Rachel Teukolsky
@rachelteukolsky.bsky.social
Scholar of the 19th c & other things. English prof at Vanderbilt U
Author of _Picture World_ (Oxford UP 2020) and also
_Writing on Fire_ (Broadview P 2024)
www.rachelteukolsky.net
Author of _Picture World_ (Oxford UP 2020) and also
_Writing on Fire_ (Broadview P 2024)
www.rachelteukolsky.net
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Writing on Fire - Broadview Press
Writing on Fire -
broadviewpress.com
My textbook is finally available! 'Writing on Fire: A Fierce Yet Friendly Guide to Writing Humanities Essays in College.' There are chapters on close reading, thesis statements, all the good stuff. If you teach writing via a humanities subject, check it out! broadviewpress.com/product/writ...
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You can only pick one. I’m sorry.
Jane Austen or Mary Shelley
Jane Austen or Mary Shelley
November 11, 2025 at 2:35 AM
You can only pick one. I’m sorry.
Jane Austen or Mary Shelley
Jane Austen or Mary Shelley
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While the top 1% control $54 TRILLION
(not a typo)
(not a typo)
October 28, 2025 at 1:12 AM
While the top 1% control $54 TRILLION
(not a typo)
(not a typo)
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Conservative-leaning tech investors are racing to build a new American colossus, and they want something much, much bigger than the Statue of Liberty. Meet the new monuments men of the tech right and their plans for statue-maxing:
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
America’s Tech Right Is Obsessed With Building Giant Statues
With proposals for a 450-foot statue of Prometheus on Alcatraz and a 650-foot George Washington, MAGA adherents are racing to build America’s largest statue.
www.bloomberg.com
October 17, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Conservative-leaning tech investors are racing to build a new American colossus, and they want something much, much bigger than the Statue of Liberty. Meet the new monuments men of the tech right and their plans for statue-maxing:
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
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I thought I'd put the administration's proposed "compact" with universities in context, so I wrote the blog post below.
It's especially for journalists covering this story!
Many details about how the compact itself works and why the administration has retreated to this strategy.
It's especially for journalists covering this story!
Many details about how the compact itself works and why the administration has retreated to this strategy.
Balkinization: The Art of Replacing the Law with the Deal
A group blog on constitutional law, theory, and politics
balkin.blogspot.com
October 4, 2025 at 10:34 PM
I thought I'd put the administration's proposed "compact" with universities in context, so I wrote the blog post below.
It's especially for journalists covering this story!
Many details about how the compact itself works and why the administration has retreated to this strategy.
It's especially for journalists covering this story!
Many details about how the compact itself works and why the administration has retreated to this strategy.
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Please join me for the online launch of my book Logistics and Power: Supply Chains from Slavery to Space, next Tuesday, Sept. 30 at 2 p.m. PST. Join Brett Neilson, Paul Apostolidis, and Jaime Acosta Gonzalez for discussion and q&a introduced by Dylan Rodriguez (UCR). Register at bit.ly/ZiegerBook.
September 23, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Please join me for the online launch of my book Logistics and Power: Supply Chains from Slavery to Space, next Tuesday, Sept. 30 at 2 p.m. PST. Join Brett Neilson, Paul Apostolidis, and Jaime Acosta Gonzalez for discussion and q&a introduced by Dylan Rodriguez (UCR). Register at bit.ly/ZiegerBook.
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Barzillai Lew (b. 1743) served with distinction during the American Revolutionary War. He purchased the freedom of his future wife, Dinah Bowman, for $400 in 1767. The 1790 census lists him as head in a household of 14 free people of color. Their house became a stop on the Underground Railroad.
September 26, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Barzillai Lew (b. 1743) served with distinction during the American Revolutionary War. He purchased the freedom of his future wife, Dinah Bowman, for $400 in 1767. The 1790 census lists him as head in a household of 14 free people of color. Their house became a stop on the Underground Railroad.
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Hello #academicsky! I'm sharing a cfp for an edited collection on "Naming & Classifying," pulled together by me, Kristin Girten, & @aaronrhanlon.com . We'd love to see your work! Please also circulate to anyone you think might be interested. Deadline 10/31. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Naming and Classifying cfp final
CFP: Naming and Classifying in the Long Eighteenth Century Whereas “the nineteenth century can be seen as the century of counting and measuring,” the eighteenth century can be seen as the century of ...
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September 16, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Hello #academicsky! I'm sharing a cfp for an edited collection on "Naming & Classifying," pulled together by me, Kristin Girten, & @aaronrhanlon.com . We'd love to see your work! Please also circulate to anyone you think might be interested. Deadline 10/31. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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"The Department of History invites applications for an assistant professor who will make enough leftist remarks to annoy conservative talk radio hosts but whose politics will ultimately support the neoliberal mission of the university."
