Lauren Eriks Cline
@lerikscline.bsky.social
teaching lit; writing about C19 performance, spectators, narrative; opinions my own; she/they
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Seriality and Slow Grief | Los Angeles Review of Books
Lauren Eriks Cline looks back at 20 years of the TV series “Lost” and the lessons it holds for us today.
lareviewofbooks.org
For @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social I wrote about how the finale of *Lost* is good, actually - and about how the grief-time signature of the show belongs to the early aughts.
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fortunate to visit many campuses + easy to say English at Montclair with its many ties to the Honors College, is among the most vibrant undergrad communities
the break things+fail upward admin has got to go
students speaking out are being subject to admin harassment
www.wsj.com/opinion/mont...
the break things+fail upward admin has got to go
students speaking out are being subject to admin harassment
www.wsj.com/opinion/mont...
Opinion | Montclair State’s Inhumanity to the Humanities
Goodbye, English department. Hello, Institute for Complex Systems and Algorithmic Infused Societies.
www.wsj.com
November 18, 2025 at 8:42 PM
fortunate to visit many campuses + easy to say English at Montclair with its many ties to the Honors College, is among the most vibrant undergrad communities
the break things+fail upward admin has got to go
students speaking out are being subject to admin harassment
www.wsj.com/opinion/mont...
the break things+fail upward admin has got to go
students speaking out are being subject to admin harassment
www.wsj.com/opinion/mont...
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WE JUST KEEP WINNING. (UC President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program RESTORED!!!!)
![On official UC letterhead:
UNIVERSITY
OF
CALIFORNIA
James B. Milliken President
Office of the President
1111 Franklin Street Oakland, CA 94607
universityofcalifornia.edu
CAMPUSES Berkeley
Davis
Irvine
UCLA
Merced
Riverside San Diego San Francisco
Santa Barbara Santa Cruz
MEDICAL CENTERS
Davis
Irvine
UCLA
San Diego
San Francisco
NATIONAL LABORATORIES Lawrence Berkeley Lawrence Livermore Los Alamos
DIVISION OF AGRICULTURE AND NATURAL RESOURCES
November 18, 2025
Dear Chancellors:
I'm writing with regard to the President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program (PPFP) and the program's associated faculty hiring incentive.
As you know, for more than 40 years, PPFP has provided postdoctoral research fellowships, professional development, and faculty mentoring to scholars in all fields whose research, teaching, and service advance the academic and research missions of the University of California.
Since 2003, UC campuses that hire current and former PPFP fellows into ladder-rank positions have been eligible for a hiring incentive funded by the University that provides support for newly hired fellows for five years. Since the creation of the incentive, more than $162 million has been invested by the University to support PPFP faculty hires. This commitment has enabled our campuses to successfully recruit and retain outstanding faculty across a range of disciplines.
Given the myriad challenges currently facing UC - including disruptions to billions of dollars in annual federal support, as well as uncertainty around the state budget- reasonable questions were raised in recent months about whether the University could maintain the commitment to current levels of incentive funding. After considering a recommendation to sunset the incentive program due to these significant fiscal constraints, I consulted with all of you as well as faculty and campus academic administrators and systemwide Academic Senate leadership.
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November 18, 2025 at 10:34 PM
WE JUST KEEP WINNING. (UC President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program RESTORED!!!!)
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A reminder to our grad student attendees to apply for the Sally Mitchell Prize! 🏆
Award: Sally Mitchell Prize (Submission Deadline: 12/1/25) navsa.wildapricot.org/News/13564135
NAVSA - Award: Sally Mitchell Prize (Submission Deadline: 12/1/25)
navsa.wildapricot.org
November 18, 2025 at 11:09 PM
A reminder to our grad student attendees to apply for the Sally Mitchell Prize! 🏆
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www.wsj.com/opinion/mont...
Another one of my colleagues weighs in on the “restructuring” of our home college. This time in the Wall Street Journal. It’s paywalled, so screenshots to follow.
Another one of my colleagues weighs in on the “restructuring” of our home college. This time in the Wall Street Journal. It’s paywalled, so screenshots to follow.
