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Alex Moskowitz

@alexrmoskowitz

3 years

same energy

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Alex Moskowitz

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3 months

the reason all of us like the menswear guy is because he’s like an old school literary critic. he makes value judgements based on a historical knowledge of an aesthetic tradition

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Alex Moskowitz

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@pourfairelevide new york dolice pepartment

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Alex Moskowitz

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my most boomer opinion is that academics should be writing their own citations by hand. it's so incredibly easy. and all the citation manager programs are sloppy as hell

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Alex Moskowitz

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2 months

@MEASeybold but then how would i watch this totally useless and inaccurate version of what a computer thinks history is?

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Alex Moskowitz

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2 months

it's not new, but this book rules

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Alex Moskowitz

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5 months

what was your indiest moment? mine was probably seeing andrew bird play that free show in prospect park in like 2011

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Alex Moskowitz

@alexrmoskowitz

6 months

i’m super excited to share that as of next academic year, i’ll be an assistant professor of early U.S. literature at mount holyoke college. i’ve been in this department—a department that i absolutely love—for two years as a visitor, and i am so happy that i get to stay!!

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Alex Moskowitz

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5 months

i got into harvard princeton and yale for my phd. then i went to harvard princeton and yale. now i am a TT professor at harvard princeton and yale

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Alex Moskowitz

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abolish the university of chicago

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Alex Moskowitz

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2 months

emerson is around 70% adjunct labor. sickening for them to punish precarious academics for the college's own violent response to their students' demands

WBZ | CBS News Boston

@wbz

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Emerson College says enrollment down significantly after "negative" reaction to student protests; layoffs planned

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Alex Moskowitz

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8 months

internet culture has gone too far. they actually put this one in a museum

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Alex Moskowitz

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this dissertation honestly sounds so sick thanks for bringing it to my attention ritchie

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Alex Moskowitz

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the US is anti-kid not because of espresso martinis. the US is anti-kid because of the incredible price of child care. because of the lack of abortion rights for women. because of fetish of the suburban nuclear family, because of car culture. because there is no gun control. beca

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Alex Moskowitz

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4 months

that's a bike lock. in fact, many students in NYC bring bike locks to school. because they have ridden their bikes there

Morning Joe

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Deputy Commissioner Tarik Sheppard shows the chains used to secure Hamilton Hall at Columbia University. "This is not what students bring to school. This is what professionals bring to campuses and universities."

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Alex Moskowitz

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@benjaminhulett elite capture machine go brrrr

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Alex Moskowitz

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has internet culture has gone too far? they are putting memes in museums now

Sara Lind 🌴🥥🌴🥥

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Got to see the meme in person today. Does not disappoint.

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Alex Moskowitz

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suki ༅:*°♡

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what do u call it when ur badly craving a situation that will destroy you emotionally

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Alex Moskowitz

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2 months

from now on nobody with a TT job may initiate a jobs discourse. i am calling for a complete and total shutdown on all jobs discourse by TT people until we can figure out what is going on

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Alex Moskowitz

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11 months

fellas…is it gay to shoot my strong new england roots into the hot soil of my friend’s southern soul??

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Alex Moskowitz

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23 days

i am once again begging publishers to put up the table on contents on the book's webpage

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Alex Moskowitz

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2 months

it's my first official day as an assistant professor. what should i do?

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Alex Moskowitz

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3 months

i repost this every col*mbus day

darth penis

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3 months

what are posts that aren’t load-bearing anywhere but your personal lexicon. like the ones that weren’t really popular but are so enshrined in your mind that you just assume they got hundreds of thousands of likes

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Alex Moskowitz

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2 years

omg everyone i’m going to be joining the english department at mount holyoke next year as a visiting lecturer

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Alex Moskowitz

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3 months

scrolling the anti-israeli boycott petition to find out whose work i’m never citing again lol

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Alex Moskowitz

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27 days

the tradwife thing is terrifying. it's the aestheticization of politics. it's fascist and shouldn't be confused as anything else

Neve 🌷

@naturallyneve

1 month

So you're telling me you don't wanna get married, have 6 kids, move to the country, buy a homestead, get baby cows, grow our own food, drink raw milk all day and live happily ever after?

