KLC
@klculkin.bsky.social
Historian, biographer, teacher, cat fan, New Yorker. Prof at Bronx Community College and @bam-bio-mem.bsky.social & @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social Author of Emerson's Daughters from @umasspress.bsky.social
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Kate Culkin in Conversation with Megan Marshall: The Art of Biography and Emerson’s Daughters | Thoreau Farm
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What an honor to have the brilliant biographer Megan Marshall agree to be in conversation with me at Thoreau Farm. Nov. 20--in person and streaming. thoreaufarm.org/emersons-dau... #lifewriting #thoreau #ralphwaldoemerson @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social
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Great interview with BAM students Ausma Palmer and Meghan Racklin on their Eating Disorders in Life Writing Conference, to be held Friday 11/7, 9:30 to 5 pm at the CUNY Graduate Center:
www.gc.cuny.edu/news/student...
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Students Turn Personal Experience into Scholarship With Conference on Eating Disorders and Life Writing
Biography and Memoir master’s students Meghan Racklin and Ausma Palmer bring new voices and perspectives to an overlooked and sensitive topic in memoir studies.
www.gc.cuny.edu
November 5, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Great interview with BAM students Ausma Palmer and Meghan Racklin on their Eating Disorders in Life Writing Conference, to be held Friday 11/7, 9:30 to 5 pm at the CUNY Graduate Center:
www.gc.cuny.edu/news/student...
www.gc.cuny.edu/news/student...
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NBC New York is just one of many news outlets featuring the Center for Urban Research’s fantastic election results map!
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How did your neighborhood vote for NYC mayor? See breakdown by election district
The results are in. Zohran Mamdani was elected the next New York City mayor Tuesday night, capping a stunning ascent for the 34-year-old leftist. His economic and anti-establishment views resonated wi...
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November 6, 2025 at 8:15 PM
NBC New York is just one of many news outlets featuring the Center for Urban Research’s fantastic election results map!
www.nbcnewyork.com/news/politic...
www.nbcnewyork.com/news/politic...
Love it that @umasspress.bsky.social is suggesting Emerson's Daughters as the gift "for the feminist" in your life. 40% off with the code HOLIDAY until Jan. 3. #lifewriting www.umasspress.com/tis-the-seas...
'Tis the season for giving books! Our annual holiday sale has arrived! - University of Massachusetts Press
The holidays are fast approaching, which means that it’s time for our annual holiday sale! In case you’re not sure what to buy, we’ve curated a list of
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November 4, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Love it that @umasspress.bsky.social is suggesting Emerson's Daughters as the gift "for the feminist" in your life. 40% off with the code HOLIDAY until Jan. 3. #lifewriting www.umasspress.com/tis-the-seas...
Great line up of classes in the fall for @bam-bio-mem.bsky.social @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social
Spring 2026 Classes in the Biography and Memoir MA Program!
November 3, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Great line up of classes in the fall for @bam-bio-mem.bsky.social @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social
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Nov 13, 3pm-4:30pm @gctlc.bsky.social x PS2 @humanitiescuny.bsky.social present Sip n Chat F25 edition. Celebrating our 2025 ERI/PS2 Summer Public Research Fellows & TLC Fellows
Open to all students @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social — chat with your peers, snack away, & create community with us
Open to all students @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social — chat with your peers, snack away, & create community with us
October 29, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Nov 13, 3pm-4:30pm @gctlc.bsky.social x PS2 @humanitiescuny.bsky.social present Sip n Chat F25 edition. Celebrating our 2025 ERI/PS2 Summer Public Research Fellows & TLC Fellows
Open to all students @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social — chat with your peers, snack away, & create community with us
Open to all students @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social — chat with your peers, snack away, & create community with us
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This special issue focuses on testimonio as a genre that is inextricably connected to gender, class, and ethnicity and is used by women from the Américas to claim their agency while challenging multiple forms of oppression.
For more information:
centerforthehumanities.org/wsq-testimon...
