Emily Waller Singeisen
@esing.bsky.social
Ph.D. Student @ UNC | MA UPenn | Comparatist | Classical Reception, 19th & 20th c. | Illustrated books 📚
Prof. Dan-el Padilla Peralta’s work has inspired me and so many other young scholars across disciplines. It was a privilege to be able to organize an interdisciplinary gathering at UNC to engage with his current and forthcoming publications!
englishcomplit.unc.edu/2025/11/crit...
englishcomplit.unc.edu/2025/11/crit...
Critical Speaker Series welcomes Prof. Dan-el Padilla Peralta - UNC English & Comparative Literature
For the inaugural event of the 2025–26 academic year, the Critical Speaker Series of Department of English & Comparative Literature (ECL) partnered with the Department of Classics to welcome Dan-el Pa...
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November 11, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Prof. Dan-el Padilla Peralta’s work has inspired me and so many other young scholars across disciplines. It was a privilege to be able to organize an interdisciplinary gathering at UNC to engage with his current and forthcoming publications!
englishcomplit.unc.edu/2025/11/crit...
englishcomplit.unc.edu/2025/11/crit...
Today’s used book store delivery: “Petronius”’ unexpurgated guide to New York (feat. disinterested cat)
November 4, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Today’s used book store delivery: “Petronius”’ unexpurgated guide to New York (feat. disinterested cat)
Aubrey Beardsley’s fetuses are unsettling for *many* reasons, but one of the main reasons is because they look like Dr. Moron from Loony Tunes
November 4, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Aubrey Beardsley’s fetuses are unsettling for *many* reasons, but one of the main reasons is because they look like Dr. Moron from Loony Tunes
To all fellow academics concerned about censorship and the violation of faculty members’ first amendment rights, please consider signing this petition to reinstate Prof. Dixon at UNC:
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Sign the Petition
Reinstate Professor Dixon at UNC
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October 2, 2025 at 1:20 PM
To all fellow academics concerned about censorship and the violation of faculty members’ first amendment rights, please consider signing this petition to reinstate Prof. Dixon at UNC:
www.change.org/p/reinstate-...
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Excited to introduce Vibes from Meta. Eat your slop, piggies!
September 30, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Excited to introduce Vibes from Meta. Eat your slop, piggies!
Assigned this fabulous essay by @drbeard79.bsky.social to my freshman students for class today and the discussion felt like a sociological experiment into Gen Z’s conservative sexual politics.
So, I wrote a thing about my vase-fucking skeet and resulting thread with thanks to @romgothsam.bsky.social, @profchander.bsky.social, @philistella.bsky.social, & @gothicbodies.bsky.social for inspiration PLUS a shout out to a very old *undergraduate* essay by @joanpassey.bsky.social
October 1, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Assigned this fabulous essay by @drbeard79.bsky.social to my freshman students for class today and the discussion felt like a sociological experiment into Gen Z’s conservative sexual politics.
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The Onion’s Exclusive Interview With Gavin Newsom
https://theonion.com/the-onions-exclusive-interview-with-gavin-newsom/
https://theonion.com/the-onions-exclusive-interview-with-gavin-newsom/
September 20, 2025 at 6:00 PM
The Onion’s Exclusive Interview With Gavin Newsom
https://theonion.com/the-onions-exclusive-interview-with-gavin-newsom/
https://theonion.com/the-onions-exclusive-interview-with-gavin-newsom/
Reading about Noel Billing’s attacks on Maude Allen after her 1906 performance of Salomé. His hit piece was titled, “The Cult of the Clitoris”… I just want to know why a lesbian punk rock band hasn’t stolen this title because it’s truly inspired.
September 19, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Reading about Noel Billing’s attacks on Maude Allen after her 1906 performance of Salomé. His hit piece was titled, “The Cult of the Clitoris”… I just want to know why a lesbian punk rock band hasn’t stolen this title because it’s truly inspired.
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I am having a hard time reconciling "Charlie Kirk was a fierce advocate of open dialogue and free expression" with "we must identify and persecute everyone who is insufficiently mournful"
After Charlie Kirk's death, teachers and professors nationwide fired or disciplined over social media posts
At least a dozen faculty and staff have faced fallout over insensitive comments online.
www.nbcnews.com
September 13, 2025 at 12:08 PM
I am having a hard time reconciling "Charlie Kirk was a fierce advocate of open dialogue and free expression" with "we must identify and persecute everyone who is insufficiently mournful"
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Thrilled to be included among fabulous contributors to the latest edition of Dilettante Army, “Ekphrasis.”
Read on for speculations about AI boyfriends, avant-garde burlesque shows, killer machines, and the Freudian death drive.
dilettantearmy.com/articles/ekp...
Read on for speculations about AI boyfriends, avant-garde burlesque shows, killer machines, and the Freudian death drive.
dilettantearmy.com/articles/ekp...
Ekphrasis Ex Machina: Desire and the Death Drive in the Age of AI
Emily Singeisen contextualizes AI, a technologically novel way of exploiting language, within some very old fantasies.
dilettantearmy.com
September 9, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Thrilled to be included among fabulous contributors to the latest edition of Dilettante Army, “Ekphrasis.”
Read on for speculations about AI boyfriends, avant-garde burlesque shows, killer machines, and the Freudian death drive.
dilettantearmy.com/articles/ekp...
Read on for speculations about AI boyfriends, avant-garde burlesque shows, killer machines, and the Freudian death drive.
dilettantearmy.com/articles/ekp...
Thrilled to be included among fabulous contributors to the latest edition of Dilettante Army, “Ekphrasis.”
