Rachel M. Hartnett, PhD

A photo of an open section in an autumn forest, there is a rocky dirt path on the right and a half-formed path through tall grasses and possibly reeds to the left.

Two paths diverged in a wood, and I–
I took the one more traveled by;
Because the wood is still a full ecosystem and leaving the maintained path can damage it,
Also I don't want ticks or wet socks

HAPPY INDIGENOUS PEOPLES DAY!

Corn was created by Indigenous farmers in southern Mexico and Guatemala about 10K years. When European colonizers got to North American, Indigenous People had been growing it for thousands of years + cultivated beans, squash, potatoes and tomatoes. #Indigenous

Green turtle bounces back from brink in conservation 'win' Once endangered due to hunting, it is making a strong recovery thanks to global conservation efforts.

Some environmental good news for once:

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“‘In New York You Can Be a New Man’: Adapting American Mythology in Hamilton” Author: Rachel M. Hartnett, College of Coastal Georgia, Survey of American LiteraturePeer-Reviewers: Kathryn McClain and James FleuryWebsite Developer: Kristen Figgins Summary This l…

Trying to include Hamilton in your American lit courses? Who isn't?! Check out Rachel Hartnett's published lesson on Hamilton on Adaptation Today's website, and consider submitting your own materials by October 1!!
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There's still time to sign up for the 5th To Be Continued... online conference, which launches this Thursday 18 September! Join us to talk about David Lynch, copyright, franchises, and legacies with a stellar group of scholars!

From my cold, double- tapping fingers

Remembering Graham Greene: A Life of Talent, Heart, and Groundbreaking Achievements On September 1, 2025, we lost a true legend. Graham Greene, Oneida from Six Nations Reserve, walked on at the age of 73. Over the span of more than 175 acting credits, he gave us characters that were ...

On September 1, 2025, we lost a true legend. Graham Greene, Oneida from Six Nations Reserve, walked on at the age of 73. Over the span of more than 175 acting credits, he gave us characters that were unforgettable, complex, and real.

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#redpopnews

TBC5 flyer 2025 final.docx To Be Continued 5 Defining, Producing, Performing, Consuming, and Theorizing Serials and Adaptations A Zoom Symposium, 18–19 September 2025 Organizers: Julie Grossman (Le Moyne College), Thomas Leitch...

Adaptation, seriality, film, media, literature, and cultural studies scholars, come to the fifth annual online To Be Continued conference, Sept. 18-19! Presenter and (free) registration information can be found on this flyer. Hope to see you there! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

This is why we need the arts. This is community theatre!!!

Proposal: All academic job application portals should have a Domino's Pizza Tracker system to update you on their progress, with possible free pizza upon rejection.

Thoughts?

I’m happy for him to have this positive experience and also wish that his character and their village could have been given more agency in the film.

I follow Afghan-born American actor Fahim Fazli on Instagram and it’s just incredible seeing him talk about all the years he was forced to play terrorists on screen and how Superman is one of the few films where he got to be someone good and worth saving www.instagram.com/p/DMXzYCQR-_...

CFP The Ameri-fan Experiment: Political fandoms and Problems with Representative Democracies The Ameri-fan Experiment: Political Fandoms, Populism, and Representative Democracies Call for Chapter Proposals Editors: CarrieLynn D. Reinhard, Linda Howell, and Jessica Hatusch In the wake of th...

CFP for @pcaaca.bsky.social @fanstudies.bsky.social @fsnnorthamerica.bsky.social @icahdq.bsky.social @scmstudies.bsky.social @aoir.bsky.social

The Ameri-fan Experiment: Political Fandoms, Populism, and Representative Democracies

For more information, see full CFP: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

The video game Bioshock Infinite is a very intelligent, yet frightening vision of fascist America: where populist propaganda, racism and cult of personality are the pillars of the state in the clouds. This vision shouldn't become reality, it's YOUR responsibility to stop it.

"No amount of cheering will cause [Hogan's] desiccated, drug-addled corpse to 'Hulk up,' turn back time, and re-insert you into childhood. But the return to childhood is what the impulse to fascism is always about."

www.thehandbasket.co/p/hulk-hogan...

Canvas just became one of the most powerful surveillance, IP theft, & data monetization tools in the world.

OpenAI bought a user-base locked in to long-term contracts.

But they can’t make us use their trashware.

Boycott. Luddify. Open source.

Don’t let them have your work or your students.

“Superman is too woke!”

Literally the first page of the first ever appearance of Superman:

In 2025 let’s stop using the word denigrate to denote a reduction in value. De-nigr-ate traces its roots to the act of making something blacker. In no world, and particularly not the modern one, does Blackness reduce value. Blackness in fact constitutes the overwhelming value of the world in culture, ideas, art, what the lands that Black people steward/ed yield, and more. Next time you want a synonym for reducing value, consider: colonize or gentrify.

a public service announcement from your friendly neighborhood educational linguist. don't facilitate antiBlackness through thoughtless discourses! #LanguageMatters #Etymology #TheBlackerTheBetter #EncodingHierarchy #AcademicChatter

A 1940 newspaper clip from the Springfield Leader and Press, declaring: Superman Poisoning American Children, Irate Nazis cClaim."

"Superman Arouses Teutonic Anger" reads the headline in the Amarillo Daily News"

The right-wing backlash against #Superman this week got me thinking: Has this happened before?

That led to the discovery of these headline — from April 1940, when the official newspaper of the SS took umbrage at the comic book hero and ridiculed its creators.

My how times change ...

Postdoctoral Fellowships The British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships is a three year award made to an annual cohort of outstanding early career researchers in the humanities or social sciences.

British Academy postdoctoral fellowships scheme is now open. The deadline is 1 October. Time to get talking with potential host institutions and mentors about planning an application for this year or instead waiting for a future round. (The scheme is annual).

"Your high independence only reveals the immeasurable distance between us. The blessings in which you, this day, rejoice, are not enjoyed in common. The rich inheritance of justice, liberty, prosperity and independence, bequeathed by your fathers, is shared by you, not by me."

my hot take? a movie is by definition meant to be a standalone experience. even a movie that is part of a franchise or narrative trilogy must work as its own, self-contained story for it to even begin to qualify as good.

one of the most incomprehensible to me things that a lot of people appear to believe about pop culture is that a bad movie can be made good if its supplementary material is good, or that it is somehow OK to make a movie that demands you to watch hours of other material to make sense

CFP: Call For Proposals: Gothic Blackness: Exploring Ethnogothic, New Black Gothic, and Afro-Gothic Themes in Literature, Film, and Culture

Special Issue of American Gothic Studies
Guest Editor: Dr. DeAnna Daniels, University of Arizona
Proposals due 8/15/25, with essays due 2/1/26

Every college leader should take note of why Ono got rejected by UF's Board: despite his craven and public abandonment of his previous DEI advocacy, they still thought he was too "woke." The lesson: no amount of self-abasement or eagerness to sell your community down the river, will ever be enough.

It’s so fucking funny

Just one week left to get abstracts in for our targeted CFP

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, East Africa’s Leading Novelist and Social Critic, Dies at 87 He insisted that African literature should be written in African languages to serve as an authentic voice.

RIP Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
While imprisoned without charge in 1977, he made the seminal decision to write only in Gikuyu, expounding the idea that African literature should be written in African languages, and wrote a novel in Gikuyu on government-issued toilet paper.
www.wsj.com/arts-culture...

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Have an Epic and Magical Day!

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, giant of African literature, dies aged 87 Kenyan writer’s death announced by his daughter, who wrote: ‘He lived a full life, fought a good fight’

Rest in peace Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

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