Kriti
@soykriti.bsky.social
PhD Candidate - Romanticism @UArizona. Periodicals and Aesthetics. Hunt. Keats.
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Candidate should have expertise in anglophone literature and be able to teach classes ranging from the medieval period to postmodernism. Some fields of especial interest are econometrics, quantum physics, anesthesiology, kinesthesiology, the early works of John Ruskin, and
Candidate should have expertise in anglophone literature and be able to teach classes ranging from the medieval period to postmodernism. Some fields of especial interest are econometrics, quantum physics, anesthesiology, kinesthesiology, the early works of John Ruskin, and
November 4, 2025 at 12:15 AM
New Job Posts Like:
Candidate should have expertise in anglophone literature and be able to teach classes ranging from the medieval period to postmodernism. Some fields of especial interest are econometrics, quantum physics, anesthesiology, kinesthesiology, the early works of John Ruskin, and
Candidate should have expertise in anglophone literature and be able to teach classes ranging from the medieval period to postmodernism. Some fields of especial interest are econometrics, quantum physics, anesthesiology, kinesthesiology, the early works of John Ruskin, and
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Reminder: CfP closes for BARS 2026 'Romantic Retrospection' at the University of Birmingham, UK, and online on 30 November.
Details below:
www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/arts-...
Details below:
www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/arts-...
October 31, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Reminder: CfP closes for BARS 2026 'Romantic Retrospection' at the University of Birmingham, UK, and online on 30 November.
Details below:
www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/arts-...
Details below:
www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/arts-...
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Agree 1000% and would add: Criticism is also not a job-performance review. It's not about how hard you worked or how gifted you are or how well you did given the circumstances. It's about the work as it is. A lot of bad work has been done by talented people trying their best (including critics)!
My response to creators who don't like critics is always the same: You're not supposed to. Which doesn't mean you are specifically supposed to not like them, but you're not specifically supposed to like them, and whether you like them is beside the point. Criticism is not advice or correction.
April 21, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Agree 1000% and would add: Criticism is also not a job-performance review. It's not about how hard you worked or how gifted you are or how well you did given the circumstances. It's about the work as it is. A lot of bad work has been done by talented people trying their best (including critics)!
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A classic example of how Google's AI is garbage, it doesn't understand that the Underground Railroad wasn't a literal railroad
March 1, 2025 at 6:16 PM
A classic example of how Google's AI is garbage, it doesn't understand that the Underground Railroad wasn't a literal railroad
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It's a sign of the times that callousness is now dressed up as intellectualism. That empathy is framed as being as morally problematic as prejudice. That bigotry and hatred is just honesty. That solidarity is treason.
February 1, 2025 at 12:04 AM
It's a sign of the times that callousness is now dressed up as intellectualism. That empathy is framed as being as morally problematic as prejudice. That bigotry and hatred is just honesty. That solidarity is treason.
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(1/8) Welcome to the official Bluesky account for Stolen Relations (indigenousslavery.org)! We are a digital humanities project housed at Brown University that centers on and works collaboratively with tribal communities in our local region.
Stolen Relations: Recovering Stories of Indigenous Enslavement in the Americas
A tribal collaborative project that seeks to understand settler colonialism and its legacies through the lens of Indigenous enslavement and unfreedom.
indigenousslavery.org
January 30, 2025 at 8:09 PM
(1/8) Welcome to the official Bluesky account for Stolen Relations (indigenousslavery.org)! We are a digital humanities project housed at Brown University that centers on and works collaboratively with tribal communities in our local region.
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when the abolitionist movement was gaining steam in Britain in the late 1780s, one of the pro-slavery lobby’s very first responses was trying to change the word “slave” to “assistant planters”.
January 16, 2025 at 5:02 AM
when the abolitionist movement was gaining steam in Britain in the late 1780s, one of the pro-slavery lobby’s very first responses was trying to change the word “slave” to “assistant planters”.
