The Dark Academia Book Tag [CC]
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- Опубликовано: 6 окт 2024
- In which I talk about Dark Academia as an aesthetic and as a lifestyle, about the politics of Gray Academia, and about my lifetime of academic involvement (including the creation of a new Academic aesthetic)-all while I answer the very interesting Dark Academic Book Tag.
Things Rarely Mentioned in Dark Academia but mentioned here:
84 Charing Cross Road (book and film)
The Waltons (tv series)
Interminable faculty meetings
Mystery series by Amanda Cross
Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder (philosophy and fantasy)
The Half Has Never Been Told by Ed Baptist (slavery and capitalism)
Feminist revisionism
Red Comet by Heather Clark (biography of Sylvia Plath)
Gertrude Stein as hostess
The sinking of the Lusitania, hegemony, and eugenics
Flannery O'Connor wearing leather
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin
Vegetable portraiture
Shakespeare's original staging conditions
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I finally understand what dark academia means from your explanation. So it is emo for intellectuals? Grey academia sounds like something I should have known about. Thank you for old and grey academia. I will take refuge there as suggested.
Emo for intellectuals! Perfect.
I appreciate the time and effort you put into answering these questions. What a wonderful and thoughtful gift from your former student!
Thank you so much. That book does indeed mean a great deal to me. Special student, too.
Loved your approach to this tag, and the outfit!
Can't believe I left out 84 Charing Cross Road in my video. Will gladly make up for it by rereading in January. I remember Archimbaldo was mentioned in the film of 84 CCR. A customer came in asking for prints when the staff at Marks & Co were opening Helene's gift from Denmark. I love that film and book so much!
Oh! How funny! I thought I remembered a reference to Hieronymus Bosch but I bet it was really to Arcimboldo! What a lovely book and film. Perhaps I need to watch it again tomorrow while waiting for election returns...
I used to love that Kate Fansler series! Very biting humor. Also loved [Sophie’s World], although in a complete different way.
Whoa! I have a copy of The Man of Books, but had never seen the vegetable portraits. How odd.
Thanks for this, Hannah. Thoughtful and funny. And much appreciated.
I am so glad to hear from another Kate Fansler fan!
Thanks for having a flow in your speaking and not editing every sentence like every youtuber
Thanks! I wish I were able to do it with no cuts at all, but I misspeak in distracting ways much too often. The trade off is always cuts or lack of flow of ideas.
Thank you! I'm so glad I found you. You have a great voice I appreciate your pace it gives me some time to absorb your words. I am older and like your new catagories. I will float between old and grey and tenured academia. And I knew about several of your references(Morse, 84 Charing Cross Road and some others) but found some I did not know of. You went beyond what alot of the others are talking about . Thank you once again .
So many brilliant, mind-expanding answers! ❤️ I will save this video to revisit many times.
Alba, you are too kind! Thank you very much.
84 Charing Cross Road is fabulous. I will gladly join in on reading it on New Year’s Day. What a wonderful way to start the New Year. It reaffirms my faith in humanity. Even in dark times. And I sob at the end every time. :). Loved hearing your responses to these questions.
Wonderful! I feel exactly the same way about 84CCR and that reaffirmation of faith in humanity is really necessary right now. I love how these people with such different cultures and personalities appreciate each other so intensely. Beautiful.
Great tag! I love the in-depth discussions you have.
Thank you so much, Josh. I still have your Autumn tag to do, and the temperature has dropped so much here that I am going to miss my chance if I don't get my act together!
@@HannahsBooks there's always next year! But technically fall doesn't end until December :)
Love the dress-up! Such a fun theme for the month😊
I can't wait to do it again next October!
great outfit. Great answers.
Thank you! 🤗
I love this tag and your take was great! Unexpected title choice for question 1. Sophie’s world was hyped and then forgotten back in the 90s but it is truly an excellent book that deserves to be read by a much wider audience.
I really ought to reread Sophie's World at some point, and try to convince my son to read it as well. I remember thinking we would read it together back when he was in high school, but we never did.
This is a glorious video! This “aesthetic” is new to me (which probably places me in the grey category), but vaguely reminds me of my daughter’s explanation of nerd v. geek culture.
I hope you caught the recent screening of Donmar Warehouse’s Shakespeare Trilogy. And I never thought I’d hear from someone who had read Carolyn Heilbrun’s mysteries!
Nerd vs. geek: yes! Except I thought nerd culture was looked down upon until I heard about Dark Academia! Last December on Mel's channel (Mel's Bookland Adventures, I think), I did a guest spot about Carolyn Heilbrun's mysteries. What fun to revisit them to prepare for that video! I'm afraid I missed the Donmar Warehouse screening, but it seems like my son as access through his college, potentially. Thanks for tipping us off!
