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Judith Rauscher
@judithrauscher.bsky.social
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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
judithrauscher.bsky.social
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
Conference poster composed of lines and textures.
January 28, 2026 at 2:03 PM
judithrauscher.bsky.social
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.
A collage of six books: Holgate's /Sojourn in the City of Amalgamation/, Jack London's /The Iron Heel/… Sinclair Lewis's /It Can't Happen Here/, Suzy McKee Charnas's /Walk to the End of the World/, Atwood's /The Handmaid's Tale/, and Marge Piercy's /Woman on the Edge of Time/
January 23, 2026 at 7:38 PM
judithrauscher.bsky.social
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
Collage of three photos: me at the train station, the cover of Suzy McKee Charnas's The Slave and the Free (Walk to the End of the World & Motherlines), and a chocolate cake
January 20, 2026 at 6:57 PM
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realscientists.de
[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
judithrauscher.bsky.social
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"! 😍
Close-up of a 10-cent piece and 3 tiny books. One of them carries the title "Whitman's Poems'
January 4, 2026 at 8:23 PM
judithrauscher.bsky.social
It's been a while: Happy holidays, everyone! I hope you get to rest a bit!
Four photos of a wintry forest and landscape at sunset without snow.
December 25, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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antoniavillinger.bsky.social
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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lizwfab.bsky.social
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
judithrauscher.bsky.social
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 🤓
Photo collage of four women opening the ceremony, my name badge, a woman giving a talk and 8 women singing in formation.
October 23, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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j19journal.bsky.social
We've extended the deadline for submissions to our special issue, "Adaptations," to January 15th, 2026. Attaching the cfp here: please submit!
Cfp for special issue of J19, "Adaptations."
October 5, 2025 at 6:04 PM
judithrauscher.bsky.social
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!
gvaughnjoy.bsky.social Dr. Vaughn Joy @gvaughnjoy.bsky.social · Aug 28
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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A book cover from De Gruyter. A faded American flag's red and white stripes sets the background. In the foreground are three Christmas baubles: a darker red ball is in front coming in from the left, a white ball is behind it, and a light navy blue ball hangs behind that. White text reads the title: Selling out Santa Hollywood Christmas Films in the Age of McCarthy. On the blue ball white text reads Vaughn Joy and the series name pop culture in context
August 29, 2025 at 10:20 AM
judithrauscher.bsky.social
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)
Photo of the cover of the novel Nomansland by Lesley Hauge, which features a woman in worn clothes on a black horse shooting an arrow. A small blurb reads: "On an island of women alone, who.is the real enemy?"
July 30, 2025 at 3:10 PM
judithrauscher.bsky.social
Still on vacation in the #Sauerland, which I will from now on refer to as the German Shire! #Hiking
Photo of a rural landscape with meadows, fields, woods, and hills in the distance. There are clouds in the blue sky
July 23, 2025 at 9:35 AM
judithrauscher.bsky.social
On vacation in a region called the Sauerland, which I will from now on refer to as the German Midwest. #Thunderstorm
Photo of a yellow field with a dozen tall white wind generators. The clouds in the sky are dramatic and dark
July 22, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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hermioneclone.bsky.social
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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lizwfab.bsky.social
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!

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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...
www.degruyterbrill.com
July 14, 2025 at 3:20 PM
judithrauscher.bsky.social
Yesterday at the queer dance school
🧡💛💚💙💜

(A massive heatwave has hit Cologne 🥵)
Photo of four fans in rainbow colors held by people wearing dance shoes. The wooden floor has the markings of a school gym.
June 30, 2025 at 6:13 AM
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freieuniversitaet.bsky.social
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
judithrauscher.bsky.social
#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.
Photo of a table of books with a large progress pride flag displayed above them.
June 18, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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spychalam.bsky.social
Next up: a panel on "Archiving the Liberal Tradition in the United States? Contestation, Erosion, and Preservation in an Era of Political Poliarization".
#dgfa2025
ARCHIVING THE LIBERAL TRADITION IN THE UNITED STATES? CONTESTATION, EROSION, AND PRESERVATION IN AN ERA OF POLITICAL POLARIZATION Chair: Christian Lammert (FU Berlin) | Boris Vormann (Bard College Berlin) SPEAKERS: Julia Simon (Bremen): Setting the record straight: Efforts by far-right mothers’ groups to marginalize LGBTQI youths’ experiences in public schools Philipp Adorf (Bonn): Capturing the Courts for God: Christian Nationalism and the American Judiciary Simone Knewitz (Bonn): Who’s Afraid of Critical Race Theory? Moms for Liberty, White Identity Politics, and the Affective Rhetoric of the Right in the U.S. Burak Sezer (Dortmund): Archival Filibusterism: From Lies in Legacy Media to Bullshittery on Social Media
June 13, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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chrismey2203.bsky.social
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
chrismey2203.bsky.social Christina Meyer @chrismey2203.bsky.social · Jun 13
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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marsimekko.bsky.social
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
judithrauscher.bsky.social
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
Collage of four photos showing speakers in front of a large screen. Slides depict poetry manuscripts and paper titles.
June 13, 2025 at 6:45 PM
judithrauscher.bsky.social
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
Collage of two photos featuring Rene Dietrich and Katja Sarkowsky presenting in front of a room of people.
June 13, 2025 at 11:10 AM