For more information:
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October 29, 2025 at 7:32 PM
This special issue focuses on testimonio as a genre that is inextricably connected to gender, class, and ethnicity and is used by women from the Américas to claim their agency while challenging multiple forms of oppression.
For more information:
centerforthehumanities.org/wsq-testimon...
For more information:
centerforthehumanities.org/wsq-testimon...
Today!
TOMORROW: Wednesday 10/29 from 3-4pm in @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social Room 6203.02: Join us for a conversation on oral history, friendship, and social movement research with faculty member Dr. Benjamin H. Shepard, where he'll discuss his latest book!
@commonnotions.bsky.social
@commonnotions.bsky.social
October 29, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Today!
Happy publication day to @thewaroncars.bsky.social (Co-authored by @bam-bio-mem.bsky.social & @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social alum extraordinaire @sgoodyear.bsky.social )
It's finally here! "Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves From the Tyranny of the Automobile" is now available wherever you buy books. Thank you to everyone who has made this day possible, including our amazing podcast listeners. We hope everyone finds the book valuable!
www.lifeaftercars.com
www.lifeaftercars.com
October 21, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Happy publication day to @thewaroncars.bsky.social (Co-authored by @bam-bio-mem.bsky.social & @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social alum extraordinaire @sgoodyear.bsky.social )
What an honor to have the brilliant biographer Megan Marshall agree to be in conversation with me at Thoreau Farm. Nov. 20--in person and streaming. thoreaufarm.org/emersons-dau... #lifewriting #thoreau #ralphwaldoemerson @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social
Kate Culkin in Conversation with Megan Marshall: The Art of Biography and Emerson’s Daughters | Thoreau Farm
thoreaufarm.org
October 21, 2025 at 3:33 PM
What an honor to have the brilliant biographer Megan Marshall agree to be in conversation with me at Thoreau Farm. Nov. 20--in person and streaming. thoreaufarm.org/emersons-dau... #lifewriting #thoreau #ralphwaldoemerson @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social
The Ralph Waldo Emerson has scheduled two more tours of its exhibit on Ellen Tucker Emerson and Edith Emerson Forbes, after the first two sold out. Oct. 25 at 11 and 2. #ralphwaldoemerson #lifewriting
Emerson's Daughters: An Author's Tour of the Emerson House
Visit the Ralph Waldo Emerson House on October 25, 2025 for a special guided tour of the Ellen & Edith Exhibition with Kate Culkin, the author of Emerson’s Daughters. Ticket reservations are recommend...
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October 4, 2025 at 11:38 AM
The Ralph Waldo Emerson has scheduled two more tours of its exhibit on Ellen Tucker Emerson and Edith Emerson Forbes, after the first two sold out. Oct. 25 at 11 and 2. #ralphwaldoemerson #lifewriting
An amazing piece by Mollie Barnes and Susanna Ashton about a staircase central to Harriet Jacobs' narrative. #harrietjacobs #materialculture
A staircase in a small, decorative arts museum tells a harrowing story of terror, abuse and enslavement
The staircase was originally acquired due to its craftsmanship. Only later did scholars realize that it was where Harriet Jacobs suffered abuse at the hands of her enslaver.
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September 30, 2025 at 1:39 PM
An amazing piece by Mollie Barnes and Susanna Ashton about a staircase central to Harriet Jacobs' narrative. #harrietjacobs #materialculture
Tuesday!
I'll be in conversation with Pat Valenti--biographer of Sophia Peabody Hawthorne and Rose Hawthorne Lathrop-on Sept 30. Sponsored by the Victorian Society of NY @umasspress.bsky.social @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social #lifewriting vicsocny.org/calendar/bey...
Beyond Self-Reliance: Biography, Recovery, and Women’s Contributions to the American Renaissance | The Metropolitan Chapter of the Victorian Society in America
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September 30, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Tuesday!
