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Nissa Ren Cannon

@nissaren.bsky.social

Teaching research writing @PWRStanford, writing about interwar expatriate infrastructure (& passports & steamships & newspapers), book reviews editor @JMPS, MSA board member, SFUSD parent

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Piggybacking on this to boost a session I'm organizing that very much wants to hear from contingent faculty! mla.confex.com/mla/2027/web...

05.03.2026 17:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Call for Papers: Roundtable: Contingent Labor at a Crossroads (2027 MLA Annual Convention)

There are a number of #MLA27 calls for papers focused on contingent faculty β€” please check them out…

mla.confex.com/mla/2027/web...

05.03.2026 13:57 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

I lose my teaching tone every summer.

04.03.2026 21:15 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

(my second hand copy of the book is part of a "queer literature" series--score one for different publishing apparatuses producing different texts! )

04.03.2026 16:47 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I love the PBS series, and it's faithful in my memory--hence me feeling confused about that language that kind of suggests they're two different things?

04.03.2026 16:45 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Lots going on in that "Companion to the PBS TV series"...

04.03.2026 16:42 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Who among us has not tried to use paperclips as hair ties?

03.03.2026 22:21 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

This is brilliant.

03.03.2026 17:32 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

How does one write a scholarly book in the face of the conviction that no one reads scholarly books?

03.03.2026 16:36 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

Congratulations!!

02.03.2026 18:59 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Mostly the internet is bad, but I just read a review of a Rancho Gordo bean varietal that described it as having "main character energy," so I think I'll probably stick around.

01.03.2026 03:13 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

No, I think you could enter France on either!

27.02.2026 23:09 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I believe you have to reenter the US on your US passport.

27.02.2026 23:08 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Reposting for the Friday crowd...

27.02.2026 17:29 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This is the problem (which I'm not blaming the journalists for!). I can get nearly a whole newspaper subscription for the price of one substack!

27.02.2026 17:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

(I admit that I don't know details of the Google-university deals that let them digitize the books in the first place, I just know that for a number of years I could search Googlebooks and see pages and page #s, and then that got taken away)

27.02.2026 17:08 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I'm happy to just blame Google here and not universities: I think every day about how individuals lost access to already scanned books in GoogleBooks years ago, yet Google got to train their AI on them.

27.02.2026 17:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

So angry he invented pseudonyms to get angry under!

27.02.2026 04:42 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

name me a thing Ezra Pound didn’t get super mad about ;)

27.02.2026 04:41 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

(I don’t mean to be an apologist for these insulting emails!!)

27.02.2026 04:38 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The most generous read on this is that it’s probably for the best if they’re not trying to hire middle aged men to tutor their 14 year old….

27.02.2026 04:37 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

As a person who’s spent decades trying to decide whether to call my hair brown or black in my driver’s license, looks like I have my answer!

27.02.2026 04:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

oh, I’ve always assumed these just went to everyone in my department, but you probably have a point..

27.02.2026 04:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

My desert island revision strategy is reverse outlining.

26.02.2026 00:38 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I am once more alarmed to find that I have A LOT to say about Ezra Pound.

25.02.2026 18:32 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

OH NO!!!

25.02.2026 16:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Law & Lit folks (and others): where can I go read more about the outdated legal phrase "To all of whom these presents shall come, Greetings"?

25.02.2026 16:42 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Absolutely!

25.02.2026 01:06 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It is the highest form of compliment for me to say I've been finding this series of episodes so stimulating I cannot listen them before bed.

25.02.2026 00:45 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

My (not) proudest parenting moment is not taking my kid to the ER because I knew they were going to insist on giving him stitches and we (briefly) had no insurance.

25.02.2026 00:38 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0