Thread by @sentantiq

To riff on Tolstoy as one does: All happy classics departments resemble one another, but every unhappy department is unhappy in its own way

#classicstwitter

.@kataplexis and @lpoldybloom train our gaze to a small liberal arts school where they teach, to move the discourse from elite institutions and PhD programs

rfkclassics.blogspot.com/2021/02/changi…

This is a different call from early weeks' claims that classics is qualitatively different outside the US and that recent years' problems are primarily (*anglo)-American

The challenges facing faculty and students at small departments often look different from those in the larger world and move faster with more immediate and lasting consequences

for future courses, we are best served by listening to the different experiences and voices, hearing how classics is shaped by historical legacies of colonialism and white supremacy at every level

...because I suspect Tolstoy might be wrong to some extent. Different departments' and levels' misery feels different, but the results of the legacies of racism, a related and exploiting capitalism, and the collapse of hire education will bear more than passing resemblance

*ha! Higher education not hire. that's A FREUDIAN eff-up for you