Kirstyn Leuner
@kleuner.bsky.social
Assoc. Prof at Santa Clara Univ., long 18c, book history, women's writing, DH, cats. Stainforth Library of Women's Writing stainforth.scu.edu. she/her
Yesterday my first-year college students in my writing course reminded me that they were in middle school during the pandemic. That made it feel like forever ago to me, but we still had that shared memory of trying to learn/work stuck at home for so long.
September 30, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Yesterday my first-year college students in my writing course reminded me that they were in middle school during the pandemic. That made it feel like forever ago to me, but we still had that shared memory of trying to learn/work stuck at home for so long.
First class of fall term: just print it, and go outside. The room alarm beeped all class (will be fixed), and the room's computer projector didn't project. We still had a great class thinking about thinking and thinking about writing. IT is coming to our rescue ... #teaching #paper #justprintit
September 22, 2025 at 5:03 PM
First class of fall term: just print it, and go outside. The room alarm beeped all class (will be fixed), and the room's computer projector didn't project. We still had a great class thinking about thinking and thinking about writing. IT is coming to our rescue ... #teaching #paper #justprintit
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Sending love to all my colleagues submitting reappointment, tenure, or promotion files today. And sending love to everyone out there who's done it recently or will be submitting soon. It's a lot of work to package up all of your work, especially while the world crumbles around us.
September 22, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Sending love to all my colleagues submitting reappointment, tenure, or promotion files today. And sending love to everyone out there who's done it recently or will be submitting soon. It's a lot of work to package up all of your work, especially while the world crumbles around us.
Reposted by Kirstyn Leuner
Sometimes at the end of a long day you need to carve out some time to hang out with tiny books
September 18, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Sometimes at the end of a long day you need to carve out some time to hang out with tiny books
Come work with us! Santa Clara University English Dept. is hiring a TT Assistant Professor in Creative Writing. scu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/scu/job/Tenu.... #jobs #academicjobs #creativewriting #highered #jobslist
Tenure-track Assistant Professor in Creative Writing
Position Type: Tenure-track Assistant Professor in Creative Writing Position Type: Regular Salary Range: Rank and Salary: Assistant Professor, salary and benefits competitive, includes housing assista...
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September 19, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Come work with us! Santa Clara University English Dept. is hiring a TT Assistant Professor in Creative Writing. scu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/scu/job/Tenu.... #jobs #academicjobs #creativewriting #highered #jobslist
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spreading the word that my dept ☀️🌴 is looking to hire a TT faculty with *undergraduate* teaching and research mentoring enthusiasm in Clincal / Counseling / Community Psyc ❤️
if you / a colleague / or a PhD student is looking 👀 ... consider applying:
wd1.myworkdaysite.com/en-US/recrui...
if you / a colleague / or a PhD student is looking 👀 ... consider applying:
wd1.myworkdaysite.com/en-US/recrui...
Clinical Psychology Assistant Professor for the Department of Psychology
Position Type: Clinical Psychology Assistant Professor for the Department of Psychology Position Type: Regular Salary Range: The salary range for this position is $85,947 to $95,410, depending on the ...
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September 17, 2025 at 9:29 PM
spreading the word that my dept ☀️🌴 is looking to hire a TT faculty with *undergraduate* teaching and research mentoring enthusiasm in Clincal / Counseling / Community Psyc ❤️
if you / a colleague / or a PhD student is looking 👀 ... consider applying:
wd1.myworkdaysite.com/en-US/recrui...
if you / a colleague / or a PhD student is looking 👀 ... consider applying:
wd1.myworkdaysite.com/en-US/recrui...
We start classes Monday. I'm finalizing syllabi. Having trouble assigning argumentative research essays with - I hate to say it - the same level of implicit trust in students as before AI stole the writing process. How are we handling this?
September 17, 2025 at 8:03 PM
We start classes Monday. I'm finalizing syllabi. Having trouble assigning argumentative research essays with - I hate to say it - the same level of implicit trust in students as before AI stole the writing process. How are we handling this?
Reposted by Kirstyn Leuner
For those not following the drama earlier, it's for sharing this piece advocating for nonviolence (but not being judgy about how targeted people respond either). And saying some things about governmental/ institutional violence.
