Susannah Sharpless

anyway read this article if you want to enter the bottomless pit of despair with me

one of my brightest and most engaged students said to me last semester: “my friends and I use ChatGPT for everything. We joke we’re forgetting how to think.”

to remind yourself why we need the humanities I recommend reading the kinds of things people on Reddit are posting about prestige TV

in the widening gyre

If this is all an elaborate ruse to finally make me donate to alumni giving it’s working

Super excited to hear about the other projects included in this series too

I’ll be speaking with the brilliant Melissa Gniadek about my dissertation “The Terraqueous Romantic: Nineteenth-Century Women Writers Between Land and Sea” on this virtual panel on Wednesday - would love to see you there

I wish past Kelly lived in my house

btw i sent the full diss to my committee yesterday

microsoft word said none of these words are in the bible

part of my love for 19c american writers is that any time i read a british novel i too am like "this slaps. how annoying"

I love 19c American lit but every time I learn something new about Mary Wollstonecraft I want to switch periods, continents, lives

currently scouring 19c newspapers for mention of a sea captain named “A. Minor”

sometimes I think back to being 11 in Indiana in 2004, where I was literally surrounded by republicans, and how excited I was about this country’s Democratic Party. Obviously I was a child, so I was stupid, but even stupidity can’t explain how bad they’ve let me down

Pause in your despair about the world to share this reader’s absolute fury at Carl Bode’s reading of Thoreau

Often i really curse the era i was born into. other times i play “stupify” by disturbed as loud as i can on my Bluetooth speaker and feel that i am living during the pinnacle of human achievement

you ever look around at a seminar table and think “I can squat more than each and every one of you”?

It BAD!!!!!

I’m in an airplane waiting to take off reading all the insane news about new detention facilities and hiring freezes and NIH funding and Ebola protection still being paused and I feel like I might stand up and just start screaming at the top of my lungs

oh amazing. I think my bf and I will head that way — following in your ski tracks!

where did you go!

As I discovered over and over again, at work and on the apps, Minnesotans almost never say what they really mean or feel to someone they haven’t known for at least a decade. The casting ppl either needed to find some transplants or some 25 year olds who just moved home after going to Oberlin or w/e

as a man in a club once said to me at the ripe old age of 24: “usually girls like you are married and pregnant by now!” (I understood “girls like me” to mean “blondes”)

my thoughts on the Minneapolis love is blind season as someone who dated in Minneapolis from ages 23-27: HAHA suckers

I love spicy foods and eat them often. However, it is not important for my gender identity to be perceived as “strong.” This means men do not consider me a reliable judge of spiciness

one of the most complicated experiences you can have as a woman is to talk to a man about how spicy something is

the set design on all Apple TV shows is so unnerving, so sparse and clean - like an iPhone became a house

My kindergarten bully just appeared on a Super Bowl commercial

Love this

student emailed to let me know I got them off the STEM track 😈😈😈😈😈😈