Rebecca Janzen
@rebeccacsjanzen.bsky.social
McCausland Fellow and Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at the University of South Carolina. Views my own.
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Hi all,
I rarely do this, but I'm posting that I'm back on the academic job market.
As a Californian, my partner and I are trying to stay on the West Coast. Any leads for jobs in History, American Studies, Cultural Studies, etc. in the Western U.S. are greatly appreciated!
Sincerely,
Nathan
I rarely do this, but I'm posting that I'm back on the academic job market.
As a Californian, my partner and I are trying to stay on the West Coast. Any leads for jobs in History, American Studies, Cultural Studies, etc. in the Western U.S. are greatly appreciated!
Sincerely,
Nathan
Hello!
I am Nathan Ellstrand, a historian of transnational politics and religion between the United States and Latin America during the twentieth century. I am passionate about social justice and education.
Learn more about me and my work here:
nathanellstrand.com
I am Nathan Ellstrand, a historian of transnational politics and religion between the United States and Latin America during the twentieth century. I am passionate about social justice and education.
Learn more about me and my work here:
nathanellstrand.com
September 9, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Hi all,
I rarely do this, but I'm posting that I'm back on the academic job market.
As a Californian, my partner and I are trying to stay on the West Coast. Any leads for jobs in History, American Studies, Cultural Studies, etc. in the Western U.S. are greatly appreciated!
Sincerely,
Nathan
I rarely do this, but I'm posting that I'm back on the academic job market.
As a Californian, my partner and I are trying to stay on the West Coast. Any leads for jobs in History, American Studies, Cultural Studies, etc. in the Western U.S. are greatly appreciated!
Sincerely,
Nathan
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I wrote an essay for @bostonreview.bsky.social about what I learned about close reading when I taught at West Virginia University
www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
The Claims of Close Reading - Boston Review
Literary studies have been starved by austerity, but their core methodology remains radical.
www.bostonreview.net
November 26, 2025 at 3:14 PM
I wrote an essay for @bostonreview.bsky.social about what I learned about close reading when I taught at West Virginia University
www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
I wrote _Unlawful Violence_ about violence in Mexico, and human rights laws, in law and literature.
www.vanderbiltuniversitypress.com/978082650444...
www.vanderbiltuniversitypress.com/978082650444...
November 14, 2025 at 9:08 PM
I wrote _Unlawful Violence_ about violence in Mexico, and human rights laws, in law and literature.
www.vanderbiltuniversitypress.com/978082650444...
www.vanderbiltuniversitypress.com/978082650444...
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Academic authors: self-promote! 💫
This is not a particularly popular account but:
🚨 If you have published a book in the last 5 years (since the hype wears off after a while), especially in the humanities, feel free to reply here and repost! 👇
This is not a particularly popular account but:
🚨 If you have published a book in the last 5 years (since the hype wears off after a while), especially in the humanities, feel free to reply here and repost! 👇
November 5, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Academic authors: self-promote! 💫
This is not a particularly popular account but:
🚨 If you have published a book in the last 5 years (since the hype wears off after a while), especially in the humanities, feel free to reply here and repost! 👇
This is not a particularly popular account but:
🚨 If you have published a book in the last 5 years (since the hype wears off after a while), especially in the humanities, feel free to reply here and repost! 👇
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"When we use generative AI, we consent to the appropriation of our intellectual property by data scrapers. We stuff the pockets of oligarchs with even more money. We hand over our autonomy, at the very moment of emerging American fascism."
“An extraordinary amount of money is spent by the artificial intelligence industry to ensure that acquiescence is the only plausible response. But marketing is not destiny.” Out from behind the paywall: the Editors on the literature of AI resignation.
www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...
www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...
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 16, 2025 at 6:10 PM
"When we use generative AI, we consent to the appropriation of our intellectual property by data scrapers. We stuff the pockets of oligarchs with even more money. We hand over our autonomy, at the very moment of emerging American fascism."
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Have been tagged in to provide the reminder about traumatic video because of the Charlie Kirk shooting video going around!
1. Settings -> Content & Media, turn off "autoplay video"
2. Keep your device sound off while browsing so an accidental activation won't include the sound
1. Settings -> Content & Media, turn off "autoplay video"
2. Keep your device sound off while browsing so an accidental activation won't include the sound
September 10, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Have been tagged in to provide the reminder about traumatic video because of the Charlie Kirk shooting video going around!
1. Settings -> Content & Media, turn off "autoplay video"
2. Keep your device sound off while browsing so an accidental activation won't include the sound
1. Settings -> Content & Media, turn off "autoplay video"
2. Keep your device sound off while browsing so an accidental activation won't include the sound
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Every time I feel discouraged about the value of my work in the midst of all of this, I remember that if education did not matter, they would not be attacking it so hard. If humanities and the sciences did not matter, they would not be attacking it so hard.
August 26, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Every time I feel discouraged about the value of my work in the midst of all of this, I remember that if education did not matter, they would not be attacking it so hard. If humanities and the sciences did not matter, they would not be attacking it so hard.
