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Jenny Leetsch
@jennyleetsch.bsky.social
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juniorprofessor of anglophone literatures and cultures (university of trier) • views my own • she/her • #firstgen

website: https://www.jenniferleetsch.com/

“soar, eat ether, see what has never been seen; depart, be lost, but climb."
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jennyleetsch.bsky.social
liebe @rennmausinuk.bsky.social, hier noch einmal ganz offiziell: ich bin ✨hin und weg✨, gleich zweimal absolut ins schwarze getroffen! um die patti smith autobiographie schon oft im laden herumgeschlichen, und super gespannt auf das debut von tochi eze! danke-danke-danke! #litgangwichteln
photograph of two books laying on a grey couch: patti smith’s new memoir bread of angels, featuring a black and white cover (a picture of the artist, hands raised, in midst of foliage), and the novel this kind of trouble by tochi exe, with an orange cover featuring leaves on a branch, which include the title and author name.
December 21, 2025 at 1:54 PM
jennyleetsch.bsky.social
this is not only a fantastic article, it’s also helped me discover this graphic/comic biography of one of my favourite artists!
Cover of a book, a comic biography of artist Ana Mendieta (published in 2011); the cover is black with white letters, in the lower right hand corner there is a black and white drawing of a naked female figure hugged by a skeleton, both sit in a bed of leaves which also blow out from them and scatter across the cover.
December 17, 2025 at 7:37 AM
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profchander.bsky.social
me to grad students: share your work with each other, talk, exchange ideas!

me to me: no one can ever see this draft it's garbage and they'll think i'm garbage and then i'll have to move into a dumpster where i belong
December 11, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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sfb1567.bsky.social
www.virtuelle-lebenswelten.de/blog-post/wo...
Work together: Technofeministische (Re)Produktionsweisen (11.-12.12.2025) – Zwischen Care und Code
Blog
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December 2, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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annamerlan.bsky.social
My love for em dashes is as old as the hills and as mighty as my inability to make a transition between thoughts literally any other way and I will be damned if I let the clankers take that from me
December 10, 2025 at 3:00 AM
jennyleetsch.bsky.social
mit dem postgang gleich mein eigenes wichtelgeschenk in empfang nehmen dürfen! bin schon sehr gespannt, warte mit dem auspacken aber noch bis weihnachten, glaube ich. aufregend!! #litgangwichteln
photo of an unopened parcel, signed with the hashtag litgangwichteln, next to an advent wreath.
December 9, 2025 at 1:56 PM
jennyleetsch.bsky.social
das #litgangwichteln packerl macht sich die tage auf den weiten weg. dieses jahr sind die verpackungs-vibes weniger weihnachtlich, dafür umso thematisch passender zum buch. ich hoffe so sehr, meine wichtel-person hat es noch nicht gelesen! 🌱
a wrapped present, viewed from above. the wrapping paper is midnight blue, the card is a very light turquoise and has gold-embossed stems and flowers on it. the present is tied with a green ribbon that looks like tiny leaves.
December 7, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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melissaschuh.bsky.social
It’s the most wonderful time of the year, because my book is out now, fresh off the press!
Happy book birthday to “Literary Autobiography: Contemporary Novelists and their Self-Representations” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025) 📕🎉! doi.org/10.1007/978-... @hss.springernature.com
Book cover: Melissa Schuh, Literary Autobiography: Contemporary No Elises and their Self-Representations (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025) Flyer: Melissa Schuh Literary Autobiography Contemporary Novelists and their Self-Representations -Explores the narrative strategies developed by novelists as they cross generic boundaries of �ction and non-fiction -Presents case studies of works by canonical contemporary authors -Develops de�nitions and concepts to analyse forms of autobiographical writing that �flaunt their �fictionality Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Life Writing Get 20% off with this code: PALAUT PALGRAVE STUDIES IN LIFE WRITING Series Editors: Clare Brant • Max Saunders "Melissa Schuh's Literary Autobiography offers a theoretically elegant and literarily sensitive rethinking of the fraught relationship between the novel and autobiography. Central to the book is the concept of performative contradiction, which Schuh develops as the defining aesthetic strategy of literary autobiography—a strategy that embraces fictionality not to undermine life writing, but to open it toward deeper questions of truth, identity, and narrative ethics. Schuh's analyses of Roth, Coetzee, and Grass persuasively show how these works form an aesthetic lineage that contemporary autofiction continues to draw from. This book will be indispensable for scholars across life writing studies, narratology, and literary ethics." —Stefan Kjerkegaard, Aarhus University, Denmark Why do novelists write about themselves? What modes do novelists use to manipulate representations of their personality? Why is it often late in their career that novelists write about their own lives? This book develops the concept of literary autobiography as a genre responding to a profound uncertainty about the knowability of the self, often negotiated through a particular concern with the writing life. Comprising a particular sub-genre and style of contemporary life writing, the autobiographies examined in this book foreground their formal 'literariness' through the explicit use of fictionality, disrupting established (auto) biographical tropes by employing narrative innovations associated with postmodern fiction and prefigured by modernist experimentation. Taken together, they exemplify an aesthetics of performative contradiction, in which novelistic strategies cast doubt on the veracity of the life represented. Exploring works by canonical and popular novelists - J.M. Coetzee, Philip Roth, Günter Grass, Elena Ferrante, and Karl Ove Knausgard - this book addresses the increasing novelisation of contemporary life w…
November 29, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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timeflieslike.bsky.social
Deadline extended until Dec 1st!: Are you interested in joining an awesome research network on Funny Women*: Transatlantic Perspective? Check out the link for details: networks.h-net.org/group/announ...
Please share with your friends and colleagues!
DEADLINE EXTENSION to Dec 1st! Call for Contributions / Declarations of Interest for Research Group: Funny Women*: Transatlantic Perspectives | H-Net
We are looking to form a research group dedicated to the work of funny women / funny folx on both sides of the Atlantic across different media (literature, performance, film/TV, social media,…). The p...
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November 25, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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artinsociety.bsky.social
18th-century Dutch naturalist/collector Albertus Seba’s detailed engravings of hedgehogs (Thesaurus, 1734)
Image of hedgehog from above and behind Image of hedgehog lying on its back like an upturned beetle
November 25, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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litgangwichteln.bsky.social
Herzlich willkommen zum #litgangwichteln!

