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Mark A. McCutcheon
@sonicfiction.bsky.social
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Pronouns: he/him.
Author, The Medium Is The Monster (2018), Shape Your Eyes By Shutting Them (2019).
Professor of Literary Studies & Chair of the Centre for Humanities at Athabasca University.
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@athabascau.bsky.social MA students wishing to take this fall’s special topics course on #vampire #literature (MAIS 752): please be sure to register by August 10. Gory details: www.athabascau.ca/syllabi/mais...
Athabasca University
Special Topics Graduate Seminar—Bride of the Walking Undead
www.athabascau.ca
August 5, 2025 at 5:35 PM
sonicfiction.bsky.social
Salt air
and the rust on your door
where a raven sits, muttering “nevermore”
August 2, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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happy mothers’ day
May 11, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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Trust no polls.
Trust no projections.
And *definitely* trust no phone calls (remember how the Cons’ guy was linked to last decade’s robocalls scandal?).
The best, easiest way to counter vote suppression and disinformation is just voter turnout.
So go vote, #Canada.
#elxn
black and white stencil image of former Conservative PM Harper as Robocop brandishing a pistol (detail of p. 182 of English Studies in Canada, vol 42 no 1-2)
April 25, 2025 at 2:42 PM
sonicfiction.bsky.social
Trust no polls.
Trust no projections.
And *definitely* trust no phone calls (remember how the Cons’ guy was linked to last decade’s robocalls scandal?).
The best, easiest way to counter vote suppression and disinformation is just voter turnout.
So go vote, #Canada.
#elxn
black and white stencil image of former Conservative PM Harper as Robocop brandishing a pistol (detail of p. 182 of English Studies in Canada, vol 42 no 1-2)
April 25, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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Today I voted at advance polls, which I’d never seen as busy as this. ❤️ Go Canada, get out there and vote ✊
April 18, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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Congratulations to Dr. Julia M Wright @juliamwright.bsky.social, George Munro Chair in our Department, on being awarded the King Charles III Coronation medal for her work with @src-rsc.bsky.social and her “valuable contribution” to Canada! @dalhousie.bsky.social @dalalumni.bsky.social
Alain-G Gagnon, FRSC, President of the Royal Society of Canada (left), presenting the coronation medal to Dr Wright (right) The King Charles III Coronation Medal
March 27, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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#EmilyDickinson was wielding the Force way back when. Happy #WorldPoetryDay
CXXVIII If I should tell how glad I was, I should not be so glad, But when I cannot make the Force Nor mould it into word, I know it is a sign That new Dilemma be From mathematics further off, Than from Eternity. (excerpted from The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson, Sterling/B&N, 2003)
March 21, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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these are the days of lasers in the tundra
lasers in the tundra somewhere
unfactchecked signals of constant misinformation
a loser occupation of millionaires and billionaires and babies

(apologies Paul Simon)
March 13, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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Post a meme made by you
March 7, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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still frames from The Madness of King George (1993)

aka why studying 19th-century English #literature & #history matters
4 still shots from film show King George speaking: “a bill for the regulation of trade with our possessions in North America”; on which his aide clears throat, after which interruption the king restates “our *former* possessions in North America”
March 6, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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#AthabascaU students read avidly. But finding good editions of great reads is harder than ever (between Amzn & AI…).
Coming soon, my English MA course LTST612 Gothic Transformations will teach & ship a curated set of four @Broadviewpress.bsky.social Editions.
#Read the classics.
#BuyCanadian.
Photo of shelf showing Broadview Edition copies of (right to left): MG Lewis’ The Monk, Austen’s Northanger Abbey, DeQuincey’s Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, & RL Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde
March 5, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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photo of monochromatic Canadian spring, streetside, the Canada and Ukraine flags flying high against a Ukraine-coloured sky (a stratum of blue clouds above the sunset’s yellow stratum)
March 3, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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little behind on current events but if i’ve got this right, the USA has finally lost World War Two, somehow to both the Nazis and the Reds?
February 26, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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Happy Twin Peaks Day, my friends ☕️
February 24, 2025 at 5:59 AM
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so, reach the stars by killing science?
February 22, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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NASSR 2025: #Romanticism’s Commons call for papers & panels *deadline extended* to middle March (get it)
Details: landing.athabascau.ca/pages/view/2...
#Humanities #literature #history #research
February 20, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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Coincidence?
#TheExpanse #iykyk
photo of car bumper from which an #OPA sticker (from #TheExpanse) is breaking and peeling off
February 16, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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going through my dad’s old stuff I found this Kier Egan grade shit.
#Severance
closeup of CD-ROM titled Becoming Bell: The Remarkable Story of a Canadian Enterprise (Bell Canada, 2005)
February 15, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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Romanticism’s Commons: call for papers

Friday Feb 14 is the deadline for proposals for papers, pre-assembled panels, etc. to the North American Society for Studies in #Romanticism’s 2025 conference, hosted by Athabasca U, Aug 14-16.
Details: landing.athabascau.ca/pages/view/2...
#research #NASSR
Quote from Wikipedia article on “enclosure”: An anonymous poem, known as "The Goose and the Common" has come to represent the opposition to the enclosure movement in the 18th century: "The law locks up the man or woman Who steals the goose from off the common, But lets the greater felon loose Who steals the common from the goose." (Part of 18th century poem by Anon.) — Boyle 2003, pp. 33–74 Wiki quote continues: According to one academic: "This poem is one of the pithiest condemnations of the English enclosure movement—the process of fencing off common land and turning it into private property. In a few lines, the poem manages to criticize double standards, expose the artificial and controversial nature of property rights, and take a slap at the legitimacy of state power. And it does it all with humor, without jargon, and in rhyming couplets." — Boyle 2003, pp. 33–74
February 10, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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Canadian sundial
sundial buried under snow
February 9, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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#LoveThyNeighbour #TheExpanse
horizontally split image shows, at top, church sign reading “Love thy neighbour. Yes, even that guy,” and at bottom, still frame from The Expanse tv series showing closeup of Amos (played by Wes Chatham) against Baltimore backdrop
February 9, 2025 at 5:53 PM