Alexis Christensen

Yes, they’ll unfortunately be coming for TT faculty too.

Unless you’re a CL Research person they make it almost impossible to do research as part of one’s job. But of course we’re all doing research to teach and some of us want/try to do research on top of that.

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So we're finally getting to the 'reading' portion of my Reading Greek Prose class, and I need to highlight to my students how 'reading' is different from 'translating' so they don't come to class with written out translations. What tips would you give a student in this situation?

I know some units do have 4/4 for career-line faculty. I’d be curious what the break down is between teaching and service and research. We’re all lectures in my dept, so all my research is outside my contract. Except, of course, it does inform some of my teaching, just uncompensated.

Ah yes, because we have time to take on more classes. Will be interesting to see how this plays out. Career-line faculty do so much service in my department on top of teaching.

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If I had a nickel for every email I’ve gotten from the ijahss…. Love the sender name here though. 😑

I went onto a podcast to talk about Julian!

Your Sunday homework:

Take 17 minutes and 21 seconds to watch this film made in 1945 by the American government.

Then reflect upon the content of this film, and how it applies to your life and the lives of those people in your communities.

A student in my publishing course is interested in researching book pulping and book recycling. Do we know any work or introductory material in this area?

(Work on remainders, print runs, supply chain, raw materials all relevant, too.)

CFP: A Time of Monsters The monster has been here all along. It is a historical constant that manifests in wildly different ways across time, place, and culture. Whatever form it takes, the monster claws at categories; it un...

Our new CFP is up and it is monstrous.

A loom leans against a wall. A woman is unpicking the thread from her weaving. A goose sits by her side.

Day 4: Shroud
#ClassicsTober

Three geometric style women crawl around feeling for an eyeball that lies in between them all. They all have empty eye sockets and mouths, except one woman has a single tooth.

Day 3: Graiai
#ClassicsTober

Apparently I need to practice drawing people crawling around on the ground. Went over my 10 minute limit on this one because I kept erasing and starting over. 🫤

Geometric style drawing of a winged Thanatos wearing a helmet and poking a sleeping Hypnos with a long bone. Thanatos says “rise and shine”

Day 2: Thanatos
#ClassicsTober

Title screen of Alfred Hitchcock’s The Trouble with Harry.

Time for the annual viewing.

O sweet! A digital golden calf.

The lost Lego still washing up after 28 years From dragons to wands, pieces lost from a cargo ship in 1997 continue to wash up around the world.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

The next Historical Network Research conference will be held in Turin, Italy in July 2026, and submissions are now open.

Proposals due December 1. Bursaries available for early career scholars.

This year's theme is "Networks and their Sources." See you there!

hnr2026.sciencesconf.org

It also hurts public universities more than private ones to up the cost. This graph is from Times Higher Ed.

#ClassicalReception

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Okay, these gorgon sweaters are amazing!! Check out @lejenksbrown.bsky.social’s website. I’ve already put a sweater vest on my Christmas wishlist! greekmythcomix-1-shop.fourthwall.com/collections/...

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News - Personal Toolkit of Ice Age Hunter Recovered - Archaeology Magazine MORAVIA, CZECH REPUBLIC—Thousands of years ago, an Ice Age hunter set down a small pouch […]

#Archaeology is about people.

People like the #Gravettian hunter who, 30,000 years ago in southern Moravia, lost or dropped his pouch containing a well-used tool kit of stone blades and points, (including partially broken pieces he could've let go a lot earlier):

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That much better then!!

Congratulations!!🎉🎉

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Can’t wait to read this.

A pencil sketch of a stick figure Hypnos napping, using his helmet as a pillow. Inspired by his representation on the Euphronious Krater now in Cerveteri.

#ClassicsTober Day 1: Hypnos

I’m going to try to do drawings this year for each day. I’ve decided I will just sit down and do them quickly in ca 10 minutes as a bit of fun and not care that I’m not the best artist!

One of my students is, on their own initiative, doing OcPoeBer, and will be reading Poe's works outloud every weekday this month on the plaza outside our building. They participated in the Homerathon and apparently that sparked the idea. I love it!

Good to know!