@nadmussen.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Chinese literature at Cornell, poet, translator. My current project is "On Stricture: Chinese Poetry and American Culture." More (incl links to open-access research) at nickadmussen.com.
the proud boys' lawyer thinks he redacted the email addresses of the over 2000 people who donated to the fundraiser for the lawsuit, but here's the thing: no he did not lol
to Lea and all the panelists and I can't wait to share the experience with my students. I don't want to get all "I regret to inform you that we will win," but the fun of AI (which can be fun!) is hard to compare to the deeply satisfying fun we had sharing poems slowly.
It felt like braiding sweetgrass, the natural and generational practice of the humanities teacher that persists because it actually renews the individual and the community, provokes intellectual growth, and holds challenge and change even though it is a very old. I'm super grateful
what surprised me most was the absolute joy people took in the one-person-one-poem relationship. People nerded out in etymological dictionaries. They got involved. Jen Hoyer read a poem in order to describe her own neurological phenomenology. Ross Etherton wrote Li Bai into a western folk song.
She knew (it was really her idea) that we could intervene in the scale and rhythm of reading, and that there are homologies and echoes at the smallest scale that are as/more powerful and interesting as the patterns of distant reading. And that was true, I learned a ton from poems in other langs. BUT
Just got to see this article and highly recommend it. Weekend before last Lea Pao (who opens the article) and I co-organized "One Poem: Reading Fast and Slow," a conference stream at the ACLA. It went great, some observations in the thread below: www.theguardian.com/technology/n...
J. H. Prynne, on reading
Seeking panelists for a guaranteed roundtable at next year's MLA convention in Los Angeles:
"Reducing Technology Dependence in Chinese Language and Culture Pedagogy"
1/3
I can't travel in January but this sounds awesome. Maybe @laoluo.bsky.social will come talk about his writing class with the (haptic) notecard system...?
Not your average “I got a new job” post. A measured and powerful act of courage—read the thread!
Rereading part of the Classic of Mountains and Seas for the Strange class. Here are so good bits:
"There is an animal here which looks like a wild cat, and it has a white tail and a mane. Its name is the bum-bum. If you rear it, you can take it to cure melancholy."
Epstein’s economic power among academics was made possible by a capitalist system that makes higher education dependent on the charity economy rather than a public good supported by taxing the rich
Those must have been the exact same classes. Super weird. We should have a beer sometime! I really imprinted on her as a teacher and even with (gestures to things) what I learned from her feels like it's only getting more useful. Or because of it, I guess.
I did Masterpieces of European Literature 2 with her too! Were we in the same year? I graduated in 2001.
Just got back home--I'm having trouble parsing my notes because she moved from work to work so fluidly. There's a lot of Kierkegaard in here, but I'm not sure we read it together, she might have just been talking about it. Definitely Conrad's "Narcissus" was in there, _maybe_ Yeats.
I found my notebook: here's the page from the first day of class. I knew it was special at the time and I was actually really really paying attention (although I didn't get down #3?), but looking back, wow. I was stupid lucky to have this in my life.
Hey, I took 7 Lamps with Naomi Lebowitz too! Lot of future scholars in there. My clearest memory is of her teaching Karamazov, but I can’t remember which lamp it was. Grace?
I have spent my entire adult life being lectured by Republican politicians and conservative legal movement types about how important it is to preserve the sacred constitutional right to self-defense of *specifically this person* and then secret police murdered him in the street
![Action Memo for Senior Bureau Official John Armstrong
FROM:
SUBJECT:
CA/VO - Stuart Wilson, Deputy Assistant Secretary
(SBU) Revocation of Fl Visa for Rumeysa OZTURK
(SBU) Recommendation 1: That you approve the revocation of the Fl visa,
effective immediately, for
under section 221(i) of the Immigration and Nationality Act
(INA). Due to ongoing ICE operational security, this revocation will be silent;
the Department will not notify the subject. (Approve/Disapprove by
03/21/25)
Decision: [Approved]
(SBU) Recommendation 2: That you authorize the transmission of the
attached notification to the Department of Homeland Security noting the,
immediate revocation of OZTURK's visa. (Approve/Disapprove by 03/21/25)
Decision: [Approved]
Background
(SBU} On March 21, 2025, the Assistant Director of the National Security Division of DHS/ICE's Homeland Security Investigations referred to CA information regarding Rumeysa OZTURK, a Turkish national, for a possible determination by the Secretary that the alien is deportable under INA section 237(a)(4)(C). As a nonimmigrant visa holder, such a determination is not necessary for OHS/ICE to pursue removal of OZTURK from the United States, as INA section 237(a}(1)(B) provides that an alien is deportable if their nonimmigrant visa has been revoked under INA section 221(i).](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7r477jd7q7p2mzmyqfm7jmp7/bafkreigphzxypvufgeipmnblj3rj5bjvnpsifwim4gx2nxdcv3cqhgqj5q)
Here is the newly-unsealed State Department memo confirming -- finally -- that the detention of Tufts student Rümeysa Öztürk was based on an op-ed.
No antisemitic activity. No support of terrorism.
An op-ed in a student newspaper.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
love. this.
OMG OMG congratulations! What a wonderful surprise! I wish I had the skills to read it! We should have a Zoom of the entire gang--you, me, Lea Schneider, Joanna Krenz. His work has assembled quite the team!
There is an innate fear most preschoolers have when they leave the house for school -- the world away from your parents feels, and in fact is, pretty dangerous when you are five years old. Almost every little kid who goes to school is being brave. They put this one in a cage. Look at his face.
I keep coming back to this. I asked my son about the Pokemon hat: it's Marill, a water mouse. He described Marill fans as "sweet people who like cute things." This is the kind of hat you buy your kid if it's cold out and you want dressing up for school to feel happy and fun.
A 5-year-old preschool student was taken with his father by federal immigration agents shortly after arriving home from school, Columbia Heights school leaders said Jan. 21.
全糖半糖微糖無糖我都可以，反正就是一定要去冰 | solidarity with protesters against the ICE terrorists, solidarity with americans against the fascist US state (in taiwan when we order drinks we say 去冰 to ask for no ice)
People are calling this post a godtier opener for 2026 because it captures the undeniable tension in the patriarchal institution of marriage in China. The post has got over 1.3M likes within a day, and has been censored and uncensored for over 5 times. As of now OP’s account has also been banned.
You might not think you want to read anything from the Journal of Critical Accounting, but this essay about how the fascist state seized control of Italy's University of Ferrara feels highly relevant: impoverish a school, destabilize it with regulation, then buy it out. doi.org/10.1016/j.cp...
Oh, no. I'm so sorry.
Just got back to the department and this was the center of the conversation-in-progress in the Asian Studies office; strongly considering de-Canvasifying my spring course (as well as other things I won't post about). Highly recommended, thanks Matt and @ehayot.bsky.social
