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Blaine Greteman

11 months

Some personal news! I'll be heading to @utulsa next fall to serve as Dean of the Kendall College of Arts and Sciences! I'm excited to start working with @bradrcarson and @TulsaProvost George Justice. This is worth a 🧵

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Blaine Greteman

@BlaineGreteman

2 years

Just met with the dean and I’m very pleased to announce I’ll be chairing one of the best, most exciting English departments in the country for the next few years @IowaEnglish !

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Blaine Greteman

@BlaineGreteman

2 years

UIowa is probably one of the largest English Majors in the US (about 900 majors). We are considering dropping any sort of requirement that students take a certain number of courses across historical periods (Renaissance, Victorian, etc) to focus more on skills/methods. Good idea?

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Blaine Greteman

@BlaineGreteman

3 years

Look what came in the mail!

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Blaine Greteman

@BlaineGreteman

4 years

Just working on the index to my book, and I'm wondering if this is the first time this has happened

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Blaine Greteman

@BlaineGreteman

4 years

My new book's got a cover! Thanks to @RuthAhnert and @ETreharne for all their support for this project, which will be part of the Stanford Text Technologies series!

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Blaine Greteman

@BlaineGreteman

4 years

Tomorrow is Andrew Marvell's 400th birthday. How are you celebrating?

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Blaine Greteman

@BlaineGreteman

3 years

Met this girl 11 years ago at the animal shelter when she was about two, and had to say goodbye today. She really was one of the best friends I’ve ever had

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Blaine Greteman

@BlaineGreteman

3 years

Today I became the new @MarvellSociety President and I am giddy with power

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Blaine Greteman

@BlaineGreteman

1 year

Took my class to see Comedy of Errors at the Globe yesterday. They are such a fun and great group— this is them AFTER standing for 2.5 hours in the sun!

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Blaine Greteman

@BlaineGreteman

3 years

I suspect most people outside academia have no idea how much labor is necessarily anonymous; just thinking about how grateful I am to the external reviewers who read all my materials, and evidently recommended my promotion to Full Prof. I will never know who they are!

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Blaine Greteman

@BlaineGreteman

10 months

Daughter was very fortunate to walk away from this one tonight. Hug your kids and count your blessings!

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Blaine Greteman

@BlaineGreteman

1 year

Me chairing my first English Department faculty meeting

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Blaine Greteman

@BlaineGreteman

3 years

I promise this is NOT a Portlandia skit but I’m spending family Christmas snuggling our shelter rabbit while listening to my daughter’s new vinyl Neutral Milk Hotel (and wearing my new down sweater)

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Blaine Greteman

@BlaineGreteman

10 months

I’ve got a piece in the @tulsaworld today about why we need the liberal arts more than ever—and why I’m excited to build them @utulsa via @tulsaworld

Opinion: Liberal arts education created for times of political polarization, human isolation

Liberal arts is education that equips a person for life as a free citizen. And I’d argue that there’s nothing more important right now, says professor Blaine Greteman.

tulsaworld.com

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Blaine Greteman

@BlaineGreteman

2 years

My daughter would like you to join her in noticing/mocking my extremely thin ankles, as accentuated by my academic regalia…

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Blaine Greteman

@BlaineGreteman

11 months

Since I’ve announced on here I’m going to University of Tulsa, maybe I should also admit I have a pretty serious record collection of Bob Wills, king of Western swing and author of “Take Me Back to Tulsa”

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Blaine Greteman

@BlaineGreteman

1 year

Sometimes it's frustrating working with editors who want to trim your work down, down, down, for a public audience. But this is why it is worth it: a little article defending liberal arts gets 11,000 reads in 2 weeks. That's more than all the students I've taught in my career....

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Blaine Greteman

@BlaineGreteman

1 year

We need to talk about the difference between a "budget model" and a "university."

