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Rachel M. Hartnett, PhD
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Assistant Professor of English at the College of Coastal Georgia. Research includes postcolonialism, U.S. empire, popular culture, & adaptation studies. She/her/hers.
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VERY. GROUCHY. HERON.
🦉
A submature Great Blue Heron is all fluffed out and hunched up and standing on one leg in a marshy area. He looks PISSED OFF.
November 23, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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🧵 Before Hollywood turned her green, L. Frank Baum’s Wicked Witch of the West looked very different… & she appears only briefly in the 1900 book. 📚
🧙🏼Check out her earliest depictions in these images, & explore more Oz history on our blog ⤵️
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#PublicDomain #Oz #Wicked
A collage of W.W. Denslow illustrations from the original The Wonderful Wizard of Oz book. Clockwise from top: the book cover featuring the Cowardly Lion; the Wicked Witch ready to strike Toto with her umbrella; Dorothy holding the empty bucket as the Wicked Witch dissolves after being doused with water; the first illustration of the Wicked Witch, wearing a tall, pointed hat, seated, with her hands upon the handle of her umbrella.
November 21, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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this sounds like a great idea. luckily there are no extremely serious consequences to providing false information to the Internal Revenue Service
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TurboTax is about to be integrated into ChatGPT, where customers will be guided through tasks tied to their tax filings or financial profile by the AI chatbot.

TurboTax owner Intuit is also paying OpenAI more than $100 million a year to power AI agents.
November 18, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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Call for chapters! Amy Tooth Murphy and I are editing the Routledge Handbook of Oral History Theory, and we are seeking contributions from a range of scholars and practitioners. See our full call here. oralhistory.org/2025/11/11/c...
Call for Chapters: Routledge Handbook of Oral History Theory - Oral History Association
Co-editors George Severs and Amy Tooth Murphy are inviting expressions of interest to contributechapters to the forthcoming Routledge Oral History Theory
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November 11, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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🔆 LFA/AAS Joint Conference (ONLINE ONLY): Adaptation and Collaboration, 19-20 Feb 2026

✍️ Submit your proposal here by 1 December 2025: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
LFA/AAS Online Conference 2026: Adaptation and Collaboration February 19-20, 2026 When the online joint LFA/AAS conference began in the heyday of a global pandemic, the goal and theme was connection: to meet and mingle with scholars from across the world when circumstances made in-person connection untenable. Now, with half a decade under our belts and increasingly complex global problems facing our cultures and communities, it becomes crucial to think about the ways that adaptations (and adaptation scholars) of all kinds can find strength through an ethic and theory of collaboration, one that recognizes the ways adaptations have always been collaborative and explores new possibilities for intergroup cooperation We invite scholars from all disciplines to submit 8-10 minute presentations on the intersection of textual adaptation (intertextuality, intermediality, industries, and auteurs) and collaboration (cooperation, collective action, interdisciplinarity, and academic partnerships) writ broadly. While we welcome any unique interpretations of this theme, possible approaches could include: Adaptation as a collaborative practice between authors and adapters, readers and viewers, scholars and practitioners, or texts and technologies Adapting (with) non-human collaborators Adaptations that theorize or explore themes of collaboration and collective action Adaptation’s role in collaborative pedagogies Adapting for the sake of international/interdisciplinary collaboration Adapting collaborative technologies for artistic production and cultural reception We particularly encourage presentations and panels which foster cooperation across disciplines and/or bring the spirit of collaboration into the panel format itself – experimentation is welcome! Please submit abstracts using this Google Form by 1 December 2025. All inquiries may be directed to adaptationjointconference@gmail.com We will notify everyone whose proposals are accepted for presentation by mid-December.
November 3, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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👉 👉 The call is HERE for AAS 2026: Adaptation and Aurality, hosted by Burman University in beautiful Alberta, Canada!

✍️ Proposals due 15 December 2025
🗓️ Conference 7-10 July 2026

Full details posted on the AAS website: www.adaptation.uk.com/aas-conferen...
Introduction to the Call for Papers for the Association of Adaptation Studies Annual Conference 2026: Adaptation and Aurality. The conference will be hosted at Burman University in Alberta, Canada. A list of suggested topics on the theme of Adaptation and Aurality A short bio and photo of the keynote speaker for AAS 2026, poet/musician/scholar Dr. Sonnet L'Abbé (Vancouver Island University). Submission guidelines and contact information. For further inquiries please write to aas2026@burmanu.ca
October 30, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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Dr. King was sentenced to 6 months hard labor because of this arrest.
October 19, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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Two paths diverged in a wood, and I–
I took the one more traveled by;
Because the wood is still a full ecosystem and leaving the maintained path can damage it,
Also I don't want ticks or wet socks
A photo of an open section in an autumn forest, there is a rocky dirt path on the right and a half-formed path through tall grasses and possibly reeds to the left.
October 13, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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HAPPY INDIGENOUS PEOPLES DAY!

