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Guy who got a PhD studying historical fiction and does other stuff now, He/Him.

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"We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings." - Ursula K. LeGuin
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I'm employee
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Just saw this gem in a used bookstore
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My assailant
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Me, at the beginning of a PhD: sure art may be embattled by capital's neverending drive to commoditize everything, but it still contains a radical kernel of possibility! Me, at the end: no it doesn't
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A tenured English prof I've never met told me to go to a coding bootcamp when I told them I'm in my last year of grad school at a new years eve party
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So uh was the first chapter of the dissertation incredibly hard for anyone else? I feel like the dumbest person alive.
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Pretty cool that a not-insignifcant amount of how well you do in grad school just comes down to whether or not faculty at your institution think you're cool
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Knives Out is just the MCU for people who read the New Yorker
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@CrackedMarbles @Dee_the_magical @wydryan @TyRiddell Or the author of the original tweet unconsciously engaged in a series of cultural codes that surround us and inform all literature
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If I got divorced to marry one of my grad students I'd simply keep it to myself
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1. Talk about what you are doing with the power and prestige of your position to fight for grad students, postdocs, and ntt faculty If you can't do that, 2. Commiserate! Not all situations require advice. The academy is on fire and we're in this together, it's ok to just vent
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Dear reader, I passed
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Today's the day folks, gotta go defend this diss
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Confession: I was only going to send this to my circle and then accidentally sent it to everyone
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@meakoopa YA Fiction: Replace all oppressed groups with oppressed white teens who are metaphors for oppressed groups
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Jacob... Stern??? Did a boat write this?
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@draculavoice Friend and I have started thinking of these films as negative entendre, where they say even less than they appear to on the surface
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@oliviastowell This can also be achieved by staying up until 3 or 4 in the morning, but at a much greater price
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@PeterHerman4 I cannot believe you just did exactly what they did. Save me? I finish my Ph.D. this year!
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This is reaching a much wider audience than I intended so I just want to say, the prof's heart was in the right place and I know they meant well. But if you find yourself in their position here's a couple things you can say other than "learn to code"
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Thinking about starting a recipe blog where the intro to every recipe is my dissertation in its entirety
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I want to meet anyone who read gravity's rainbow in a mass market paperback edition
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@headron I do! But there are all kinds of reasons books end up in used bookstores. Maybe the owner died of old age or maybe they read and loved the book and then moved on because they're not much for material things. It's a fun mystery.
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@meakoopa YA Fiction: Make villains so reprehensibly evil and morality so black/white that nothing in the real world seems worth fighting
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Ever wonder what happened to those boats borne back ceaselessly into the past? I asked an AI to write 100 more pages after the end of the great Gatsby
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@matthiasellis $1000 of student loan debt relief will be provided to anyone who opens a mom and pop defense contractor in an underprivileged neighborhood
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@Luna__Vincent The "more of a comment than a question" crowd offers career advice
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@stevenwatts I accidentally walked into an MBA seminar yesterday and now I'm the CEO of a fortune 500 company???
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@HG_Wellington @meakoopa Oh yeah Pres. Snow and his institutionalized child murder and genetically engineered human dog hybrids are so grey.
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@the_tweedy Us cat-owning PhD student men gotta stick together
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Showing up at my English class only to realize the version of The Great Gatsby I read was a full length re-write by a chatbot, featuring sentences like "The thing that made my friend Gatsby so great was that he felt like money when I touched him"
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@readthedistrict @jeremiah4dc Public services shouldn't be run as for profit businesses
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The thing no one talks about with writing is how profoundly embarrassing it is
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Talking to a prospective therapist: I'm working on a phd in English Therapist: So, what, you write about Proust?
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Today's the day folks, gotta go defend this diss
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The final draft of my dissertation has been sent to my committee
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Lady Gaga, Jared Leto, Adam Driver
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What happens to spousal hires when they get divorced
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Just checked and all my research essay prompts are perfectly AI proof
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In this workshop we'll discuss several viable alt-ac careers and how to get them, starting with frozen steak product social media manager
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Steak-umm is taking it to Neil deGrasse Tyson and I am here for this battle of the titans.
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@rwiggum @blankcheckpod He's already got a good-sized and varied filmography though. Plus, he's an interesting person to check in on each time there's a new film.
