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Judith Rauscher
@judithrauscher.bsky.social
Asst. Prof. /JProf. for American Literature & Culture @ U of Cologne; Poetry, Ecoriticism, Mobility Studies, Speculative Fiction, Gender Studies 🤓👩‍🏫🌄🎶📚🏳️‍🌈
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Did you know that 2/3 of Americans are at least “somewhat worried” about global warming -- but 85% of Americans either underestimate how many others are worried, or don’t know enough to say?

This key misunderstanding tanks our sense of collective efficacy. How do we overcome it? Talk about it!
Most Americans underestimate how worried the American public is about global warming
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January 28, 2026 at 3:47 AM
Starting @unicologne.bsky.social : The DFG-funded conference on "Anthropocene #Necropoetics: Empire, Violence, and Ecological Ruin in US #Poetry" that I'm organizing with Mahshid Mayar. So exciting! #EnvHum #AmericanStudies
January 28, 2026 at 2:03 PM
These are the books I discussed in my talk on "Dystopias of Reproductive Work in North Am. #SpeculativeFiction" this week. I'd recommend all of them to a wider audience, except /Sojourn/ (1835) which is viciously racist. Be advised though that all of them contain brutal violence, some of it sexual.
January 23, 2026 at 7:38 PM
Earlier today I gave a talk (in German 😲) @ruhr-uni-bochum.de on "Dystopias of Reproductive Work in North American Speculative Fiction" in @nitzkesolvejg.bsky.social's super cool lecture class on "Dystopias of Work." 📚 I can recommend it. You get cake. 🍰 #CompLit #AmericanStudies #FeministSF #SFF
January 20, 2026 at 6:57 PM
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[Admin] Renaissance, zeitgenössische britische Literatur und die Rolle von Piraten auf der Theaterbühne! Begrüßt unsere neue Kuratorin @susannegruss.bsky.social !
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Renaissance, zeitgenössische britische Literatur und die Rolle von Piraten auf der Theaterbühne! Susanne Gruß ist jetzt bei Real Scientists DE!
Diese Woche freuen wir uns auf unsere Kuratorin Susanne Gruß ( @susannegruss.bsky.social )! Susanne ist Anglistin und beschäftigt sich sc...
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January 12, 2026 at 6:45 AM
Received a "Old Library" DYI booknook as a Christmas present and started to assemble it over the weekend. One of the books in the library is "Whitman's Poems"! 😍
January 4, 2026 at 8:23 PM
It's been a while: Happy holidays, everyone! I hope you get to rest a bit!
December 25, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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In der nächsten Woche findet der nächste Workshop des DFG-Netzwerks „Literatur & Energie“ in Bochum & Köln mit u.a. @doctoressa.bsky.social @judithrauscher.bsky.social @victoriaherche.bsky.social @untamed.bsky.social statt! Herzliche Einladung! energyandliterature.wordpress.com/events/
November 11, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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The #PopCultureInContext series is co-edited by @hermioneclone.bsky.social, @judithrauscher.bsky.social, and me, guided by the wonderful @davideisler.bsky.social. If you’ve got ideas you’d like to pitch, please get in contact with us!

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Pop Culture in Context
The Pop Culture in Context book series takes a broadly interdisciplinary approach to examine all aspects of popular culture, including mass media, fandom, and ephemera, across all media, platforms, an...
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November 15, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Yesterday,I attended the opening ceremony of the 5-year celebration of @euniwell.bsky.social, a 12-partner university alliance focused on human and ecological #Well-Being. We heard a wonderful talk by #Happiness researcher Lara Aknin & an amazing performance by the all-female vocal ensemble Aember 🤓
October 23, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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We've extended the deadline for submissions to our special issue, "Adaptations," to January 15th, 2026. Attaching the cfp here: please submit!
October 5, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Cover-reveal of the first book in the @degruyterbrill.bsky.social book series 'Pop Culture in Context' I co-edit with @lizwfab.bsky.social & @hermioneclone.bsky.social! Congrats to Vaughn @gvaughnjoy.bsky.social & many thanks to @davideisler.bsky.social,our editorial director,for all your hard work!
Everything is terrible right now in general, but in personal good news, my book has a cover and I'm so excited to share it!!!

