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Daniel Hack

@danielhack.bsky.social

English professor at Michigan, interested in literature as in life

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"Exploring complex texts together, sharing our reactions and our insights, developing analyses through dialogue, and trying out ideas on one another is the best way to learn, and also the most fun."

25.08.2025 13:06 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks! I had arrived at pretty much the same place in terms of policy, but was still calling it "participation," even though that seemed inadequate. I will probably blend some of your phrasing with my existing language:

25.08.2025 13:06 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Is this yours, Nathan? I want to make sure I credit the right person when I adopt/adapt this!

25.08.2025 02:57 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

My university is encouraging me to use ChatGPT for my research, and I'm so glad I did. Otherwise I never would have known about @carolinelevine.bsky.social's 2004 article, "Victorian Plots and the Twentieth Century Novel: The Case of Kazuo Ishiguro"! Sounds fascinating! How could I have missed it?

23.07.2025 00:55 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

This is why, despite misgivings (which I will share with the class), I am teaching a course in the fall I named β€œThe Greatest Novel and the Biggest Question: Middlemarch and Meaning.”

09.05.2025 14:48 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Congratulations, Deidre! Why am I not shocked?

13.12.2024 15:39 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

About twenty years ago, in Buffalo. Plus we had the soundtrack CD on high rotation. Great stuff.

05.12.2024 01:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œI am not afraid. Well, I am, but I’m still brave.”

05.12.2024 00:40 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

We find reassurance where we can. They say the English major is dying and no one reads anymore, but some one left a beat-up copy of MCTEAGUE on the "free books" shelf in my department this morning and it's already gone.

02.12.2024 17:58 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

powerful

18.11.2024 17:51 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

More self-interrupting songs: β€œWrong β€˜em Boyo,” β€œI Want You (She’s So Heavy”

13.11.2024 13:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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