Emma Davenport
@emmadavenport.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at Emory. Victorian lit, legal & political theory, novels.
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In my mailbox today, a book well worth reading.
October 6, 2025 at 5:39 PM
In my mailbox today, a book well worth reading.
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Auckland university is hiring a Lecturer (that’s Assistant Prof for all you Americans) in English, specialising in the long nineteenth century, to a permanent position commencing before Semester 1, 2026 (or by negotiation). Focus is nineteenth century fiction - details below!
Lecturer - English
Company Description: Waipapa Taumata Rau | The University of AucklandThe University of Auckland is New Zealand’s pre-eminent University, with a turnover of $1.1bn, including research revenue of over $...
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October 5, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Auckland university is hiring a Lecturer (that’s Assistant Prof for all you Americans) in English, specialising in the long nineteenth century, to a permanent position commencing before Semester 1, 2026 (or by negotiation). Focus is nineteenth century fiction - details below!
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Last week I learned that the University system is paying for a subscription to Gemini, Google's AI, for all students, and that my purchase of two packages of blue books and a box of pencils has exhausted my office supply budget. Every budget is a moral document.
September 22, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Last week I learned that the University system is paying for a subscription to Gemini, Google's AI, for all students, and that my purchase of two packages of blue books and a box of pencils has exhausted my office supply budget. Every budget is a moral document.
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A tool that signals how far they diverge from an aspirational norm is not that useful for the task of learning that student’s unique entrance into critical thought, and any process that separates me from the difficult work of learning the student’s language is an obstacle to helping them.
September 17, 2025 at 12:50 PM
A tool that signals how far they diverge from an aspirational norm is not that useful for the task of learning that student’s unique entrance into critical thought, and any process that separates me from the difficult work of learning the student’s language is an obstacle to helping them.
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New game: Read, Research, Recycle
(One you read for fun, one you research for years, one you put out with the old paper)
Bleak House, David Copperfield, Our Mutual Friend
(One you read for fun, one you research for years, one you put out with the old paper)
Bleak House, David Copperfield, Our Mutual Friend
August 7, 2025 at 8:20 PM
New game: Read, Research, Recycle
(One you read for fun, one you research for years, one you put out with the old paper)
Bleak House, David Copperfield, Our Mutual Friend
(One you read for fun, one you research for years, one you put out with the old paper)
Bleak House, David Copperfield, Our Mutual Friend
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Look, there are many reasons to admire Joe Buttigieg, but this approach to citation is top 3 at least
August 7, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Look, there are many reasons to admire Joe Buttigieg, but this approach to citation is top 3 at least
Look, there are many reasons to admire Joe Buttigieg, but this approach to citation is top 3 at least
August 7, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Look, there are many reasons to admire Joe Buttigieg, but this approach to citation is top 3 at least
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New podcast! Tobias Wilson-Bates interviews Nathan K. Hensley, author of "Action without Hope: Victorian Literature after Climate Collapse," a study of “how writers from the early phases of our prolonged climate emergency used aesthetic strategies to redefine the category of action.”
Podcasts | Studies in the Novel
Action without Hope
www.studiesinthenovel.org
August 1, 2025 at 4:07 PM
New podcast! Tobias Wilson-Bates interviews Nathan K. Hensley, author of "Action without Hope: Victorian Literature after Climate Collapse," a study of “how writers from the early phases of our prolonged climate emergency used aesthetic strategies to redefine the category of action.”
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The most fun I’ve had talking about ideas in a long time. I’m so grateful to Tobias for leading this wide ranging & (for me) really energizing conversation. He is such a badass— listen for his edited-in list of the 10,000 books on Amazon abt “climate” and “hope,” one by Michael Bloomberg 🤣🙏🌿
It was, quite honestly, the high point of the summer getting to put together this podcast with @nathankhensley.bsky.social for Studies in the Novel on his book ‘Action without Hope’
www.studiesinthenovel.org/interact/pod...
www.studiesinthenovel.org/interact/pod...
Podcasts | Studies in the Novel
Action without Hope
www.studiesinthenovel.org
July 24, 2025 at 12:40 PM
The most fun I’ve had talking about ideas in a long time. I’m so grateful to Tobias for leading this wide ranging & (for me) really energizing conversation. He is such a badass— listen for his edited-in list of the 10,000 books on Amazon abt “climate” and “hope,” one by Michael Bloomberg 🤣🙏🌿
Y'all, listen to @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social's interview of @nathankhensley.bsky.social in this Studies in the Novel podcast! It's fantastic!
www.studiesinthenovel.org/interact/pod...
www.studiesinthenovel.org/interact/pod...