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Blaine Greteman

@BlaineGreteman

4 years

The trees in Iowa City are covered in spectacular “rime ice,” caused when supercooled water droplets from fog waft onto the branches. Proposing a new slogan for the UNESCO City of Literature: “So Poetic, Even Our Trees Rime”

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Blaine Greteman

@BlaineGreteman

2 years

@AaronRHanlon Employees and customers. Workers and products. Never students and humans. I honestly find the fact that Democrats have embraced this rhetoric (starting with Obama) unforgivable.

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Blaine Greteman

@BlaineGreteman

2 years

@aliciaandrz @AcademicChatter @OpenAcademics That you should almost never listen to the professors who offer advice on Twitter

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Blaine Greteman

@BlaineGreteman

1 year

We just published the first episode of “Writing Matters,” a podcast on books and writing I’m doing with ⁦ @IowaEnglish ⁩ and ⁦ @WritingUIOWA ⁩ at ⁦ @UIowaCLAS ⁩. Please check it out and share — for this one I’m talking w/ Lauren Haldeman!

Writing Matters

Education Podcast · 5 Episodes · Updated Monthly

podcasts.apple.com

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Blaine Greteman

@BlaineGreteman

4 years

Just realized that “It’s a Wonderful Life“ is a pandemic film; the Spanish Flu kills Mr Gower’s son in that opening scene set in 1919, when the grieving druggist slaps George’s bad ear.

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Blaine Greteman

@BlaineGreteman

4 years

In parenting news of 2021: my oldest got his license December 20th and totaled our car January 6; my youngest (one of the twins) was exposed to Covid and is in isolation (other twin is roaming free). And our rabbit seems to be using this tiny doll-chaise lounge for therapy...

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Blaine Greteman

@BlaineGreteman

2 years

Well, I couldn't have asked for a better review of my book, from a more promising and impressive scholar, than this one from John Ladd:

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Blaine Greteman

@BlaineGreteman

11 months

They've recommitted to TU's 130 year history of providing every student with a foundation in the arts and humanities – a complete education for life. This is also the drum I've been banging for fifteen or twenty years now, in places like this:

It's the End of the Humanities as We Know It

A sense of crisis, ongoing paranoia—this is just part of what it means to be a humanist.

newrepublic.com

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Blaine Greteman

@BlaineGreteman

3 years

I'm a professional educator. With a PhD. But despite all my best efforts, all my strategy over 17 years, I've failed at teaching even one of my kids to put the cap back on the toothpaste.

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Blaine Greteman

@BlaineGreteman

3 years

I won't diss my previous press by name (let's just say it is old, and big) but @stanfordpress has done a completely superior job marketing, producing, and advocating for my new book. The entire experience of working with a smaller, more agile, attentive, publisher, has been great

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Blaine Greteman

@BlaineGreteman

1 year

Enjoyed catching up with the class of 1998 @rhodes_trust 120th anniversary yesterday in Oxford!

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Blaine Greteman

@BlaineGreteman

2 years

Another way to ask this: is our field moving away from periodization, or should it be?

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Blaine Greteman

@BlaineGreteman

4 years

Just to be clear: if you read my book or even PRETEND to read it I will absolutely follow you on Twitter.

Jelena Filipovic

@jellyfili

4 years

I started reading "The Poetics and Politics of Youth in Milton's England" by @BlaineGreteman yesterday for my dissertation and today I got a follow from the prof himself 😊 Cool!

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Blaine Greteman

@BlaineGreteman

11 months

@GilcreaseMuseum @WoodyGuthrieCtr @bobdylancenter @SwitchyardTulsa Oh, and I didn't even mention the incredible great books centered honors college being built @utulsa under @jennfrey . There's a lot happening, and it's exciting!

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Blaine Greteman

@BlaineGreteman

4 years

The longtime elementary principal, Eddie Royalty, from my home town just died of Covid. He was a good man -- sent kids to Space Camp out of his own pocket. Promised to kiss a pig (and did) to help raise money for the school. Volunteered in a food bank until he got sick this year.

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Blaine Greteman

@BlaineGreteman

3 years

Meanwhile, Brian managed to get a PhD and post doc before I managed to write the damn thing up...

