The Last Cohort
@thelastcohort.bsky.social
An anthropologist dishing up "dark academia," starting with a fictional account of my own department https://hartiganj.substack.com/p/why-i-wrote-the-last-cohort After writing 8 scholarly books, now it's only novels. https://books2read.com/u/38wOXV
I tease my students that Gen-Z's "sex recession" is a function of them watching too many zombie movies: hartiganj.substack.com/p/zombies-an...
#CulturalAnthropology #MonsterTheory #Gothic #DarkAcademia #Folklore
#CulturalAnthropology #MonsterTheory #Gothic #DarkAcademia #Folklore
Zombies & Vampires
And anti-vaxxers
hartiganj.substack.com
October 3, 2025 at 3:03 PM
I tease my students that Gen-Z's "sex recession" is a function of them watching too many zombie movies: hartiganj.substack.com/p/zombies-an...
#CulturalAnthropology #MonsterTheory #Gothic #DarkAcademia #Folklore
#CulturalAnthropology #MonsterTheory #Gothic #DarkAcademia #Folklore
It's a sinking feeling to have written a novel about a grad student going to Hell to rescue an imperiled soul, and a few weeks later a novel debuts at #1 on the NYTimes bestsellers about TWO grads who go to Hell. What's up with that?? open.substack.com/pub/hartigan...
#AcademicSky #gradschool
#AcademicSky #gradschool
Go to Hell.
Hell fascinates as much as it frightens.
open.substack.com
September 9, 2025 at 3:17 PM
It's a sinking feeling to have written a novel about a grad student going to Hell to rescue an imperiled soul, and a few weeks later a novel debuts at #1 on the NYTimes bestsellers about TWO grads who go to Hell. What's up with that?? open.substack.com/pub/hartigan...
#AcademicSky #gradschool
#AcademicSky #gradschool
September 4, 2025 at 5:42 PM
"Students wonder why faculty aren’t doing more to adjust teaching practices to match the fundamental changes wrought by new technologies."
Here's my what I'm trying. hartiganj.substack.com/p/ai-vs-clas...
What about other profs? How are you engaging with the Class of 2029 over AI?
Here's my what I'm trying. hartiganj.substack.com/p/ai-vs-clas...
What about other profs? How are you engaging with the Class of 2029 over AI?
September 4, 2025 at 4:23 PM
"Students wonder why faculty aren’t doing more to adjust teaching practices to match the fundamental changes wrought by new technologies."
Here's my what I'm trying. hartiganj.substack.com/p/ai-vs-clas...
What about other profs? How are you engaging with the Class of 2029 over AI?
Here's my what I'm trying. hartiganj.substack.com/p/ai-vs-clas...
What about other profs? How are you engaging with the Class of 2029 over AI?
Ever wonder about portals to the Afterlife? This is about one in Galicia, Spain hartiganj.substack.com/p/gateway-to...
Gateway to the Afterlife: Portalén
One strand of The Last Cohort leads back to Portalén, an ancient menhir atop Monte Seixo, in the Serra do Cando range of Galicia, Spain.
hartiganj.substack.com
August 5, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Ever wonder about portals to the Afterlife? This is about one in Galicia, Spain hartiganj.substack.com/p/gateway-to...
Olivia finds out she’s the only grad who didn’t get summer research funding. #academicsky #HigherEd #Academia
July 30, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Olivia finds out she’s the only grad who didn’t get summer research funding. #academicsky #HigherEd #Academia
A grad student wants to study hauntings, amzn.to/4ob0oLn #gradschool, #anthropology, What advice would you give her?
July 29, 2025 at 6:44 PM
A grad student wants to study hauntings, amzn.to/4ob0oLn #gradschool, #anthropology, What advice would you give her?
This is how bad it's getting for academics here in Texas. We’re being policed by a new state entity, the Office of the Ombudsman, designed to to intimidate faculty. Professors who are accused will have little right to defend themselves.
www.austinchronicle.com/news/2025-07...
www.austinchronicle.com/news/2025-07...
Right-Wing Crackdowns Drive Academics Away From UT and the U.S.
Staff morale, federal funds, and state confidence dry up
www.austinchronicle.com
July 29, 2025 at 4:17 PM
This is how bad it's getting for academics here in Texas. We’re being policed by a new state entity, the Office of the Ombudsman, designed to to intimidate faculty. Professors who are accused will have little right to defend themselves.
www.austinchronicle.com/news/2025-07...
www.austinchronicle.com/news/2025-07...
