Neil Hultgren

Neil Hultgren

@profneilh.bsky.social

Professor of English. _Melodramatic Imperial Writing from the Sepoy Rebellion to Cecil Rhodes_ (2014). Current project on cosmic romance. Books, TV, running, biking, 🦖, 🏳️‍🌈

996 Followers 824 Following 504 Posts Joined Jul 2023
3 days ago

That tag should have been #highered. The photo, sadly, is not high res.

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3 days ago
A reflective pond holds three ducks in it. A building is in the background.

These old canards have returned to CSULB. #waterfowl #higheres

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5 days ago

If there’s a flash forward scene where an elder Yoshi reflects on his earlier life, please tell me that he’s voiced by Billy Dee Williams!

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5 days ago

Here we go again.

We're tired of this revolving door. And we need a real say in what comes next.

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5 days ago

Ugh! I’m sorry this is happening, Jill. I’m glad the faculty, staff, and students are speaking out.

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1 week ago

NEH's budget is tiny—not just compared to NSF/NIH, but compared to humanities funding in every other wealthy nation. What little was there was largely rescinded and several programs were cut in full last year. It decimated not merely individual projects but whole corners of the humanities in the US.

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1 week ago

Ha! I bought that one but never read it. I do really love Foucault’s Pendulum!

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1 week ago

It’s a great one! Umberto Eco knew how to write a novel!

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1 week ago

I was watching the video and thinking it was a waste of time, and then Bernie intervened. That was the highlight.

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1 week ago

So the fifth volume is really frustrating?

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1 week ago

It is fun, but it also feels, late in volume four, that the characters are almost entirely awful people.

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1 week ago

I’m almost done with Sodom and Gomorrah. I’m really loving that volume. Some of the Charlus and Charlie “fake duel” discussion is hilarious.

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1 week ago

i miss chubby jesse plemons and i bet kirsten does too

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2 weeks ago

Rereading Ali Smith’s _Gliff_, and it seems made for this moment.

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3 weeks ago

It’s a great one! Their commentary makes every Monday better.

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3 weeks ago

Thank you for reading the paragraphs.

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1 month ago

I think the greatest gift college professors in the humanities can give to students right now is a seminar room where, for 80 minutes twice a week, nothing that happens to them is a sales pitch for an AI product.

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1 month ago

If Bad Bunny was serious about uniting Americans, he would have given his Grammy to Donald Trump.

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1 month ago

Please tell me she was translating the works of Arthur Machen.

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1 month ago

Omg this is magical. Thanks for sharing.

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1 month ago
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Liam Conejo Ramos, the 5-year-old whose detention by ICE sparked national fervor, has landed in Minnesota with his father, Adrian Conejo Arias, Sunday morning, according to U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro from Texas. 💙 No kid should be in ICE detention. No kid should be separated from his parents.

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1 month ago

Colleagues, especially those in CA and in the California State University, please sign this petition. I know you've all heard the bleak news stories about our AI debacle (because people are always bringing the stories to me)!

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1 month ago

I would love to catch up! I'll email you. I feel like I'm doing okay...the CSU...

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1 month ago

Quantum chemistry sounds amazing!

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1 month ago

Never mind the jobs you had, five classes you took in college:
1. Historical Geology
2. Death, Suffering, and Endurance
3. Philosophy of Mind
4. Seminar: Racine
5. Symphonic Band

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1 month ago

I feel the same!

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1 month ago

Thank you for sharing, Martha!

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1 month ago
Two doughnuts. One is dark blue with a key and a 1410 keychain. The other is a white doughnut with a striped hockey jersey on it. The jersey is #81 with the name Rozanov.

The Heated Rivalry doughnuts.

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1 month ago

I think of the Meryl Ethel Rosenberg moments with Roy Cohn so so often

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1 month ago

Congratulations on this milestone

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