Some Notes on the City of Angels and the Nature of Violence
I think maybe it's begun, the bigger fiercer backlash against the Trump Administration which is itself a violent backlash against every good thing that's happened over the past several decades – the a...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
June 11, 2025 at 9:43 AM
For those not following the drama earlier, it's for sharing this piece advocating for nonviolence (but not being judgy about how targeted people respond either). And saying some things about governmental/ institutional violence.
what I really want to use AI for is to turn this essay that is in MLA 9th edition into Chicago. Anyone done this and not hated themselves for the mess it made?
June 9, 2025 at 11:24 PM
what I really want to use AI for is to turn this essay that is in MLA 9th edition into Chicago. Anyone done this and not hated themselves for the mess it made?
keeping it real: I've had an article and a grant proposal rejected in under 7 days, both co-authored with colleagues at SCU. Ouch. Next week is now about turning at least one of those puppies around to send it back out.
May 22, 2025 at 11:54 PM
keeping it real: I've had an article and a grant proposal rejected in under 7 days, both co-authored with colleagues at SCU. Ouch. Next week is now about turning at least one of those puppies around to send it back out.
Some would say week 8 + behind on grading = the worst time for travel to a symposium. Actually it was the best time for the intellectual haven of #buildingbooklabs @skeuomorphpress.org. Pics of last day zine charter workshop @literaturegeek.bsky.social; + me, happy. #letterpress #bookarts #printing
May 22, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Some would say week 8 + behind on grading = the worst time for travel to a symposium. Actually it was the best time for the intellectual haven of #buildingbooklabs @skeuomorphpress.org. Pics of last day zine charter workshop @literaturegeek.bsky.social; + me, happy. #letterpress #bookarts #printing
Reposted by Kirstyn Leuner
Sitting with a post #BuildingBookLabs25 buzz—in such a dark year, it was pure joy to learn in community with incredible book historians, artists, printers, & makers
I’m grateful to library technical specialist & photographer extraordinaire JP Goguen, who took gorgeous pictures of our time together
I’m grateful to library technical specialist & photographer extraordinaire JP Goguen, who took gorgeous pictures of our time together
20250520_booklabsymposium
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May 22, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Sitting with a post #BuildingBookLabs25 buzz—in such a dark year, it was pure joy to learn in community with incredible book historians, artists, printers, & makers
I’m grateful to library technical specialist & photographer extraordinaire JP Goguen, who took gorgeous pictures of our time together
I’m grateful to library technical specialist & photographer extraordinaire JP Goguen, who took gorgeous pictures of our time together
"Building Book Labs" symposium hosted by @skeuomorphpress.org (not done yet!) has been nonstop relationship building + note-taking, how to make book arts more integrated at SCU, scholarship collab ideas, teaching ideas for modules + courses, workshops, and open-houses. #bookarts #printing #binding
May 21, 2025 at 6:06 PM
"Building Book Labs" symposium hosted by @skeuomorphpress.org (not done yet!) has been nonstop relationship building + note-taking, how to make book arts more integrated at SCU, scholarship collab ideas, teaching ideas for modules + courses, workshops, and open-houses. #bookarts #printing #binding
Question: I have a co-authored article (4-5k words) on academic freedom that was previously aimed for Profession, but it is not accepting submissions right now. Suggestions on where else to send it that is peer-reviewed?
April 13, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Question: I have a co-authored article (4-5k words) on academic freedom that was previously aimed for Profession, but it is not accepting submissions right now. Suggestions on where else to send it that is peer-reviewed?
"Having overheated myself with dancing, I was obliged to be let blood; this, however, did not prevent me from keeping my engagement to dance ... the following evening." -ES Gooch, 1792. Will bleed to dance.
January 23, 2025 at 7:38 PM
"Having overheated myself with dancing, I was obliged to be let blood; this, however, did not prevent me from keeping my engagement to dance ... the following evening." -ES Gooch, 1792. Will bleed to dance.
Hello bluesky peeps - I'm trying again to get it together and engage here regularly, since the loss of twitter and increased ick factor of FB. I miss the conversation and don't want to fall too far out of the loop.
January 23, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Hello bluesky peeps - I'm trying again to get it together and engage here regularly, since the loss of twitter and increased ick factor of FB. I miss the conversation and don't want to fall too far out of the loop.
phrase I just said to myself:
there's probably the death of an author in my office.
