@bamenke.bsky.social
Poet and assistant professor at Notre Dame | 20/21 c. American poetry and visual art | Queer aesthetics and transnational intimacies | Poetics and place | Intermediality and translation | Ekphrasis enthusiast | Insta: queer_lyricism
CFP: WHAT MIRACLE: NEW REVELATIONS ON THE PROSE POEM
A Prose Poetry Network Conference at the University of Notre Dame Rome Global Gateway
Abstract proposals should be submitted to the scientific committee by March 15, 2026. More details here:
call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/02/...
Huh—I guess he tweeted about it so often back when Obama was President because he actually thought it would be a good political strategy.
Side note: that logo placement is *chef's kiss* Thanks, Reuters!
[A foppish twink takes the ice.]
Johnny Weir, unironically: This strapping young man, he's like if the Brawny Man could skate.
[Skater holds the pose below.]
Johnny, probably: This rough, blustering top is bound to stun with his feats of raw masculine power.
1991: The United States thinks it has decisively won the Cold War against Russia.
2025: The United States' foreign policy is being dictated by Russia.
The Olivia Nuzzi story and the Bari Weiss at CBS story are the same story, which is that the upper echelons of legacy media are absolutely rife with people who worship power and don't feel burdened by any sense of responsibility to their profession or the public.
Remember when shamelessly colluding with the POTUS and his family for financial gain was considered a bad thing? DJT, Jr., has invested millions in Polymarket—because, uh, Coplan is a "young entrepreneur" who doesn't know the political world.
I'm so glad that John Michael Higgins, Jr., won Best in Show! Snatch that trophy, sis!
This is an incredible cluster for a truly wonderful poet! What a dream team of contributors, and what a balm on a wild, windy Midwestern November Wednesday.
Great work @aliciawright.bsky.social & co!
As you’re preparing for your Thanksgiving meal, remember the skilled work it took to get that food to your grocery store.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
Post-doc applications for next year's seminar on "Translation" at Rutgers' Center for Cultural Analysis are "live"! The seminar will be co-ed by Preetha Mani and Jeff Lawrence. Fellow academics: let your early-career colleagues, students, and former students know! jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/263...
Using ChatGPT
Congratulations, Brian! Looking forward to the "Work" and sharing it with my students!
Congratulations, Brian! Looking forward to the "Work"!
We have to keep AI data centers away from the Great Lakes
“One veteran researcher who still has his job (and, like other public-health workers I spoke with for this story, requested anonymity for fear of losing it) told me he believes that Kennedy’s ultimate goal is to “silence the scientific voice of career CDC scientists.””
Check out this awesome tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Early American Literature at Notre Dame! Special attention given to those applicants specializing in periods pre-1865, especially those with expertise in multiethnic lit., religion, media studies, and/or transnational approaches.
Early Americanists! Be sure to check out this extraordinary job opportunity for an Assistant Professor in American Literature, Pre-WWI, in our fabulous English department at @notredame.bsky.social. Expertise in multiethnic lit., religion & lit., media studies, and/or transnational approaches a plus!
Over the weekend, Trump's deputy chief of staff for policy Stephen Miller repeatedly attacked judges, calling them part of an "organized terrorist attack" on the US government....
On Saturday, the home of a judge who ruled against Trump, went up in flames
time.com/7323442/sout...
Parabéns, Eraldo!
An awesome cross-disciplinary opportunity for job seekers: *six* Provost's Postdoctoral Fellowships in the College of Arts and Letters at @notredame.bsky.social in Anthro, Music, Philosophy, PoliSci, Theology, and the Institute for Latino Studies as part of the university's Strategic Framework.
“AI” isn’t a tool or technology or even a cluster of technologies with a misleading name. It’s the infrastructure at the foundation of a form of capitalism dependent on data brokering. We should be teaching our students about this and not teaching them about “responsible” use.
Get you a man who can do both: 1) singlehandedly hauling 242-lbs. of glassed-in bookshelves up a flight of stairs while 2) belting out Kym Mazelle's cover of "Young Hearts Run Free," as performed by Mercutio at the Capulets' masked ball in Baz Luhrman's Romeo + Juliet
I love everything about this.
Yeah, it's even worse today here in South Bend.
I can’t tell if my body hurts from core day yesterday at the gym or from inhaling a bunch of particulate matter today on my walk home through the Canadian wildfire smoke
