Rachel C. Evans (ABD) @ BSU
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Rachel C. Evans (ABD) @ BSU
@rcevans.bsky.social
PhD candidate in literature at Ball State University. Primary area of study is transatlantic 19th-century Gothic literature. Current research interests: depictions and uses of gender and domestic space in Gothic and horror media. She/her.
Reposted by Rachel C. Evans (ABD) @ BSU
My piece about BookTok is now up as part of the new @atpost45.bsky.social cluster Reading with Algorithms! I write about how recommendation works on TT and do some light exploration of video metadata, but also about Barnes & Noble, 🌶️🌶️🌶️, joyfulness, and middle-class desire post45.org/2023/12/book...
BookTok and the Rituals of Recommendation - Post45
If you’ve walked into your local Barnes & Noble bookstore recently, you likely encountered a table of BookTok books like the one pictured in Figure 1. Part book club, part fan community, and part so...
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December 8, 2023 at 6:38 PM
Reposted by Rachel C. Evans (ABD) @ BSU
The entire Reading With Algorithms essay series is fascinating, but this piece on how literary criticism and recommendation culture work on BookTok is so so so interesting.
BookTok and the Rituals of Recommendation - Post45
If you’ve walked into your local Barnes & Noble bookstore recently, you likely encountered a table of BookTok books like the one pictured in Figure 1. Part book club, part fan community, and part so...
post45.org
December 9, 2023 at 11:42 PM
Reposted by Rachel C. Evans (ABD) @ BSU
How to make your syllabus antiracist?
Find syllabuses from the NASSR Anti-Racist Pedagogy Contest here: ecf.humanities.mcmaster.ca/syllabus/2023
2023 Winners: Carmen Faye Mathes, Thom van Camp
Additional Finalists: Andrew McInnes, Taylor Schey
#18thCentury #19thCentury #Romanticism #C18th
November 13, 2023 at 8:54 PM
Got my official documents from the Graduate School that I passed all my qualifying exams, and two weeks out it still doesn't feel real. Even with a fuller teaching schedule, it'll be good to finally have the time and brain space to work on article ideas I've had to set aside for close to a year.
December 14, 2023 at 4:08 AM