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Dysfluent in Fiction by Riley McGuire (@ohiostatepress.bsky.social) and By Touch Alone by Vanessa Warne (@uofmpress.bsky.social) “gesture toward a new trend for the field of Victorian disability studies: increased attention to materialism.”
Victorian Materialisms, Crip Realities - Public Books
Raised-text print in the 19th century transformed literacy, reading practices, media representations of blindness, medical and journalistic discourse, and, most importantly, the everyday lives of…
www.publicbooks.org
December 18, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Dysfluent in Fiction by Riley McGuire (@ohiostatepress.bsky.social) and By Touch Alone by Vanessa Warne (@uofmpress.bsky.social) “gesture toward a new trend for the field of Victorian disability studies: increased attention to materialism.”
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I bet Francis Fukuyama's wife loves this post. I bet it's her fave. I bet she read it and thought: "what a good job." I bet she's like, "i'm glad francis spends hours online interacting with an search engine he's gendered as a woman who never expresses negative or critical emotions towards him."
If we are banning cell phones for kids we need to be talking about banning chatbots for boomers
www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...
www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...
December 17, 2025 at 5:16 PM
I bet Francis Fukuyama's wife loves this post. I bet it's her fave. I bet she read it and thought: "what a good job." I bet she's like, "i'm glad francis spends hours online interacting with an search engine he's gendered as a woman who never expresses negative or critical emotions towards him."
The problem being that my bespoke service takes about 6 months 🫣
Students should indicate whether they would like my standard or bespoke grading service.
December 17, 2025 at 3:21 PM
The problem being that my bespoke service takes about 6 months 🫣
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As always, we're happy to bring you a lit studies companion to our yearly history book/article lists. Assembled by @rcolesworthy.bsky.social and @hartmann-villalta.bsky.social
2025 Literary Studies Book and Journal Article List
A companion list for lit studies scholars.
contingentmagazine.org
December 17, 2025 at 2:54 AM
As always, we're happy to bring you a lit studies companion to our yearly history book/article lists. Assembled by @rcolesworthy.bsky.social and @hartmann-villalta.bsky.social
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I wrote a birthday card to Jane Austen for @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social.
lareviewofbooks.org/article/happ...
lareviewofbooks.org/article/happ...
Happy Birthday, Jane! | Los Angeles Review of Books
To celebrate the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth, Stephanie Insley Hershinow offers a survey of recent Austen-related books and artworks.
lareviewofbooks.org
December 16, 2025 at 4:08 PM
I wrote a birthday card to Jane Austen for @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social.
lareviewofbooks.org/article/happ...
lareviewofbooks.org/article/happ...
@sinsleyh.bsky.social on her second favourite topic of all time (maybe??) - not Clarissa but Austen!
Stephanie Insley Hershinow surveys recent Austen-related works on Jane Austen's 250th birthday: "Austen offers endless opportunity for examination and reexamination; still, it might be fair to ask what more one can say about our dear Jane." https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/happy-birthday-jane/
December 16, 2025 at 4:35 PM
@sinsleyh.bsky.social on her second favourite topic of all time (maybe??) - not Clarissa but Austen!
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In case useful: the abstract deadline for the 2026 International Virginia Woolf Conference in Istanbul (theme: Virginia Woolf and Sound) has been extended to 15 January 2026.
More information here: www.bilgi.edu.tr/en/academic/...
#VirginiaWoolf #Modernism
More information here: www.bilgi.edu.tr/en/academic/...
#VirginiaWoolf #Modernism
35th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf Virginia Woolf and Sound - Academic | İstanbul Bilgi University
35th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf - Virginia Woolf and Sound
www.bilgi.edu.tr
December 16, 2025 at 4:30 PM
In case useful: the abstract deadline for the 2026 International Virginia Woolf Conference in Istanbul (theme: Virginia Woolf and Sound) has been extended to 15 January 2026.
More information here: www.bilgi.edu.tr/en/academic/...
#VirginiaWoolf #Modernism
More information here: www.bilgi.edu.tr/en/academic/...
#VirginiaWoolf #Modernism
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Take your places please for today’s thing #foundinbooks, a dance ticket inside a 1953 Penguin printing of Virginia Woolf.
December 13, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Take your places please for today’s thing #foundinbooks, a dance ticket inside a 1953 Penguin printing of Virginia Woolf.
I cannot fricken wait for this to be out (Fall 2026). Meanwhile, please check the TOC for our Barbara Johnson Collective book 👀📚📖
And thanks @carallewis.bsky.social for joining me in the Very Long Essay Titles Club 🙌🏾
And thanks @carallewis.bsky.social for joining me in the Very Long Essay Titles Club 🙌🏾
please enjoy this tiny-font version of the TOC! (w alt-text to actually read) 🌸
December 16, 2025 at 2:52 PM
I cannot fricken wait for this to be out (Fall 2026). Meanwhile, please check the TOC for our Barbara Johnson Collective book 👀📚📖
And thanks @carallewis.bsky.social for joining me in the Very Long Essay Titles Club 🙌🏾
And thanks @carallewis.bsky.social for joining me in the Very Long Essay Titles Club 🙌🏾
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"Y'all are punks. Y'all are cowards. Harvard, Columbia... "y'all are sitting on $40 billion??? And you can't oppose this man? Either you're cowards or you are with him and if you are with him, you never believed in the things you were talking about to begin with."
