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Jonathan B. Field (he/him)
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Jonathan B. Field (he/him)
@ThatJBF
Jonathan Beecher Field Online DBA @TheGurglingCod.
Associate professor,
Book 1: F82 .F54 2009
Book 2: JS50 .F545 2019
617 by birth 802 by choice.
Joined September 2013
- The idea that profs are _not allowed_ to require masks remains one of the most alarming aspects of COVID and higher ed. It's a real departure from the "my house, my rules" ethos that used to be the standard for classroom policy, and undermines profs' authority in other contexts.
- I have never seen (or felt) 9 month academic employees more reluctant to do unpaid labor over the summer. It's one measure of how much goodwill my institution (and maybe yours) has squandered.
- You know, the necropolitical university kind of has me nostalgic for the neoliberal university.
- I know they say the devil is busy but a 4-4 with four different preps?
- If you're on a search committee this year, and a colleague points out that someone got a Ph.D. in 2015, or 2011, or 2019, and maybe that time gap indicates a certain spoiling, a decline in quality, simply say... "We're hiring a professor, not buying an egg salad sandwich."
- A reminder that the Supreme Court cannot ban abortion. It can only ban access to safe abortions for poor people.
- The secret to teaching post 2020 is developing a pedagogy that allows you to pretend not to know that almost nobody is doing the reading.
- I would love to see a materials strike from TT job applicants. No matter what the ad says, all they get is a cover letter and a cv. No teaching statement, no diversity statement, no sample syllabi, no notarized copies of teaching evaluations, just a cv and a letter.
- My son read this book and now he won’t stop throwing tea in Boston Harbor.
I read this book and now I can't stop critiquing phallogocentrism and making art about art - The Discourse, outside academia: “is the English major dead?” The Discourse, inside academia: “should contingent faculty be allowed on the furniture?”
- I wish I had thought of this in time to make actual stickers.
- It is kind of wild to think that if you are a tenured or tenure-track early American lit prof, you are almost certainly the last person who will have that job in the history of your institution.
- Maybe genocide is like cilantro. It bothers some people, but some people don’t really notice it.Replying to @nhannahjonesLikely the most consequential President of my lifetime, including ensuring first woman and first Black vice president, appointing first Black woman Supreme Court justice, best economy in decades, massive students loan debt forgiveness, climate, infrastructure, first gun control
