Me teaching: each paragraph should have a single main idea Me writing: my argument here is ninefold

I’ve just learned that following the academic model, Joe Biden’s vacant position will be filled by a 1-year VAP (visiting assistant president). The pay is 35k and the candidate must relocate to rural Maine.

Sorry I know you’ve been a VAP here for three years, but we’re going to have to do a national search

"Inter sylvas Academi quaerere verum": Join Prof. Adam Serfass, Ellis Copley '25, & Chiara Nevard '25 for "In Memoriam: A Walking Tour of Kenyon College's Latin & Greek Inscriptions" on Homecoming Weekend, Family Weekend, & Founders' Day. Details below.

Let's meet our guest curator for #ItalianLitMonth. She's Italian-to-English translator Leah Janeczko. Leah has assembled a chorus of voices to celebrate Italian books recently translated. Let's meet Leah to hear what she has planned: glli-us.org/2024/10/01/ita… #Italy 🧵

"Some writers are just so brimming with talent, imagination and energy that it seems unfair on others. The Italian writer Dino Buzzati was one of them." Word is out about Buzzati and particularly his short stories.

International Summer School on Translation Studies. 23 June – 27 June 2025, on “Translation in a Turbulent World III: Translation and Materiality”. Application deadline: March 13th, 2025 fusp.it/summer-school/

i hate writing that is more about the writer’s capacity for cleverness and erudition than about a reader’s capacity for compassion and transformation

"What can academic leaders do to restore declining faith in their institutions?" How about oh, I dunno, not endorsing the very technologies that are helping to destroy them and deskill their workers

Publishers: it’s easy—place the translator’s name on the cover.

In Lisa Robertson’s words, “there’s nothing artificial about AI. It does not originate. It only selects from, ranks & reorganizes the labour and cultural capital its owners have stolen from people as they impoverish us.” theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

I am once again pitching my romantic comedy: - two academics start dating - discover they are each other's terrible reviewer - hijinks ensue Working title: Love is Double-Blind

The International Federation of Translators (FIT) published a position paper on #MachineTranslation (MT) to draw attention to the consequences of using MT both for the users and for professional #translators. Read it at en.fit-ift.org/position-and-d…. #ai #translation #xl8 #1nt #atanet

Desperately sad to report that you’ve read enough to start writing

‘The punctuation family is a close-knit one, with barely half a dozen members, but there is an outlying tribe of more or less distant cousins.’ Adam Mars-Jones on lesser-known punctuations marks. granta.com/apotheosis-of-…

Something big is happening STEM is dead. CS jobs are gone. I hate to break it to you, but we’re dealing with a Total. Technological. Bloodbath. The ONLY choice you have is to dedicate your life to the humanities. Words. Books. Art. Music. The only lifeline we have left.

I was the academic consultant on Wuthering Heights responsible for ensuring that the film was faithful to the book. I haven't read it myself but I think we did a great job