@jordanstein.bsky.social
Literature professor and book historian, except for one time I wrote a book about Nina Simone
#goals
03.10.2025 23:42 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
It becomes clear that this item’s excellent catalog record must have been a bit hard won.
12.09.2025 20:54 — 👍 14 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Not trying to be mean spirited! Just posted for a laugh, waiting for multi-factor authentication while trying to upload receipts for the pizzas I had to buy and schlep myself because I don’t have any administrative support for either of the two programs I have to run now that the faculty has shrunk
07.09.2025 23:32 — 👍 21 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0I’m an English professor in the US in 1967. I bought a house in town my first year on the job and earned tenure with two articles. My wife cooks my meals and my secretary does my typing. I have to read all the books published this year about the one author I study. There were two of them.
07.09.2025 22:05 — 👍 117 🔁 11 💬 12 📌 1Typo: Ph?D?
09.08.2025 18:04 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Really loved this one
30.06.2025 00:43 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0!!! Miss you and hope we can connect before too long!
15.06.2025 22:48 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0"i asked grok" "i asked chagpt" yeah well I asked a rare books librarian and they found things I didn’t even know I was looking for, while answering questions about provenance
15.06.2025 19:09 — 👍 3212 🔁 675 💬 30 📌 35
Hello from the archives!
12.06.2025 02:02 — 👍 22 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 1
Another good book day!
05.06.2025 13:46 — 👍 11 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Good book day
30.05.2025 00:16 — 👍 13 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Little known fact: Mary, the character played by Parker Posey in the 1995 indie film "Party Girl," was actually based on me in college
21.04.2025 12:13 — 👍 17 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0If astrology isn’t real, why does Sarah Michelle Gellar share a birthday with Frederic Jameson?
14.04.2025 22:44 — 👍 13 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1Big ups to @jordanstein.bsky.social for stopping by my class to talk about Nina Simone! He's got a whole ass book about her: www.dukeupress.edu/fantasies-of...
25.03.2025 20:13 — 👍 14 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0🤩🤩
20.03.2025 11:52 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The British Library’s incredibly rare and totally pristine copy of the complete 1875 French translation of Marx’s Capital in quarto was personally donated by the author, and while I am not 100% sure what I mean by it, I feel compelled to say: it could always be like this
13.03.2025 14:18 — 👍 21 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1I'd love to be added as well
11.03.2025 15:33 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 092nd! I am bad at math!
22.02.2025 00:06 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Happy 82nd birthday, Nina Simone!
21.02.2025 21:30 — 👍 19 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Short essay adapted from "Fantasies of Nina Simone" is up at The American Psychoanalyst
tapmagazine.org/all-articles...
@natewolff.bsky.social
15.02.2025 10:25 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Contrary to popular supposition, Deleuze and Guattari were not a couple. It was more of a schizuationship
13.02.2025 20:58 — 👍 33 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1Happy birthday, Harriet Jacobs!
Wow did you call it or what
To be clear about what I’m saying here: ignorance isn’t shameful but arrogance is
07.02.2025 18:02 — 👍 19 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0Love it when you take on the impossible
07.02.2025 18:01 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0When we were in grad school, I recall that he in all sincerity wrote a seminar paper whose argument turned the "fact" that gay men cannot look at each other's faces when they have sex
07.02.2025 17:34 — 👍 47 🔁 6 💬 7 📌 1Please keep the “How could we have known!” crowd in your thoughts today
05.02.2025 14:38 — 👍 55 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
This June at the American Antiquarian Society: “Sex, Gender, and Print”: The 2025 Summer Seminar in the History of the Book, taught by Greta LaFleur and Jordan Alexander Stein.
Apply by April 4, 2025. Scholarships available for grad students and other early career scholars.
Link in comments.
Join us!
23.01.2025 15:30 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina (1878)
13.01.2025 23:03 — 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
