marisa yerace

one small satisfaction when flying is not paying to check a bag and then at the gate being begged to check it for free and a cookie or upgrade to make space like yes. I have successfully scammed the scammer. it's a small win

workflows? oh do you mean my little army of robots that I give cute names to

on one hand, making online course videos feels very cringe (playing back your face, expressions, hand gestures, voice, etc). on the other hand, as an english professor I already embrace The Cringe

Hi. Hello. GRAMMARLY IS NOT A WRITING TOOL. IT IS SURVEILLANCE CAPITALISM AND LINGUISTIC HOMOGENIZATION IN A TRENCHCOAT.

"gen AI can write your lesson plan!" that's what my PhD is for. can genAI make my hand-me-down pdfs cleaner and more accessible instead

Symposium on Intergenerational Graduate Mentorship Published in Rhetoric Review (Ahead of Print, 2025)

Some nerds and I wrote about our experiences with mentorship for Rhetoric Review, and it's available now! "Recursive, horizontal, distributed, networked: Iterating transdisciplinary models of mentorship in the humanities" on pgs 18-27. doi.org/10.1080/0735...

I, too, love semicolons, but have you met my good friend... the colon

(yes I already know they are evil and this stuff is available free elsewhere you do not need to tell me)

ya gotta love the way ancestry dot com is like "we found a yearbook photo of your beloved dead family member... and put it behind a paywall 🥰"

FYI I could be posting so many peaceful paddleboarding pics this summer if only I weren't too nervous to bring my phone onboard

spotify replaces human playlist curators with AI and the "160 BPM" playlist is all 140 BPM or lower. "mellow cello" has songs with no cello anywhere to be seen. I'm so sick of this, man

added some forbidden flags & forbidden words to this semester's medieval cosplay

ah, academia... how many other non-theatre/renfaire jobs expect you to wear medieval robes a couple times a year?

From my work with @nobugsnous.bsky.social and @jsanofranchini.bsky.social

GenAI hype is...
*Speculative, not specific
*Future-oriented without attention the present (in terms of both harm and capabilities)
*Relies on and/or furthers dubious narratives of inevitable technological progress

SpongeBob plays on a classroom projector screen

lost a bet with my students so we're spending the last class meeting watching SpongeBob

A cow cat (Leo) is caught mid-meow. You can tell that, whatever he's saying, he's very enthusiastic.

he's been yelling at me for the last thirty minutes straight

a GREAT term!!

on a more serious note, after seeing so many excellent presentations, I'm feeling energized and excited (other than end-of-conference fatigue) to engage with all the curriculum revision work that's about to be on my desk next year 😊 #wpalife coming soon #4C25

marisa & friend kailyn make dynamic goofy poses (marisa squatting with a determined face) behind the statue of a canon in baltimore's inner harbor

a group of academics, wearing conference nametags, arrange themselves to stand together for a group photo (marisa posted the candid rather than the formal result)

three pals stand with enthusiastic smiles in front of a replica of a historic ship

marisa stands in a conference room, smiling and ready to present. her presentation's title slide, "Remixing the Lab," is projected on a screen

should be 5Cs so we can include "crabs" #4C25 🦀

ahhh, being young enough to be mistaken for a student when you are a faculty member 💀

marisa stands in a high-walled slot canyon made orange by one vivid beam of light

marisa appears to try to climb a wall of white sandstone, like a goof

marisa looks up the walls of a narrow slot canyon with little light coming in, ecstatic

before spring break: frustrated, angry over small things, overwhelmed by post-spring break deadlines

after some time with extra sleep, getting lost in some canyons, avoiding my work laptop, and getting knocked on my butt a few days by illness: same number of deadlines, WAY more pleasant about it

me at the start of the day: oof. too many deadlines. a little worried

me at the end of the day: has somehow jumped on board another thing because it would be soooo coooooooool

the most contented person in the world is actually just a girl with a good book some blankets and a cat on her lap

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the upcharge on nonstop flights will never not make me angry. taking one plane should be cheaper than taking two planes full stop

a black-and-white cat sleeps peacefully on a white blanket, one paw in front of his face

have a leo.

there is no in-between

three weeks in, my second semester as a faculty member seems to only have two moods:
1. how does this work? why don't i know this yet? i'm so frustrated i've been here six months i should know this (continues to be frustrated with self/world)
2. i think i actually know what I'm doing?? this rules!

(she says, with a self-imposed deadline for an article draft later this month)

in 2024 I got a tenureline job, moved cross-country, defended my dissertation, walked across scotland, took too many planes, and assembled a lot of furniture.

I think in 2025 I'm just gonna chill for a sec