Scott Huffard

Excited to share the final cover design for my book (coming out with @uncpressblog this Fall)! If you're already jonesing for some railroad action, the amazon pre-order page is also now live: amazon.com/Engines-Redemp…

maintenance is here at the humanities offices now bc it smells like something died in here. I mean c'mon isn't this metaphor just a little too on the nose

started my PhD in 2007 and while picking a program I distinctly remember a campus visit conversation about how the # of job ads was actually greater than new PhDs that year 💀

Been off the conference circuit as I've worked to wrap up the Casey Jones project but I'm heading up to Huntington for App Studies on Thursday! I'll be sharing some research (on a 1916 flood/railroad disaster ballad that I found in a Utah archive) at 8 am Friday

got a fun severe thunderstorm watch/winter weather advisory combo going here today in the NC mountains - gotta love March

Land acknowledgements but it's for former railroads that ran in your area.

teaching Civil War in a highly visible library classroom w/glass windows = shocking random students with my lecture slide feat. a pile of amputated limbs (it was civil war medicine day)

I’ve listened to enough Norwegian black metal to know Bergtatt when I see it

Excited to share that “Casey Jones: America’s Engineer” (tentative title) now has final UNC Press board approval and is heading to publication (in early 2027). Thanks especially to @Lucas_Church for working with me to get this over the line. Stay tuned for more details…🚂

I’m always saying this

@AstorAaron @HerecomesDrBob @news5wcyb it saved us during that ice storm!

@shuffard @HerecomesDrBob @news5wcyb The warm nose!

Here are the current temperatures. StormTrack 5 Forecast on News 5, in the StormTrack 5 app, and WCYB.com/weather.

@HerecomesDrBob @AstorAaron @news5wcyb we had another strange temp inversion thing during that ice store a week or so ago. It was way warmer up on Beech than it was in the valleys and down in the Piedmont

@AstorAaron @news5wcyb It's pretty rare for @shuffard to be nearly 20degrees higher than my mom&dad.

Today I learned that I was born in the same hospital as Pat McAfee, Curt Cignetti, and Mark Cuban? (Magee women’s hospital in Pittsburgh)

Was awesome getting to see this live last night in AVL: stereogum.com/2482906/watch-…

everytime it snows people in the airbnb across the street make a snowman that stares directly into my kitchen window. Then the people inevitably leave and the snowman melts so there’s a creepy melting snowman staring into my soul while I cook

me rn (mentally broken penn state fan)

Under the Trump administration, FEMA reimbursements to Western NC counties have gone dry, and no one will say why. Mike Whatley, who Trump named as his lead Helene recovery czar, insists that solving FEMA's holdup is not his responsibility. Meanwhile, Western NC counties are being pushed to the brink of insolvency. More: wral.com/news/state/fem…

little piece about a train/Helene song I wrote: Old Fort Loops: A Soundtrack of Resilience After Hurricane Helene uncpressblog.com/2025/10/30/old…

one of the perks of teaching college in western NC is the high amount of students who dress in what can best be described as 19th century eastern european peasant-core

"howdy Dr. huffed" is quite the bold start to a student email

I still tell my students about the time I won a grad school halloween party costume contest for dressing as Bert the Turtle (from the 1950s Duck and Cover atomic safety video). On the other hand, someone did show up dressed up as the Superstructure.