@dtodd
Professor Emeritus, Georgetown University. Written about Pope, Swift, Defoe, Mary Toft, indentured servitude, and William Byrd II and slavery in colonial Virginia. Living in Berkeley raising a severely traumatized dog.
Jacket illustration of Defoe's Journal of the Plague Year, with a baby nursing on a dying mother
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to experience a devastating pandemic that shuts down daily life and leaves a pall of death hanging over everything?
Well wonder no more! Celia 'n' me 'n' Danny D are here to tell you!
There’s a very fine novel about them: Thomas Mallon’s “Henry and Clara”
In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.
I know I don't have a ton of media followers, but I'll put this out there anyway: if you need someone to comment/offer context on the removal of the slavery exhibit at the President's House site in Philly, get in touch. I just finished an entire book on Americans' fight over Washington and slavery.
He hasn't lost his mind, at least not recently.
He has always been demonstrably psychologically disordered. His mental illnesses and their effects have gotten worse, because that's what happens to malignant narcissists and narcissistic psychopaths with age, and also because he is surrounded ...
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I’m looking forward to delivering the plenary lecture at this multidisciplinary conference, which marks the tercentenary of the first publication of the world’s greatest prose satire, in 2026:
www.fabula.org/actualites/1...
Friends, if you want to learn a bit more abt The Sweet Taste of Empire, watch this INCREDIBLE conversation with @triciamatthew.bsky.social w.bsky.social, Debapriya Sarkar, Jennifer Morgan, @kwazana.bsky.social & Tapiwa Gambura!
www.youtube.com/live/a-Npxq-...
Then you can buy it at 40% discount.
This is Queen Mary and Queen Anne erasure
Feel bad nobody replied, so I’ll say for me Henry Wiencek’s Master of the Mountain. Hope that makes you feel better
PLS share & RT
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Once the find Hoffa’s body I hope they get on the Edward V and Richard, Duke of York case
San Francisco!
#NoKings 👑
No Kings protest on Berkeley campus rn.
Berkeley getting its groove back
Scholars of eighteenth-century topics: consider submitting your work to *Digital Defoe*. We publish essays on Defoe, but also on his "contemporaries," which we're inclined to interpret broadly. More info here:
call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/10/...
The thing is, they weren't live rabbits. They were rabbit parts, which you would think would have been a tip-off to what was going on here.
Hello everyone. Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax has a tenure-track job in Enlightenment rhetoric and / or 18th-century literature. Tell everyone.
www.msvu.ca/about-msvu/c...
Here’s the valve that gets the water from Northern to Southern California. I accidentally turned it off after watering the hydrangeas in my side-yard. My bad!
The Wingnut Museum. TBH I’ve actually never gone, even though it’s right down the street. I read the NYT and WaPo every morning and get enough news about wingnuts there.
The Wingnut Museum. TBH I’ve actually never gone, even though it’s right down the street. I read the NYT and WaPo every morning and get enough news about wingnuts there.
AI vs. MSM
Here’s an idea. Let’s name them after Confederate generals.
On Amazon. But I always thought the Essays were in English and then translated into Latin
The last IKEA piece I put together, after 5 hours I had to get my next door neighbor to help me. He is—and I’m not lying here—a nuclear physicist, and he had trouble too.
