Ben Bascom

Prof. of early and 19th-century American literatures | LGBTQ studies, queer affects | wrote a book on singularity & feeling queer in early U.S. lit

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Black Studies | Oxford Academic https://t.co/JmPswtvNlQ

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@alexrmoskowitz @OxUniPress It’s all about lighting and what things are next to it 💅🏼

But also I am so very pleased with how the editorial team took up the vision I had for the cover.

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Such a dream to see my book Feeling Singular at @OxUniPress’s booth at the MLA—and the code AAFLYG6 will still work for a 30% discount!

https://t.co/brPfCQPY01

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@NotSorrySari @OxUniPress Thanks so much, and agreed!!! Hopefully next occasion we’ll have some time to talk! I much admire your essay on Alcott’s WORK….so again, and hopefully soon!

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Hey Indianapolis! I’ll be talking about my book FEELING SINGULAR at @IvyTech_Indy next week! It’s open to the public, too—and sponsored by the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Belonging.
https://t.co/h7VJobqY6P

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Hi all -- the new J19 is up on the Johns Hopkins University Press website! It's full of treasures and pleasures, from a fabulous essay by @BrigField about birds, extinction, and mourning to a recovery of Black New Orleans actress Virginie Gireaudeau!
https://t.co/KwSLh9m3Df

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5 Indiana writers talk creativity and queerness https://t.co/GUYOFBjqIw via @mirrorindy

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@alexrmoskowitz Oh my goodness yay!!!

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https://t.co/X8xZbYB09H

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If you're in the Indianapolis area, be sure to check out this event where local writers will read their work at @indyreads!

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Just sitting here thinking about Mary Ann Willson (circa 1820s) and wondering how terrific her work will look on my lesbian-focused queer lit syllabus that is still very much a work in progress.

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@alexrmoskowitz @Usual_Anomaly Please remind me to tell you a JUICY story

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@michaeldlacopo Ha!!! It’s a little throwback to Thomas Granger in William Bradford’s Of Plymouth Plantation…so just being a true nerd

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“A photograph gives shape to history; it allows us to fashion a landscape of feeling, . . . A photograph is a ladder that goes backward in time, a ladder we can push away whenever we want. With photographs, we can obscure the past as much as illuminate it.” ~Billy-Ray Belcourt

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@alexrmoskowitz Is this a Robert Frost poem? I'm getting fences, roads and yellowed woods, and, well, just a lot and lots of trees. Perhaps the source of those nuts and seeds?

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Federalism in Drag: Timothy Dexter’s Pickle and Other Perverse Properties https://t.co/eiX25ApAF8

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Oxford University Press has released a free chapter from _Feeling Singular: Queer Masculinities in the Early US_ "Federalism in Drag: Timothy Dexter’s _Pickle_ and Other Perverse Properties."

It begins with @sasha_velour and ends with wooden statues.

https://t.co/eiX25ApAF8

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Reading Victor Heringer's THE LOVE OF SINGULAR MEN and had to share and re-gender these sentences: "Last time I saw [him], about two years ago, it looked like [he'd] slept in a bath of bleach. [He's] old in the damp, flaccid way of someone who loved being young a bit too much."

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About six months ago my students told me to listen to Chappell Roan and I shirked the suggestion. But now…now I can’t stop listening. And I’m reminded that my students are so unbelievably wonderful and it’s summer and I need structure and I’m listening to the song again.

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I just this very moment received a push notification that told me I’ve listened to Chappell Roan’s “HOT TO GO!” too much and that I need to give my phone a break.