Jordan Alexander Stein
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Literature professor and book historian, except for one time I wrote a book about Nina Simone | All Black Lives Matter | 🏳️🌈🏴
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Am I doing a good job teaching online? No.
But am I keeping up morale and giving students a kind of holding space in this difficult time? Also no.
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Academics: do you tend to read someone’s book before you have sex with them, or after?
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Non-academic bf: You could have borrowed my copy of that book
Me: Well thanks but I needed a copy for teaching
Non-academic bf: It’s ok if you write things in the margins of my books. Like ‘leitmotif’ or whatever
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In this introduction I will argue something quite interesting and provocative that the following four chapters in no clear way support
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Are you really interdisciplinary or are you just switchy?
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Being a Gen X academic means confusing "think, pair, share" with "stop, collaborate, and listen"
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Dreamed I joined a group called Faculty Against Grades and the Gutting Of Tenure, woke up and realized the acronym was FAGGOT.
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Not a professional bookseller or anything, but listing this simply as an “unmarked copy” was maybe not the call I would have made
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Me, in a meeting, discussing each and every aspect of my university's fall reopening.
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When you realize queer theory is a critique of normative structures and not a theory of homosexuality.
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Oh good, I was hoping for a chance to take on too much work and then internalize its overwhelmingness as personal failure
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I spent 10+ years writing this book, and today a published copy arrived and I took it to a gay bar.
(Yes, I am crying in this photo.)
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In 1995 my best friend mistakenly thought Coolio was singing that we were living in a gangster’s paradigm. I have thought about this once a week for 25 years.
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Did I get through all the things I was supposed to this week? No.
But did I do what I could with the resources I had? Also no.
But did I prioritize self-care and protect my time? Um, still no.
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Not gay as in happy but queer as in the building manager asked if I’d ever heard of the Super Bowl
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"I'm an English professor"
- nerdy
- dowdy
- people at parties ask you not to correct their grammar
"I marshal the power of art to bring young people to tears"
- significant
- mysterious
- subtly conceals that my profession is chronically under-resourced and in fact collapsing
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What a hugely embarrassing thing to wake up to.
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In honor of Libra season, I would like to niche-tweet that most canonical critical theorists are Libras:
Freud (Sept 23)
Anzaldúa (Sept 26)
Culler (Oct 1)
Johnson (Oct 4)
Arendt (Oct 14)
Nietzsche (Oct 15)
Foucault (Oct 15)
Althusser (Oct 16)
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Good morning to the too familiar feeling of being massively overcommitted to a world that is violently ceasing to exist
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Jordan Alexander Stein, Fantasies of Nina Simone (
@DukePress
, officially forthcoming 2024 or so).
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Really wild how my desire to do a reasonable amount of fulfilling work for a middle-class wage is a far Left position
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Academics: I’m embarrassed I haven’t read that
Everyone else: WTF even is that??
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Fellow Uni instructors! COVID-19 f2f class cancelations are inconvenient! But remember you're salaried employees. Maybe call/email HR or your union & demand to know how hourly workers (clerical, food-service, custodial, etc) will be compensated during campus closures?
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Ask anyone who does serious research on US popular culture and they will confirm, sooner or later, you will find yourself literally reading Playboy for the articles.
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Having felt for many years of my professional life like a failure who never published a book, I am overjoyed that from today forward I can feel like a failure who *did* publish a book.
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A student assumed I was a millennial because I was “so old”
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@johannawinant
Crusty baguette, salted butter, eaten standing up and over the kitchen sink (no plate, no napkin), always alone, and whenever someone walks in I feel vaguely like I’ve been caught in a shameful situation, despite the fact that it’s a baguette and I’m 42
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The best Henry James novel ever written is Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin
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OMG stop. Taking down statues isn't erasing history. The point is that putting them up was.
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One or more of these people was just promoted to Professor.
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If you're looking to spend years worrying about details that in the end won't matter to anyone, I *highly* recommend you write a book.
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Me at 22: *dreams about sex*
Me at 42: *dreams about teaching "Hegel and Haiti" to mostly Hispanophone comp lit majors who have really specific questions about sugar production in Cuba*
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2019 Prof: Read the frickin syllabus!!
2020 Prof: This course is about abolition, beginning with the university. Our goal is to unlearn oppressive structures and radically change the way we live...
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Sure, I labored for ten years on an academic monograph, but was it worth it in the end?
Yes, now that the book has received this amazing, batshit hate-review, it was most certainly worth it. 🥂🔥🌈
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This is my face when I realize ten minutes into a Zoom from a vacation house that everyone including University leadership can see the giant Tom of Finland dicks on the wall.
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Today Feb 21, 2022 is Nina Simone's 89th birthday. It's also the day I completed the first draft of my book about her. It's about what comes after her too, what she made and makes possible.
Or as I put it on page 240, "The future is always about history."
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Real New Yorkers take library carts on the subway
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Someone told me gay pride is canceled so we can do gay wrath instead, and honestly why did it take this long?
