Dr. Alice C. M. Kwok

Excited to announce my newest article, "A Noblewoman’s Gothic: Aristocratic Domesticity, Political Medievalism, and Ancien Régime Family Strategy in Caroline Wuiet’s Le Couvent de Sainte Catherine (1810)," out now with @FrenchStudies liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/fs…

Nothing about this is “academic.” Someone tempted by it has apparently never experienced learning. It is the idea of “graduate level” work one would have if one had never experienced authentic undergraduate level learning. If it would be acceptable in any academic field, that would be an indictment of the field as lacking intellectual integrity, as a pseudo-academic discipline.

No CNBC, it’s not device hoarding it’s —MY PHONE STILL WORKS FINE AND I’M NOT GOING TO SPEND $1500 FOR A SLIGHTLY BETTER CAMERA AND AN AI FEATURE THAT I’LL EVENTUALLY DISABLE

@SketchesbyBoze Okay but which sagas specifically?!? We need to know!

Of the 270-plus books I’ve read so far this year, these four (and various Icelandic sagas) are probably my favorites:

When I get two sentences into a book review and it's a "this wasn't the book I would have written"

Il faut n'avoir aucune estime de soi pour demander à Grok de penser à sa place dès qu'un sujet devient sensible. Ce que font de plus en plus de personnes sur ce réseau.

Here's why it's a bad idea to deep fry a frozen turkey, courtesy of Volusia County Fire Rescue. 🎥 Brenno Carillo

"Begs the question" is a very useful, concise name for a common argumentative fallacy (or, more often, deliberate tactic). People should stop misusing it to mean "raises the question."

I do not like your AI slop I do not want this worthless glop I do not read its overviews I don't care what Grok says is true I do not like it here nor there I'm tired of it everywhere

I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science to advance a far right agenda.

@SketchesbyBoze Have you read Nghi Vo's Singing Hills novellas?

I’m looking for a good contemporary novel. I’ve been reading a lot of medieval poems & sagas and realized I’d read hardly any recent fiction this year. I love a book that’s a bit cerebral, a bit strange, and tells a solidly plotted story with a minimum of fuss.

Go to the movies, go to church, go to Shakespeare in the park. Take long walks, buy in-store, #NeverDoorDash. Host parties, send mail through the post, read books. Use airports sparingly, drive down new highways, listen to (and keep adding to your collection of) whole-ass albums. These are my recommendations. (On Twitter, using my phone.)

universities that pay sports coaches as much as $8 million yearly salary should be utterly ashamed to exploit adjunct faculty, who often have advanced degrees, & should provide medical benefits for them identical with tenured faculty.

A lot of you guys are miserable because you don't do arts and crafts. You should be having arts and crafts time at least once a week

QUICK!! SOME RANDOM LADY DID SOMETHING STUPID. FOCUS ON THAT, NOT REPUBLICAN OPERATIVES AND ELECTED OFFICIALS SHARING NAZI MEMES AND JOKING ABOUT GAS CHAMBERS. ATTACK THIS LADY, NOT THE GOP STAFFER WHO HUNG A SWASITKA IN HIS OFFICE. ANYTHING SO WE DON'T HAVE TO POLICE OUR OWN PEOPLE.

NEW: POLITICO obtained private group chat messages between leaders of Young Republican groups across the country. They talk about putting their opponents in gas chambers, raping their enemies and refer to Black people as “monkey” and “the watermelon people”politico.com/news/2025/10/1…

- Immigrates to US at 15 dirt-poor - Undergrad at Hudson Valley Community College & SUNY Albany - PhD at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign - NSF postdoc at Harvard ... Nobel Prize! A testament to the US education and research system and the US would be poorer without it!

Indiana Jones is a fantasy about being a professor with no admin duties

General education should be unapologetically liberal--it should be an education that befits a free person and citizen.