Busra Copuroglu
@buscopur.bsky.social
Western University, Comparative Literature, Ph.D. Research on boredom in modern literature
https://post45.org/sections/contemporaries-essays/bored-as-hell/
https://post45.org/sections/contemporaries-essays/bored-as-hell/
there is an essay for and about everything @atpost45.bsky.social and @post45.bsky.social. Today, as I was looking for sources on blurb economy, I found this: post45.org/2018/11/the-...
The Literary Blurb Economy – Post45
Michael Maguire
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January 16, 2026 at 5:05 PM
there is an essay for and about everything @atpost45.bsky.social and @post45.bsky.social. Today, as I was looking for sources on blurb economy, I found this: post45.org/2018/11/the-...
Got your book through interlibrary loans today! The size is so cute!!! @seeshespeak.bsky.social
January 9, 2026 at 8:47 PM
Got your book through interlibrary loans today! The size is so cute!!! @seeshespeak.bsky.social
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"Record numbers of Swedish retirees are enrolling in a university run “by pensioners for pensioners” amid increased loneliness and a growing appetite for learning and in-person interactions."
"Record numbers of Swedish retirees are enrolling in a university run “by pensioners for pensioners” amid increased loneliness and a growing appetite for learning and in-person interactions."
‘Keeps your mind alert’: older Swedes reap the benefits of learning for pleasure
Retirees with ‘fantastic hunger for education’ taking part in university organised events in record numbers
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December 26, 2025 at 1:00 PM
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
"Record numbers of Swedish retirees are enrolling in a university run “by pensioners for pensioners” amid increased loneliness and a growing appetite for learning and in-person interactions."
"Record numbers of Swedish retirees are enrolling in a university run “by pensioners for pensioners” amid increased loneliness and a growing appetite for learning and in-person interactions."
just watched episode 7 of Pluribus - i think it's one of the best explorations of deep loneliness depicted in and through silence. i think anyone (or only those who have) who has experienced it that deeply in their everyday life would appreciate it.
December 26, 2025 at 4:29 AM
just watched episode 7 of Pluribus - i think it's one of the best explorations of deep loneliness depicted in and through silence. i think anyone (or only those who have) who has experienced it that deeply in their everyday life would appreciate it.
Looking for recommendations while I have limited discount subscription: Any good Apple TV series? So far watched Severance, The Studio, Down Cemetery Road, Pluribus, Slow Horses, Silo and loved them.
December 25, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Looking for recommendations while I have limited discount subscription: Any good Apple TV series? So far watched Severance, The Studio, Down Cemetery Road, Pluribus, Slow Horses, Silo and loved them.
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AI and LLMs trend towards sameness of expression - it might just make us all more boring!
www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/the-...
www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/the-...
Is AI Making Us Boring?
AI works by predicting the most likely next thing, but in doing so, it risks becoming predictable and monotonous—and so do we if we rely too much on the tool.
www.psychologytoday.com
December 19, 2025 at 4:26 PM
AI and LLMs trend towards sameness of expression - it might just make us all more boring!
www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/the-...
www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/the-...
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With Alex Dunst, I edited a special issue on the question of literary value. Silkworms, angels, utopias, Edouard Louis, Thomas Pynchon, and much more.
www.boundary2.org/2025/12/alex...
www.boundary2.org/2025/12/alex...
Alexander Dunst and Pieter Vermeulen–The Question of Literary Value: An Introduction
This article is part of the b2o: an online journal special issue “The Question of Literary Value”, edited by Alexander Dunst and Pieter Vermeulen. The Question of Literary Value: An Introduction Alexa...
www.boundary2.org
December 22, 2025 at 4:24 PM
With Alex Dunst, I edited a special issue on the question of literary value. Silkworms, angels, utopias, Edouard Louis, Thomas Pynchon, and much more.
www.boundary2.org/2025/12/alex...
www.boundary2.org/2025/12/alex...
When music becomes a—if not the main—character. I love the part where they walk down the stairs with the film’s hypnotic ost blasting in the background. I still think about this film (don’t read or watch interviews before seeing the film — you will get major spoilers). youtu.be/H1hHEI2UIe0?...
SIRÂT - Rang I - Version Originale - Cannes 2025
YouTube video by Festival de Cannes
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December 20, 2025 at 8:15 PM
When music becomes a—if not the main—character. I love the part where they walk down the stairs with the film’s hypnotic ost blasting in the background. I still think about this film (don’t read or watch interviews before seeing the film — you will get major spoilers). youtu.be/H1hHEI2UIe0?...
