Sheila Liming
@seeshespeak.bsky.social
reader | writer | professor | Edith Wharton impersonator
Champlain College (Burlington, VT)
HANGING OUT — hardcover / audiobook / paperback / ebook https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/717263/hanging-out-by-sheila-liming/
Champlain College (Burlington, VT)
HANGING OUT — hardcover / audiobook / paperback / ebook https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/717263/hanging-out-by-sheila-liming/
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Sheila Liming
@seeshespeak.bsky.social
· Mar 25
I wrote about the history of Wharton film adaptations (and why we haven’t had a decent one of those in 25 years!) for Film Quarterly
Gave a few hours of my Sunday to finishing Stevenson’s THE MASTER OF BALLANTRAE and boy, what a romp! From Culloden to the south seas to the shores of Lake Champlain!
November 23, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Gave a few hours of my Sunday to finishing Stevenson’s THE MASTER OF BALLANTRAE and boy, what a romp! From Culloden to the south seas to the shores of Lake Champlain!
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My hot take is that over the next 10 years, we're going to see more emphasis on and investment in the humanities at Ivy League and other fancy schools just as state schools and small privates continue to decimate and even eliminate the humanities.
"While other universities report that the humanities are shrinking, at Berkeley, the opposite is true. The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring" bit.ly/4ohKuOe
"The humanities really are a resource — a confidence for living in our times.” Dean Sara Guyer on the modern utility of humanities degrees
This interview originally appeared on the Division of Arts
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November 23, 2025 at 4:13 PM
My hot take is that over the next 10 years, we're going to see more emphasis on and investment in the humanities at Ivy League and other fancy schools just as state schools and small privates continue to decimate and even eliminate the humanities.
Played a venue last night that looked and felt exactly like The Muppet Theater from The Muppet Show
November 23, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Played a venue last night that looked and felt exactly like The Muppet Theater from The Muppet Show
The “journey” in question is me updating my account details in Oracle.
Could we maybe just call things what they are not be all corporate-twee about it?
Could we maybe just call things what they are not be all corporate-twee about it?
November 21, 2025 at 7:34 PM
The “journey” in question is me updating my account details in Oracle.
Could we maybe just call things what they are not be all corporate-twee about it?
Could we maybe just call things what they are not be all corporate-twee about it?
Say want you want about Geese, but they wrote a banger of a song in 13/8 time signature and I just think that needs to be celebrated more
November 21, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Say want you want about Geese, but they wrote a banger of a song in 13/8 time signature and I just think that needs to be celebrated more
I like project-based learning in theory, but in practice it amounts to me finishing class projects on behalf of students who didn’t turn in the work, so that the students who did turn it in can still see some result.
Multiply that across a 4:4 teaching load and it’s simply untenable.
Multiply that across a 4:4 teaching load and it’s simply untenable.
November 20, 2025 at 8:03 PM
I like project-based learning in theory, but in practice it amounts to me finishing class projects on behalf of students who didn’t turn in the work, so that the students who did turn it in can still see some result.
Multiply that across a 4:4 teaching load and it’s simply untenable.
Multiply that across a 4:4 teaching load and it’s simply untenable.
The fall semester used to functionally conclude after Thanksgiving but these days, guys, I think it ends at Halloween. People are tired and **checked out** already.
November 20, 2025 at 2:52 PM
The fall semester used to functionally conclude after Thanksgiving but these days, guys, I think it ends at Halloween. People are tired and **checked out** already.
Stopped by one of my many local bookstores to pick up some books I ordered and got misty-eyed thinking about the six years I lived in North Dakota, in a town with no bookstore.
November 18, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Stopped by one of my many local bookstores to pick up some books I ordered and got misty-eyed thinking about the six years I lived in North Dakota, in a town with no bookstore.
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this is not not that and is great and @seeshespeak.bsky.social may have ideas www.bloomsbury.com/us/office-97...
Office
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. From its origins in the late 19th century to its decl…
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November 16, 2025 at 10:09 PM
this is not not that and is great and @seeshespeak.bsky.social may have ideas www.bloomsbury.com/us/office-97...
I asked if they had a room where I could warm up my pipes.
THIS WAS THE ROOM THEY GAVE ME.
THIS WAS THE ROOM THEY GAVE ME.