...
time to go home.
there's probably the death of an author in my office.
...
time to go home.
October 10, 2023 at 12:53 AM
phrase I just said to myself:
there's probably the death of an author in my office.
...
time to go home.
there's probably the death of an author in my office.
...
time to go home.
I don't have to be good at matching faces-to-names in conversation to be a good teacher. I just have to try, and I do.
#idieonthishill
#idieonthishill
October 6, 2023 at 4:08 PM
I don't have to be good at matching faces-to-names in conversation to be a good teacher. I just have to try, and I do.
#idieonthishill
#idieonthishill
Somehow I have a 2-inch wide horizontal slice at the top of my forehead that is healing awkwardly. Chances are equal it was a cat at night or my mountain bike helmet when I crashed on Sunday (I'm fine). If it were a couple weeks later I'd just enhance it for Halloween effects.
October 5, 2023 at 1:54 PM
Somehow I have a 2-inch wide horizontal slice at the top of my forehead that is healing awkwardly. Chances are equal it was a cat at night or my mountain bike helmet when I crashed on Sunday (I'm fine). If it were a couple weeks later I'd just enhance it for Halloween effects.
My training in teaching (20 yrs ago) consisted mostly of ways to run discussions on literature and make writing assignments. Now, I give more mini lectures w/slides and organized related activities, bc I am concerned that students can otherwise miss the technical + historical details that matter.
October 3, 2023 at 4:11 PM
My training in teaching (20 yrs ago) consisted mostly of ways to run discussions on literature and make writing assignments. Now, I give more mini lectures w/slides and organized related activities, bc I am concerned that students can otherwise miss the technical + historical details that matter.
I miss summer and being less bonkers. Yesterday I submitted a grant proposal + wrote sabbatical proposal + met with 5 students. Climbed from 6-8am, done with work by 7pm to make pizza w/ spouse. Today I'm prepping 2 classes, teaching 2 classes, plus meetings in between. Biking to/from for workout.
October 3, 2023 at 3:43 PM
I miss summer and being less bonkers. Yesterday I submitted a grant proposal + wrote sabbatical proposal + met with 5 students. Climbed from 6-8am, done with work by 7pm to make pizza w/ spouse. Today I'm prepping 2 classes, teaching 2 classes, plus meetings in between. Biking to/from for workout.
at 5:20pm yesterday, in the last 10 minutes of my literary theory course, we were wrapping up reader response when a spider (small, white) dropped from the ceiling on a line, as if on some gravity ride, and stopped directly in front of me. I froze mid-sentence. Student rescued both me and spider.
September 30, 2023 at 12:52 AM
at 5:20pm yesterday, in the last 10 minutes of my literary theory course, we were wrapping up reader response when a spider (small, white) dropped from the ceiling on a line, as if on some gravity ride, and stopped directly in front of me. I froze mid-sentence. Student rescued both me and spider.
grant proposal submitted. 1 down, 1 to go, and that sabbatical proposal goes out on Monday, too.
September 30, 2023 at 12:49 AM
grant proposal submitted. 1 down, 1 to go, and that sabbatical proposal goes out on Monday, too.
writing goals done for the day! heading out of my bike ride, then back to do all the service and teaching things I can fit in before giving up. This week and next week are completely bananas.
September 27, 2023 at 8:29 PM
writing goals done for the day! heading out of my bike ride, then back to do all the service and teaching things I can fit in before giving up. This week and next week are completely bananas.
The demise of twitter made me a shitty/rare tweeter. But I'm here trying to stay connected!
Today is a writing/service day, so I'm playing word-count with my grant proposal. Revise, delete, add, delete. Trying to remain hopeful the time revising will mean I get $.
Today is a writing/service day, so I'm playing word-count with my grant proposal. Revise, delete, add, delete. Trying to remain hopeful the time revising will mean I get $.
September 27, 2023 at 4:03 PM
The demise of twitter made me a shitty/rare tweeter. But I'm here trying to stay connected!
Today is a writing/service day, so I'm playing word-count with my grant proposal. Revise, delete, add, delete. Trying to remain hopeful the time revising will mean I get $.
Today is a writing/service day, so I'm playing word-count with my grant proposal. Revise, delete, add, delete. Trying to remain hopeful the time revising will mean I get $.