Amy Coté

Assistant Professor of English | Victorian novel, narrative, religion & literature, book history, letterpress printing | Opinions my own.

[Amy Coté @amycote_]

@FromPhDtoLife If you want to be a good colleague, you have to drop that attitude of constant competition that grad school likely reinforced at every turn. Especially at a small liberal arts school, your colleagues aren’t your competition — they’re your coworkers.

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@FromPhDtoLife Best advice I got: “Do the next thing you can bear to do.” I’d get so caught up in the big picture, the anxiety, the *plan* that I wouldn’t do the day-in, day-out stuff. Fixing some citations is better than not opening the word doc. That, and: value your hobbies. You need them.

[Shannon Watts @shannonrwatts]

Imagine that one of these beautiful children - all shot to death last night at Michigan State University - belonged to you.

As long as there are guns everywhere, our children aren’t safe anywhere.

Don’t sit on the sidelines. We need every voice and vote. Text ACT to 644-33

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@SocrarTemp2 For anyone reading behind this thread, this tweet above is a scam/fake account. Don’t send money!

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@SocraTemp2 I’m not at the conference but if you’ll DM me your Venmo I’ll send you money for someone’s coffee or lunch!

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@saramfung As a Canadian in the south: pretty frequently! More often it’s “ah, I couldn’t quite place your accent but I knew it wasn’t an American one!” But occasionally “Oh yeah I knew you were Canadian.” Used to surprise me: I assumed I sounded like a pretty generic midwesterner.

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Folks, have you ever successfully integrated two adult female cats, one of whom is determined to kill the other? Been trying to do so for a *year* with zero progress. Vet visits, feliway plugs and collars, even kitty Prozac. Nothing. I’m at the end of the line, here: help?

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@anne_theriault https://t.co/vCG47jHpul

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@aadeleon John Schad’s Queer Fish: Christian Unreason from Darwin to Derrida. Not always openly humorous but a real eye for the absurd. And one particular review essay by Lori Branch that makes me laugh aloud every time I re read the opening paragraphs.

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@stephired @aadeleon Same and same.

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@ShannonDingle Oh yeah. College prof. I get asked to do this pretty much weekly.

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@JSRichman Cc @YRyzhik!

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@friede Had this on my mind all day. Such a good theme. Strikes me that a lot of Hopkins would also work, esp “Spring” and “Pied Beauty”.

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I have a few ideas but nothing is ringing right. It’s a required core curriculum class, and a new one to me, Protestant reformation —> civil rights, and I’m trying to play to my literary strengths while still teaching the required philosophical texts.

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Joining the “thinking about spring syllabi” train … what contemporary work would you pair with Frankenstein in a freshman “western civ” (I know) style class? Any country or genre, thinking about pulling on ideas of monstrosity, with a whole lot of history of ideas btwn them.

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@JSRichman Something of a negotiation. We very informally express preferences as to courses/times, chair puts together a tentative schedule, we weigh in/bargain a little, chair states gaps/needs, schedule gets adjusted. Works because we’re a smallish dept (12) and do a lot of core teaching

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@mmpurdue Geography, here! With lots of courses cross-listed in other departments.

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@vcwiet With DVDs it has to do with the player. Try QuickTime instead of iMovie.

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@vcwiet Yes! This worked for me on Netflix/chrome: https://t.co/tm5KDfOYKi