Cat Clifford

@catcliff.bsky.social

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She/they, English prof, queer ace spinster, early modern drama, NWSL and USWNT fangirl, ultrarunner, drinking the AI haterade *Views are mine, not my employer’s.*

Movie poster for Best in Show
A screen grab from the TV show ‘Girls’ of Marnie Michaels’ music video of the song ‘What I Am’
Image shows two lines from Emma Lazurus's poem "The New Colossus" with lines crossed out to instead read, "With silent lips. "Give me your messy, your weird, / Your awkward prose yearning to breathe free..."
Cover of Sarah McLachlan's album Fumbling Towards Ecstasy
Stephanie Tanner from Full House with the text of her catchphrase, "How rude"
Chocolate lab sitting and looking back over her shoulder
Ben Affleck smoking a cigarette wearily.
Casey Krueger, wearing a neon yellow kit, with the ball
Tweet screenshot: "I’m not falling for that hot take. that’s clearly someone with a fetish for getting yelled at. I refuse to participate in that kind of perversion."
Screenshot of SAA's June bulletin. "07. Contemporary Pedagogies of Reading Early Modern Literature," Catherine R. Clifford (Hastings College) and Jess Hamlet (Alvernia University): This hybrid workshop-seminar welcomes classroom activities or assignments, pedagogical essays informed by theory, and/or reflective essays on success and failures. We welcome materials on class and the study of humanities disciplines; the “value” of reading; common student resistances to Shakespeare; reading early modern literature within the context ofl arger political attacks on higher education and the humanities; comprehension; methodologies; assessment; and making reading practices visible."
Screenshot of NWSL Shop's alphabetical offerings of pet bandanas, which skips from Bay FC to Houston.
Picture of Ben Affleck smoking a cigarette and sighing deeply
Chocolate lab puppy looking at the camera
Chocolate lab puppy mischievously putting her paws up on a table
Screenshot of part of the article, which says, "Republicans are gearing up to extend tax cuts from the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act that mostly benefitted wealthier Americans, per an Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center analysis, along with other new spending on their policy priorities such as immigration. To pay for the tax cuts and new spending, Republican lawmakers are considering slashing dozens of federal programs and benefits—including making college scholarships that help students pay for tuition, taxable income."
114: Reading Asexually, Thursday, 9 January 2025, 3:30-4:45pm, Hilton New Orleans Riverside - Jackson (3rd Floor) Description: Panelists explore both theorizations and models of what it means to read asexually -- to apply the insights of asexuality studies as a queer reading practice -- offering preliminary readings of literary texts and other media, cultural objects, social character types, and institutions, as well as metacritical methodological reflections on possible modes of asexual reading.
The meme of James Franco with a noose around his neck, asking someone off-camera "first time?" It's from the film 'The Ballad of Buster Scruggs.'
An image of Jeremy Bentham’s panopticon with Santa doing a cop stance in the lookout tower. Text read: “Santopticon: he sees you when you’re sleeping, he knows when you’re awake”
Black lab puppy chewing on a piece of a stick
Picture of the book The Teaching Archive by Rachel Sagner Buurma and Laura Heffernan
Ali Krieger’s Instagram post featuring an action photo of Krieger running in practice and the caption, “Preparing for playoffs while in my Beyoncé lemonade era.”
Two circus performers, one doing a difficult pose atop another doing a difficult pose
Picture of Emily Wilson’s new translation of The Iliad