Dr. Kersti Francis (she/they)
@kersti.bsky.social
Premodernist, nerd, Mawrter, English postdoc at Boston U Society of Fellows. Research: identity studies, the history of science, canon law, and med/ren comparative lit. WIP: Queer Magic: Sodomy, Sin, and the Supernatural, 1150-1650 🏳️🌈🇱🇻
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this thread tho
September 29, 2024 at 11:51 AM
this thread tho
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Like many things, I always like “having written” a lot.
“Writing” isn’t such a sure thing.
“Writing” isn’t such a sure thing.
writing is so funny it’s like “this is my favorite thing to do in the world and my dream” “okay then do it right now” “no thanks I would rather do literally anything else”
October 10, 2024 at 8:23 PM
Like many things, I always like “having written” a lot.
“Writing” isn’t such a sure thing.
“Writing” isn’t such a sure thing.
She’s a banger okay
November 30, 2023 at 12:10 AM
She’s a banger okay
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the NSF's own numbers show that in research expenditures per GDP the US now ranks only 23rd in the world; massive defunding of basic research across arts and sciences is afoot
The big move in the humanities funding world that people are finally talking about is Mellon abandoning humanities research in the academy. But the other big move is that the SSRC is also leaving behind support for the humanistic social sciences in favor of policy.
Saw an announcement about a new fellowship for "policy-relevant causal research designed to innovate and evaluate cost-effective and scalable policy solutions" and then went poking around the org's website; was struck by the extent to which this seems to be the focus now www.ssrc.org/programs/arn...
November 14, 2023 at 12:48 PM
the NSF's own numbers show that in research expenditures per GDP the US now ranks only 23rd in the world; massive defunding of basic research across arts and sciences is afoot
Feeling v grateful today for UCLA/Harvard faculty who provided me with free (!!) access to all of Harvard’s library resources, including quiet study.
(It’s not the Powell Reading Room but it’ll do 😉)
(It’s not the Powell Reading Room but it’ll do 😉)
November 14, 2023 at 3:44 PM
Feeling v grateful today for UCLA/Harvard faculty who provided me with free (!!) access to all of Harvard’s library resources, including quiet study.
(It’s not the Powell Reading Room but it’ll do 😉)
(It’s not the Powell Reading Room but it’ll do 😉)
Having a fun full-circle research moment: 8 years ago as a first-year grad student I attended a conference on rethinking the value of 15th C literature and was VERY out of my depth. For the new article I’m writing I’m returning to those conversations and realizing I have lots to add— a cool feeling!
November 6, 2023 at 8:58 PM
Having a fun full-circle research moment: 8 years ago as a first-year grad student I attended a conference on rethinking the value of 15th C literature and was VERY out of my depth. For the new article I’m writing I’m returning to those conversations and realizing I have lots to add— a cool feeling!
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As I continue to say: at the schools slashing humanities programs, look at where the admins went to college, as well as where they send their own children. They have no problem narrowing the horizons for other people's kids because they and theirs remain untouched by the consequences.
November 3, 2023 at 4:11 PM
As I continue to say: at the schools slashing humanities programs, look at where the admins went to college, as well as where they send their own children. They have no problem narrowing the horizons for other people's kids because they and theirs remain untouched by the consequences.
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Daylight Saving Time is increasingly hard to notice when my digital devices are like, "What? Nothing happened. We know what time it is."
And my stove is left blinking and screaming, "IT HAPPENED! TIME SHIFTED UNNATURALLY! THEY'RE ALL LYING! ONLY I KNOW! ONLY I REMEMBER!"
And my stove is left blinking and screaming, "IT HAPPENED! TIME SHIFTED UNNATURALLY! THEY'RE ALL LYING! ONLY I KNOW! ONLY I REMEMBER!"
November 5, 2023 at 2:04 PM
Daylight Saving Time is increasingly hard to notice when my digital devices are like, "What? Nothing happened. We know what time it is."
And my stove is left blinking and screaming, "IT HAPPENED! TIME SHIFTED UNNATURALLY! THEY'RE ALL LYING! ONLY I KNOW! ONLY I REMEMBER!"
And my stove is left blinking and screaming, "IT HAPPENED! TIME SHIFTED UNNATURALLY! THEY'RE ALL LYING! ONLY I KNOW! ONLY I REMEMBER!"
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A real party happening at Yale next week. "What is a Colonial Archive?"
I'm leading the materials workshop - and have chosen a nice array of Ethiopic, South Asian, East Asian, Latin American, and North American indigenous materials to get us going!
materialhistories.yale.edu/news/what-co...