Podcasts | Studies in the Novel
Action without Hope
www.studiesinthenovel.org
July 25, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Y'all, listen to @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social's interview of @nathankhensley.bsky.social in this Studies in the Novel podcast! It's fantastic!
www.studiesinthenovel.org/interact/pod...
www.studiesinthenovel.org/interact/pod...
Sabrina Carpenter, alias Foucault 😍
June 14, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Sabrina Carpenter, alias Foucault 😍
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*Action without Hope: Victorian Literature after Climate Collapse* is out today! The official release got pushed back due to an issue w the art, & despite being mostly about literature it's very visual.
So to celebrate its full entry into the world, a thread of some of my favorite images from it:
So to celebrate its full entry into the world, a thread of some of my favorite images from it:
Action without Hope
A study of how writers from the early phases of our prolonged climate emergency used aesthetic strategies to redefine the category of action. What does it feel like to live helplessly in a world that ...
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June 4, 2025 at 4:23 PM
*Action without Hope: Victorian Literature after Climate Collapse* is out today! The official release got pushed back due to an issue w the art, & despite being mostly about literature it's very visual.
So to celebrate its full entry into the world, a thread of some of my favorite images from it:
So to celebrate its full entry into the world, a thread of some of my favorite images from it:
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May 2, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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atlanta! rolling through friday for Good Enough Art english.emory.edu/news-events/...
Events Calendar
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April 7, 2025 at 6:20 PM
atlanta! rolling through friday for Good Enough Art english.emory.edu/news-events/...
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I'm thrilled to say that to celebrate the launch of my new book, I'll be doing two events in the DC area later this month:
Thurs, 4/24, 6 pm @ People's Book, Takoma Park / @peoplesbooktakoma.com
Sun, 4/27, 3 pm (w/ novelist Rabih Alameddine). Politics & Prose, DC / @politicsprose.bsky.social
🌿
Thurs, 4/24, 6 pm @ People's Book, Takoma Park / @peoplesbooktakoma.com
Sun, 4/27, 3 pm (w/ novelist Rabih Alameddine). Politics & Prose, DC / @politicsprose.bsky.social
🌿
April 5, 2025 at 7:41 PM
I'm thrilled to say that to celebrate the launch of my new book, I'll be doing two events in the DC area later this month:
Thurs, 4/24, 6 pm @ People's Book, Takoma Park / @peoplesbooktakoma.com
Sun, 4/27, 3 pm (w/ novelist Rabih Alameddine). Politics & Prose, DC / @politicsprose.bsky.social
🌿
Thurs, 4/24, 6 pm @ People's Book, Takoma Park / @peoplesbooktakoma.com
Sun, 4/27, 3 pm (w/ novelist Rabih Alameddine). Politics & Prose, DC / @politicsprose.bsky.social
🌿
The Penguin edition of Lydia Davis's (excellent) translation of Madame Bovary:
April 5, 2025 at 3:52 PM
The Penguin edition of Lydia Davis's (excellent) translation of Madame Bovary:
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🚀 Join the #RSVPDigiEvent team April 11 celebrate the publication of /Digital Victorians/ with @pfyfe.bsky.social! We'll convene at our usual time (as we will have all caught up to spring by then) at 8am PT/ 11am ET /4pm UK / 5pm. rs4vp.org/launching-di...
Launching Digital Victorians with Paul Fyfe – RSVP
Join us April 11 to celebrate Paul Fyfe's new monograph, Digital Victorians: From Nineteenth-Century Media to Digital Humanities (2024)!
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March 23, 2025 at 9:32 PM
🚀 Join the #RSVPDigiEvent team April 11 celebrate the publication of /Digital Victorians/ with @pfyfe.bsky.social! We'll convene at our usual time (as we will have all caught up to spring by then) at 8am PT/ 11am ET /4pm UK / 5pm. rs4vp.org/launching-di...
