Mark David Kaufman

English professor, bibliophile, film enthusiast. All views expressed are my own (particularly the ill-informed ones).

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Beyond excited to see this article appear in the March 2023 issue of #AmericanQuarterly. This one has been almost six years in the making and involved some serious archival research in the CIA FOIA Reading Room and U of Chicago Special Collections. #CulturalColdWar

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Colorado putting on a show tonight.

[The Onion @TheOnion]

CIA Realizes It’s Been Using Black Highlighters All These Years https://t.co/vGsKzjstjr

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Just discovered this wonderful lockdown-era clip of John Rhys-Davies reading from A Portrait. "It's all there." #JamesJoyce
https://t.co/2pSbEOoiDD

[The Public Domain Review @PublicDomainRev]

1943–5, with the help of Warner Bros.' finest, the U.S. Army produced a series of 27 propaganda cartoons depicting the calamitous adventures of Private Snafu. @Mark_D_Kaufman explores how one film inadvertently let slip one of the war's greatest secrets: https://t.co/b7FVvH5BuA

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Ah, I thought that eclipse looked familiar....

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In #MastersoftheAir, the Belgian resistance interrogates downed American airmen to see if they are really Americans or German spies. The Belgians grill them on their knowledge of baseball, and, watching this, I realize that if I were in their shoes, I’d be immediately executed.

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Just found out that my paper has been accepted for the International James Joyce Symposium at the University of Glasgow this June! Looking forward to speaking about two of my favorite fellows, Sir Compton Mackenzie and, of course, Himself.

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Four years ago today, right before the world went pear-shaped, I got to meet one of my heroes, @JoelGHodgson. #MST3K

[The Public Domain Review @PublicDomainRev]

1943–5, with the help of Warner Bros.' finest, the U.S. Army produced a series of 27 propaganda cartoons depicting the calamitous adventures of Private Snafu. @Mark_D_Kaufman explores how one film inadvertently let slip one of the war's greatest secrets: https://t.co/b7FVvH5BuA

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A recent episode of the British spy series Slow Horses features a key scene in a (fictional) London restaurant called Anna Livia. #JamesJoyce #FinnegansWake

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@flanaganfilm "Ernest Hemingway once wrote, 'The world is a fine place and worth fighting for.' I agree with the second part."

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@ProfL12 Greg, on a related note, I just got an email from Norton asking if I'd like an exam copy of this recent book, Civics for the World to Come: Committing to Democracy in Every Classroom, by Nicole Mirra and Antero Garcia: https://t.co/ow5HXhkI0C

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Does this mean I don't have to finish grading these papers? https://t.co/DfJvTx4d9t

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I, for one, thoroughly enjoyed the latest #IndianaJones romp. I say this as a lifelong fan who wanted to become a professor, in part, because of those movies (sadly, the reality is a bit less exciting).

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Not many people know that the Canadian actor, James Doohan, who played Scotty on Star Trek, took part in Operation Overlord and stormed Juno Beach on June 6th, 1944. https://t.co/ipIgUI3Hoi

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@AedinMoloney Thanks for sharing! Your father's music has meant a lot to me in my life. I'm an amateur whistler myself, and I was thrilled to discover the all-whistle album he made with Seán Potts. Sláinte!

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One thing I learned from the most recent episode of #StarTrekPicard is that while the admiral is more of a wine guy (he's French, after all), when he feels his whiskey coming on he reaches for the Jamo, which apparently hasn't altered its label in 400 years.

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[Mark David Kaufman @Mark_D_Kaufman]

Beyond excited to see this article appear in the March 2023 issue of #AmericanQuarterly. This one has been almost six years in the making and involved some serious archival research in the CIA FOIA Reading Room and U of Chicago Special Collections. #CulturalColdWar