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Today is the 5 year anniversary to when I slowly started losing my mind during the pandemic and began dressing up as works of art.
As my Twitter account has long been abandoned, why not make a thread of my madness on BlueSky?
This was “The Maid” by Wilhelm August Lebrecht Amberg, from 1862
As my Twitter account has long been abandoned, why not make a thread of my madness on BlueSky?
This was “The Maid” by Wilhelm August Lebrecht Amberg, from 1862
April 2, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Today is the 5 year anniversary to when I slowly started losing my mind during the pandemic and began dressing up as works of art.
As my Twitter account has long been abandoned, why not make a thread of my madness on BlueSky?
This was “The Maid” by Wilhelm August Lebrecht Amberg, from 1862
As my Twitter account has long been abandoned, why not make a thread of my madness on BlueSky?
This was “The Maid” by Wilhelm August Lebrecht Amberg, from 1862
Some German updates rebeccajtravels.wordpress.com/2025/05/13/h...
Hello Bochum!
Bochum City Sign I finished two months of German intensive classes at the end of April. I had some great teachers, some less than great teachers, and I learned a lot of German. I am very happy that…
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May 13, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Some German updates rebeccajtravels.wordpress.com/2025/05/13/h...
on being a student again rebeccajtravels.wordpress.com/2025/03/14/b...
Back to (German) School
I am always in school, as a professor, of course, and right now I have the opportunity to return to school as a student! I won a Humboldt fellowship to learn German and to do research in Germany wi…
rebeccajtravels.wordpress.com
March 15, 2025 at 12:01 PM
on being a student again rebeccajtravels.wordpress.com/2025/03/14/b...
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Theoretical physicist who also does research in humanities using critical theories.
It’s interesting how when it comes down to it, no one is mad at quantum field theory being confusing — for physicists too — but they’re mad at humanists for also having analytic frameworks that take time to learn.
It’s interesting how when it comes down to it, no one is mad at quantum field theory being confusing — for physicists too — but they’re mad at humanists for also having analytic frameworks that take time to learn.
Critical theory is notorious for this especially. I have never seen important ideas that should be widely spread locked behind absolute microsubject definitions and word salad that is completely inaccessible to pretty much anyone who doesn't spend a lot of time reading on the subject.
February 24, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Theoretical physicist who also does research in humanities using critical theories.
It’s interesting how when it comes down to it, no one is mad at quantum field theory being confusing — for physicists too — but they’re mad at humanists for also having analytic frameworks that take time to learn.
It’s interesting how when it comes down to it, no one is mad at quantum field theory being confusing — for physicists too — but they’re mad at humanists for also having analytic frameworks that take time to learn.
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My AG did not join this lawsuit so my state is not covered by this block. Gonna write them tomorrow morning about this.
BREAKING: Federal judge temporarily blocks NIH indirect costs rate cap issued Friday as applied to states that sued over the act this morning.
Judge Angel Kelley, a Biden appointee, ordered further briefing as well, and set a hearing on Feb 21 in the case. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Judge Angel Kelley, a Biden appointee, ordered further briefing as well, and set a hearing on Feb 21 in the case. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
![ORDER GRANTING PLAINTIFF STATES’ EX PARTE
EMERGENCY MOTION FOR TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER
ANGEL KELLEY, D.J.
Plaintiff States’ Ex Parte Emergency Motion For Temporary Restraining Order [Dkt. 4]
is GRANTED. Defendants and their officers, employees, servants, agents, appointees, and
successors are hereby enjoined from taking any steps to implement, apply, or enforce the Rate
Change Notice (NOT-OD-25- 068) within Plaintiff States until further order is issued by this
Court. Counsel for Defendants shall file a status report with the Court within 24 hours of the
entry of this Order, and at biweekly intervals thereafter, confirming the regular disbursement and
obligation of federal financial assistance funds and reporting all steps that NIH, HHS and their
officers, employees, servants, agents, appointees, and successors have taken to comply with the
Court’s temporary restraining order.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:36eqtmzysqf7wsslczw4uxcd/bafkreihvi3vmbg3ktgcxnic4m27q4outa3mtxm6v37rgstm45wvuk565pu@jpeg)
February 11, 2025 at 12:19 AM
My AG did not join this lawsuit so my state is not covered by this block. Gonna write them tomorrow morning about this.
This was a good conversation two years ago (gasp, how was it that long!)
convo with @rebeccacsjanzen.bsky.social on Unlawful Violence a book that examines how Mexican literature grapples with the country's splintered reality through non-linear stories from multiple perspectives
📚Available from Vanderbilt UP: www.vanderbiltuniversitypress.com/978082650444...
📚Available from Vanderbilt UP: www.vanderbiltuniversitypress.com/978082650444...
January 26, 2025 at 11:02 PM
This was a good conversation two years ago (gasp, how was it that long!)
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MLA, it's not too late.
