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Dr. Emily MN Kugler
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Associate Professor @ Howard
Explores how people imagined themselves in the past & how we (mis)remember them.
I’ve a book on #c18 representations of the Ottomans, articles on Black Britons, teach gender/sexuality, & talk games with @friede.bsky.social
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A problem that I never thought I'd have: finding homes for multiple Commodores. Here's the latest one with the other things it was boxed with.
Three sealed boxes of games: Decathlon, River Raid and Hero. Then a mystery: unboxed Decathlon, Hero and a third game. Many issues of Computer Gazette from the 80s. Plus joysticks, Manuel's, cassettes, cartridges, floppies Commodore VIC-20 Commodore with Adventure Land and some other games.
June 28, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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Strays you take in because you are unrealistically confident at the time you can find a new home. From bottom to top: Commodore printer, Commodore 64 computer, floppy disc drive (for just one floppy).
Stack of boxes, bottom to top: Commodore printer, Commodore 64 computer, floppy disc drive
May 13, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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I needed something good today and it arrived in the post: Molly House @wehrlegig.games wehrlegig.com/products/mol... (now I just need to find space for it next to Pax Pamir and John Company)
Board game Molly House
March 20, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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#douglassDay cake entry
February 14, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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#DouglassDay pics
February 14, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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I might start playing the Yakuza franchise
Source: www.reddit.com/media?url=ht...
Two images: Top: girl looking up out a window. Text: my disappointment there hasn't been a good pirate game in a long time Bottom: angel looking down; text: The Yakuza series for some reason
February 14, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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Migrating old tweets here means notifications that people are reacting to posts by past me that present me barely remembers. With that in mind, here's an essay high school me obsessed over. blogs.baruch.cuny.edu/2150htfa/fil...
It all comes back. Perhaps it is difficult to see the value in having one's self back in that kind of mood, but I do see it; I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not. Otherwise they turn up unannounced and surprise us, come hammering on the mind's door at 4 a.m. of a bad night and demand to know who deserted them, who betrayed them, who is going to make amends. We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget. We forget the loves and the betrayals alike, forget what we whispered and what we screamed, forget who we were. I have already lost touch with a couple of people I used to be; one of them, a seventeen-year-old, presents little threat, although it would be of some interest to me to know again what it feels like to sit on a river levee drinking vodka-and-orange-juice and listening to Les Paul and Mary Ford and their echoes sing "How High the Moon" on the car radio. (You see I still have the scenes, but I no longer perceive myself among those present, no longer could even improvise the dialogue.) The other one, a twenty-three-year-old, bothers me more. She was always a good deal of trouble, and I suspect she will reappear when I least want to see her, skirts too long, shy to the point of aggravation, always the injured party, full of recriminations and little hurts and stories I do not want to hear again, at once saddening me and angering me with her vulnerability and ignorance, an apparition all the more insistent for being so long banished. It is a good idea, then, to keep in touch, and I suppose that keeping in touch is what notebooks are all about. And we are all on our own when it comes to keeping those lines open to ourselves: your notebook will never help me, nor mine you.
February 13, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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Looking forward to @HowardU #SnowdenLecture @PhiBetaKappa Day 2: Teaching Transformative Texts from Antiquity & the African Diaspora. Thank you to @HellenicStudies for hosting & @NEHgov Teagle for helping make this possible. Key notes Dr. Carolivia Herron & Dr. @AnikaFreeindeed
November 23, 2024 at 5:06 AM
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Thrilled to listen to this year's #SnowdenLecture & #PhiBetaKappa Liberal Arts Roundtable by Dr. Anika Prather (Howard alum! FMI drprather.com/about-2/) There's a complimenting workshop tomorrow @ the Center for Hellenic Studies chs.harvard.edu/event/teachi...
April 18, 2024 at 9:38 PM
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#ASECS24 rounding out of presentation portion of the panel, Katherine BINHAMMER & Isobel GRUNDY (@UAlberta) reflect on 30 yrs @Orlando_Project “Orlando’s Collaborative Model: History, Successes, and Challenges" https://cwrc.ca/Orlando Podcast link:...
