Wrote a tribute to Morris Dickstein. A model of critical and professional excellence. @MorrisDickstein @Amerbookreview

"His true Penelope was Flaubert." The inimitable @DanielRNutters fishes by obstinate isles in his latest, for @r0manticon.

Ours shall be a garden and an orchard, fecund and irenic, yet wild still—a wildness preserved and transformed—whose fruits grow from the old storm and stress that enrich as they dissipate into new forms.

Join me this summer for "Understanding Vincent van Gogh's Portraits," a virtual course for Roundtable @92ndStreetY. We meet August 8th and 15th 🌻 Link: https://t.co/vi7DskM6ol Vincent van Gogh, Portrait of Père Tanguy, 1887. Musée Rodin, Paris. #Art #ArtHistory #VanGogh

I am happy to announce that The Routledge Handbook of the History of Paris since 1789 is published! Special thanks to editors Kory Olsen, Amanda Shoaf Vincent, & Erin-Marie Legacey as well as to all of the contributing authors. #Paris #History #ArtHistory #VanGogh Details ⬇

Above all, however, @LI_ALSCW puts the imagination where it belongs--at the center of literary studies.

Soon to be released! This collection explores the enduring impact of art, inspired by T.S. Eliot’s observation that the experience of a work of art encompasses both a singular moment and a lifelong resonance. https://t.co/QaXk4s4AQf #SidneyHoman @UF_CLAS #AnthemPress

I am excited to share that I am teaching a virtual class on #VanGogh and portraiture at Roundtable for the @92ndStreetY . Please help me spread the word! Link: https://t.co/5iWJJ9KLcd Image: Vincent van Gogh, Portrait of Père Tanguy, 1887. Musée Rodin. #Art #ArtHistory

I have a new piece out today in The Chronicle of Higher Education, a post-election blast at the academic left and its divorce from reality. To read it you will have to sign up for their newsletter, a process that should take about 30 seconds. https://t.co/PS8ewgXBes

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'I think that unless you read deeply and in your own interest; unless you explore what is most profound in what has come before you, then you never will get down to recesses of your own self ... and most deeply you never will heal the self' Harold Bloom

SURPRISE!! I have ANOTHER national championship football to give away! Same rules apply, RT this tweet to enter. Must be following me so I can DM the winner. Good luck! Winner will be announced in a few days.

My review of Linda Seidel’s Vincent’s #Arles: As It Is & As It Was (Chicago UP, 2023) is up on H-France Review! If you’d like to learn more about the Ancient and Medieval history pulsing through Arles, you can find no better guide than Seidel. #VanGogh https://t.co/UgWFna0j5A

Please follow this account below and like its tweets so that I don’t have to keep this personal account active & may someday be released from the tweets dungeon. I want to discover the secrets of God and man and swim daily in the Mediterranean. I do not want to tweet forever.

How is it that the Mars Review of Books has so completely mogged the literary world? Is it bc we’re smarter? Harder working? Better dressed or more attractive? I myself don’t know the answer and will leave the question open to debate bc it is a FREE COUNTRY

This is what being possessed by poetry truly means. Harold Bloom reciting a portion from Wallace Stevens' 'The Auroras of Autumn.'

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Happy to share my recent essay: "Marginal Space: #VanGogh's and #Signac's Parisian Industrial Landscapes" in Perspective: Selected Essays on Space in Art and Design, ed. Sarina Miller (Vernon Press, 2023). Have a look! - #Urban #Landscapes #ArtHistory #Paris #LaborReform

Thomas Mann now seems archaic, not a modernist or post-Romantic, but a belated Goethe, a humanist triumphing through the mystery of his own personality and the ironic playfulness of his art.

We've updated our CfP to include conference fees and accommodation info. Proposals due 1 September: https://t.co/nusDkooahb -- The Nineteenth Century Today: Interdisciplinary, International, Intertemporal July 10-12, 2024 Durham University, Durham, UK In-person and online