Deidre Lynch
@drbibliomane.bsky.social
She/her, 1st gen, Canadian who's at Harvard but isn't OF Harvard-posts mainly about books (w/ cats & flowers thrown in for good measure). Now writing an itty-bitty book that aims to be a literary & media history of scrap.
Website: https://deidrelynch.org
Website: https://deidrelynch.org
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A JANE AUSTEN GUIDE TO FACULTY MEETINGS
(an intermittent series)
"He said it, she knew, to be contradicted"--Persuasion, ch. 7
(on the distribution of service commitments)
"Every body allows that the talent of writing agreeable letters is peculiarly female."--Northanger Abbey, ch. 3
(an intermittent series)
"He said it, she knew, to be contradicted"--Persuasion, ch. 7
(on the distribution of service commitments)
"Every body allows that the talent of writing agreeable letters is peculiarly female."--Northanger Abbey, ch. 3
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Use external reviewers who are trained to look not just at curriculum but also at working conditions for full and part-time faculty, demographics of students and faculty, recruitment, retention, and more. Learn to be a reviewer like that: mla.confex.com/mla/2026/mee... mla.confex.com/mla/2026/mee...
Preconvention Workshop: Become a Certified External Reviewer for the ADE
This workshop trains faculty members to become expert external reviewers of departments and programs of English. Faculty members who wish to acquire experience in reviewing or to learn more about the ...
mla.confex.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Use external reviewers who are trained to look not just at curriculum but also at working conditions for full and part-time faculty, demographics of students and faculty, recruitment, retention, and more. Learn to be a reviewer like that: mla.confex.com/mla/2026/mee... mla.confex.com/mla/2026/mee...
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A different kind of "black page" that has always fascinated me - the ink blot in Ignatius Sancho's Letters - Samcho was a big fan of Sterne
November 10, 2025 at 1:32 PM
A different kind of "black page" that has always fascinated me - the ink blot in Ignatius Sancho's Letters - Samcho was a big fan of Sterne
This is our front garden in Toronto right now: substantial snow fall even before the leaves have fallen!
November 10, 2025 at 1:11 PM
This is our front garden in Toronto right now: substantial snow fall even before the leaves have fallen!
May we do the "black page" beyond Tristram Shandy thread again please? It's so interesting.
I love Róisin's example (wow!) & I wanted in this connection, too, to share this amazing page spread in Kate Beaton's graphic memoir Ducks. It evokes the moment of the protagonist Katie's sexual assault.
I love Róisin's example (wow!) & I wanted in this connection, too, to share this amazing page spread in Kate Beaton's graphic memoir Ducks. It evokes the moment of the protagonist Katie's sexual assault.
November 10, 2025 at 1:03 PM
May we do the "black page" beyond Tristram Shandy thread again please? It's so interesting.
I love Róisin's example (wow!) & I wanted in this connection, too, to share this amazing page spread in Kate Beaton's graphic memoir Ducks. It evokes the moment of the protagonist Katie's sexual assault.
I love Róisin's example (wow!) & I wanted in this connection, too, to share this amazing page spread in Kate Beaton's graphic memoir Ducks. It evokes the moment of the protagonist Katie's sexual assault.
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At the risk of sounding like a scold for posting about this too much: your call to a senator right now could be a key factor at a crucial moment. Please read this thread & call if you haven't.
Following up on this. This remains a ‘cave is minutes or hours away’ situation. If you want to impact how this plays out you need to contact senators literally now. I want to add additional points of context. What I’m relaying is what I’ve picked up from highly reliable sources.
Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.
November 9, 2025 at 10:48 PM
At the risk of sounding like a scold for posting about this too much: your call to a senator right now could be a key factor at a crucial moment. Please read this thread & call if you haven't.
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We are also currently hiring a curatorial fellow to work with the papers of Rosalind Franklin and others in the History of Molecular Biology Collection!
This is a 2-year staff position in the archive with a salary of $55k/year and full benefits:
www.sciencehistory.org/research/fel...
This is a 2-year staff position in the archive with a salary of $55k/year and full benefits:
www.sciencehistory.org/research/fel...
For those with a scholarly interest in Franklin, Watson, and other pioneering researchers in molecular biology, @sciencehistory.org has just opened our new landmark collection of their papers, and applications for research fellowships are currently open:
www.sciencehistory.org/hmbc
www.sciencehistory.org/hmbc
History of Molecular Biology Collection
This unparalleled collection includes Rosalind Franklin's historic 'Photo 51,' which revealed the double-helix structure of DNA.
www.sciencehistory.org
November 8, 2025 at 3:45 PM
We are also currently hiring a curatorial fellow to work with the papers of Rosalind Franklin and others in the History of Molecular Biology Collection!
This is a 2-year staff position in the archive with a salary of $55k/year and full benefits:
www.sciencehistory.org/research/fel...
This is a 2-year staff position in the archive with a salary of $55k/year and full benefits:
www.sciencehistory.org/research/fel...
