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The Carolina Quarterly @carolinaquarterly.bsky.social · 4d

Happy Halloween! Lord Byron's poem "Darkness" was published in 1816, the infamous "year without a summer." Its languid mood and despairing yet vivid tone make it a perfect read for this spooky holiday. 🍂 🌙

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Kaitlin Smith @kaitlinwrites.bsky.social · 8d

Qualifications: Mary Shelley is haunting me and our souls are intertwined (/joking).

Kaitlin Smith @kaitlinwrites.bsky.social · 8d

I watched the new adaption of Frankenstein this week. Here is my review.

Guillermo del Toro's "Frankenstein": An Atmospheric Masterpiece for Mary Shelley's Legacy Novel

My review of the film as a literary scholar of Mary Shelley.

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Dominic Wexler @dominicwexler.bsky.social · 9d

✒️ In August I asked my friend and @aothenmagazine.bsky.social colleague @kaitlinwrites.bsky.social some questions about her life in the academy and the role of academics in American society.

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#university #academics #phd #gradschool #writing #politics

Interview With An Academic: Kaitlin Smith.

I recently interviewed Kaitlin Smith, a PhD student at UNC, about her personal experience in the academy and the role of universities in contemporary America.

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Kaitlin Smith @kaitlinwrites.bsky.social · 13d

The @fglif.bsky.social "Demystifying Academic Conferences" virtual panel is tomorrow! I'll be talking with folks and my fellow panelists about my experiences navigating conferences as a first-gen, low-income student. Would love to see you there!

Demystifying Academic Conferences (October 23rd, 2025)

Academic conferences can feel mysterious, overwhelming, or even intimidating, especially if you’re navigating them for the first time. What counts as a panel? How do you decide whether to give a pa…

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Aôthen Magazine @aothenmagazine.bsky.social · 20d

"Wound Eurydice" by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, c. 1868.

Eurydice, in Greek mythology, died on her wedding night after being wounded by a viper. Distraught at his bride's death, Orpheus pursued her to Hades only to fail in his mission to bring her back to the mortal world. Do you know this #myth?

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Kaitlin Smith @kaitlinwrites.bsky.social · 15d

I’m presenting on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein tomorrow in one of my grad seminars. In my presentation, I’ll be discussing what it means for Mary Shelley herself to produce such a legacy text as a teenager and the implications of her success in women’s literary and archival histories.

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FGLIF - First-Generation Low Income Federation @fglif.bsky.social · 21d

Reminder! We're hosting a panel on making the most of academic conferences, especially if it's your first time! Coming up on October 23rd.

FGLIF - First-Generation Low Income Federation @fglif.bsky.social · Oct 1

First time heading to a conference?

Feeling overwhelmed by panels and packed schedules?

Curious about how to network, find support, and make the most of it?

Join FGLIF on Oct 23 at 3:30 PM ET for a supportive panel that takes the mystery (and stress) out of academic conferences!

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Yale Classics Library @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social · 22d

New issue of American Journal of Philology Vol. 146, No. 3 Fall (2025) muse.jhu.edu/issue/55709 @projectmuse.bsky.social @hopkinspress.bsky.social #openaccess

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Aôthen Magazine @aothenmagazine.bsky.social · 27d

"Cupid's Hunting Fields" by Sir Edward Burne-Jones, c. 1885.

Cupid in Roman mythology is the God of love, erotic desire, and affection. Sometimes he knows known as Amor ("love," in Latin) or Eros (in Greek). Cupid may be the most fickle of the Gods. He has inspired countless poems in his name.

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Dr Hannah Čulík-Baird @opietasanimi.com · 28d

It is my pleasure to share the CFP for a special issue of #ResDiffJournal guest-edited by Yusi Liu, Chris Gipson, and Najee Olya, building on the Mountaintop Coalition's panel at the SCS earlier this year. "International Scholarship in a ‘Globalized’ World?" resdifficiles.com/internationa...

International Scholarship in a ‘Globalized’ World? CFP

At the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Classical Studies and the Archaeological Institute of America in Philadelphia, the Mountaintop Coalition sponsored the joint panel, “Internationa…

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Aôthen Magazine @aothenmagazine.bsky.social · Oct 4

This week on Columns we have an interview with Imogen Briscoe from Ekklesia, another classics magazine! Kaitlin Smith talks with Briscoe about #accessibility, #Ovid, and more.

Have a read here: aothenmagazine.com/#ekklesiainterview

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Kaitlin Smith @kaitlinwrites.bsky.social · Oct 4

I had the pleasure of interviewing Imogen Briscoe of Ekklesia Magazine about her work Ovid and Ekklesia's mission of making Classics accessible for all. You can read it now!

Aôthen Magazine

A literary magazine devoted to the world of classics.

