Kit Bauserman
@kitbauserman.bsky.social
Ph.D. Candidate @ W&M | American Place-making & Regionalism | Spectrality | Environmental Gothic | Digital Cultures | CNU Alum | They/Them
Social Media Coordinator: Society for the Study of the American Gothic
Social Media Coordinator: Society for the Study of the American Gothic
Accidentally attempted one of the most challenging sections of this trail which I had purposefully tried to avoid and got two miles in before deciding to calling it. Slope for the path seemed too challenging and did not want to risk falling into the ocean. Still got to see some incredible views.
November 15, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Accidentally attempted one of the most challenging sections of this trail which I had purposefully tried to avoid and got two miles in before deciding to calling it. Slope for the path seemed too challenging and did not want to risk falling into the ocean. Still got to see some incredible views.
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Democrats seem to think the pivoting to the center makes them most electable but all it does it piss *everyone* off.
Having beliefs/a backbone and being authentic is the best way to win elections. People are fucking sick of croneyism and corporate suck ups and that is why Zohran cruised to victory
Having beliefs/a backbone and being authentic is the best way to win elections. People are fucking sick of croneyism and corporate suck ups and that is why Zohran cruised to victory
November 10, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Democrats seem to think the pivoting to the center makes them most electable but all it does it piss *everyone* off.
Having beliefs/a backbone and being authentic is the best way to win elections. People are fucking sick of croneyism and corporate suck ups and that is why Zohran cruised to victory
Having beliefs/a backbone and being authentic is the best way to win elections. People are fucking sick of croneyism and corporate suck ups and that is why Zohran cruised to victory
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I'm honored to receive the Loretta Lance award from the Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association. Thanks to my Disability Studies co-chair, @meredithea.bsky.social who accepted in my absence.
Picture is from a prior MAPACA trip to Philly for the (closed) Frankenstein & Dracula exhibit
Picture is from a prior MAPACA trip to Philly for the (closed) Frankenstein & Dracula exhibit
November 7, 2025 at 9:56 PM
I'm honored to receive the Loretta Lance award from the Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association. Thanks to my Disability Studies co-chair, @meredithea.bsky.social who accepted in my absence.
Picture is from a prior MAPACA trip to Philly for the (closed) Frankenstein & Dracula exhibit
Picture is from a prior MAPACA trip to Philly for the (closed) Frankenstein & Dracula exhibit
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Please join our Gothic Reading Group on November 7 @ 2:30PM EST for a discussion of Maryse Condé's I, TITUBA, BLACK WITCH OF SALEM.
Here's the Zoom registration link:
gmu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
#SSAG #GothicLiterature #ReadingGroup
Here's the Zoom registration link:
gmu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
#SSAG #GothicLiterature #ReadingGroup
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Gothic Reading Group: I, TITUBA, BLACK WITCH OF SALEM. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Gothic Reading Group: I, TITUBA, BLACK WITCH OF SALEM. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
gmu.zoom.us
November 5, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Please join our Gothic Reading Group on November 7 @ 2:30PM EST for a discussion of Maryse Condé's I, TITUBA, BLACK WITCH OF SALEM.
Here's the Zoom registration link:
gmu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
#SSAG #GothicLiterature #ReadingGroup
Here's the Zoom registration link:
gmu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
#SSAG #GothicLiterature #ReadingGroup
I found this gem in a local bookstore.
November 3, 2025 at 5:50 AM
I found this gem in a local bookstore.
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Let's Learn about types of ghosts
October 29, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Let's Learn about types of ghosts
Just submitted an application for my first ACLS fellowship. This feels surreal.
October 27, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Just submitted an application for my first ACLS fellowship. This feels surreal.
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As C.L. Nolan said: “We must acknowledge there are places where the land growls.”
October 19, 2025 at 7:00 PM
As C.L. Nolan said: “We must acknowledge there are places where the land growls.”
I need to put that Gordon Lightfoot's "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" inspired one of my dissertation chapters somewhere in the body.
October 19, 2025 at 12:22 AM
I need to put that Gordon Lightfoot's "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" inspired one of my dissertation chapters somewhere in the body.
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Please join our Gothic Reading Group on November 7 @ 2:30PM EST for a discussion of Maryse Condé's I, TITUBA, BLACK WITCH OF SALEM.
Here's the Zoom registration link:
gmu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
#SSAG #GothicLiterature #ReadingGroup
Here's the Zoom registration link:
gmu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
#SSAG #GothicLiterature #ReadingGroup
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Gothic Reading Group: I, TITUBA, BLACK WITCH OF SALEM. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Gothic Reading Group: I, TITUBA, BLACK WITCH OF SALEM. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
gmu.zoom.us
October 18, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Please join our Gothic Reading Group on November 7 @ 2:30PM EST for a discussion of Maryse Condé's I, TITUBA, BLACK WITCH OF SALEM.
Here's the Zoom registration link:
gmu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
#SSAG #GothicLiterature #ReadingGroup
Here's the Zoom registration link:
gmu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
#SSAG #GothicLiterature #ReadingGroup
I never imagined I would spend a Saturday in grad school parsing through 17th- and 18th-century sermons as part of my work on horror/American Gothic media.
October 18, 2025 at 6:53 PM
I never imagined I would spend a Saturday in grad school parsing through 17th- and 18th-century sermons as part of my work on horror/American Gothic media.
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Please join our Gothic Reading Group on November 7 @ 2:30PM EST for a discussion of Maryse Condé's I, TITUBA, BLACK WITCH OF SALEM.
