Santhia Velasco Kittlaus
@svelascokittlaus.bsky.social
Writer. Fan of thinking. PhD candidate in German Cultural Studies @ox.ac.uk
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The catastrophic state of modern languages in this country! When I was doing my PhD in the 1980s, Nottingham was a real powerhouse for #German studies.
November 7, 2025 at 9:18 AM
The catastrophic state of modern languages in this country! When I was doing my PhD in the 1980s, Nottingham was a real powerhouse for #German studies.
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Only if we understand, we care.
Only if we care, we will help.
Only if we help, will they be saved.
Danke, Jane Goodall, für all das, was du getan hast. Du warst die Stimme der Schimpansen.
(Wandmalerei im Tacugama Chimpanzee Sanctuary in Freetown, Sierra Leone).
Only if we care, we will help.
Only if we help, will they be saved.
Danke, Jane Goodall, für all das, was du getan hast. Du warst die Stimme der Schimpansen.
(Wandmalerei im Tacugama Chimpanzee Sanctuary in Freetown, Sierra Leone).
October 2, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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Took my PhD worries on a hike and they couldn‘t keep up.
September 27, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Took my PhD worries on a hike and they couldn‘t keep up.
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Eine ärgerliche Zeit, um ein Gehirn zu haben
September 18, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Eine ärgerliche Zeit, um ein Gehirn zu haben
Between conferences 🫶🏼
September 14, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Between conferences 🫶🏼
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Sehnsucht nach Unterholz, Borke, Wabe, Nest.
September 11, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Sehnsucht nach Unterholz, Borke, Wabe, Nest.
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Catch Chet'la Sebree on tour for her poetry collection Blue Opening (9.16.25).💙✨
“These poems wrestle w/ the cosmic without losing sight of the personal….Wistful yet undaunted, this collection forges new beginnings out of elegy.”
—Publishers Weekly
Read more: www.chetlasebree.com/her-appearan...
“These poems wrestle w/ the cosmic without losing sight of the personal….Wistful yet undaunted, this collection forges new beginnings out of elegy.”
—Publishers Weekly
Read more: www.chetlasebree.com/her-appearan...
September 11, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Catch Chet'la Sebree on tour for her poetry collection Blue Opening (9.16.25).💙✨
“These poems wrestle w/ the cosmic without losing sight of the personal….Wistful yet undaunted, this collection forges new beginnings out of elegy.”
—Publishers Weekly
Read more: www.chetlasebree.com/her-appearan...
“These poems wrestle w/ the cosmic without losing sight of the personal….Wistful yet undaunted, this collection forges new beginnings out of elegy.”
—Publishers Weekly
Read more: www.chetlasebree.com/her-appearan...
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Congrats to Omar El Akkad for making the National Book Award longlist in nonfiction for One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
ICYMI, what better time to listen to our conversation about this incredible book
Audio📻: tinhouse.com/podcast/omar...
#freepalestine
ICYMI, what better time to listen to our conversation about this incredible book
Audio📻: tinhouse.com/podcast/omar...
#freepalestine
Omar El Akkad : One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This - Tin House
In late October 2023, weeks into Israel’s bombing of northern Gaza, the novelist Omar El Akkad retweeted a video taken by a Gazan man. This video showed a lifeless moonscape with endless empty streets...
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September 11, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Congrats to Omar El Akkad for making the National Book Award longlist in nonfiction for One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
ICYMI, what better time to listen to our conversation about this incredible book
Audio📻: tinhouse.com/podcast/omar...
#freepalestine
ICYMI, what better time to listen to our conversation about this incredible book
Audio📻: tinhouse.com/podcast/omar...
#freepalestine
Lieb ich 🫶🏼
September 6, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Lieb ich 🫶🏼
Honoured to have presented my work on critical whiteness as part of the Black Literature and Culture in German panel, thoughtfully curated by @kirstingwyer.bsky.social, at this year’s
@ags-gbi.bsky.social German and the World Conference, hosted by @oxfordgerman.bsky.social.
@ags-gbi.bsky.social German and the World Conference, hosted by @oxfordgerman.bsky.social.
September 4, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Honoured to have presented my work on critical whiteness as part of the Black Literature and Culture in German panel, thoughtfully curated by @kirstingwyer.bsky.social, at this year’s
@ags-gbi.bsky.social German and the World Conference, hosted by @oxfordgerman.bsky.social.
@ags-gbi.bsky.social German and the World Conference, hosted by @oxfordgerman.bsky.social.
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It has been such a pleasure to host this podcast for the past three years.
A treat for Rilke lovers: Rilke biographer Charlie Louth talks with Santhia Velasco Kittlaus about New Poems (Neue Gedichte), the poet's groundbreaking collection of 1907.
Oxford German Classic 2025: Introduction to Rilke’s Neue Gedichte
YouTube video by Oxford German Network
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August 14, 2025 at 7:05 PM
It has been such a pleasure to host this podcast for the past three years.