Brian Hie

@BrianHie

3 years

Cool to see some of my undergrad research now published — in his new book, @BlaineGreteman looks at literary-historical network dynamics and finds a revolutionary phase transition during the height of the English Renaissance!

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Blaine Greteman

@BlaineGreteman

1 year

Pivoting the entire @IowaEnglish Department to Barbie studies for 2023-24: Barbiean subtexts, transmedia, feminism(s), and materialism. We've already rewritten the curriculum to include "Barbie in America," "Barbie AS America," "Barbie and the Bomb," "Decolonizing Barbie" and mor

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Blaine Greteman

@BlaineGreteman

1 year

We’re hosting a lecture series @IowaEnglish that is timely and important, and you should join us virtually even if you can’t be in Iowa City: The Fate of Professional Reading—Reports from the Field. Featuring Kornbluh, Ruby, Love, and…some other guy.

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Blaine Greteman

@BlaineGreteman

4 years

@BritLitGirl Just lean in. I teach genre INTENSIVELY all year in my Milton class and always get three papers about “Milton’s great novel, Paradise Lost” :)

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Blaine Greteman

@BlaineGreteman

9 months

Really going to miss this view!

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Blaine Greteman

@BlaineGreteman

3 years

@SarahEBond I think they've confused Ramses with Peter Stormare (one of the baddies from Fargo, and Karl Hungus in the Big Lebowski).

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Blaine Greteman

@BlaineGreteman

3 years

Because I am a very sophisticated academic, I made sure to visit the Kusama exhibition in NYC. Because I am a very embarrassing dad, I made sure to get a picture of myself being attached by this giant gourd tentacle.

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Blaine Greteman

@BlaineGreteman

2 years

It's really funny how quickly after you become full professor you get hit up for multiple tenure reviews! Somebody out there must be lurking at those Board of Regents meetings, because I hadn't even changed my signature line before three hit my inbox... :)

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Blaine Greteman

@BlaineGreteman

4 years

Even though it is about Milton, I think some of you will enjoy an article I published today on "Milton in an Age of Stupidity," wherein I refer to the towering epic poet as "pissy."

Milton in an age of stupidity

John Milton had little patience with those whom he considered “stupid.” This article examines the various contexts in which Milton expressed contempt for political opponents or those he deemed as...

zenodo.org

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Blaine Greteman

@BlaineGreteman

2 years

@ZacharyLesser That's definitely my concern. Although I do think students have a surprising appetitive for the unfamiliar. I guess my broader concern is that even if they eagerly take one-off classes in pre-19th c, they'll only have a very scattershot understanding of literary history...

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Blaine Greteman

@BlaineGreteman

2 years

Thanks for the many thoughtful responses to this question! I was afraid you had all gone to Mastadon but am happy you’re still hanging around to do this :)

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Blaine Greteman

@BlaineGreteman

3 years

@bjirish I think once they cut off the king's head, you're in a culture that Shakespeare may have found surprisingly different.... So that's my cut off date. (And yes, sadly, you know that pun was intended)

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Blaine Greteman

@BlaineGreteman

2 years

My god Jane Smiley stop time traveling from 1995 to haze my profession! "Emergence at a time of national weakness" :)

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Blaine Greteman

@BlaineGreteman

11 months

The archives @GilcreaseMuseum @WoodyGuthrieCtr and @bobdylancenter all offer opportunities to build rich, experiential, humanities programs that speak to and through this history. Programs like @SwitchyardTulsa are already starting to do that, and I can't wait to do more!

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Blaine Greteman

@BlaineGreteman

2 years

Of course I was also going to write something on ChatGPT -- thanks to @Newsweek for publishing it!

ChatGPT Can Write Better Essays Than My College Kids. That's a Good Thing

Time for a new final exam, one that demands students find out something about themselves and tell it to you in a voice that is their own.

www.newsweek.com

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Blaine Greteman

@BlaineGreteman

4 years

Great piece by Reggie Wilson in new Milton Studies, "Getting “Uppity” with Milton; or Because My Mom Politely Asked: “Was Milton Racist?” includes anecdote in which Reggie repeatedly asked Toni Morrison to talk about Milton & she answered "Oh please!"