December 13, 2025 at 2:36 PM
"Y'all are punks. Y'all are cowards. Harvard, Columbia... "y'all are sitting on $40 billion??? And you can't oppose this man? Either you're cowards or you are with him and if you are with him, you never believed in the things you were talking about to begin with."
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“let the arts which we are talking of beautify our labour, and be widely spread, intelligent, well understood both by the maker and the user, let them grow in one word POPULAR, and there will be pretty much an end of dull work”
-William Morris, Hopes and Fears for Art
-William Morris, Hopes and Fears for Art
December 13, 2025 at 2:50 PM
“let the arts which we are talking of beautify our labour, and be widely spread, intelligent, well understood both by the maker and the user, let them grow in one word POPULAR, and there will be pretty much an end of dull work”
-William Morris, Hopes and Fears for Art
-William Morris, Hopes and Fears for Art
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Do I dare
Disturb the universe?
In a minute there is time
For decisions and revisions which an admin can reverse.
For I have known the MF Authentications:
Have known the lockouts, resets, sign-ins...
Disturb the universe?
In a minute there is time
For decisions and revisions which an admin can reverse.
For I have known the MF Authentications:
Have known the lockouts, resets, sign-ins...
December 13, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Do I dare
Disturb the universe?
In a minute there is time
For decisions and revisions which an admin can reverse.
For I have known the MF Authentications:
Have known the lockouts, resets, sign-ins...
Disturb the universe?
In a minute there is time
For decisions and revisions which an admin can reverse.
For I have known the MF Authentications:
Have known the lockouts, resets, sign-ins...
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I have seen the battery of my laptop flicker,
And I have seen the eternal Help desk hold my login, and snicker,
And, in short, I was afraid.
And I have seen the eternal Help desk hold my login, and snicker,
And, in short, I was afraid.
on my feed women come and go
talking of Michelangelo
talking of Michelangelo
I have measured out my life with out-of-office messages
I know the emails deleted without being read
Beneath the notifications from a farther LMS
So how should I say yes?
I should have been a pair of SharePoint files
Syncing across the miles of campus IT.
I know the emails deleted without being read
Beneath the notifications from a farther LMS
So how should I say yes?
I should have been a pair of SharePoint files
Syncing across the miles of campus IT.
December 13, 2025 at 4:37 AM
I have seen the battery of my laptop flicker,
And I have seen the eternal Help desk hold my login, and snicker,
And, in short, I was afraid.
And I have seen the eternal Help desk hold my login, and snicker,
And, in short, I was afraid.
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let us go then, you and I,
to the internet where students use AI
like our patience, anesthetized, is always stable
let us go, through certain half-delivered skeets
the muttering retreats of one-time app fail-whales
and straw-man arguments on Linux shells
to the internet where students use AI
like our patience, anesthetized, is always stable
let us go, through certain half-delivered skeets
the muttering retreats of one-time app fail-whales
and straw-man arguments on Linux shells
I have seen the battery of my laptop flicker,
And I have seen the eternal Help desk hold my login, and snicker,
And, in short, I was afraid.
And I have seen the eternal Help desk hold my login, and snicker,
And, in short, I was afraid.
on my feed women come and go
talking of Michelangelo
talking of Michelangelo
December 13, 2025 at 2:27 PM
let us go then, you and I,
to the internet where students use AI
like our patience, anesthetized, is always stable
let us go, through certain half-delivered skeets
the muttering retreats of one-time app fail-whales
and straw-man arguments on Linux shells
to the internet where students use AI
like our patience, anesthetized, is always stable
let us go, through certain half-delivered skeets
the muttering retreats of one-time app fail-whales
and straw-man arguments on Linux shells
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Pretty regularly I try to recall "what's that book with the plot about XYZ, it was so ingenious" and then I remember that XYZ was merely some auxiliary fun-fact side-story aspect of @adapalmer.bsky.social's world in Too Like The Lightning (and the main plots are even more extraordinary)
Still time to get the "Too Like the Lightning" ebook for $2.99 today in the goldbox sale: www.amazon.com/Too-Like-Lig...
December 12, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Pretty regularly I try to recall "what's that book with the plot about XYZ, it was so ingenious" and then I remember that XYZ was merely some auxiliary fun-fact side-story aspect of @adapalmer.bsky.social's world in Too Like The Lightning (and the main plots are even more extraordinary)
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Instead of responding to our current abortion access crisis with bold, visionary abortion plotlines, what we’re seeing on TV, at least this year, is a return to troubling tropes of the past that link abortion with shame, stigma, and even death.
December 11, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Instead of responding to our current abortion access crisis with bold, visionary abortion plotlines, what we’re seeing on TV, at least this year, is a return to troubling tropes of the past that link abortion with shame, stigma, and even death.