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This one goes out to the gay guy I saw jogging with a face mask but no shirt on.
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Not gay as in happy, but queer as in dreamed that I ran into Britney at the club where she performed a new song she’d translated into Latin
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A colleague put a "Back in 5 minutes" post-it on her office door, like, 3 years ago, and just left it there. Every time I walk by I am in awe of her power.
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You spend 10 years in archives. You read the theory. You write a book. You teach a class on the basis of it all. A student in class says, "It seems like archival studies are just about frustration." You realize at once this insight could have saved you 10 years.
#bookhistory
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First you have a lot to prove on this career, then if you're lucky you have a lot to proof.
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I joined Twitter so I would know what people were taking about, and that has just not worked out.
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Ah, Thanksgiving break, the time in the academic calendar when you open a doc and learn that essay you "just want to finish" is actually a page and a half of nonsense notes and a list of references to things you haven't read
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It's 3:30am in New York and I'm reading uncollected Gayatri Spivak essays from the 90s, which hold up remarkably well because we never addressed the problems she was diagnosing, so that's how things are going.
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People on TikTok: it’s my birthday I’m 17!
People on Instagram: it’s my birthday I’m 28!
People on Twitter: Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves, but under circumstances directly enco
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We always say "we don't talk enough" about this or that, but we really, honestly, indisputably do not talk enough about the time Zora Neale Hurston photographed a zombie
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The Library Informs Me That I Have Checked This Book Out But I Have No Idea Where It Is: An Academic Memoir
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Read this line by Robert Glück and now having trouble thinking of anything else
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If Guiliani turns out to have been a Russian operative, I'm going to insist that we turn Times Sqare back into porn theaters.
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Well maybe if you didn’t want to parse a bunch of Sondheim lyrics, you shouldn’t have agreed to be my therapist?
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Fellow syllabus writers! Remember that you're not including Black-authored texts to create diversity. You're including them because Black lives, Black history, Black thought, Black expression all matter on their own terms.
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Them: How have you never read <acclaimed popular fiction that everyone is talking about>?
Me: Well how have YOU never read <obscure batshit nineteenth-century non-fiction on microfilm>?!
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I think I speak for my whole generation this week when I say, I can’t believe we ever quit smoking.
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Bersani memorial thread:
C. 2005, I attended a lecture at NYU. It was advertised it in some newsletter at the beginning of the semester and, very uncharacteristically, I added it to my calendar. They forgot ever to advertise it again. 1/5
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No one:
Not one person in the early Republic:
Charles Brockden Brown:
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@jalbacutler
I tried to explain postcritique to my non-academic bf this morning and he instantly was like, “How could you think critique wasn’t love? Does no one have an immigrant mother?"
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Read the digital article on Jstor but cite the physical book in our draft, and chill
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Reading Marx with Gen Z students belongs on the vanishingly short list of things that don’t suck.
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@touchfaith
This is a brilliant and detailed tread on the political economy of knowledge, and I am here for it.
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We don’t talk enough about how much late-stage capitalism involves eating over the sink
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They do not tell you in grad school that someday you will put a text on your syllabus only to realize that the last time you read it was literally before your students were born
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Love creative anachronism but in Bridgerton S2E7, when the guy in the print shop was loading the paper AND inking the plates with the SAME hands, reader, I wept and gnashed teeth
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My new apartment building has a take-one/leave-one library in the laundry room, and I plan to radicalize it. Watch this space.
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@V21collective
Expectations for the English dissertation in 1965: single author, archival, no argument necessary
By 1990: sing or multi-author, theory heavy, argument
Now: multi-author, archival, theory informed, field-shifting argument, AND funding is down to 5-6 years
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In last night’s dream I received a reader’s report that was pretty mean though there was one sentence I found heartening: "The author clearly has no understanding of the workings of heterosexuality”
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“Black feminism is the desire for the end of the world as we know it.” -- Saidiya Hartman
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There's a lot of brainy queers livetweeting a virtual Sianne Ngai seminar on The Political Unconscious and I can't believe this site is free.
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Marry: the seventeenth century
Fuck: the eighteenth century
Kill: the twenty-first century
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Ladies, if they're:
- working from home
- making sourdough starter
- reading late James
- mixing any old drink and calling it a "quarantini"
That's not your man. That's literally any white person with a liberal arts degree trying to seem like they're coping with this hell.
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Also, since there have been questions: yes, the person hired into this position has a 100% chance of meeting my dog
Tenure-Track: Global Anglophone Literatures of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries, Fordham University English Department
CV and cover letter by 10/15/24
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Fellow people burned out by escalating pandemic workloads! Can we agree that it will almost always be better to admit that we can’t do something than to try insistently and make it worse?
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Me tweeting about anti-racist pedagogy:
Me tweeting about accidentally putting dicks on Zoom: 17,987 new followers
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Sure, you spend ten years writing a book for publication, but how astonishing it nevertheless is that anyone reads it.
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