and gender issues.
November 13, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Every A&M professor should teach bell hooks tomorrow and the next day and the next day and the next...
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If you're in Calgary, Vancouver, Winnipeg, Toronto, or Hamilton this fall, I'll be swinging through with my new book No Depression in Heaven. I hope to see you there!
(I'll also be in Edmonton on October 18 for LitFest!)
More info on fall Talonbooks events here: talonbooks.com/events/
(I'll also be in Edmonton on October 18 for LitFest!)
More info on fall Talonbooks events here: talonbooks.com/events/
October 7, 2025 at 11:13 PM
If you're in Calgary, Vancouver, Winnipeg, Toronto, or Hamilton this fall, I'll be swinging through with my new book No Depression in Heaven. I hope to see you there!
(I'll also be in Edmonton on October 18 for LitFest!)
More info on fall Talonbooks events here: talonbooks.com/events/
(I'll also be in Edmonton on October 18 for LitFest!)
More info on fall Talonbooks events here: talonbooks.com/events/
Cindy Lee was a magical, hallucinatory, overwhelming experience.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8Oe...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8Oe...
Cindy Lee - Dreams of You, Lamb of God & Wild One (Toronto 2025)
YouTube video by ShakyShorty
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November 7, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Cindy Lee was a magical, hallucinatory, overwhelming experience.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8Oe...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8Oe...
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The Heavenly Office of Legal Counsel would like to remind the public that the official term for what Dick Cheney is currently experiencing is “enhanced repentance.”
November 4, 2025 at 12:31 PM
The Heavenly Office of Legal Counsel would like to remind the public that the official term for what Dick Cheney is currently experiencing is “enhanced repentance.”
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“Even after having released almost 2,000 people last week, the Israeli military is still holding about 9,000 Palestinians,” says Israeli American human rights lawyer Sari Bashi. “Only about a thousand of them have actually been convicted of any crime."
The Forgotten Captives: Israel Still Imprisoning 9,000 Palestinians Even After Hostage Deal
“Even after having released almost 2,000 people last week, the Israeli military is still holding about 9,000 Palestinians, in what it calls security prisoners or detainees,” says Sari Bashi, an Israel...
www.democracynow.org
October 26, 2025 at 2:01 AM
“Even after having released almost 2,000 people last week, the Israeli military is still holding about 9,000 Palestinians,” says Israeli American human rights lawyer Sari Bashi. “Only about a thousand of them have actually been convicted of any crime."
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CFP (please share!): Our digital literary heritage is rapidly being lost, from 1990s hypertext sites to 2010s digital humanities projects. _A Field Guide to Modernisms_ seeks to spread awareness, document at-risk projects, and brainstorm solutions.
Abstracts by February 2:
www.shawnaross.com/cfp/.
Abstracts by February 2:
www.shawnaross.com/cfp/.
CFP for A Field Guide to Lost Modernisms
www.shawnaross.com
October 20, 2025 at 1:57 PM
CFP (please share!): Our digital literary heritage is rapidly being lost, from 1990s hypertext sites to 2010s digital humanities projects. _A Field Guide to Modernisms_ seeks to spread awareness, document at-risk projects, and brainstorm solutions.
Abstracts by February 2:
www.shawnaross.com/cfp/.
Abstracts by February 2:
www.shawnaross.com/cfp/.
Trump's "peace" plan is continued denigration and humiliation of the Palestinian people. No one should accept this horrific proposal from American fascists and Israeli war criminals.
September 30, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Trump's "peace" plan is continued denigration and humiliation of the Palestinian people. No one should accept this horrific proposal from American fascists and Israeli war criminals.
Political violence is awful. Charlie Kirk was a grifting scumbag. Remember his "amazing patriot" comments? These fascists don't care about freedom of speech -- they care about silencing people, quashing dissent and destroying democracy.
September 16, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Political violence is awful. Charlie Kirk was a grifting scumbag. Remember his "amazing patriot" comments? These fascists don't care about freedom of speech -- they care about silencing people, quashing dissent and destroying democracy.
Six murdered Israelis was the headline on The Guardian today. Six Palestinians were murdered, without comment, in the time it took you to read this. Humanism.
September 9, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Six murdered Israelis was the headline on The Guardian today. Six Palestinians were murdered, without comment, in the time it took you to read this. Humanism.
Is "This is not normal" American for "Fuck fascism!" Such muted and measured response from Americans to their new king. When will they actually, you know... do something to stand up for their republic!?!?
September 8, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Is "This is not normal" American for "Fuck fascism!" Such muted and measured response from Americans to their new king. When will they actually, you know... do something to stand up for their republic!?!?