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Alex Moskowitz

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i write for specialists in my field. i don't expect the "general public" to understand, or even care. the point of scholarship is to advance a specific field of knowledge. my teaching is public facing. if college were free and universal, there wouldn't be a problem w/ this

Cafe☕️Cheshire

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Academic writing is far too concerned with impressing the inner circle and not concerned enough with making their findings accessible and easy to digest for the general public. You're leaving that job to journalists, who barely understand you either and often spin your work.

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Alex Moskowitz

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1 year

hi grad students and contingent academics don’t make enough money that’s it that’s the story hope this helps

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Alex Moskowitz

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3 months

it's cool when students from my different 200 level courses all join together in my 300 levels. like a greatest hits album of students

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Alex Moskowitz

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5 months

twitter (or X 😅😅😂😂) hivemind! i’m really excited about a course i’m teaching next semester called “topics in literature”!!!! does anybody have any recommendations for interesting topics!?? 🙏🙏🙏

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Alex Moskowitz

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@ashleyrattner the fact that “i don’t want kids” isn’t an adequate rationale for not wanting kids is itself anti-kid

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Alex Moskowitz

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this one actually tells you how to become a molecule, which all i want to be at this point

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Alex Moskowitz

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2 months

YES i am an americanist. NO i do not celebrate the 4th. if you studied this shit you wouldn't celebrate either

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Alex Moskowitz

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5 months

as advising week looms i thought i would share why i became an english major. at the age of 19, i thought it was the absolute coolest thing i could do. i was right.

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Alex Moskowitz

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this sort of thing should be illegal

worms cited

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say policy again

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Alex Moskowitz

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libg*n is more reliable than the university library

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Alex Moskowitz

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2 years

@blgtylr it’s just horrible. have you heard them say pasta?

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Alex Moskowitz

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@molochofficial as a jew,

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Alex Moskowitz

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6 months

to all the academics out there struggling with work/life balance: might i suggest having a kid? that way you will get no work done

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Alex Moskowitz

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5 months

okay folks so this is happening in the fall in my first semester on the tenure track lol

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Alex Moskowitz

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2 months

how long do you think a laptop should last? mine is over 10 years old. doing track changes makes it sound like an airplane is taking off

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Alex Moskowitz

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4 years

Today, with the guidance of faculty allies I delivered a letter signed by every doctoral student in the English department at Boston College to our department leadership. We are asking the faculty to petition the administration on our behalf for a few basic material protections/1

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Alex Moskowitz

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they should put menstrual products in men's bathrooms for those who need them. and while we're at it, can they also put changing tables for babies in men's bathrooms as well? i cannot believe in 2024 this isn't standard

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Alex Moskowitz

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24 days

8000 word limit for this essay but i'm at 8600. what do we say squad, send it anyway?

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Alex Moskowitz

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1 year

this article! is finally out! in CRITICISM!

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Alex Moskowitz

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3 months

there are no jobs. the answer is organizing. end of discourse

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Alex Moskowitz

@alexrmoskowitz

6 months

fund CUNY

Peter Hambrecht

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The National Guard searching bags at the entrance to the Grand Central subway station. Earlier today Kathy Hochul announced she would send 750 National Guard members to subway stations throughout NYC.

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Alex Moskowitz

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4 years

UNC is going fully remote a week after bringing students back to campus. How many will have fallen ill for the sake of this sick experiment? How many other colleges and universities will put their endowments before the lives of their students, workers, communities?

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Alex Moskowitz

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3 years

sorry to contribute to the discourse but TT faculty need to be advocating for structural change instead of pretending to be amazed that people are still interested in their discipline. this feels a lot like punching down to me

Juan José Ponce Vázquez

@jjponcevazquez

3 years

Honest question: if grad students in history KNOW (really know) the state of the job market, why are they still pursuing a Ph.D.? Apart from loving history, which is a given, but not sufficient explanation. There has to be more to this. Answers very much welcome.

