When students are unsure whether to pursue a research project on modernism, I ask them if they prefer texts which slavishly reflect reality using time-honoured forms and conventions. If the answer is yes, I advise them to choose literally any other period

Good to see University of Sydney now rejecting the absurd smears of the Zionist far-right over the meaning of 'intifada'.

Cfp closes today! Please pop in an abstract - details in the thread! DM me if you want to ask any questions! AMSN

Hey man just wanted to let you know how much I enjoyed opening your recent article in a new tab

Me teaching: each paragraph should have a single main idea

Me writing: my argument here is ninefold

The secret to work life balance is passing through the developmental arc of a bildungsroman and learning that self-fulfilment consists in the diligent pursuit of a bourgeois calling

Hey bro nice moral judgement. Is it binding for all rational creatures?

Still time to get your abstracts in for 'Modernism and Modernity at the Edge', University of Tasmania, 11-13 December. It's going to be the best AMSN conference yet! Abstracts due 1 May
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Come to AMSN 6, Modernism and modernity at the edge University of Tasmania in December! Smart folks will plan a side trip to one of lutruwita's beautiful beaches 👇

Recipe requires fresh thyme leaves

'I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled'

Menswear guy: here's why this is a mistake

Deleting the dating apps because I want to meet someone the old-fashioned way (having my dalmatian set me up with the owner of another dalmatian)

NTEU research on the front page of today's @TheAge shows the number of unelected appointments on university councils and senates outstrips those elected from staff, students and graduates. Ministers must act on the broken governance model when they meet today.

What will you do with your one wild and precious free article for this month?

Happily installing the updates as soon as they're available, knowing that each one brings my software closer to perfection

I set a few pages from Helen Vendler's The Music of What Happens for my first-year students every year. Her dictum of describing the text in such a way that the description applies to that text and no other is the best one-line encapsulation of close reading I've found

Oh, you have created a 'character'? What level are they? What out of 20 is the quantitative measure of their strength, dexterity, constitution, intelligence and charisma? If you can't answer these questions, maybe you are not ready to write a novel

RIP Shakespeare, you would have loved N O T H I N G I N B I O

(Reading Milton's description of Satan in Paradise Lost) can I just say something