Laura Kolb
@laurakolb.bsky.social
early modernist, mostly
https://laurakolb.com/
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Gorgeous looking student production of "Glassheart" at USC!
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November 3, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Gorgeous looking student production of "Glassheart" at USC!
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I wrote about the divide between high school and college English, and what we might do to bridge it, for @publicbooks.bsky.social—part of an excellent roundtable on higher ed under Trump organized by @dennismhogan.bsky.social
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Toward the Higher- and Secondary-Ed Alliance! - Public Books
The influence of K-12 policy and pedagogy on higher ed can perhaps be seen best in the trickle-up effect of the standards of the Common Core.
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October 10, 2025 at 4:39 PM
I wrote about the divide between high school and college English, and what we might do to bridge it, for @publicbooks.bsky.social—part of an excellent roundtable on higher ed under Trump organized by @dennismhogan.bsky.social
www.publicbooks.org/toward-the-h...
www.publicbooks.org/toward-the-h...
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If you are a supporter and reader of @contingent-mag.bsky.social one of the biggest things you can do to help us at the moment is get this CFP to the NTT folks in your life. The fracturing of social media has made it very difficult to get the word out esp. to adjuncts and VAPs.
CFP: A Time of Monsters
The monster has been here all along. It is a historical constant that manifests in wildly different ways across time, place, and culture. Whatever form it takes, the monster claws at categories; it un...
contingentmagazine.org
October 5, 2025 at 9:41 PM
If you are a supporter and reader of @contingent-mag.bsky.social one of the biggest things you can do to help us at the moment is get this CFP to the NTT folks in your life. The fracturing of social media has made it very difficult to get the word out esp. to adjuncts and VAPs.
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Who did what in early modern England?
New #OpenAccess book, 'The Experience of Work in Early Modern England' by @jwhittle.bsky.social, @markhailwood.bsky.social, @hkrobb.bsky.social & @aucointaylor.bsky.social, based on thousands of #EarlyModern court depositions 🗃️
Read it: doi.org/10.1017/9781...
New #OpenAccess book, 'The Experience of Work in Early Modern England' by @jwhittle.bsky.social, @markhailwood.bsky.social, @hkrobb.bsky.social & @aucointaylor.bsky.social, based on thousands of #EarlyModern court depositions 🗃️
Read it: doi.org/10.1017/9781...
October 2, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Who did what in early modern England?
New #OpenAccess book, 'The Experience of Work in Early Modern England' by @jwhittle.bsky.social, @markhailwood.bsky.social, @hkrobb.bsky.social & @aucointaylor.bsky.social, based on thousands of #EarlyModern court depositions 🗃️
Read it: doi.org/10.1017/9781...
New #OpenAccess book, 'The Experience of Work in Early Modern England' by @jwhittle.bsky.social, @markhailwood.bsky.social, @hkrobb.bsky.social & @aucointaylor.bsky.social, based on thousands of #EarlyModern court depositions 🗃️
Read it: doi.org/10.1017/9781...
I have been browsing AL Daily ever since I discovered the joy—the necessity—of wasting time on the internet at my sad, gray, post-college office job. And now look! 2003 me would be proud
October 2, 2025 at 2:11 PM
I have been browsing AL Daily ever since I discovered the joy—the necessity—of wasting time on the internet at my sad, gray, post-college office job. And now look! 2003 me would be proud
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The English Department at Hunter College, CUNY is very happy to announce a Tenure Track position in #Medieval British Literature at the Assistant Professor level. Applications from scholars in interdisciplinary and/or global approaches are especially encouraged to apply.
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Jobs | City University of New York
cuny.jobs
October 1, 2025 at 9:23 PM
The English Department at Hunter College, CUNY is very happy to announce a Tenure Track position in #Medieval British Literature at the Assistant Professor level. Applications from scholars in interdisciplinary and/or global approaches are especially encouraged to apply.
cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/...
cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/...
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YES! THIS on GenAI!
Please read this absolutely splendid piece of writing that had me cheering, a little bit weepy, and writing in the margins:
"An extraordinary amount of money is spent by the AI industry to ensure that acquiescence is the only plausible response. But marketing is not destiny."