Corn was created by Indigenous farmers in southern Mexico and Guatemala about 10K years. When European colonizers got to North American, Indigenous People had been growing it for thousands of years + cultivated beans, squash, potatoes and tomatoes. #Indigenous
October 13, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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Some environmental good news for once:

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Green turtle bounces back from brink in conservation 'win'
Once endangered due to hunting, it is making a strong recovery thanks to global conservation efforts.
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October 10, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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Trying to include Hamilton in your American lit courses? Who isn't?! Check out Rachel Hartnett's published lesson on Hamilton on Adaptation Today's website, and consider submitting your own materials by October 1!!
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“‘In New York You Can Be a New Man’: Adapting American Mythology in Hamilton”
Author: Rachel M. Hartnett, College of Coastal Georgia, Survey of American LiteraturePeer-Reviewers: Kathryn McClain and James FleuryWebsite Developer: Kristen Figgins Summary This l…
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September 20, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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There's still time to sign up for the 5th To Be Continued... online conference, which launches this Thursday 18 September! Join us to talk about David Lynch, copyright, franchises, and legacies with a stellar group of scholars!
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Adaptation, seriality, film, media, literature, and cultural studies scholars, come to the fifth annual online To Be Continued conference, Sept. 18-19! Presenter and (free) registration information can be found on this flyer. Hope to see you there! docs.google.com/document/d/1...
TBC5 flyer 2025 final.docx
To Be Continued 5 Defining, Producing, Performing, Consuming, and Theorizing Serials and Adaptations A Zoom Symposium, 18–19 September 2025 Organizers: Julie Grossman (Le Moyne College), Thomas Leitch...
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September 16, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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From my cold, double- tapping fingers
chanda.blacksky.app Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · Sep 3
I refuse to give em dashes to the AI
September 3, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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On September 1, 2025, we lost a true legend. Graham Greene, Oneida from Six Nations Reserve, walked on at the age of 73. Over the span of more than 175 acting credits, he gave us characters that were unforgettable, complex, and real.

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Remembering Graham Greene: A Life of Talent, Heart, and Groundbreaking Achievements
On September 1, 2025, we lost a true legend. Graham Greene, Oneida from Six Nations Reserve, walked on at the age of 73. Over the span of more than 175 acting credits, he gave us characters that were ...
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September 2, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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Adaptation, seriality, film, media, literature, and cultural studies scholars, come to the fifth annual online To Be Continued conference, Sept. 18-19! Presenter and (free) registration information can be found on this flyer. Hope to see you there! docs.google.com/document/d/1...
TBC5 flyer 2025 final.docx
To Be Continued 5 Defining, Producing, Performing, Consuming, and Theorizing Serials and Adaptations A Zoom Symposium, 18–19 September 2025 Organizers: Julie Grossman (Le Moyne College), Thomas Leitch...
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August 20, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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This is why we need the arts. This is community theatre!!!
drnickiw.bsky.social Nicki Washington, Ph.D. @drnickiw.bsky.social · Aug 6
On this Chairteenth, we celebrate the good folks of Montgomery, especially our guy AquaMayne. Special shout out to the folks who, within 72 hours, recreated this in their apartment complex. A COMMUNITY!! 💀
August 6, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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Proposal: All academic job application portals should have a Domino's Pizza Tracker system to update you on their progress, with possible free pizza upon rejection.

Thoughts?
July 30, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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I’m happy for him to have this positive experience and also wish that his character and their village could have been given more agency in the film.
July 27, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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I follow Afghan-born American actor Fahim Fazli on Instagram and it’s just incredible seeing him talk about all the years he was forced to play terrorists on screen and how Superman is one of the few films where he got to be someone good and worth saving www.instagram.com/p/DMXzYCQR-_...
July 27, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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CFP for @pcaaca.bsky.social @fanstudies.bsky.social @fsnnorthamerica.bsky.social @icahdq.bsky.social @scmstudies.bsky.social @aoir.bsky.social

The Ameri-fan Experiment: Political Fandoms, Populism, and Representative Democracies

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CFP The Ameri-fan Experiment: Political fandoms and Problems with Representative Democracies
The Ameri-fan Experiment: Political Fandoms, Populism, and Representative Democracies Call for Chapter Proposals Editors: CarrieLynn D. Reinhard, Linda Howell, and Jessica Hatusch In the wake of th...
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June 10, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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The video game Bioshock Infinite is a very intelligent, yet frightening vision of fascist America: where populist propaganda, racism and cult of personality are the pillars of the state in the clouds. This vision shouldn't become reality, it's YOUR responsibility to stop it.
July 26, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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"No amount of cheering will cause [Hogan's] desiccated, drug-addled corpse to 'Hulk up,' turn back time, and re-insert you into childhood. But the return to childhood is what the impulse to fascism is always about."

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July 25, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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Canvas just became one of the most powerful surveillance, IP theft, & data monetization tools in the world.

OpenAI bought a user-base locked in to long-term contracts.

But they can’t make us use their trashware.

Boycott. Luddify. Open source.

Don’t let them have your work or your students.
July 24, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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“Superman is too woke!”

Literally the first page of the first ever appearance of Superman:
July 11, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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a public service announcement from your friendly neighborhood educational linguist. don't facilitate antiBlackness through thoughtless discourses! #LanguageMatters #Etymology #TheBlackerTheBetter #EncodingHierarchy #AcademicChatter
In 2025 let’s stop using the word denigrate to denote a reduction in value. De-nigr-ate traces its roots to the act of making something blacker. In no world, and particularly not the modern one, does Blackness reduce value. Blackness in fact constitutes the overwhelming value of the world in culture, ideas, art, what the lands that Black people steward/ed yield, and more. Next time you want a synonym for reducing value, consider: colonize or gentrify.
July 16, 2025 at 12:53 AM