Rhonda Armstrong

Professor of English. Currently writing about unburied bodies. Working on and in the US South.

[Meaghan O'Connell @meaghano]

who's gonna tell them

[Appalachian Studies @AppalachStudies]

The Appalachian Studies Association and the Office of Equal Opportunity and Diversity Programs at Western Carolina University is pleased to invite you to a free Zoom event. This webinar recalibrates race as a continuous and central topic of life in Appalachia.

[Dr. Kim Davies @KimDaviesPhD]

Congratulations Dr. Williams and all the dedicated faculty in English and World Languages on being awarded the AU Outstanding Program of the year!! @AUG_EWL @AUG_JAGWIRE

[Rhonda Armstrong @rajarmstrong]

@MonicaCMiller @UGAPress Beautiful cover!

[Rhonda Armstrong @rajarmstrong]

@HollyEvanMarie My flights earlier this week were all full, even out of the tiny Augusta airport. Delta flight attendants were vigilant about masks. I never actually saw anyone unmasked, but they made two announcements on one of my flights reminding passengers to cover noses.

[Death Reference Desk @DeathRef]

New @DeathRef podcast interview via Conversations On Death about my @mitpress book 'Technologies of the Human Corpse' and embalming, cremation, technology & death, Facebook becoming the world’s biggest digital cemetery, and Black Mirror's Be Right Back.
https://t.co/obsFYl2W1o

[Rhonda Armstrong @rajarmstrong]

I appreciate the efforts of Mr. Quincy L. Dowd, trying to inject a "flash of fun." Not easy when the book is "Funeral Management and Costs: A World Survey of Burial and Cremation" (1921).

[Rhonda Armstrong @rajarmstrong]

@adamgolub And while missing the informal conversations where so many ideas take form, bounce around, and get refined into something meaningful

[Rhonda Armstrong @rajarmstrong]

Even with the remains to bury, families were unable to have one last look at the body, which was already an expected step of saying final goodbyes

https://t.co/rv1bn6SrSB

[Rhonda Armstrong @rajarmstrong]

I fear my enthusiasm for writing about the history of embalming far outweighs anyone's enthusiasm for reading about the history of embalming.

[Rhonda Armstrong @rajarmstrong]

@AmyClukey What are you using as a cover crop? I always intend to plant radishes or something but end up throwing out some clover seeds and hoping for the best.

[Rhonda Armstrong @rajarmstrong]

@PhUsct My daughter's gerbils play background percussion on most of my fall 2020 recorded lectures. Maybe I can get reimbursed for the pumpkin seeds with which I paid this backup band?

[Lillian E. Smith Center @LES_Center]

We're starting to think about the next LES reading group. Let us know what format you'd like: essays and lecture by Smith, one of Smith's books, or one book by Smith discussed in relation to another book.

[Rhonda Armstrong @rajarmstrong]

@anotherpanacea We've been @Peace_Coffee devotees since 2007.

[Aimée Morrison @digiwonk]

The great thing about being hopelessly curious about everything is that you learn a lot of stuff. The lousy thing is you tend to not finish writing projects, always chasing new facts and embarking on side quests.

[Rhonda Armstrong @rajarmstrong]

@SarahEMC2 Yes. I'm from central Kentucky.

[Rhonda Armstrong @rajarmstrong]

Today in pandemic birdwatching:
This house finch's beak is pretty severely broken. She still manages to put away the sunflower seeds, though.

[Rhonda Armstrong @rajarmstrong]

@joshshepperd I just got a MacBook Air last week, to replace my 6-year-old Pro. I upgraded to 16GB. Plenty of power for small-scale video editing, which is the most taxing thing I use it for. I love the light weight and don't miss anything the Pro would have given me.

[Rhonda Armstrong @rajarmstrong]

@webbsusa @SarahJinx12 Same here. My regalia means so much to me, as a reminder of my parents' willingness to support me in an endeavor that was probably, at times, just as foreign as the bright blue wool-and-velvet frippery that marked its end.