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Talia Schaffer
@taliaschaffer.bsky.social
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I like thinking about Victorian care, disability, feminism, and also cooking (not necessarily Victorian).

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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 2d
Last post for the year to say that @jcblibrary.bsky.social we've been thinking hard about how to support scholars and scholarship amidst the multi-dimensional crises for humanities research. We remain committed to our traditional fellowships (indeed in the wake of NEH revocation we expanded), but 1/

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Talia Schaffer @taliaschaffer.bsky.social · 5d
Recommending this to absolutely everyone!
www.publicbooks.org/victorian-ma...
Victorian Materialisms, Crip Realities - Public Books
Raised-text print in the 19th century transformed literacy, reading practices, media representations of blindness, medical and journalistic discourse, and, most importantly, the everyday lives of blin...
www.publicbooks.org

Reposted by Anna O. Law, Noah Wardrip‐Fruin, Talia Schaffer , and 1 more

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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 8d
For civilians: an academic dept typically has to out maneuver other depts to get a tenure line! I tell grad students applying to red state jobs to indicate that they are familiar with & would be happy spending a decade or more there. A single sentence has moved them to the top of a pile. 1/

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Talia Schaffer @taliaschaffer.bsky.social · 9d
@sinsleyh.bsky.social offers a characteristically thoughtful, generous and appreciative assessment of Austeniana. I want to read the graphic novel!
lareviewofbooks.bsky.social Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social · 9d
Stephanie Insley Hershinow surveys recent Austen-related works on Jane Austen's 250th birthday: "Austen offers endless opportunity for examination and reexamination; still, it might be fair to ask what more one can say about our dear Jane." https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/happy-birthday-jane/
A portrait of Jane Austen

Reposted by Anna O. Law, Lesley A. Hall, Thomas A. Tweed , and 3 more

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Dr. Natalie Mendoza @drmendozan.bsky.social · 9d
🗃️ My History Department is hiring for a tenure track position in Native American history. See link for details!

jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...
​Assistant or Associate Professor of History
jobs.colorado.edu

Reposted by Talia Schaffer

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Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social · 9d
Stephanie Insley Hershinow surveys recent Austen-related works on Jane Austen's 250th birthday: "Austen offers endless opportunity for examination and reexamination; still, it might be fair to ask what more one can say about our dear Jane." https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/happy-birthday-jane/
A portrait of Jane Austen

Reposted by Rebecca Tushnet, Talia Schaffer, Mark Rice , and 1 more

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Derek Silva @derekcrim.bsky.social · 11d
There is an absolute fucking scandal going down at The New School, wherein at appears that the university is funnelling to a MEMBER OF THE SCHOOL’S BOARD while purging faculty and staff.

This should be headline news.

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Talia Schaffer @taliaschaffer.bsky.social · 22d
What a devastating and brilliant article on "education’s auto-cannibalism: universities consuming their own purpose while cheerfully marketing the tools of their undoing." But the good news is that our students are fighting their institutions' betrayal.
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself
Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.
www.currentaffairs.org

Reposted by Talia Schaffer

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NAVSA @navsa.bsky.social · 24d
Job Posting: Victorian Periodicals Review Associate Editor (Application Deadline: 12/15/25) navsa.org/News/13568271
NAVSA - Job Posting: Victorian Periodicals Review Associate Editor (Application Deadline: 12/15/25)
navsa.org

Reposted by Daniel W. Drezner, Talia Schaffer, Aviel Roshwald

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Kerim Friedman 傅可恩 @kerim.one · Nov 23
"Penn does not maintain information on employees’ religion"

Gift link to article. Link to petition supporting Penn's refusal to collect and hand over this information below.
Federal Suit Seeking Names of Some Jewish Employees at Penn Sparks Backlash
www.nytimes.com

Reposted by Scott C. Doney, Melanie C. Green, Andrew Jacobs , and 2 more

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Janet Spittler @janetspittler.bsky.social · Nov 20
Teaching post-doc position in UVa’s College, renewable for up to three years total. Apply!
Post-doctoral Research Associate and Lecturer - Engagements, College of Arts & Sciences in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America | Research at University of Virginia
Apply for Post-doctoral Research Associate and Lecturer - Engagements, College of Arts & Sciences job with University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America. Research at Un...
jobs.virginia.edu

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Shannon K. Supple @mazarine.bsky.social · Nov 19
JOB POSTING!