Opinion | Montclair State’s Inhumanity to the Humanities
Goodbye, English department. Hello, Institute for Complex Systems and Algorithmic Infused Societies.
www.wsj.com
November 17, 2025 at 7:53 PM
www.wsj.com/opinion/mont...
Another one of my colleagues weighs in on the “restructuring” of our home college. This time in the Wall Street Journal. It’s paywalled, so screenshots to follow.
Another one of my colleagues weighs in on the “restructuring” of our home college. This time in the Wall Street Journal. It’s paywalled, so screenshots to follow.
My students just discussed two stories I found in Clarkesworld (Michael Swanwick's "The Very Pulse of the Machine" and Wole Talabi's “Comments on Your Provisional Patent Application for an Eternal Spirit Core”).
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In light of the astronomical increases for my health insurance next year, I thought it would be a good time to encourage people to subscribe. (A few hundred should cover it. Sigh.)
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November 17, 2025 at 11:00 PM
My students just discussed two stories I found in Clarkesworld (Michael Swanwick's "The Very Pulse of the Machine" and Wole Talabi's “Comments on Your Provisional Patent Application for an Eternal Spirit Core”).
I've just subscribed, and I highly recommend reading and supporting!
I've just subscribed, and I highly recommend reading and supporting!
[hitting send on an essay about transfictionality and Craig's Bond] Ahhh yes, time to take a long sip of coffee and check the discourse...
November 11, 2025 at 9:03 PM
[hitting send on an essay about transfictionality and Craig's Bond] Ahhh yes, time to take a long sip of coffee and check the discourse...
Apparently I missed a real low point in the ongoing semantic drift of "performative."
November 11, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Apparently I missed a real low point in the ongoing semantic drift of "performative."
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A timely roundtable at #NAVSA2025: "Victorianist Work After the University as We Knew It." A great conversation with Sarah Allison, Gordon Bigelow, Ruth McAdams, Rachel Sagner Buurma, & Kyoko Takanashi.
November 10, 2025 at 10:19 PM
A timely roundtable at #NAVSA2025: "Victorianist Work After the University as We Knew It." A great conversation with Sarah Allison, Gordon Bigelow, Ruth McAdams, Rachel Sagner Buurma, & Kyoko Takanashi.
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Today in incredibly generous things, my colleagues at SUNY Press decided to highlight me (!!!) for UP Week. Have I mentioned that I have the BEST coworkers in the whole world?? This past yr has been the most difficult of my life & they supported me every step of the way. ❤️ you guys. #TeamUP
For University Press Week, we're highlighting the important, collaborative work that Senior Acquisitions Editor @rcolesworthy.bsky.social does to build bridges across the scholarly publishing ecosystem: tinyurl.com/3t7mdnef/
#TeamUP #ReadUP
#TeamUP #ReadUP
November 10, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Today in incredibly generous things, my colleagues at SUNY Press decided to highlight me (!!!) for UP Week. Have I mentioned that I have the BEST coworkers in the whole world?? This past yr has been the most difficult of my life & they supported me every step of the way. ❤️ you guys. #TeamUP
Class solidarity (derogatory)
November 10, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Class solidarity (derogatory)
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Yes! The thing abt public libraries that is so beautiful & crucial is the idea that *anybody* could do this — you need no credential, there’s no gatekeeping, literally any person can be an intellectual. You can come from absolutely nothing & yet, by means of curiosity + work, create real knowledge
I wrote a significant chunk of my first book at a Chicago Public Library, an amazing public space where people could read books and newspapers, access the internet, or just keep warm for a while on a cold day. This is appalling.
CPL is an absolute palace to the people and these proposed cuts are abominable. Artificial austerity. Chicago folks, read this, check the links to bug the mayor and your alders—this can be fought and won.
November 8, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Yes! The thing abt public libraries that is so beautiful & crucial is the idea that *anybody* could do this — you need no credential, there’s no gatekeeping, literally any person can be an intellectual. You can come from absolutely nothing & yet, by means of curiosity + work, create real knowledge
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I wrote a significant chunk of my first book at a Chicago Public Library, an amazing public space where people could read books and newspapers, access the internet, or just keep warm for a while on a cold day. This is appalling.
