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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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hannahkateboast.bsky.social
My article 'Ghost nets and rusting machines: rivers in the contemporary Canadian long poem' is now published in Interventions, as part of a special issue on World Literature and Commodity Frontiers: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
“Ghost nets and rusting machines”: rivers in the contemporary Canadian long poem
Water has long been fundamental to settler efforts to expand resource frontiers in Canada. European fur traders used the region’s waterways to access animal populations in its interior, forming the...
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February 12, 2026 at 9:55 AM
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Dieser thread einer LitProf hat spannende Vorschläge, Studierenden zum Lesen zu bringen; „Reading Scenario Experiments“, zB: „Lest bei Kerzenlicht/draußen in der Natur. Lest jemand anderem vor. Lest mit einem Block und zeichnet Szenen, die ihr lest.“ Der Prozess ist kreativ und soll auch so sein!
aktange.bsky.social Andrea Kaston Tange @aktange.bsky.social · Jul 16
Here you go! I'll write some new ones for this semester too. They loved them. The "read without your phone or screens in the room" was a revelation, and many of them decided to keep doing it. They had NO IDEA (& were horrified) how often they interrupt themselves to look at a phone for no reason.
Reading Scenario Experiments. This series of prompts is designed to get you thinking about how the setting for reading affects concentration, comprehension, and even the existential experience of reading. Every week, one of the following prompts will appear on the syllabus. I encourage you to try all of them that you are able. How does a different reading setting affect your mood? Your receptiveness to the prose? Your pleasure or difficulty reading? What are the particular impacts of changing your lighting or surroundings? What do you notice about yourself and about the work you are reading during this experiment? 1. read by candlelight (use a small lamp in dorms where no candles are allowed!) 2. read for one hour without checking any devices, answering texts, etc. 3. walk out into nature (climb a tree, sit on a rock, grab a spot in a hammock) and read 4. host a reading night with friends & food (sit in companionable silence, reading without chatting) 5. read aloud a chapter to someone else 6. climb into bed at night and read by flashlight under the covers for at least 30 minutes, as if you’ve already been told “lights out” as a kid 7. reread a chapter and see what new things you notice the second time through 8. change your ambient-noise level: add music if you normally read in the quiet; or read without music if you are normally a music-listener 9. read with a sketchpad at hand and sketch scenes, characters, or other elements from the story 10. practice focused listening: have someone read to you 11. make yourself a special, fancy snack on a real plate to nibble while eating: pay attention to the cooking or arranging or choosing of ingredients to make it especially appetizing first 12. make tea (even if you’re not usually a tea drinker), and read and sip 13. invent a new reading scenario for yourself, or repeat the one you liked the best from this term [writing assignment using these prompts follows; text character limit prevents inclusion of it in full]
February 9, 2026 at 4:54 PM
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sameoldghost.bsky.social
Need a sticker of this immediately actually
February 3, 2026 at 1:12 AM
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heatherleslie.bsky.social
One of the best AI critiques I’ve seen read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/...
A Pedagogy of the Inevitable
Over the last couple of years, two altogether incompatible discourses of “AI literacy” have emerged. One seeks just enough literacy to support a smooth, perhaps even joyful, integration with new techn...
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January 16, 2026 at 5:14 AM
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aarthivadde.bsky.social
Page proofs arrived today (!) and actual book coming August 2026!!!
Title page from my forthcoming book We the Platform: How the Internet Changed Twenty-First-Century Literature. Copyright Columbia University Press printed at the top.
January 29, 2026 at 9:57 PM
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unigr-cbs.bsky.social
𝗔𝗿𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗯𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝗲𝘅𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗯𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝘀𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗮𝗿𝘀?
The UniGR-CBS is pleased to announce the launch of its 2026 Research Fellowships! Eligible are postdoctoral researchers, senior researchers, and professors.
Apply now (28/02/2026): fellow.borderstudies.org
January 26, 2026 at 9:44 AM
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aadita.bsky.social
So exhausted from staying with the trouble.
January 22, 2026 at 7:50 PM
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morganfahey.bsky.social
In which @alexanderchee.bsky.social writes beautifully (as always) about the way Heated Rivalry has become a fragment shored against the ruin of almost everyone's mental health, and the artistic and narrative joys of both its universality and its specificity. open.substack.com/pub/querent/...
I Would Start A War In Your Arms
A Heated Rivalry Notebook
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January 17, 2026 at 5:55 AM
jennyleetsch.bsky.social
first week back at work 2026: wildly oscillating between binging heated rivalry insta edits and stewing over the german research foundation funding bid I have to finish - I contain multitudes!
January 7, 2026 at 9:28 AM
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