Pour one out—a cup of coffee, while discussing the news with your peers—for the field-defining Jürgen Habermas
Now available! Johanna Winant's eagerly anticipated, LYRIC LOGIC: HOW MODERN AMERICAN POETRY REASONS. Use the coupon code CUP20 and save 20%! tinyurl.com/4e7vphwa @johannawinant.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social
Thank you for writing this book
“Maybe changing the world is more like caregiving than it is like war” 🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍
This is what I’m going to tell myself
that's advanced!
That makes me feel better!
Oh, no way
Somehow that seems better?
Nothing makes me feel like a worse feminist than the number of women I have saved in my phone as "[NAME], [KID'S NAME]'s Mom"
Jealous!
Did u know I’m a Brontë scholar
Had so much fun talking about Wuthering Heights (mostly the book, a little bit the movie) with Claire and Ashley for a live Good Noticings podcast last night
If you can, take a minute to reach out to the caregivers in your lives because they can often feel under appreciated and even invisible.
Caregiving changed my life: how I understand myself, what I value, how I want to be in the world, how I want to show up for people. We will all give and need care at points in our lives. It’s the most fundamental form of human connection.
Today is National Caregivers Day and I’m thinking of all the paid and unpaid caregivers who make our society function. Being a family caregiver for my sick and disabled loved one was the hardest and most human thing I’ve ever done.
Web page for The Book of Improvement! (No cover yet.) It's starting to feel real yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
This is how I understand my own involvement in DH—using methods when they are useful, but it’s not my main “thing.” Although just to note, I have been tsked for this, both in reader reports and on Twitter (in the old days).
Roses are red
Violets are blue
To the longest eighteenth century
Our hearts remain true ❤️
#18thcentury #18thC
I love them
Obsessed with these plans for a Greek mythology theme park
Printing press day in my Ethics of Care and the Novel grad seminar
Ok which of you learned that look from the other?
Get Ready for Douglass Day 2026! Fresh newsletter out today.
- Preview event on Feb 6
- New teaching resources
- Swag (trading cards are back!)
open.substack.com/pub/douglass...
And there's still plenty of time to register for Douglass Day 2026. All Rights for All!
Moment of Zen
We're horrified & outraged: Immigration agents have once again committed cold-blooded murder of a public observer who posed no threat to them.
This time, they've executed a fellow nurse, Alex Pretti. We demand justice and accountability. Abolish ICE, now! https://bit.ly/4big77u
ICU nurses took care of Ady around the clock during his final week of life. They lined the hallway, crying, during the walk of honor to the operating room for organ donation. Alex Pretti went from caring for people in the ICU to caring for people on the streets of Minneapolis, where he was murdered.
I think so!
Yes, I've been making it work but it takes much longer. And it makes it less functional for students.
