Darren Harris-Fain

Writer, professor, and former Jeopardy! champion. Once called "Sheldon Cooper and Anderson Cooper's love child" on Twitter.

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@Jeopardy Yes, I do!

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@Jeopardy Looking forward to these shows. Too bad these tournaments and the expanded TOC field weren’t in place in 2015, though—I was so close!

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@ManerWare Congrats to a fellow writer and Alabamian on a really impressive win!

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On this date ten years ago, the first of my four @Jeopardy shows aired.

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Yesterday I got to play @Jeopardy host for a campus event sponsored by the @aumontgomery English Club, so of course I donned my tie that Alex Trebek once wore on the stage that now bears his name.

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On this date 25 years ago I was on @MillionaireTV hosted by Regis Philbin. There I met the show's producer, @embassydavies, who's now the executive producer of @Jeopardy, and my 10-year anniversary for that appearance is coming soon.

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@_thejeopardyfan @ABCNetwork Some of us are also watching later on Hulu.

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@Jeopardy English professor who teaches in Montgomery here. If I hadn’t known this, I’d have submitted my resignation.

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I love Charlotte Brontë’s novel Jane Eyre, but it’s kinda like a Lifetime movie, except the main couple aren’t beautiful. Not that this has stopped Hollywood from casting beautiful actors in these roles, however.

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Apparently my employer thinks I'm older than I am--that, or they think I'm a Renaissance man.

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Took me a second to realize the flames were in celebration of my hot Duolingo streak and not because I’d inadvertently opened a portal to Hell. #Duolingo

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Today’s Halloween costume for work: Colin Robinson, the energy vampire on #WhatWeDointheShadows who feeds off people by boring or annoying them. (Typecasting, I know.)

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Dr. Darren Harris-Fain published two essays in Critical Insights: The Supernatural, edited by emeritus professor Robert C. Evans: the keynote essay, "The Supernatural in Literature," & "Magic, Mutants, and Men of Steel: Science Fiction and the Supernatural in Superhero Comics."

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I was recently asked to write a guest column on libraries and book bans for my university's newspaper. Here it is: https://t.co/A8z3ImJhE9

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It's not yet noon here in Alabama, and hours apart two colleagues have told me, out of the blue, that they'd like to see me again on @Jeopardy. Wild Card Tournament 2025, hopefully?

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Also attended Boys State at another one mentioned in a clue.

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As someone who attended three Ohio universities, earned degrees from two (including one in a clue, but no spoilers), and taught at two others, I loved the category “The Ohio Universities “ in today’s first @Jeopardy round.

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@Jeopardy Rewatching now. Ironically, it’s actually Election Day in Montgomery, Alabama, which is voting for its mayor.

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@Jeopardy I came up with Lake Pontchartrain, which I drove over en route to my Jeopardy! audition in New Orleans and drove over again last October heading to a conference in NOLA.

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@WAKA8News is showing yesterday’s @Jeopardy rather than today’s episode. I feel like Bill Murray in Groundhog Day. #Jeopardy