Kelly Swartz

I’m very happy that this book is finally out in the world. Get yourself a copy if you want to hear how one of the shortest forms relates to one of the longest, or if you’re interested in whether or how we learn from fiction!

Congrats! Can’t wait to read more!

Loss of classics library at Montclair State reflects larger fears over humanities The battle to save Montclair’s classics library symbolizes an older one — higher education’s struggle to save the humanities.

Closing the Classics Library to make room for what will really be administrative offices (regardless of what it’s called).

Montclair students have been trying to save it.

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This is UNACCEPTABLE. It cannot be allowed.

Every Member of Congress and Senator, and every elected official with a brain and a heart should say so and put their shoulder to the wheel.

This study is how we know almost any true thing about women's health.

“May Heaven forfend that I should ever write a book about books.”
—Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, inadvertently expressing the dawning horror of every literary scholar working on a monograph

Scientists have just cured pancreatic cancer in some patients with personalized mRNA vaccines. Pancreatic cancer. And this Trump administration wants to throw it all away.

They’re throwing away a cure for cancer.

this is targeted erasure and will have very real and very many negative consequences

The Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights has threatened to annihilate 60 years of advancements in equal opportunity by eliminating all federal funding for schools that support and celebrate students from diverse backgrounds.

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Great to see Francisco Robles’s Coalition Literature in my mailbox. This book puts together some broken shards of a US literary history fired in the kilns of the late thirties and helps me see how to embrace a “collective” dimension of our aesthetic politics. @franciscondine.bsky.social

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I’m in. Do I need to be added to the feed? I think I just followed it?

A photo of a much-used copy of Angus Ross’s Penguin edition of Richardson’s Clarissa missing it’s cover, which has fallen off.

Okay, I’m in. I need something to keep me going in these dark days. What strikes me most on this read of Letter 1 is Anna’s report of C’s desire to “slid[e] through life to the end of it unnoted.” Lol. #clarissa25

Book Giveaway🚨

I’m giving away 3 copies of Revolting Indolence (@utexaspress.bsky.social) to graduate students in any discipline who are based in the U.S!

To enter, DM or email me:
Your name, institution
Current research topic

I’ll announce the winners December 1.
(reposts appreciated!)

🦃 tradition, @kellmswartz.bsky.social wins a 🥧 .🥇 5k in the ☔️ kicking 🍑

A reminder to my academic colleagues that the incoming freshman class was born in 2006 which means that they

-have not seen attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion
-don’t know how C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser Gate
-All these moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain

Cover of the book The Scientific Method: An Evolution of Thinking from Darwin to Dewey by Henry M. Cowles

I'll make a 🧵 of my notes on this book here. To get us started:

"There's no such thing as the scientific method, and there never was.

And yet, 'the scientific method' is alive and well. […] Why? Because 'the scientific method' is a myth—and myths are powerful things."

🧪#metasci #philsci #STS

Career Center Recognized as a Best College by U.S. News & World Report, Adelphi is Long Island’s oldest private coeducational university, serving almost 8,000 students at its beautiful main campus in Garden City, at learning hubs in Manhattan, the Hudson Valley and Suffolk County, and online.

“a diversity statement; a writing sample from one or more genres (10 - 12 poems; 20 - 30 pages of fiction or creative nonfiction; or a digital copy of your most recent book/s); and a list of three references at www.adelphi.edu/positions/fa.... Applications will be accepted until August 2, 2024.” 4/4

“Experience teaching at the university level is required and experience teaching in low-residency or distance learning modalities is desirable. The course load is 18 credits (3-3) for the academic year including appropriate departmental responsibilities. Please submit a CV; a cover letter;” 3/

“…to a diverse student population, offering workshop and literature classes in the in-person undergraduate program and participating in the launch of Adelphi’s new low-residency MFA program. Although all genres are welcome, preference will be given to poets.” 2/

Creative Writing VAP at my Uni for 24/25. Please share and/or apply!

“Adelphi University's Department of English is seeking a published writer and effective teacher for a Visiting Assistant Professorship in the 24/25 academic year. The successful candidate will teach a multi-genre curriculum…” 1/

The essay is fab. And I get it! I watched The Family Stone in the theater with my mom. Much later I lost her to cancer.

V. pleased about the presence of The Family Stone, which is always first on my list of essential holiday rom-com viewing, so this year I finished it before Thanksgiving :(

Teaching Trans History Reading List & Resources Teaching Trans History Reading List and Resources This non-exhaustive reading list is intended to offer practical tools and resources to academics wanting to include more trans history in university...

Jack Doyle and I put together a reading list for a workshop on Teaching Trans History that we ran at the Oxford History Faculty last week (featuring Kit Heyam as our wonderful guest speaker). Here's the reading list! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Brown and white tabby cat wearing a space-themed “cone of shame” asleep on a bed.

Here’s my spacecat, forced to wear a space cone.

You’re welcome