Emily Banks
@emilyabanks.bsky.social
Poet; author of Mother Water (Lynx House Press, 2020). Scholar of American gothic literature & Shirley Jackson. Assistant Professor at Franklin College.
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Watching Stranger Things like WHO TF IS MADELINE
December 29, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Watching Stranger Things like WHO TF IS MADELINE
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✨ New CFP ✨ We're planning for two panels at the American Literature Association's annual conference in Chicago, May 20-23. Submit abstracts for "Jackson in an Age of Anxiety" and "Jackson and Animality" by January 15th.
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December 10, 2025 at 2:42 PM
✨ New CFP ✨ We're planning for two panels at the American Literature Association's annual conference in Chicago, May 20-23. Submit abstracts for "Jackson in an Age of Anxiety" and "Jackson and Animality" by January 15th.
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americanliteratureassociation.org/wp-content/u...
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DEADLINE EXTENDED! Submit by February 1st.
🤡New Shirely Jackson Studies CFP!!!🎃 Submit your abstract for Vol. 4, Issue 1, "Jackson and Animality" by December 15th!
shirleyjacksonstudies.org?page_id=35
shirleyjacksonstudies.org?page_id=35
Call for Submissions - Shirley Jackson Studies
Call for Proposals for Vol. 4, Issue 1--Jackson & Animality [deadline Dec. 15, 2025] Jonas, Merricat’s feline companion in We Have Always Lived in the Castle, is possibly the most recognizable animal ...
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December 16, 2025 at 4:56 PM
DEADLINE EXTENDED! Submit by February 1st.
Two new poems in @newohioreview.bsky.social!
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The Algorithm Sells Me a New Bra
By Emily Banks Hate bras? This is the bra for you.I can’t gatekeep. I hadn’t worn a bra in yearsbut this changed me. Are you a memberof the Itty Bitty Titty Club (IBTC)?Well it’s here finally, a br…
newohioreview.org
December 15, 2025 at 4:58 PM
The absolute joy I feel when I start reading a student's paper and encounter the normal grammatical errors.
December 9, 2025 at 7:32 PM
The absolute joy I feel when I start reading a student's paper and encounter the normal grammatical errors.
Also, all you profs who were grading strictly on grammar and style, I hope you're happy! I'm at a point where I basically cry tears of joy when I see a paragraph full of comma splices, misplaced modifers, and Edgar "Allen" Poe.
November 23, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Also, all you profs who were grading strictly on grammar and style, I hope you're happy! I'm at a point where I basically cry tears of joy when I see a paragraph full of comma splices, misplaced modifers, and Edgar "Allen" Poe.
I am sorry that I ever complained about grading before AI. Please can we just have that back I'll be so much more grateful
November 23, 2025 at 4:37 AM
I am sorry that I ever complained about grading before AI. Please can we just have that back I'll be so much more grateful
Blame can be shared ya know... I was just responding to a specific person who was very proud of not voting in 2024
November 11, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Blame can be shared ya know... I was just responding to a specific person who was very proud of not voting in 2024
Stronger margins wouldn't have hurt
November 10, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Stronger margins wouldn't have hurt
ummm the person I was responding to was & that was my whole point
November 10, 2025 at 3:16 PM
ummm the person I was responding to was & that was my whole point
lol I have a job but have fun y'all
November 6, 2025 at 3:18 PM
lol I have a job but have fun y'all
I'm not saying it was primarily the fault of leftists in either case, and I am also a leftist, but gloating about not voting for Kamala given everything happening as a result is an insane position of privilege
November 6, 2025 at 2:45 PM
I'm not saying it was primarily the fault of leftists in either case, and I am also a leftist, but gloating about not voting for Kamala given everything happening as a result is an insane position of privilege
Dick Cheney would never have been in power if more leftists had sucked it up and voted for an establishment Democrat....
November 4, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Dick Cheney would never have been in power if more leftists had sucked it up and voted for an establishment Democrat....
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🤡New Shirely Jackson Studies CFP!!!🎃 Submit your abstract for Vol. 4, Issue 1, "Jackson and Animality" by December 15th!
shirleyjacksonstudies.org?page_id=35
shirleyjacksonstudies.org?page_id=35
Call for Submissions - Shirley Jackson Studies
Call for Proposals for Vol. 4, Issue 1--Jackson & Animality [deadline Dec. 15, 2025] Jonas, Merricat’s feline companion in We Have Always Lived in the Castle, is possibly the most recognizable animal ...
shirleyjacksonstudies.org
October 7, 2025 at 5:13 PM
🤡New Shirely Jackson Studies CFP!!!🎃 Submit your abstract for Vol. 4, Issue 1, "Jackson and Animality" by December 15th!
shirleyjacksonstudies.org?page_id=35
shirleyjacksonstudies.org?page_id=35
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Reasons to Teach High School English when the World is on Fire
Black girls in advanced academics who write literary analyses about “Their Eyes Were Watching God.” Queer kids who call the English Department The Fruit Factory. Allowables and Legacies by Nikki Giovanni.
Black girls in advanced academics who write literary analyses about “Their Eyes Were Watching God.” Queer kids who call the English Department The Fruit Factory. Allowables and Legacies by Nikki Giovanni.
October 3, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Reasons to Teach High School English when the World is on Fire
Black girls in advanced academics who write literary analyses about “Their Eyes Were Watching God.” Queer kids who call the English Department The Fruit Factory. Allowables and Legacies by Nikki Giovanni.
Black girls in advanced academics who write literary analyses about “Their Eyes Were Watching God.” Queer kids who call the English Department The Fruit Factory. Allowables and Legacies by Nikki Giovanni.
Anti-Zionism is antisemitism, game 2 of the Yankees v. Red Sox Wild Card series on Yom Kippur is antisemitism, all deadlines this week are antisemitism.
September 30, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Anti-Zionism is antisemitism, game 2 of the Yankees v. Red Sox Wild Card series on Yom Kippur is antisemitism, all deadlines this week are antisemitism.
That first sin after tashlich feels like an impulse purchase when you've just paid your credit card bill, I'll face that next cycle
September 25, 2025 at 5:21 AM
That first sin after tashlich feels like an impulse purchase when you've just paid your credit card bill, I'll face that next cycle
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We live in a country where the president can order a comedian to be yanked off TV. What I describe is not a democracy.
September 18, 2025 at 10:57 AM
We live in a country where the president can order a comedian to be yanked off TV. What I describe is not a democracy.
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Interested in joining an SSAG roundtable on Shirley Jackson's The Witchcraft of Salem Village this March? Email ebanks@franklincollege.edu with a few sentences on what you'd like to talk about by next Monday, 9/22! ~5 minute presentations followed by discussion.
americangothicsociety.com/symposium/
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American Nightmares II: Return to Salem – Society for the Study of the American Gothic
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September 15, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Interested in joining an SSAG roundtable on Shirley Jackson's The Witchcraft of Salem Village this March? Email ebanks@franklincollege.edu with a few sentences on what you'd like to talk about by next Monday, 9/22! ~5 minute presentations followed by discussion.
americangothicsociety.com/symposium/
americangothicsociety.com/symposium/
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its 2026. the only legal jobs are ICE agent, AI server farm maintenance, and beef tallow renderer
September 7, 2025 at 4:49 PM
its 2026. the only legal jobs are ICE agent, AI server farm maintenance, and beef tallow renderer
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Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Nature” (1836)
September 4, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Nature” (1836)
Hurting a poet is soo funny like throwing free sacks of flour at a baker
August 31, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Hurting a poet is soo funny like throwing free sacks of flour at a baker