Dr. Emily Woster
@emilywoster.bsky.social
Asst. Professor of English and Director of the Writing Center at the College of St. Scholastica. Scholar of L.M. Montgomery, women's autobio., and other fun things. Crafter. Tall person. Curator of annemanuscript.ca and kindredspaces.ca/bookshelf (she/her)
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🎂💐 November 30th marks the 151st birthday of L. M. Montgomery!
We’re pleased to announce the three keynote speakers for our 2026 Biennial Conference, “L. M. Montgomery and Change.”
📲 Learn more about who will be leading the conversations at our upcoming conference: lmmontgomery.ca/special-anno...
We’re pleased to announce the three keynote speakers for our 2026 Biennial Conference, “L. M. Montgomery and Change.”
📲 Learn more about who will be leading the conversations at our upcoming conference: lmmontgomery.ca/special-anno...
November 30, 2025 at 12:24 PM
🎂💐 November 30th marks the 151st birthday of L. M. Montgomery!
We’re pleased to announce the three keynote speakers for our 2026 Biennial Conference, “L. M. Montgomery and Change.”
📲 Learn more about who will be leading the conversations at our upcoming conference: lmmontgomery.ca/special-anno...
We’re pleased to announce the three keynote speakers for our 2026 Biennial Conference, “L. M. Montgomery and Change.”
📲 Learn more about who will be leading the conversations at our upcoming conference: lmmontgomery.ca/special-anno...
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If you live in Minnesota you have access (no login required) to thousands of journals and ebooks, the full text of the NYT, WaPo, WSJ, Star Tribune (all the way back to the 80s), and much more. All thanks to eLibrary Minnesota. Libraries rule! 2/4 elibrarymn.org
eLibrary Minnesota
elibrarymn.org
November 25, 2025 at 2:51 PM
If you live in Minnesota you have access (no login required) to thousands of journals and ebooks, the full text of the NYT, WaPo, WSJ, Star Tribune (all the way back to the 80s), and much more. All thanks to eLibrary Minnesota. Libraries rule! 2/4 elibrarymn.org
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A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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November 6, 2025 at 8:43 PM
A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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October was an incredible month for the Book of The North! Our team and community harvested nettles and flax, learned to make ink out of all sorts of things, wrote beautiful scripts in medieval styles, but most importantly, came together as a community.
November 5, 2025 at 7:48 PM
October was an incredible month for the Book of The North! Our team and community harvested nettles and flax, learned to make ink out of all sorts of things, wrote beautiful scripts in medieval styles, but most importantly, came together as a community.
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The economic impact of the arts in Minnesota is greater than the impact of agriculture and forestry combined, according to a new study.
Northland arts leaders highlight economic, human impact
Nonprofit arts activity in the Arrowhead region generates nearly $50 million in annual expenditures, according to a new report.
www.duluthnewstribune.com
October 16, 2025 at 8:15 PM
The economic impact of the arts in Minnesota is greater than the impact of agriculture and forestry combined, according to a new study.
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I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections
October 7, 2025 at 12:25 AM
I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections
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A Borges story about a guy who gets AI to summarize all the world’s information for him, and then summarize the summary, until the AI has the whole world summarized into a single word. He sits alone at his desk, staring at the word, repeating it endlessly, certain he is experiencing everything
July 14, 2025 at 3:02 PM
A Borges story about a guy who gets AI to summarize all the world’s information for him, and then summarize the summary, until the AI has the whole world summarized into a single word. He sits alone at his desk, staring at the word, repeating it endlessly, certain he is experiencing everything
I'll be at the Swedish Institute for Children's books (Svenska barnboksinstitutet) in a few weeks to talk about L.M. Montgomery, young girls, reading, and young girls' reading. You can tune in on line!
shorturl.at/Js7SK
shorturl.at/Js7SK
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Reading with Young Maud, Anne, and Emily: Childhood Reading Practices in the Life and Works of L.M. Montgomery. After registering, you will receive a confir...
Anne Shirley, Emily Byrd Starr, and L.M. Montgomery were readers. The kind of voracious young readers for whom reading was an escape, a constant companion, and, sometimes, the source of (mostly humoro...
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May 1, 2025 at 7:19 PM
I'll be at the Swedish Institute for Children's books (Svenska barnboksinstitutet) in a few weeks to talk about L.M. Montgomery, young girls, reading, and young girls' reading. You can tune in on line!
shorturl.at/Js7SK
shorturl.at/Js7SK
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“They were careless people…they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness…and let other people clean up the mess they had made…” -- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (April 10, 1925).