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Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
December 15, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
TDK, 2024 yilinin kelimesi/kavrami: kalabalik yalnizlik.
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2024, word of the year in Turkish "kalabalik yalnizlik" - difficult to translate, but something that would mean loneliness in the crowd or crowded loneliness (not proud of my translation skills atm)
tdk.gov.tr/icerik/basin...
2024, word of the year in Turkish "kalabalik yalnizlik" - difficult to translate, but something that would mean loneliness in the crowd or crowded loneliness (not proud of my translation skills atm)
2024 Yılının Kelimesi/Kavramı: “Kalabalık Yalnızlık” – Türk Dil Kurumu
tdk.gov.tr
December 1, 2025 at 3:43 AM
TDK, 2024 yilinin kelimesi/kavrami: kalabalik yalnizlik.
tdk.gov.tr/icerik/basin...
2024, word of the year in Turkish "kalabalik yalnizlik" - difficult to translate, but something that would mean loneliness in the crowd or crowded loneliness (not proud of my translation skills atm)
tdk.gov.tr/icerik/basin...
2024, word of the year in Turkish "kalabalik yalnizlik" - difficult to translate, but something that would mean loneliness in the crowd or crowded loneliness (not proud of my translation skills atm)
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Important news: the deadline for the joint BAMS/MSA conference in Loughborough has been extended to December 29, 2025! You can review the CFP, and find links to the submission platform, here. www.moderniststudies.org/conference/M...
The Modernist Studies Association is devoted to the study of the arts in their social, political, cultural, and intellectual contexts from the later nineteenth through the mid-twentieth century. The o...
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November 20, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Important news: the deadline for the joint BAMS/MSA conference in Loughborough has been extended to December 29, 2025! You can review the CFP, and find links to the submission platform, here. www.moderniststudies.org/conference/M...
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💫 My book is finally in print! Immensely grateful to all my colleagues and to @emilysharp.bsky.social , @elizabethfr.bsky.social, and the whole team at @edinburghup.bsky.social for their support throughout the writing, revision, and publication process! 🚨
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November 7, 2025 at 1:15 PM
💫 My book is finally in print! Immensely grateful to all my colleagues and to @emilysharp.bsky.social , @elizabethfr.bsky.social, and the whole team at @edinburghup.bsky.social for their support throughout the writing, revision, and publication process! 🚨
(For a 30% discount, use code NEW30)
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just watched Oliver Laxe's SIRAT. It shakes you to the core, stays w/you, hypnotizes you. Profound sadness, hopeless pursuit of hope & helpless resignation to hopelessness masterfully combined. The political background is nicely inserted. Captivating ambiance. Intense, jarring, memorable.
November 3, 2025 at 12:44 AM
just watched Oliver Laxe's SIRAT. It shakes you to the core, stays w/you, hypnotizes you. Profound sadness, hopeless pursuit of hope & helpless resignation to hopelessness masterfully combined. The political background is nicely inserted. Captivating ambiance. Intense, jarring, memorable.
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Thrilled to announce my new book (electronic version out now, print next month) — it proposes a new value theory grounded in the longue durée of literary institutions, 1800–present.
October 29, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Thrilled to announce my new book (electronic version out now, print next month) — it proposes a new value theory grounded in the longue durée of literary institutions, 1800–present.
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FYI1: The superb webinar "Turning your Dissertation into a Book" is up!
FYI2: It's the 1st for "Publishing with University Presses Webinar Series" co-sponsored by @aupresses.bsky.social (HT, Faculty Outreach Committee) and hosted by Rutgers CMSI. #ReadUP #PublishUP
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SST...
FYI2: It's the 1st for "Publishing with University Presses Webinar Series" co-sponsored by @aupresses.bsky.social (HT, Faculty Outreach Committee) and hosted by Rutgers CMSI. #ReadUP #PublishUP
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SST...
Turning Your Dissertation into a Book
YouTube video by The Samuel DeWitt Proctor Institute (The Proctor Institute)
www.youtube.com
October 30, 2025 at 3:41 PM
FYI1: The superb webinar "Turning your Dissertation into a Book" is up!
FYI2: It's the 1st for "Publishing with University Presses Webinar Series" co-sponsored by @aupresses.bsky.social (HT, Faculty Outreach Committee) and hosted by Rutgers CMSI. #ReadUP #PublishUP
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SST...