Describe your cat's personality with one photo
November 9, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Describe your cat's personality with one photo
Tilly hats also being how Canadian men (sometimes Canadian women) recognize one another in the wild.🇨🇦
The bulb planter with Tilley hat. R.I.P Alex Tilley, inventor of the goofiest hat in the world.
November 8, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Tilly hats also being how Canadian men (sometimes Canadian women) recognize one another in the wild.🇨🇦
Though, as the title says, it's just "Half of an Epic Simile" ("Not Found in Hesiod"), this poem by A. E. Stallings is very close to perfect, and also perfect for this time of day and dreary time of year.
(I think it might be a few decades before the undergrads can appreciate it as I do, though!)
(I think it might be a few decades before the undergrads can appreciate it as I do, though!)
November 8, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Though, as the title says, it's just "Half of an Epic Simile" ("Not Found in Hesiod"), this poem by A. E. Stallings is very close to perfect, and also perfect for this time of day and dreary time of year.
(I think it might be a few decades before the undergrads can appreciate it as I do, though!)
(I think it might be a few decades before the undergrads can appreciate it as I do, though!)
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I always joke about being an analog humanist but I think Ryan more accurately captures where I situate my work (although DH has a very small role). Love the framing of Luddite Humanities.
Increasingly the Venn diagram of my intellectual interests & commitments—digital humanities, book history/bibliography, book arts, critical making—perhaps meet in the region "Luddite Humanities"
Not technological rejection—but slower, deliberate, critical, historicized engagement with technology
Not technological rejection—but slower, deliberate, critical, historicized engagement with technology
November 6, 2025 at 12:41 PM
I always joke about being an analog humanist but I think Ryan more accurately captures where I situate my work (although DH has a very small role). Love the framing of Luddite Humanities.
Not the biggest piece of brilliant political news from yesterday, but I AM excited that the budget just announced by the 🇨🇦federal government has a line in it for funding Canada’s bid to participate in the Eurovision contest.
a group of people are dancing on a stage in front of a moon .
Alt: a group of people are dancing on a stage in front of a moon .
media.tenor.com
November 5, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Not the biggest piece of brilliant political news from yesterday, but I AM excited that the budget just announced by the 🇨🇦federal government has a line in it for funding Canada’s bid to participate in the Eurovision contest.
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Major in Africana Studies or any humanities course like English Literature! You could be mayor of New York City. You could do anything.
November 5, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Major in Africana Studies or any humanities course like English Literature! You could be mayor of New York City. You could do anything.
Only two more weeks until book 3 of Solveig Balle's On the Calculation of Volume appears (publication date is, of course, 18 Nov.), and that thought is helping me drag myself to the finish line of this accursed semester.
Who's reading it with me?
Who's reading it with me?
Is anyone else reading On the Calculation of Volume? I've just finished pt 1 (no spoilers pls!), & think it's the most interesting fiction I've read this year. Plotless fiction ABOUT losing the plot-- unsettling in how it presents marriage (& the way coupledom's demand for synchronized calendars).
November 5, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Only two more weeks until book 3 of Solveig Balle's On the Calculation of Volume appears (publication date is, of course, 18 Nov.), and that thought is helping me drag myself to the finish line of this accursed semester.
Who's reading it with me?
Who's reading it with me?
Continuing to mark the spooky season, my undergrads and I turn this week to the supernatural preoccupations of early silent cinema. I hope they are as delighted as I am by the gleeful goofiness of Pathé studio's 1906 La Maison ensorcelée. To share the joy, I give you a couple of screenshots:
November 4, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Continuing to mark the spooky season, my undergrads and I turn this week to the supernatural preoccupations of early silent cinema. I hope they are as delighted as I am by the gleeful goofiness of Pathé studio's 1906 La Maison ensorcelée. To share the joy, I give you a couple of screenshots:
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CFP: “Embodied Knowledge Practices in the Early Modern World”
Conference at the University of Amsterdam
Monday, 15 June 2026
How do material conditions shape how & what we know about the natural world?
#earlymodern #C18L
1/6
Conference at the University of Amsterdam
Monday, 15 June 2026
How do material conditions shape how & what we know about the natural world?
#earlymodern #C18L
1/6
October 31, 2025 at 3:11 PM
CFP: “Embodied Knowledge Practices in the Early Modern World”
Conference at the University of Amsterdam
Monday, 15 June 2026
How do material conditions shape how & what we know about the natural world?
#earlymodern #C18L
1/6
Conference at the University of Amsterdam
Monday, 15 June 2026
How do material conditions shape how & what we know about the natural world?
#earlymodern #C18L
1/6
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The Blue Jays have taken over Canada this postseason.
Some fans watched last night on the side of a grain elevator in Canwood, Saskatchewan.
Tonight for all the marbles. A country watches.
Some fans watched last night on the side of a grain elevator in Canwood, Saskatchewan.
Tonight for all the marbles. A country watches.
November 1, 2025 at 8:50 PM
The Blue Jays have taken over Canada this postseason.