In diesem Thread erfährst Du alles für das diesjährige #litgangwichteln.
In aller Kürze: Wir überraschen und erfreuen uns gegenseitig mit einem Buchgeschenk per Post – und die zu beschenkenden Menschen werden dafür zugelost.

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November 23, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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melissaschuh.bsky.social
On my way home from a sunny Bamberg after an amazing, rich #BritCult2025 conference, where I got to share in a collaborative panel discussing queer romance and queer happy endings with the all together brilliant Anneke Schewe, @jennyleetsch.bsky.social , and Amanda Boyce. @susannegruss.bsky.social
Presentation slide featuring the cast of the Heartstopper Netflix series with the title: Why are we like this? : Seriality, Genre, and Queer Joy in Alice Oseman‘s Heartstoppet (2022-), by Anneke Schewe and Melissa Schuh Photograph of a bridge in Bamberg with the rising sun in the background. Photograph of a sunlit river back in Bamberg.
November 22, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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melissaschuh.bsky.social
Who could say no to a conference duck 🦆? I chose a pink one to match my outfit 😍

@susannegruss.bsky.social #BritCult2025 @jennyleetsch.bsky.social
Glass bowl full of a colourful assortment of small resin ducks, with a pink one set next to the bowl University of Bamberg tote bag in navy with white lettering, with a yellow name Tag including pronouns and a small pink resin duck on it.
November 20, 2025 at 10:45 PM
jennyleetsch.bsky.social
en route to #BritCult2025!! Umstieg in Würzburg hat geklappt, nun trägt mich der Regio hoffentlich reibungslos nach Bamberg. 🤞🤞🤞