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Working Classicists @workingclassicists.bsky.social · Oct 3

✨NEW ARTICLE!✨

Our book reviewer, Carlotta Vincenzi has lost themselves in @lejenksbrown.bsky.social’s awesome new book, You Are Odysseus.

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Book Review: You Are Odysseus — Working Classicists

A book for nayone who ever thought Odysseus could have made better choices. A glowing review of L. Jenkinson-Brown’s, “You Are Odysseus”, from Carlotta Vincenzi.

www.workingclassicists.com

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Kaitlin Smith @kaitlinwrites.bsky.social · Oct 3

My students & I visited the on-campus art museum today as part of our writing in the social sciences unit. Featured: Henri Fantin-Latour and Claude Monet.

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Kaitlin Smith @kaitlinwrites.bsky.social · Oct 3

Exciting! I live near Raleigh. Hope to be there!

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Debby Sneed @debscavator.bsky.social · Oct 3

This weekend I'm headed to Raleigh, NC to give a talk about disability, misfit relationships, and mobility aids at the North Carolina Museum of Art. The talk is free and open to the public, on Sunday, October 5 at 2pm. Register here: ncartmuseum.org/events/frien...

Friends of Greek Art Lecture—Disability in Ancient Greece: A Case Study in Mobility

Disability can be a feature of the body, but as Disability Studies scholar Rosemarie Garland-Thomson has shown, it is also a material arrangement, one that can result in a “misfit” relationship…

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Aôthen Magazine @aothenmagazine.bsky.social · Oct 1

"Diana and Endymion" by Johann Michael Rottmayr, c. 1695.

In Roman mythology, Diana is the Goddess of the hunt, wildlife, and childbirth. She is included in Ovid's Metamorphoses.

Source: The Art Institute of Chicago.

#mythology #classicalstudies

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Greek Myth Comix @greekmythcomix.bsky.social · Sep 30

A reminder that #ClassicsTober starts tomorrow on @classicstober.bsky.social and the overall theme is KATABASIS.

ClassicsTober25: Katabasis

1. Hypnos
2. Thanatos
3. Graeae
4. Shroud
5. Hermes Psychopompos
6. Moirai
7. φαρμακίς (pharmakis) - witch, sorceress
8. Erebos
9. Lampades
10. Hekate
11. Torch
12. Styx
13. Empousa
14. Cocytus
15. Τέρατα (Térata) - monsters
16. Typhon
17. Echidna
18. Kharon
19. Shade
20. Acheron
21. Kerberos
22. Judge
23. Lamia
24. Phlegethon
25. Tartarus
26. Punishment
27. Erinyes
28. Phobos & Deimos
29. Mysteries
30. Lethe
31. Elysian Fields

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Kaitlin Smith @kaitlinwrites.bsky.social · Oct 1

Excited to be part of this and to give back! 🤎

FGLIF - First-Generation Low Income Federation @fglif.bsky.social · Oct 1

Full event details and panelist bios are up on our website!

fglif.org/2025/09/30/d...

Learn more about Christine Davidson (Trent), Johanna Kaiser (UPenn & Howard), and Kaitlin Smith (UNC–Chapel Hill), and what they’ll be sharing.

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Demystifying Academic Conferences (October 23rd, 2025)

Academic conferences can feel mysterious, overwhelming, or even intimidating, especially if you’re navigating them for the first time. What counts as a panel? How do you decide whether to give a pa…

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FGLIF - First-Generation Low Income Federation @fglif.bsky.social · Oct 1

First time heading to a conference?

Feeling overwhelmed by panels and packed schedules?

Curious about how to network, find support, and make the most of it?

Join FGLIF on Oct 23 at 3:30 PM ET for a supportive panel that takes the mystery (and stress) out of academic conferences!

#AncientBlueSky

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Kaitlin Smith @kaitlinwrites.bsky.social · Oct 1

A 1491 publication of Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy. Housed in the Wilson Library special collections at UNC. What a marvel to be able to handle such history.

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Kaitlin Smith @kaitlinwrites.bsky.social · Sep 30

Agree!! I always consider them "in dialogue" with each other.

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Aôthen Magazine @aothenmagazine.bsky.social · Sep 27

"[He] had in the midst of his song still other desires in mind.” — Hymn 4: To Hermes, trans. Michael Crudden.

#ancientgreece #mythology #poetry #amreading

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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · Sep 30

The 22 new books out today include titles by Lily King, Richard Osman, Ada Limón, and more!

Lily King, Richard Osman, Ada Limón, and more: 22 new books out today!

With the world as we know it seemingly caving in around us, never has there been a better time to orient ourselves around what truly matters. Our loved ones. Our activism. Our small kindnesses to e…

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