Please read this absolutely splendid piece of writing that had me cheering, a little bit weepy, and writing in the margins:
"An extraordinary amount of money is spent by the AI industry to ensure that acquiescence is the only plausible response. But marketing is not destiny."
Large Language Muddle | The Editors
The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...
www.nplusonemag.com
September 29, 2025 at 7:07 PM
YES! THIS on GenAI!
Please read this absolutely splendid piece of writing that had me cheering, a little bit weepy, and writing in the margins:
"An extraordinary amount of money is spent by the AI industry to ensure that acquiescence is the only plausible response. But marketing is not destiny."
Please read this absolutely splendid piece of writing that had me cheering, a little bit weepy, and writing in the margins:
"An extraordinary amount of money is spent by the AI industry to ensure that acquiescence is the only plausible response. But marketing is not destiny."
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How old is the Phantom of the Opera supposed to be? Get into the weeds with me and Lord Andy on Phantom age gap discourse: open.substack.com/pub/reinahar...
Phantom Age Gap Discourse
What lies between an ingenue and an Opera Ghost?
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September 27, 2025 at 6:41 PM
How old is the Phantom of the Opera supposed to be? Get into the weeds with me and Lord Andy on Phantom age gap discourse: open.substack.com/pub/reinahar...
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CONLADIES OF HISTORY UNITE!
Laura Kolb writes @publicdomainrev about a 17th Century "German Princess" who could give Anna Delvey a run for someone else's money. publicdomainreview.org/essay/mary-c...
Laura Kolb writes @publicdomainrev about a 17th Century "German Princess" who could give Anna Delvey a run for someone else's money. publicdomainreview.org/essay/mary-c...
“You Think Me a Bold Cheat”: Mary Carleton, Counterfeit Princess
Accused of posing as foreign royalty to lure her young suitor into a bigamous marriage, Mary Carleton was the subject of dozens of pamphlets and broadsides published in the mid-17th century,…
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September 20, 2025 at 1:09 PM
CONLADIES OF HISTORY UNITE!
Laura Kolb writes @publicdomainrev about a 17th Century "German Princess" who could give Anna Delvey a run for someone else's money. publicdomainreview.org/essay/mary-c...
Laura Kolb writes @publicdomainrev about a 17th Century "German Princess" who could give Anna Delvey a run for someone else's money. publicdomainreview.org/essay/mary-c...
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Subscribe to Book Post now, and you'll get 3 months of the paid version for free! No credit card or trial. It's totally automatic and our little way to celebrate near victory (10,000 subscribers)!
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September 19, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Subscribe to Book Post now, and you'll get 3 months of the paid version for free! No credit card or trial. It's totally automatic and our little way to celebrate near victory (10,000 subscribers)!
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“I know … But even so.”
September 19, 2025 at 12:56 AM
“I know … But even so.”
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It is an absolute dream to have an essay in the Public Domain Review: publicdomainreview.org/essay/mary-c...
“You Think Me a Bold Cheat”: Mary Carleton, Counterfeit Princess
Accused of posing as foreign royalty to lure her young suitor into a bigamous marriage, Mary Carleton was the subject of dozens of pamphlets and broadsides published in the mid-17th century, including...
publicdomainreview.org
September 17, 2025 at 3:00 PM
It is an absolute dream to have an essay in the Public Domain Review: publicdomainreview.org/essay/mary-c...
It is an absolute dream to have an essay in the Public Domain Review: publicdomainreview.org/essay/mary-c...
“You Think Me a Bold Cheat”: Mary Carleton, Counterfeit Princess
Accused of posing as foreign royalty to lure her young suitor into a bigamous marriage, Mary Carleton was the subject of dozens of pamphlets and broadsides published in the mid-17th century, including...
publicdomainreview.org
September 17, 2025 at 3:00 PM
It is an absolute dream to have an essay in the Public Domain Review: publicdomainreview.org/essay/mary-c...
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NEW ESSAY — Laura Kolb on Mary Carleton, the 17th-century woman accused of posing as foreign royalty to lure a young suitor into a bigamous marriage, a strange precursor to our modern-day fascination with conwomen and counterfeits — publicdomainreview.org/essay/mary-c...
