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Emma Davenport
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Assistant Professor at Emory. Victorian lit, legal & political theory, novels.
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In my mailbox today, a book well worth reading.
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Auckland university is hiring a Lecturer (that’s Assistant Prof for all you Americans) in English, specialising in the long nineteenth century, to a permanent position commencing before Semester 1, 2026 (or by negotiation). Focus is nineteenth century fiction - details below!
Lecturer - English
Company Description: Waipapa Taumata Rau | The University of AucklandThe University of Auckland is New Zealand’s pre-eminent University, with a turnover of $1.1bn, including research revenue of over $...
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Last week I learned that the University system is paying for a subscription to Gemini, Google's AI, for all students, and that my purchase of two packages of blue books and a box of pencils has exhausted my office supply budget. Every budget is a moral document.
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A tool that signals how far they diverge from an aspirational norm is not that useful for the task of learning that student’s unique entrance into critical thought, and any process that separates me from the difficult work of learning the student’s language is an obstacle to helping them.
"You fail to historicize," of course
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New game: Read, Research, Recycle

(One you read for fun, one you research for years, one you put out with the old paper)

Bleak House, David Copperfield, Our Mutual Friend
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Look, there are many reasons to admire Joe Buttigieg, but this approach to citation is top 3 at least
Can we have a rule that everyone gets to do this once in their career?
Look, there are many reasons to admire Joe Buttigieg, but this approach to citation is top 3 at least
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New podcast! Tobias Wilson-Bates interviews Nathan K. Hensley, author of "Action without Hope: Victorian Literature after Climate Collapse," a study of “how writers from the early phases of our prolonged climate emergency used aesthetic strategies to redefine the category of action.”
Podcasts | Studies in the Novel
Action without Hope
www.studiesinthenovel.org
The little *thwip*s that signal a change of topic 😍. Especially the one that comes right after you mention synchrony/diachrony. "We could talk about that all day, but maybe that's not the best thing to talk about." *thwip!*
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The most fun I’ve had talking about ideas in a long time. I’m so grateful to Tobias for leading this wide ranging & (for me) really energizing conversation. He is such a badass— listen for his edited-in list of the 10,000 books on Amazon abt “climate” and “hope,” one by Michael Bloomberg 🤣🙏🌿
It was, quite honestly, the high point of the summer getting to put together this podcast with @nathankhensley.bsky.social for Studies in the Novel on his book ‘Action without Hope’

www.studiesinthenovel.org/interact/pod...
Podcasts | Studies in the Novel
Action without Hope
www.studiesinthenovel.org
Sabrina Carpenter, alias Foucault 😍
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*Action without Hope: Victorian Literature after Climate Collapse* is out today! The official release got pushed back due to an issue w the art, & despite being mostly about literature it's very visual.

So to celebrate its full entry into the world, a thread of some of my favorite images from it:
Action without Hope
A study of how writers from the early phases of our prolonged climate emergency used aesthetic strategies to redefine the category of action. What does it feel like to live helplessly in a world that ...
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arguably harder to get an assistant professor job than to become Pope, strictly going by percentage of likely candidates...
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I cry every. single. time. 💔
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I'm thrilled to say that to celebrate the launch of my new book, I'll be doing two events in the DC area later this month:

Thurs, 4/24, 6 pm @ People's Book, Takoma Park / @peoplesbooktakoma.com

Sun, 4/27, 3 pm (w/ novelist Rabih Alameddine). Politics & Prose, DC / @politicsprose.bsky.social

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w/ thanks to @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social for the convo leading to this ridiculous meme
The Penguin edition of Lydia Davis's (excellent) translation of Madame Bovary:
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