Drew Snow
@Shakesbrain
US Fulbright scholar (Alum): Distinguished Teaching Research Program. H.S. English Teacher & Chair. Collector of Rare Books. Views are mine.
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It was an honor to be asked to preview and blurb the newly reimagined Folger Guides to Teaching Shakespeare. The original Folger Guides showed me that Shakespeare had much to say to students. The "new" guides have shown me that students have much to say back. @FolgerED
what a book club! gosh. did you all meet at the gym?
Buddy Guy on how Blues is being ignored theses days "There's a lot of young people and sometimes people don't like me to speak like this, but blues is being ignored... for some reason, blues is not played on radio as much anymore, and whatever support we can get from you guys. I…
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I am missing the daily afternoon tea breaks at the Folger Shakespeare Library.
Do you take tea breaks with your colleagues? A Nobel Prize laureate who really enjoyed his afternoon tea was physicist J.J. Thomson. Thomson established a daily tea time welcoming all research students for a tea break at University of Cambridge.
Professors - talk to students at conferences and events. Not everyone can just walk up and start a conversation. You have status, and it can be intimidating. Create balance. Smile. Introduce yourself. Ask them about their research.
This is a conspiracy theory I can get behind. We all "know" the Ancient Greeks were notorious for time travel and having an interest in new technology. greekreporter.com/2026/01/10/anc…
thanks! I've been declining invitations to write more formally because 1) it's boring to be assigned subjects & meet deadlines 2) it's more fun to just type out a posting on a movie or book, on Twitter 3) I'd lost interest in writing lengthy, sometimes 25-page essay/reviews…
I may have already mentioned this but now that Anthony Lane is gone I’d much rather see your insightful film reviews in the New Yorker. Seriously
Happy Public Domain Day! At the start of each year, a new set of works is freed from copyright — ready to be shared, reused, and reimagined. See our highlights — Hannah Arendt, Albert Einstein, Langston Hughes, William Faulkner, and more: publicdomainreview.org/blog/2026/01/p… #publicdomain
Fulbright’s 2025 Year in Review 💙🏆✨ This year, the Fulbright Program celebrated remarkable achievements and advancements, launching celebrations for #America250 and highlighting the people and ideas that shaped U.S. history. Fulbrighters fostered innovation, strengthened…
AI software is increasingly involved in reviewing papers, provoking interest and unease go.nature.com/3MEYuo0
in your 20s, you'll come across someone who's wrong online. it's very important than you spend the next 40 years of your life learning and arguing about this topic online long after they've moved on, built a career, and raised a family.
If I were to teach "The Odyssey" I would use two texts--by Robert Fagles & Daniel Mendelohn. the first, solid, dramatic, very readable; the second, hauntingly musical, poetic & strange. Emily Wilson's translation, more YA-vernacular, is more prose than poetry & probably the…
“it is fascinating to examine diverse translations of "The Odyssey" as an illustration of the fluid nature of language & comprehension over time” this doesn’t seem how it would be studied in a right wing school. Only the most traditional translation allowed.
This is what happens when the shoes are the showstopper. I just can't imagine what type of pants and outfit overall would do these shoes justice if worn today.
These are men's gilded leather ankle boots from Norfolk, England, dating to the late Victorian era (1890-1899).
I would just add that "thee" Robert Frost has become so inextricably divorced from Frost the man that to suggest he was more or "less" than his poems leads to shock. Truman Capote should have been selected to direct a Robert Frost documentary. Capote had stories!
Robert Frost is a model for those who, though terribly flawed in themselves, not very happily related to family or relatives & (no doubt) clinically depressed at times, can rise utterly up out of their private selves as if climbing the ladder in "After Apple Picking" & provide…
There's where I live and where I'm FROM. You know.
A Roman bronze depiction of Medusa that perhaps came off of a large statue of Minerva. This was found in Colonia Ulpia Traiana, capital of the province Germania inferior. It dates to the 1st C AD and is now on display in the archaeological museum in Xanten, Germany. #ancient
We definitely claim poet Patricia Smith here in Chicago. Waving as hard as possible...Congratulations to you and your talents!
It's great when your whole home town waves hello. Pennington’s Patricia Smith Wins 2025 National Book Award for Poetry mercerme.com/penningtons-pa…
When I started to learn Greek as a native speaker of English, the English language semi-colon (;) as a Greek question mark was so confusing. My instructor always had to correct my reading to remind me to change intonation.
Using maps to teach point of view in AP Seminar is a gamechanger. My students' do a head shake when I introduce "upside down maps." They go running to research Australia. #APSeminar
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