Andrew W. Mellon Curator of Rare Books and Prints at the @folger.edu

amherst.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/FSL_Em...
Andrew W. Mellon Curator of Rare Books and Prints
The Folger Shakespeare Library knows that an exceptional staff is the backbone of any great organization. We hire exceptionally qualified individuals who are committed to the mission, vision, and valu...
amherst.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com

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Victorian Web @victorianweb.bsky.social · Nov 18
Wonderful #Tiles in the chancel at St Oswald's, Ashbourne, part of the refitting by George Gilbert Scott. Such intricate patterns, & a fascinating study of them by Rita Wood! victorianweb.org/art/design/c...
Rows of crisscrossing slanted squares separating intricate patterns of golden flowers and foliage in studded circular frames.

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · Nov 17
"[admin]...who regard the...students of their own universities with such contempt as to be undeserving of the education that in many cases those administrators themselves, or their parents, or their children received...are an enemy of the educational enterprise"

🎁 link

www.wsj.com/opinion/mont...
Opinion | Montclair State’s Inhumanity to the Humanities
Goodbye, English department. Hello, Institute for Complex Systems and Algorithmic Infused Societies.
www.wsj.com

Reposted by Mary Feeney, Dominic Boyer, Talia Schaffer

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New year new mollz @dopestatistics.bsky.social · Nov 16
From a reddit post discussing ICE moving into Charlotte
I live in Chicago, here are some tips for dealing with the Black and Tans: Keep whistles on you to alert the neighborhood of ICE activities. Distribute whistles if you can. Post signage where people are taken, "ICE kidnapped someone here" is a powerful message. Stand firm in crosswalks or use your vehicle to obstruct ICE movement. Invite friends and family from rural areas to enjoy your cities, show them the only violence there is caused by the federal government. Post signage to alert your neighbor of the ICE activity. Record everything they do. Ask for warrants. They won't have one, but making them admit it is important. If they are on your private property, firmly tell them to leave. Sell them nothing and don't let them use restrooms. Protests. Protest. Protest. Every delay is a life saved. Remember, people aren't being deported, they are going missing.

Reposted by Pamela K. Gilbert

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Talia Schaffer @taliaschaffer.bsky.social · Nov 14
Behold the tragicomic catastrophe at Montclair State as their admin tries to replace departments with vacuous corporate pablum, for reasons even they don't understand. Adam Rzepka is blazing on this: academeblog.org/2025/11/13/t...
The Eternal Synergy of the Spotless Mind
BY ADAM RZEPKA A large public university is wiping out all of its humanities departments. It isn’t sure why. As I write this, our Interim Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHSS…
academeblog.org

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Talia Schaffer @taliaschaffer.bsky.social · Nov 11
Need some Austen in your December? Try this symposium! udel.libcal.com/event/15550706
Jane Austen Now: A Saturday Symposium
“It is a truth universally acknowledged …” that an academic research library in possession of a first edition of Pride and Prejudice … “must be in want of …” a celebration of the...
udel.libcal.com

Reposted by Lesley A. Hall, Lieven Ameel, Talia Schaffer

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Andrea Kaston Tange @aktange.bsky.social · Nov 10
If you or anyone you know would be interested in a GREAT Victorian studies conference in the spring, here's the CFP. Proposals due Dec 6. Especially let anyone within driving distance of Cincinnati know! The lovely @nathankhensley.bsky.social will be keynote speaker. midwestvictorian.org/conference/
Conference
“The Underground: Prohibition, Abolition, Expression”2026 Call for Papers April 10-12, 2026, hosted by Xavier University, Cincinnati, Ohio. Baker Street Station on the Metropolitan Railway, 1863 &#…
midwestvictorian.org