Congratulations to the membership of the American Historical Association for finding the voice, moral clarity, professional integrity to vote YES on the Resolution Against Scholasticide in Gaza! The work is just beginning. There will be more votes, chances to stand up. Take every opportunity. #AHA25
January 6, 2025 at 1:08 AM
MLA, it's not too late.
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here's a thread with every workshop, book presentation, and reading group the MSRC has organized since 2020 🧵
January 4, 2025 at 4:49 PM
here's a thread with every workshop, book presentation, and reading group the MSRC has organized since 2020 🧵
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“There are very few people who have done more for cake than Marie Antoinette.”
United CEO Andrew Witty gave an address to the company today (leaked to me), telling employees "we guard against...unnecessary care" and that "There are very few people in the history of the U. S. healthcare industry who had a bigger positive effect on American healthcare than Brian [Thompson]."
December 7, 2024 at 1:35 AM
“There are very few people who have done more for cake than Marie Antoinette.”
Wrote about Heretic and Secret lives of Mormon Wives for @theconversation.com theconversation.com/ones-a-hugh-...
One’s a Hugh Grant thriller, one’s a hot-mess reality show – and both center on stereotypes about Mormon women
The characterization of Latter-day Saints on shows like ‘Heretic’ and ‘Secret Lives of Mormon Wives’ says more about the rest of America than the church itself.
theconversation.com
December 4, 2024 at 2:30 PM
Wrote about Heretic and Secret lives of Mormon Wives for @theconversation.com theconversation.com/ones-a-hugh-...
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Historians of Catholic Mexico ( #HISTCATMEX) members Dr. @rebeccacsjanzen.bsky.social and yours truly at #SBLAAR24!
November 25, 2024 at 10:27 PM
Historians of Catholic Mexico ( #HISTCATMEX) members Dr. @rebeccacsjanzen.bsky.social and yours truly at #SBLAAR24!
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It’s interesting the conversation is about how Democrats should abandon trans people, and not how they should abandon billionaires. 🤔
November 12, 2024 at 2:46 AM
It’s interesting the conversation is about how Democrats should abandon trans people, and not how they should abandon billionaires. 🤔
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My uni is hiring 30 -- thirty -- faculty members in AI.
This year, not a single hire in the College of Arts and Humanities.
This year, not a single hire in the College of Arts and Humanities.
The University of Maryland is hiring 30(!!!) faculty members in Artificial Intelligence (broadly defined):
ejobs.umd.edu/postings/123...
ejobs.umd.edu/postings/123...
Assistant/Associate Professor/Professor
The Artificial Intelligence Interdisciplinary Institute at Maryland (AIM; aim.umd.edu) has openings for 30 tenured and/or tenure-track faculty positions in Artificial Intelligence, broadly defined.We ...
ejobs.umd.edu
October 30, 2024 at 7:28 PM
My uni is hiring 30 -- thirty -- faculty members in AI.
This year, not a single hire in the College of Arts and Humanities.
This year, not a single hire in the College of Arts and Humanities.
Wrote a review of a really interesting book (content and form wise) www.christiancentury.org/books/healin...
Healing from the ground up
In her memoir, Lore Ferguson Wilbert draws connections between her life and the forest‘s...
www.christiancentury.org
October 24, 2024 at 11:43 PM
Wrote a review of a really interesting book (content and form wise) www.christiancentury.org/books/healin...
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New academia reality tv show in which hundreds of highly trained candidates get winnowed down to one champion, who is awarded the opportunity to teach intro classes outside their speciality with no research support!
July 13, 2024 at 1:44 PM
New academia reality tv show in which hundreds of highly trained candidates get winnowed down to one champion, who is awarded the opportunity to teach intro classes outside their speciality with no research support!
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We have to boil our tap water before we use it for several days at a time, several times a year, minimally.
If this is news to you, it’s time to start paying closer attention to how conservative politics are entrenched and spreading.
We are not “red” - we are voter suppressed.
If this is news to you, it’s time to start paying closer attention to how conservative politics are entrenched and spreading.
We are not “red” - we are voter suppressed.
June 18, 2024 at 7:48 PM
We have to boil our tap water before we use it for several days at a time, several times a year, minimally.
If this is news to you, it’s time to start paying closer attention to how conservative politics are entrenched and spreading.
We are not “red” - we are voter suppressed.
If this is news to you, it’s time to start paying closer attention to how conservative politics are entrenched and spreading.
We are not “red” - we are voter suppressed.
Love that I have to submit receipts for the smallest expenses because I work at a (barely) publicly funded university and electeds get to act like this.
More than 300 House lawmakers were reimbursed at least $5.2 million for food and lodging while on official business in Washington last year under a new, taxpayer funded program that does not require them to provide receipts.
Lawmakers expensed millions in 2023 under new program that doesn’t require receipts
Critics say the program’s lack of transparency and record-keeping opens it up to abuse. Matt Gaetz was the program’s top spender.
www.washingtonpost.com
June 5, 2024 at 12:04 AM
Love that I have to submit receipts for the smallest expenses because I work at a (barely) publicly funded university and electeds get to act like this.
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