CPL is an absolute palace to the people and these proposed cuts are abominable. Artificial austerity. Chicago folks, read this, check the links to bug the mayor and your alders—this can be fought and won.
The People Want to Read: on the massive budget cuts proposed for Chicago Public Library. What's at stake and what you can do, whether or not you live in Chicago.
buttondown.com/wellsourced/...
buttondown.com/wellsourced/...
November 8, 2025 at 10:25 PM
I wrote a significant chunk of my first book at a Chicago Public Library, an amazing public space where people could read books and newspapers, access the internet, or just keep warm for a while on a cold day. This is appalling.
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It’s very much a prototype but I have to share a preview of the interface @djevans.bsky.social is working on for our Viral Texts data—it maps reprinting data back onto the newspaper page, allowing users to browse what reprints appeared together on each page—with links back to full reprint clusters
November 7, 2025 at 4:49 PM
It’s very much a prototype but I have to share a preview of the interface @djevans.bsky.social is working on for our Viral Texts data—it maps reprinting data back onto the newspaper page, allowing users to browse what reprints appeared together on each page—with links back to full reprint clusters
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best ending of all time, let's be real
November 6, 2025 at 10:17 PM
best ending of all time, let's be real
Chart from the Phrenological Journal (1838-1911), print from Dr. E. Clark
www.jstor.org/stable/commu...
www.jstor.org/stable/commu...
November 6, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Chart from the Phrenological Journal (1838-1911), print from Dr. E. Clark
www.jstor.org/stable/commu...
www.jstor.org/stable/commu...
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Get ready for this issue of @victorianpoetry.bsky.social — it’s coming soon and it’s fantastic. Featuring this incredible work by @rcolesworthy.bsky.social as well as equally extraordinary essays by @lerikscline.bsky.social @carolinelevine.bsky.social and Ruth McAdams.
Lucky for all of you I just won't shut up about this stuff so I actually wrote over 10K words about it that should be coming out next year. I wish I were kidding but I'm not. (Hi, @devingarofalo.bsky.social!!)
November 6, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Get ready for this issue of @victorianpoetry.bsky.social — it’s coming soon and it’s fantastic. Featuring this incredible work by @rcolesworthy.bsky.social as well as equally extraordinary essays by @lerikscline.bsky.social @carolinelevine.bsky.social and Ruth McAdams.
Who has written about the time-period shift in del Toro’s Frankenstein? I’m fascinated by that choice.
November 5, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Who has written about the time-period shift in del Toro’s Frankenstein? I’m fascinated by that choice.
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Major in Africana Studies or any humanities course like English Literature! You could be mayor of New York City. You could do anything.
November 5, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Major in Africana Studies or any humanities course like English Literature! You could be mayor of New York City. You could do anything.
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I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win
BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani wins the New York City mayoral race, NBC News projects. nbcnews.to/4nIzNUC
November 5, 2025 at 2:34 AM
I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win
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Hold up - they said this guy, Will Smith, is dangerous.... because he had some big hits?? Sounds like another Will Smi oh fuck he hit a home run as I was typing this goddamnit.
November 2, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Hold up - they said this guy, Will Smith, is dangerous.... because he had some big hits?? Sounds like another Will Smi oh fuck he hit a home run as I was typing this goddamnit.
The children yearn for long baseball.
November 2, 2025 at 3:40 AM
The children yearn for long baseball.
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LinkedIn/privacy news you can use.
Last chance to turn it off.
On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default.
To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.
On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default.
To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.
October 31, 2025 at 7:03 PM
LinkedIn/privacy news you can use.
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final project guidelines for both grad and undergrad seminars:
1. pick a topic you care about
2. don’t use ai
3. get smarter
1. pick a topic you care about
2. don’t use ai
3. get smarter
October 30, 2025 at 1:27 PM
final project guidelines for both grad and undergrad seminars:
1. pick a topic you care about
2. don’t use ai
3. get smarter
1. pick a topic you care about
2. don’t use ai
3. get smarter