Cat Clifford

@catcliff

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

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Cat Clifford@catcliff· 8d

I will continue to make my fliers and PowerPoints a little shitty so people will know I didn’t use AI

Cat Clifford@catcliff· 11d

I constructed a “window seat” in my study for my dog Kitten, and it’s so gratifying when she naps in it.

A chocolate lab napping in a dog bed atop some book shelves.

Cat Clifford@catcliff· 15d

I just think she's the cutest

Picture of a happy chocolate lab laying in a chair

Cat Clifford@catcliff· 25d

Without saying your age what is your favorite movie from the year you turned 18

Cat Clifford@catcliff· Jul 22

A screen grab from the TV show ‘Girls’ of Marnie Michaels’ music video of the song ‘What I Am’

Cat Clifford@catcliff· Jul 16

Cat Clifford@catcliff· Jun 17

post the best picture you have ever taken of your pet (if you feel like it):

Cat Clifford@catcliff· Apr 28

Man, I'll tell you what: I love those messy, meandering essay drafts from my students because they show thinking rather than product. Messy drafts are a middle finger to the smooth, soulless perfection of AI.

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..."

Cat Clifford@catcliff· Apr 4

Watching the Stars every week, like "maybe this week we'll figure it out!" followed by:

Cat Clifford@catcliff· Dec 29

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden or Alice in Chains.

Cover of Sarah McLachlan's album Fumbling Towards Ecstasy

Cat Clifford@catcliff· Dec 26

Heated Rivalry is only *6 episodes*

Stephanie Tanner from Full House with the text of her catchphrase, "How rude"

Cat Clifford@catcliff· Dec 26

Christmas movie for sickos (complimentary)

Cat Clifford@catcliff· Dec 21

I feel like my feed on here needs a dog post every now and then. Here’s Kit being adorable.

Chocolate lab sitting and looking back over her shoulder

Cat Clifford@catcliff· Oct 11

Oh I’m sure

Cat Clifford@catcliff· Oct 10

I love this one.

Cat Clifford@catcliff· Sep 16

Ben Affleck smoking a cigarette wearily.

Cat Clifford@catcliff· Aug 13

As a fan, I feel this. Really rooting for his success because I’m exhausted.

Cat Clifford@catcliff· Jun 26

Cat Clifford@catcliff· Jun 15

Not everyone’s cup of tea, admittedly, but it’s bold

Casey Krueger, wearing a neon yellow kit, with the ball

Cat Clifford@catcliff· Jun 15

I like the Washington Spirit’s yellow highlighter kit

Cat Clifford@catcliff· Jun 3

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."

Cat Clifford@catcliff· Jun 3

If you're an early modernist going to SAA in Denver next year, please consider joining my and ‪@jesshamlet.bsky.social‬'s workshop/seminar on reading pedagogies. We think our field has a lot to offer to broader discourses about reading in the classroom. Prove us right!

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."

Cat Clifford@catcliff· May 4

This shit is so funny because the further these kinds of AI Trump images get from reality, the more the creators demonstrate that Trump is not their absurd masculine ideal. The genre is just a series of brutal self-owns.

Cat Clifford@catcliff· Apr 21

How come my favorite team @chicagostars.com doesn't have a dog bandana in the NWSL store or elsewhere? My puppy Kit needs to rep the team!

Screenshot of NWSL Shop's alphabetical offerings of pet bandanas, which skips from Bay FC to Houston.

Chocolate lab puppy smiling at me in the car, being a good girl

Cat Clifford@catcliff· Mar 28

“no additions to the roster”

Picture of Ben Affleck smoking a cigarette and sighing deeply

Cat Clifford@catcliff· Mar 16

I don’t see a lot of animal pics on this platform, so here’s an offering of Kit, my 7 month old chocolate lab 🧡

Chocolate lab puppy looking at the camera

Cat Clifford@catcliff· Mar 15

Does this meme refer to being a Red Stars fan or just an American right now? Yes.

Cat Clifford@catcliff· Mar 15

I chortled at this

Cat Clifford@catcliff· Feb 15

Evil fascist and tacky AF