FYI2: It's the 1st for "Publishing with University Presses Webinar Series" co-sponsored by @aupresses.bsky.social (HT, Faculty Outreach Committee) and hosted by Rutgers CMSI. #ReadUP #PublishUP
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SST...
I'll be taking a break from social media for a while (starting tomorrow) and I won't be checking my messages here often. But I have been using the messages function &would like to be able to keep in touch with people I have connected with here. So, if there is anything, please feel free to email me.
October 10, 2025 at 11:26 PM
I'll be taking a break from social media for a while (starting tomorrow) and I won't be checking my messages here often. But I have been using the messages function &would like to be able to keep in touch with people I have connected with here. So, if there is anything, please feel free to email me.
Comparative Literature - Assistant Professor (Theory, Modern French literature and Spanish-language literatures of Latin America) - Université de Montréal
universityaffairs.ca/search-job/?...
(I don't know Spanish 😭 someone get this and hire me for a different/similar position?)
universityaffairs.ca/search-job/?...
(I don't know Spanish 😭 someone get this and hire me for a different/similar position?)
Search Jobs - University Affairs
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October 8, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Comparative Literature - Assistant Professor (Theory, Modern French literature and Spanish-language literatures of Latin America) - Université de Montréal
universityaffairs.ca/search-job/?...
(I don't know Spanish 😭 someone get this and hire me for a different/similar position?)
universityaffairs.ca/search-job/?...
(I don't know Spanish 😭 someone get this and hire me for a different/similar position?)
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Unique opportunity for postdocs from the University Alliance Ruhr #UARuhr working in the social sciences and/or the humanities: with its #PostdocLab programme, the College for Social Sciences and Humanities offers funding for cross-university working groups.
🔔 Call: www.college-uaruhr.de/postdoclab
🔔 Call: www.college-uaruhr.de/postdoclab
October 1, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Unique opportunity for postdocs from the University Alliance Ruhr #UARuhr working in the social sciences and/or the humanities: with its #PostdocLab programme, the College for Social Sciences and Humanities offers funding for cross-university working groups.
🔔 Call: www.college-uaruhr.de/postdoclab
🔔 Call: www.college-uaruhr.de/postdoclab
I have finished my PhD (with a diss titled "Bored As Hell: Reading Boredom in Modern Literature) a month ago & am now officially in my post-PhD stress era, currently gathering info & looking for PostDoc fellowships--and ofc, needless to say, ideally FT/TT positions. (1/)
September 30, 2025 at 12:43 AM
I have finished my PhD (with a diss titled "Bored As Hell: Reading Boredom in Modern Literature) a month ago & am now officially in my post-PhD stress era, currently gathering info & looking for PostDoc fellowships--and ofc, needless to say, ideally FT/TT positions. (1/)
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Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month
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JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month
www.jstor.org/action/showL...
September 29, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month
www.jstor.org/action/showL...
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month
www.jstor.org/action/showL...
Associate professorship in German Literature and Culture
at University of South Denmark. (someone get this and then hire me?) - fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
at University of South Denmark. (someone get this and then hire me?) - fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
Associate professorship in German Literature and Culture
The Department of Culture and Language invites applications for an associate professorship in contemporary German literature and culture February 1st, 2026, or as agreed. The successful candidate will...
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September 27, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Associate professorship in German Literature and Culture
at University of South Denmark. (someone get this and then hire me?) - fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
at University of South Denmark. (someone get this and then hire me?) - fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
Latest Georges Didi-Huberman. This time as a curator of the exhibition, “In the Troubled Air… Image, emotion, utopia": "he questions the nature of human emotions and argues that emotions do not belong to us, but rather exist in space.
www.cccb.org/en/exhibitio...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tMD...
www.cccb.org/en/exhibitio...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tMD...
Georges Didi-Huberman: «Les emocions són inclassificables»
YouTube video by CCCB
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August 11, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Latest Georges Didi-Huberman. This time as a curator of the exhibition, “In the Troubled Air… Image, emotion, utopia": "he questions the nature of human emotions and argues that emotions do not belong to us, but rather exist in space.
www.cccb.org/en/exhibitio...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tMD...
www.cccb.org/en/exhibitio...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tMD...
Would make a good AppleTV series. very interesting novel.
August 3, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Would make a good AppleTV series. very interesting novel.
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Now that I have a dachshund I think I’m obligated to get this tattoo.
August 2, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Now that I have a dachshund I think I’m obligated to get this tattoo.