Neil Hultgren

This semester it is probably 30% handouts and 70% books in terms of pages. I supplement my photocopy strategy with asking students to get cheap print editions of the major class texts. For this semester, for instance, it's three Oxford World's Classics editions.

I used to do the course packets, but our campus switched to nearly 100% digital course materials. As a result, I’ve gone to printing out and copying what would have been in the course pack and then just handing it out. Not ideal but I like it better than a bunch of students in their phones.

Clint Smith and John Green will be discussing Clint’s young readers adaptation of How the Word Is Passed tonight at 7pm eastern

Join me and @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social virtually tonight at 7pm Eastern to discuss writing for young audiences, speaking honestly about American history, and whether this is finally the year Arsenal wins the title. Join us!

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Reading a passage from the 1890 Lippincott’s version of _The Picture of Dorian Gray_ at our campus’s banned book week event. So glad our library organized this!

When is it that she is accountable to the American people and to Californians who elect their representatives?

New Yorker, naturally

Yet another way I have become a SoCal stereotype…I get a headache every time it’s not sunny in the fall or winter.

Want to attend NAVSA 2025: Aftermaths but can't make it to DC? Want MORE brilliant Victorianist scholarship than you can get at the in-person event? The NAVSA 2025 DIGITAL PRESESSION is free and open to all —registration required for security

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Article header: THINKING IN TIME Kathy Alexis Psomiades, Duke University

Caring about thought in time means caring about scholarship as well—it has always seemed strange to me that the call to deepen and enrich our readings of the literature of the past so often goes hand in hand with a shallow and impoverished reading of the texts of our more recent critical past, as if we could throw away the past fifty years of reading practice to encounter the text in all its purity. This is not so much an ethics for me—though I think we might inquire about what it means if you have different ethics for reading one kind of text than another—but a problem of misrecognition of our own thinking and reading.

"Caring about thought in time means caring about scholarship."

Please allow yourself the pleasure of reading Kathy Psomiades, reading a bunch of other people, reading her award-winning book, *Primitive Marriage* (cluster of response-essays now out in VLC)

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Nothing feels more like home than touching down at LAX and overhearing the woman in the row ahead recruiting for Scientology. “Come by the celebrity Centre, though usually other people help Tom…”

Your keynote was great!

The third season is so brilliant! Dana Delaney! Simu! The fake Applebees! The multi-night gay play!

Amazing moment of communal singing during @badvictorianist.bsky.social’s great magic lantern show. We don’t always ask god to bless England at VISAWUS. The constitution only requires we do it at every other meeting. #visawus2025

It was great to meet you, Eleanor!

Say NO to Trump’s loyalty oaths and extortion of our universities!

We will NOT throw our students, faculty, and staff under the bus to comply with undemocratic and partisan ideological agendas.

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

VISAWUS 2025 is lit!

That's awful.

The university administration or the federal administration?

Your column yesterday was great. Thanks for that.

White House fires much of the National Council on the Humanities The White House appeared to fire all but four members of the National Council on the Humanities, an advisory board to the head of the government’s grantmaking agency.

Flagging this bit: “Some of the members whose names were removed from the website had been appointed by Trump.”

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the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

A Liberal Group Returns to Push Democrats to Oppose Trump

I'm on the board of Demand Justice, so I'm not an objective source on this. But... I like this. :)

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Happy birthday!

It’s a great sweater!

It’s shocking how susceptible I am to anti-Will Ladislaw content.

OMG is Vance going to be one of the people indicted?

Oooh…the temptation to purchase these together is great.

Middle-aged white gay guy, brown hair and goatee with a shirt, sorta open, sporting tigers, flowers, and trees. Derpy smile.

Today, while I grade papers, I’m dressed like a vampire from the early seasons of Buffy. I’m ok with it.

John Roberts Wrote Trump a Permission Slip to Indict Comey Political targets of the Justice Department can thank the chief justice.

I wrote about John Roberts as the chief enabler of the prosecution of James Comey—and how his jurisprudence gives cover to other sham investigations and prosecutions, like that of Lisa Cook, that judges simply have no power to second-guess for corrupt motive.

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