manu chander (he/him)
@profchander
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teaching and researching race and empire in the nineteenth century
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students, you know your hands-off advisor who says “just get me the thesis draft when it’s done” and leaves you alone to work for months at a stretch? they’re not doing you any favors. (they’re barely even doing their job)
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if, at flag football, your child is the one picking daffodils in the backfield, you, as a scholar of romantic poetry, have succeeded
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i get most kinds of fandom — sports, music, whatever — but elected official fandom baffles me
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me: i’m sorry i’m totally overcommitted and can’t take on anything else this year
them: we’re imagining a conversation between you and deanna koretsky about black vampires
me: how soon can we do it, can we do it today??
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i haven’t seen it in print but it’s out apparently (photo courtesy of my friend dave)
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kid 1 was explaining to kid 2 why the graves we passed in the car had crosses and said because jesus died on a cross — kid 2 asked who’s jesus and kid 1 said zeus’s son
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ayn rand tossed on the sidewalk where it belongs
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|￣￣￣￣￣￣ ￣￣ ￣ |
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i have no idea what it is i’m reading about pomona english rn
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my goodness, do you guys feel that energy too? when students step up, man, it's fucking electric
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“We, the students of Gaza, salute the students of Columbia University, Yale University, New York University, Rutgers University, the University of Michigan, and dozens of universities across the United States who are rising up in solidarity with Gaza”
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yesterday saree makdisi gave a terrific keynote on john clare, race, colonialism and primitive accumulation THEN led an impromptu teach-in on gaza. romanticism might finally be making good on the revolutionary political commitments it’s long been associated with.
we had a virtual plenary, two professors in palestine in conversation — one of them started their class with 44 students and ended the semester with 4
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an adjunct at the gwu/dmv encampment was telling powerful stories about the history of solidarity between labor unions & students — you could tell he’s the kind of teacher students love & remember years later — he has no benefits or job security & makes less than a living wage
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book coming, very smart contributors
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reading really good lit crit makes me feel joyously inferior to my colleagues -- like i'll never be that good but i get to read stuff that's that good
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conference organizing is going great, why do you ask?
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nm, macklemore you do zadie smith
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we had a virtual plenary, two professors in palestine in conversation — one of them started their class with 44 students and ended the semester with 4
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“do you renounce satan and all his works?”
“his later works yes, but some of the early stuff i still stan”
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i guess i expected the owl to die in the end?
i finished the whole german course in duolingo, it was very anticlimactic
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read something today that reminded me of this from back-in-the-day twitter
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all the things i figured out on the last day of the conference, all the logistical knowledge i gained at the eleventh hour after three days of hosting and having things go wrong. all the knowledge i’ll never have use for again
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can't decide what's harder, organizing an academic conference or a kid's birthday party
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anyone interested in a putting together a “just-in-time” mla panel about whether/how “brownness” is useful in thinking through palestine? been on my mind lately and i can’t figure it out on my own, would welcome conversation
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do i dare to start a beef?
-the love song of mc prufrock
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sometimes i think we care about particular writers because we’ve devoted our lives to them instead of the other way around — i mean cared about them once at a formative moment but once the moment passed we stuck with them because we’d already invested so much energy in them…
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🎶i’m your private liker, a liker for money, i’ll like what you want me to🎶
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name tags
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i think a fountains of wayne cover band just tried to call
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remember when you could just say stuff on here and then someone would reply with something biting and so you’d feel bad about yourself and deactivate for a while and then come back just to have it happen again? man i miss the old academic twitter
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i describe this exact phenomenon in my latest book, link in bio
Senior, leftist, tenured faculty who are using Twitter exclusively to promote recent work amid scholasticide and while your own institutions are cracking down on your students and colleagues… I pray for your souls
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you can hear me and deanna talk about the bonkers novella “the black vampyre” (1819) this thursday at noon on zoom
you can register at and access the novella at
me: i’m sorry i’m totally overcommitted and can’t take on anything else this year
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me: how soon can we do it, can we do it today??
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look upon our program ye mighty
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"and your name, sir?"
"chander"
"chandler?"
"chander, no 'L'"
"ok, i'm not seeing a noelle chandler, could it be under a different name?"
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talked about tomorrows walkout with my students in “cosmopolitanism” class — explained that, despite what the right says, it’s not my job to indoctrinate them or convert them to a particular set of beliefs. only that world citizenship requires that we approach ethics/politics…
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been thinking (because of my own institutional affiliation) about the straight line that connects divestment from a war machine to jesuit values. solidarity with students at fordham.
Fordham University just started their own Gaza Solidarity encampment a few hours after City College and Columbia encampments were brutally raided.
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peggy noonan is the very definition of stranger danger
When protests are not about actually explaining your cause or trying to engage journalists who are there to listen.
@Peggynoonannyc
describes her visit to Columbia before the raid.
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some people use “hot take” when they mean “i’m a bigoted shithead”
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saw someone say that “great art isn’t about fandom” a few days ago and it’s had me huffy ever since — how have we failed to dispel these (bourgeois) myths about art forged in the nineteenth century and solidified in the twentieth? academic twitter is dead so i’ll probably delete
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i was asked by the events coordinator if the romanticism conference i’m hosting requires security
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i finished the whole german course in duolingo, it was very anticlimactic
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am not naive and know better than to expect anything of these soulless ghouls, but can’t help thinking that at any point biden could have stopped this
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ok but also france still sucks
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the whole generation thing (x, z, millennial, etc) — nobody actually believes that, right? it’s just for fun, like ouija boards or whatever? right?
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who asked for the email feature where people send you reactions?
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needing to pee as soon as you sit down to write, that's a thing right?
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amazing talks yesterday by
@sareemakdisi
on “the meaning of gaza” and “john clare and making england western”
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grad school tricked me into believing manichean was an important word
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bougie-ass capitol hill cafe but damn if the nutella croissants aren’t the bomb
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new mary shelley edition, affordable for students and edited by one of the best
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…abide by normative ethics that prioritize those with whom we are familiar or to side with the stranger. i don’t know what they’ll choose — really i have no idea. but i hope that, even if the come to conclusions i disagree with, they ask themselves the right questions.
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…with a set of questions about how our immediate, local commitments relate to our broader obligations to humanity, including and perhaps especially far-distant peoples. how we will at particular moments — rather infrequently, to be honest — be asked to decide whether to…
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start teaching tomorrow. my frequent go-to first-day poem:
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