Emily Waller Singeisen
@esing.bsky.social
Ph.D. Student @ UNC | MA UPenn | Comparatist | Classical Reception, 19th & 20th c. | Illustrated books 📚
Today’s used book store delivery: “Petronius”’ unexpurgated guide to New York (feat. disinterested cat)
November 4, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Today’s used book store delivery: “Petronius”’ unexpurgated guide to New York (feat. disinterested cat)
Aubrey Beardsley’s fetuses are unsettling for *many* reasons, but one of the main reasons is because they look like Dr. Moron from Loony Tunes
November 4, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Aubrey Beardsley’s fetuses are unsettling for *many* reasons, but one of the main reasons is because they look like Dr. Moron from Loony Tunes
Reading about Noel Billing’s attacks on Maude Allen after her 1906 performance of Salomé. His hit piece was titled, “The Cult of the Clitoris”… I just want to know why a lesbian punk rock band hasn’t stolen this title because it’s truly inspired.
September 19, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Reading about Noel Billing’s attacks on Maude Allen after her 1906 performance of Salomé. His hit piece was titled, “The Cult of the Clitoris”… I just want to know why a lesbian punk rock band hasn’t stolen this title because it’s truly inspired.
What am I writing about right now? According to my stream of consciousness marginal comments…
July 26, 2025 at 7:02 PM
What am I writing about right now? According to my stream of consciousness marginal comments…
From this morning’s research in the Wilson Library: a Beardsley proof for the Savoy that quite literally bears the fingerprints of Arthur Symons
July 21, 2025 at 6:01 PM
From this morning’s research in the Wilson Library: a Beardsley proof for the Savoy that quite literally bears the fingerprints of Arthur Symons
This week’s reading just arrived! So excited to crack into this timely new work from @platanoclassics.bsky.social
July 15, 2025 at 8:34 PM
This week’s reading just arrived! So excited to crack into this timely new work from @platanoclassics.bsky.social
One of the projects my summer students are completing is a cultural history of the pandemic focusing on an object, and I’m showing them Bo Burnham’s Inside this week. I was curious about how something so zeitgeist-y would hold up, but I have to say 5 years later I still think it’s f*cking genius.
July 7, 2025 at 3:27 PM
One of the projects my summer students are completing is a cultural history of the pandemic focusing on an object, and I’m showing them Bo Burnham’s Inside this week. I was curious about how something so zeitgeist-y would hold up, but I have to say 5 years later I still think it’s f*cking genius.
Who needs coffee when you have Academia to make you feel white hot rage before 8 a.m.?
June 28, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Who needs coffee when you have Academia to make you feel white hot rage before 8 a.m.?
Keeping with the positive posts as everything around us burns, it was Bee Day at the Farmer’s Market and local children had urgent PSAs to share: “some bees are going to be egstingt” and “we do not wait till the last moment peopol” ‼️
June 21, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Keeping with the positive posts as everything around us burns, it was Bee Day at the Farmer’s Market and local children had urgent PSAs to share: “some bees are going to be egstingt” and “we do not wait till the last moment peopol” ‼️
This little fledgling has been learning to fly in our front yard. All of my obsessive research energy has been momentarily redirected to stressing over her safe passage into adult birdhood.
June 21, 2025 at 10:28 PM
This little fledgling has been learning to fly in our front yard. All of my obsessive research energy has been momentarily redirected to stressing over her safe passage into adult birdhood.
Just how out-of-touch are Dems? The Atlantic (rightly) criticizes Obama’s disappearance in the Trump era, but the proposed solutions are laughable. The idea that Obama sitting on a curated podcast set making money counts as political activism particularly absurd against the images coming out of LA
June 9, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Just how out-of-touch are Dems? The Atlantic (rightly) criticizes Obama’s disappearance in the Trump era, but the proposed solutions are laughable. The idea that Obama sitting on a curated podcast set making money counts as political activism particularly absurd against the images coming out of LA
Join me at ACLA on Stream A this morning to find out whether this puppy will grant me 20 minutes to present in peace!
May 31, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Join me at ACLA on Stream A this morning to find out whether this puppy will grant me 20 minutes to present in peace!
Who would have thought that an artist known for such grotesque, phantasmagoric designs lived on such a quiet, manicured, suburban street (across from a church no less!)