Reminder! I'm speaking at the Concord Free Public Library on Sept. 25. In person and also live streamed. This wonderful library was critical to my research for Emerson's Daughters. @umasspress.bsky.social #lifewriting
Emerson’s Daughters - Ellen Tucker Emerson, Edith Emerson Forbes, and Their Family Legacy
You are registering to attend this event in person. [Register for Live Stream]Professor Kate Culkin will discuss her new book, Emerson’s Daughters - Ellen Tucker Emerson, Edith Emerson Forbes, and T...
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September 24, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Reminder! I'm speaking at the Concord Free Public Library on Sept. 25. In person and also live streamed. This wonderful library was critical to my research for Emerson's Daughters. @umasspress.bsky.social #lifewriting
This conference is being organized by two wonderful students in the @bam-bio-mem.bsky.social program @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social Should be great. #lifewriting
September 15, 2025 at 12:15 PM
This conference is being organized by two wonderful students in the @bam-bio-mem.bsky.social program @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social Should be great. #lifewriting
Loved seeing this article honoring Richard Smith, a talented historian of Concord who is retiring from the role of Thoreau. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/s...
A Thoreau Impersonator Bids a Fond Farewell to Walden Pond
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September 12, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Loved seeing this article honoring Richard Smith, a talented historian of Concord who is retiring from the role of Thoreau. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/s...
Thank you to Discover Concord for this thoughtful review of Emerson's Daughters. www.discoverconcordma.com/articles/707... @umasspress.bsky.social #lifewriting
Emerson’s Daughters: A Book Review
In her engaging biography, Emerson’s Daughters, Kate Culkin brings out of the shadows two of “Concord’s favorite daughters,” Ellen and Edith, who had a “sisterhood built on correspondence,” and whose ...
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September 7, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Thank you to Discover Concord for this thoughtful review of Emerson's Daughters. www.discoverconcordma.com/articles/707... @umasspress.bsky.social #lifewriting
Can't wait for this event @cuny.edu next Tuesday. #lifewriting
Log fwd to talking with @aleliabundles.bsky.social for the Leon Levy Center for Biography (@thegraduatecenter.bsky.social) about her book, "Joy Goddess: A'Lelia Walker and the Harlem Renaissance," Tue, Sept 9, 2025, at 6:30pm.
Register here (in-person or virtual):
www.gc.cuny.edu/events/aleli...
Register here (in-person or virtual):
www.gc.cuny.edu/events/aleli...
A'Lelia Bundles on A'Lelia Walker in conversation with Eric K. Washington
Dubbed the “joy goddess of Harlem’s 1920s” by poet Langston Hughes, A’Lelia Walker, daughter of millionaire entrepreneur Madam C.J.
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September 6, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Can't wait for this event @cuny.edu next Tuesday. #lifewriting
I'll be leading two tours at the Emerson's House on Sept. 28. Join me! rwema.ticketspice.com/emerson-hous... @umasspress.bsky.social @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social
Emerson's Daughters: An Author's Tour of the Emerson House
Visit the Ralph Waldo Emerson House on September 28, 2025 for a special guided tour of the Ellen & Edith Exhibition with Kate Culkin, the author of Emerson’s Daughters. Ticket reservations are recomme...
rwema.ticketspice.com
September 5, 2025 at 9:44 PM
I'll be leading two tours at the Emerson's House on Sept. 28. Join me! rwema.ticketspice.com/emerson-hous... @umasspress.bsky.social @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social
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Academics! Tell me! What are your favorite AI guidelines, approaches, policies? We're crowd-sourcing favs! padlet.com/huntercolleg...
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August 26, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Academics! Tell me! What are your favorite AI guidelines, approaches, policies? We're crowd-sourcing favs! padlet.com/huntercolleg...
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part two of my trip into Ginsberg, audiotape, war, rock, &c.
Allen Ginsberg's 1965
In my last post (see above), I was writing about Allen Ginsberg’s audiotape experiments, which he began in late 1965 and produced one of his greatest poems the following year, “Wichita Vortex Sutra.” ...