This is so awesome and I love it so much. I’ve worked in academia for many years and I like your outside-in view.
Thank you so much! I wonder how many long-term professors are as amused by this style as I am!
Who ever thought that "performative nerdiness" would ever be a thing.
I cant believe you mentioned "The Waltons". I just watch two episodes the other day and it sent me into spiral of old man thinking about how TV used to be full of working class people who prized honesty and personal responsibility and that all came to an end in the 80s. Anyway, I edited it out of my Saturday video because it was too ranty.
I just taught myself to play a rudimentary version of "The Gael" on the guitar, but of course it is meant to be played on the violin. I'd love to be able to play it and "Ashokan Farewell" on the violin. Fifty-three and cant read music is probably too late to start.
You cut the Waltons out?! I am so glad to hear that the show still means something to other people. Where did you watch it? I think I might have to search out a few episodes to get me through election day... My son plays both Ashokan Farewell and The Gael (and he plays both fiddle and guitar). I'll see if I can get him to make a recording and post it...
@@HannahsBooks That would be great I would love t hear him play to see how far off I am and to enjoy somebody playing those pieces correctly.
I found the Walton's on the Inspire Channel (I have Direct TV ). Grandpa Walton always reminded me of my Grandpa in looks and personality.
oh this was lovely! Thank you so much for sharing😊 (and this norwegian was certainly surprised by the mention of sophie's world. I was a young teenager when it was released here and remember being really immersed in the story on a family vacation in Prague, thanks for reminding me of that!)
I am so glad you shared this! It has been much too long since I read Sophie's World. I thought I would be reading it would my son when he was in high school, but we never got to it. Maybe I can talk him into it now?
Love your outfit for this! Dark academia reminds me of my first semester of undergrad when I insisted on wearing a trench coat and carrying my books in an oversized men's leather satchel 😳😆 Enjoyed seeing you do this tag!
A perfect Dark Academia outfit! Was it trendy then? Or were you just ahead of the curve?
@@HannahsBooks Not trendy at all lol.
@@Amysdustybookshelf Ha!
I've never heard before about '84 Charing Cross Road', thanks for recommendation, indeed the aesthetic in the movie looks perfect
I hope you will love 84 Charing Cross Road! The book is super-short and it is wonderful, too.
Sophie's World is my favorite book! ❤👏 usually people have never heard of it... and then I explain it and they get confused 🙈🤣
It has been a long time since I've read it, but Sophie's World really is a wonderful book!
Having sat through my own share of boring university committee meetings, you might enjoy reading "Dear Committee Members" by Julie Schumacher, it's a hoot. For more humor with more depth, Richard Russo's "Straight Man" is a classic.
That is a great one to add! I loved Dear Committee Members. She has another one out now, right? I've mever read Straight Man but will check it out!
@@HannahsBooks Her latest is The Shakespeare Requirement. I didn't enjoy it as much as Dear Committee, but efforts at Payne U to add a Shakespeare requirement might be right up your alley.
@@Tensytheneedlesmith Oh yes! I did hear that. A local friend agreed with you that the book was not as much fun as Dear Committee Members but suggested I should read it The Shakespeare Requirement aloud with my son the Shakespeare nerd.
I used to have a herringbone newsboy hat, a great piece to have on your hat rack.
We have quite a few in this family! My son is an Irish and English folk fiddler whose typical daily wear has included a cap for years. During the pandemic, he's let his curly hair grow out and now his caps don't fit...
Love your take on this tag! I'm only 135 pages into Red Comet but it's already one of the best literary biographies I have ever read. I don't want to put it down!
I am so glad to hear that! I think I may start in in December. Everything I have heard to far is just stellar.
😍❤📚 if I designed my own academic aesthetic it would be Science Nerd. You expect it to be labcoats and glasses and pencil skirts but really we end up in ripped sweatshirts and 3-day old contacts 🤣🤣
PERFECT!
I am with you in the Old Academy.I appreciate how thoughtful you answers are.We have here in Germany many Universities those accept senior students, they may follow the majority of the faculties and just make the examinations if they want it.Perhaps there is something similiar in your state and you could return to college just to enjoy yourself.Have a nice weekend!
Thank you very much. What a great plan to actively invite senior students! I know some local community colleges do outreach like that as well. My father used to have retirees in the college classes he taught sometimes and really loved the interactions.
What a lovely story about the leather-bound book from your student! 😍💖🤩
I really must try to get back in touch with him! It has been too long--at least a couple of years now.
I've only become aware of Dark Academia this year, and have been confused by it, so very grateful for this wee tutorial... 😍👒Ooh, Gray (Grey?) Academia sounds awesome!! Will start promoting that on DA posts on BookTok...