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Blaine Greteman

@BlaineGreteman

2 years

Looking forward to Wyatt teaching @IowaEnglish next year!

The Nonfiction Writing Program

@iowa_nwp

2 years

Congratulations to writer Wyatt Williams ( @wyatt_williams ), who was named the 2023-24 CLAS Postgraduate Visiting Writer in Nonfiction!

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Blaine Greteman

@BlaineGreteman

3 years

My lord sitting on an academic hiring committee in this day and age is humbling.

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Blaine Greteman

@BlaineGreteman

11 months

As a city, too, Tulsa is an ideal place to do this socially important work. It's been a crucible for the racial, tribal, labor, and ecological histories at the core of our most important cultural and civic debates.

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Blaine Greteman

@BlaineGreteman

1 year

Well here's something completely different via ! Via Ruby Lowe, a picture of Socrates, a donkey, in situ with my first book on Failaka Island in Kuwait!

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Blaine Greteman

@BlaineGreteman

1 year

Just had a great phone call with Jane Smiley, who is coming to talk about her time @IowaEnglish where she did a PhD in Old Norse before winning the Pulitzer for A Thousand Acres... If you're in town October 5, it will be in the Library at 7.00!

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Blaine Greteman

@BlaineGreteman

4 years

Please join us in March for a Virtual conference on Marvell; papers on any topic are welcome, and we'll do a roundtable discussion of short, 5-10 minute papers on "Mourning." Proposals due Dec. 28:

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Blaine Greteman

@BlaineGreteman

2 years

less than a week before I leave for Dublin to teach the @IowaEnglish Irish Writing Workshop. Fantastic slate of guest faculty this year includes @JessicaTraynor6 @DavidButlerBray and @fishamble theatre's Gavin Kostick

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Blaine Greteman

@BlaineGreteman

1 year

@CaitlinPacific I love your stuff usually but IT IS NOT DYING EVERYWHERE! At @IowaEnglish we figured it out! We’re up to nearly 1,000 majors! We need (journalistic) boots on the ground to change this story!

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Blaine Greteman

@BlaineGreteman

3 years

Oh, you sweet, innocent, academics who think raising tiny children is hard: LOOK ON MY TEENAGERS AND DESPAIR

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Blaine Greteman

@BlaineGreteman

1 year

@katiedimartin No idea of context, but if you added “non animal” as prefix to their definition, it would work, wouldn’t it? Non animal resting place with a back and four legs? Is the idea that all definitions are tautological?

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Blaine Greteman

@BlaineGreteman

8 months

If you’d like a podcast about books and philosophy—as opposed to weird left/right rabbit holes and conspiracy theories—try this!

Jennifer A. Frey

@jennfrey

8 months

🚨🚨Season 5 is launched!🚨🚨 Six years ago I started a literature, philosophy, and theology podcast @eudaimoniapod I didn't know or care if anyone would listen. It was an output for a grant; I assumed it would end when the grant ended. Friends, it did not end. 🧵(1/6)

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Blaine Greteman

@BlaineGreteman

4 years

Time to post something fun: we just adopted this adorable rabbit from the animal shelter (I can’t imagine why someone abandoned her, but she’s super sweet)

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Blaine Greteman

@BlaineGreteman

4 years

Working on my copyedits, and look at this list of editors and editorial board— very proud to be part of this series!

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Blaine Greteman

@BlaineGreteman

11 months

Tooting my own horn a bit here, but this friday I'll be giving a talk on "Real Artifice and Artificial Reading: the Value of Literary Studies in the Age of AI." It will feature a digital avatar of myself, Hans-Georg Gadamer, and Viktor Shklovsky, in conversation.

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Blaine Greteman

@BlaineGreteman

2 years

In the @uiowa dining halls, gazing at these little containers of dressing — and this big pumper truck of ranch — and it is pretty clear that the first lesson of midwestern higher ed has begun

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Blaine Greteman

@BlaineGreteman

1 year

Jane Smiley at lunch with students from @IowaEnglish , talking craft, how to research a novel, and how to write one. It was a real masterclass

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Blaine Greteman

@BlaineGreteman

4 years

Don't talk to me about home school until you've tried it with four kids who can capture and shear a sheep and who aren't afraid to remind you that you're outnumbered.