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11-year-old chimney sweep George Brewster was forced up a flue measuring just 12x7.5 inches.
His death, after becoming jammed inside, finally galavanised parliament to act.
Never forget what cruelties would be inflicted by greed were it not for “red tape”.
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
His death, after becoming jammed inside, finally galavanised parliament to act.
Never forget what cruelties would be inflicted by greed were it not for “red tape”.
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
Chimney sweep whose death changed child labour laws honoured with blue plaque
George Brewster, youngest to get plaque, died aged 11 in 1875 after getting stuck in flue, leading to law banning ‘climbing boys’
www.theguardian.com
January 15, 2025 at 12:30 PM
11-year-old chimney sweep George Brewster was forced up a flue measuring just 12x7.5 inches.
His death, after becoming jammed inside, finally galavanised parliament to act.
Never forget what cruelties would be inflicted by greed were it not for “red tape”.
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
His death, after becoming jammed inside, finally galavanised parliament to act.
Never forget what cruelties would be inflicted by greed were it not for “red tape”.
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
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Good to see Michael John Goodman's The Charles Dickens Illustrated Gallery getting some festive attention. Completely open-access & reusable & remixable & with a range of Dickens's illustrators beyond the familiar original ones including Fred Barnard, Charles Green & Harry Furniss 👇.
Explore an Online Archive of 2,100+ Rare Illustrations from Charles Dickens’ Novels
As Christmastime approaches, few novelists come to mind as readily as Charles Dickens. This owes mainly, of course, to A Christmas Carol, and even more so to its many adaptations, most of which draw i...
www.openculture.com
December 14, 2024 at 3:12 PM
Good to see Michael John Goodman's The Charles Dickens Illustrated Gallery getting some festive attention. Completely open-access & reusable & remixable & with a range of Dickens's illustrators beyond the familiar original ones including Fred Barnard, Charles Green & Harry Furniss 👇.
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A tour-de-force of scholarship and detective work: Fara Dabhoiwala reveals that a portrait of an 18th-century Black scientist, long dismissed as a caricature, is in fact a record of the man's mastery of Newtonian physics—and the only painting made in 1759 of the return of Halley's comet.
Fara Dabhoiwala · A Man of Parts and Learning: Francis Williams Gets His Due
The only certainty about the picture is that it shows Francis Williams. No one has ever been able to discover who...
www.lrb.co.uk
November 26, 2024 at 2:02 AM
A tour-de-force of scholarship and detective work: Fara Dabhoiwala reveals that a portrait of an 18th-century Black scientist, long dismissed as a caricature, is in fact a record of the man's mastery of Newtonian physics—and the only painting made in 1759 of the return of Halley's comet.
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#LandBack is always a good thing.
Brown University transfers 225 acres of land to Pokanoket tribe in Rhode Island
The land was the ancestral home site of a historic leader of the Pokanoket Tribe who died during King Philip’s War in 1676.
www.boston.com
November 29, 2024 at 4:51 PM
#LandBack is always a good thing.
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Thanksgiving - a holiday complicated by a desire to keep it all cozy and without the realities of a regularly violent history. I’m as keen on cozy as anyone, but the history, as always, really matters. Sharing for the 5th year Phil Deloria’s excellent piece. www.newyorker.com/magazine/201...
The Invention of Thanksgiving
Massacres, myths, and the making of the great November holiday.
www.newyorker.com
November 28, 2024 at 8:48 PM
Thanksgiving - a holiday complicated by a desire to keep it all cozy and without the realities of a regularly violent history. I’m as keen on cozy as anyone, but the history, as always, really matters. Sharing for the 5th year Phil Deloria’s excellent piece. www.newyorker.com/magazine/201...
