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early modernist, mostly
https://laurakolb.com/
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Cat Manning
about 1 month ago
A story Stoppard told several times, in several places:
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Reina Hardy
2 months ago
Gorgeous looking student production of "Glassheart" at USC!
www.instagram.com/modernminori...
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Anna E. Clark
3 months ago
I wrote about the divide between high school and college English, and what we might do to bridge it, for
@publicbooks.bsky.social
âpart of an excellent roundtable on higher ed under Trump organized by
@dennismhogan.bsky.social
www.publicbooks.org/toward-the-h...
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Toward the Higher- and Secondary-Ed Alliance! - Public Books
The influence of K-12 policy and pedagogy on higher ed can perhaps be seen best in the trickle-up effect of the standards of the Common Core.
https://www.publicbooks.org/toward-the-higher-and-secondary-ed-alliance/
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Erin Grievances
3 months ago
If you are a supporter and reader of
@contingent-mag.bsky.social
one of the biggest things you can do to help us at the moment is get this CFP to the NTT folks in your life. The fracturing of social media has made it very difficult to get the word out esp. to adjuncts and VAPs.
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CFP: A Time of Monsters
The monster has been here all along. It is a historical constant that manifests in wildly different ways across time, place, and culture. Whatever form it takes, the monster claws at categories; it un...
https://contingentmagazine.org/cfp-a-time-of-monsters/
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Brodie Waddell
3 months ago
Who did what in early modern England? New
#OpenAccess
book, 'The Experience of Work in Early Modern England' by
@jwhittle.bsky.social
,
@markhailwood.bsky.social
,
@hkrobb.bsky.social
&
@aucointaylor.bsky.social
, based on thousands of
#EarlyModern
court depositions đïž Read it:
doi.org/10.1017/9781...
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I have been browsing AL Daily ever since I discovered the joyâthe necessityâof wasting time on the internet at my sad, gray, post-college office job. And now look! 2003 me would be proud
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Cristina LeĂłn Alfar, PhD đđđđ»đđ»đââŹ
3 months ago
The English Department at Hunter College, CUNY is very happy to announce a Tenure Track position in
#Medieval
British Literature at the Assistant Professor level. Applications from scholars in interdisciplinary and/or global approaches are especially encouraged to apply.
cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/...
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Jobs | City University of New York
https://cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/assistant-professor-medieval-british-literature-english-department-school-of-arts-sciences/5119F569CE44468081B2430E965EBB3C/job/
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein đ
3 months ago
YES! THIS on GenAI! Please read this absolutely splendid piece of writing that had me cheering, a little bit weepy, and writing in the margins: "An extraordinary amount of money is spent by the AI industry to ensure that acquiescence is the only plausible response. But marketing is not destiny."
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Large Language Muddle | The Editors
The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the-intellectual-situation/large-language-muddle/
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Reina Hardy
3 months ago
How old is the Phantom of the Opera supposed to be? Get into the weeds with me and Lord Andy on Phantom age gap discourse:
open.substack.com/pub/reinahar...
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Phantom Age Gap Discourse
What lies between an ingenue and an Opera Ghost?
https://open.substack.com/pub/reinahardy/p/phantom-age-gap-discourse?r=3bfg5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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Reina Hardy
4 months ago
CONLADIES OF HISTORY UNITE! Laura Kolb writes @publicdomainrev about a 17th Century "German Princess" who could give Anna Delvey a run for someone else's money.
publicdomainreview.org/essay/mary-c...
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âYou Think Me a Bold Cheatâ: Mary Carleton, Counterfeit Princess
Accused of posing as foreign royalty to lure her young suitor into a bigamous marriage, Mary Carleton was the subject of dozens of pamphlets and broadsides published in the mid-17th century,âŠ
https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/mary-carleton-counterfeit-princess/
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Book Post
4 months ago
Subscribe to Book Post now, and you'll get 3 months of the paid version for free! No credit card or trial. It's totally automatic and our little way to celebrate near victory (10,000 subscribers)!
books.substack.com
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âI know ⊠But even so.â
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It is an absolute dream to have an essay in the Public Domain Review:
publicdomainreview.org/essay/mary-c...
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âYou Think Me a Bold Cheatâ: Mary Carleton, Counterfeit Princess
Accused of posing as foreign royalty to lure her young suitor into a bigamous marriage, Mary Carleton was the subject of dozens of pamphlets and broadsides published in the mid-17th century, including...
https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/mary-carleton-counterfeit-princess/
4 months ago
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It is an absolute dream to have an essay in the Public Domain Review:
publicdomainreview.org/essay/mary-c...
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âYou Think Me a Bold Cheatâ: Mary Carleton, Counterfeit Princess
Accused of posing as foreign royalty to lure her young suitor into a bigamous marriage, Mary Carleton was the subject of dozens of pamphlets and broadsides published in the mid-17th century, including...
https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/mary-carleton-counterfeit-princess/
4 months ago
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The Public Domain Review
4 months ago
NEW ESSAY â Laura Kolb on Mary Carleton, the 17th-century woman accused of posing as foreign royalty to lure a young suitor into a bigamous marriage, a strange precursor to our modern-day fascination with conwomen and counterfeits â
publicdomainreview.org/essay/mary-c...