Excellent!
Well, as usual- you have outdone the already high expectations I have for your videos. Just brilliant, Hannah.
Sign me up for Grey Academia!! Especially on the punk streak. 😉👌🏻🙌🏻. Sounds fun. But like you, I shirk from performative aspects of many of these communities. I think I’m too old to embrace it.
84CCR ❤️📚❤️- New Year’s Day tradition is growing! Thank you.
Thank you very much, Sarah. I thought of you when I brought up the punk streak! Yep, Grey Academia would be lucky to get you.
Serious question I've been mulling over since you started discussing different academic aesthetics: which "academia" aesthetic would fit The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie? Light? Dark? Cottage? Something else?
If I could have a drink with Gertrude Stein, my first question would be, "So how did you really feel about Hitler?" (more about that here: www.neh.gov/humanities/2012/marchapril/feature/the-strange-politics-gertrude-stein) My second question would have to do with Three Lives, which was included in my dissertation, but basically both questions boil down to, "Scholars have been arguing for 100 years about whether you supported this person/group or not. Why are you like this??" 🤣🤣
Interesting question about The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. I'll think about that and get back to you if I have any better ideas, but I think it is sort of classic/light/romantic, sort of? I think Dark Academia is really rooted in a masculine kind of academic style in addition to a white Eurocentric one. As for Stein, your questions would be a great one! I know far too little about her at this point, but I would brush up before our meeting for sure. I love the idea of trying to get straight answers for our research questions from the people of the past. If only!
@@HannahsBooks I was thinking light, but then I remembered there are some darker elements of it, but maybe not enough to be full-on "dark academia."
Yes, if only!
Sure enjoyed this Hannah! I watched the movie “84 Charing Cross Road” & really enjoyed it.
Thank you! Now I really want to watch 84CCR again!
Yes, I wholeheartedly agree with "84 Charing Cross Road"..Looking back, I clearly remember stopping every so often while reading it to jot down all the authors and titles that Hanff mentioned within the book, and tried to look up each of the titles which she requested myself. I'd like to think I was introduced to John Donne by none other than Helene Hanff herself (and learned to love both his poetry and sermons all thanks to her)....You mentioned St. Johns College which made me think of an enjoyable, indie movie whose director or writer graduated from St. John's Santa Fe, N.M.: "The Tao of Steve".
Two enjoyable reads which are either set in/related to academia (albeit vaguely,) are "Possession" (this novel had me imagining that perhaps Christina Rossetti was the model for Christabel LaMotte and thus, led me to read Rosetti's poetry); and "Chasing Shakespeares" (a literary mystery about Shakespeare's authorship).
Oooh! I will definitely look into Chasing Shakespeare! Sounds like something my son would really enjoy. And I absolutely love Byatt's Possession. I can't believe I didn't include it in this video!
We have a very similar story about taking 84 Charing Cross Road as a guide! I'm afraid I did not make it very far, abandoning the process for a more fiction-heavy classics list for a while. This January 1st, though, I think I have to decide what to add from her list!
Ha, ha, ha. Anthropology majors! You got me.
My dead poet? Elizabeth Bishop.
I have her biography on my shelf to read soon!
(the one by Megan Marshall)
I Just discovered your channel and I'm in love, you seem like an amazing person who I would love to drink tea with🖤
(im sorry If there's any mistake english is not mt first language)
Welcome! So glad to have you here!
O, snap! I just did this one off Jack, 8 _months_ ago! Good one, Hannah ... 😋
I just looked up both yours and Jack's. What fun!
I love the way you sitaly your selfe towrods novle and morly auotgrohicly and i tourlly loved it hoesnly Hoping forcyou davlmants and so on things !
Thank you!
Dark Academia = the dread of delayed-to-last-minute work in unnecessary departmental meetings 😂🤣😂#relatableoutsideacademia
Isn't it the truth! My husband has to have so many meetings that there is often too little time to actually get his work done. Yes, the meetings ARE work...but they don't always feel like it.
I had to go look up that scene: fast forward to :39 to skip the ableist slurs: ruclips.net/video/v9mC6Osykgo/видео.html
Love that scene. (I'm afraid I had blocked out the ableist slur. Boo.)
The Waltons, yes! And when John Boy's manuscript burns? Horrible!! Have you seen The Good Place? The theme song seems to me to be a knockoff of Jerry Goldsmith--maybe on purpose.
No! I must go look up The Good Place. What a great homage that would be. (Meanwhile, I always wonder if John Boy's manuscript burning is a subtle homage to Little Women.)
@@HannahsBooks Yup, I've wondered the same!
You are so beautiful