Eir-Anne Edgar
@eir-anneedgar.bsky.social
reader writer weeper
Assoc Prof of American Lit
Appalachian in Norway
Assoc Prof of American Lit
Appalachian in Norway
At ASA in San Juan and excited to talk about pedagogy and literature tomorrow. Come see our panel:
November 20, 2025 at 3:47 PM
At ASA in San Juan and excited to talk about pedagogy and literature tomorrow. Come see our panel:
My article on teaching punk at Interlochen Center for the Arts is finally out in the English Journal.
I will happily send you a PDF if you'd like to read it.
doi.org/10.58680/ej2...
I will happily send you a PDF if you'd like to read it.
doi.org/10.58680/ej2...
The Art of Punk: Process, Pedagogy, and Partnership | ncte.org
A teacher education professor and former secondary school instructor discusses using punk pedagogy and content in the English classroom to promote experimentation, interdisciplinarity, participation i...
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November 15, 2025 at 1:35 PM
My article on teaching punk at Interlochen Center for the Arts is finally out in the English Journal.
I will happily send you a PDF if you'd like to read it.
doi.org/10.58680/ej2...
I will happily send you a PDF if you'd like to read it.
doi.org/10.58680/ej2...
Anyone else heading to the ASA conference next week? We can chat about Afrofuturism and dystopia and many other things...
November 11, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Anyone else heading to the ASA conference next week? We can chat about Afrofuturism and dystopia and many other things...
Hey Trondheim people! I am SO EXCITED to be hosting a book discussion this Monday night!!!
litteraturhusetitrondheim.no/program/keti...
litteraturhusetitrondheim.no/program/keti...
Ketil Slagstad: Standardizing Sex - A History of Trans Medicine - Litteraturhuset i Trondheim
Den skandinaviske historien er spesiell i det den belyser den sentrale rollen staten har spilt i regulering og standardisering av […]
litteraturhusetitrondheim.no
November 7, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Hey Trondheim people! I am SO EXCITED to be hosting a book discussion this Monday night!!!
litteraturhusetitrondheim.no/program/keti...
litteraturhusetitrondheim.no/program/keti...
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I sincerely hope Democrats pay attention to tonight’s results across the country. They won’t learn anything but still. Maybe. People are excited by change and original campaigns and bold ideas and candidates under the age of 50!
November 5, 2025 at 3:02 AM
I sincerely hope Democrats pay attention to tonight’s results across the country. They won’t learn anything but still. Maybe. People are excited by change and original campaigns and bold ideas and candidates under the age of 50!
Things I feel good about:
1). revisions are going(!) I may actually hit a self-imposed deadline
2). this US election day has me feeling optimistic.
1). revisions are going(!) I may actually hit a self-imposed deadline
2). this US election day has me feeling optimistic.
November 4, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Things I feel good about:
1). revisions are going(!) I may actually hit a self-imposed deadline
2). this US election day has me feeling optimistic.
1). revisions are going(!) I may actually hit a self-imposed deadline
2). this US election day has me feeling optimistic.
Join us tomorrow for a discussion on teaching and researching in American Studies in challenging times (so, now!)
asanor.org/events/onlin...
asanor.org/events/onlin...
Online Event: Challenging Times for American Studies
Date: Friday, October 24, 2025Time: 13:00-15:00 CET Click here to join us on Zoom.com(or use password 907813) In advance of our biannual conference in Kristiansand, Norway (June 4-6, 2026…
asanor.org
October 23, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Join us tomorrow for a discussion on teaching and researching in American Studies in challenging times (so, now!)
asanor.org/events/onlin...
asanor.org/events/onlin...
My review of "Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right" by @jordanscarroll.bsky.social is out in the November edition of Science Fiction Studies! (Hilariously, out before an article that will appear in a September edition of a different journal...) doi.org/10.1525/sfs....
Review: Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right, by Jordan S. Carroll
Sf provides a framework not only to dream of possible futures, but also to engineer the past and the present so that they align with vested interests and ideologies. The explosion of queer, BIPOC, fem...
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October 17, 2025 at 4:38 PM
My review of "Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right" by @jordanscarroll.bsky.social is out in the November edition of Science Fiction Studies! (Hilariously, out before an article that will appear in a September edition of a different journal...) doi.org/10.1525/sfs....
every time I have to use Amazon customer service I feel like I am being punished for some past life crime.
October 14, 2025 at 7:54 PM
every time I have to use Amazon customer service I feel like I am being punished for some past life crime.
today I wrote TWO different proposals and I am annoyed by how much easier they came than the revisions I OUGHT to be working on...
October 14, 2025 at 1:59 PM
today I wrote TWO different proposals and I am annoyed by how much easier they came than the revisions I OUGHT to be working on...
