Mark Celeste
@markceleste.bsky.social
assistant professor of English
blue humanities + oceanic lit | British novels in the long 19C | climate fiction | network theory | inclusive pedagogy
https://sites.google.com/view/markceleste
blue humanities + oceanic lit | British novels in the long 19C | climate fiction | network theory | inclusive pedagogy
https://sites.google.com/view/markceleste
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Mark Celeste
@markceleste.bsky.social
· Jan 2
Project MUSE -- Verification required!
muse.jhu.edu
For anyone prepping a #syllabus for a Brit lit survey:
Check out my recent open-access article in _Victorians_, which considers how to design an #inclusive survey for non-majors. By centering "amateur" undergrad knowledges, we can rethink Brit lit surveys from below.
muse.jhu.edu/article/969209
Check out my recent open-access article in _Victorians_, which considers how to design an #inclusive survey for non-majors. By centering "amateur" undergrad knowledges, we can rethink Brit lit surveys from below.
muse.jhu.edu/article/969209
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My hot take about the “students cannot read whole novels / watch whole films / etc.” is that they can learn to do it. None of us are born with attention spans suited for long media. It is a learned skill and can be developed with practice.
January 31, 2026 at 3:28 PM
My hot take about the “students cannot read whole novels / watch whole films / etc.” is that they can learn to do it. None of us are born with attention spans suited for long media. It is a learned skill and can be developed with practice.
me: "I offer something even better than extra credit."
[*students sit up in excitement*]
me: "Regular credit."
[*general booing, hissing, and throwing of rotten vegetables*]
[*students sit up in excitement*]
me: "Regular credit."
[*general booing, hissing, and throwing of rotten vegetables*]
January 30, 2026 at 2:32 PM
me: "I offer something even better than extra credit."
[*students sit up in excitement*]
me: "Regular credit."
[*general booing, hissing, and throwing of rotten vegetables*]
[*students sit up in excitement*]
me: "Regular credit."
[*general booing, hissing, and throwing of rotten vegetables*]
Carla Arnell calling for the creation of dedicated, credit-bearing writing labs: "If colleges still wish to claim writing skill as an important learning outcome, they need to become more deliberate about what it means to educate student writers in the age of AI."
Opinion | Bio Lab, Chem Lab, Writing Lab?
Instead of quiet quitting the take-home essay, we need a whole new model for writing instruction. https://bit.ly/4qyaPJa
#EDUSky #HigherEd #AcademicSky
Instead of quiet quitting the take-home essay, we need a whole new model for writing instruction. https://bit.ly/4qyaPJa
#EDUSky #HigherEd #AcademicSky
January 6, 2026 at 9:16 PM
Carla Arnell calling for the creation of dedicated, credit-bearing writing labs: "If colleges still wish to claim writing skill as an important learning outcome, they need to become more deliberate about what it means to educate student writers in the age of AI."
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CALL FOR PAPERS: TRAFFIC
Proposal Deadline: 15 February 2026
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NASSR/NAVSA
Pasadena, California
November 11-15, 2026
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For more information, visit: traffic2026.ucr.edu
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#19C #Traffic @navsa.bsky.social
Proposal Deadline: 15 February 2026
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NASSR/NAVSA
Pasadena, California
November 11-15, 2026
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For more information, visit: traffic2026.ucr.edu
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#19C #Traffic @navsa.bsky.social
December 18, 2025 at 2:00 PM
CALL FOR PAPERS: TRAFFIC
Proposal Deadline: 15 February 2026
〰
NASSR/NAVSA
Pasadena, California
November 11-15, 2026
〰
For more information, visit: traffic2026.ucr.edu
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#19C #Traffic @navsa.bsky.social
Proposal Deadline: 15 February 2026
〰
NASSR/NAVSA
Pasadena, California
November 11-15, 2026
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For more information, visit: traffic2026.ucr.edu
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#19C #Traffic @navsa.bsky.social
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The rate of global mean sea level rise has increased from ~2.1 mm/year in 1993 to ~4.5 mm/year in 2023. www.nature.com/articles/s43...
The rate of global sea level rise doubled during the past three decades - Communications Earth & Environment
Global mean sea level rise amounted to 4.5 mm per year as a result of warming oceans and melting land ice, more than twice the rate of 2.1 mm/year observed at the start of satellite data in 1993, base...
www.nature.com
January 3, 2026 at 9:18 PM
The rate of global mean sea level rise has increased from ~2.1 mm/year in 1993 to ~4.5 mm/year in 2023. www.nature.com/articles/s43...
