Busra Copuroglu
buscopur.bsky.social
Busra Copuroglu
@buscopur.bsky.social
The University of Western Ontario, Comparative Literature, Ph.D. Research on boredom in modern literature; European & Turkish Lit.
https://post45.org/sections/contemporaries-essays/bored-as-hell/
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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
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
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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
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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

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Turning Your Dissertation into a Book
YouTube video by The Samuel DeWitt Proctor Institute (The Proctor Institute)
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October 30, 2025 at 3:41 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.
October 10, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Comparative Literature - Assistant Professor (Theory, Modern French literature and Spanish-language literatures of Latin America) - Université de Montréal

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(I don't know Spanish 😭 someone get this and hire me for a different/similar position?)
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October 8, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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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
October 1, 2025 at 8:50 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/)
September 30, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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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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September 29, 2025 at 3:27 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...
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
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.
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Georges Didi-Huberman: «Les emocions són inclassificables»
YouTube video by CCCB
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August 11, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Would make a good AppleTV series. very interesting novel.
August 3, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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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
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Cambridge Üniversitesi’nden Mete Atatüre, köyümüzdeki etkinlikte edindiği gözlemleri aktarıyor: 'Buranın işleyişi fikren de bana çok yakın. Katılımcı, ortak üretim fikrini burada deneyimlemiş olduk.'

#bilimlerköyü
#villageofsciences
July 17, 2025 at 10:49 AM
finished SILO on Apple TV -- very underrated show, i loved it! a lot to think about isolation and aesthetics of isolation.
July 19, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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In the early modern Ottoman Empire, the most valued tulips featured long, pointed petals and slender forms in contrast to the rounded varieties preferred in Europe. 🌷
July 15, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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The book’s intro is ready to go…

The final title might still change slightly, but for now it’s:

“Uncertain Knowledge: The Science of Making Relevance between the Ottoman Empire and Early Modern Europe”
July 12, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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new! REALISM AND THE NOVEL: A GLOBAL HISTORY

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Realism and the Novel | Cambridge University Press & Assessment
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June 26, 2025 at 9:09 PM
July 10, 2025 at 1:06 AM
just wanted to share that i've just submitted my diss. and i don't know how to be in the world. and i'm scared that something will go wrong. the image below is from our Bored As Hell essay cluster.
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July 9, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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For this week's @thetls.bsky.social, I wrote about Christina of Markyate, medieval wonder woman and visionary management consultant:

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Medieval management theory
Did medieval people really believe all those miracle stories they wrote down? Years ago, when I was just beginning graduate school, the medievalist Steven
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June 26, 2025 at 9:22 PM
terrible revision day 16 days before my diss submission date. i have a weak chapter. need to hear stories of ppl having weak diss chapters.
June 24, 2025 at 11:29 PM
does one include the sources mentioned in the footnote in the biblio of one's dissertation? e.g.: I wrote a footnote to provide additional context to my argument & cited a source in the footnote. Do I include that source in my biblio OR do I only write sources I cited in the body of the writing?
June 19, 2025 at 12:01 AM