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This is full, so I have started a second starter pack for academics and organizations focused on the
#19th century: see it here go.bsky.app/3W3Ykpe
#19th century: see it here go.bsky.app/3W3Ykpe
November 8, 2024 at 10:38 PM
This is full, so I have started a second starter pack for academics and organizations focused on the
#19th century: see it here go.bsky.app/3W3Ykpe
#19th century: see it here go.bsky.app/3W3Ykpe
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I've started a starter pack for academics and organizations focused on the #19th century! I'm sure I have missed many, many people (I was trying to get this started quickly) — comment below if you want to be added.
go.bsky.app/6ZkJ592
go.bsky.app/6ZkJ592
November 8, 2024 at 2:11 PM
I've started a starter pack for academics and organizations focused on the #19th century! I'm sure I have missed many, many people (I was trying to get this started quickly) — comment below if you want to be added.
go.bsky.app/6ZkJ592
go.bsky.app/6ZkJ592
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Illustrating a natural disaster on an #earlymodern #broadside:
After the #landslide of 1618 in #Piuro (then a city within the Three Leagues, Raetia) that wiped out the city and killed thousands, a Swiss printer came up with this idea: using a liftable flap that offers a before and after scenario.
After the #landslide of 1618 in #Piuro (then a city within the Three Leagues, Raetia) that wiped out the city and killed thousands, a Swiss printer came up with this idea: using a liftable flap that offers a before and after scenario.
November 11, 2024 at 7:12 AM
Illustrating a natural disaster on an #earlymodern #broadside:
After the #landslide of 1618 in #Piuro (then a city within the Three Leagues, Raetia) that wiped out the city and killed thousands, a Swiss printer came up with this idea: using a liftable flap that offers a before and after scenario.
After the #landslide of 1618 in #Piuro (then a city within the Three Leagues, Raetia) that wiped out the city and killed thousands, a Swiss printer came up with this idea: using a liftable flap that offers a before and after scenario.
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Pub. day for this long-gestating collection! Reframing Indigenous Biography #indigenoushistory (we really need a starter pack, who's in?) My ch: 'Reframing the Tahitian archipelago: insights from the whole lives of Tupaia, Purea, and Hitihiti', contact for PDF... www.routledge.com/Reframing-In....
November 11, 2024 at 2:46 AM
Pub. day for this long-gestating collection! Reframing Indigenous Biography #indigenoushistory (we really need a starter pack, who's in?) My ch: 'Reframing the Tahitian archipelago: insights from the whole lives of Tupaia, Purea, and Hitihiti', contact for PDF... www.routledge.com/Reframing-In....
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Still wild to me how the conservative vision of masculinity isn't just toxic, it's *only* the toxic parts. Zero sense of duty, responsibility, stoicism, manning up, taking things on the chin, protecting the weak, etc, etc.
Just endless whining, entitlement, and abuse of others.
Just endless whining, entitlement, and abuse of others.
November 9, 2024 at 3:09 PM
Still wild to me how the conservative vision of masculinity isn't just toxic, it's *only* the toxic parts. Zero sense of duty, responsibility, stoicism, manning up, taking things on the chin, protecting the weak, etc, etc.
Just endless whining, entitlement, and abuse of others.
Just endless whining, entitlement, and abuse of others.
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For the first time today, I felt such unnerving sadness amongst my students.
We discussed Unitarianism and Chartism, and it felt so distant.
At the end of the class, a few of them remarked “at least Tucson and Phoenix’s blue”.
Guess we’ll have to cope up with that.
We discussed Unitarianism and Chartism, and it felt so distant.
At the end of the class, a few of them remarked “at least Tucson and Phoenix’s blue”.
Guess we’ll have to cope up with that.
November 6, 2024 at 6:18 PM
For the first time today, I felt such unnerving sadness amongst my students.
We discussed Unitarianism and Chartism, and it felt so distant.
At the end of the class, a few of them remarked “at least Tucson and Phoenix’s blue”.
Guess we’ll have to cope up with that.
