Bellee Jones-Pierce

Please, Friday afternoon, an ounce of concentration. I beg you. The syllabi will not revise themselves.

A detail from a Schreibmeister book of c17 Germany. The emblematic print shows a hand with wings and a quill writing a book. In the left of the framing ornament is an ink pot, and on the right is a pounce pot. On the top of the frame is a Chewie like head holding a quill in its teeth. Source: Kunstrichtige Schreibart Allerhand Versalie[n] oder AnfangsBuchstabe[n] Der Teütschen, Lateinischen und Italianischen Schrifften : aus unterschiedlichen Meistern der Edlen Schreibkunst zusammen getragen (1655).

A! winged! hand! writing! a! book!

I fundamentally disagree with the foundational premises of this report. What the committee takes as settled, I very much do not.

2025 AAUP Faculty in the South Survey The Georgia conference of the American Association of University Professors [AAUP] and its partners in states across the South have been at the forefront of fighting attacks on higher education. To as...

The 2025 @aaup.org Faculty in the South Survey is live. If you are a professor in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, or Texas it's for you. Ends 8/29 at 5pm Eastern forms.gle/v7T3BH2w9LXs...

This gyre is looking awfully wide

Read "Early Modern Neurodiversity: A Preliminary Research Agenda" by Bridget M. Bartlett and Bradley J. Irish, free in the new issue of ELH

#S2O #OpenAccess via @projectmuse.bsky.social

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Thinking of y’all.

I have only ever heard the nicest things about you!

Influencers? Mean you the three Fates who weave, measure, and cut the whispere-thin yet iron-strong threades that bynde togethir all of spacetyme and that spelle out, yn sorcerous glyphs unreadable to any save the three, everyethinge that ys, was, or will be? Those influencers?

Have you ever done a "hidden curriculum" session with undergrads? (That is, explaining all the things colleges assume you know but are not obvious to many people.) What did they find most helpful?

A framed floral watercolor sitting on a shelf of books about Shakespeare. The watercolor flowers are pansies, columbine, fennel, daisies, rue, and rosemary.

One of my fabulous graduates gave me this watercolor of Ophelia’s flowers. 😭

That’s right! Come thru at post45.org/contemporaries to see this magnificent cluster, edited by @dfmorgan.bsky.social !

☹️

The Wall Street Journal Trump says he will delay tariffs on the EU until July 9, a reprieve from the threatened 50% levies set to go into effect on June 1

Beginning to think these tariffs are a lot like that chapter I promised for your edited collection.

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The Conservative Activist Pushing Trump to Attack U.S. Colleges Christopher Rufo has helped inspire Republican messaging and bills on hot-button issues.

Today the NY Times posted an interview with Chris Rufo that anyone associated with universities — or anyone who benefits from advances in health care or any other aspect of the research taking place there — should listen to or read in transcript.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/p...?

Re: the Solnit thread I just RT'd: I've been thinking a lot lately about workplace gender discrimination and how frustratingly narrowly it's defined — like, "his office + paycheck are bigger than mine"; vs. systemic, pervasive, longitudinal workload imbalance creates cumulative, debilitating burdens

The Crimson White, a student-run newspaper at the University of Alabama; first reported on the detainment of Mr. Doroudi on Wednesday afternoon.

Horrific story. But proud of The Crimson White for this scoop.

Student journalists are on the frontlines reporting on the Trump administration’s crackdowns. They need our support too.

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I’m so sorry you had such trouble!! I probably jinxed you.

At the Malone Society Dance with @majikmouse.bsky.social , who is the best. #Shax2025

This made me cheer. It gets directly at a problem I’ve often noticed: people don’t fundamentally understand what a historian *does*.

Selfie of a white woman with curly brown hair wearing blue glasses, a green blazer, and a black t-shirt with a graphic from Baz Luhrmann’s ROMEO + JULIET. SAA name tag partially obscures shirt.

Truly, #Shax2025 and #RSA2025 is the best audience for this t-shirt.

YES?

The Shakespeare Media Archive

For any of the #Shax2025 & #RSA2025 folks who might find this useful, here’s the hub of Shakespearean performances & other videos I’ve been developing over the last couple of years for teaching. Feel free to use & share it widely! sites.google.com/ncsu.edu/the...

Tan Book cover with green and brown text. Upper right corner has a seventeenth century engraved image of a Black body that looks like classical sculpture with a white head. It is holding a sheaf of cane.

Feels wrong to celebrate while academia is on 🔥, but this week I got the lovely cover for my long overdue book *The Sweet Taste of Empire: Sugar, Mastery and Pleasure in the Anglo Caribbean* forthcoming from UPenn Press!

#RaceB4Race
#RenSA2025
#RSA2025
#Shax2025

#Shax2025 has been wonderful so far! I am so tired, but so full of joy, and so happy to have seen so many friends. Tomorrow, #RSA2025!

UAEnglish ❤️❤️❤️

Detail from a map of the A23a iceberg's progress since being calved in 1986; after 30 years stuck on the seafloor it made rapid progress in 2022-2023 but rotated on a water column for 8 months and has now run aground off South Georgia. Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c20d1xp6046o

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