Xander Manshel
@XanderManshel
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@McGillEnglish | BOOK: Writing Backwards (@ColumbiaUP) | WRITING: @TheAtlantic, @TheNation, @LAReviewofBooks, @LitHub | NEXT: The History of High School English
Montreal
Joined April 2010
My book is officially available for preorder from @ColumbiaUP! It's about how stories of the historical past came to dominate contemporary American literature—and how this phenomenon has impacted writers of color most of all.
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Reposting for the weekend crowd! If you read GATSBY in high school, I’d love to hear from you!
Did you read THE GREAT GATSBY in High School? Or teach it in HS? I’m writing a piece for the book’s 100th birthday and I need your help! What do you remember about how it was taught? Specific assignments, discussions, exercises, essay prompts? The further back the better!
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RT @XanderManshel: Did you read THE GREAT GATSBY in High School? Or teach it in HS? I’m writing a piece for the book’s 100th birthday and…
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RT @leftinthebay: 56 years ago, January 22 1969, students at UC Berkeley began a three-month strike. Led by the Third World Liberation Fron…
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@classwords @heymrsbond @ncte Thanks, Dan! I don't think you're alone in reacting that way! Can I ask where your school was, and whether you remember anything about what your teacher did with the book?
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Thanks in advance for sharing widely, and tagging your teacher + reader friends! cc: @ncte @heymrsbond
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What a great discussion! Thanks, all, for coming, and thanks to @cohenss for organizing!
If you're at #MLA25, please join @cohenss, @EvanBrier, Patricia Matthew, David Shumway, Karin Westman, Eric Bennett, and me at "Saving Literary History." I'll be talking about how we can address the "end of the English major" by engaging our high school English colleagues!
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@RColesworthy @seeshespeak Definitely wild, especially given what Ohmann has to say in his book about how scholars end up reaching the EC! Anywho, yes, I'll be there!
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@seeshespeak I was reading the Ohmann for another project and his description of the proceedings at MLA '68 sounded a lot like @RColesworthy on MLA '25!
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Ohmann's ENGLISH IN AMERICA (1976) details the 1968 MLA convention where members (some arrested in the process) tried to get the MLA "on record" about the "immoral, illegal, and imperial war in Vietnam."
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RT @tcboyle: Indeed. It was a great boon to me at a time when I had few readers and was making practically nothing. Plus, NEA recognition i…
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RT @dan_sinykin: An extraordinary dataset here: everyone who has won a literature grant from the NEA, ever. Open access and published at th…
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Thanks to outstanding RAs Alex Colby, Nived Dharmaraj, Emaline Gonzalez Thomas, Xujia Guan, Adam Hill, Nicole Huang, @rjseph, @m_molinaro1, Jordan Pruett, and Jaede Shillingford. Thanks also to @dan_sinykin and @mellymeldubs for their invaluable editing!
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