Off to another summer with Walter Benjamin - and my emotional support selection :)
July 5, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Off to another summer with Walter Benjamin - and my emotional support selection :)
Flower friendship
July 3, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Flower friendship
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Mehr NS-Raubgut als gedacht: Ein Forschungsprojekt an der @goetheuni.bsky.social bringt zahlreiche geraubte Bücher ans Licht – u. a. aus jüdischem Besitz:
Research project at University Library uncovers more Nazi plunder than expected | Aktuelles aus der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt
First project on provenance research at the main library of Goethe University Frankfurt reveals further demand in this area – Successor project examines rare prints – Extensive stock from Baer’s […]
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July 2, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Mehr NS-Raubgut als gedacht: Ein Forschungsprojekt an der @goetheuni.bsky.social bringt zahlreiche geraubte Bücher ans Licht – u. a. aus jüdischem Besitz:
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Ich möchte reich werden um möglichst viel Land aufzukaufen und das absolut verwildern zu lassen, das ist mein Traum
July 2, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Ich möchte reich werden um möglichst viel Land aufzukaufen und das absolut verwildern zu lassen, das ist mein Traum
I am so happy to be part of the OGN team, now for three years, which makes it one of the most important and valuable and still exciting elements of my PhD journey. I arrived as an academic baby and now I feel like I can do this thing. I love challenges that allow you to grow.
Ganz herzlichen Dank - many thanks to all those who made this year's Oxford German Olympiad Prizegiving Ceremony possible with their contributions. It was a pleasure to welcome you all to Oxford!
@ox.ac.uk
@oxfordgerman.bsky.social
@bodleianlibraries.bsky.social
@oxfordkafka.bsky.social
@ox.ac.uk
@oxfordgerman.bsky.social
@bodleianlibraries.bsky.social
@oxfordkafka.bsky.social
July 2, 2025 at 6:39 PM
I am so happy to be part of the OGN team, now for three years, which makes it one of the most important and valuable and still exciting elements of my PhD journey. I arrived as an academic baby and now I feel like I can do this thing. I love challenges that allow you to grow.
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This is Granta 172: Badlands.
Our summer edition traverses inhospitable terrain, from troubled childhoods to drone-infested Ukraine.
The issue publishes on Thursday 17 July.
Our summer edition traverses inhospitable terrain, from troubled childhoods to drone-infested Ukraine.
The issue publishes on Thursday 17 July.
July 2, 2025 at 2:58 PM
This is Granta 172: Badlands.
Our summer edition traverses inhospitable terrain, from troubled childhoods to drone-infested Ukraine.
The issue publishes on Thursday 17 July.
Our summer edition traverses inhospitable terrain, from troubled childhoods to drone-infested Ukraine.
The issue publishes on Thursday 17 July.
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We use @ursulakleguin.com as a portal for our conversation. Particularly the lines: “One way to stop seeing trees or rivers or hills only as a natural resource is to class them as fellow beings—kinfolk. I guess I’m trying to subjectify the universe, because look where objectifying it has gotten us."
One of the true high watermarks for the show, don't miss today's conversation with @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social A polyvocal deep dive into the world of words and rivers, of water defenders and language revivifiers. Come be rivered with us
Audio🌊📻: tinhouse.com/podcast/robe...
@wwnorton.com
Audio🌊📻: tinhouse.com/podcast/robe...
@wwnorton.com
Robert Macfarlane : Is a River Alive? - Tin House
Don’t miss today’s conversation with Robert Macfarlane. A polyvocal deep dive into the mysteries of words and rivers, of speech acts as spells, whorls as worlds, of grammars of animacy, of what it mea...
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June 29, 2025 at 1:17 PM
We use @ursulakleguin.com as a portal for our conversation. Particularly the lines: “One way to stop seeing trees or rivers or hills only as a natural resource is to class them as fellow beings—kinfolk. I guess I’m trying to subjectify the universe, because look where objectifying it has gotten us."
This feels like home
June 30, 2025 at 10:07 PM
This feels like home
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Ich habe heute diese sehr spitz zulaufenden Vögel getroffen.
June 30, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Ich habe heute diese sehr spitz zulaufenden Vögel getroffen.
Re-reading Rose Ausländer
June 30, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Re-reading Rose Ausländer
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For our new series, Dead to Me, we invited authors to write about friendships that have blown up, broken down or slowly eroded.
First up, Sophie Kemp on playground politics in suburban American.
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First up, Sophie Kemp on playground politics in suburban American.
granta.com/dead-to-me-s...
Dead to Me
‘Why couldn’t I ride a horse without screaming? Why couldn’t I hit puberty at ten years old? Why couldn’t I be normal?’
granta.com
June 25, 2025 at 3:01 PM
For our new series, Dead to Me, we invited authors to write about friendships that have blown up, broken down or slowly eroded.
First up, Sophie Kemp on playground politics in suburban American.
granta.com/dead-to-me-s...
First up, Sophie Kemp on playground politics in suburban American.
granta.com/dead-to-me-s...
Have chosen the mellow midsummer nights to finally sit down and read Ghostroots by 'Pemi Aguda
June 23, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Have chosen the mellow midsummer nights to finally sit down and read Ghostroots by 'Pemi Aguda