For anyone prepping a #syllabus for a Brit lit survey:
Check out my recent open-access article in _Victorians_, which considers how to design an #inclusive survey for non-majors. By centering "amateur" undergrad knowledges, we can rethink Brit lit surveys from below.
muse.jhu.edu/article/969209
Check out my recent open-access article in _Victorians_, which considers how to design an #inclusive survey for non-majors. By centering "amateur" undergrad knowledges, we can rethink Brit lit surveys from below.
muse.jhu.edu/article/969209
Project MUSE -- Verification required!
muse.jhu.edu
January 2, 2026 at 4:18 PM
For anyone prepping a #syllabus for a Brit lit survey:
Check out my recent open-access article in _Victorians_, which considers how to design an #inclusive survey for non-majors. By centering "amateur" undergrad knowledges, we can rethink Brit lit surveys from below.
muse.jhu.edu/article/969209
Check out my recent open-access article in _Victorians_, which considers how to design an #inclusive survey for non-majors. By centering "amateur" undergrad knowledges, we can rethink Brit lit surveys from below.
muse.jhu.edu/article/969209
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Tech wythout heart ys harmful.
For a bettir future we need poetrye, creativitye, historical studye, love of languages, dreames, dialogues, new storyes, & intellectual curiositye.
We must fund & expand higher educacioun yn HEART:
H umanityes
E thiques
A rtes
R hetorique & the crafte of
T eaching
For a bettir future we need poetrye, creativitye, historical studye, love of languages, dreames, dialogues, new storyes, & intellectual curiositye.
We must fund & expand higher educacioun yn HEART:
H umanityes
E thiques
A rtes
R hetorique & the crafte of
T eaching
December 26, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Tech wythout heart ys harmful.
For a bettir future we need poetrye, creativitye, historical studye, love of languages, dreames, dialogues, new storyes, & intellectual curiositye.
We must fund & expand higher educacioun yn HEART:
H umanityes
E thiques
A rtes
R hetorique & the crafte of
T eaching
For a bettir future we need poetrye, creativitye, historical studye, love of languages, dreames, dialogues, new storyes, & intellectual curiositye.
We must fund & expand higher educacioun yn HEART:
H umanityes
E thiques
A rtes
R hetorique & the crafte of
T eaching
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Not now, haunted Victorian shoes
Mystery as hundreds of Victorian shoes wash up on Ogmore beach
Mystery as hundreds of Victorian shoes wash up on Ogmore beach
More than 400 leather hobnailed boots, thought to date back to the 19th Century, have been found.
www.bbc.com
December 23, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Not now, haunted Victorian shoes
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marks in my whale-books
December 23, 2025 at 3:47 AM
marks in my whale-books
when H-Net releases a torrent of notification emails
a man is throwing papers in the air while sitting on a couch
ALT: a man is throwing papers in the air while sitting on a couch
media.tenor.com
December 22, 2025 at 6:19 PM
when H-Net releases a torrent of notification emails
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It's very exciting to say that Coastal Gothic, 1719–2020 has just been published in @universitypress.cambridge.org's Elements in the Gothic series – and it's currently open access and *free* to download until the end of December!
doi.org/10.1017/9781...
doi.org/10.1017/9781...
Coastal Gothic, 1719–2020
Cambridge Core - English Literature: General Interest - Coastal Gothic, 1719–2020
doi.org
December 18, 2025 at 2:24 PM
It's very exciting to say that Coastal Gothic, 1719–2020 has just been published in @universitypress.cambridge.org's Elements in the Gothic series – and it's currently open access and *free* to download until the end of December!
doi.org/10.1017/9781...
doi.org/10.1017/9781...
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The relative usages of "[adjective] reading" in Anglophone literary studies journals, 1920-2020. Made for my "Prac Crit" course next term, "[Adjective] Reading". Interactive version here: public.tableau.com/views/Adject...
![Line graph showing the history of different types of '[adjective] reading' in Anglophone literary studies from 1920-2020. The x-axis represents publication decades, while the y-axis shows the percent of '[adjective] reading' instances in literary studies journals as a 9-decade moving average. Multiple colored lines track various reading methodologies over time. 'Close reading' shows the most dramatic rise, peaking around 2010 at approximately 18% (33 times its 1920s usage). 'Original reading' dominated the 1920s at 7.6% but declined to 0.5% by the 2010s. Other notable methodologies include 'careful reading' (peaked 1960s), 'critical reading' (peaked 1980s), 'wide reading' (1920s), 'correct reading' (1930s), 'new reading' (1950s), 'feminist reading' (1990s), 'textual reading' (2000s), 'distant reading' (2010s), and 'nuanced reading' (2010s). Each labeled point includes the decade of peak usage, the percentage at peak, and the ratio compared to its lowest-usage decade. Data sourced from JSTOR across seven leading literary studies journals including PMLA, Critical Inquiry, New Literary History, ELH, Modern Language Review, Review of English Studies, and Modern Philology.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:llsfba2zryavs4uunglknwie/bafkreicyi6bsqxkrmjstwbyxfvis33j2wxatye2t2dh5fva5pk46xw6n7y@jpeg)
December 17, 2025 at 3:59 PM
The relative usages of "[adjective] reading" in Anglophone literary studies journals, 1920-2020. Made for my "Prac Crit" course next term, "[Adjective] Reading". Interactive version here: public.tableau.com/views/Adject...