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US colleagues! Join us in 2026/27 to advance your work in #DigitalHumanities for a semester at the THINC Lab at the University of Guelph via the Fulbright Canada Research Chair in Digital Humanities! Applications until Sept. 15! #DH www.fulbright.ca/programs/ame... www.uoguelph.ca/arts/dhguelp...
Research Chairs - All Disciplines
Award 261265-CA Research Chairs - General and interdisciplinary COMPETITION OPENS FEBRUARY 2025 Awards to be taken up in the 2026-2027...
www.fulbright.ca
September 2, 2025 at 11:08 AM
US colleagues! Join us in 2026/27 to advance your work in #DigitalHumanities for a semester at the THINC Lab at the University of Guelph via the Fulbright Canada Research Chair in Digital Humanities! Applications until Sept. 15! #DH www.fulbright.ca/programs/ame... www.uoguelph.ca/arts/dhguelp...
"If I Must Die" by Refaat Alareer, written just before he was murdered by Israel along with his brother, nephew, sister, and three children:
inthesetimes.com/article/refa...
inthesetimes.com/article/refa...
"If I Must Die," A Poem by Refaat Alareer
A poem written before the author's death in an airstrike by the Israeli military.
inthesetimes.com
August 22, 2025 at 1:31 PM
"If I Must Die" by Refaat Alareer, written just before he was murdered by Israel along with his brother, nephew, sister, and three children:
inthesetimes.com/article/refa...
inthesetimes.com/article/refa...
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BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.
August 10, 2025 at 10:33 PM
BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.
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Friends, I'm currently writing up a methodology chapter and would love your help. Are there any recent projects that use AI or large language models (LLMs) as a direct entry point into Latin American literary texts? I'd be delighted to spotlight innovative work I may have missed. Feel free to share!
August 7, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Friends, I'm currently writing up a methodology chapter and would love your help. Are there any recent projects that use AI or large language models (LLMs) as a direct entry point into Latin American literary texts? I'd be delighted to spotlight innovative work I may have missed. Feel free to share!
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July 31, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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We're hiring a Rare Book Librarian! Maybe it's you?
careers.uoguelph.ca/job/Guelph-A...
careers.uoguelph.ca/job/Guelph-A...
Archival & Special Collections / Rare Book Librarian - Assistant or Associate Librarian
Archival & Special Collections / Rare Book Librarian - Assistant or Associate Librarian
careers.uoguelph.ca
July 30, 2025 at 8:02 PM
We're hiring a Rare Book Librarian! Maybe it's you?
careers.uoguelph.ca/job/Guelph-A...
careers.uoguelph.ca/job/Guelph-A...
CFP: Suburb Nation. Canadian Literature. Submissions due August 15!
canlit.ca/call-for-pap...
canlit.ca/call-for-pap...
July 10, 2025 at 2:30 PM
CFP: Suburb Nation. Canadian Literature. Submissions due August 15!
canlit.ca/call-for-pap...
canlit.ca/call-for-pap...
Urge the Canadian government to stand up for Palestine and be counted among those nations that challenge Israel's criminal war.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Governments like mine have a duty to stand up to Israel. Far too many have failed | Gustavo Petro
Without decisive action, we risk stripping the global legal order of its remaining protections for less-privileged nations, says Gustavo Petro, president of Colombia
www.theguardian.com
July 8, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Urge the Canadian government to stand up for Palestine and be counted among those nations that challenge Israel's criminal war.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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For the @puddingviz.bsky.social, I explored which animals we gender, and why.
Come for the extremely cute interactive viz of animals, stay for the extremely nerdy etymology of the ladybug.
Story: pudding.cool/2025/07/kids...
Come for the extremely cute interactive viz of animals, stay for the extremely nerdy etymology of the ladybug.
Story: pudding.cool/2025/07/kids...
July 7, 2025 at 6:36 PM
For the @puddingviz.bsky.social, I explored which animals we gender, and why.
Come for the extremely cute interactive viz of animals, stay for the extremely nerdy etymology of the ladybug.
Story: pudding.cool/2025/07/kids...
Come for the extremely cute interactive viz of animals, stay for the extremely nerdy etymology of the ladybug.
Story: pudding.cool/2025/07/kids...
We wrote a book! Sarah Roger and I! It comes out today! CanLit and DH! 🎉🎉🎉
July 2, 2025 at 1:32 PM
We wrote a book! Sarah Roger and I! It comes out today! CanLit and DH! 🎉🎉🎉
Exactly correct from The Guardian's Owen Jones: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
July 1, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Exactly correct from The Guardian's Owen Jones: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
One way to celebrate Canada is to cancel your accounts with US companies that pay no taxes here. Amazon, Uber, if you're a dinosaur still on FB, ...
July 1, 2025 at 12:01 PM
One way to celebrate Canada is to cancel your accounts with US companies that pay no taxes here. Amazon, Uber, if you're a dinosaur still on FB, ...