Dr KD Holzer
@kdholzer.bsky.social
Victorian lit & periodicals, Empire, New Women, colonial feminism, 13YO, 7YO, stitching, jogging, bees http://kellieholzer.com
Thrilling! Can’t wait to read!
‘Marie’ Christmas, Victorianists!
Eleanor Dobson and I have co-edited ‘Marie Corelli Reconsidered’, a special issue of Victoriographies.
It features @janetteleaf.bsky.social Adam Lewis Smith, Keiko Kiriyama, Stephen Edwards, and our own detective work into the authorship of The Twin Soul (1887) 🔍
Eleanor Dobson and I have co-edited ‘Marie Corelli Reconsidered’, a special issue of Victoriographies.
It features @janetteleaf.bsky.social Adam Lewis Smith, Keiko Kiriyama, Stephen Edwards, and our own detective work into the authorship of The Twin Soul (1887) 🔍
Edinburgh University Press Journals - Journal Home - Victoriographies Home
www.euppublishing.com
December 2, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Thrilling! Can’t wait to read!
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💥 New publication out on the alignment of AI & authoritarianism 💥
We argue that AI is not simply extending, but actively modulating, key dynamics of authoritarianism, and present a flexible analytical framework to account for these changes.
rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
We argue that AI is not simply extending, but actively modulating, key dynamics of authoritarianism, and present a flexible analytical framework to account for these changes.
rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
November 24, 2025 at 9:39 AM
💥 New publication out on the alignment of AI & authoritarianism 💥
We argue that AI is not simply extending, but actively modulating, key dynamics of authoritarianism, and present a flexible analytical framework to account for these changes.
rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
We argue that AI is not simply extending, but actively modulating, key dynamics of authoritarianism, and present a flexible analytical framework to account for these changes.
rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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In which Johanna Winant (@johannawinant.bsky.social) and I make the case for teaching whole books. And argue for a model of close reading that would bridge high school, college, and professional practice slate.com/life/2025/10...
There’s a Literacy Crisis. One Classroom Solution Should Be Obvious.
You can't get better at reading until you care about a text.
slate.com
October 24, 2025 at 2:12 PM
In which Johanna Winant (@johannawinant.bsky.social) and I make the case for teaching whole books. And argue for a model of close reading that would bridge high school, college, and professional practice slate.com/life/2025/10...
Fascinating
This two-parter below is exactly why it's hard to make clothes in the United States.
Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵
Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵
October 13, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Fascinating
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Coming soon at NAVSA: Aftermaths: "Revisiting Cornelia Sorabji" with Jesse Cordes Selbin, Kellie Holzer, & Sarita Mizin. #NAVSA2025
September 22, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Coming soon at NAVSA: Aftermaths: "Revisiting Cornelia Sorabji" with Jesse Cordes Selbin, Kellie Holzer, & Sarita Mizin. #NAVSA2025
Remember how at the end of Hoffmann’s “The Sandman” all the men are thrilled when their women sneeze and roll their eyes because it’s proof they’re not automatons? That’s how I feel now when students submit imperfect papers they wrote themselves. #hallelujah 🤗
September 30, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Remember how at the end of Hoffmann’s “The Sandman” all the men are thrilled when their women sneeze and roll their eyes because it’s proof they’re not automatons? That’s how I feel now when students submit imperfect papers they wrote themselves. #hallelujah 🤗
Bit nervous to step into my children’s literature course this morning.
September 11, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Bit nervous to step into my children’s literature course this morning.
Eating a taco (true story)
"Elbowing your way to the front of the free-sample line at Costco."
16 Surprising Ways to Injure Yourself When You’re Over 40
1. Reaching for your wallet at a farmers market. 2. Waving to your neighbor on your way to yoga. 3. Gesturing wildly during an argument with your s...
buff.ly
September 5, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Eating a taco (true story)
8YO giving me a full genre analysis of the I Survived series after reading four of them. Now that she’s figured out the formula, should we try writing one?
September 4, 2025 at 11:34 AM
8YO giving me a full genre analysis of the I Survived series after reading four of them. Now that she’s figured out the formula, should we try writing one?
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Unfortunately, my policy on AI has grown by quite a few sources over the last year. Here it is for anyone who wants to adopt or adapt it for their courses. And if you have ideas, I'm all ears.
AI policy and guidelines - Joe McVeigh.docx
You are strictly prohibited from using Generative AI (GenAI) or Large Language Models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Copilot, and Grok, for research or writing assignments. Any submitted wor...
docs.google.com
August 8, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Unfortunately, my policy on AI has grown by quite a few sources over the last year. Here it is for anyone who wants to adopt or adapt it for their courses. And if you have ideas, I'm all ears.
Romila Thapar’s elegant prose style plus incredible erudition putting all of us to shame
August 5, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Romila Thapar’s elegant prose style plus incredible erudition putting all of us to shame
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Academic pals: I'm starting a shared doc to collect info on exactly why/how AI is indefensible—specifically in humanities classrooms, but also across the board. Please share/add as you see fit. I plan to lecture from this in the first week; many students don't know.
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
ALoRoWaHAiBA
Abbreviated List of Resources on Why and How AI is Bad, Actually Worsening Climate Change, Pollution, Environmental Racism, and Associated Negative Health Consequences On the pollution and health con...
docs.google.com
August 5, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Academic pals: I'm starting a shared doc to collect info on exactly why/how AI is indefensible—specifically in humanities classrooms, but also across the board. Please share/add as you see fit. I plan to lecture from this in the first week; many students don't know.