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Happy birthday to Jane Austen, and to this very on-brand Economist chart
www.economist.com/christmas-sp...
www.economist.com/christmas-sp...
December 14, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Happy birthday to Jane Austen, and to this very on-brand Economist chart
www.economist.com/christmas-sp...
www.economist.com/christmas-sp...
"I've had it up to here with your pathetic fallacy, buddy."
This Christmas Critter is a little too welcoming - but hey, everyone loves Christmas dinner! #christmas #vintagecard #victorian #polarbear #welcome
December 14, 2025 at 8:26 PM
"I've had it up to here with your pathetic fallacy, buddy."
the TLDR of mercantile maritime capitalism
the ticklish business of securing what you can
December 13, 2025 at 2:39 PM
the TLDR of mercantile maritime capitalism
you will be visited by three spirits
December 12, 2025 at 9:06 PM
you will be visited by three spirits
[1/3] For their final reflection of the semester, I had students pretend to be me and write a short letter of recommendation about their overall work in the course.
December 10, 2025 at 3:22 PM
[1/3] For their final reflection of the semester, I had students pretend to be me and write a short letter of recommendation about their overall work in the course.
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there are a rabble of uncertain, fugitive, half-fabulous whales, which, as an American whaleman, I know by reputation, but not personally
December 8, 2025 at 11:47 AM
there are a rabble of uncertain, fugitive, half-fabulous whales, which, as an American whaleman, I know by reputation, but not personally
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Beards don’t compromise military effectiveness, former Assistant Secretary of the Air Force Alex Wagner argues. Pete Hegseth’s policy proves he’s failed “to align military policy with evidence, fairness, and the diverse composition of the nation”:
The Origin of Hegseth’s Anti-Beard Obsession
The fierce opposition to facial hair is less about policy and more about memory.
bit.ly
December 6, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Beards don’t compromise military effectiveness, former Assistant Secretary of the Air Force Alex Wagner argues. Pete Hegseth’s policy proves he’s failed “to align military policy with evidence, fairness, and the diverse composition of the nation”:
The second sentence: a blue Christmas indeed -- Dickens's oceanic imagination at work.
“Business! Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were, all, my business.
The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!”
#AChristmasCarol
#CharlesDickens
The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!”
#AChristmasCarol
#CharlesDickens
December 6, 2025 at 5:56 PM
The second sentence: a blue Christmas indeed -- Dickens's oceanic imagination at work.
snow on the dogwoods this morning
December 5, 2025 at 3:17 PM
snow on the dogwoods this morning
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A BLUE HUMANITIES job: jobs.uc.edu/job/Cincinna...
Assistant Professor, Blue Humanities, College of Arts and Sciences
Assistant Professor, Blue Humanities, College of Arts and Sciences
jobs.uc.edu
November 21, 2025 at 5:56 PM
A BLUE HUMANITIES job: jobs.uc.edu/job/Cincinna...
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Another highlight of #NAVSA2025: “Ends of the Earth” with Mark Celeste, Briony Wickes, Gunja Nandi, & Aaron Rosenberg.
November 12, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Another highlight of #NAVSA2025: “Ends of the Earth” with Mark Celeste, Briony Wickes, Gunja Nandi, & Aaron Rosenberg.
Test driving Bluesky -- just in time for #NAVSA2025!
Come hear me talk about Victorian cryofiction -- human entanglements with Arctic ice in literary responses to the Franklin Expedition: panel 11G, "The Ends of the Earth," Nov. 15 @ 4:00PM.
Come hear me talk about Victorian cryofiction -- human entanglements with Arctic ice in literary responses to the Franklin Expedition: panel 11G, "The Ends of the Earth," Nov. 15 @ 4:00PM.
November 12, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Test driving Bluesky -- just in time for #NAVSA2025!
Come hear me talk about Victorian cryofiction -- human entanglements with Arctic ice in literary responses to the Franklin Expedition: panel 11G, "The Ends of the Earth," Nov. 15 @ 4:00PM.
Come hear me talk about Victorian cryofiction -- human entanglements with Arctic ice in literary responses to the Franklin Expedition: panel 11G, "The Ends of the Earth," Nov. 15 @ 4:00PM.