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Douglas Dowland @profdgd.bsky.social · 23d

In my mailbox today, a book well worth reading.

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Maebh Long @maebhlong.bsky.social · 24d

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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Jason Read @jasonread.bsky.social · Sep 22

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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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · Sep 17

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.

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Emma Davenport @emmadavenport.bsky.social · Aug 19

"You fail to historicize," of course

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · Aug 7

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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Emma Davenport @emmadavenport.bsky.social · Aug 7

Look, there are many reasons to admire Joe Buttigieg, but this approach to citation is top 3 at least

Screenshot of the beginning of a journal article: "The eighteenth-century British moralist and belletrist nonpareil, Joseph Addison, declared somewhere in his _Spectator_ essays that 'Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind.'"

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Emma Davenport @emmadavenport.bsky.social · Aug 7

Can we have a rule that everyone gets to do this once in their career?

Emma Davenport @emmadavenport.bsky.social · Aug 7

Look, there are many reasons to admire Joe Buttigieg, but this approach to citation is top 3 at least

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Studies in the Novel @studiesinthenovel.bsky.social · Aug 1

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

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Emma Davenport @emmadavenport.bsky.social · Jul 25

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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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · Jul 24

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 🤣🙏🌿

Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · Jul 23

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

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Emma Davenport @emmadavenport.bsky.social · Jul 25

Y'all, listen to @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social's interview of @nathankhensley.bsky.social in this Studies in the Novel podcast! It's fantastic!

www.studiesinthenovel.org/interact/pod...

Podcasts | Studies in the Novel

Action without Hope

www.studiesinthenovel.org

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Emma Davenport @emmadavenport.bsky.social · Jul 14

bUt HeR wAlkiNg sTiCk

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Emma Davenport @emmadavenport.bsky.social · Jun 14

Sabrina Carpenter, alias Foucault 😍

"It's always so funny to me when people complain," she told the magazine. "They're like, 'All she does is sing about this.' But those are the songs that you've made popular. Clearly *you* love sex. You're obsessed with it. It's in my show. There's so many more moments than the 'Juno' positions, but those are the ones you post every night and comment on. I can't control that."

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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · Jun 4

*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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Emma Davenport @emmadavenport.bsky.social · May 8

arguably harder to get an assistant professor job than to become Pope, strictly going by percentage of likely candidates...

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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · May 2

thank you so much, @uchicagopress.bsky.social!

😭🙏🌿

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Emma Davenport @emmadavenport.bsky.social · Apr 9

I cry every. single. time. 💔

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · Apr 7

atlanta! rolling through friday for Good Enough Art english.emory.edu/news-events/...

Events Calendar

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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · Apr 5

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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Emma Davenport @emmadavenport.bsky.social · Apr 5

w/ thanks to @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social for the convo leading to this ridiculous meme

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Emma Davenport @emmadavenport.bsky.social · Apr 5

The Penguin edition of Lydia Davis's (excellent) translation of Madame Bovary:

Exploding brain meme: "Mme Bovary" as regular brain; "Mme Bovary with deckle edges" as active sparkly brain; "Mme Bovary with deckle edges representing the kitsch that is all cultural capital" as exploding lasers brain.

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Research Society for Victorian Periodicals @rs4vp.org · Mar 23

🚀 Join the #RSVPDigiEvent team April 11 celebrate the publication of /Digital Victorians/ with @pfyfe.bsky.social! We'll convene at our usual time (as we will have all caught up to spring by then) at 8am PT/ 11am ET /4pm UK / 5pm. rs4vp.org/launching-di...

Launching Digital Victorians with Paul Fyfe – RSVP

Join us April 11 to celebrate Paul Fyfe's new monograph, Digital Victorians: From Nineteenth-Century Media to Digital Humanities (2024)!

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Emma Davenport @emmadavenport.bsky.social · Mar 12

Yayyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!!

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