November 23, 2024 at 6:00 AM
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#ASECS24 It feels right that I started this conference hearing @EgenolfSusan on #MELP & now am hearing @JRichardWFU & Jamie KRAMER @UTKEnglish go into more detail in “The #MariaEdgeworth Letters Project: A Collaborative Digital Edition”...
November 23, 2024 at 5:47 AM
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#ASECS24 Next Norbert SCHÜRER (@CSULB) & Lois WIGNALL (@LivUni) “Libraries, Reading Communities, & Cultural Formation in the #c18ref="/hashtag/c18" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#c18" Check out the amazing team working on #c18 Libraries Online! https://www.c18librariesonline.org/
November 23, 2024 at 5:40 AM
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#ASECS24 @BallitoreProj undergrad researchers from @UCSB @HowardU @HU_COAS @csunorthridge have presented multiple times @ASECSOffice & other conferences, with many publishing & going on the doctoral programs FMI https:/ballitore.english.ucsb.edu/
November 23, 2024 at 5:33 AM
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#ASECS24 last day! It is sunny & I get to be here for "How WE Built This: Collaborative Work in the #DigitalHumanities (In Memory of Scott Enderle)" @BallitoreProj up first which is near & dear to my heart, coming out of the UC-HBCU Initiative...
November 23, 2024 at 5:20 AM
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#ASECS24 Next Ryan Gomez on a graphic novel adaptation of Laclos’s Liaisons dangereuses: @GlenatBD Stéphane Betbeder's Prélimaires
November 23, 2024 at 5:33 AM
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Now @Mattie_Burkert on engaging family historians via #publicScholarship where I learn that the fantastic London Stage Database was featured in the @WDYTYA_UK magazine (also learned there is a magazine)
November 23, 2024 at 6:51 AM
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I am so impressed by the volunteer engagement via @the_zooniverse to transcribe #MariaEdgworth's letters https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/mariaedgeworthletters/maria-edgeworth-letters @EgenolfSusan:"Collaboration is knowledge creation"
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November 23, 2024 at 5:53 AM
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Today I had the privilege of attending the Howard U induction of the new Bouchet Graduate Honors Scholars! FMI gsas.yale.edu/edward-alexa...
Cake for scholars, family, friends and advisors
April 2, 2024 at 8:18 PM
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Thrilled to see @HowardU @HU_GradSchool @HowardGradSch inducted into the Bouchet Graduate Honors Society! FMI https://gsas.yale.edu/edward-alexander-bouchet-graduate-honor-society
November 23, 2024 at 5:47 AM
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Listening to Dr Carole Boyce Davies (Howard University English chair) give the keynote at this year’s Graduate English Student Association (GESA) conference: Rise- Creative Theoretical Approaches to Cultural Production, Then and Now
GESA 2024 conference program Carole Boyce Davies giving keynote in Founders Library
March 28, 2024 at 5:06 PM
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Listening to @HowardU English chair Dr. Carole Boyce Davies give the keynote at this year’s Graduate English Student Association (GESA) conference: Rise- Creative Theoretical Approaches to Cultural Production, Then and Now @HU_GradSchool @HowardGradSch
November 23, 2024 at 5:47 AM
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Excited to be at the 72nd Annual Burch lecture featuring @mecca_jamilah!
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November 23, 2024 at 5:53 AM
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Even though Dr. Carissa M. Harris introduced me to it years ago, I am finally adding Gwerful Mechain to my British survey class.
Images: *Obscene Pedagogies* (@CornellPress 2020), @broadviewpress edition, Cover art from @NLWales
November 23, 2024 at 6:00 AM
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Thrilled to hear @MarlonJames5 & @VaughnRasberry in conversation for the Teagle Foundation meeting on “The New General Education” (FYI Dr. Rasberry earned his BA in English @HowardU @HowardAlumni, FMI on his book https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674971080)
November 23, 2024 at 6:14 AM
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B2B @PhiBetaKappa @HowardU events. #PBKVisitingScholar @doctor_talitha spoke to a full house on The Mathematics of Hidden Figures yesterday & tonight on Social Justice and Data Science @HUSDIVINITY. Plus we inducted new #pbk members & recognized our #AlainLocke Scholars
November 23, 2024 at 6:21 AM