Assistant Professor of English at USC. Early modern childhood, race, gender, education, and performance. Book on boy actors with @cambridgeup.bsky.social. Next book sometime, somewhere. https://dornsife.usc.edu/profile/harry-mccarthy/
Harry R. McCarthy (offline)
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Me: Why do we think Little Lord Fauntleroy might have fallen out of favour with an American readership?
Student: Is it because it's really boring?
BEYOND hyped for this. coinandghost.org/aaron/
Saw the Hamnet trailer last night. Looks wonderful, and sorry to be that guy, but… painted sets at the Globe?!
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Stop doing this! Whoever is paying @timeshighered.bsky.social for story after story is also funding environmental vandalism on a catastrophic scale. This isn't journalism, it's naive ethical bankruptcy - and intellectually and pedagogically obtuse.
Why is it important to counter the Jane Austen 250th birthday frenzy in this moment? Because she is being used to promote neoimperial Brexit culture under the cover of white feminism as supposedly 'radical' 1/
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Beyond excited to be taking up a long-term fellowship at @folger.edu this fall!
