Girl, InterruPh.D 🧿 (dr emma seaber)
@emmahatred.bsky.social
she/her
lecturer in contemporary lit, theory + culture @ kcl
working on mental illness, life writing, affect, prisons, feminism, working class
dogs 🖤
why not read my PhD? “Occult Anorexia: The Unseen Forces of Anorexia Life-writing”
lecturer in contemporary lit, theory + culture @ kcl
working on mental illness, life writing, affect, prisons, feminism, working class
dogs 🖤
why not read my PhD? “Occult Anorexia: The Unseen Forces of Anorexia Life-writing”
Nowhere is America's difficult relationship with the truth more apparent than in the fact they will call almost anything a noodle.
November 11, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Nowhere is America's difficult relationship with the truth more apparent than in the fact they will call almost anything a noodle.
If anybody is gatekeeping ANY effective treatment for SE-AN-BP please just tell me the secret I will pay any money. Like is there even one...????
October 28, 2025 at 11:42 AM
If anybody is gatekeeping ANY effective treatment for SE-AN-BP please just tell me the secret I will pay any money. Like is there even one...????
My favourite fantasy series is Law and Order SVU
October 6, 2025 at 2:27 PM
My favourite fantasy series is Law and Order SVU
Are you "suffering from burnout" or is it more like ... sparkling ennui?
(it's perfectly okay to wish you were paid more or feel bored at work or find your colleagues tiresome or infuriating. AND not every emotion has to be CATACLYSMIC)
(it's perfectly okay to wish you were paid more or feel bored at work or find your colleagues tiresome or infuriating. AND not every emotion has to be CATACLYSMIC)
September 4, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Are you "suffering from burnout" or is it more like ... sparkling ennui?
(it's perfectly okay to wish you were paid more or feel bored at work or find your colleagues tiresome or infuriating. AND not every emotion has to be CATACLYSMIC)
(it's perfectly okay to wish you were paid more or feel bored at work or find your colleagues tiresome or infuriating. AND not every emotion has to be CATACLYSMIC)
"Why does peer review take so long??"
July 14: Editor emails me requesting peer review “in the coming weeks”
I reply accepting, asking for article ETA so I can plan my summer commitments
July 21: Editor simply says they need it “completed by September”. No problem, I can do that. I confirm.
July 14: Editor emails me requesting peer review “in the coming weeks”
I reply accepting, asking for article ETA so I can plan my summer commitments
July 21: Editor simply says they need it “completed by September”. No problem, I can do that. I confirm.
August 27, 2025 at 10:48 AM
"Why does peer review take so long??"
July 14: Editor emails me requesting peer review “in the coming weeks”
I reply accepting, asking for article ETA so I can plan my summer commitments
July 21: Editor simply says they need it “completed by September”. No problem, I can do that. I confirm.
July 14: Editor emails me requesting peer review “in the coming weeks”
I reply accepting, asking for article ETA so I can plan my summer commitments
July 21: Editor simply says they need it “completed by September”. No problem, I can do that. I confirm.
the worst part is that this would almost certainly work really well, because we are sad, fragile humans whose careers are built entirely on external validation
What the actual fucking fuck. www.theverge.com/news/760508/...
August 18, 2025 at 2:43 PM
the worst part is that this would almost certainly work really well, because we are sad, fragile humans whose careers are built entirely on external validation
Just 8 working days left at this job I love and I feel very sad
August 18, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Just 8 working days left at this job I love and I feel very sad
Ooh, a sequel to Bunny!
August 12, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Ooh, a sequel to Bunny!
"As a father of daughters..." Yeah, you know who else was a father of daughters????
August 8, 2025 at 11:52 AM
"As a father of daughters..." Yeah, you know who else was a father of daughters????
Less than 4 weeks till my FTC ends and I have received an email from HR telling me they're "sorry to hear [I'm] leaving" and they're "always keen to understand why colleagues decide to leave".
What to say to that?????
What to say to that?????
August 5, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Less than 4 weeks till my FTC ends and I have received an email from HR telling me they're "sorry to hear [I'm] leaving" and they're "always keen to understand why colleagues decide to leave".
What to say to that?????
What to say to that?????
The Beautiful South are really underrated in my opinion. They only have like one shit song.
August 3, 2025 at 10:59 AM
The Beautiful South are really underrated in my opinion. They only have like one shit song.
what English/humanities postdoc/early career funding pots are available when you're more than three years out from your PhD and have been doing FTC teaching replacement posts and are now facing the abyss?
I'm too old for BA and Leverhulme... 🙃💀🙃💀🙃💀
I'm too old for BA and Leverhulme... 🙃💀🙃💀🙃💀
August 2, 2025 at 11:54 AM
what English/humanities postdoc/early career funding pots are available when you're more than three years out from your PhD and have been doing FTC teaching replacement posts and are now facing the abyss?