We discussed Unitarianism and Chartism, and it felt so distant.
At the end of the class, a few of them remarked “at least Tucson and Phoenix’s blue”.
Guess we’ll have to cope up with that.
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YOU: How did your date go
ME: Eh, I think it's going to stay Platonic
YOU: Why?
ME: Well I said the chicken sounded good, and she said 'when you say "good", do you mean "good" as we say a child is good or a horse is good, or that it contains goodness, or that it promotes goodness through its acti
ME: Eh, I think it's going to stay Platonic
YOU: Why?
ME: Well I said the chicken sounded good, and she said 'when you say "good", do you mean "good" as we say a child is good or a horse is good, or that it contains goodness, or that it promotes goodness through its acti
November 3, 2024 at 8:06 PM
YOU: How did your date go
ME: Eh, I think it's going to stay Platonic
YOU: Why?
ME: Well I said the chicken sounded good, and she said 'when you say "good", do you mean "good" as we say a child is good or a horse is good, or that it contains goodness, or that it promotes goodness through its acti
ME: Eh, I think it's going to stay Platonic
YOU: Why?
ME: Well I said the chicken sounded good, and she said 'when you say "good", do you mean "good" as we say a child is good or a horse is good, or that it contains goodness, or that it promotes goodness through its acti
Do I design my class syllabus around Keats and Halloween? Aye!
October 30, 2024 at 11:03 PM
Do I design my class syllabus around Keats and Halloween? Aye!
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Adding that the entire viewpoint diversity concept rests on the anti-intellectual presumption that political orientations are preexisting “beliefs” separate from analytic processes & evaluation, & do not instead emerge from the lifelong study of, e.g. history, or other human beings’ experiences
Most US universities:
-are dominated by STEM departments (which aren’t lefty)
-are run by neoliberals if not neocons
-have shriveled their humanities programs to little adjunctified raisins
-send cops to bust up leftist protests
Viewpoint diversity!
www.nytimes.com/2024/09/14/a...
-are dominated by STEM departments (which aren’t lefty)
-are run by neoliberals if not neocons
-have shriveled their humanities programs to little adjunctified raisins
-send cops to bust up leftist protests
Viewpoint diversity!
www.nytimes.com/2024/09/14/a...
Should a ‘Diverse’ Campus Mean More Conservatives?
Republicans are demanding colleges embrace “viewpoint diversity.” They aren’t the only ones who are concerned.
www.nytimes.com
September 14, 2024 at 3:13 PM
Adding that the entire viewpoint diversity concept rests on the anti-intellectual presumption that political orientations are preexisting “beliefs” separate from analytic processes & evaluation, & do not instead emerge from the lifelong study of, e.g. history, or other human beings’ experiences
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It's always "we're cutting the Romance Languages and Literatures department due to lack of majors" and never "we're hiring 25 full-time professors of creative writing to meet student demand"
August 29, 2024 at 8:27 PM
It's always "we're cutting the Romance Languages and Literatures department due to lack of majors" and never "we're hiring 25 full-time professors of creative writing to meet student demand"
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Reading the Romantic Ridiculous is a weird little book but I’m super proud of it and SUPER grateful to @rjdashwood.bsky.social for all her work on it (especially when I got sucked into a BARS/NASSR conference organising black hole).
Pre-order it for your library 🙏
Pre-order it for your library 🙏
Reading the Romantic Ridiculous
Reading The Romantic Ridiculous aims to take Romantic Studies from the sublime to the ridiculous. Building on recent work that decentres the myth of the solitary genius, this duograph theorises the ri...
www.routledge.com
August 29, 2024 at 7:54 AM
Reading the Romantic Ridiculous is a weird little book but I’m super proud of it and SUPER grateful to @rjdashwood.bsky.social for all her work on it (especially when I got sucked into a BARS/NASSR conference organising black hole).
Pre-order it for your library 🙏
Pre-order it for your library 🙏