@ProfRossBarrett

Historian of American Art + Professor at Boston University. Books: Speculative Landscapes, Rendering Violence, Oil Culture. Boston Terrier aficionado.

Joined July 2021
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I haven’t actually held it in my hands yet so it feels a little abstract, but my real estate book is apparently out and available for purchase! So excited!!! ucpress.edu/book/97805203439…

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Hi blue humanities folks! The *Oceanic New England* issue of @_NEQuarterly_ that I co-edited w @ProfRossBarrett is out & it's beautiful! Essays on seaweed aesthetics, hurricane panoramas, archipelagic painting, & more by @AlisonGlassie, Naomi Slipp @marinadawnwells, Kimia Shahi
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@jacobin22 Sep 2024
Legendary Marxist critic Fredric Jameson (1934-2024) spent his life and career committed to socialist ideas. In Jacobin last year, Jameson, argued that socialists today can revive utopian ideals by showing that change is, in fact, possible. jacobin.com/2023/01/frederic…

Fredric Jameson on Why Socialists Need Utopias

Marxist critic Fredric Jameson has spent his life’s work exploring the political significance of utopia. For Jacobin, Jameson argues that socialists today can revive utopian ideals by showing that...

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🗣️🗣️🗣️WHAT DOES @SenWarren want the BU admin to know???
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THREAD: Boston University is so determined to union-bust its own students that they’re proposing replacing grad workers with AI. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg.
Engage generative AI tools to give feedback or facilitate 'discussion' on readings or assignments

ALT Engage generative AI tools to give feedback or facilitate 'discussion' on readings or assignments

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It's been awhile since I've posted, but here's something new: I published a review of Sophie Lynford's terrific book Painting Dissent: Art, Ethics, and the American Pre-Raphaelites on caa.reviews. Check it out! @caavisual
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Please spread the word! BU’s Department of History of Art & Architecture is looking to hire a tenure-track Assistant Professor of African American and/or African Diaspora Art. For full details see: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/j…
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Please spread the word! BU’s Department of History of Art & Architecture is looking to hire a tenure-track Assistant Professor of African American and/or African Diaspora Art. For full details see: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/j…
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We are hiring: Our MA program in Preservation Studies is seeking to hire a new Director of Preservation Studies at the rank of tenured Full Professor. For the full job announcement see: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/j…
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We’re pleased to share the #CFP for our sponsored session at #CAA2024, chaired by @sarahcschaefer! Be sure to get your proposals in for “The Dark Fantastic in Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture” by August 31st via @caavisual’s submission portal. caa.confex.com/caa/2024/webp…
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Vacation vibes.
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Springtime magic in Boston: showers, daffodils, and the year’s first crop of fresh nips in the street
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Check out this amazing class for FALL 2023 taught by our own @clee_max 🤓👏🤓
Max Clee@clee_max3 May 2023
Excited to teach my first class of my own design this fall @BUAmnesp! Registration open now!
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Congrats to @carolinemriley for publishing “Moma Goes to Paris in 1938”! So exciting!
AHAA@AHAAamericanart19 Apr 2023
Congratulations to AHAA Member @carolinemriley on the publication of "MoMA Goes to Paris in 1938: Building and Politicizing American Art"! 🎉 @ucpress #AmericanArt #MemberSpotlight #NewPublication
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Happy patriots day from Mt. Watatic!
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See below for our Summer 2023 CFP! Abstracts due May 19th. Link for submission: bit.ly/3ME5TSu
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Congratulations to Dr. Megan LeBarron, PhD! (@LeRedBarron) She successfully defended her dissertation, “Heartland Cosmopolitanism: The Midwest And Literary Modernism in The Work of Willa Cather and Sinclair Lewis,” this afternoon! Congratulations, Megan!!!!!! 🥳📕👏
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Congratulations to Dr. Astrid Tvetenstrand (@atvetenstrand), for successfully defending her @BUAmnesp dissertation “Buying a View: American Landscape Painting and Gilded Age Vacation Culture, 1870-1917.” Yay Astrid!
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Join me next week! I'll be talking about "doom patterns" in Latinx literature and Hernan Díaz's _In the Distance_🤓📚🖊️
Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University@BUPardeeSchool14 Mar 2023
Interested in literature focused on the Latin experience? Join us for a lunch talk with @maiagiladi discussing Hernan Díaz’s novel "In the Distance," on March 21st at 12 p.m. Link to register here: bit.ly/3SnTx1x
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We're proud to launch Vol II of Ampersand! The issue includes a variety of scholarship that seeks to unpack narratives, methods, and traditions that have been "ingrained." We'll spotlight each essay in the days ahead and invite you to read them all at sites.bu.edu/ampersandjourna…
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