I'm leading the materials workshop - and have chosen a nice array of Ethiopic, South Asian, East Asian, Latin American, and North American indigenous materials to get us going!
materialhistories.yale.edu/news/what-co...
November 3, 2023 at 2:14 PM
A real party happening at Yale next week. "What is a Colonial Archive?"
I'm leading the materials workshop - and have chosen a nice array of Ethiopic, South Asian, East Asian, Latin American, and North American indigenous materials to get us going!
materialhistories.yale.edu/news/what-co...
I'm leading the materials workshop - and have chosen a nice array of Ethiopic, South Asian, East Asian, Latin American, and North American indigenous materials to get us going!
materialhistories.yale.edu/news/what-co...
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"The Alchemy Lecture seeks to harness the spirit of this ancient endeavour to foster new ways of thinking about the most pressing issues of our times. In its original form, alchemy focused on combining elements to yield a compound that would inspire change and, in some instances, grant immortality."
November 3, 2023 at 12:39 PM
"The Alchemy Lecture seeks to harness the spirit of this ancient endeavour to foster new ways of thinking about the most pressing issues of our times. In its original form, alchemy focused on combining elements to yield a compound that would inspire change and, in some instances, grant immortality."
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"The Alchemy Lecture is a multi-vocal model that brings together a constellation of five
thinkers and practitioners from different disciplines and geographies annually to think together and in public on the most pressing issues of our times."
#YUAlchemy2023
Live Now
www.youtube.com/live/WQMVcZm...
thinkers and practitioners from different disciplines and geographies annually to think together and in public on the most pressing issues of our times."
#YUAlchemy2023
Live Now
www.youtube.com/live/WQMVcZm...
The Alchemy Lecture: Five Manifestos for the Beautiful World
The Canada Research Chair in Black Studies in the Humanities, the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, and York University are proud to be hosting...
www.youtube.com
November 2, 2023 at 11:16 PM
"The Alchemy Lecture is a multi-vocal model that brings together a constellation of five
thinkers and practitioners from different disciplines and geographies annually to think together and in public on the most pressing issues of our times."
#YUAlchemy2023
Live Now
www.youtube.com/live/WQMVcZm...
thinkers and practitioners from different disciplines and geographies annually to think together and in public on the most pressing issues of our times."
#YUAlchemy2023
Live Now
www.youtube.com/live/WQMVcZm...
Was way too excited to learn more about modern alchemists but… that’s not what this is 😂 my bad
Starting now LIVE
"The Alchemy Lecture: Five Manifestos for the Beautiful World"
The lecture will be delivered by 5 alchemists:
Joseph M. Pierce,
Phoebe Boswell,
Cristina Rivera Garza,
Saidiya Hartman and
Janaína Oliveira.
Moderator: Christina Sharpe
www.youtube.com/live/WQMVcZm...
"The Alchemy Lecture: Five Manifestos for the Beautiful World"
The lecture will be delivered by 5 alchemists:
Joseph M. Pierce,
Phoebe Boswell,
Cristina Rivera Garza,
Saidiya Hartman and
Janaína Oliveira.
Moderator: Christina Sharpe
www.youtube.com/live/WQMVcZm...
The Alchemy Lecture: Five Manifestos for the Beautiful World
The Canada Research Chair in Black Studies in the Humanities, the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, and York University are proud to be hosting...
www.youtube.com
November 3, 2023 at 12:28 PM
Was way too excited to learn more about modern alchemists but… that’s not what this is 😂 my bad
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58 years ago Sunday LBJ released a report from a group of experts on atmospheric carbon dioxide.
"Through his worldwide industrial civilization, Man is unwittingly conducting a vast geophysical experiment" that could produce "climatic changes... deleterious from the point of view of human beings."
"Through his worldwide industrial civilization, Man is unwittingly conducting a vast geophysical experiment" that could produce "climatic changes... deleterious from the point of view of human beings."
DocumentCloud
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November 2, 2023 at 6:02 PM
58 years ago Sunday LBJ released a report from a group of experts on atmospheric carbon dioxide.
"Through his worldwide industrial civilization, Man is unwittingly conducting a vast geophysical experiment" that could produce "climatic changes... deleterious from the point of view of human beings."
"Through his worldwide industrial civilization, Man is unwittingly conducting a vast geophysical experiment" that could produce "climatic changes... deleterious from the point of view of human beings."