Teaching Robert Browning tomorrow, which means it's time to introduce my students to this all-time banger tweet @ncecire.bsky.social
February 27, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Teaching Robert Browning tomorrow, which means it's time to introduce my students to this all-time banger tweet @ncecire.bsky.social
5 things I did last week:
1. I pluck'd
2. I eat
3. I naught else Regarded
4. I ingorged without restraint
5. I to myself thus pleasingly began
1. I pluck'd
2. I eat
3. I naught else Regarded
4. I ingorged without restraint
5. I to myself thus pleasingly began
February 25, 2025 at 10:11 PM
5 things I did last week:
1. I pluck'd
2. I eat
3. I naught else Regarded
4. I ingorged without restraint
5. I to myself thus pleasingly began
1. I pluck'd
2. I eat
3. I naught else Regarded
4. I ingorged without restraint
5. I to myself thus pleasingly began
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History: “Eventually the incompetent fascists invariably lose power and then society recovers in a new and stronger way”
Me: “Oh, cool, so what has to happen for the spell to be broken??”
History: “mmmm…well, that part is less encouraging.”
Me: “Oh, cool, so what has to happen for the spell to be broken??”
History: “mmmm…well, that part is less encouraging.”
February 18, 2025 at 5:16 PM
History: “Eventually the incompetent fascists invariably lose power and then society recovers in a new and stronger way”
Me: “Oh, cool, so what has to happen for the spell to be broken??”
History: “mmmm…well, that part is less encouraging.”
Me: “Oh, cool, so what has to happen for the spell to be broken??”
History: “mmmm…well, that part is less encouraging.”
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Andrea gives the three canonical options:
A: CAUSE-a-bon
B: ca-SOW-bahn
C: ca-SAW-bun
This platform doesn't do polls, but please vote below so we can get this settled definitively ASAP. I have a whole chapter on *Middlemarch* that I've already written, so I need to learn soon?? 😂😱
A: CAUSE-a-bon
B: ca-SOW-bahn
C: ca-SAW-bun
This platform doesn't do polls, but please vote below so we can get this settled definitively ASAP. I have a whole chapter on *Middlemarch* that I've already written, so I need to learn soon?? 😂😱
oh thank goodness I thought it was just me!
CAUSE-a-bon
ca-SOW-bahn
ca-SAW-bun
I just alternate between them. As would any girl who thought Phoebe was pronounced FO-eeb until she was about eleven, I guess.
CAUSE-a-bon
ca-SOW-bahn
ca-SAW-bun
I just alternate between them. As would any girl who thought Phoebe was pronounced FO-eeb until she was about eleven, I guess.
January 29, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Andrea gives the three canonical options:
A: CAUSE-a-bon
B: ca-SOW-bahn
C: ca-SAW-bun
This platform doesn't do polls, but please vote below so we can get this settled definitively ASAP. I have a whole chapter on *Middlemarch* that I've already written, so I need to learn soon?? 😂😱
A: CAUSE-a-bon
B: ca-SOW-bahn
C: ca-SAW-bun
This platform doesn't do polls, but please vote below so we can get this settled definitively ASAP. I have a whole chapter on *Middlemarch* that I've already written, so I need to learn soon?? 😂😱
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Sublimate your existential terror by crafting an incisive political manifesto enmeshed in a 19th c niche project [AKA The submission portal for NAVSA2025 is now open]
navsa.georgetown.edu/submit-propo...
navsa.georgetown.edu/submit-propo...
January 28, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Sublimate your existential terror by crafting an incisive political manifesto enmeshed in a 19th c niche project [AKA The submission portal for NAVSA2025 is now open]
navsa.georgetown.edu/submit-propo...
navsa.georgetown.edu/submit-propo...
One of the smartest, most delightful people I know, writing about another of the smartest, most delightful people I know! What could be better?!
Really enjoyed writing this review! Please give it a read, or, even better(!), ignore my review entirely and go read Paul’s magnificent book!
Check out @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social's review of Paul Fyfe's Digital Victorians on Review 19: www.review19.org/view_doc.php...
January 24, 2025 at 10:06 PM
One of the smartest, most delightful people I know, writing about another of the smartest, most delightful people I know! What could be better?!
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To be clear, when Hegel argued that History is teleological he was specifically describing the inevitability of Muppet Middlemarch
Making animated movies into live action: tiresome, unnecessary, lame
Re-making every classic film into a muppet movie with a single human actor: sophisticated, erudite, revolutionary
Re-making every classic film into a muppet movie with a single human actor: sophisticated, erudite, revolutionary
January 19, 2025 at 3:06 PM
To be clear, when Hegel argued that History is teleological he was specifically describing the inevitability of Muppet Middlemarch