Rachel Sagner Buurma
rbuurma.bsky.social
Rachel Sagner Buurma
@rbuurma.bsky.social
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Job alert!

@ischoolui.bsky.social is hiring in 4 areas this year

Early literacies: illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

Information behavior/HCI/UX: illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

Information, Culture & Society: illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

Open IS: illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
November 6, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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hey if you’re seeing this please DONATE to Western Alaska Disaster Relief:

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Oh yeah cover reveal.

And preorder link.

And blurb the first and perhaps only.

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October 21, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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The full announcement is now up at this link. Deadline still 31 Oct.
October 7, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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UC faculty are fighting through the courts to save the UC system. Our funding has been swept by central admin. We can’t pay to travel or research. Every time we lecture we’re at risk of attacks by right-wing mobs. Fortunately the UC Regents are on the ball: they’re…finding new ways to discipline us.
October 1, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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I want this to be true so badly that I can’t trust myself: I have to refuse to believe it until I see a dotted line physically connecting the smoking gun to the body.

If it were true the consequences would be huge.
Like they can make it say certain things (“there are only two genders,” “migration bad”) but there isn’t enough text out there in the world describing a conservative consensus reality because it’s just not a coherent thing. They can’t make a conservative Wikipedia, even synthetically
October 1, 2025 at 4:05 AM
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It's publication day for UNIVERSITY KEYWORDS. Across 27 sharp essays, the book offers a critical account of the political economy of US higher education, how it came to be structured this way, and how together we might build a better university together.
September 9, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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If you're in or near Atlanta, or *super juiced* 😜 about close reading and love to travel, come to Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century: A Symposium at Emory University on Friday, November 7. And hear from these superstars...
September 8, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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Extremely enthused to have Matt joining us to launch Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century with a star-studded symposium and Vandal Live! episode in November ✨
The Fall installments of "Vandal Live" taking shape.

Coming to your earbuds between October and January.
September 5, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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Me listening to the first 20 mins of this episode:

wow they're scrutinizing something I co-wrote on a podcast

hey they're scrutinizing something I co-wrote and not giving me any credit

I am not a Spreadsheet Man!!!
This one’s for the hardcore. But they’re gonna love it.

@dan-sinnamon.bsky.social & I bicker!

@rbuurma.bsky.social shocks @laheffernan.bsky.social with confession!

@jdconnor.bsky.social outs the Hopkins Mafia!

@manshel.bsky.social, Fred J in ‘77, & more!

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
July 3, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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This one’s for the hardcore. But they’re gonna love it.

@dan-sinnamon.bsky.social & I bicker!

@rbuurma.bsky.social shocks @laheffernan.bsky.social with confession!

@jdconnor.bsky.social outs the Hopkins Mafia!

@manshel.bsky.social, Fred J in ‘77, & more!

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
July 1, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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Suppose I say summer

-Raymond Carver, “Hummingbird”
(For Tess)

From “A New Path to the Waterfall," completed in the last weeks of Carver's life and published posthumously
#everynightapoem #summersolstice
June 20, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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We made it to Friday! I'm going to share three tips on using Signal from someone who has been using it for both work and personal communications for...a long time.
June 13, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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I have discovered that lots of people who are not professional humanists are eager to help fund a lawsuit against the administration by professional humanists. Join us. Every $10 makes a difference. Tell your friends who want to do something.
May 10, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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“An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters for ever afterward.” In this, he was wildly successful. High-school English didn’t make “Gatsby” great, but it has certainly kept it so.
How “The Great Gatsby” Took Over High School
The classroom staple turns a hundred.
www.newyorker.com
May 2, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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Who will staff and who will review? Preservation & Access like all program areas lost (almost all of their) staff?

That’s in addition to wondering why grants already doing exactly this work were terminated.
NEH announces a new funding opportunity to support "projects that develop and implement educational programs for professionals who preserve and provide access to humanities collections" bit.ly/43aviek
Preservation and Access Education and Training
Supports the development of knowledge and skills among professionals responsible for preserving and establishing access to humanities collections.
bit.ly
April 30, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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Harvard faculty pledge 10% of their salary to support students and staff as the university weathers Trump's assault. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Senior Faculty Pledging to Donate a Portion of Salary in Defense of University Community
Senior Faculty Pledging to Donate a Portion of Salary in Defense of University Community We are heartened by the University’s rejection of the Trump administration’s unlawful demands. We also recogn...
docs.google.com
April 30, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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So relieved to see that Mellon will be providing emergency relief funding the US’s state and jurisdictional humanities councils.

If I learned one thing during my years at NEH, it was how crucial these organizations are to our public humanities infrastructure.

www.mellon.org/news/america...
Mellon Foundation
The Mellon Foundation makes grants to actively unlock the power in the arts and humanities that helps connect us all.
www.mellon.org
April 29, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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It is so exciting that Tom's new 📘 will appear this summer. (Full disclosure: I am lucky enough to have the galleys!) For what other writer working today is in a position to tell us that they have "sprinkled" texts "throughout the book for their snuff box descriptions" & "references to Catherines"?😉
April 27, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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We've aggregated relevant @modernlanguage.bsky.social resources, including tips for NEH awardees, links to webinar recordings on threats to higher ed, MLA statements, & links to other resources. Share resources w/ us through the google form, and sign up for the first Strategy Session (April 22).
April 8, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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Today's the day! I invite close readers to see if they can find the places where I channeled the most rage into this project. It is supposed to make you uncomfortable. You are supposed to try to dismiss it as "praxis" vs. "theory" and then you are supposed to be convinced otherwise.
In Poetry's Data, @mmvty.bsky.social explores why literary studies must confront digital mediation.

Out now. Learn more about this engaging book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
April 22, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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Adding herewith to my (very) intermittent series, A JANE AUSTEN GUIDE TO FACULTY MEETINGS:
"Female economy will do a great deal my Lord, but it cannot turn a small income into a large one."--The Watsons
(Apposite at a time of catastrophic threats to funding for the humanities, here & everywhere ...)
A JANE AUSTEN GUIDE TO FACULTY MEETINGS
(an intermittent series)

"He said it, she knew, to be contradicted"--Persuasion, ch. 7

(on the distribution of service commitments)
"Every body allows that the talent of writing agreeable letters is peculiarly female."--Northanger Abbey, ch. 3
April 22, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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Working through these documents sent to grantees who had NEH grants terminated. So bizarre. They're like the Nigerian Prince version of grant terminations. They're not even sent from a government email but rather a onmicrosoft dot com address. So the Microsoft equivalent of a gmail account.
April 15, 2025 at 10:22 PM