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Dr. Mareike Spychala
@spychalam.bsky.social
"I'm a Doctor of Philosopy, Jim, not medicine, dammit."
Nerd. Feminist. I write about women at war, 19th-century Gothic poetry, and sometimes SFF (especially #StarTrek).
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Feeling very intelectually inspired by the conversations at the "Military as Work" workshop at the University of Zurich.
And looking forward to the panel tonight.
November 17, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Ich freue mich sehr auf diese Veranstaltung der GBWiss der Fakultät GuK am 24.11. ab 18:30 Uhr im Lichtspielkino.

www.uni-bamberg.de/guk/personen...
November 12, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Popping in to a Grad Student Conference organized by Sofie Dippold; Susen Halank, M.A.; Tabea Lamberti, M.A.; Dr. Florian Lützelberger

www.uni-bamberg.de/romlit1/stud...
September 30, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Wenn die Postbotin schöne Dinge bringt. 🤩
September 3, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Finally getting around to N. K. Jemisin's "The City We Make" and I love it.

If you're into #sff and you're not reading her books, what are you even doing?
August 23, 2025 at 9:57 AM
If anyone is interested in my thoughts on Sarah Piatt's #GothicPoetry, my essay “Haunting Pictures: Negotiating Self-Ownership, Gender, and Class in Sarah Piatt’s Poetry" is out now in the collection "America and Ownership: Territory, Bondage, Jubilee"!
#AmLit

www.winter-verlag.de/de/detail/97...
July 1, 2025 at 12:00 PM
3rd Day of #dgfa2025!
Looking forward to @kinohi.bsky.social's keynote on "The Making and Remaking of Beloved".
June 14, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Next up: a panel on "Archiving the Liberal Tradition in the United States? Contestation, Erosion, and Preservation in an Era of Political Poliarization".
#dgfa2025
June 13, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Today is a good day to listen to @katrinhorn.bsky.social's keynote lecture on "Eavesdropping on the (Queer) Past: On Epistolary Intimacy and Connectivity." 🌈🤩💪🏻
#dgfa2025
June 13, 2025 at 7:17 AM
#dgfa2025 is a go!
Looking forward to catching up with #AmericanStudies friends and listening to keynotes and panel talks.
June 12, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Morgen!
Podcast-Live-Event zum Thema Gender Gap.

Anmeldung für eine hybride Teilnahme hier: www.uni-bamberg.de/genial/podca...
May 22, 2025 at 10:30 AM
"Die Krisennarrative . . . haben nicht das Ziel, Probleme deswegen zu adressieren, weil man sie lösen will. Im Gegenteil zahlt es auf die Ziele reaktionärer Kräfte ein, wenn Probleme *nicht* gelöst werden, denn nur dann funktionieren die Erzählungen auch weiterhin."
May 6, 2025 at 4:54 PM
May 1, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Fictional characters' deaths you think were unnecessary.
April 30, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Demokratie schützen = Forderungen von Demokratiefeinden hinterherlaufen

Europäische Werte = individuelles Asylrecht abschaffen, Genfer Füchtlingskonvention ändern

Die Rhetorik wird wirklich immer dreister.
April 1, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Ich freue mich sehr, im Juli bei dieser Ringvorlesung an der TU Braunschweig dabei zu sein und einen Vortrag über "Worldbuilding und Gender in #StarTrek" zu halten!
March 25, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Describe yourself in three aliens Star Trek edition
March 14, 2025 at 9:20 AM
"I am the mountain, I am the sea
You can't take that away from me."
March 12, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Hab mir grad die Bio des Autors durchgelesen und möchte schreien....
March 10, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Reminds me of this book!
March 4, 2025 at 5:00 PM
It's a truth universally acknowledged that a young(-ish) woman with independent means muss be in want of a collection of Starfleet badges.
February 25, 2025 at 3:35 PM
A wile ago, @theo2025.bsky.social asked who my favorite #CritRole characters are.
Today, he gave me these dice sets and I'm *delighted*
February 20, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Me: "Ah, yes. Watching 'The Inner Light' is an excellent break from...everything.

Also me: "Oh. Oh, right. Environmental crisis was part of the plot, too..."
February 16, 2025 at 9:51 PM
See you at 15:00, Bamberg!
#Klimagerechtigkeit
#Brandmauer
February 14, 2025 at 10:39 AM
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a humanities scholar has at least three stacks of books:
- "books I will be reading for my research once I've finished this last e-mail"
- "please help me understand/explain current events"
- "I'm definitely gonna read these for fun. Some day."
February 11, 2025 at 2:12 PM