Kristen Stern

francophone | Performative Authorship under contract with @LivUniPress | editor @africainwords | public higher ed | she/her/elle

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

the cult of maximum efficiency is one of the worst things to happen to society. I can’t defend studying Latin or reading for pleasure or spending an hour at the park with my niece in a way that will satisfy shareholders. but they’re worth doing because they’re beautiful and good.

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

people who say “why do we need [fine arts, humanities degrees, mid-budget films] when they don’t make a ton of money?” are insufferable. why do we need chrysanthemums? why do we need bonfires or baleen whales or the color blue? we just do. we just do.

[Kristen Stern @kr_stern]

Don't mind me, just over here getting emotional in this Panera reading/watching students' final projects. Lots of gratitude for students' vulnerability & creativity, for landing in the place where I have and for getting to do this work. May it continue.

[Kristen Stern @kr_stern]

The venn diagram of several of my interests…

[SNY Mets @SNY_Mets]

David Ortiz commented on Juan Soto’s Mets Instagram reel 🤣

“The… …. Yankees lose😂😂”

[Kristen Stern @kr_stern]

@RachelMesch @chronicle THIS part: "J published nine books and probably prevented as many from being written." I think a lot about the voices & knowledge lost because of people's actions like those you describe here. Thank you for writing it and thank you for the care you take with your students now.

[Thando Njovane @thandorasbox]

Come work with me!

Successful candidates will be expected to begin full-time study in February 2025.

[Kristen Stern @kr_stern]

USian post-election discourse about "I should just move to France!" [dramatic back of hand to forehead] based on a general foundation of Europe as Disney World, not a real place, politics don't exist there, I could go on...

[Libération @libe]

Censure : SON échec. C'est la une de @Libe mercredi.

Le RN prévoit de voter la motion de censure déposée par la gauche, sonnant le glas du gouvernement Barnier. Six mois après la dissolution, la position du Président n’a jamais été aussi fragile.

[Fabula.org @fabula]

L’écrivain africain francophone et ses fictions (revue L'impact) https://t.co/luZo7DQUcW

[Kristen Stern @kr_stern]

@MBedecarre Lol I have that same screenshot somewhere and I cackle every time I see it.

[Africa in Words @AfricainWords]

🚨New review alert🚨

@LizzyAttree on the 2024 republication of 'Bound to Violence' as a @PenguinBooks Modern Classic📖

Lizzy traces the complex history of the book and its various controversies, questioning 'classic' + canonisation itself.

Read here: https://t.co/53831pPLwx

[Kristen Stern @kr_stern]

@LizzyAttree @AfricainWords @PenguinClassics Didn't know this was getting re-published in English! Thank you so much for getting more attention to this book and the complicated connections with Sarr's truly stunning novel.

[Kristen Stern @kr_stern]

cannot waiiiiiit to see this.

[David Hering @hering_david]

Dahomey (2024): Mati Diop’s transcendent documentary about the return of artefacts to Benin, narrated by the artefacts themselves. A stunning, dreamlike film. Diop is one of the best filmmakers currently working. This is on general release today and I can’t recommend it enough

[SparkNotes @SparkNotes]

the raven at the window once upon a midnight dreary

[Ryan Field @RyanFieldABC]

ALLLL the radio calls of Francisco Lindor’s Grand Slam….

Including the Phillies #MetsWin

[Kris Knisely @krisknisely]

The department where I work is hiring a tenure track assistant professor of French to serve as the Director of the Basic Language Program (specialty: French linguistics, applied linguistics, SLA, or closely related field). For more information: https://t.co/8KOVRoDGbI

[Académie Goncourt @AcadGoncourt]

Les 8 romans qui composent la 2ème sélection du prix Goncourt !

[Kristen Stern @kr_stern]

How can you not be romantic, etc. etc.