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Blaine Greteman

@BlaineGreteman

1 year

My @IowaEnglish class on Shakespeare’s England is off to a super fun start (although Donne stole the show today)

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Blaine Greteman

@BlaineGreteman

1 year

You’re looking at the Oxford arm wresting 1999 co champions right here… @roybahat

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Blaine Greteman

@BlaineGreteman

8 months

Unfortunately the job market for tortured poets is not very good. It’s better for tortured fiction writers, as long as they write novels instead of tortured short stories (or the worst, tortured novellas)

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Blaine Greteman

@BlaineGreteman

10 months

My soon-to-be colleague @EmilyContois @utulsa has a fascinating piece about the $2billion/year reusable water bottle phenomenon and its ethical complications (fortunately, I only drink coffee, so am not implicated in any way).

Your New Year's Resolution to Drink More Water Has a History

Our water bottle obsession speaks to deeper historical trends.

time.com

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Blaine Greteman

@BlaineGreteman

3 years

Congratulations to my advisee, Dr. Mariah Spencer! She worked through closed archives, a bad case of Covid, and more, to produce and defend an excellent dissertation!

E Mariah Spencer

@EMariahSpencer1

3 years

I just successfully defended my dissertation! Thank you to my incredible committee members and all those in the Cavendish community whose research has supported my own! @MarCavendishSoc @MarinaALeslie @BlaineGreteman @JamesFitzmauri1 @adamghooks @DigiCavendish

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Blaine Greteman

@BlaineGreteman

10 months

@Tyler_A_Harper Partly that. It's a remarkable proof that lots of us academics don't do a a great job of practicing what we preach, re basing arguments on facts rather than emotion/tribal politics...

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Blaine Greteman

@BlaineGreteman

1 year

THERE WILL BE CORN HOLE!

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Blaine Greteman

@BlaineGreteman

4 years

I just discovered a syllabus from my first semester teaching, where I asked my undergraduates for a full, annotated bibliography with "20-25 sources" !

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Blaine Greteman

@BlaineGreteman

4 years

Got to watch out with crazy tweets like that or I'm going to end up needing to follow literally tens of people.

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Blaine Greteman

@BlaineGreteman

3 years

Sporting with Amaryllis in the shade

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Blaine Greteman

@BlaineGreteman

8 months

Just saw some headshots I did while at UTulsa, and realized I went through the whole day of my visit with a prominent, Elvis-like bouffant hanging over my forehead (and to be clear, I look like a professor wearing an Elvis wig, not, alas, like Elvis).

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Blaine Greteman

@BlaineGreteman

3 years

Does anyone still use MLA style or the MLA Handbook? My students find it hopelessly confusing, and it strikes me as weird they are still told to use it, since I've NEVER published anywhere that uses a post-8th edition MLA style sheet

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Blaine Greteman

@BlaineGreteman

2 years

After two years of shutdowns due to the pandemic, the Service Learning classes I supervise @IowaEnglish are back, taking undergraduates to local elementary schools to work on literacy (and have fun)!

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Blaine Greteman

@BlaineGreteman

9 months

Or -- and this should be music to your ears! -- doing this kind of public work that people DO very much care about! Let's write things that people read, and assign institutional value to that!

Tyler Austin Harper

@Tyler_A_Harper

9 months

Academia would be healthier if more professors were empowered to focus on teaching, rather than producing work they don't care about for journals nobody reads. We are incentivized to prioritize the part of our jobs that matter least, cutting corners on the part that matters most.

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4 years

Mind you, to be a principal in a town that size (literally not a single stop light) was not to be a person of means: he lived in a trailer and farmed on the side. I'm just so angry and sad about all this loss, and how the big numbers anonymize it.

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Blaine Greteman

@BlaineGreteman

3 years

This is my opening slide for tomorrow's lecture. On point?

