Sarah Wasserman
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Who wants to tell this office about their “angel wings?!”
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Tenured.
Plenty to say about this soon, but for now: gratitude, relief, and a continuing commitment to do what I can to humanize and fix this broken system.
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There are moments when I feel utterly unworthy of my genius students. 😭
Here, some images of a student's gorgeous, insightful, illustrated adaptation of my syllabus for a course on graphic novels (shared with permission).
And LOL, I DID say that thing about vaginas...
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May I interest you in my memoir, "How I knew what was wrong but had to get gaslit & financially ruined by the medical industry for weeks before I could get help" or perhaps the spin-off essay, "Why male doctors refuse to believe female patients, nurses, & techs?" 😡
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I got tired of marketing the English major by appealing to corporate overlords & wrote about it for
@insidehighered
. Shoutouts to
@ARoseCasey
@johannawinant
@zarielle
@RitaFelski
@cnewf
@isanchezprado
Jessie Wilkerson & Jennifer Roberts.
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH I AM SUPPOSED TO TEACH A GRAD SEMINAR THIS FALL ON "DIGITAL INTIMACY."
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@Sellsworth1963
Ha ha it’s actually in the main lobby of a hospital. Just like… randomly on the side of the security stand right when you come in. So documenting the wings required very little effort or interaction. Hope this brought you some holiday cheer 🤣
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Appalled that the number one piece of advice I get to avoid burnout is "to care less."
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Love to be a woman this age cause people are like ewwwww you're so old do your ovaries rattle during zumba and also like ahahahah you're so young and must know so little please bow down to my authority. 😐
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NEWSNEWSNEWS!
This fall I will begin as Assistant Dean of Faculty Affairs at Dartmouth. I’m truly honored to have the opportunity to serve Dartmouth’s amazing faculty so they can do their best work. I can’t wait to see ya soon in the green place 💚
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Welp. This is finally gonna be a thing in the world...
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It wasn’t an ob/gyn office and it wasn’t intentional 😇
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My first ever twitter thread! I've long wanted to offer some advice, mainly for grad students, about social media. But I've been reluctant to do so for many reasons. 1/19
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I need a tiny coffin in which to place my eyeballs at the end of every day.
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It strikes me that most of the recent *English department discourse* is just a bunch of old white dudes bemoaning the end of everything while the rest of us JUST KEEP DOING SHIT 🤷🏻♀️
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So many people helped me with this essay that took, ahem, several years to publish: Emily Hyde, Jim English,
@jde2022
,
@kinohin
, Gordon Hutner, and especially Reader 2 who really hated it 🙃
The 2022 American Literature Society 1921 prize (tenured) has been awarded to
@SarahLWasserman
's provocative essay on Joseph O'Neill, "critical dogs", autofiction, and much more in ALH! We've opened access for anyone to read:
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NEW SCHOLARLY LEVEL UNLOCKED: I got called "grouchy" in a reader's report!
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I think I'm supposed to pin a tweet about this book I wrote?
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I'm so excited... I'm so excited... I'm so... scared!
For real I'm so GRATEFUL to
@noctambulate
and the many many people who carried me along while I wrote this thing.
My first glimpse of
@SarahLWasserman
's incisive and poetic "The Death of Things." Physical copies shouldn't be far behind.
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You NEED to read this essay in the latest PMLA by my incredibly talented colleague
@lheltonian
. Her research on Dorothy Porter will make you think anew about library cataloging: as a radical act, a scene of reading, and a means for producing "a new black imaginary."
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Are you a grad student (or advising a grad student) writing a dissertation on literature (any period, any language) & material culture studies/new materialisms/thing theory/object studies, broadly construed? If so, please reply to this tweet with the title of your diss. 1/2
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Wow! Really liking this Timothée Chalamet guy in Dune!
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This article has been in the works for 6 (!!) years, got me called grouchy in a reader’s report, and is sure to annoy people. I proudly present my essay
@AmLitHist
on
@JosephONeillx
’s novel The Dog, the undead 80s, and why autofiction pretty much blows.
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I don't usually talk about things like this on here, but as someone with a primary immune deficiency disease, I'm feeling real despair at this whole "welp, the pandemic is over, folks" thing.
