Thomas Hallock

#AOC for President 2028.

Teaching pro-tip. Stop grading online. Ask students to turn in their essays in print form. I am reading student work at dawn (okay, class at 2), and even as I grade, I feel fully human with them.

Humanities scholars, we've been training our whole lives for this moment. Call out bullshit. At every level.

30 years into scholarly publishing, and I'm pretty sure, there's not much more humbling than proofing a bibliography.

Just ate a booger on a Zoom call. First time caught, I think.

Move fast and break stuff. Or have hurricanes do the breaking.

Last night I dreamt that @robynhitchcock.bsky.social referenced my academic monograph in a song. It was glorious.

#RhiannonGiddens is a national treasure.

This is how it’s done.

Just don't say "American Pie."

The backing band that launched Elvis Costello's career. (Without Huey.)

Love that classroom moment when you've read good stuff, taken them to a cool place ... and they start to write.

Read 'Donna Tampa,' a cigar label-inspired ekphrastic poem from the 'Now On View' installation in Ybor City 'City Palimpsest' is another work that explains the arrival of FAX 727 289 3069 in Tampa.

#Tampa cigar box #poetry from Tyler Gillespie.

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Is there anything more #Florida than an e-trike?

I finished my annual review for work 11 1/2 hours before it was due. May I please have a pat on the head?

You can ban the music, you can't stop the song.

Thank you for sharing the post. It was an eye-opening trip!

Will Florida Still Draw Tourists If It Permits Oil Drilling? For five pesos, I could hold the crocodilio. The handler stood in the shadows of Veracruz's boardwalk. When I asked why he had an alligator, he told me

Five years ago, I traveled the southern coast of the #gulfofmexico by bus. Wrote about my journey in @zocalopublicsquare.bsky.social. Re-posting this article, in hopes my words reach the President.

www.zocalopublicsquare.org/10-anniversa...

#TypewriterTuesday. Letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, concerning #USAID cuts, on the 1950s Royal Quiet DeLuxe my mom used in college. How are you contacting the government otday?

A call to typewriter enthusiasts: #TypewriterTuesday. I propose once a week, say lunch hour every Tuesday, we type (or hand write on stationery) a letter to an elected official. Personal, epistolary engagement with our politicians. We can share our letters on a common group or page. Who's in?

Gathering up people and shipping them off to camps.

Reading grad school applications. Advice: do NOT open a statement of purpose, "I have loved literature since I was a child." Definite no-no. Pass the word on to your graduating students.

Late to the party here, but damn--archivally grounded, connect-the-dots study.

Professor friends! Small step to bring back joy in teaching. Ask for hard copies, rather than reading work online. Encourage students to type, or if their handwriting is neat, go that route. Far more connected to their words when we are working from a shared page.

Yup. That's my problem. I'm trying to pull together a survey bibliography. The amount of literature about the Seminole War (1812-present) is OVERHWELMING.

Scholar Friends: When gathering archival materials, when and where do you stop? I am pulling together a cultural history of the Seminole War, and 30 pages into the bibliography, no end in sight. State papers to lachrymose poetry to glass bottomed boat name.

Sunset over Braden River.

Florida.

Toni Morrison Lists the 10 Steps That Lead Countries to Fascism (1995) Image by Angela Radulescu, via Wikimedia Commons The term fascism gets thrown around a great deal these days, not always with high regard to consistency of meaning. Much like Orwellian, it now seems o...

Worth your attention today
www.openculture.com/2022/01/toni...

Question about student reading. I have several who will not read or even buy books. One student, who had not completed the homework for one class, lamented the 15 page "wall of text" in another. I've cut back on page count. I feel old & out of touch, standing before a generational shift. Solutions?

As the Trump administration & many state governments appear poised to accelerate attacks on higher education as a public good, the AAUP urges colleges & universities to resist the coming onslaught of political interference & defend the core values of higher education.
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