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Rest in piece merv's Twitter account she used her bully pulpit to defend people of tenure from mean grad students 😢💔🫡
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Just sent off the first draft of the last chapter of my dissertation, please clap
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@magicdonhuang @bo_austin_ @nikhil_palsingh And English departments funnily enough
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More and more I think if you win the tenure lottery you can't ethically hold this position. Once you get that lucky you have to fight tooth and nail to save the humanities and improve the academy broadly
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all these posts by people who’ve had tenured positions for 10+ years about how there’s “no good reason” to get a phd in the humanities anymore severely overestimate both the quality and availability of many other career paths
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Pleased to announce that the fiction section reorganization is complete (and that I have a book hoarding problem)
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I made a friend today
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@dennismhogan If you listen closely you can still hear the thrum of our nonhuman kin
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@Johnnyman_117 @sunraysunray
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RIP Benjamin he would have loved The Immersive Van Gogh Experience™
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I show up for my dissertation defense. I begin to cut into the dissertation with a knife. The interior is revealed. The dissertation is a cake.
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Hello, it is my birthday today
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@christapeterso Love that this has the cadence of a Jeff Foxworthy joke
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Does anyone in lit crit care about Donna Tartt? I'm reading The Secret History on the recommendation of a friend and I'm kind of struck by how little she's talked about for a Pullitzer winner
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@__Sequoia__ @jazztronomy I've never felt more out of place in grad school than when a grad student in my department told me both their parents were professors.
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Sitting in a coffeeshop eavesdropping on the world's most insufferable bro landlords discussing the finer points of rich dad poor dad
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Why didn't anyone tell me Zizek was in Mare of Easttown
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What I've learned writing a dissertation is that it's a miracle anyone has ever written a book
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Should I go see a screening of lost highway tomorrow? I've never seen it
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Editing this dissertation like
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I bought some books today
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Can't overstate how much I enjoyed participating in the Jameson reading group tonight. Thank you so much for organizing @V21collective #wellngai
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From hell's heart I stab at thee
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Having a second monitor has really improved my productivity.
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Watching My Cousin Vinny for the first time and this account is now a Marissa Tomei stan account
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Are there any grad students out there who aren't filled with self-loathing over not being "productive enough"? If so, what's your secret?
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Well, I have officially written the first sentences of my dissertation.
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I only read Gatsby the way Fitzgerald intended it to be read, as a spotify audiobook with the chapters on shuffle
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@MadManMtn Jurassic Park deeply misled me about whether being cool has anything to do with math
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Essay Collection Proposal: Scholars write an introduction to their own The [year] Project, each essay arguing for its own year as the most important periodizing moment in American history. There's an individual essay for every single year in the past 500 years or so.
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Bringing in the new year right, I made an appointment today with a shelter to adopt a cat!
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New bio just dropped 👀
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Reading Jameson tonight and just galaxy braining over and over again. Where is this feeling when I need it?
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Just graded what I think is the best ever essay written for a prompt I wrote, you love to see it
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@ftmensch
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Can't believe I'm about to board the hoagie train
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I think I just took my cat's author photo
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Making up for not running into @dan_sinykin at ASAP with the next best thing
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@SenWarren We appreciate your solidarity, but you have to start opposing Trump where it matters, in the Senate! #nobannowall
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I told her she's a cliché
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Just got out of a fantastic #ASAP12 panel on the future of the humanities, with papers from @LKonstan , @thisblueangel , @BruceRobbins6 , and Patricia Stuelke. I'm very excited for Michelle Chihara's upcoming book on behavioral economics
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Today I adopted a cat from Georgia and it felt like a good omen. It's been a long day, folks.
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Sorry folks, I've cancelled the release of my dissertation so that I can use grad school as a tax write-off
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X is the future state of unlimited interactivity – centered in audio, video, messaging, payments/banking – creating a global marketplace for ideas, goods, services, and opportunities. Powered by AI, X will connect us all in ways we’re just beginning to imagine.
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If you're (virutally) attending MLA this year come to my panel tomorrow at 10:15 am Marxism and Genre: Speculative Fiction. I'll be talking alternate history, Colson Whitehead and Philip Roth! Fun will be had by all!
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Well this little joke has officially escaped my circle of weirdos
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Just drove past the J. Fenimore Cooper Highway Rest Area, he would have been so honored ♥️
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The highlight of my day was seeing this big rock.
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Got to see a great talk today between @Mark__Bray and @GrimKim at Making Worlds Bookstore celebrating the launch of Mark's new book The Anarchist Inquisition
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Finished writing a small thing that took me literal months because of the state of the world and my mind. Please clap.
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@arianahollyy @Cruithneach @JFrankensteiner
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A stranger accidentally sent me $600 on Venmo today and I reached out to customer service to get it sent back despite being desperately broke, please clap
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I'm working on my dissertation chapter on ghosts in historical fiction and I would love to hear what your favorite academic writing on ghosts is! Can be ghosts in literature or just ghosts in general! Please share 👻
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My sister just got a tiny kitten and it's already friends with her girlfriend's giant husky 😍
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A living wage would solve more problems than therapy
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@hldolby Yeah I did actually. I keep trying to hand mona lisa an ak but she won't take it
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Just got my second dose of the vaccine!
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