Anna Gibson
@annagk.bsky.social
Victorianist, English prof, Dickens Notes co-editor, novel fiend, Brit.
Teaching with Dickens’s working notes or about his compositional process? Consider submitting materials to the Dickens Notes Project!
CFP: Teaching Dickens’s Compositional Process & Serial Form (Submission Deadline: 1/31/26) bit.ly/3HLOtmX
CFP: Teaching Dickens’s Compositional Process & Serial Form (Submission Deadline: 1/31/26) | NAVSA
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August 26, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Teaching with Dickens’s working notes or about his compositional process? Consider submitting materials to the Dickens Notes Project!
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teachers!
excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone.
take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE
against-a-i.com
excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone.
take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE
against-a-i.com
AGAINST AI
against-a-i.com
August 15, 2025 at 5:39 PM
teachers!
excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone.
take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE
against-a-i.com
excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone.
take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE
against-a-i.com
Thwarted in my evening reading. @nathankhensley.bsky.social, my cat is a fan 😁😻
June 20, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Thwarted in my evening reading. @nathankhensley.bsky.social, my cat is a fan 😁😻
I don’t think we really need EEG to tell us that outsourcing thinking to AI decreases learning in writing tasks, but I suppose we can hope that studies like this *might* check the institutional bandwagoning. arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...
arxiv.org
June 16, 2025 at 2:38 PM
I don’t think we really need EEG to tell us that outsourcing thinking to AI decreases learning in writing tasks, but I suppose we can hope that studies like this *might* check the institutional bandwagoning. arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...
These kind of ChatGPT performances are like having conversations with a sociopath. It lies so confidently—such a symptom of our current times, except with these odd extended apologies.
Diabolus Ex Machina
This Is Not An Essay
open.substack.com
June 4, 2025 at 2:42 PM
These kind of ChatGPT performances are like having conversations with a sociopath. It lies so confidently—such a symptom of our current times, except with these odd extended apologies.
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Last night I had the pleasure of hearing @annagk.bsky.social talk to our Dickens postgraduates about www.dickensnotes.com - a fantastic open access resource showing Dickens's working notes for his novels. Highly recommended!
Digital Dickens Notes Project
The Digital Dickens Notes Project is an exploration of Charles Dickens's Working Notes
www.dickensnotes.com
April 18, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Last night I had the pleasure of hearing @annagk.bsky.social talk to our Dickens postgraduates about www.dickensnotes.com - a fantastic open access resource showing Dickens's working notes for his novels. Highly recommended!
Devastating
Cultural groups across U.S. told that federal humanities grants are terminated
Among the thousands of groups affected by the sudden cessation of funds are state arts councils, museums, historic sites, archives, libraries, educators and media outlets in all 50 states.
www.npr.org
April 3, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Devastating
"Al Gurad did not understand why his visa was terminated and the State Department had not provided a reason for the decision."
Two NC State students leave U.S. after visas terminated
Two NC State graduate students left the U.S. after the State Department revoked their visas. The University was not notified beforehand but offered support.
www.technicianonline.com
April 2, 2025 at 8:13 PM
"Al Gurad did not understand why his visa was terminated and the State Department had not provided a reason for the decision."
Devastating. For those of us waiting for the result of grant applications, and for those who have active or awarded grants, this is just awful. But the impact of this move will be pervasive and long-lasting.
On Monday, March 31, 2025 we learned that DOGE is targeting the NEH with the aim of substantially reducing its staff, cutting the agency’s grant programs, and rescinding grants that have already been awarded.
Learn what steps you can take here: nhalliance.org/federal-fund...
Learn what steps you can take here: nhalliance.org/federal-fund...
Save the NEH! – National Humanities Alliance
nhalliance.org
April 2, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Devastating. For those of us waiting for the result of grant applications, and for those who have active or awarded grants, this is just awful. But the impact of this move will be pervasive and long-lasting.
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ACH has confirmed reports that DOGE is at the NEH. Chair Shelly C. Lowe has been replaced by Acting Chair Michael McDonald. ACH remains committed to a diverse, inclusive, and supportive DH. To engage in advocacy efforts: secretary@ach.org. Read our statement of support for NEH: buff.ly/bQeRaGw
March 12, 2025 at 4:31 PM
ACH has confirmed reports that DOGE is at the NEH. Chair Shelly C. Lowe has been replaced by Acting Chair Michael McDonald. ACH remains committed to a diverse, inclusive, and supportive DH. To engage in advocacy efforts: secretary@ach.org. Read our statement of support for NEH: buff.ly/bQeRaGw
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Scientists and journalists need to figure out right quick how to explain to the average person how a massive change in research indirects will impact the medical care they and their children get (eg at the local children’s hospital), the education their children will get, the price of tuition, etc.
February 8, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Scientists and journalists need to figure out right quick how to explain to the average person how a massive change in research indirects will impact the medical care they and their children get (eg at the local children’s hospital), the education their children will get, the price of tuition, etc.
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This is a very helpful thread re: the slashing of overhead rates on NIH grants. It is an atrocity and, as OP states, an attempt to decimate higher ed. This guidance goes into effect immediately, affecting not only future but also current grants, which is to say current university budgets.
1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%.
I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters.
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters.
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
NOT-OD-25-068: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates NOT-OD-25-068. OD
grants.nih.gov
February 8, 2025 at 1:27 AM
This is a very helpful thread re: the slashing of overhead rates on NIH grants. It is an atrocity and, as OP states, an attempt to decimate higher ed. This guidance goes into effect immediately, affecting not only future but also current grants, which is to say current university budgets.
