Natalie Roxburgh, The Politics of Disinterestedness in Nineteenth-Century Literature: Browning, Eliot, Wilde (Bloomsbury, 2025) Natalie Roxburgh’s recently published study, The Politics of Disinterestedness in Nineteenth-Century Literature: Browning, Eliot, Wilde (Bloomsbury, 2025), is one of the…

“AI models not only point some users to false sources but also cause problems for researchers and librarians, who end up wasting their time looking for requested nonexistent records…”

For anyone who is like “the creature is also named Frankenstein”; Mary Shelley went to see a play version of Frankenstein and was tickled that they listed the creature as “———“ in the dramatis personae: “this nameless mode of naming the unnameable is rather good” www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/3...

Our workshop this Friday afternoon, New Form(at)s for the Humanities, still has a couple of places left. If you are in Hamburg and are interested in new ways of thinking about humanities work, contact me. www.warburg-haus.de/events/?id=6...

Are you perhaps working on questions of form and formalism? Consider joining us next summer in Konstanz.

Are you perhaps working on questions of form and formalism? Consider joining us next summer in Konstanz.

things were better when the computer lived in its own specific room and you only went in there sometimes

A pile of books.

It's publication day! My second book on literature, political economy, and collective value is now available.

It's publication day! My second book on literature, political economy, and collective value is now available.

I wanted to send this one around again in case someone missed it the first time. We are looking forward to a fantastic event.

All of you BlueSky newbies have really cheered me up. I’d been hoping for your arrival for a very long time.

Hello, new followers! I'm bad at social media, but I'm excited to make so many new connections. I'm an educator and scholar based at Uni Hamburg. I focus on 18C and 19C British literature (but I'm really a 'generalist'). I'm into economic literary criticism and new formalism. I also teach EFL.

I’m nervous about the US election. Lauryn Hill in Hamburg cheered me up last night.

North Sea today.

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #685,868!

Manuscript sent off. Thank goodness I can now stop using MS Word...

On my Mastodon feed today. Might buy this t-shirt after doing one of my usual paranoid backups of my files onto my two external disks.

Will miss the 13th floor view of Hamburg from the Philturm I had on Monday mornings this semester.