Stephanie Porras

This looks amazing on all fronts!!!

If you teach print culture, this is a fantastic resource !! Amazing objects, fantastic essays and entries by Suzanne and a merry band of print scholars (including one from me!)

Grew up w labs/goldens but 9/10 times an unleashed dog runs up and me, freaking out my dog, who I then have to scoop up - it’s one of these breeds. Owners always insist ‘oh they are friendly’ - dude, my dog is not and I’d rather she not get bitten back by yours. Leash your damn dog.

Some fun langiappe. New Orleans is close to making May 2016 primary early voting and is on track to meet other milestones such as the 2025 mayoral race and 2019 JBE runoff election. 🤞🏽in the 28-32k range after Saturday. Take a friend to a early voting second line!

Cute sticker acquired- short line at city hall folks

I don’t care if it’s a mirage. Leave it all on the floor. Vote, get your friends and neighbors to do so.

I’m going today. Get it done folks! There’s also second lines to the polls this weekend if you need a group and musical accompaniment!

FYI I’m on the market again this year & would love to teach your students and/or help run your humanities, writing or FGLI programs. I have 15+ years of teaching & admin experience at Ivy+, top SLACs, & R1 institutions. If something interesting comes across your desk, consider passing it along!

Some amazing Good Samaritan found my walllet in the middle of the street and left it at my house. Everyone send Winston the best vibes (he left his name on a note but no number and I wish I could send him some $ but will settle for collective good will and my undying gratitude) ❤️ you Winston !!

Bad nights sleep and I lost my wallet and didn’t get half my to do list done. Yay Monday

UCLA is the only remaining undefeated team in the Big Ten and SEC. Just like we expected.

“What has happened in business schools turned out to be the leading edge of a broader transformation: the corporatization of the university itself. Institutions now chase rankings, donors & corporate partnerships, tout their contributions to innovation & growth & treat everything else as overhead.”

#Nolasky if you are thinking about attempting to drive anywhere uptown, just don’t 

I have completed one procrasti-task (updating and writing new syllabi ) and I fear I must actually start work on the two essays that are due at the end of this term.

Y'all Early Voting starts next week so let's make it fun. Saturday, Oct 24 we're throwing a tailgate party with free food, a resource fair, DJ Jubilee, New Groove Brass Band, Fannie C Williams marching band, speakers breaking down the ballot, and so much more. www.mobilize.us/whenweallvot...

Grad student just told me I have Italian mom energy and I’m not sure how to take that one. I am making lasagna tonight for a friend recovering from surgery, so I guess I’ll take it ?

A haunted house where every room has an assistant dean for teaching excellence and vice chancellor for finance

Let's go, Sam Forstag! That's how you stand up for trans people on the national stage. If congressional candidates in western Montana—one of the most competitive House races in the entire country—can stand up for trans folks in every aspect of our lives, democrats everywhere should take note.

This is all I want in my next home. And a pantry.

Quick question - where in New Orleans has a thick juicy burger? Nothing against a smash burger but the craving is thick patty

I am angry tonight. Because tonight ICE shot a New Yorker. They shot a New Yorker while his five year old child was in the car. ICE makes this city less safe. We want them out. Now.

And 175 years later, remains one of the most powerful forces in modern American politics.

I'll always remember something a colleague said early on in my career, soon after we finished grad school together: "Academia is not a meritocracy." I've been regularly reminded of this truism during my subsequent years in the profession

To put this in perspective chestnut trees used to be dominant species in the United States. Billions of trees were killed by fungal blight and now fully grown America chestnuts are functionally extinct. There is no getting them back. Ever. All for a data center. www.gadgetreview.com/one-of-ameri...

Sad news from Swarthmore. Kaori was an absolute legend! #arthistory www.swarthmore.edu/presidents-o...

At ICAHM 2026, Sonia Shidrang reported the 40-day war damaged 149 historical sites across 20 provinces, including five UNESCO World Heritage properties. She urged international law, documentation, and a protection plan. www.tehrantimes.com/news/530771/...

a little louder for the cheap seats in the back

I know everyone complains about zoom but I just got to listen to @elsjevankessel.bsky.social give a lovely talk on maritime insurance, faith, images of St Francis Xavier and shipwrecks over my lunchtime at my desk and that’s a win.

Updating an old print seminar syllabus and actively seeking recommendations on any aspect of early modern print technology, materials, or anything cool you’ve read on printed text or image. I have a massive biblio and trying to shake things up

So while I've been pushing my book release party October 20 @gardendistrictvc.bsky.social and Bourdain night at Snake & Jake's October 28.... There's also going to be something of an old New Orleans Twitter event on Oct 27 when @justinnystrom.bsky.social interviews me at Loyola. Deets coming soon!

Sometimes parenting teens/tweens is super difficult and you feel like everyone hates you and sometimes you surprise them w Popeyes on a Monday and they act as if you are the best parent on earth.

"Before Stonehenge was raised, before Egypts first pyramid broke ground,before the Nazca people drew their famous lines across the Peruvian desert,someone in what is now southern Arizona shaped a 272-foot fish into the earth On April 23,2026,"a border-wall contractor drove heavy equipment across it"

Calling all NYC artists — painters, filmmakers, poets, musicians and more! Did you know our city provides grants to support your work every year? And this year, we're DOUBLING the amount — from $5,000 up to $10,000 per artist! Deadlines are approaching fast — apply today at nyc.gov/artistgrants.

I am so very tired of how often I cite Sara Ahmed’s COMPLAINT (relevant far, far beyond academia)

I HAVE A COVER! And a pub date - July 6, 2027! If you want six true stories of antiquities fraud, from a California college convinced that Hong Kong tourist trinkets were worth millions, to an entire fake museum, to the titular mummy carved from styrofoam, preorder at www.amazon.com/Styrofoam-Mu...

Once again, everything is gender studies.

JOB: Assistant Professor of Early Modern European Art History, College Park https://arthist.net/archive/54506

i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward

Editing on paper: fun little asides, furious underlining, get to use notation symbols / editing on computer: making the text red/unreadable/crashing the document, swearing vengeance on everyone involved in the Microsoft office team who created this abomination of a comment system