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Column: The Corporation for Public Broadcast is ‘winding down.’ What does that mean for public radio and TV?
I talk with media studies professor and public media expert Josh Shepperd for an explainer. In short, it's dire
Gift 🔗
I talk with media studies professor and public media expert Josh Shepperd for an explainer. In short, it's dire
Gift 🔗
Column: The Corporation for Public Broadcast is ‘winding down.’ What does that mean for public radio and TV?
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting announced it is “wind-down” operations. What does this mean for public radio and TV?
www.chicagotribune.com
August 1, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Column: The Corporation for Public Broadcast is ‘winding down.’ What does that mean for public radio and TV?
I talk with media studies professor and public media expert Josh Shepperd for an explainer. In short, it's dire
Gift 🔗
I talk with media studies professor and public media expert Josh Shepperd for an explainer. In short, it's dire
Gift 🔗
Just one of my kids
July 28, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Just one of my kids
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Jules Verne legit wildly underrated as a namer of characters, Phineas Fogg is just an all time Victorian protagonist name
July 24, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Jules Verne legit wildly underrated as a namer of characters, Phineas Fogg is just an all time Victorian protagonist name
The two best beers of my trip, both IPAs (Maine and Prince Edward Island)
July 20, 2025 at 9:42 PM
The two best beers of my trip, both IPAs (Maine and Prince Edward Island)
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Some personal news…
@roxanegay.bsky.social and @debbiemillman.bsky.social are relaunching @therumpus.net!!! And I’m excited to be joining their team as poetry editor! 🤓 WEEEEE!!! You can submit your poetry for consideration here: therumpus.submittable.com/submit
@roxanegay.bsky.social and @debbiemillman.bsky.social are relaunching @therumpus.net!!! And I’m excited to be joining their team as poetry editor! 🤓 WEEEEE!!! You can submit your poetry for consideration here: therumpus.submittable.com/submit
The Rumpus Submission Manager
The Rumpus publishes original fiction, poetry, literary humor writing, comics, essays, book reviews, and interviews with authors and artists of all kinds. Founded in 2009 and independent from the star...
therumpus.submittable.com
July 15, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Some personal news…
@roxanegay.bsky.social and @debbiemillman.bsky.social are relaunching @therumpus.net!!! And I’m excited to be joining their team as poetry editor! 🤓 WEEEEE!!! You can submit your poetry for consideration here: therumpus.submittable.com/submit
@roxanegay.bsky.social and @debbiemillman.bsky.social are relaunching @therumpus.net!!! And I’m excited to be joining their team as poetry editor! 🤓 WEEEEE!!! You can submit your poetry for consideration here: therumpus.submittable.com/submit
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Never forget that #SesameStreet once did a sketch based on Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal, which involved a Swedish fisherman counting seals until he found the seventh one.
June 17, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Never forget that #SesameStreet once did a sketch based on Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal, which involved a Swedish fisherman counting seals until he found the seventh one.
June 15, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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.@Empirepoduk has just begun a new series on all the countries that Trump wants to invade and colonise. Panama, Canada, Gaza and beginning this week... Greenland
Episode 1, just released from @EmpirePodUK
THE VIKING DISCOVERY OF GREENLAND
podcasts.apple.com/il/podcast/v...
Episode 1, just released from @EmpirePodUK
THE VIKING DISCOVERY OF GREENLAND
podcasts.apple.com/il/podcast/v...
June 15, 2025 at 9:56 AM
.@Empirepoduk has just begun a new series on all the countries that Trump wants to invade and colonise. Panama, Canada, Gaza and beginning this week... Greenland
Episode 1, just released from @EmpirePodUK
THE VIKING DISCOVERY OF GREENLAND
podcasts.apple.com/il/podcast/v...
Episode 1, just released from @EmpirePodUK
THE VIKING DISCOVERY OF GREENLAND
podcasts.apple.com/il/podcast/v...
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Most people don’t know this but you can actually die from not getting straight A’s
May 7, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Most people don’t know this but you can actually die from not getting straight A’s
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To clarify this a little. In conversations with a lot of professors across disciplines, the amount of time and energy professors are dedicating to restructuring around cheating or detecting cheating has increased exponentially in the last 3 years. This is a completely uncompensated additional labor.
Our job is not and cannot be policing students so that they don’t cheat. The average classroom instructor is a near-fatally overworked, underpaid contingent thought worker. Our job is to help students understand why the learning is more valuable than anything the cheating can get them.
April 21, 2025 at 11:16 PM
To clarify this a little. In conversations with a lot of professors across disciplines, the amount of time and energy professors are dedicating to restructuring around cheating or detecting cheating has increased exponentially in the last 3 years. This is a completely uncompensated additional labor.
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Take Five: Trans and Nonbinary Characters in 2025 Middle Grade Novels
Take Five: Trans and Nonbinary Characters in 2025 Middle Grade Novels
It's probably not wholly accurate to say that representation of trans and nonbinary characters seems more important than ever (again, it's always been important), but wow, does it sure feel extra nece...
teenlibrariantoolbox.com
April 18, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Take Five: Trans and Nonbinary Characters in 2025 Middle Grade Novels