Beth C Rosenberg

@kaitlancollins.bsky.social I usually respect you, but the interview about antisemitism was so weak. You needed to push in the other direction too.

Mount Charleston on a hot Las Vegas day.

It's Not Them; It's Us: Thoughts on the Show Adolescence The new Netflix mini-series Adolescence is not about teenagers so much as it's about how adults perceive and fail to perceive teenagers. They're presented in the first two episodes as an alien life fo...

My feminist take on the show everyone's talking about. And the questions about technology, patriarchy, teenagers, education, misogyny, estrangement, and perception it raises..... www.meditationsinanemergency.com/its-not-them...

A Confederacy of Dunces ?

University of Nevada, Las Vegas is on this list. This is what happens when you are designated one of the top two most diverse universities in the country.

I love you and your work so much Lauren Elkin so please take this the right way: the male form of shiksa is shaygetz

It’s Friday! Just hang in there!

Oh, let’s just all watch #SNL50! So much joy. We deserve it,

The Courage to Be Yourself: Virginia Woolf on How to Hear Your Soul “Beyond the difficulty of communicating oneself, there is the supreme difficulty of being oneself.”

The courage to be yourself – Virginia Woolf, born on this day in 1882, on how to hear your soul

And that is why James is so great!

Please share the CFP for our conference: 'Bodies and Environments in the Early Modern World'. Our keynotes are Marcy Norton @marcynorton.bsky.social (Pennsylvania) & Sara Miglietti (Warburg Institute). Join us 9-10 June at JRRIL, Manchester. Further details at: sites.manchester.ac.uk/sleeping-wel...

Spread the word! @natewolff.bsky.social and I have extended the deadline for submissions for our Arizona Quarterly special issue on the American novel at the turn of the 20th century. New date is Jan. 2nd.
azq.arizona.edu/call-papers-0

Opinion | The Disappearance of Literary Men Should Worry Everyone What happens if half the population is no longer involved in reading and writing?

This certainly is an “opinion,” and not based in any fact, except for anecdotal evidence. You’d think the author was unaware that men have dominated the literary canon for centuries. Do we thank you for making your students read Handmaid’s Tale?

www.nytimes.com/2024/12/07/o...

You are very generous in your evaluation. I don’t have the patience.

It’s disgusting. Like they have a dominated literary history for 1000 years. I just saw a study today too that said women are 40% more likely to read men’s nonfiction than the reverse.

My collaborator came all the way from Canada to Las Vegas to work. Boy did we have fun!

I have the same problem at my university. Joyce hasn’t been taught in almost a decade.