Paul Fyfe
@pfyfe.bsky.social
Professor at NC State University. Wandering between worlds of C19th British lit, comparative media studies, critical data literacies. Book *Digital Victorians* https://www.sup.org/books/literary-studies-and-literature/digital-victorians
Super pissed that Word's new "Editor" feature gave my draft a B+. Emailing Microsoft to ask if they can bump it up to a 90.
March 5, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Super pissed that Word's new "Editor" feature gave my draft a B+. Emailing Microsoft to ask if they can bump it up to a 90.
The National Humanities Center - not yet on bksy - just opened an online store for merch. This is the first item for sale. 💪💪 energy like: Get a fellowship and find out.
March 3, 2025 at 3:35 PM
The National Humanities Center - not yet on bksy - just opened an online store for merch. This is the first item for sale. 💪💪 energy like: Get a fellowship and find out.
Eomer: You have no authority here! Your orders mean nothing!
Wormtongue: Oh, but this order does not come from me. It comes from the King. He signed it this morning.
Wormtongue: Oh, but this order does not come from me. It comes from the King. He signed it this morning.
February 28, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Eomer: You have no authority here! Your orders mean nothing!
Wormtongue: Oh, but this order does not come from me. It comes from the King. He signed it this morning.
Wormtongue: Oh, but this order does not come from me. It comes from the King. He signed it this morning.
Re: NIH: the UNC System Office was so eager to comply with EO on DEI, noting in its memo that the work of “doctors, scientists, professors, and researchers … in the fields of science, chemistry, research, and medicine …will continue unabated in an emerging regulatory landscape.” Welp. Your move.
February 8, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Re: NIH: the UNC System Office was so eager to comply with EO on DEI, noting in its memo that the work of “doctors, scientists, professors, and researchers … in the fields of science, chemistry, research, and medicine …will continue unabated in an emerging regulatory landscape.” Welp. Your move.
What's wrong with this picture? The first search result for "Frankenstein" is a 1922 copy scanned from Princeton library, to which Google Books/Play has helpfully added this cover image: books.google.com/books/about/...
February 7, 2025 at 2:56 PM
What's wrong with this picture? The first search result for "Frankenstein" is a 1922 copy scanned from Princeton library, to which Google Books/Play has helpfully added this cover image: books.google.com/books/about/...
Winning as a woman in science in hostile environments, a mentor to many students, a joy to her family and friends, an accomplished pianist, an irrepressible birder. We will miss her.
January 24, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Winning as a woman in science in hostile environments, a mentor to many students, a joy to her family and friends, an accomplished pianist, an irrepressible birder. We will miss her.
I’ve been nervous at podiums before. Yet never to the degree of serving as official pronouncer at an elementary school spelling bee.
January 10, 2025 at 7:09 PM
I’ve been nervous at podiums before. Yet never to the degree of serving as official pronouncer at an elementary school spelling bee.
Some people love college sports, some love other aspects of a university. Happy holidays from NC State’s Department of Food, Bioprocessing and Nutrition Sciences! #gopack #howlingcow #interdisciplinarity
December 20, 2024 at 4:40 PM
Some people love college sports, some love other aspects of a university. Happy holidays from NC State’s Department of Food, Bioprocessing and Nutrition Sciences! #gopack #howlingcow #interdisciplinarity
Got to see my colleague Meg Day’s video installation of deaf poets in the Guggenheim this weekend. Really amazing.
December 16, 2024 at 2:24 PM
Got to see my colleague Meg Day’s video installation of deaf poets in the Guggenheim this weekend. Really amazing.
Seems #dayofdh2024 is a good time to hang this awesome @skeuomorph.bsky.social print
December 2, 2024 at 6:55 PM
Seems #dayofdh2024 is a good time to hang this awesome @skeuomorph.bsky.social print
Flushing Twitter down the Xtter.
November 7, 2024 at 3:27 PM
Flushing Twitter down the Xtter.
And, in celebration, a bonus pic of me getting punked with a party hat at a recent conference. (Thanks @emmadavenport.bsky.social )
October 29, 2024 at 5:52 PM
And, in celebration, a bonus pic of me getting punked with a party hat at a recent conference. (Thanks @emmadavenport.bsky.social )
In other news, I signed up for an Icelandic death race and have 9 months to appreciate you all before expiring on the lava fields
October 22, 2024 at 5:45 PM
In other news, I signed up for an Icelandic death race and have 9 months to appreciate you all before expiring on the lava fields
Once again, NC State Univ Libraries is awesome, teaching students to draw, carve, and print linocuts in a session for my Victorian Media Studies class.
September 18, 2024 at 6:06 PM
Once again, NC State Univ Libraries is awesome, teaching students to draw, carve, and print linocuts in a session for my Victorian Media Studies class.
Starting the hype reel. Digital Victorians coming out in late October. Now available for pre-order. www.sup.org/books/title/...
August 21, 2024 at 6:03 PM
Starting the hype reel. Digital Victorians coming out in late October. Now available for pre-order. www.sup.org/books/title/...
Uh, the transcript from, um, our classroom recording, uh, well, uh, it doesn't sound like the great class I, uh, remembered teaching yesterday on the, um, you know, The Beetle. Ugh.
March 28, 2024 at 6:44 PM
Uh, the transcript from, um, our classroom recording, uh, well, uh, it doesn't sound like the great class I, uh, remembered teaching yesterday on the, um, you know, The Beetle. Ugh.
Got a new toy: an Edison wax cylinder in its cardboard sleeve from 1905(?). $10 at a flea market, who knew? Playing it may require a more substantial investment.
March 8, 2024 at 1:30 PM
Got a new toy: an Edison wax cylinder in its cardboard sleeve from 1905(?). $10 at a flea market, who knew? Playing it may require a more substantial investment.
First time back at NAVSA since pre-pandemic. Grateful for the collegiality, Victorianist verve, and brief time away in autumnal Bloomington.
November 12, 2023 at 9:52 PM
First time back at NAVSA since pre-pandemic. Grateful for the collegiality, Victorianist verve, and brief time away in autumnal Bloomington.
Finally got to try @ryancordell.bsky.social ‘s great simulating the scriptorium exercise with class. Amazing the array of admin approvals required to light a candle at the university. But it was worth it. Students thought we were raising the dead. In context of media history, I suppose we were.
October 19, 2023 at 2:04 PM
Finally got to try @ryancordell.bsky.social ‘s great simulating the scriptorium exercise with class. Amazing the array of admin approvals required to light a candle at the university. But it was worth it. Students thought we were raising the dead. In context of media history, I suppose we were.
Culling books is normal practice (hi librarians), but this bin tells a different story: you can’t give away books in an English department
September 21, 2023 at 4:37 PM
Culling books is normal practice (hi librarians), but this bin tells a different story: you can’t give away books in an English department
Blue pic. Pavement show at Hopscotch Festival.
September 8, 2023 at 3:22 PM
Blue pic. Pavement show at Hopscotch Festival.
Browsing a 1979 catalog of newspapers on microfilm at the British Library (because rabbit hole) and, wow, the very first listing is the weekly African Colonizer (1840-41)
August 24, 2023 at 3:05 PM
Browsing a 1979 catalog of newspapers on microfilm at the British Library (because rabbit hole) and, wow, the very first listing is the weekly African Colonizer (1840-41)