Deborah McDowell

Deborah McDowell

@dem8z.bsky.social

Reader, writer, teacher, gardener, seamstress, contrarian. Alice Griffin Professor of English, Former Director of Carter G. Woodson Institute, University of Virginia. Please, no DMs unless I know you. For professional matters, please contact me via UVA.

11,479 Followers 3,633 Following 3,490 Posts Joined Jul 2023
6 hours ago

Can’t believe Draper beat the Joker.

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6 hours ago

Goodness gracious!!! WHAT A MATCH!!!

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13 hours ago

screamed

also when did they change the cut of mcgruff's trench

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11 hours ago

That’s great, Ben!! And many thanks for using the Rutgers Edition, especially since there are so many others available now!!

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14 hours ago
Preview
Quicksand and Passing Nella Larsen's novels Quicksand (1928) and Passing (1929) document the historical realities of Harlem in the 1920s and shed a bright light on the social world of the black bourgeoisie. The novels' gre...

Teaching Nella Larsen’s Quicksand in my graduate class this evening. Maybe gets my vote for the most talented prose stylist that almost nobody outside the Academy has read. Doing my part to change that! @dem8z.bsky.social

www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/quicksand-an...

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16 hours ago

I want to hear the lamentations of their CEO

I want weeping, gnashing of teeth, as they circle the drain of bankruptcy into the sewers of irrelevance

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17 hours ago

I wanted to see Target driven into the ground & abolished, not making concessions & reforms. It's too late boo!

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16 hours ago

Nor mine.

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17 hours ago

Whose leaders? Not my leaders or anybody else's who's never returning to Target.

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1 day ago
SNOWDROPS

Do you know what I was, how I lived? You know 
what despair is; then
winter should have meaning for you.

I did not expect to survive,
earth suppressing me. I didn't expect 
to waken again, to feel
in damp earth my body
able to respond again, remembering 
after so long how to open again in the cold light
of earliest spring—

afraid, yes, but among you again
crying yes risk joy

in the raw wind of the new world.

after so long how to open again in the cold light
of earliest spring—

Louise Glück

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16 hours ago

So appreciate your kindness.

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17 hours ago

Good, I'm glad to hear it. And sorry to learn you had broken an ankle!

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1 day ago

I've gotten to the point in my French lessons where I'm learning about "liaisons interdites" or forbidden liaisons.
Sadly the subject isn't remotely as sexy as you'd hope it would be.

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1 day ago

Is she getting the “Traitorous Alum” award?

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1 day ago

just goes to show that if you look within yourself you too can become the fascist jurist you've always dreamed of being, what a great role model & inspiration for our law students

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1 day ago

big shoutout to @uvalaw.bsky.social for hosting harmeet dhillon today!

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1 day ago

MANY THANKS!!

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1 day ago

Celebrating this win for you!

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1 day ago

MANY THANKS!!

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1 day ago

Glad you're recovering!!

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1 day ago

MANY THANKS!!

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1 day ago

Sending you good energy and well wishes 💐

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1 day ago

🙏🏾💛🙏🏾

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1 day ago

Wishing you a speedy and full recovery!

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1 day ago

🙏🏾💛🙏🏾

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1 day ago

i do wish you further full revovery, i so commiserate (knowing ankle break!)! and a good birthday, madame!

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1 day ago

Take your time! 🙏

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1 day ago

THANKS SO MUCH CHRISTINA! 💛💛💛

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1 day ago

They are not for the weak!!! Keep getting stronger. Early happy birthday 🎉

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1 day ago

Many thanks!! The worst is past—I think!

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