祖思薪 Eugenia Zuroski
@zugenia.bsky.social
English and Cultural Studies prof; poet; editor of @ecfjournal.bsky.social. Thinking in semiotic squares and cosmological circles. she/they/we
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It looks like my book A FUNNY THING: EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE UNDISCIPLINED is available for preorder, and will be out next month!
Please ask your university libraries to order it—if enough copies sell, it will flip to open access!
www.cambridge.org/core/books/f...
Please ask your university libraries to order it—if enough copies sell, it will flip to open access!
www.cambridge.org/core/books/f...
A Funny Thing
Cambridge Core - English Literature 1700-1830 - A Funny Thing
www.cambridge.org
Out TODAY! Tell your libraries! I want to get this baby open access so much!!
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Grateful for brave editors, for the brothers who read this before I submitted it and for my OU Classical Studies colleagues who are my secret island where no one would ever say this kind of careerist nonsense in a disciplinary ocean that is full of it 💚
“Chella stop writing on the complicity of Classics in the genocide of the Palestinians, you’ll ruin your career.”
“Chella your article on the complicity of Classics in the genocide of the Palestinians is in the top 10!”
Shall we just stop with the careerist nonsense now?! 🤷🏼♀️
“Chella your article on the complicity of Classics in the genocide of the Palestinians is in the top 10!”
Shall we just stop with the careerist nonsense now?! 🤷🏼♀️
November 14, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Grateful for brave editors, for the brothers who read this before I submitted it and for my OU Classical Studies colleagues who are my secret island where no one would ever say this kind of careerist nonsense in a disciplinary ocean that is full of it 💚
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Message to all faculty: your expertise is no longer trusted or valued at this so-called “university.”
November 14, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Message to all faculty: your expertise is no longer trusted or valued at this so-called “university.”
My book A FUNNY THING: EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE UNDISCIPLINED is now available for pre-order in a paperback priced for humans! Go get it!
A Funny Thing | Cambridge University Press & Assessment
www.cambridge.org
November 14, 2025 at 1:01 PM
My book A FUNNY THING: EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE UNDISCIPLINED is now available for pre-order in a paperback priced for humans! Go get it!
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I missed & now can’t get behind the paywall to hate-read E. Gordon Gee’s take on “higher ed’s woes” in CHE but might I recommend this book instead—co-ed by @thetattooedprof.bsky.social & Lisa Di Bartolomeo & penned in part by veterans of his own war on higher ed at WVU? sunypress.edu/Books/T/The-...
The Campus Crisis Toolkit
sunypress.edu
November 14, 2025 at 12:19 PM
I missed & now can’t get behind the paywall to hate-read E. Gordon Gee’s take on “higher ed’s woes” in CHE but might I recommend this book instead—co-ed by @thetattooedprof.bsky.social & Lisa Di Bartolomeo & penned in part by veterans of his own war on higher ed at WVU? sunypress.edu/Books/T/The-...
I’m sorry, but what the fuck is a “top banker”
November 12, 2025 at 2:34 AM
I’m sorry, but what the fuck is a “top banker”
This is 100% why I am a De Palma Stan forever
If a filmmaker is gonna do one for the money, the high bars are DePalma's The Untouchables and Mission: Impossible. Make it so good that it never occurs to anyone to ask about your motivation for making it. So good that they're just grateful it exists.
November 12, 2025 at 1:50 AM
This is 100% why I am a De Palma Stan forever
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Yes! The thing abt public libraries that is so beautiful & crucial is the idea that *anybody* could do this — you need no credential, there’s no gatekeeping, literally any person can be an intellectual. You can come from absolutely nothing & yet, by means of curiosity + work, create real knowledge
I wrote a significant chunk of my first book at a Chicago Public Library, an amazing public space where people could read books and newspapers, access the internet, or just keep warm for a while on a cold day. This is appalling.
CPL is an absolute palace to the people and these proposed cuts are abominable. Artificial austerity. Chicago folks, read this, check the links to bug the mayor and your alders—this can be fought and won.
November 8, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Yes! The thing abt public libraries that is so beautiful & crucial is the idea that *anybody* could do this — you need no credential, there’s no gatekeeping, literally any person can be an intellectual. You can come from absolutely nothing & yet, by means of curiosity + work, create real knowledge
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"(Poe) is a node that allows us to access so many...conversations. (W)hat does Poe allow us to access?"
Catch a great new interview with @PoeStudies editor Kelly Ross and Debra Rae Cohen and Eugenia Zuroski of the @CELJ
Catch a great new interview with @PoeStudies editor Kelly Ross and Debra Rae Cohen and Eugenia Zuroski of the @CELJ
Featured Journal: Poe Studies — Council of Editors of Learned Journals
The editor of Poe Studies was interviewed by CELJ Board members, Debra Rae
Cohen and Eugenia Zuroski as CELJ’s newest featured journal!
tinyurl.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:45 PM
"(Poe) is a node that allows us to access so many...conversations. (W)hat does Poe allow us to access?"
