joul layne

Professor of rhetoric and literature

[joul layne @joullayne]

What a great #InaugurationDay ceremony! Tied for my favorite moment: @ladygaga’s national anthem, @JoeBiden’s speech, and @TheAmandaGorman’s poem.

[Joe Biden @JoeBiden]

It’s a new day in America.

[joul layne @joullayne]

I just listened to my senator, @tedcruz, give a speech declaring that the debunked believes (dozens of times over) of 39% of Americans should be treated like the ultimate truth of the land. Now, as the Capitol is stormed, it seems Donnie’s riot Bible is stuck up Cruz’s ass.

[joul layne @joullayne]

I wish he were alive for this era, but we were fortunate to have him while we did.

[joul layne @joullayne]

A shout out to some serious brain power and cool people. Our promo looks great!

[UTA Department of English @UTAEnglish]

@estee_beck @MiriamRowntree @JasonDrytares1 @joullayne @krambsy @amybernhard @dropo59 @timorich @Sayrah80 @sptavera @thehodges @utarlington @CedrickMay @amy_tigner @nathanael_o @Timothy40260137

[joul layne @joullayne]

This thread is pretty great. I don’t think there’s an answer. You just have to, as trite as it is, find your process.

[joul layne @joullayne]

I just wrapped up the first Latin lesson with my teenager, which was requested by said teenager. ☺️😍☺️😍#latin #teach #education

[joul layne @joullayne]

#Election2020 #BidenHarris2020 #TrumpMeltdown #TrumpTrain 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 #alwayssunny Another one of my favorite shows makes sense of the world. 😂 https://t.co/FDF9slyvXQ

[joul layne @joullayne]

I loved this show! 😂 “Fuck, Selena Meyer”

[David Mandel @DavidHMandel]

And yet we never won a Golden Globe. #veep

[joul layne @joullayne]

Yep! Lol!

[joul layne @joullayne]

Dr. Jack Goodyear is on 101 this week. He offers thoughtful insights on politics during the 2020 election, & we briefly but thoughtfully contemplate how we might examine ourselves during & after the election cycle. You can listen here, on Spotify, https://t.co/jaI4ZrqPWq, etc.

[joul layne @joullayne]

After a sabbatical of sorts, I’m bringing back my online content, starting with Say Shelton’s excellent exchange about “Posthumanism” in an episode of 101. Check it out: https://t.co/gu6oaHwrxO

#posthumanism #AcademicTwitter

[joul layne @joullayne]

#RBGRIP what a devastating loss for us all!

[joul layne @joullayne]

“Girt about the paps with a golden girdle” Revelation 1:13 This is the new look for #COVID19 #pandemia #pandemic #2020sucks #CoronavirusPandemic

[joul layne @joullayne]

@SirPatStew uses “tough” to describe the persona’s sentiment in many of these sonnets, & 14 offers some commentary, from a self-appointed eye-diviner, that is tough indeed: dying w/o procreating ends your “truth and beauty”—Platonic aesthetics meet pushy parent. #COVID19

[Patrick Stewart @SirPatStew]

Sonnet 14. #ASonnetADay

[joul layne @joullayne]

It feels like the early sonnets were written to Elizabeth, even though the clearest recipient a male. Either way # 13 has great lines like “Your sweet semblance to some other give.” #Shakespeare often writes in the imperative mood w/ that lost art of inverse grammar. #COVID

[Patrick Stewart @SirPatStew]

Sonnet 13. #ASonnetADay

[joul layne @joullayne]

# 11 is worth it for the first line alone, but the rest is a pretty harsh expression for the unattractive (those that “Nature hath not made for store”). They will, unfortunately, “barrenly perish.” #ASonnetADay #Shakespeare #COVID19

[Patrick Stewart @SirPatStew]

First sonnet of the week. Sonnet 11. #ASonnetADay

[joul layne @joullayne]

I’m not so sure what’s so offensive about # 9. 10 is pretty nasty too, but this one seems to indicate that the persona of these early sonnets is an aristocratic leader urging a young heir to wed and sire offspring. Now that’s offensive 😉. #ASonnetADay #Shakespeare #COVID19

[Patrick Stewart @SirPatStew]

Sonnet 10. #ASonnetADay

[joul layne @joullayne]

Students, demand that your schools compensate your faculty with salaries that match their education, experience, and services. Only then can you make demands about the kind of education you are receiving or the ways classes are conducted.

[joul layne @joullayne]

@TylerHuckabee All Point of Grace lyrics are basically Q-drops.

[joul layne @joullayne]

“Joy delights in joy”—Happiness may elude the confines of family-making, but those married w/children often claim that joy abounds for them, like the “concord” of instruments strung, “each in each by mutual ordering.” Hmmm. #SaturdayMotivation #Shakespeare #ASonnetADay

[Patrick Stewart @SirPatStew]

A Saturday sonnet. Number 8. #ASonnetADay