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Poor Queer Studies for a Society of Outsiders

January 6, 2022

At this year’s MLA Convention, I am honored to be on a panel devoted to “Woolf’s 21st Century Academia”, a panel sponsored by the International

The Good, The Bad, and the Interdisciplinary

October 3, 2021

Interdisciplinarity is one of those words, like openness and diversity, that many people in academia like to affirm as a positive value, but when it

Extending the Mind

September 12, 2021

This summer, I recommended to everyone I encountered that they take an hour and listen to this podcast conversation between Ezra Klein and Annie Murphy

The Grindr Model of Education

June 20, 2021

He is the corporate Silence: dread him not! No power hath he of evil in himself… —Edgar Allan Poe Reading Sean Michael Morris’s blog post

Thinking Hope Under Erasure

May 3, 2021

Hope Long ago, when the Earth was young, I enrolled in a poetry workshop led by Liz Ahl, and one of the assignments was to

Salvage

April 22, 2021

1. The toll of the last year on my teaching, work, and life is evident in silence. I last wrote here in November, shortly before

Poor. Queer. Studies.

November 15, 2020

Matt Brim’s Poor Queer Studies is the most exciting book about academia that I have read since Cathy Davidson’s The New Education, and for me

The Value in the Public Good

October 16, 2020

The coronavirus pandemic has revealed many fissures and failures in U.S. society, some of which have long been obvious, but were more easily ignored in

Instead of Rigor: Play and Risk

September 15, 2020

Buildings and bridgesare made to bend in the windto withstand the worldthat’s what it takes.All that steel and stoneis no match for the air, my

Matthew Cheney

Occasional Writings

For older writings, see the archive of my blog The Mumpsimus (2003-2023)

This page also includes posts originally published at my academic and pedagogy-focused blog, Finite Eyes (2018-2024)

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