Catch a great new interview with @PoeStudies editor Kelly Ross and Debra Rae Cohen and Eugenia Zuroski of the @CELJ
Catch a great new interview with @PoeStudies editor Kelly Ross and Debra Rae Cohen and Eugenia Zuroski of the @CELJ
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Here's an informative interview about academic publishing with @kellyross910.bsky.social conducted by @debraraecohen.bsky.social and @zugenia.bsky.social.
The latest issue of @poestudies.bsky.social is Open Access and full of meaty stuff for any midnight dreary or midday not-so-dreary.
The latest issue of @poestudies.bsky.social is Open Access and full of meaty stuff for any midnight dreary or midday not-so-dreary.
"(Poe) is a node that allows us to access so many...conversations. (W)hat does Poe allow us to access?"
Catch a great new interview with @PoeStudies editor Kelly Ross and Debra Rae Cohen and Eugenia Zuroski of the @CELJ
Catch a great new interview with @PoeStudies editor Kelly Ross and Debra Rae Cohen and Eugenia Zuroski of the @CELJ
Featured Journal: Poe Studies — Council of Editors of Learned Journals
The editor of Poe Studies was interviewed by CELJ Board members, Debra Rae
Cohen and Eugenia Zuroski as CELJ’s newest featured journal!
tinyurl.com
November 8, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Here's an informative interview about academic publishing with @kellyross910.bsky.social conducted by @debraraecohen.bsky.social and @zugenia.bsky.social.
The latest issue of @poestudies.bsky.social is Open Access and full of meaty stuff for any midnight dreary or midday not-so-dreary.
The latest issue of @poestudies.bsky.social is Open Access and full of meaty stuff for any midnight dreary or midday not-so-dreary.
I am begging us to keep basic humanities education the norm
November 8, 2025 at 1:23 AM
I am begging us to keep basic humanities education the norm
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I think encouraging more museum heists would solve the male loneliness crisis
At the 2024 funeral of Pål Enger, who stole Edvard Munch’s “The Scream” from Norway's National Gallery in 1994 (leaving behind a note: “a thousand thanks for your poor security”), not one but two photos of his getaway ladder were displayed, and his coffin was draped in a reproduction of "The Scream"
November 7, 2025 at 5:59 PM
I think encouraging more museum heists would solve the male loneliness crisis
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When you've pissed off one of the kindest and most generous people in the literary world, you should know you've really gone and done it—but also, more people should be shouting this loudly about this kind of thing. A boycott is a bold stance and I wonder what'd happen if more of us joined him.
I have the title for the weekend's newsletter, "Why I Won't be Reviewing Ann Patchett's Next Book, Which Has Nothing to Do With Ann Patchett." I'm really getting angrier about this. I thought doing these things and sending emails to HC publicity folks to tell them to take me off the list would help
November 6, 2025 at 10:59 PM
When you've pissed off one of the kindest and most generous people in the literary world, you should know you've really gone and done it—but also, more people should be shouting this loudly about this kind of thing. A boycott is a bold stance and I wonder what'd happen if more of us joined him.
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Breaking News: Late last night Conde Nast illegally fired 4 union organizers who asked company execs to explain the downsizing of Teen Vogue and continued layoffs. We’ve filed a grievance.
November 6, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Breaking News: Late last night Conde Nast illegally fired 4 union organizers who asked company execs to explain the downsizing of Teen Vogue and continued layoffs. We’ve filed a grievance.
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What I hate most about AI in higher ed is that it is a sustained assault on the positive social relations between teachers and students.
People keep telling me it’s good for some things. Maybe it is.
But I don’t value new technology over unconditional positive regard and building trust!
People keep telling me it’s good for some things. Maybe it is.
But I don’t value new technology over unconditional positive regard and building trust!
November 6, 2025 at 12:51 PM
What I hate most about AI in higher ed is that it is a sustained assault on the positive social relations between teachers and students.
People keep telling me it’s good for some things. Maybe it is.
But I don’t value new technology over unconditional positive regard and building trust!
People keep telling me it’s good for some things. Maybe it is.
But I don’t value new technology over unconditional positive regard and building trust!
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As someone currently on probation at Princeton, what also stands out here is the sham faculty governance on display:
Faculty panel reviews all the evidence n decides there is no grounds for suspension.
Admin overrules their decision n Provost Kavita Bala calls for significant disciplinary action.
Faculty panel reviews all the evidence n decides there is no grounds for suspension.
Admin overrules their decision n Provost Kavita Bala calls for significant disciplinary action.
September 29, 2025 at 5:01 PM
As someone currently on probation at Princeton, what also stands out here is the sham faculty governance on display:
Faculty panel reviews all the evidence n decides there is no grounds for suspension.
Admin overrules their decision n Provost Kavita Bala calls for significant disciplinary action.
Faculty panel reviews all the evidence n decides there is no grounds for suspension.
Admin overrules their decision n Provost Kavita Bala calls for significant disciplinary action.
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Mamdani got a humanities degree.
His win helps to illustrate that one of the central forces driving higher ed’s dissolution of the humanities is the fear that teaching people how power works can also lead to their interest in seizing it on behalf of the less powerful.