April 10, 2025 at 12:16 PM
“They were careless people…they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness…and let other people clean up the mess they had made…” -- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (April 10, 1925).
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This is the stupidest I think it has ever felt to just be going to work every day
March 16, 2025 at 2:51 AM
This is the stupidest I think it has ever felt to just be going to work every day
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Ingleside bloomed with firelight and laughter, though the winds [came] in from the Atlantic singing of mournful things. "Why isn't the wind happy?" asked Walter one night.
"Because it is remembering all the sorrow of the world since time began," answered Anne.
ANNE OF INGLESIDE
#booksky
"Because it is remembering all the sorrow of the world since time began," answered Anne.
ANNE OF INGLESIDE
#booksky
February 28, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Ingleside bloomed with firelight and laughter, though the winds [came] in from the Atlantic singing of mournful things. "Why isn't the wind happy?" asked Walter one night.
"Because it is remembering all the sorrow of the world since time began," answered Anne.
ANNE OF INGLESIDE
#booksky
"Because it is remembering all the sorrow of the world since time began," answered Anne.
ANNE OF INGLESIDE
#booksky
A poem made for today.
Joy Harjo, "For Calling the Spirit Back from Wandering the Earth In Its Human Feet."
poets.org/poem/calling...
Joy Harjo, "For Calling the Spirit Back from Wandering the Earth In Its Human Feet."
poets.org/poem/calling...
February 28, 2025 at 5:53 PM
A poem made for today.
Joy Harjo, "For Calling the Spirit Back from Wandering the Earth In Its Human Feet."
poets.org/poem/calling...
Joy Harjo, "For Calling the Spirit Back from Wandering the Earth In Its Human Feet."
poets.org/poem/calling...
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“Computer” (poem) by Gwendolyn Brooks, 1983, @illinoisrbml.bsky.social.
February 23, 2025 at 9:31 PM
“Computer” (poem) by Gwendolyn Brooks, 1983, @illinoisrbml.bsky.social.
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Yup. A manufactured moral panic through and through. Stuart Hall had a lot to say about how moral panics over petty street crime in London made Thatcher's neoliberal policies possible. Now it's a moral panic over CRT, DEI, etc that's making plutocracy-in-the-name-of-free-speech palatable.
I am *on an EDI committee in a university* and 90 per cent of my encounters with language policing, “safe spaces”, even “trigger warnings” is via opinion pieces in the Atlantic and the Telegraph
February 18, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Yup. A manufactured moral panic through and through. Stuart Hall had a lot to say about how moral panics over petty street crime in London made Thatcher's neoliberal policies possible. Now it's a moral panic over CRT, DEI, etc that's making plutocracy-in-the-name-of-free-speech palatable.
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the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president
February 15, 2025 at 6:39 PM
the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president
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The part of George Orwell’s 1984 that everyone forgets is how the music and publishing industries have been replaced by a machine that spits out songs and bad novels “without any human intervention.” The goal is to keep you from ever having to think.
February 8, 2025 at 8:06 PM
The part of George Orwell’s 1984 that everyone forgets is how the music and publishing industries have been replaced by a machine that spits out songs and bad novels “without any human intervention.” The goal is to keep you from ever having to think.
There are 9 million more important things happening in the world right now, but if you want 75 minutes of escape into books and reading, I was interviewed on the latest episode of the Kindred Spirits Book Club podcast. Available on all the podcast platforms!!
kindredspiritsbookclub.podbean.com
kindredspiritsbookclub.podbean.com
Kindred Spirits Book Club
Books Podcast · 4 Seasons · Updated Biweekly
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February 7, 2025 at 6:36 PM
There are 9 million more important things happening in the world right now, but if you want 75 minutes of escape into books and reading, I was interviewed on the latest episode of the Kindred Spirits Book Club podcast. Available on all the podcast platforms!!
kindredspiritsbookclub.podbean.com
kindredspiritsbookclub.podbean.com
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I bet doom scroll meant something way cooler in the middle ages.
February 6, 2025 at 9:50 PM
I bet doom scroll meant something way cooler in the middle ages.
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As the Trump administration & many state governments appear poised to accelerate attacks on higher education as a public good, the AAUP urges colleges & universities to resist the coming onslaught of political interference & defend the core values of higher education.
