@amoskowitz.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of English at Mount Holyoke College | Early + C19 American Literature | Political Economy of Slavery | Literary Form | Sensory Perception
absolutely crushing it
17.10.2025 02:00 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0god damn i love a good chiasmus a classic of the genre
17.10.2025 01:58 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Chiasmus the most underrated rhetorical move
17.10.2025 00:43 — 👍 135 🔁 17 💬 4 📌 0
if you are in western mass please consider coming to this event i've organized at mount holyoke!!! next tuesday, oct 21
15.10.2025 19:54 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0me after consuming nothing but coffee all day, on 5 hours of sleep, and a full day of teaching and meetings with students: “i wonder why i feel like shit”
11.10.2025 00:08 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
submitting my reappointment materials wish me luck ✌️✌️
29.09.2025 15:57 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0(it was a white rug)
26.09.2025 02:03 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0it’s a white rug 💀
26.09.2025 02:01 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0i bought a new rug and my cat threw up on it within a week
26.09.2025 02:01 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0will someone please write my reappointment statement for me
19.09.2025 14:42 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0What are YOU doing to make Bluesky more hospitable to shitposting?
02.09.2025 02:25 — 👍 43 🔁 5 💬 6 📌 1i'm teaching an insane course this semester. william wells brown and fredric jameson. toni morrison and harriet wilson. lukacs and ellen craft. ian watt and john ernest. what is going on
28.08.2025 15:49 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0i have drafts of 3 (out of 4) chapters of my book please clap
22.08.2025 20:26 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Ralph Wiggem “I’m in danger” meme
*Academics in early August
06.08.2025 16:31 — 👍 467 🔁 108 💬 13 📌 24turning a dissertation chapter into a book chapter is literally impossible
06.08.2025 16:51 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
hegel is an underground c19 american thinker yes i agree www.c19society.org/2026-confere...
16.06.2025 21:43 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0there's nothing like your chair telling you that you should start sending out your book proposal to make you actually write the thing
16.06.2025 17:14 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0help me i am writing a book proposal
16.06.2025 17:14 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0me reading a novel that i will eventually write an article about
13.06.2025 16:10 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0one of the wonders of the summer schedule is actually having time to read
12.06.2025 20:28 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0syllabi looking more and more like online recipes that include the person's life story
12.06.2025 17:51 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0everyone says this thing is bad. but have you considered that it might be good?
12.06.2025 17:32 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 090% of my own scholarship is just “this bad thing is good, actually”
12.06.2025 17:32 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1I know that I'm in my mid thirties because this used to be easier.
04.06.2025 18:52 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0oh cool
29.05.2025 19:11 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0like hell yeah i am going to tell the journal to publish this
29.05.2025 19:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0one thing that is legitimately awesome about academia is seeing a junior scholar give a kickass paper on a panel, and then having the article version of that paper land in your inbox for (blind) peer review
29.05.2025 19:00 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Picture of the changing HBO logos, from HBO max to Max and back to HBO max
Do you guys remember crystal Pepsi
16.05.2025 00:40 — 👍 26 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0one of those profs that when you look at their page you are like “they are an enemy of the people”
03.05.2025 18:44 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0successful navigated a potentially sensitive situation with an older ivy league style academic in another dept at my college please clap
03.05.2025 18:42 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
