Brian Glavey

The Campus Crisis Toolkit

lfg! preorders for THE CAMPUS CRISIS TOOLKIT edited by @thetattooedprof.bsky.social and Lisa Di Bartolomeo are now available! get 30% off the low, low price of $29.95 with code SBACK25 during @sunypress.bsky.social's back-to-school sale. 💪📚 sunypress.edu/Books/T/The-...

How the Poet James Schuyler Wrung Sense from Sensibility Schuyler once told a friend that “life had been after him with a sledgehammer.” But the poet’s work was sharp and humane, a marvel of twentieth-century literature.

Dan Chiasson has a great review of the new James Schuyler biography by Nathan Kernan in the New Yorker: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

say it again:

4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities

demolishing higher education is economic sabotage

Artificial Intelligence and Academic Professions Executive SummaryEducational technology, or ed-tech, including artificial intelligence (AI), continues to become more integrated into teaching and research in higher education, with minimal oversight.

NEW: I was happy to have a small role in preparing this just-dropped AAUP report on “Artificial Intelligence and the Academic Professions.” It includes a smart overview
of the threats, analysis of collected survey data, and action items. www.aaup.org/reports-publ...

Brian holding a copy of Rose Casey’s awesome book, Aesthetic Impropriety

Heads up: if you don’t have a copy of @rosecasey.bsky.social’s Aesthetic Impropriety we are no friends

theory nerds! propose fall events! we host mini seminars, field trips, book talks, works-in-progress sessions, and reading groups. guest suite for out-of-towners! booktour bringing you to chicago? add us to your list! wedding weekend? fill it out with research!

to propose: interccect at gmail

Woo hoo!

Periodic reminder to order my book through your library to help the ebook flip to open access! Within, there's flying penises, dolphin-riding cats, and an extended reading of Bob the Drag Queen's epic wig reveal—something for everyone!

Hell yeah!

Chase Gregory’s new book, As If!

Get in losers, we’re writing across difference @chazegregoir.bsky.social

Woo hoo!

Hot damn!

I'm so excited to read this one!

Really had no idea I would spend so much of the apocalypse carpooling to summer camps

A strange Poe novel might be just the right book for today’s weird times - The Boston Globe Two local academics who contributed to a new edition of “The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket” say the book’s 19th century ideas around race, exploration, and capitalism speak to our own er...

It's your boys @rezekjoe.bsky.social and me in The Boston Globe! In print on Sunday! (We are in a big fight about how to interpret the ending of Poe's novel and the illustration poignantly captures the strain in our friendship.)

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/24/a...

And it will be on the @sunypress.bsky.social website and available for preorder next week/in early August. Stay tuned! Really excited to get this into the world and readers’ hands.

The cover for the upcoming volume "The Campus Crisis Toolkit: Strategies and Solidarity for the Rest of Us"

IT HAS A COVER! Pleased to announce that _The Campus Crisis Toolkit: Strategies and Solidarity For the Rest of Us_ is coming from @sunypress.bsky.social in Feb. With 25 chapters from over 40 contributors, the book tackles everything from anti-DEI laws to consultants and cuts to campus violence (1/2)

The cover of Kristin Grogans new book, Stitch, Unstitch

Get in losers, we’re contemplating modernist poetry and labor

Lena Dunham’s “Too Much” Is Exactly Enough The deliberate, delightful excesses of her new rom-com show on Netflix

Do you remember GIRLS? Or do you know remember the *discourse* about GIRLS?

I write about how it’s sometimes been hard to tell the difference. And also, about TOO MUCH, Lena Dunham’s very good return to people talking about her writing on the internet. newrepublic.com/article/1982...

experiencing the stage of depression where i came dangerously close to making an in-app purchase on a puzzle game on my phone

How to turn off Google’s AI Overviews in web searches If you find Google's AI Overview more irritating than helpful, here's now to turn it off in Chrome.

www.engadget.com/big-tech/how...

Describe something you learned from lecture this week that you didn’t know just from doing the readings. Connect something you learned in 209 this week to something you are learning in another of your classes this semester. If Monday and Wednesday assigned readings were from two different texts, make connections between the two. Do they share themes? Forms? Tone? Historical context? Do you find them equally interesting? Look at the very first paragraph of one of our texts and discuss how the opening lays the groundwork for the rest of the work. Quote specific lines, phrases, or images. Using quotes from a text, persuade someone (friend or foe, your grandma or your senator) to change their mind about something important. Compose a 5 song playlist to accompany an assigned reading from this week, and write a few sentences for each song, explaining your choices. Describe an idea you had in response to the readings/lecture/discussions for our class this week- any idea, about literature, or the world, or yourself. How might you pursue this idea, in your studies or elsewhere? Choose a passage (no more than 10 lines) from the readings this week and rewrite it, changing at least one of the literary aspects such as: person (change from first to third-person or vice versa), tense (change from past to present etc), focalizing character (i.e. write it from a different character's perspective), style (adjectives, diction, description, tone). Then write 2-3 sentences about the effect of your changes. Compose a yelp review to strangers, or a letter to a specific person, or a booktok style video, recommending a novel/poem/play from this week’s reading. Write a letter to someone who has questioned your choice of majoring or minoring in English, explaining why you value what you’re learning. Include quotes / ideas from this week’s readings.

syllabus time, teaming up for the herculean efforts of reinventing writing assignments. here, some prompts for required weekly low stakes 250-500 word reflections/ process pieces that have proven relatively conducive to real writing in lit class. please share any similar suggestions in thread.

Go see Alina read!

Here’s some delight for us fans of Christo & Jeanne-Claude:

Cultural Capitulation | Defector This post was originally published on the author’s Substack on June 24. It has been republished here in conjunction with Bills Week. Everybody knows about the MAGA hat. It’s red. It says what it says ...

Fun to have @pjmaciak.bsky.social on the site for Bills Week (caps have bills get it)

Opinion | Students Want the Liberal Arts. Administrators, Not So Much.

“It’s not that traditional liberal arts is out of step with student demand. Instead, it’s out of step with the priorities values desires of a powerful board of trustees with no apparent commitment to liberal education, an administrative class.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/o...

I left a spare copy with a trusted neighbor just in case

A question about grad advising for English and humanities profs:
- How many PhD committees do you chair?
- How many do you serve on?
- What's your teaching load?

I'm trying to gauge feasibility now that our advising load has gone up (alongside our teaching load) in wake of WVU cuts. Thank you!

We’re thrilled to share the jacket for Thomas Pynchon’s highly anticipated new novel Shadow Ticket, coming October 7, 2025!
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/316427...

it's always a good day to talk about HUMANITIES WORKS

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