Everything is bleak. But my Brit Lit survey students are writing about why The History of Mary Prince matters in 2025, and they are giving me hope.
February 4, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Everything is bleak. But my Brit Lit survey students are writing about why The History of Mary Prince matters in 2025, and they are giving me hope.
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For me the scariest thing about week 1 (and the transition) has been precisely this phenomenon of “anticipatory obedience”; institutions are showing us the thinness of their commitment to values they previously claimed to hold
January 26, 2025 at 1:07 PM
For me the scariest thing about week 1 (and the transition) has been precisely this phenomenon of “anticipatory obedience”; institutions are showing us the thinness of their commitment to values they previously claimed to hold
Best "Neo-Victorian" novels to teach: go!
I'm teaching a grad class ("Re-Forming Victorian Lit") next semester. I want to end with a 21st-C novel that's explicitly taking up/engaging with Victorian forms. Ideally not centered solely on white British characters. Course description in thread.
I'm teaching a grad class ("Re-Forming Victorian Lit") next semester. I want to end with a 21st-C novel that's explicitly taking up/engaging with Victorian forms. Ideally not centered solely on white British characters. Course description in thread.
November 15, 2024 at 1:45 AM
Best "Neo-Victorian" novels to teach: go!
I'm teaching a grad class ("Re-Forming Victorian Lit") next semester. I want to end with a 21st-C novel that's explicitly taking up/engaging with Victorian forms. Ideally not centered solely on white British characters. Course description in thread.
I'm teaching a grad class ("Re-Forming Victorian Lit") next semester. I want to end with a 21st-C novel that's explicitly taking up/engaging with Victorian forms. Ideally not centered solely on white British characters. Course description in thread.
Yay @emmadavenport.bsky.social ! Can’t wait to read this!
Delighted to announce that @emmadavenport.bsky.social is the inaugural winner of Victorian Poetry’s early career prize! Watch for her brilliant essay, “Crediting Women’s Poetic Labor: _Paradise Lost_ and Toru Dutt’s ‘Our Casuarina Tree’.” Read more abt it below or in the alt-text. Congrats, Emma! ✨
November 14, 2024 at 12:32 AM
Yay @emmadavenport.bsky.social ! Can’t wait to read this!
It’s busy in here! This list o’ lists is super helpful for finding your people in the midst of this academic social media migration.
Looking for people to follow? Here’s a directory of 4,500 starter packs which you can search by keyword! blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack...
All - Bluesky Directory
A curated collection of all things relating to the Blue Sky social media platform.
blueskydirectory.com
November 10, 2024 at 7:44 PM
It’s busy in here! This list o’ lists is super helpful for finding your people in the midst of this academic social media migration.
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* Digital Dickens Notes Project, an online critical edition of the working notes Charles Dickens used during serial composition of his novels, directed by @annagk.bsky.social and @adamgrener.bsky.social, and reviewed by Beverly Park Rilett #ReviewsInDH reviewsindh.pubpub.org/pub/digital-...
Review: Digital Dickens Notes Project
A review of Digital Dickens Notes Project, an online critical edition of the working notes Charles Dickens used during serial composition of his novels, directed by Anna Gibson and Adam Grener
reviewsindh.pubpub.org
September 30, 2024 at 1:53 PM
* Digital Dickens Notes Project, an online critical edition of the working notes Charles Dickens used during serial composition of his novels, directed by @annagk.bsky.social and @adamgrener.bsky.social, and reviewed by Beverly Park Rilett #ReviewsInDH reviewsindh.pubpub.org/pub/digital-...
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Grateful to the Digital Scholarship and Publishing Studio at the University of Iowa for the opportunity to share the dickensnotes.com project @annagk.bsky.social and I direct--excited to connect with the DH community here over the next few days!
Digital Dickens Notes Project
The Digital Dickens Notes Project is an exploration of Charles Dickens's Working Notes
dickensnotes.com
November 15, 2023 at 3:39 PM
Grateful to the Digital Scholarship and Publishing Studio at the University of Iowa for the opportunity to share the dickensnotes.com project @annagk.bsky.social and I direct--excited to connect with the DH community here over the next few days!
Planning a Serials & Storylines seminar next semester. What are the most narratively intriguing serial tv shows you've watched recently? Which shows have you taught (esp. paired with 19thC texts) that worked well?
November 14, 2023 at 7:21 PM
Planning a Serials & Storylines seminar next semester. What are the most narratively intriguing serial tv shows you've watched recently? Which shows have you taught (esp. paired with 19thC texts) that worked well?
@adamgrener.bsky.social & I are excited to share the latest version of the Digital Dickens Notes Project. Check out our transcriptions, annotations, and introductions to Dickens's Working Notes @ www.dickensnotes.com. There's heaps of new material for Little Dorrit & Hard Times.
Digital Dickens Notes Project
The Digital Dickens Notes Project is an exploration of Charles Dickens's Working Notes
www.dickensnotes.com
November 6, 2023 at 6:27 PM
@adamgrener.bsky.social & I are excited to share the latest version of the Digital Dickens Notes Project. Check out our transcriptions, annotations, and introductions to Dickens's Working Notes @ www.dickensnotes.com. There's heaps of new material for Little Dorrit & Hard Times.
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Why Majoring in the Humanities Can Be A Great Career Move | U.S. News
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October 7, 2023 at 6:31 PM
Why Majoring in the Humanities Can Be A Great Career Move | U.S. News
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