His win helps to illustrate that one of the central forces driving higher ed’s dissolution of the humanities is the fear that teaching people how power works can also lead to their interest in seizing it on behalf of the less powerful.
November 5, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Mamdani got a humanities degree.
His win helps to illustrate that one of the central forces driving higher ed’s dissolution of the humanities is the fear that teaching people how power works can also lead to their interest in seizing it on behalf of the less powerful.
His win helps to illustrate that one of the central forces driving higher ed’s dissolution of the humanities is the fear that teaching people how power works can also lead to their interest in seizing it on behalf of the less powerful.
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Posting this from September now since Conde Nast is merging Teen Vogue into Vogue and cutting the politics section.
www.teenvogue.com/story/men-dr...
www.teenvogue.com/story/men-dr...
How ICE Raids Are Making It Easier for Civilian Men to Assault Immigrant Women
"This phenomenon is only possible because of the outsized power that state agents have always had to abuse and control women and victims' bodies," argues Kylie Cheung.
www.teenvogue.com
November 3, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Posting this from September now since Conde Nast is merging Teen Vogue into Vogue and cutting the politics section.
www.teenvogue.com/story/men-dr...
www.teenvogue.com/story/men-dr...
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Condé leadership owes us--and Teen Vogue’s readership--answers. We will get those answers.
And we fight for our rights as workers with a collective bargaining agreement as we fight for the work we do, and the people we do it for.
And we fight for our rights as workers with a collective bargaining agreement as we fight for the work we do, and the people we do it for.
November 3, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Condé leadership owes us--and Teen Vogue’s readership--answers. We will get those answers.
And we fight for our rights as workers with a collective bargaining agreement as we fight for the work we do, and the people we do it for.
And we fight for our rights as workers with a collective bargaining agreement as we fight for the work we do, and the people we do it for.
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We strongly condemn @CondéNast’s consolidation plans for Teen Vogue, a move that is clearly designed to blunt the award-winning magazine’s insightful journalism at a time when it is needed the most. More from our statement:
November 3, 2025 at 11:24 PM
We strongly condemn @CondéNast’s consolidation plans for Teen Vogue, a move that is clearly designed to blunt the award-winning magazine’s insightful journalism at a time when it is needed the most. More from our statement:
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No-one becomes a poet with the dream of sitting in board meetings, doing spreadsheets & writing fiscal reports. Massively admire the artists who do this labour.
This looks like the big push for literary arts funding that's been hoped for from poet Elizabeth Alexander, president of Mellon, since her appointment in 2018.
Poet Jen Benka is ED of Literary Arts Fund.
www.mellon.org/news/coaliti...
Poet Jen Benka is ED of Literary Arts Fund.
www.mellon.org/news/coaliti...
Coalition Launches Historic $50 Million Initiative to Bolster Nonprofit Literary Arts
New fund is dedicated to strengthening the field, advancing support for creative writers and ensuring their contributions to American literature for generations to come.
www.mellon.org
October 28, 2025 at 5:38 PM
No-one becomes a poet with the dream of sitting in board meetings, doing spreadsheets & writing fiscal reports. Massively admire the artists who do this labour.
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Really grateful for this news.
The Literary Arts Fund is an unprecedented effort to dramatically increase support for and the visibility of the nonprofit literary arts field for the next five years toward ensuring a healthy and more robust U.S. literary culture in support of creative writers: literaryartsfund.org/announcing-l...
October 28, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Really grateful for this news.
Me, previously:
I’m so sorry I’m late!!!!! [Offers “excuse,” feels stupid]
Me, going forward:
Oh hai! I’m on ancestral time, delighted to intersect with you [Smiles, feels excellent]
I’m so sorry I’m late!!!!! [Offers “excuse,” feels stupid]
Me, going forward:
Oh hai! I’m on ancestral time, delighted to intersect with you [Smiles, feels excellent]
October 27, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Me, previously:
I’m so sorry I’m late!!!!! [Offers “excuse,” feels stupid]
Me, going forward:
Oh hai! I’m on ancestral time, delighted to intersect with you [Smiles, feels excellent]
I’m so sorry I’m late!!!!! [Offers “excuse,” feels stupid]
Me, going forward:
Oh hai! I’m on ancestral time, delighted to intersect with you [Smiles, feels excellent]
Me: How does this outfit look
My kid: You look like a biker who forgot their pants and had to borrow their mom’s
Me: Excellent
My kid: You look like a biker who forgot their pants and had to borrow their mom’s
Me: Excellent
October 23, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Me: How does this outfit look
My kid: You look like a biker who forgot their pants and had to borrow their mom’s
Me: Excellent
My kid: You look like a biker who forgot their pants and had to borrow their mom’s
Me: Excellent
New rule: every time a student uses AI to turn in something nonsensical for a low-stakes, ungraded assignment, the instructor gets to punch a tech bro in the face
October 22, 2025 at 2:20 PM
New rule: every time a student uses AI to turn in something nonsensical for a low-stakes, ungraded assignment, the instructor gets to punch a tech bro in the face