Honest Academic Job Postings
English department seeks a tenure-track assistant professor specializing in Shakespeare, Romanticism, Victorianism, modernism, post-modernism, post...
buff.ly
September 6, 2025 at 1:00 AM
"The Department of History invites applications for an assistant professor who will make enough leftist remarks to annoy conservative talk radio hosts but whose politics will ultimately support the neoliberal mission of the university."
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Hello everyone. Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax has a tenure-track job in Enlightenment rhetoric and / or 18th-century literature. Tell everyone.
www.msvu.ca/about-msvu/c...
www.msvu.ca/about-msvu/c...
Full-time Academic positions
Inspired by a strong tradition of social responsibility and an enduring commitment to the advancement of women, Mount Saint Vincent University promotes academic excellence and the pursuit of knowledge...
www.msvu.ca
August 29, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Hello everyone. Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax has a tenure-track job in Enlightenment rhetoric and / or 18th-century literature. Tell everyone.
www.msvu.ca/about-msvu/c...
www.msvu.ca/about-msvu/c...
I’m excited for this research day on the syllabus I’m working on: “Research I. Browsing, Skimming, Learning, Honing. Taking notes. Going down Rabbit Holes. Following the Clues. Going Deep & Taking Shortcuts. What Research and Poems Have in Common.”
August 7, 2025 at 3:30 PM
I’m excited for this research day on the syllabus I’m working on: “Research I. Browsing, Skimming, Learning, Honing. Taking notes. Going down Rabbit Holes. Following the Clues. Going Deep & Taking Shortcuts. What Research and Poems Have in Common.”
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The 2025 @aaup.org Faculty in the South Survey is live. If you are a professor in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, or Texas it's for you. Ends 8/29 at 5pm Eastern forms.gle/v7T3BH2w9LXs...
2025 AAUP Faculty in the South Survey
The Georgia conference of the American Association of University Professors [AAUP] and its partners in states across the South have been at the forefront of fighting attacks on higher education. To as...
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August 4, 2025 at 3:02 PM
The 2025 @aaup.org Faculty in the South Survey is live. If you are a professor in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, or Texas it's for you. Ends 8/29 at 5pm Eastern forms.gle/v7T3BH2w9LXs...
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When you strip away humanity
July 26, 2025 at 11:31 AM
When you strip away humanity
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On the left is a post today from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. On the right is literal Nazi propaganda from the 1930s.
![@DHSgov on X: Remember your Homeland’s Heritage.
New Life in a New Land - Morgan Weistling
[Painting of a family]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:eppsmw5nfmdzhfeymtzd3xbe/bafkreifufhjor4i5ijjyh2cuswhmtmoybnr7rzjg3pdi6ow3udhtbuxhnu@jpeg)
![Nazi propaganda: "The Nazi Party secures the national community"
[Painting of a German family]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:eppsmw5nfmdzhfeymtzd3xbe/bafkreidjr6b3w65abp2xtc5qax7rxhupvocfkvdvh23gfwlrnr7f555nmu@jpeg)
July 15, 2025 at 12:23 AM
On the left is a post today from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. On the right is literal Nazi propaganda from the 1930s.
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“I asked Chat GPT” “I asked Grok”
Ok well I asked Sappho and she said
…….
…….
..[b]osom
Ok well I asked Sappho and she said
…….
…….
..[b]osom
July 10, 2025 at 1:51 PM
“I asked Chat GPT” “I asked Grok”
Ok well I asked Sappho and she said
…….
…….
..[b]osom
Ok well I asked Sappho and she said
…….
…….
..[b]osom
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My book LOGISTICS AND POWER will be out on September 9 from University of California Press, and is available for pre-order now!
www.ucpress.edu/books/logist...
www.ucpress.edu/books/logist...
Logistics and Power by Susan Zieger - Hardcover
Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.
www.ucpress.edu
June 23, 2025 at 6:36 PM
My book LOGISTICS AND POWER will be out on September 9 from University of California Press, and is available for pre-order now!
www.ucpress.edu/books/logist...
www.ucpress.edu/books/logist...
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If there is one lesson to draw from the history of fascism in the interwar period in Europe, it is this:
Democracy falls if and when mainstream conservatives and centrist/center-right elites decide to make common cause with extremists because they consider the “radical Left” the more acute threat.
Democracy falls if and when mainstream conservatives and centrist/center-right elites decide to make common cause with extremists because they consider the “radical Left” the more acute threat.
