Jacquelyn Ardam
@jaxwendy.bsky.social
Director of the Undergraduate Research Center—Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences @ UCLA. Dog Lady. My book Avidly Reads Poetry is out from NYU Press! She/her.
www.jacquelynardam.com
www.jacquelynardam.com
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Jacquelyn Ardam
@jaxwendy.bsky.social
· Oct 3
I’m not on here very often but please know that Millie and I are living our best lives in LA
good UCLA academic admin job in the Teaching and Learning Center for folks with admin experience
recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF10633
recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF10633
Director of Instructor Engagement and Educational Development
University of California, Los Angeles is hiring. Apply now!
recruit.apo.ucla.edu
October 14, 2025 at 4:40 PM
good UCLA academic admin job in the Teaching and Learning Center for folks with admin experience
recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF10633
recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF10633
I’m writing again after a 3-year hiatus to figure out how to be a director and fall in love! Worth it but I’m glad to be using my brain again. Please enjoy my review of Francesca Wade’s new bio of my love Gertrude Stein for @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social
lareviewofbooks.org/article/a-sp...
lareviewofbooks.org/article/a-sp...
A Spectacle and Nothing Strange | Los Angeles Review of Books
Jacquelyn Ardam considers Francesca Wade’s “Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife.”
lareviewofbooks.org
October 8, 2025 at 5:07 PM
I’m writing again after a 3-year hiatus to figure out how to be a director and fall in love! Worth it but I’m glad to be using my brain again. Please enjoy my review of Francesca Wade’s new bio of my love Gertrude Stein for @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social
lareviewofbooks.org/article/a-sp...
lareviewofbooks.org/article/a-sp...
Reposted by Jacquelyn Ardam
"Wade pays particular attention to the ways Stein’s writing and her intimate life with Toklas intertwine." Jacquelyn Ardam on Francesca Wade’s "Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife." https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/a-spectacle-and-nothing-strange/
October 8, 2025 at 3:15 PM
"Wade pays particular attention to the ways Stein’s writing and her intimate life with Toklas intertwine." Jacquelyn Ardam on Francesca Wade’s "Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife." https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/a-spectacle-and-nothing-strange/
I’m not on here very often but please know that Millie and I are living our best lives in LA
October 3, 2025 at 5:23 PM
I’m not on here very often but please know that Millie and I are living our best lives in LA
There are only five good things left and this summer program is one of them. If you know any major donors, please send them my way thx www.ugeducation.ucla.edu/2025/08/26/s...
Summer Research Incubator Bridges UCLA and Morgan State for First Time - UCLA Undergraduate Education
Students gain intensive research experience, mentorship, and new perspectives in humanities, arts, and social sciences.
www.ugeducation.ucla.edu
September 18, 2025 at 12:06 AM
There are only five good things left and this summer program is one of them. If you know any major donors, please send them my way thx www.ugeducation.ucla.edu/2025/08/26/s...
I’m going to review tf out of this
July 11, 2025 at 12:20 AM
I’m going to review tf out of this
Reposted by Jacquelyn Ardam
I wrote for @theatlantic.com about how archivists are contending with our digital detritus — whether we'll be able to save emails, texts, Discord chats, etc, and what that means for how we tell history:
www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...
www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...
Archivists Aren’t Ready for the ‘Very Online’ Era
The challenge: how to catalog and derive meaning from so much digital clutter
www.theatlantic.com
June 5, 2025 at 1:44 AM
I wrote for @theatlantic.com about how archivists are contending with our digital detritus — whether we'll be able to save emails, texts, Discord chats, etc, and what that means for how we tell history:
www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...
www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...
Here I am being extremely articulate about Susan Sontag’s digital archives in the Atlantic!
www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...
www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...
Archivists Aren’t Ready for the ‘Very Online’ Era
The challenge: how to catalog and derive meaning from so much digital clutter
www.theatlantic.com
June 4, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Here I am being extremely articulate about Susan Sontag’s digital archives in the Atlantic!
www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...
www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...
Millie wants you to know that she’s on vacation
May 26, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Millie wants you to know that she’s on vacation
I rarely post on here but I'll give this a shot: anyone have any favorite reading (for undergrads doing research) on the idea of "me-search"?
