Historian of American Art + Professor at Boston University. Books: Speculative Landscapes, Rendering Violence, Oil Culture. Boston Terrier aficionado.
Joined July 2021
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Hi blue humanities folks! The *Oceanic New England* issue of @_NEQuarterly_ that I co-edited w @ProfRossBarrett is out & it's beautiful! Essays on seaweed aesthetics, hurricane panoramas, archipelagic painting, & more by @AlisonGlassie, Naomi Slipp @marinadawnwells, Kimia Shahi
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Legendary Marxist critic Fredric Jameson (1934-2024) spent his life and career committed to socialist ideas.
In Jacobin last year, Jameson, argued that socialists today can revive utopian ideals by showing that change is, in fact, possible. jacobin.com/2023/01/frederic…
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🗣️🗣️🗣️WHAT DOES @SenWarren want the BU admin to know???
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THREAD: Boston University is so determined to union-bust its own students that they’re proposing replacing grad workers with AI.
And that’s just the tip of the iceberg.
ALT Engage generative AI tools to give feedback or facilitate 'discussion' on readings or assignments
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Please spread the word! BU’s Department of History of Art & Architecture is looking to hire a tenure-track Assistant Professor of African American and/or African Diaspora Art. For full details see:
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We are hiring: Our MA program in Preservation Studies is seeking to hire a new Director of Preservation Studies at the rank of tenured Full Professor. For the full job announcement see: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/j…
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We’re pleased to share the #CFP for our sponsored session at #CAA2024, chaired by @sarahcschaefer! Be sure to get your proposals in for “The Dark Fantastic in Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture” by August 31st via @caavisual’s submission portal.
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See below for our Summer 2023 CFP! Abstracts due May 19th. Link for submission: bit.ly/3ME5TSu
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Congratulations to Dr. Megan LeBarron, PhD! (@LeRedBarron) She successfully defended her dissertation, “Heartland Cosmopolitanism: The Midwest And Literary Modernism in The Work of Willa Cather and Sinclair Lewis,” this afternoon! Congratulations, Megan!!!!!! 🥳📕👏
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Join me next week! I'll be talking about "doom patterns" in Latinx literature and Hernan Díaz's _In the Distance_🤓📚🖊️
Interested in literature focused on the Latin experience? Join us for a lunch talk with @maiagiladi discussing Hernan Díaz’s novel "In the Distance," on March 21st at 12 p.m. Link to register here: bit.ly/3SnTx1x
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We're proud to launch Vol II of Ampersand! The issue includes a variety of scholarship that seeks to unpack narratives, methods, and traditions that have been "ingrained." We'll spotlight each essay in the days ahead and invite you to read them all at sites.bu.edu/ampersandjourna…
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Be sure to check out @whalingmuseum's upcoming symposium, The Wider World and Scrimshaw, featuring @marinadawnwells, phd candidate, who will speak on the The Space of the Oceans and Museums
panel. whalingmuseum.org/program/th…
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Announcing! Archives and Knowledge Keepers: Native American and Indigenous Studies and the Art of History. A Symposium @BU_Tweets, May 4, 2023. In person and Live via Zoom. Featuring 8 Emerging Scholars and a response by Philip J. Deloria. Register here: bu.edu/amnesp/archives-knowl…
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Check out our alumna @MariahKupfner in this wonderful video about her work!
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PhD Candidate @marinadawnwells will participate in the Liberating Temporality & Spatiality grad conference @MIT. Their paper, "Bone, Hair, and Leaves: Material Time Travel & Finding Life in the Archive" is in the Editing & Defining the Archives session 👏
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Grace McGowan (@phdoingmydamnb1) will virtually present, “‘Age of Phillis’: Revisiting Classical Transformations of Phillis Wheatley Peters in the 21st Century,” @ the Louisville Conference on Literature & Culture. It is 2/20 @ 1:45pm! Details below!
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American Art on/of the Atlantic Coast has it all...Fitz Henry Lane! Whaling! Seaweed! Deception! See everyone there at 9am on Thursday 2/16 🐳
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🚨Are you presenting or organizing a @caavisual panel about American art? Drop the details here and we'll RT! 🚨
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Good news from PhD Student Jesse Dritz! Her paper “Typical Brownies & Typical Others: Photography, Classification, & the Kodak Snapshot Camera”was accepted @UDelaware's Emerging Scholars Material Culture Symposium, “From Hogarth to Hypebeast: The Materiality of Popular Cultures”