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www.aaup.org/news/against...
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www.aaup.org/news/against...
Against Anticipatory Obedience
While administrators and faculty members may have to comply with legislation and court orders, even where these run counter to our values and to professional and constitutional principles, we are free...
www.aaup.org
January 23, 2025 at 4:16 PM
As the Trump administration & many state governments appear poised to accelerate attacks on higher education as a public good, the AAUP urges colleges & universities to resist the coming onslaught of political interference & defend the core values of higher education.
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www.aaup.org/news/against...
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www.aaup.org/news/against...
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I’m not kidding: those who delegate all their writing, thinking and creative expression to machines are going to wake up one day and discover that they can no longer write or think. You need to make your own art. You need to keep your brain working. You need to stay human.
January 29, 2025 at 5:59 PM
I’m not kidding: those who delegate all their writing, thinking and creative expression to machines are going to wake up one day and discover that they can no longer write or think. You need to make your own art. You need to keep your brain working. You need to stay human.
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📣‼️ We are now accepting presentation proposals for the L.M. Montgomery Institute's 17th Biennial International Conference!
📲 For more details, visit: lmmontgomery.ca/conference/2...
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#lmmontgomery #maud150 #lucymaudmontgomery #canadianliterature #proposals #writers #callforpapers
📲 For more details, visit: lmmontgomery.ca/conference/2...
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#lmmontgomery #maud150 #lucymaudmontgomery #canadianliterature #proposals #writers #callforpapers
December 20, 2024 at 10:29 PM
📣‼️ We are now accepting presentation proposals for the L.M. Montgomery Institute's 17th Biennial International Conference!
📲 For more details, visit: lmmontgomery.ca/conference/2...
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#lmmontgomery #maud150 #lucymaudmontgomery #canadianliterature #proposals #writers #callforpapers
📲 For more details, visit: lmmontgomery.ca/conference/2...
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#lmmontgomery #maud150 #lucymaudmontgomery #canadianliterature #proposals #writers #callforpapers
The Anne of Green Gables manuscript (the object itself) is now included on the Canada “Memory of the World Register.” I was thrilled to draft the application on behalf of the Confederation Centre of the Arts. Read the full release here:
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Anne of Green Gables manuscript added to the Canada Memory of the World Register
The Confederation Centre Art Gallery and CCUNESCO are pleased to announce the addition of the Anne of Green Gables manuscript to the Canada Memory of the World Register.
en.ccunesco.ca
December 1, 2024 at 3:39 PM
The Anne of Green Gables manuscript (the object itself) is now included on the Canada “Memory of the World Register.” I was thrilled to draft the application on behalf of the Confederation Centre of the Arts. Read the full release here:
en.ccunesco.ca/about-ccunes...
en.ccunesco.ca/about-ccunes...
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L.M. Montgomery was born on a chilly (-4.7C) and wet day. #PEI November 30 1874.
She shares a birth day with Mark Twain, Winston Churchill, and John McCrae (“In Flanders Fields”)
#maud150
(Article: The Shining Scroll 2020, p6)
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She shares a birth day with Mark Twain, Winston Churchill, and John McCrae (“In Flanders Fields”)
#maud150
(Article: The Shining Scroll 2020, p6)
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November 29, 2024 at 3:18 PM
L.M. Montgomery was born on a chilly (-4.7C) and wet day. #PEI November 30 1874.
She shares a birth day with Mark Twain, Winston Churchill, and John McCrae (“In Flanders Fields”)
#maud150
(Article: The Shining Scroll 2020, p6)
lmmontgomeryliterarysociety.weebly.com/uploads/2/2/...
She shares a birth day with Mark Twain, Winston Churchill, and John McCrae (“In Flanders Fields”)
#maud150
(Article: The Shining Scroll 2020, p6)
lmmontgomeryliterarysociety.weebly.com/uploads/2/2/...
If you're feeling down, just eavesdrop in the campus writing center in the waning weeks of a semester. Nothing--NOTHING I tell you--compares to listening to students support and cheer one another. They learn, struggle, question, vent, and compose together. 1/3
November 25, 2024 at 6:21 PM
If you're feeling down, just eavesdrop in the campus writing center in the waning weeks of a semester. Nothing--NOTHING I tell you--compares to listening to students support and cheer one another. They learn, struggle, question, vent, and compose together. 1/3