Ilka Brasch
ibrasch.bsky.social
Ilka Brasch
@ibrasch.bsky.social
Teacher&Author in American Studies. Early America and (!) Film Studies [Author of: "Film Serials and the American Cinema]. #Archives! Research Network: Voices & Agencies: America and the Atlantic, 1600-1865 |Right now: Interim Prof at Hamburg University <3
American Studies @ the University of Nottingham is under threat of its programs being closed - there's a petition to try and stop this.

www.change.org/p/save-ameri...
Sign the Petition
SAVE AMERICAN STUDIES TEACHING AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM
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November 13, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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Wichtige und dringende Kampagne! Bitte teilen und unterschreiben!
October 7, 2025 at 11:44 AM
This list of AI-commonalities might actually double quite well as a general list of "don'ts" to use when teaching academic writing.
Wikipedia editors trying to fend off the onslaught of AI crap have crowdsourced some telltale signs of LLM-generated writing; it might be handy for editors and proofreaders generally. Thanks to @ellenrykers.com for pointing me to it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...
Wikipedia:Signs of AI writing - Wikipedia
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September 1, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Here's a question for fellow researchers: Where/how are you discovering great scholarship?

I feel like search engines are not doing a great job, and I miss the lists of books and articles that were on aaaaarg.
August 25, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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I made a piece of software! It’s called the film|minutes video|graphic workstation. It’s pretty niche but cool if you want to take notes or do very close readings of films/videos.
July 15, 2025 at 5:41 AM
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The 19th century abolitionist movement utilized a diversity of tactics and engaged in constant critical internal debate in the mission to end slavery. The movement needed speeches, lawyers, lawbreakers, newspapers, and armed resisters. History teaches us that freedom requires all of the above.
June 9, 2025 at 2:27 PM
my inner Bart Simpson keeps writing 'I should have downloaded the relevant material from archive.org' on his inner blackboard. finger's crossed for good-looking slides for #dgfa2025. #archives
June 6, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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Just one more week and then we will meet again in Siegen (for the annual #DGfA25 #DGfA2025 #GAAS25 #GAAS2025 meeting). I'm really looking forward to it 💖

This is us. Panel hopping. 😇

www.uni-siegen.de/phil/anglist...
a group of penguins are walking in a line on the ground
Alt: a group of penguins are walking in a line on the ground
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June 4, 2025 at 6:05 PM
can anyone tell me how TF you switch from roman to arabic endnotes on word 365 for Mac? if you tell me there's a tiny arrow in a corner, believe me, there's not.
April 19, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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Looking forward to hosting this event on walking women in Hamburg from 27-29 March 2025! #walkingwomen
January 21, 2025 at 8:35 PM
#archives are fascinating! Since 2011, I've traveled to archives (first for films and film paratexts, then pre-1800 American literature) as a (North) Americanist (not a 'real' historian). I've accumulated both thoughts on archives (and their transformation) and anecdotes about archival research.
December 19, 2024 at 4:31 PM
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Thrilled to have my essay on Charles Chesnutt and early Black environmentalism included in this new collection, edited by the superb Bob Levine and Russ Castronovo
www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...
December 18, 2024 at 11:03 PM
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spent this afternoon reading some early US history (as one does) and was reminded of the important fact that these people were almost constantly drunk as hell
December 18, 2024 at 1:33 AM
2nding Alex’ ad: Apply if you’re in long 19c studies - I’ll be there, too!
CfP: Together with several colleagues, I'm putting together a panel for the annual meeting of the DGfA (June 12-14, 2025, Siegen). Conference theme is "Archiving American / American Archives". We're inviting presentations on C19 periodicals and literary institutions: dgfa.de/annual-meeti...
Annual Meeting – Deutsche Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien
dgfa.de
December 12, 2024 at 6:26 PM
Thanks to @marsimekko.bsky.social and
@tbhallock.bsky.social for editing a (very) special issue of Anglia - and thanks for having me!
How fitting and timely is this? The research cluster Thomas Hallock and I edited for ANGLIA on our MOBILE ARCHIVE Project arrived just one day after I returned home from Veracruz. It is accessible through your academic institutions (DOI: 10.1515/ang-2024-0056): www.degruyter.com/journal/key/...
Research Cluster: Archival Crossings – A Mobile Archive Research Cluster / Editors: Thomas Hallock and Marcel Hartwig
Volume 142, issue 4 of the journal Anglia was published in 2024.
www.degruyter.com
December 12, 2024 at 2:35 PM
look, a new blueskier! :-)
December 12, 2024 at 2:31 PM