May 13, 2025 at 1:13 AM
I rarely post on here but I'll give this a shot: anyone have any favorite reading (for undergrads doing research) on the idea of "me-search"?
she wants you to know that she has things to say
April 29, 2025 at 8:50 PM
she wants you to know that she has things to say
why yes I will be writing about this
April 17, 2025 at 2:27 AM
why yes I will be writing about this
I had a really nice conversation with a journalist today about the article I co-wrote about Susan Sontag’s born-digital archives over a decade ago and for an hour this morning it was nice to have an intellectual life that was not under attack
lareviewofbooks.org/article/exce...
lareviewofbooks.org/article/exce...
On Excess: Susan Sontag’s Born-Digital Archive | Los Angeles Review of Books
Susan Sontag’s entire digital life is now available to researchers. What should they do with it?
lareviewofbooks.org
April 16, 2025 at 7:19 PM
I had a really nice conversation with a journalist today about the article I co-wrote about Susan Sontag’s born-digital archives over a decade ago and for an hour this morning it was nice to have an intellectual life that was not under attack
lareviewofbooks.org/article/exce...
lareviewofbooks.org/article/exce...
it’s national poetry month and not a single one of you has asked me what I think about poetry
April 12, 2025 at 1:45 AM
it’s national poetry month and not a single one of you has asked me what I think about poetry
In other news happy 3rd birthday to my book!! When I wrote about poetry in the time of Trump I really did not think there would be a Trump 2.0 but here we are!!
nyupress.org/978147981355...
nyupress.org/978147981355...
Avidly Reads Poetry
“Poetry has leapt out of its world and into the world”Poetry is everywhere. From Amanda Gorman performing “The Hill We Climb” before the nation at Jo...
nyupress.org
April 6, 2025 at 3:20 AM
In other news happy 3rd birthday to my book!! When I wrote about poetry in the time of Trump I really did not think there would be a Trump 2.0 but here we are!!
nyupress.org/978147981355...
nyupress.org/978147981355...
I’m told they say buy low sell high
April 5, 2025 at 1:55 AM
I’m told they say buy low sell high
sending my lil university emails as the entire research university infrastructure of this country crumbles around me! also the infrastructure of everything else! 2025!
April 4, 2025 at 3:33 PM
sending my lil university emails as the entire research university infrastructure of this country crumbles around me! also the infrastructure of everything else! 2025!
I think I have lost the will to tweet in Trump 2.0
April 3, 2025 at 11:36 PM
I think I have lost the will to tweet in Trump 2.0
do I dare to eat a peach
March 23, 2025 at 6:00 PM
do I dare to eat a peach
taking a break from the horrors to immerse myself in other horrors and omg who wants to discuss the latest ep of Yellowjackets!!
March 18, 2025 at 2:52 AM
taking a break from the horrors to immerse myself in other horrors and omg who wants to discuss the latest ep of Yellowjackets!!
Reposted by Jacquelyn Ardam
I wrote about the Trump administration's assault on higher education & what's really going on:
"If, during the Cold War, the government funded universities as a way of strengthening America, Mr. Trump’s second administration treats them as a threat to be dismantled."
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/o...
"If, during the Cold War, the government funded universities as a way of strengthening America, Mr. Trump’s second administration treats them as a threat to be dismantled."
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/o...
Opinion | The View Inside Trump’s Assault on Universities
The Trump administration’s attacks on universities will lead to the permanent diminishment of vital American institutions.
www.nytimes.com
March 16, 2025 at 11:33 AM
I wrote about the Trump administration's assault on higher education & what's really going on:
"If, during the Cold War, the government funded universities as a way of strengthening America, Mr. Trump’s second administration treats them as a threat to be dismantled."
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/o...
"If, during the Cold War, the government funded universities as a way of strengthening America, Mr. Trump’s second administration treats them as a threat to be dismantled."
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/o...
Our groomer is getting a bit too gender normative
March 16, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Our groomer is getting a bit too gender normative
wtf are we even saying to our students these days
March 14, 2025 at 11:08 PM
wtf are we even saying to our students these days
I, a scholar of poetry, will tell you everything that's wrong with every sentence of this article, but only if I am paid to because poetry is a thing that a person can have expertise in, NATURE
March 13, 2025 at 11:01 PM
I, a scholar of poetry, will tell you everything that's wrong with every sentence of this article, but only if I am paid to because poetry is a thing that a person can have expertise in, NATURE