I'm too old for BA and Leverhulme... 🙃💀🙃💀🙃💀
I'm too old for BA and Leverhulme... 🙃💀🙃💀🙃💀
how long till hadl*y fre*man uses the fact that she was anorexic once as the pretext for some bullshit take on the deliberate starvation of Gazans
(i guess it'll be several months yet because she's famously slow off the mark and her bad takes are all pitifully tepid, too)
(i guess it'll be several months yet because she's famously slow off the mark and her bad takes are all pitifully tepid, too)
July 29, 2025 at 2:41 PM
how long till hadl*y fre*man uses the fact that she was anorexic once as the pretext for some bullshit take on the deliberate starvation of Gazans
(i guess it'll be several months yet because she's famously slow off the mark and her bad takes are all pitifully tepid, too)
(i guess it'll be several months yet because she's famously slow off the mark and her bad takes are all pitifully tepid, too)
this is like buying a great Dane because you want a dog who can make you 3 feet tall club sandwiches.
July 27, 2025 at 9:49 PM
this is like buying a great Dane because you want a dog who can make you 3 feet tall club sandwiches.
these pathetic incel London trees, street harassing me with their useless pollen like so many Miggses
July 3, 2025 at 10:18 AM
these pathetic incel London trees, street harassing me with their useless pollen like so many Miggses
This looks great!
in CLOSE READING FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY, @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social and I wrote a 36 page three-part introduction: What Close Reading Is, What Close Reading Does, and What Close Reading Has Been
30 pages of it is now online at @princetonupress.bsky.social
press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
30 pages of it is now online at @princetonupress.bsky.social
press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century
A user’s guide to the fundamental practice of literary studies, providing context, examples, and practical exercises
press.princeton.edu
June 29, 2025 at 2:09 PM
This looks great!
I am sad
June 26, 2025 at 12:39 PM
I am sad
people who pronounce it "nucular" need to stop presenting news podcasts
June 24, 2025 at 6:48 PM
people who pronounce it "nucular" need to stop presenting news podcasts
Reposted by Girl, InterruPh.D 🧿 (dr emma seaber)
This is BS.
I ran for office in a red state and won with 80% of the vote. I regularly talk about my identity when I knock doors. The key is to do so a way that connects to other issues (e.g. being trans shapes how I think about ALL healthcare access, threats to education, etc.).
It's that simple.
I ran for office in a red state and won with 80% of the vote. I regularly talk about my identity when I knock doors. The key is to do so a way that connects to other issues (e.g. being trans shapes how I think about ALL healthcare access, threats to education, etc.).
It's that simple.
June 24, 2025 at 3:20 PM
This is BS.
I ran for office in a red state and won with 80% of the vote. I regularly talk about my identity when I knock doors. The key is to do so a way that connects to other issues (e.g. being trans shapes how I think about ALL healthcare access, threats to education, etc.).
It's that simple.
I ran for office in a red state and won with 80% of the vote. I regularly talk about my identity when I knock doors. The key is to do so a way that connects to other issues (e.g. being trans shapes how I think about ALL healthcare access, threats to education, etc.).
It's that simple.
Explain your @
In the erstwhile BBC2 series Look Around You, Mark Heap plays a beleaguered inventor called Leonard Hatred.
In the erstwhile BBC2 series Look Around You, Mark Heap plays a beleaguered inventor called Leonard Hatred.
Explain your @
I'm a big Will Hay fan and in Ask a Policeman (the very first Hay film I ever saw), Jeremiah Harbottle runs the wonderfully ramshackle 'Harbottle's Stores'.
I'm a big Will Hay fan and in Ask a Policeman (the very first Hay film I ever saw), Jeremiah Harbottle runs the wonderfully ramshackle 'Harbottle's Stores'.
Explain your @
Hi! I'm Mark Thompson and I used to run a political blog back in the day called Mark Reckons.
Hi! I'm Mark Thompson and I used to run a political blog back in the day called Mark Reckons.
June 21, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Explain your @
In the erstwhile BBC2 series Look Around You, Mark Heap plays a beleaguered inventor called Leonard Hatred.
In the erstwhile BBC2 series Look Around You, Mark Heap plays a beleaguered inventor called Leonard Hatred.
What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?
"Performative" (Butler/Austin) doesn't mean something (statement, action, identity) is fake, pretend, showing off, artificial, inauthentic, false, factitious or merely lip service.
"Performative" (Butler/Austin) doesn't mean something (statement, action, identity) is fake, pretend, showing off, artificial, inauthentic, false, factitious or merely lip service.
What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?
In general, it takes about 1000 years to form 1cm of new soil.
In general, it takes about 1000 years to form 1cm of new soil.
What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?
We’re not clear on what *information* is, at all
We’re not clear on what *information* is, at all
June 17, 2025 at 7:51 AM
What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?
"Performative" (Butler/Austin) doesn't mean something (statement, action, identity) is fake, pretend, showing off, artificial, inauthentic, false, factitious or merely lip service.
"Performative" (Butler/Austin) doesn't mean something (statement, action, identity) is fake, pretend, showing off, artificial, inauthentic, false, factitious or merely lip service.
Opinions welcome!
hardly slept last night because I couldn't stop thinking about what c20th literary figure could beat sylvia plath in a fight-fight
June 13, 2025 at 6:24 AM
Opinions welcome!
hardly slept last night because I couldn't stop thinking about what c20th literary figure could beat sylvia plath in a fight-fight
June 13, 2025 at 6:04 AM
hardly slept last night because I couldn't stop thinking about what c20th literary figure could beat sylvia plath in a fight-fight