Read on for speculations about AI boyfriends, avant-garde burlesque shows, killer machines, and the Freudian death drive.
dilettantearmy.com/articles/ekp...
Read on for speculations about AI boyfriends, avant-garde burlesque shows, killer machines, and the Freudian death drive.
dilettantearmy.com/articles/ekp...
Ekphrasis Ex Machina: Desire and the Death Drive in the Age of AI
Emily Singeisen contextualizes AI, a technologically novel way of exploiting language, within some very old fantasies.
dilettantearmy.com
September 9, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Thrilled to be included among fabulous contributors to the latest edition of Dilettante Army, “Ekphrasis.”
Read on for speculations about AI boyfriends, avant-garde burlesque shows, killer machines, and the Freudian death drive.
dilettantearmy.com/articles/ekp...
Read on for speculations about AI boyfriends, avant-garde burlesque shows, killer machines, and the Freudian death drive.
dilettantearmy.com/articles/ekp...
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they invented the oracle of delphAI
The loneliness to psychosis pipeline is going to be overwhelmingly flooded
August 20, 2025 at 2:21 AM
they invented the oracle of delphAI
Me, a comparatist, when Reviewer 2 tells me my work isn’t art historical enough to be art history, classical enough to be classics, or literary enough to be lit crit:
a man singing into a microphone with the words that 's the thing i 'm sensitive about below him
ALT: a man singing into a microphone with the words that 's the thing i 'm sensitive about below him
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August 20, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Me, a comparatist, when Reviewer 2 tells me my work isn’t art historical enough to be art history, classical enough to be classics, or literary enough to be lit crit:
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Mind you, this also comes back to my central contention that the best job market advice in the hellscape is that there is absolutely no way you can meet the eternally moving goalposts, so you should do what you want to do and be happy with it instead.
August 1, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Mind you, this also comes back to my central contention that the best job market advice in the hellscape is that there is absolutely no way you can meet the eternally moving goalposts, so you should do what you want to do and be happy with it instead.
Given the hellacious job market, I’ve been conditioned to scrutinize every piece of my writing as though it needs to fit neatly into a coherent, unitary approach that I’m bringing to the field.
Instead, let’s all strive for the confidence of a white male intellectual in the early 20th century.
Instead, let’s all strive for the confidence of a white male intellectual in the early 20th century.
One of the things I find genuinely inspiring about reading Freud is his unabashed willingness to speculate wildly. The man would unapologetically publish diametrically opposed ideas in two papers within a mere three year span without giving a single fuck.
August 1, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Given the hellacious job market, I’ve been conditioned to scrutinize every piece of my writing as though it needs to fit neatly into a coherent, unitary approach that I’m bringing to the field.
Instead, let’s all strive for the confidence of a white male intellectual in the early 20th century.
Instead, let’s all strive for the confidence of a white male intellectual in the early 20th century.
One of the things I find genuinely inspiring about reading Freud is his unabashed willingness to speculate wildly. The man would unapologetically publish diametrically opposed ideas in two papers within a mere three year span without giving a single fuck.
August 1, 2025 at 5:13 PM
One of the things I find genuinely inspiring about reading Freud is his unabashed willingness to speculate wildly. The man would unapologetically publish diametrically opposed ideas in two papers within a mere three year span without giving a single fuck.
“I am not some sleek, futuristic glyph. I am the battered, coffee-stained backbone of writerly panic—the gasping pause where a thought should have ended but simply could not.”
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...
The Em Dash Responds to the AI Allegations
“In recent months, a curious fixation has emerged in corners of academia: the em dash. More specifically, the apparent moral panic around how it is...
www.mcsweeneys.net
July 29, 2025 at 11:39 PM
“I am not some sleek, futuristic glyph. I am the battered, coffee-stained backbone of writerly panic—the gasping pause where a thought should have ended but simply could not.”
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...
What am I writing about right now? According to my stream of consciousness marginal comments…
July 26, 2025 at 7:02 PM
What am I writing about right now? According to my stream of consciousness marginal comments…
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From this morning’s research in the Wilson Library: a Beardsley proof for the Savoy that quite literally bears the fingerprints of Arthur Symons
July 21, 2025 at 6:01 PM
From this morning’s research in the Wilson Library: a Beardsley proof for the Savoy that quite literally bears the fingerprints of Arthur Symons
This week’s reading just arrived! So excited to crack into this timely new work from @platanoclassics.bsky.social
July 15, 2025 at 8:34 PM
This week’s reading just arrived! So excited to crack into this timely new work from @platanoclassics.bsky.social
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"Archives are not inert historical collections. They always stand in an active, dialogic, relation to the questions which the presents puts to the past; and the present always puts its questions differently from one generation to another."
Stuart Hall, "Constituting an archive"
Stuart Hall, "Constituting an archive"
July 13, 2025 at 7:30 AM
"Archives are not inert historical collections. They always stand in an active, dialogic, relation to the questions which the presents puts to the past; and the present always puts its questions differently from one generation to another."
Stuart Hall, "Constituting an archive"
Stuart Hall, "Constituting an archive"
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If any of my #rarebooks friends have done research at Princeton Firestone Library, I would love to ask you a couple of logistical questions about visiting as an out-of-towner! Simple Q’s but the library phone number redirects to the website and I can’t find the info I’m looking for…
July 12, 2025 at 11:18 AM
If any of my #rarebooks friends have done research at Princeton Firestone Library, I would love to ask you a couple of logistical questions about visiting as an out-of-towner! Simple Q’s but the library phone number redirects to the website and I can’t find the info I’m looking for…