English @Georgetown, concerned citizen. Book: Forms of Empire, @oupacademic: https://t.co/ALFLetXuE5. Now: ecology, systems, action. He/him. Tweets just mine.
Sep 11, 2022 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
I know we’ve moved on, but just to say out loud that the thrumming to wildness/luxuriating in profusion thing from the other day isn’t anomalous at all, but shows w special clarity how a residual class of elite-bourgeois critics have used the cover of “ecocriticism” to +
reap career rewards for laundering neoliberal talking points into “radical epistemology.” +
Jan 21, 2021 • 9 tweets • 4 min read
In college I somehow orchestrated an internship interview at the @NewYorker. I couldn't believe it. I put on a bad suit, went down to NYC. And I GOT the gig! Then, in my joyous disbelief, as a life of art & writing opened to me just briefly, they told me it was unpaid.+
I was on work study & cldnt afford to do free work. Still I thought abt it, and said I'd do it! --it was the New Yorker!! They said great, come on Fridays. (It was my work-study day, so I'd have to miss paid hrs.) Still I said, okay, okay no problem-- I'll move things around:
Feb 10, 2020 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
One thing I've noticed is that, when I started teaching Vic Lit c. 2010, students seemed mostly still to believe in "progress," in some version of its American ideology / liberal-Victorian form-- at least, that was my impression. + washingtonpost.com/magazine/2020/…
So we wd often discuss it together, in Mill or Dickens or whatever: track the metaphors, work to separate claims abt temporal duration from socio-political ideas of civilization on the one hand, individual life-plots on the other, etc etc. It was work, & it was fun.
Sep 13, 2019 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
Dear Bill: I'm so sorry for your deep misunderstanding. And I am happy to invite you, personally, to visit us at Georgetown English and figure out what English is and can do for you —how we can help you. DMs are open. I'll buy lunch.
We can help, just to start, by working to expand the imaginative range of your prose, which now reiterates talking points from Koch-funded blogs and culture war polemics from the 90s. (These are old ideas, Bill, and they're not your own.)
