Associate Director, @TannerHumCenter. Previously at @tamuq @george_peabody @JohnsHopkins. Close reader of coupon codes. (this account ≠ my employer)
Salt Lake City, UT
Joined July 2018
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CFP: How we watch The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City ✨ a symposium by @TannerHumCenter
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When you enjoy reading a book, is it the book itself that gives enjoyment, or the experience of reading it? Bryan Counter and Nathan Wainstein discuss aesthetic experience, on The Virtual Jewel Box tanner.utah.edu/podcast/aest…
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What does Bloodborne have to do with literary and artistic modernism? Almost everything, according to Nathan Wainstein's book, Grant Us Eyes, discussed in the NYT. nytimes.com/2025/05/28/arts/…
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"I'm in my this era, I'm in my that era." Have you ever considered that historical periods are arbitrary units that obscure the underlying continuity of structural processes?
This was great fun! tannerhumanities.podbean.com…
Check out the Virtual Jewel Box, the podcast from the THC 🤌🎙️📚 This week we have a discussion about Oscar Wilde and his time in Utah!
Guest: rrhoffman.com/
#irishliterature #utahhumanities #utahpodcasting #virtualjewelbox
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On behalf of @HumanitiesAll, Scott Black and I (@TannerHumCenter) with @Gillis_BJ (@AHAhistorians) discussed the importance of the humanities w/ staffers of @SenMikeLee, @SenJohnCurtis, @RepBlakeMoore, and @RepMaloyUtah. @NEHgov, @USNatArchives, and Title IV benefits all Utahns!
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There is nothing so harmful as superficial knowledge of a subject. "A little learning is a dangerous thing", as Shakespeare said
.@anecdotal on the best gift to first-gen students: "the classroom’s impersonal nature is designed as a space where students can shed their social identities and engage purely as minds… without the weight of social dynamics coloring every interaction" chronicle.com/article/the-cl…
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I have healed the division between the humanities, the social sciences, and the natural sciences. We are all early modern now.
Simon During on the conservative turn in literary studies, which is sure to be as widely misunderstood as its founding figure, TS Eliot: chronicle.com/article/the-co…
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As we celebrate the 10th anniversary of the James Baldwin Review, Professor William J. Maxwell reflects on Baldwin and Sontag's shared inspiration. His essay explores their contributions to American queer literature, revealing their enduring relevance. bit.ly/4eGMPOi
Interesting times at Johns Hopkins. jhunewsletter.com/article/20…
The late Maggie Smith in Alan Bennett's Talking Heads monologue, "Bed among the Lentils," is brilliant. youtu.be/MTgyYqY3XTE?si=rncQ…
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a young Fred Jameson from the Haverford College yearbook of 1954 (cc @majortominor, @coolsandstorm, @businessgoth)
Helen Vendler and Fredric Jameson: Could/would they have done what they did, with email and smartphones at the start of their careers? That gut feeling of No is a pessimism without answer.
After 9/11, Susan Sontag "passed over the opportunity to express sympathy ... and instead opted for swift, uncompromising scrutiny of the attack’s historical context and political exploitation." @anecdotal and I on Sontag the-american-interest.com/20…
