Matthew Harrison
pizza advocate; english professor
- Reposted by Matthew HarrisonI love how precisely snooty the angle of that glorious beak is
- Reposted by Matthew HarrisonWe put on an all-Yiddish community production of fiddler on the roof in Philadelphia and cast member and local artist Sofie Rose Seymour created the most amazing show poster that ever was
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- Not the last state to do this, I suspect.
- Tenure Eliminated at Oklahoma Colleges Regional and community colleges professors will no longer receive tenure; research university faculty are spared, with some exceptions. bit.ly/4tlEtUq #EDUSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd
- thinking about the fact that yale guy's argument stops at "if i hadn't said anything about her looks, he would have called and asked." so many of these emails are so clear about how the preferences of powerful people are internalized
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Museums are full of really good Creatures (these ones are Mycenaean terracotta). You are required to love them. - stoked to find out that the shakespeare authorship people are now using chat gpt and claude code
- I still remember (as a v junior scholar) trying to write this section of a review.
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- one of my rules for myself, as a teacher, is that i don't teach texts about a culture without reading literature by the people of that culture. (so, i.e., Romeo and Juliet sent me to Veronese humanist Isotta Nogorola and her Dialogue on...Adam and Eve)...
- Reposted by Matthew HarrisonA used bookshop called Maslow's Hierarchy of Reads.
- i know stockholm syndrome isn't really a thing, but i've started to think "man, duo mobile picks really good numbers"
- Reposted by Matthew HarrisonMy brain is mush. I need to secure permissions for two famous C19 paintings to appear in my book. My recollection is there’s a database (or two, or…?) where you can get images of many C19 paintings for free or a small fee. Any tips? With thx from a person who deals mostly in words.
- Reposted by Matthew Harrisontaught Pangur Bán today in my undergrad medieval animals course. Everyone loves this ninth-century Old Irish poem about a white cat and monk each hunting, one for mice, the other for textual meaning. Without knowing the scholarship, I'd wager than at least popularly, it's taken as just that. 1/4
- Do you think they told her the event started at 1pm so she’d be there on time?
- delighted by how terrible so many grammys outfits are. people are taking swings again.
- triple dog dare you to post something corny
- Reposted by Matthew HarrisonBut perennially, a challenge of college teaching is that you can’t just rely on what would have reached you bc you by virtue of becoming a professor in your subject were an atypical student.
- Reposted by Matthew Harrison"Texas A&M University said on Friday that it would end its women’s and gender studies program, and that the syllabuses for hundreds of courses had been altered under new policies limiting how race and gender ideology may be discussed in classrooms" (gift article)
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- today a poem named "this is just to say" would be about email
- @johannawinant.bsky.social @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social I have so far used y'all's description of close-reading in three class sessions and three more student meetings. i suspect i'll teach it more frequently next fall when i've had more time to absorb.
- important for font name fans
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- for every like this post gets, i'll refrain from saying one thing that would lose me my job.
- Reposted by Matthew Harrisonreminds me of a friend who explained why recent years have felt so weird to so many millennials here and it’s because “we went into the pandemic young people and came out of it old”
- There’s a deep intellectual honesty that I respect in naming it the “fast forward” button. Take the extra word to acknowledge that it’s already moving forward, and the button just speeds things up a bit. A graceful treatment of predecessors. Likewise “rewind”: it was first wound well before us.
- it pisses me off that romeo cheats on juliet with mercutio and then the two of them run off together to mantua. what do those two do to deserve a happy ending? why does juliet have to stay in verona and become a successful author (like isotta nogarola)?
- pray for me: i’m standing in line behind someone who doesn’t move up fast enough when space clears in front of them. agonizing.
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