Selling Out Santa is about Hollywood's manipulation of the Christmas holiday for socially conservative ends in the early Cold War 🗃️
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August 29, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Just finished /Nomansland/ (2010) by #LesleyHauge, which offers a take on the kind of #SingleSexNarrative I am interested in that is reminiscent of #feminist #criticalutopias from the 1980s, such as #PamelaSargent 's /The Shore of Women/ (1986) & #SheriTepper 's /The Gate to Women's Country/ (1988)
July 30, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Still on vacation in the #Sauerland, which I will from now on refer to as the German Shire! #Hiking
July 23, 2025 at 9:35 AM
On vacation in a region called the Sauerland, which I will from now on refer to as the German Midwest. #Thunderstorm
July 22, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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I am also utterly thrilled to be one of the editors of this new series, and to be working with @lizwfab.bsky.social and @judithrauscher.bsky.social ! ❤️ We can't wait to hear your pop culture book ideas!
July 14, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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I'm excited to announce that I'm co-editing the new @degruyterbrill.bsky.social book series, Pop Culture in Context, with @hermioneclone.bsky.social and @judithrauscher.bsky.social! Contact one or all of us to discuss your pop culture book ideas!

www.degruyterbrill.com/serial/pcc-b...
Pop Culture in Context
The Pop Culture in Context book series takes a broadly interdisciplinary approach to examine all aspects of popular culture, including mass media, fandom, and ephemera, across all media, platforms, an...
www.degruyterbrill.com
July 14, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Yesterday at the queer dance school
🧡💛💚💙💜

(A massive heatwave has hit Cologne 🥵)
June 30, 2025 at 6:13 AM
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Vom 23. bis 29. Juni streicht die #FUBerlin das "E", um zu zeigen, was fehlt, wenn Substanz gestrichen wird. Allein für 2025 sollen die Kürzungen rund 37 Million n uro betragen.
D r B rlin r S nat g fährd t damit L hr, Forschung und
Zukunftssich rh it.
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June 23, 2025 at 5:44 AM
#PrideMonth book display at my department's library. Come study #EnglishLiterature and/or North #AmericanStudies (Lit/Cult + #History) here at @unicologne.bsky.social, or pick the interdisciplinary M.A. in Gender & #QueerStudies and then come take classes with us.
June 18, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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Next up: a panel on "Archiving the Liberal Tradition in the United States? Contestation, Erosion, and Preservation in an Era of Political Poliarization".
#dgfa2025
June 13, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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What used to be the Karstadt department store is now a lecture hall building. Quite a nice place actually. And, more importantly, it is the place where we will be listening to @katrinhorn.bsky.social ‘s keynote lecture now. 🤗

#dgfa25 #dgfa2025 #gaas25 #gaas2025
Day 2 of the conference. Looking forward to @katrinhorn.bsky.social ‘s keynote! 🫶🏻

#dgfa25 #dgfa2025
June 13, 2025 at 7:13 AM
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a great opening; about 200 members showed up today; great conversations, amazing keynote — hyped for the next two days now!
#dgfa2025

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June 12, 2025 at 10:31 PM
For this afternoon's DGfA session, I picked a panel on "Transmedial (Un)Archiving: Poetry Transposition into New Media" with four wonderful talks featuring #poetry, visual art, film, video games & poetry by #MinaLoy, #WaltWhitman, and #SylviaPlath. #AmericanStudies #DGfA2025
June 13, 2025 at 6:45 PM
I think I picked the perfect panel for this first stream: with a focus on "Waters, Oceans, Maps: Archiving thr Environment, Environment as American #Archive", both René Dietrich & Katja Sarkowsky spoke beautifully about contemporary Indigenous #poetry. #AmericanStudies #DGfA2025
June 13, 2025 at 11:10 AM