Some fans watched last night on the side of a grain elevator in Canwood, Saskatchewan.
Tonight for all the marbles. A country watches.
Some fans watched last night on the side of a grain elevator in Canwood, Saskatchewan.
Tonight for all the marbles. A country watches.
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If you are able, please give to your local food pantries.
November 1, 2025 at 9:12 PM
If you are able, please give to your local food pantries.
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RIP the brilliant Peter Watkins whose *Commune, Paris, 1871* (2000) brings a lost world to life: www.on-tenk.com/fr/documenta...
November 1, 2025 at 8:20 PM
RIP the brilliant Peter Watkins whose *Commune, Paris, 1871* (2000) brings a lost world to life: www.on-tenk.com/fr/documenta...
This was a good read & made me curious about Atwood's memoir, the score-settling esp.
But do tell me please, @theguardian.com , where "the Canadian outback" might possibly be? (Hint: Canada and Australia are not the same place.) 🇨🇦
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
But do tell me please, @theguardian.com , where "the Canadian outback" might possibly be? (Hint: Canada and Australia are not the same place.) 🇨🇦
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
‘It is the scariest of times’: Margaret Atwood on defying Trump, banned books – and her score-settling memoir
At 86, she’s a literary seer and saint – and queen of the Canadian resistance. So what does the writer make of our dystopian world?
www.theguardian.com
November 1, 2025 at 12:25 PM
This was a good read & made me curious about Atwood's memoir, the score-settling esp.
But do tell me please, @theguardian.com , where "the Canadian outback" might possibly be? (Hint: Canada and Australia are not the same place.) 🇨🇦
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
But do tell me please, @theguardian.com , where "the Canadian outback" might possibly be? (Hint: Canada and Australia are not the same place.) 🇨🇦
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
Here's a Halloween treat, Bluesky: another frontispiece & title page from a novel included in the Houghton Library's recently acquired Jean-Paul Kahn collection of French Gothic fiction: Les Terreurs nocturnes from 1820. #19thc
Oddly, the ghost on the left appears to be tucking its victim into bed.
Oddly, the ghost on the left appears to be tucking its victim into bed.
October 31, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Here's a Halloween treat, Bluesky: another frontispiece & title page from a novel included in the Houghton Library's recently acquired Jean-Paul Kahn collection of French Gothic fiction: Les Terreurs nocturnes from 1820. #19thc
Oddly, the ghost on the left appears to be tucking its victim into bed.
Oddly, the ghost on the left appears to be tucking its victim into bed.
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Pls note, #litcrit Bsky, the bolded statement here from Frances Ferguson: "I have increasingly come to think that Clarissa is the single most important literary work in the history of British literature—& that it keeps holding its own". This is gospel truth, guys. Why aren't you already reading it?
I got to do a lightning round about my devotion to Clarissa with @sinsleyh.bsky.social, and she has honored me beyond measure by pairing it with one by Frances Ferguson. Swoon!
open.substack.com/pub/clarissa...
open.substack.com/pub/clarissa...
Toward an Oral History of Clarissa
contributed by Stephanie Hershinow
open.substack.com
October 31, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Pls note, #litcrit Bsky, the bolded statement here from Frances Ferguson: "I have increasingly come to think that Clarissa is the single most important literary work in the history of British literature—& that it keeps holding its own". This is gospel truth, guys. Why aren't you already reading it?
Janeite friends, were you wondering about the menu for the birthday dinner you're going to hold to mark Jane Austen's 250th birthday, on December 16th?
Perhaps you might get some menu ideas from this book, which @tomkeirstead.bsky.social just spotted at a local baking supply store?
Perhaps you might get some menu ideas from this book, which @tomkeirstead.bsky.social just spotted at a local baking supply store?
October 28, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Janeite friends, were you wondering about the menu for the birthday dinner you're going to hold to mark Jane Austen's 250th birthday, on December 16th?
Perhaps you might get some menu ideas from this book, which @tomkeirstead.bsky.social just spotted at a local baking supply store?
Perhaps you might get some menu ideas from this book, which @tomkeirstead.bsky.social just spotted at a local baking supply store?
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If you're in Cambridge (MA, friends, MA!) next week, please let me know!
V excited to visit. And indeed, WHY WONDER??????/
mahindrahumanities.harvard.edu/event/why-wo...
V excited to visit. And indeed, WHY WONDER??????/
mahindrahumanities.harvard.edu/event/why-wo...
Why Wonder? | Mahindra Humanities Center
mahindrahumanities.harvard.edu
October 27, 2025 at 8:55 PM
If you're in Cambridge (MA, friends, MA!) next week, please let me know!
V excited to visit. And indeed, WHY WONDER??????/
mahindrahumanities.harvard.edu/event/why-wo...
V excited to visit. And indeed, WHY WONDER??????/
mahindrahumanities.harvard.edu/event/why-wo...
What about this place for Friday?
Library had a book sale.
October 26, 2025 at 9:58 PM
What about this place for Friday?