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July 15, 2025 at 8:31 PM
part two of my trip into Ginsberg, audiotape, war, rock, &c.
I'll be in conversation with Pat Valenti--biographer of Sophia Peabody Hawthorne and Rose Hawthorne Lathrop-on Sept 30. Sponsored by the Victorian Society of NY @umasspress.bsky.social @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social #lifewriting vicsocny.org/calendar/bey...
Beyond Self-Reliance: Biography, Recovery, and Women’s Contributions to the American Renaissance | The Metropolitan Chapter of the Victorian Society in America
vicsocny.org
August 29, 2025 at 10:53 AM
I'll be in conversation with Pat Valenti--biographer of Sophia Peabody Hawthorne and Rose Hawthorne Lathrop-on Sept 30. Sponsored by the Victorian Society of NY @umasspress.bsky.social @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social #lifewriting vicsocny.org/calendar/bey...
Great opportunity! Several @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social & @bam-bio-mem.bsky.social have won in the past. #lifewriting womenwritingwomenslives.org/kathy-chambe...
Call for Applications 2026-2027 | WOMEN WRITING WOMEN'S LIVES
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August 29, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Great opportunity! Several @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social & @bam-bio-mem.bsky.social have won in the past. #lifewriting womenwritingwomenslives.org/kathy-chambe...
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All invited: I'm giving a talk for the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum on Wednesday, September 3, 11:00 am EST. Free but you need to register. @bamcuny.bsky.social @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social @cuny.edu
www.okeeffemuseum.org/events/morni...
www.okeeffemuseum.org/events/morni...
Mornings with O'Keeffe | Georgia O’Keeffe at The Art Students League - The Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
“Then there was a year of painting at the Art Students League.” Join Linda M. Grasso as she discusses Georgia O’Keeffe’s first year in New…
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August 22, 2025 at 3:15 PM
All invited: I'm giving a talk for the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum on Wednesday, September 3, 11:00 am EST. Free but you need to register. @bamcuny.bsky.social @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social @cuny.edu
www.okeeffemuseum.org/events/morni...
www.okeeffemuseum.org/events/morni...
I'm excited to speak about Emerson's Daughters at the Concord Free Public Library on Sept. 25. I'll be focusing how I used their amazing special collections. Not in Concord? You can attend by Zoom--registration link in comments. #lifewriting #biography #emerson @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social
Emerson’s Daughters - Ellen Tucker Emerson, Edith Emerson Forbes, and Their Family Legacy
Professor Kate Culkin will discuss her new book, Emerson’s Daughters - Ellen Tucker Emerson, Edith Emerson Forbes, and Their Family Legacy (University of Massachusetts Press, July 2025). She will fo...
concordlibrary.assabetinteractive.com
August 19, 2025 at 1:07 PM
I'm excited to speak about Emerson's Daughters at the Concord Free Public Library on Sept. 25. I'll be focusing how I used their amazing special collections. Not in Concord? You can attend by Zoom--registration link in comments. #lifewriting #biography #emerson @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social
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The Graduate Center is pleased to announce a new Advanced Certificate in Public Scholarship, which will prepare our students to conduct community-engaged and public-facing scholarship www.gc.cuny.edu/news/new-cer... @cunygcps2.bsky.social @humanitiescuny.bsky.social @prithik.bsky.social
New Certificate Supports Public-Facing and Community-Based Scholarship
Open to matriculated students, the program builds on the Graduate Center’s strengths and emphasizes in-demand skills for careers in and beyond academia.
www.gc.cuny.edu
August 12, 2025 at 2:16 PM
The Graduate Center is pleased to announce a new Advanced Certificate in Public Scholarship, which will prepare our students to conduct community-engaged and public-facing scholarship www.gc.cuny.edu/news/new-cer... @cunygcps2.bsky.social @humanitiescuny.bsky.social @prithik.bsky.social