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Alex Moskowitz

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1 year

folks. the discourse is back. academics at each other's throats. bad faith takes left and right. we are so fucking back.

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Alex Moskowitz

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8 months

i am both shocked and honored that my essay on Martin Delany's BLAKE won the 1921 Prize in American Literature this year. you can go read it for free here!

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Alex Moskowitz

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2 years

it's my birthday today! i'm reminded of this Emerson quote from his journal: "After thirty, a man wakes up sad every morning, excepting perhaps five or six, until the day of his death." LOL

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Alex Moskowitz

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3 months

melville and faulker the two most classically apolitical writers in all of american literature what a joke

Aaron Gwyn

@AmericanGwyn

3 months

Reasonable people may differ with me, but I'd argue the greatest writers of fiction & poetry have been apolitical--provided we define "political" as meaning "partisan." I don't think Joyce, Beckett, Faulkner, O'Connor, McCarthy, Stevens, Melville, et al had any use for politics.

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Alex Moskowitz

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the advantage of being non-TT is that it gives you another year of salary and healthcare before you can no longer find full-time employment in academia

Kelly O'Connor, PhD

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@DrJuanDelToro Or even a non-TT position! There are definitely some advantages to being non-TT when you’re early in your career. You can work on getting funding, doing pilot research, and starting a lab with less pressure. You can apply for tenure (if allowed) once you have a strong foundation

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Alex Moskowitz

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i don't usually air my scholarly grievances in writing but i have a delicious opportunity to do so, should i do it?

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Alex Moskowitz

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17 days

i served as an editor for an academic journal for 4+ years. i am currently editing a collected volume. it is obvious when someone uses a citation manager, because everything is done incorrectly and the formatting is always whack

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Alex Moskowitz

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1 year

now that david is suspended we can finally all talk about how we feel about his weird tweets

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Alex Moskowitz

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3 months

i have applied to nearly every job in my field (broadly defined) regardless of location--both national and international--since 2019. i missed one deadline once. i don't know what the hell everyone is talking about

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Alex Moskowitz

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get lucky

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Alex Moskowitz

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@SSNaushon @clhubes perhaps my employer would like to recognize this?

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Alex Moskowitz

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when academics talk about “economies of X” but they are not actually talking about economics. i have no idea what they mean

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Alex Moskowitz

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@AnnaKrauthamer the perfect combination of trader joe's small talk and contempt

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Alex Moskowitz

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if you don’t like him you are WRONG

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Alex Moskowitz

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4 months

universities can't do zoom for public health but can do zoom when people protest war and genocide

National Students for Justice in Palestine

@NationalSJP

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Columbia University has just announced that it will shift to a hybrid model for the rest of the semester

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Alex Moskowitz

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5 months

millennial and gen z's splurge: bare subsistance

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Alex Moskowitz

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i think agn*s c*llard is at this cafe. what should i ask her lol

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Alex Moskowitz

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4 months

the biggest farce of the whole public humanities debate is that if college were a free public good everything we do would de facto be public humanities

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Alex Moskowitz

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1 year

people! my article on martin delany's BLAKE is out in NOVEL. also you can read it for free!!

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Alex Moskowitz

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@blazingsandals when i am supreme ruler i will nationalize the university of chicago and rename it uic-hyde park

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Alex Moskowitz

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3 months

the language of academia being a “calling”—where we must be ready and willing to move anywhere and do anything—obfuscates the exploitative labor relations that are causing it to crumble in the first place

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Alex Moskowitz

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1 year

one thing i like doing is eating only a banana all day and then having like 1000 calories of chips and beer before i even start cooking dinner

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Alex Moskowitz

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4 months

folks, we simply love to see it

Bassam Khawaja

@Bassam_Khawaja

4 months

Massive faculty walkout at @Columbia opposing the university’s decision to call in NYPD on Palestine solidarity protests:

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Alex Moskowitz

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4 months

i defended my dissertation 3 years ago today. i was graduating into a pandemic with only an adjucting gig lined up for the fall. it didn’t include healthcare. we still had a wild night

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Alex Moskowitz

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11 months

lol i guess this means they DID receive my application years ago

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Alex Moskowitz

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3 years

Happy snow day to all who celebrate

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Alex Moskowitz

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i end up having to spend hours fixing their sloppy work. because when you ask someone who used a citation manager to fix their citations, turns out they don't know how to do it!!