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Jack Doyle and I put together a reading list for a workshop on Teaching Trans History that we ran at the Oxford History Faculty last week (featuring Kit Heyam as our wonderful guest speaker). Here's the reading list! docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Teaching Trans History Reading List & Resources
Teaching Trans History Reading List and Resources This non-exhaustive reading list is intended to offer practical tools and resources to academics wanting to include more trans history in university...
docs.google.com
November 2, 2023 at 6:19 PM
Jack Doyle and I put together a reading list for a workshop on Teaching Trans History that we ran at the Oxford History Faculty last week (featuring Kit Heyam as our wonderful guest speaker). Here's the reading list! docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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I keep thinking about this article and about how the types of work the techbros keep trying to convince us AI is good at (communication, art) are fields that are thought of as, to some degree, feminine. I don’t have a well formed thought here but it’s striking to me
surely it’s impossible that on average, women use AI tools less because they are better at recognizing idiot techbro hype-vomit than endlessly gullible men are
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-67217915
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-67217915
November 2, 2023 at 9:43 PM
I keep thinking about this article and about how the types of work the techbros keep trying to convince us AI is good at (communication, art) are fields that are thought of as, to some degree, feminine. I don’t have a well formed thought here but it’s striking to me
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when you're watching masterpiece mystery and a boy's choir is singing a hymn you know shit's about to go down
November 3, 2023 at 3:55 AM
when you're watching masterpiece mystery and a boy's choir is singing a hymn you know shit's about to go down
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Please repost and spread the word. Putting this list together is one of my favorite things ever AND it’s also a great occasion to remind lit studies scholars that MLA has an Indie Scholar Book Prize! Few orgs do and it’s important recognition of the work contingent/NTT scholars do.
Good news, friends! @hartmann-villalta.bsky.social and I are once again collecting a list of *literary studies* publications by contingent (and indie) scholars pub’d in 2023. Thank you @contingent-mag.bsky.social & @erinbartram.bsky.social for this great opp! Reply here with your pub deets or email.
A reminder that we're collecting submissions for our 2023 lists of monographs, journal articles, and book chapters written by historians working off the tenure track. Submit your own, or add a friend's work. Journal and UP editors should submit their press/journal's work too!
November 3, 2023 at 11:34 AM
Please repost and spread the word. Putting this list together is one of my favorite things ever AND it’s also a great occasion to remind lit studies scholars that MLA has an Indie Scholar Book Prize! Few orgs do and it’s important recognition of the work contingent/NTT scholars do.
I’m not a “cool” academic in that I find writing super painful, but is there anything more fun than ransacking the library for the first sources of a new project?
(Like most of my interests, it involves demons… and drama!)
(Like most of my interests, it involves demons… and drama!)
November 2, 2023 at 4:51 PM
I’m not a “cool” academic in that I find writing super painful, but is there anything more fun than ransacking the library for the first sources of a new project?
(Like most of my interests, it involves demons… and drama!)
(Like most of my interests, it involves demons… and drama!)
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October 31, 2023 at 2:22 PM
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For Halloween, one of my favourite fancy dress costumes in history
George J. Nicholls going to Covent Garden ball dressed as a side of bacon (1894). He later published a book, ‘Bacon & Hams'
I guess he just loved bacon 🥓🥓🥓 🗃️🎃
George J. Nicholls going to Covent Garden ball dressed as a side of bacon (1894). He later published a book, ‘Bacon & Hams'
I guess he just loved bacon 🥓🥓🥓 🗃️🎃
October 31, 2023 at 7:57 AM
For Halloween, one of my favourite fancy dress costumes in history
George J. Nicholls going to Covent Garden ball dressed as a side of bacon (1894). He later published a book, ‘Bacon & Hams'
I guess he just loved bacon 🥓🥓🥓 🗃️🎃
George J. Nicholls going to Covent Garden ball dressed as a side of bacon (1894). He later published a book, ‘Bacon & Hams'
I guess he just loved bacon 🥓🥓🥓 🗃️🎃
Happy Halloween from my 2/5 of my witchy writing group! 🎃🧙🏻♀️
October 31, 2023 at 4:25 PM
Happy Halloween from my 2/5 of my witchy writing group! 🎃🧙🏻♀️
It only took three months and I’m a Dunkin Donuts convert for my all-season iced coffee 🏳️🌈 (It helps that here in MA there’s one literally every five minutes)
October 30, 2023 at 3:19 PM
It only took three months and I’m a Dunkin Donuts convert for my all-season iced coffee 🏳️🌈 (It helps that here in MA there’s one literally every five minutes)