Here's the Zoom registration link:
gmu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
#SSAG #GothicLiterature #ReadingGroup
Here's the Zoom registration link:
gmu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
#SSAG #GothicLiterature #ReadingGroup
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Gothic Reading Group: I, TITUBA, BLACK WITCH OF SALEM. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Gothic Reading Group: I, TITUBA, BLACK WITCH OF SALEM. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
gmu.zoom.us
October 6, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Please join our Gothic Reading Group on November 7 @ 2:30PM EST for a discussion of Maryse Condé's I, TITUBA, BLACK WITCH OF SALEM.
Here's the Zoom registration link:
gmu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
#SSAG #GothicLiterature #ReadingGroup
Here's the Zoom registration link:
gmu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
#SSAG #GothicLiterature #ReadingGroup
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“October Country... that country where it is always turning late in the year. That country where the hills are fog and the rivers are mist; where noons go quickly, dusks and twilights linger, and midnights stay."
~ Ray Bradbury
#October
~ Ray Bradbury
#October
October 1, 2025 at 1:09 AM
“October Country... that country where it is always turning late in the year. That country where the hills are fog and the rivers are mist; where noons go quickly, dusks and twilights linger, and midnights stay."
~ Ray Bradbury
#October
~ Ray Bradbury
#October
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Tomorrow is the deadline!
Proposals for our Biannual conference in Salem, MA, "American Nightmares II: Return to Salem" are due Oct. 1st, 2025. Please check our website for details:
americangothicsociety.com/symposium/
#SSAG #CFP #Conference #GothicLiterature
americangothicsociety.com/symposium/
#SSAG #CFP #Conference #GothicLiterature
American Nightmares II: Return to Salem – Society for the Study of the American Gothic
americangothicsociety.com
September 30, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Tomorrow is the deadline!
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Sydney Mortimer Laurence (1865-1940)
"The North Star" c.1920.
Oil on Canvas.
"The North Star" c.1920.
Oil on Canvas.
September 29, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Sydney Mortimer Laurence (1865-1940)
"The North Star" c.1920.
Oil on Canvas.
"The North Star" c.1920.
Oil on Canvas.
Reposted by Kit Bauserman
Proposals for our Biannual conference in Salem, MA, "American Nightmares II: Return to Salem" are due Oct. 1st, 2025. Please check our website for details:
americangothicsociety.com/symposium/
#SSAG #CFP #Conference #GothicLiterature
americangothicsociety.com/symposium/
#SSAG #CFP #Conference #GothicLiterature
American Nightmares II: Return to Salem – Society for the Study of the American Gothic
americangothicsociety.com
September 27, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Proposals for our Biannual conference in Salem, MA, "American Nightmares II: Return to Salem" are due Oct. 1st, 2025. Please check our website for details:
americangothicsociety.com/symposium/
#SSAG #CFP #Conference #GothicLiterature
americangothicsociety.com/symposium/
#SSAG #CFP #Conference #GothicLiterature
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neurodiversity is Good Actually. just want to say that
September 22, 2025 at 7:10 PM
neurodiversity is Good Actually. just want to say that
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This weekend, we had a talk on American Witch Hunts and the ways in which they appear in Sylvia Plath's work. You can watch it here - youtu.be/4TGmvHsVVck
Sylvia Plath and the American Witch Hunts with Dorka Tamas
YouTube video by Romancing the Gothic
youtu.be
September 17, 2025 at 11:12 PM
This weekend, we had a talk on American Witch Hunts and the ways in which they appear in Sylvia Plath's work. You can watch it here - youtu.be/4TGmvHsVVck
Just finished what I am hoping is the final draft of my dissertation proposal. Man, this has changed a lot since I started drafting it last Christmas.
September 17, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Just finished what I am hoping is the final draft of my dissertation proposal. Man, this has changed a lot since I started drafting it last Christmas.
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For the 50th anniversary of Stephen King’s The Shining, eds. Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock and Tony Magistrale solicit chapter proposals for an edited collection Fifty Years of The Shining: New Essays. Proposals are welcome on any aspects of the novel, adaptations, paratexts, and cultural influence.
September 17, 2025 at 5:32 PM
For the 50th anniversary of Stephen King’s The Shining, eds. Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock and Tony Magistrale solicit chapter proposals for an edited collection Fifty Years of The Shining: New Essays. Proposals are welcome on any aspects of the novel, adaptations, paratexts, and cultural influence.
I have gone from watching someone play a horror game set on an oil rig to reading about summer camps around the turn of the century for my proposal. I can only imagine how weird this change of topic must look to anyone else
September 17, 2025 at 6:04 AM
I have gone from watching someone play a horror game set on an oil rig to reading about summer camps around the turn of the century for my proposal. I can only imagine how weird this change of topic must look to anyone else
I don't care what anyone says, watching Jacksepticeye's playthrough of Still Wakes the Deep counts as work for my diss proposal.
September 16, 2025 at 4:10 AM
I don't care what anyone says, watching Jacksepticeye's playthrough of Still Wakes the Deep counts as work for my diss proposal.
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Please don't forget, and don't let anyone else forget, they did this openly.
Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."
September 13, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Please don't forget, and don't let anyone else forget, they did this openly.
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American Gothic Studies is seeking contributions for our "EXHUMATIONS" section.
Exhumations present new editions of American Gothic texts (max 12K words) that have been lost, forgotten, overlooked, or otherwise unavailable to contemporary readers.
Exhumations present new editions of American Gothic texts (max 12K words) that have been lost, forgotten, overlooked, or otherwise unavailable to contemporary readers.
September 6, 2025 at 2:18 PM
American Gothic Studies is seeking contributions for our "EXHUMATIONS" section.
Exhumations present new editions of American Gothic texts (max 12K words) that have been lost, forgotten, overlooked, or otherwise unavailable to contemporary readers.
Exhumations present new editions of American Gothic texts (max 12K words) that have been lost, forgotten, overlooked, or otherwise unavailable to contemporary readers.