November 14, 2025 at 1:01 AM
I asked if they had a room where I could warm up my pipes.
THIS WAS THE ROOM THEY GAVE ME.
THIS WAS THE ROOM THEY GAVE ME.
Live update from Robert Louis Stevenson’s former bedroom:
November 13, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Live update from Robert Louis Stevenson’s former bedroom:
Just sitting here in the first rank of the car ferry, like I don’t have recurring nightmares about being trapped in a car that’s landed in water
November 13, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Just sitting here in the first rank of the car ferry, like I don’t have recurring nightmares about being trapped in a car that’s landed in water
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Giving a lecture on the drafts of The Waste Land tomorrow and all the strange and haunting lines that Eliot and Pound decided to cut
November 12, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Giving a lecture on the drafts of The Waste Land tomorrow and all the strange and haunting lines that Eliot and Pound decided to cut
Hello darkness (at 4:30), my old friend
November 11, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Hello darkness (at 4:30), my old friend
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Happy University Press Week! Have you told your university press how much you love them lately?? 🥰
November 10, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Happy University Press Week! Have you told your university press how much you love them lately?? 🥰
The leaves aren’t even off the trees yet. Just feels kinda rude.
November 11, 2025 at 1:08 PM
The leaves aren’t even off the trees yet. Just feels kinda rude.
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For the 29 and for the wives and the sons and the daughters.
November 11, 2025 at 12:30 AM
For the 29 and for the wives and the sons and the daughters.
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The @pghguild.com strike paper's top story: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit orders the PG to restore the striking journalists' contract, including its health care plan, and bargain a new one, and strikers are looking forward to returning to work: www.unionprogress.com/2025/11/10/t...
Third Circuit Court of Appeals rules for striking Pittsburgh journalists - Pittsburgh Union Progress
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit on Monday morning ruled for the journalists of the Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh in the federal case behind their more than three-year strike at the Pit...
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November 10, 2025 at 7:25 PM
The @pghguild.com strike paper's top story: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit orders the PG to restore the striking journalists' contract, including its health care plan, and bargain a new one, and strikers are looking forward to returning to work: www.unionprogress.com/2025/11/10/t...
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Super excited that we're hiring a senior writer to join @wired.com's culture team! If you're obsessed with internet culture and like our vibe, apply! condenast.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/CondeC...
Senior Writer, Culture
WIRED is where a better future is imagined. For three decades, we have been the indispensable guide to a world in constant transformation. We cover humanity’s biggest challenges, from climate change t...
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November 7, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Super excited that we're hiring a senior writer to join @wired.com's culture team! If you're obsessed with internet culture and like our vibe, apply! condenast.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/CondeC...
I TRUST WE ARE ALL OBSERVING EDMUND FITZGERALD DAY
November 10, 2025 at 12:59 PM
I TRUST WE ARE ALL OBSERVING EDMUND FITZGERALD DAY
My new hobby is attending random choral concerts by myself so I don’t have to speak to anyone and break the spell that has been cast upon me by Tallis or Gibbons or Pärt or whomever
November 10, 2025 at 12:00 AM
My new hobby is attending random choral concerts by myself so I don’t have to speak to anyone and break the spell that has been cast upon me by Tallis or Gibbons or Pärt or whomever
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Today at Flaming Hydra, I interviewed film and media historian @alicelovejoy.bsky.social on her deeply-researched new book uncovering the role played by Kodak—the household brand that popularized the snapshot—and other film manufacturers in industrial warfare.
Kodak, for the Wartimes of Your Life
Kodak, the company that popularized the “snapshot” and made photography accessible to the world, produced much more than the friendly, once-ubiquitous film rolls sold worldwide in their small, vivid y...
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November 6, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Today at Flaming Hydra, I interviewed film and media historian @alicelovejoy.bsky.social on her deeply-researched new book uncovering the role played by Kodak—the household brand that popularized the snapshot—and other film manufacturers in industrial warfare.
Who wants to pay me, a woman who wrote a book about offices, to tell Ross Douthat that he is, once again, completely wrong about everything?
November 8, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Who wants to pay me, a woman who wrote a book about offices, to tell Ross Douthat that he is, once again, completely wrong about everything?
Your daily reminder to never trust a byline that rhymes with “douche hat”
November 8, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Your daily reminder to never trust a byline that rhymes with “douche hat”