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Friends, help me avoid admin brainrot! What are your favorite scholarly books from 2021-2022 (any field, any period)? Here's my current stack but I'd love to know what I should add!
@ncecire
@BruceRobbins6
@professorperl
@pbenzon
@TBewes
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Proud to be the recipient of this year’s College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Advising Award and to be in the company of
@lheltonian
and
@edwardjlarkin
. I mean, look at this sweep by
@UDELEnglish
!
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This week I've been telling the students in my Jewish fiction course that criticizing Israel doesn't mean being anti-Semitic. They get it because... IT'S NOT COMPLICATED.
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News cycles are short, solidarity is forever.
#SaveWVU
News of WVU’s “Academic Transformation” has died down.
43% (9/21) of the faculty in my unit (Div. of Plant & Soil Sciences) are being fired & will learn our fate by 10/13.
The idea of losing ≈50% of my colleagues / friends (or 100% if I’m RIFed) by next summer is devastating!
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Sorry/not sorry for the impotent rage tweet but today I want to punch the pandemic in its face for what it is doing to my students and their lives.
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Since March I have held it all together, I've done the things, I've taken care and...
I am just...
gonna have to adopt another kitten.
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Most of you know that I am dubious about prizes. So while I'm hugely honored, what I feel most is gratitude to the friends who read this essay and made it better along the way:
@kinohin
,
@EveDunbar
,
@DaylanneEnglish
, Emily Hyde, Jed Esty, and the "stuff" cohort
@WolfHumanities
!
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PSA: If your children draw me pictures of cats, I will show them off at scholarly conferences.
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I truly cannot believe I won this for my "grouchy" essay:
Floored to have been judged by the dazzling Adrienne Brown, Nan Z. Da, Fiona Green, Cody Marrs, and
@raf_walk
!
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I know “everything sucks” but also so many of you are out there fighting, producing mountains of amazing work, just generally being more awesome than ever. Today is one of those days my comrades seem stronger than my enemies ❤️✊🏼
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@chick_in_kiev
This is definitely him. I don’t want to amplify without consent, but someone else has tweeted to confirm this and report their own experience of harassment by Gilson. 🤬💔
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I wrote this essay about infrastructural racism, gentrification, Chester Himes, and Ralph Ellison a long time ago. It's finally available online in PMLA. I'm proud of this work but also...wish it was a lot less relevant.
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Since times are hard & I don't wordle, I'd like to suggest a game of not-secret admirer. Name a person whose tweets you really like-- not a bestie or person you know well, but someone more distant whose tweets bring you joy, make you laugh, etc. I'll go first:
@farahmomer
💕
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@EveDunbar
OMG, these, YES!
I thought if a house had more than two floors, then no matter what it was OFFICIALLY A MANSION.
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If you loved Bo Burnham’s Inside, you’ll hate this new essay I wrote about it for
@PublicBooks
😇
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Zoom blows and austerity can go to hell but my
@UDELEnglish
students asked if they could dress up for our class on The Great Gatsby and IT WAS EVERYTHING 😍😭
And yes, I went as the green light.
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Don't love to share like this on here but am dealing with post-Covid complications and doing the least while I recover. See you all (socially and professionally!) on the other side of this💕
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If PA goes to Biden thanks to Philadelphia, I'm going to eat a cheesesteak and hump
@GrittyNHL
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I wasn't kidding. Meet Trudee!
Since March I have held it all together, I've done the things, I've taken care and...
I am just...
gonna have to adopt another kitten.
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Go to bed angry/wake up angry/do my job angry/donate angry/mobilize angry.
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It's my birthday 🥳 and for a present, I would like to make sure you are registered to VOTE:
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Diagnosed today with post/long Covid pneumonia. Luv 2 start the school year right!
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WOW. What an honor to have my book reviewed for
@thenation
by
@SophieHaigney
, a generous, attentive reader— who is herself an incredible writer!
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This book is one of the most rigorously researched I’ve EVER read. It is a game-changer.
Hot off the press! Congratulations to Laura Helton (
@lheltonian
) on the arrival of her book, SCATTERED & FUGITIVE THINGS: HOW BLACK COLLECTORS CREATED ARCHIVES & REMADE HISTORY published in the Black Lives in the Diaspora series.