“The New York Times collaborated with a white nationalist eugenicist hacker and agreed to keep his identity a secret to publish a Zohran Mamdani hit piece” is a way bigger story than “18 year old Zohran Mamdani ticked ‘African American’ on his Columbia application because he was a citizen of Uganda”
July 4, 2025 at 2:13 PM
If there is one lesson to draw from the history of fascism in the interwar period in Europe, it is this:
Democracy falls if and when mainstream conservatives and centrist/center-right elites decide to make common cause with extremists because they consider the “radical Left” the more acute threat.
Democracy falls if and when mainstream conservatives and centrist/center-right elites decide to make common cause with extremists because they consider the “radical Left” the more acute threat.
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*Action without Hope: Victorian Literature after Climate Collapse* is out today! The official release got pushed back due to an issue w the art, & despite being mostly about literature it's very visual.
So to celebrate its full entry into the world, a thread of some of my favorite images from it:
So to celebrate its full entry into the world, a thread of some of my favorite images from it:
Action without Hope
A study of how writers from the early phases of our prolonged climate emergency used aesthetic strategies to redefine the category of action. What does it feel like to live helplessly in a world that ...
press.uchicago.edu
June 4, 2025 at 4:23 PM
*Action without Hope: Victorian Literature after Climate Collapse* is out today! The official release got pushed back due to an issue w the art, & despite being mostly about literature it's very visual.
So to celebrate its full entry into the world, a thread of some of my favorite images from it:
So to celebrate its full entry into the world, a thread of some of my favorite images from it:
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It's the one year book-iversary of Holding It Together, and I think its message is more urgent than ever. Because the book is about how the US came to rely on women as its safety net. But that story is fundamentally a story of what happens when billionaires don't want to pay their fair share. 1/
Other countries have safety nets. The US has women.
Their labor creates the illusion of a DIY society, making it seem like we don't need a net.
Writing HOLDING IT TOGETHER was a labor of love and fury and I'm so grateful to share it with you all #PubDay
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/697130...
Their labor creates the illusion of a DIY society, making it seem like we don't need a net.
Writing HOLDING IT TOGETHER was a labor of love and fury and I'm so grateful to share it with you all #PubDay
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/697130...
June 4, 2025 at 11:15 AM
It's the one year book-iversary of Holding It Together, and I think its message is more urgent than ever. Because the book is about how the US came to rely on women as its safety net. But that story is fundamentally a story of what happens when billionaires don't want to pay their fair share. 1/
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Phenomenal thread:
I am teaching my phd writing workshop course this quarter, question: are there any words/phrases said to you by an advisor/mentor that stuck with you, were memorable, or particularly helpful? If so please reply below!
April 24, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Phenomenal thread:
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As the first collection to bring together Hall’s work on the visual, this volume assembles Hall’s essays, lectures, reviews, catalog texts, and conversations on art, film, and photography.
📚30% off #ArtHistory titles: buff.ly/JAsjrEz
@dukepress.bsky.social @forarthistory.org.uk
#ForArtHistory2025
📚30% off #ArtHistory titles: buff.ly/JAsjrEz
@dukepress.bsky.social @forarthistory.org.uk
#ForArtHistory2025
April 9, 2025 at 2:34 PM
As the first collection to bring together Hall’s work on the visual, this volume assembles Hall’s essays, lectures, reviews, catalog texts, and conversations on art, film, and photography.
📚30% off #ArtHistory titles: buff.ly/JAsjrEz
@dukepress.bsky.social @forarthistory.org.uk
#ForArtHistory2025
📚30% off #ArtHistory titles: buff.ly/JAsjrEz
@dukepress.bsky.social @forarthistory.org.uk
#ForArtHistory2025
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🚀📈 Making Victorian visual culture searchable: Introducing an open-access and AI-powered dataset of 72,000 illustrations from the Illustrated London News (1842-1890). (w. Bethany Warner, @pfyfe.bsky.social and @bcgl.bsky.social)
openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/articles/10....
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A Fully-Searchable Multimodal Dataset of the Illustrated London News, 1842–1890 | Journal of Open Humanities Data
The Journal of Open Humanities Data (JOHD) aims to be a key part of a thriving community of scholars sharing humanities data. The journal features peer reviewed publications describing humanities rese...
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February 5, 2025 at 8:23 AM
🚀📈 Making Victorian visual culture searchable: Introducing an open-access and AI-powered dataset of 72,000 illustrations from the Illustrated London News (1842-1890). (w. Bethany Warner, @pfyfe.bsky.social and @bcgl.bsky.social)
openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/articles/10....
openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/articles/10....