American Studies folks! Please join us for an online discussion on teaching and researching American Studies now, hosted by the American Studies Association of Norway. You can join myself and an illustrious group at the end of the month to chat. Details at the link: asanor.org/events/onlin...
Online Event: Challenging Times for American Studies
Date: Friday, October 24, 2025Time: 13:00-15:00 CET Click here to join us on Zoom.com(or use password 907813) In advance of our biannual conference in Kristiansand, Norway (June 4-6, 2026…
asanor.org
October 1, 2025 at 2:20 PM
American Studies folks! Please join us for an online discussion on teaching and researching American Studies now, hosted by the American Studies Association of Norway. You can join myself and an illustrious group at the end of the month to chat. Details at the link: asanor.org/events/onlin...
my chapter on queer and "older" casual sex and swinging is finally out! This book has been in process for ages, very satisfying to see it complete. policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/resexualisin...
September 23, 2025 at 8:36 AM
my chapter on queer and "older" casual sex and swinging is finally out! This book has been in process for ages, very satisfying to see it complete. policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/resexualisin...
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he was a champion of free speech and if you disagree youre under arrest
September 12, 2025 at 10:24 AM
he was a champion of free speech and if you disagree youre under arrest
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I tell my students ‘When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power then your job is to empower somebody else. This is not just a grab-bag candy game.
Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison
September 5, 2025 at 7:33 AM
I tell my students ‘When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power then your job is to empower somebody else. This is not just a grab-bag candy game.
Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison
this is awesome!
teachers!
excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone.
take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE
against-a-i.com
excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone.
take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE
against-a-i.com
AGAINST AI
against-a-i.com
August 18, 2025 at 10:23 AM
this is awesome!
The CFP for the American Studies Association of Norway 2026 Conference is ready to go! Come give a talk and experience one of my favourite conferences.
asanor.org/2026-confere...
asanor.org/2026-confere...
2026 Conference
Proposal deadline: October 15, 2025All presenters also need to be registered members of ASANOR. Click here for information on how to join us. The 2026 American Studies Association of Norway Confere…
asanor.org
August 5, 2025 at 2:38 PM
The CFP for the American Studies Association of Norway 2026 Conference is ready to go! Come give a talk and experience one of my favourite conferences.
asanor.org/2026-confere...
asanor.org/2026-confere...
I hope I did not nerd out too much in my reply, but my author's agreement with an SF journal came from *a scholarly icon* 😱
August 4, 2025 at 1:21 PM
I hope I did not nerd out too much in my reply, but my author's agreement with an SF journal came from *a scholarly icon* 😱
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We read books by LGBTQ+ authors before. We will read books by LGBTQ+ authors now. We will read books by LGBTQ+ authors tomorrow. Literature is for and by everyone.
June 27, 2025 at 8:21 PM
We read books by LGBTQ+ authors before. We will read books by LGBTQ+ authors now. We will read books by LGBTQ+ authors tomorrow. Literature is for and by everyone.
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Every time I say “no worries” what I really mean is “I am choosing to bear this burden like a medieval monk and you will never hear of it again.”
June 17, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Every time I say “no worries” what I really mean is “I am choosing to bear this burden like a medieval monk and you will never hear of it again.”
Reviewing a journal submission that HAS to be at least partially AI generated. Perhaps I am naive, but this is my first time encountering this. I wonder how journals are handling this?
June 17, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Reviewing a journal submission that HAS to be at least partially AI generated. Perhaps I am naive, but this is my first time encountering this. I wonder how journals are handling this?
SO CLOSE to wrapping things up and starting summer break...
June 12, 2025 at 12:29 PM
SO CLOSE to wrapping things up and starting summer break...
New book review is up on International Research in Children's Literature!
www.euppublishing.com/toc/ircl/18/2
www.euppublishing.com/toc/ircl/18/2
June 9, 2025 at 10:26 AM
New book review is up on International Research in Children's Literature!
www.euppublishing.com/toc/ircl/18/2
www.euppublishing.com/toc/ircl/18/2
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This might be the absolute greatest reply we have ever received.
Thank you, Cookie Monster 📕🍪💙
Thank you, Cookie Monster 📕🍪💙
June 5, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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cute article on new gallery in Trondheim, with a focus on my neighbourhood! I live in one of the red houses on the Nidelva River in the cover photo.
Scandinavia’s artiest city now has a fascinating new museum
Visit Trondheim for PoMo, a private gallery in an art nouveau post office; stay for its creative food scene, harbourside saunas and beautiful medieval cathedral
www.thetimes.com
June 3, 2025 at 3:45 PM
cute article on new gallery in Trondheim, with a focus on my neighbourhood! I live in one of the red houses on the Nidelva River in the cover photo.