Reposted by Michael T. Meyer, Talia Schaffer

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Thom Sanger @thomsanger.bsky.social · Nov 7
The Dept of Biology at Loyola University. Chicago has an open lecturer position in Gender, Sexuality, and the Biology of Sex. The successful candidate will have a 50% affiliation with the Women's Studies and Gender Studies program and 50% Dept of Biology.
www.careers.luc.edu/postings/34131
Biology and Women’s Studies and Gender Studies, Lecturer (Gender, Sexuality, and the Biology of Sex ), Non-Tenure track
Salary Range: $65,000 - $75,000Benefits Information: https://www.luc.edu/hr/benefits/The Department of Biology and the Women’s Studies and Gender Studies (WSGS) Program in the College of Arts and Scie...
www.careers.luc.edu

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Talia Schaffer @taliaschaffer.bsky.social · Nov 1
ok, this is worth being on Bsky for
victorianmasc.bsky.social Dr Laura Eastlake @victorianmasc.bsky.social · Nov 10
In Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897), Dr Seward’s journals are famously ‘Kept in Phonograph’. Join me for a nerdy deep dive in which I, brandishing back-of-an-envelope math, calculate the cost of Seward's phonograph habit, & encounter a creature more uncanny than Dracula himself! 1/14 #Gothic
Edison phonograph machine Famous yellow cover of Dracula (1897)

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Duncan Bell @duncanbell.bsky.social · Nov 1
JOB
Assistant Professor in the History of Knowledge Pre-1400,
University of Cambridge

www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...
Assistant Professor in History of Knowledge Pre-1400
Applications are invited for the position of Assistant Professor in History of Knowledge Pre-1400, in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge. Please note
www.cam.ac.uk

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Oct 29
honestly the only piece worth reading on the platner situation. @tressiemcphd.bsky.social is absolutely cooking here. (gift link)
Opinion | A Nazi Tattoo Exposes Democrats’ Greatest Weakness
www.nytimes.com

Reposted by Michelle L. Mazurek, Talia Schaffer

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Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studie @wgss-umd.bsky.social · Oct 28
The Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies is hiring an Assistant/Associate Professor in Black Feminisms. Read more about the position and apply at https://go.umd.edu/WGSSBlackFeminisms🌈🎓 #AcademicSky #Blackademics #PhDSky

Reposted by Talia Schaffer

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NAVSA @navsa.bsky.social · Oct 28
Event: Victorianist Writing Retreat at Dickens Universe 2026 (Application Deadline: 12/1/25) navsa.org/News/13556934
NAVSA - Event: Victorianist Writing Retreat at Dickens Universe 2026 (Application Deadline: 12/1/25)
navsa.org

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Talia Schaffer @taliaschaffer.bsky.social · Oct 26
Pretty much, only every JE critic thinks they know exactly wtf and needs to explain it

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Talia Schaffer @taliaschaffer.bsky.social · Oct 26
WTF is exactly the appropriate critical reaction to that scene

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Talia Schaffer @taliaschaffer.bsky.social · Oct 26
If you're an independent scholar, faculty, high school teacher, or alt-ac professional, check out this beautiful opportunity at Dickens Universe! dickens.ucsc.edu/vwr/
Victorianist Writing Retreat – The Dickens Project
dickens.ucsc.edu

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · Oct 23
Here are the companies destroying the east wing of the White House

Reposted by Suresh Venkatasubramanian, Michael D. McDonald, Talia Schaffer

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capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · Oct 20
Many people are outraged that Trump is demolishing part of the White House. But of course Trump can't do it without help. It's ACECO LLC of Silver Spring MD ("full-service demolition") that is tearing down the People's House. You can call them and let them know how you feel. 1/

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · Oct 18
This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings