AE Ellis

Reading Fiend; Clotheshorse; Assoc. Professor of German; Memory Work; Black Europe; Colby College; Maine

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I’m the new co-editor of Feminist German Studies. Send your brilliance my way!

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I am co-organizing a panel for the North American Heine Society: "Heine's Afterlives: Appropriations, Misreadings, and Cultural Memory" for the GSA in Phoenix. Abstracts are due on 2/28. Please see the link for the Call!
https://t.co/OPRh66fg7J

[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

In 2026, it's me and my hundreds of unread pdfs vs the world

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It has been 20 years since I’ve visited Berlin and I’ll be there from 12/9 to 12/19. So excited.

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@tnflorvil I hear you, friend. I have 18 days and I’m fretting.

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@tnflorvil What's is your magic?

[... @tamaranopper]

Toni Morrison famously said she wrote her first book cuz she wanted to read it. She also “was in a place where I didn’t belong...I was lonely. I was miserable. My children were small, and so I wrote this story.” As James Baldwin said, writers should “use whatever happens to you.”

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@tnflorvil The fact that he faux-apologizes and so many people are giving him a pass is giving me rage.

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@ParisNoire How was your winter?

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@tnflorvil Don’t forget horseback riding!

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[Marius Kothor, Ph.D. @MariusKothor]

Who’s working on Black internationalism from the perspective of the Dutch-speaking Black diaspora? I’m in Rotterdam and I’m in awe of how Black the city is and shocked by how little I knew about this topic. Would love to read about this.

[Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones]

On this day, the 70th anniversary of the landmark Brown v. Board of Education ruling, I reflect on the fact that 75 percent of Black children learn in segregated, unequal schools today. And that a decade after I told our profession that our failure to cover segregation meant we were failing to cover education, our reporting has shifted to covering ideological battles about how Black history is taught instead of the inequality that most Black children still experience. So, let me re-up on some of my past coverage. https://t.co/e6BOjAlgAH

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@tnflorvil Same here. Yet, I feel exhausted. The thought of going back to the classroom and chairing is daunting.

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@tnflorvil They will love their new home.

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@tnflorvil Come back anytime.

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@tnflorvil So much looking forward to your visit!

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@tnflorvil @ParisNoire I feel you. Students start pre-registration for the fall today.

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I am absolutely delighted by Adorno's essay on punctuation marks: "But the dash provides instruction in them. In the dash, thought becomes aware of its fragmentary character."

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Just dug up a water-stained and crumpled copy of the prospectus that I wrote for my “first” dissertation on character in Schiller, Kleist, and Grillparzer. So glad that I abandoned it in favor of gender identity.

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Anyone out there interested in Heinrich Heine's literary peculiarities? If you are, send in an abstract for my 2025 MLA New Orleans panel.