May 26, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Who would have thought that an artist known for such grotesque, phantasmagoric designs lived on such a quiet, manicured, suburban street (across from a church no less!)
Drooling over the antiquities in Freud’s study today
May 24, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Drooling over the antiquities in Freud’s study today
Using a Mariah Carey lyric for the title of my article draft and I now feel as though it is my duty to remind everyone that one of the earnest, honest to God lyrics to this song is “He’s all up in my George Foreman.” A work of art.
May 2, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Using a Mariah Carey lyric for the title of my article draft and I now feel as though it is my duty to remind everyone that one of the earnest, honest to God lyrics to this song is “He’s all up in my George Foreman.” A work of art.
Thrilled to share that the inaugural UNC-KCL #ClassicalReception Colloquium will be taking place in just a month at King’s College London! Our topic this year is “Gender and Sexuality: Antiquity and its Legacy.” If you are in London, please join us!
April 21, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Thrilled to share that the inaugural UNC-KCL #ClassicalReception Colloquium will be taking place in just a month at King’s College London! Our topic this year is “Gender and Sexuality: Antiquity and its Legacy.” If you are in London, please join us!
What one year sober looks like [feat. a freshly finalized reading list, my favorite song on repeat, and a stunning gift from @scottsingeisen.bsky.social ]✨ #sobersky
April 10, 2025 at 8:35 PM
What one year sober looks like [feat. a freshly finalized reading list, my favorite song on repeat, and a stunning gift from @scottsingeisen.bsky.social ]✨ #sobersky
While Aubrey Beardsley’s illustrations for Wilde’s Salomè are stunning, I am obsessed these two editions, published roughly 30 years after Beardsley’s by John Vassos (1927) and Alastair (1922)
April 8, 2025 at 11:33 AM
While Aubrey Beardsley’s illustrations for Wilde’s Salomè are stunning, I am obsessed these two editions, published roughly 30 years after Beardsley’s by John Vassos (1927) and Alastair (1922)
I need to know what this woman’s job title is
#whitelotus
#whitelotus
April 7, 2025 at 3:14 AM
I need to know what this woman’s job title is
#whitelotus
#whitelotus
When the title of your talk is “On Octopussies,” you go all out.
(It also helps to have a fabulously talented sculpture artist for a sister.)
(It also helps to have a fabulously talented sculpture artist for a sister.)
March 27, 2025 at 6:39 PM
When the title of your talk is “On Octopussies,” you go all out.
(It also helps to have a fabulously talented sculpture artist for a sister.)
(It also helps to have a fabulously talented sculpture artist for a sister.)
March 25, 2025 at 4:19 PM
If you’re in the Research Triangle area, come join the UNC English and Comp Lit Department for my lecture this Thursday: “On Octopussies—Ancient and Modern.” I’ll be obsessing over cephalopods in works from Aristotle and Ovid to Beardsley and Picasso!
March 24, 2025 at 1:11 AM
If you’re in the Research Triangle area, come join the UNC English and Comp Lit Department for my lecture this Thursday: “On Octopussies—Ancient and Modern.” I’ll be obsessing over cephalopods in works from Aristotle and Ovid to Beardsley and Picasso!
Being bisexual means feeling weirdly attracted to both of these characters. #severance
March 22, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Being bisexual means feeling weirdly attracted to both of these characters. #severance
Two years ago, my dearly loved grandfather passed away in Ireland on St. Patrick’s Day. Last year, I went with family to see the place where he departed. Today, I’m listening to Sinead O’Connor and reading Yeats in his honor. 💚
March 16, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Two years ago, my dearly loved grandfather passed away in Ireland on St. Patrick’s Day. Last year, I went with family to see the place where he departed. Today, I’m listening to Sinead O’Connor and reading Yeats in his honor. 💚
While I’m on a #rarebooks posting kick, this was today’s Special Collections gem: Wharton Esherick’s woodcut illustrations for Song of Solomon published by the Philadelphia-based Centaur Press.
March 8, 2025 at 12:41 AM
While I’m on a #rarebooks posting kick, this was today’s Special Collections gem: Wharton Esherick’s woodcut illustrations for Song of Solomon published by the Philadelphia-based Centaur Press.