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Alex Moskowitz

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5 months

i have also faced rejection. from uchicago berkeley and brown

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Alex Moskowitz

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@v_dcknz it is beautiful how the french call them the apples of the earth

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Alex Moskowitz

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i hacked kamala's phone and you won't believe what she has been texting to joe

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Alex Moskowitz

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@EmilyVanDuyne you gotta respect the commitment

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Alex Moskowitz

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3 years

!!! my article on Martin Delany’s Blake was accepted for publication holy shit

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Alex Moskowitz

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5 months

the rejection CV genre is bad because interest in it is still predicated on success

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Alex Moskowitz

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8 months

HOW ARE ALL OF YOU DONE GRADING? final papers in my classes aren’t even due until monday 😱😱😱

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Alex Moskowitz

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1 year

affect theory has ruined my ability to distinguish between effect and affect

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Alex Moskowitz

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3 years

i'm a doctor now

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Alex Moskowitz

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1 year

new pic on the website tell me i look nice

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Alex Moskowitz

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remember the failure CV genre? somehow this is even worse

Noah Giansiracusa

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Last year I got tenure, this year I'll be a visiting scholar at Harvard, and I got a 6-figure advance to publish a book next year. In honor of these accomplishments, here's a list of embarrassing confessions revealing how dumb my brain is in many ways:

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Alex Moskowitz

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1 year

best advice for getting an absolutely inhuman amount of work done in the shortest amount of time?

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Alex Moskowitz

@alexrmoskowitz

4 months

i was at a punk show until midnight last night and still managed to write 500 words for a chapter, meet with a student, and give another student feedback on a draft today. someone please clap for this geriatric millennial

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Alex Moskowitz

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@_super_bass LOVE the weird, random, elevated language. whilst???? absolute HASTE?? sir this is a course eval lol

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Alex Moskowitz

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5 months

does one ever reach a point in this profession where you don't feel like you're fighting to keep your head just above water? anywho, apologies for for not responding to your email/grading your essay yet/submitting that reader's report

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Alex Moskowitz

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1 year

what if i’m a weirdo overachiever? what then?

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Alex Moskowitz

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5 months

LAX might be the worst airport in the world

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Alex Moskowitz

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the list goes on. if there is anti-kid sentiment it is the ideological result of a country that materially makes it nearly impossible for people to have children because of the fundamental lack of institutional support for children and parents

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Alex Moskowitz

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as a diasporic jew (i live in MA), i am required by law to bring back bagels when visiting family in our home land (new york)

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Alex Moskowitz

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2 months

okay folks, we’re gearing up for another application season, so i thought i’d share a few things that really helped me on the market! a thread 🧵

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Alex Moskowitz

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6 months

i have a writing deadline coming up which means you can expect to see a lot more of me on here ✨✨

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Alex Moskowitz

@alexrmoskowitz

3 months

for everyone who’s actually read marx, let’s see those creases in your copy of vol 1. i’ll go first

Cam Higby 🇺🇸

@camhigby

3 months

@MElmaazi Literally my bookshelf lmfaooo The difference? I learn the material and understand how bad it is rather than attempt to get people on board with it.

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Alex Moskowitz

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2 months

i love the summer because it's always a nice surprise to see how the supreme court is going to make life significantly worse for the majority of people living in this country

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Alex Moskowitz

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5 months

stepping outside of my subfield and teaching Woolf this week. how the hell do you modernists do it? this shit is weird

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