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Blaine Greteman

@BlaineGreteman

1 year

@ShappLing @katiedimartin Basically, yes. A chair for two! What’s the point trying to be made here? I genuinely don’t get it.

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@BlaineGreteman

3 years

Look whose on the front page of @TheDailyIowan ! It's GEL Textbook Committee Chair (And W.R. Irwin Teaching award winner) @EnricoNBruno !

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Blaine Greteman

@BlaineGreteman

9 months

Our @IowaEnglish alum Leslie Jamison is one of my favorite writers, and this may be my absolute favorite thing she's written yet...

Leslie Jamison

@lsjamison

9 months

In this week's New Yorker, an excerpt from SPLINTERS. I brought everything I could to this story. Here it is.

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Blaine Greteman

@BlaineGreteman

1 year

@lnluck13 @katiedimartin I could call that a chair. Put it in my flat, I’d happily sit on it and have a chat? It uses “back” in a different sense of the word than we usually mean, but that wouldn’t seem to impact the core function: it’s a moving chair

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Blaine Greteman

@BlaineGreteman

10 months

Polishing up the syllabus for my *last* class @uiowa 🥲before taking my new job as Dean at TU. It's gonna be a banger! A grad seminar called "How To Write a Book (or Poem or Play) About the Renaissance" with guest visits by @kukukadoo @profbate Aaron Kunin & Mark Levine

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Blaine Greteman

@BlaineGreteman

2 years

@bkadams @asuEnglish @jeffreyjcohen @devoneylooser This was great. Everyone in your department made a FANTASTIC case for why the headline of this story is wrong (it's the old "Humanities Death Watch" beat I used to lampoon at TNR...)

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Blaine Greteman

@BlaineGreteman

2 years

My working title for this was “the case against skills”

ChatGPT Can Write Better Essays Than My College Kids. That's a Good Thing

Time for a new final exam, one that demands students find out something about themselves and tell it to you in a voice that is their own.

www.newsweek.com

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Blaine Greteman

@BlaineGreteman

10 months

”White Christmas” and “It’s a wonderful life” are both great films, and great Christmas films, in part because they both investigate the ways community will be required to heal the trauma of war (WWII).

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Blaine Greteman

@BlaineGreteman

4 years

In a college meeting today I heard talk about "pivoting to normalcy"

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Blaine Greteman

@BlaineGreteman

4 years

Many thanks to @nkouriiii for this great article on my new book!

The Social Media of the Renaissance: Books – The Key Reporter

ΦBK author Blaine Greteman discusses his forthcoming book and his journey to becoming a member at Oklahoma State University.

www.keyreporter.org

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Blaine Greteman

@BlaineGreteman

4 years

In lit crit, “affordances” seems to be the new “problematize”

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Blaine Greteman

@BlaineGreteman

4 years

virtual school has ruined snow days forever....

Iowa City Schools

@IowaCitySchools

4 years

Due to inclement weather, Iowa City Schools will move to 100% remote learning for Tuesday, January 26, 2021. Please visit for the learning schedule.

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Blaine Greteman

@BlaineGreteman

1 year

My apologies that our first faculty meeting did not go as planned

Iowa City Police Log

@IC_ActivityLog

1 year

MALE JUST LEFT AFTER SOME WEIRD BEHAVIOR

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Blaine Greteman

@BlaineGreteman

3 years

@seth_perlow Honestly though that last pic looks like pretty much every pre-2019 room where I'VE ever given a talk.....

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Blaine Greteman

@BlaineGreteman

10 months

If you haven't checked out the Writing Matters podcast I'm doing with @WritingUIOWA you should give a listen to this interview with Louisa Hall! We have a good and weird old fashioned conversation about writing and researching...

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Blaine Greteman

@BlaineGreteman

2 years

@kukukadoo Shitposting your way to the TT! You did it your way!

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Blaine Greteman

@BlaineGreteman

3 years

My child — who already broke one foot playing soccer, and is in a boot for 12 weeks — just broke his toe on the other foot.

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