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So excited for our showcase of @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social filmmakers this Friday, December 12th, at 7:30. Tickets are free but registration required! Join us for an incredible slate of short films by GC students, faculty, and alumni! 🎥 www.gc.cuny.edu/events/gradu...
Graduate Center Shorts: An Evening of Films and Discussion
PLEASE NOTE: THE TIME OF THIS EVENT HAS CHANGED FROM 6:30 TO 7:30 PM.In-Person Only Event
www.gc.cuny.edu
December 11, 2025 at 2:50 AM
So excited for our showcase of @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social filmmakers this Friday, December 12th, at 7:30. Tickets are free but registration required! Join us for an incredible slate of short films by GC students, faculty, and alumni! 🎥 www.gc.cuny.edu/events/gradu...
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AAUP’s “Artificial Intelligence and Academic Professions” report suggests several paths of resistance, opposition, constraint. The time to ask questions and make demands of university procurement and contracting is now.
www.aaup.org/reports-publ...
www.aaup.org/reports-publ...
July 24, 2025 at 11:55 AM
AAUP’s “Artificial Intelligence and Academic Professions” report suggests several paths of resistance, opposition, constraint. The time to ask questions and make demands of university procurement and contracting is now.
www.aaup.org/reports-publ...
www.aaup.org/reports-publ...
If you like me are staring at a big pile of grading and need an hour off, give a listen to favorite human and big brain, Maria Julia Rossi, chatting with Destry Sibley about their research on recent motherhood fiction:
indoorvoicespodcast.com
@thegraduatecenter.bsky.social @cunyenglish.bsky.social
indoorvoicespodcast.com
@thegraduatecenter.bsky.social @cunyenglish.bsky.social
December 10, 2025 at 8:03 PM
If you like me are staring at a big pile of grading and need an hour off, give a listen to favorite human and big brain, Maria Julia Rossi, chatting with Destry Sibley about their research on recent motherhood fiction:
indoorvoicespodcast.com
@thegraduatecenter.bsky.social @cunyenglish.bsky.social
indoorvoicespodcast.com
@thegraduatecenter.bsky.social @cunyenglish.bsky.social
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this critic just compared us to n#zi sympathizers
not linking or alt-ing the text, just letting yall know
not linking or alt-ing the text, just letting yall know
December 8, 2025 at 9:02 PM
this critic just compared us to n#zi sympathizers
not linking or alt-ing the text, just letting yall know
not linking or alt-ing the text, just letting yall know
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"Then as now, art and politics were central to challenging the invisibility and silence around the lives and deaths of Black women and to developing an antiracist, anti-sexist, anti-homophobic political analysis and movement" – favourite genius @meganb75.bsky.social on Audre Lorde out now in SIGNS!
December 5, 2025 at 12:04 AM
"Then as now, art and politics were central to challenging the invisibility and silence around the lives and deaths of Black women and to developing an antiracist, anti-sexist, anti-homophobic political analysis and movement" – favourite genius @meganb75.bsky.social on Audre Lorde out now in SIGNS!
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AI Is Not Inevitable
join AAUP for a conversation with educators, educator unions, and the Collaborative Research Center for Resilience
zoom.us/webinar/regi...
join AAUP for a conversation with educators, educator unions, and the Collaborative Research Center for Resilience
zoom.us/webinar/regi...
December 5, 2025 at 1:18 PM
AI Is Not Inevitable
join AAUP for a conversation with educators, educator unions, and the Collaborative Research Center for Resilience
zoom.us/webinar/regi...
join AAUP for a conversation with educators, educator unions, and the Collaborative Research Center for Resilience
zoom.us/webinar/regi...
"Then as now, art and politics were central to challenging the invisibility and silence around the lives and deaths of Black women and to developing an antiracist, anti-sexist, anti-homophobic political analysis and movement" – favourite genius @meganb75.bsky.social on Audre Lorde out now in SIGNS!
December 5, 2025 at 12:04 AM
"Then as now, art and politics were central to challenging the invisibility and silence around the lives and deaths of Black women and to developing an antiracist, anti-sexist, anti-homophobic political analysis and movement" – favourite genius @meganb75.bsky.social on Audre Lorde out now in SIGNS!
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A couple weeks ago we got a lovely note from someone on the other side of the country thanking us profusely for ILLing a book to them. Curious, we looked up the book they borrowed.
It would have cost $1,200 for them to purchase it.
ILL is one of the things I love most about libraries.
It would have cost $1,200 for them to purchase it.
ILL is one of the things I love most about libraries.
Requested a book through ILL over break. It arrived today. Libraries man.
December 3, 2025 at 12:56 AM
A couple weeks ago we got a lovely note from someone on the other side of the country thanking us profusely for ILLing a book to them. Curious, we looked up the book they borrowed.
It would have cost $1,200 for them to purchase it.
ILL is one of the things I love most about libraries.
It would have cost $1,200 for them to purchase it.
ILL is one of the things I love most about libraries.