literary critic 18th/ 19th c novels mostly, poet, asst prof, ceasefire
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Amanda Auerbach retweeted
7 Aug 2025
Today is my academic book's official publication date. Happy 0th birthday to Getting Lost in the Novel: cambridge.org/core/books/get…
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Amanda Auerbach retweeted
8 Dec 2024
I love the phrase "the negative of night."
Mark Strand:
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Amanda Auerbach retweeted
28 Oct 2024
I’ve been all over the country in the last month.
And I get asked the same question, over and over again:
“I disagree with Kamala’s position on the war in Gaza. How can I vote for her?”
Here is my answer:
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18 Oct 2024
Listening to Keats in preparation for teaching and eating chocolate cake -- cannot complain about my job atm
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15 Oct 2024
Does anyone know how to go about trying to obtain rights for a work of art if you can't find contact info for an artist's estate? (I want to obtain rights for something from 1957 by Marcel Dyf for academic book cover)
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15 Oct 2024
Have tried contacting Sotheby's that has an image of the painting I want to use. If that doesn't suffice, do I contact the copyright and permissions dept of French government or something (hopefully English works?)?
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Amanda Auerbach retweeted
12 Aug 2024
Procrastination is ideological in that in implies waiting to be saved by some yet-to-surface creative force the same way these political theatrics imply that. I'm learning to exit the limbo early without losing any of the rumination and dream time we do there.
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Amanda Auerbach retweeted
3 Aug 2024
The humanities do not help us *become* more humane, but to understand what it would mean to *be* humane. The becoming is not up to the humanities but to us.
3 Aug 2024
I deeply admire you, but I strongly disagree with this sales pitch. The value of the humanities--when done well--is that it helps us become wiser and more humane. If it doesn't do this, if it only imparts a neutral toolkit of skills, then to hell with it.
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Amanda Auerbach retweeted
28 Jul 2024
A. R. Ammons
ALT Mission The wind went over me saying why are you so distressed: oh I said I can’t seem to make anything round enough to last: but why the wind said should you be so distressed as if anything here belonged to you as if anything here were your concern.
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Amanda Auerbach retweeted
30 Apr 2024
here’s the first lecture, on “Poetry and History,” featuring Robert Lowell (“The March 1”), W. B. Yeats (“Easter 1916”), and @jorie_graham (“What the End Is For”):
youtube.com/watch?v=blbE1kBS…
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Amanda Auerbach retweeted
30 Apr 2024
here’s the second lecture, on “Advice and Judgment, Aesthetic and Moral,” featuring more Yeats (“Meru”) and Elizabeth Bishop (“Poem”):
youtube.com/watch?v=2SqV7oTO…
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Amanda Auerbach retweeted
24 Apr 2024
Really excited to listen to this season of @NovelDialogue.
And looking forward to sharing my chat with my parasocial bestie, @blgtylr!
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16 Apr 2024
Do I have to italicize and capitalize bildungsroman?
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28 votes • Final results
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Amanda Auerbach retweeted
10 Apr 2024
So looking forward to it!
We're one week away from the L.A. launch of Playhouse: Poems by @jorrellwatkins! Get details & order your signed copy here: booksoup.com/event/jorrell-w…
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Amanda Auerbach retweeted
3 Apr 2024
So the inevitable’s happened: the war machine’s taken 6 (beautiful, beloved) white/Western lives, and they’re mourned as 32,000 (beautiful, beloved) Palestinian lives were not. If you have any power at all - media role, a platform - and you’ve been silent till now, ask yrself why
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Amanda Auerbach retweeted
3 Apr 2024
I’m happy to announce that the Los Angeles book launch event for PlayHouse: Poems @northwesternup will be at @BookSoup on Wednesday, April 17th 7pm!
The event is free and open to the public. Looking forward to seeing you there!
Event link in my bio. Please share!
ALT An white and coral poster featuring: a photo of a Black man with glasses in a blue suit, and the black and white cover of PlayHouse poems. The poster announces a book event for Jorrell Watkins at Book Soup on April 17th at 7pm.
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Amanda Auerbach retweeted
22 Mar 2024
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21 Mar 2024
The NBCC Award for Poetry goes to “Phantom Pain Wings” by Kim Hyesoon (@PoetKimHyesoon), translated by Don Mee Choi (@DonMeeChoi)! @NewDirections #NBCCAwards
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Amanda Auerbach retweeted
20 Mar 2024
If anyone is interested in writing a review or conducting a interview with me about my debut collection of poetry, "PlayHouse: Poems" let me know! I can get you an ARC nupress.northwestern.edu/978…
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