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Jenny Leetsch
@jennyleetsch.bsky.social
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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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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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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What an evening. Beyond grateful for what we made together.

Lecture available on line for 2 weeks.
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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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
October 30, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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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
online.ucpress.edu
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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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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Resharing for #MoleDay !
For #ManuscriptMonday / #MedievalMonday: a cute little #mole in a 13th c. English #bestiary!
British Library Harley MS 3244 fol 49v (England, c. 1236-1250)
October 24, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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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
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“In the stories of these creatures, we glimpse both our fear of the wild past and our responsibility for the future.” Wise words indeed
The medieval folklore of Britain’s endangered wildlife ‘omens’ – from hedgehogs to nightjars
Medieval people believed that witches would transform into hedgehogs to steal milk.
theconversation.com
October 20, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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“Just tell me where you are, Habibi. I will come and get you.” If you read one thing today, read this by @abunour.bsky.social
Honoured to have my article published in @irishtimes.com today. A piece of me and Gaza and Nour — on paper. ❤️

www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
October 19, 2025 at 5:59 AM
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Yes, this! “Our tool can design whole curriculum for you” - no, thank you, that’s the part of my job I enjoy the most.
That’s the other thing that baffles me about AI and creative writing, actually.

The work IS the joy for me. I don’t want to be able to snap my fingers and have a completed “product.” I want to be transformed by the process. I’m an author but I do this because I enjoy the rigor of being a writer.
In terms of process, I enjoy writing but revising????? Oh, that’s my real kink. A second or third draft???? A fourth???? Making tweaks on my desktop AND my phone???? *moans* I’m a WHORE for revision.
October 20, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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trinityskitchen / instagram
October 18, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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by Sylvia Plath, for the season
October 10, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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UN experts* urged Germany to stop criminalising, punishing, & suppressing legitimate Palestinian solidarity activism.

“We are alarmed by the persistent pattern of police violence & apparent suppression of Palestine solidarity activism by Germany” they said.

Leseempfehlung @kaiwegner.bsky.social
UN experts urge Germany to halt criminalisation and police violence against Palestinian solidarity activism
GENEVA – UN experts* today urged Germany to stop criminalising, punishing, and suppressing legitimate Palestinian solidarity activism.“We are alarmed by the persistent pattern of police violence and a...
www.ohchr.org
October 16, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Sharing, as always, my syllabi for the new term! One class on 🤖Afrofuturism🤖, the other on 🌿Postcolonial Ecologies🌿. And as I have deleted my Academia account (see below), I will now be uploading the files on my own website (hcommons is also a good alternative): www.jenniferleetsch.com/teaching
October 13, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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my gen AI teaching statement
October 14, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat
October 13, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Sharing, as always, my syllabi for the new term! One class on 🤖Afrofuturism🤖, the other on 🌿Postcolonial Ecologies🌿. And as I have deleted my Academia account (see below), I will now be uploading the files on my own website (hcommons is also a good alternative): www.jenniferleetsch.com/teaching
October 13, 2025 at 2:32 PM
In addition, the call for new Heinz Heinen fellows has just gone live: www.dependency.uni-bonn.de/en/fellowshi... (for doctoral, junior postdoc, senior postdoc, and alternative knowledge producer positions)
October 1, 2025 at 9:32 AM
JOB AD: 3 3-year postdocs available at the Bonn Center for Slavery and Dependency Studies (BCDSS) @dependencybonn.de: I can highly recommend it as a place to spend (some of) your postdoc phase -- a deeply interdisciplinary environment with wonderful colleagues. shorturl.at/69hMY
3 Postdoctoral Positions (100%, TV-L E-13, for 3 years)
full-time, Temporary, EG 13, Reference number: 2025/152
www.uni-bonn.de
October 1, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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Solange on IG: “We would like to play a small part in creating free access to the expansive range of critical thought and expression by these great minds.”

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Saint Heron
Saint Heron Community Library; a growing media center dedicated to students, practicing artists and designers, musicians and general literature enthusiasts.
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September 26, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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👻 Hier kommt das Plakat zur Ringvorlesung "Prompting Fascism. Medien/Theorien des neuen Faschismus"

Mein Dank geht an Loisa Liebchen und Constantin Matti Roth für die Gestaltung 💛

Mehr Infos: medienwissenschaft-berlin.org/prompting-fa...
September 24, 2025 at 5:34 AM
freu mich auf tag2 des #anglistiktag2025, should I ever get there. currently stuck on the RE1 in duisburg wegen, …checks notes…, böschungsbrand!
nrw mal wieder prime heute morgen was die züge angeht: en route to #anglistiktag2025 über köln, wuppertal-vohwinkel, essen. RB48/RE49, lasst mich nicht im stich!
September 23, 2025 at 6:53 AM
nrw mal wieder prime heute morgen was die züge angeht: en route to #anglistiktag2025 über köln, wuppertal-vohwinkel, essen. RB48/RE49, lasst mich nicht im stich!
September 22, 2025 at 7:41 AM