September 17, 2025 at 2:12 PM
NEW ESSAY — Laura Kolb on Mary Carleton, the 17th-century woman accused of posing as foreign royalty to lure a young suitor into a bigamous marriage, a strange precursor to our modern-day fascination with conwomen and counterfeits — publicdomainreview.org/essay/mary-c...
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Thai cat treatises — called “Tamra Maew” — pair illustrations of auspicious felines with poetic notes: one has “eyes like dewdrops on a lotus,” another’s are “lit like fireflies, applied liquid gold”. Pages of a fine 19th-century example here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/tamra-maew/
September 10, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Thai cat treatises — called “Tamra Maew” — pair illustrations of auspicious felines with poetic notes: one has “eyes like dewdrops on a lotus,” another’s are “lit like fireflies, applied liquid gold”. Pages of a fine 19th-century example here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/tamra-maew/
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My first newsletter is live! It's about writing a book, and watching the silent film Hamlet where Hamlet is secretly a girl. Kindly click and subscribe so I can get my first ten subs and satisfy the hungry machine's demands. reinahardy.substack.com/p/the-author...
The Author’s Apology for Her Substack
or Notes on girl-Hamlet
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September 6, 2025 at 1:09 PM
My first newsletter is live! It's about writing a book, and watching the silent film Hamlet where Hamlet is secretly a girl. Kindly click and subscribe so I can get my first ten subs and satisfy the hungry machine's demands. reinahardy.substack.com/p/the-author...
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I wrote about Mujica Lainez’s grotesque, glorious masterpiece Bomarzo, which deserves to be as well known in English as One Hundred Years of Solitude, for @bookpostusa.bsky.social. Newly reissued by @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social
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Review: Michael Robbins on “Bomarzo”
A literary crocodile, shaped like itself, of its own color.
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September 3, 2025 at 9:30 PM
I wrote about Mujica Lainez’s grotesque, glorious masterpiece Bomarzo, which deserves to be as well known in English as One Hundred Years of Solitude, for @bookpostusa.bsky.social. Newly reissued by @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social
books.substack.com/p/review-mic...
books.substack.com/p/review-mic...
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My op-ed in the @chicagomaroon.bsky.social on the University of Chicago’s appalling plans to gut the humanities and possibly eliminate the South Asian studies department chicagomaroon.com/48353/viewpo...
Lost in Extraterrestrial Translation
The University celebrates the success of area studies alumni, all the while erasing the programs that made those careers possible.
chicagomaroon.com
August 30, 2025 at 5:22 PM
My op-ed in the @chicagomaroon.bsky.social on the University of Chicago’s appalling plans to gut the humanities and possibly eliminate the South Asian studies department chicagomaroon.com/48353/viewpo...
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Getting people in my comments saying, oh you do have to learn how to work with a chatbot effectively. Whatever brain genius skills you believe you’ve mastered, I guarantee you that students aren’t learning them by clicking “summarize” on a PDF +
August 30, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Getting people in my comments saying, oh you do have to learn how to work with a chatbot effectively. Whatever brain genius skills you believe you’ve mastered, I guarantee you that students aren’t learning them by clicking “summarize” on a PDF +
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I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.
I Am An AI Hater
I am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater.
anthonymoser.github.io
August 27, 2025 at 5:04 PM
I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.
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Beautiful: "I am a hater, and I will not be polite. The machine is disgusting and we should break it. The people who build it are vapid shit-eating cannibals glorifying ignorance. I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself." (from @anthonymoser.com)
anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...
anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...
I Am An AI Hater
I am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater.
anthonymoser.github.io
August 27, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Beautiful: "I am a hater, and I will not be polite. The machine is disgusting and we should break it. The people who build it are vapid shit-eating cannibals glorifying ignorance. I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself." (from @anthonymoser.com)
anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...
anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...
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Panic panic panic panic!!!
August 26, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Panic panic panic panic!!!
Did not expect to be called out by and then tear up at an endnote about the Iliad’s list of ships
August 24, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Did not expect to be called out by and then tear up at an endnote about the Iliad’s list of ships