@columbiaUP
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Editing this book was wonderful because I learned SO MUCH from my co-editors, Martin Brückner & Sandy Isenstadt, & from each of the contributors. I am very happy it is a thing in the world now. Stay tuned for a thread about all its incredible essays:
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So I am genuinely terrified to share this very personal thing I wrote. But
@elsewheremuseum
gave me the inspiration and
@StanfordArcade
gave me the encouragement so here it is:
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Words I never thought I'd utter: I had actual *fun* at
#MLA2024
.
It was such a gift to see so many friends, celebrate new books, hear fresh ideas, and count stacks of cash with Emily Hyde (photo by
@XanderManshel
).
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It is incredible (enraging!) to watch men troll
@kate_manne
about how much they hate her book in ways that EXACTLY PROVE the argument of her book. 🤦🏻♀️
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PSA PSA PSA! Don't be (or fail to recognize) the THEORY BOY.
@spampinato_erin
Years ago Toril Moi wrote an amazing essay **in a Duke Graduate School publication** that identified & dismantled the "Theory Boy." It remains one of my favorite pieces of writing on this topic & I cite it here --will send you TM's whole PDF by email!
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Just a reminder that it's okay to be nice to each other on this website 🙃
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🏆 EDITOR APPRECIATION TWEET 🏆
Too often we toil with our ideas and words alone. What an absolute GIFT it is when an editor—in this case
@bravohotelpapadoes
—does the generous, insightful work of showing you the best version of your ideas. It honestly feels a little like magic.
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COVID is the absolute worst but every morning I get a bunch of texts from friends checking in on me and damn it makes me feel loved😭💕
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My hot take on today’s twitter/advice for the new school year: STAY PROFESSIONAL AND DONT BE A DICK.
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Not at all surprised that the Coronavirus is revealing how women think more socially, relationally, and structurally while men tend to think about individual fate and strength. Staying home is NOT ABOUT YOU, dudes.
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Thinking about attending ASAP/13? Interested in transitions? I'm working on a thing—it's still pretty gestural at the moment but let me know if you'd consider joining:
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I so rarely have thoughts worth tweeting, so please enjoy this cat content.
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Sorry but WHO ARE THESE GHOULS CREATING MORE WORK for students and giving video-proctored exams on day one of online learning and generally just NOT FUCKING GETTING IT???
#coronacampus
#mystudentsaremyheroes
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No matter how many times I reread Sedgwick, I never cease to be dazzled by her incredible lists-as-arguments.
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I'm late to this, but
@mitchrmurray
's piece on autofiction is stunning: moving, funny, synthetic, smart, and it has CHARTS. If you want to know why autofiction is bad but literature can still be good, read this right now!
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#ASAP13
is a wrap and I feel so grateful that I got to learn from such a brilliant group. Thanks to team hard/soft/lost:
@hering_david
@amyjelias
@carallewis
@gloriafisk
@SarahMDowling1
@oliviastowell
@wwJJDdo
@endtimesplural
! And farewell, nicely-named building😎
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I'm giving my first in-person talk since December 2019 tomorrow
@RowanUniversity
and I can't wait to pretend I know things about the internet!!
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After 8 long weeks of Covid and pneumonia, I could not be happier to have made it to my happy place at
#ASAP13
. See you all soon for less beach, more edge!
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Sorry Twitter, but I'm afraid it's all kitten pics from here on out because I ADOPTED A FURBABY!!! Meet Max.
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Whatever I’m doing right now (professionally, politically) doesn’t need to be tweeted. Right now my job here is to LISTEN. But let me just be clear about where I stand : FUCK WHITE SUPREMACY. DEFUND THE POLICE. BLACK LIVES MATTER.
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Today I received the most mysterious delivery of my life. Addressed to my house but to "Terry Tate" (no neighbors by that name). The contents: a single can of black beans.
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If you'll be at MLA, then come pick a winning side, sign a truce, or wave the white flag—with help from our panel that will ask who (if anyone) is really at war, with
@whitneytrettien
,
@kinohin
,
@julieorlemanski
!
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So who wants cheesesteaks for breakfast?
If PA goes to Biden thanks to Philadelphia, I'm going to eat a cheesesteak and hump
@GrittyNHL
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