Very much looking forward to meeting old friends and new colleagues! ✨
susannegruss.bsky.social Susanne Gruss @susannegruss.bsky.social · Nov 20
It's cold, there is a tiny bit of snow. Almost 100 conference speakers and participants are on their way to Bamberg today, most of them by train. It's fortunate that DB has a long history of dealing really well with the first snow of the year, right? RIGHT??? #britcult2025
November 20, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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phdhurtbrain.bsky.social
What? These? No! I need these. They’re my emotional support unanswered emails.
November 19, 2025 at 4:51 AM
jennyleetsch.bsky.social
Very happy to see this out in the world! A deeply collaborative attempt at thinking ecological dependencies from/across a variety of disciplines. Thank you @dependencybonn.de for providing us with the space + resources to develop this. Check the book out here: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
November 14, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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roopikarisam.bsky.social
I deeply appreciate how many friends I have who also believe that when daylight savings time ends, it's perfectly acceptable to have a drink at the campus hotel bar at 4pm.
November 6, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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whitehorsepress.bsky.social
We're delighted to announce a new book, forthcoming in March: 'Grasping Soil: A Syllabus and Essays for the Environmental Humanities', edited by Emily Brownell; now open for pre-orders. More information: www.whpress.co.uk/publications... #envhum #envhist #soil
November 5, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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hystericalblkns.bsky.social
What an evening. Beyond grateful for what we made together.

Lecture available on line for 2 weeks.
propcazhpm.bsky.social Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · Oct 30
Now listening to the 4th Annual Alchemy Lecture:
Sound—at the Interregnum.

First alchemist is Glen Coulthard, Yellowknives Dene, Prof. First Nations and Indigenous Studies and Political Science

listening: noisescapes of mining, air traffic and urban expansion on Yellowknife land
#YUAlchemy
The 2025 Alchemy Lecture: Sound—at the Interregnum
YouTube video by York University - Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
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October 31, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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arthistoryanimalia.bsky.social
For #NationalCatDay please admire this absolute masterpiece:
Gertrude Abercrombie (USA, 1909-1977)
#Black Cat on Pink, 1952
Oil on Hardboard, 4.5 x 4 cm (1 3/4 x 1 5/8 in.)
www.artcurial.com/en/sales/608...
#CatsInArt #WomenArtists
Small painting of a goofy looking black cat with green eyes, sitting up and sticking its little pink tongue out, on a salmon colored table with grey wall behind; signed and dated on bottom
October 30, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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katherinegroo.bsky.social
I find it v difficult to put into words how honored and lucky i feel to have edited this issue on feminist historical methods, to have had so many important pieces of writing and thinking entrusted to me over these last few years. 1/
online.ucpress.edu/fmh/issue/11/4
Volume 11 Issue 4 | Feminist Media Histories | University of California Press
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October 30, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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Whatever strategy you’re about to suggest, we’ve thought about it. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
ChatGPT Harm Reduction for Writing Assignments
ChatGPT Harm Reduction for Writing Assignments Because this document has escaped containment, a couple points of explanation. I wrote this for myself and a few colleagues as we work out how to handle...
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October 28, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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leguinbot.bsky.social
What will the creature made all of seadrift do on the dry sand of daylight; what will the mind do, each morning, waking?
October 26, 2025 at 4:11 AM
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arthistoryanimalia.bsky.social
Resharing for #MoleDay !
arthistoryanimalia.bsky.social Art History Animalia @arthistoryanimalia.bsky.social · Dec 31
For #ManuscriptMonday / #MedievalMonday: a cute little #mole in a 13th c. English #bestiary!
British Library Harley MS 3244 fol 49v (England, c. 1236-1250)
detail from an illuminated medieval manuscript, illustration of a mole in a bestiary, drawn as a cute little grey creature with back legs standing up on lettering and front webbed legs facing forward, as if digging through the text
October 24, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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dan-sinnamon.bsky.social
Today is pub day for my third book: Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century. It is a handbook on how to read. It argues for the foundational importance of *caring* to thought. It offers an anatomy of close reading's five steps so we can hone the skills to perform them. It argues for why to read
October 21, 2025 at 12:03 PM