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The Public Domain Review
4 months ago
Thai cat treatises â called âTamra Maewâ â pair illustrations of auspicious felines with poetic notes: one has âeyes like dewdrops on a lotus,â anotherâs are âlit like fireflies, applied liquid goldâ. Pages of a fine 19th-century example here:
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/tamra-maew/
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Reina Hardy
4 months ago
My first newsletter is live! It's about writing a book, and watching the silent film Hamlet where Hamlet is secretly a girl. Kindly click and subscribe so I can get my first ten subs and satisfy the hungry machine's demands.
reinahardy.substack.com/p/the-author...
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The Authorâs Apology for Her Substack
or Notes on girl-Hamlet
https://reinahardy.substack.com/p/the-authors-apology-for-her-substack
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michael röbbins
4 months ago
I wrote about Mujica Lainezâs grotesque, glorious masterpiece Bomarzo, which deserves to be as well known in English as One Hundred Years of Solitude, for
@bookpostusa.bsky.social
. Newly reissued by
@nyrb-imprints.bsky.social
books.substack.com/p/review-mic...
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Review: Michael Robbins on âBomarzoâ
A literary crocodile, shaped like itself, of its own color.
https://books.substack.com/p/review-michael-robbins-on-bomarzo?utm_source=post-banner&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=posts-open-in-app&triedRedirect=true
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Daisy Rockwell
4 months ago
My op-ed in the
@chicagomaroon.bsky.social
on the University of Chicagoâs appalling plans to gut the humanities and possibly eliminate the South Asian studies department
chicagomaroon.com/48353/viewpo...
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Lost in Extraterrestrial Translation
The University celebrates the success of area studies alumni, all the while erasing the programs that made those careers possible.
https://chicagomaroon.com/48353/viewpoints/op-ed/lost-in-extraterrestrial-translation/
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Miriam Posner
4 months ago
Getting people in my comments saying, oh you do have to learn how to work with a chatbot effectively. Whatever brain genius skills you believe youâve mastered, I guarantee you that students arenât learning them by clicking âsummarizeâ on a PDF +
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Anthony Moser
4 months ago
I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.
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I Am An AI Hater
I am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater.
https://anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/haterdom/2025/08/26/i-am-an-ai-hater.html
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Steph Brown
4 months ago
Beautiful: "I am a hater, and I will not be polite. The machine is disgusting and we should break it. The people who build it are vapid shit-eating cannibals glorifying ignorance. I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself." (from
@anthonymoser.com
)
anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...
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I Am An AI Hater
I am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater.
https://anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/haterdom/2025/08/26/i-am-an-ai-hater.html
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Natasha Simonova
4 months ago
Panic panic panic panic!!!
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Did not expect to be called out by and then tear up at an endnote about the Iliadâs list of ships
4 months ago
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Reina Hardy
4 months ago
I really want to watch the Jamie Lloyd Cyrano. Is it gettable, anywhere? I would pay like 20 bucks to stream it if anyone would let me.
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michael röbbins
5 months ago
I have an essay in this monthâs
@harpers.bsky.social
on freaking out during the pandemic & hiring a dominatrix & how this relates to our historical moment of deranged vibes probably TMI
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The Domme Songs, by Michael Robbins
Kink in dark times
https://harpers.org/archive/2025/09/domme-songs-michael-robbins-kink-in-dark-times-essay/
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my brilliant cousin (this is very good)
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6 months ago
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I reviewed the Morgan's wonderful, complicated exhibit on Belle da Costa Greene for the TLS. There's just over a week left to see it, which I urge you to do if you can. (I wrote this in December! Publication schedules are weird!)
www.the-tls.co.uk/arts/visual-...
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âThe Drop Sinisterâ | TLS
Belle da Costa Greene was J. P. Morganâs personal librarian. She held that position from 1905 until the financierâs death in 1913, after which she worked first as his sonâs private librarian, then as ...
https://www.the-tls.co.uk/arts/visual-arts/belle-da-costa-greene-arts-review-laura-kolb
9 months ago
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LRB Bookshop
9 months ago
absolutely fascinating historical artefact - the first written source we have to mention shakespeare's butt
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I reviewed the Morgan's wonderful, complicated exhibit on Belle da Costa Greene for the TLS. There's just over a week left to see it, which I urge you to do if you can. (I wrote this in December! Publication schedules are weird!)
www.the-tls.co.uk/arts/visual-...
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âThe Drop Sinisterâ | TLS
Belle da Costa Greene was J. P. Morganâs personal librarian. She held that position from 1905 until the financierâs death in 1913, after which she worked first as his sonâs private librarian, then as ...
https://www.the-tls.co.uk/arts/visual-arts/belle-da-costa-greene-arts-review-laura-kolb
9 months ago
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English Literary Renaissance
10 months ago
ELR is putting our best face forward for the big
@saaupdates.bsky.social
+ RSA extravaganza next week. Here is a new poster with the titles of our special issues in 2024, 2025 (coming this fall), and 2026.
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I am proud of having written this but even prouder of my big orange boy
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11 months ago
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Book Post
11 months ago
âWickedâ and deceitful women have recurred in literature for centuries, from Medea and Clytemnestra to Gone Girlâs Amy Dunne. In our newest post by Lara Kolb (
@laurakolb.bsky.social
), she asks, âAre all womenâs lies actually that: wicked?â Read here:
books.substack.com/p/diary-laur...
#Literature
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Diary: Laura Kolb, From the Literary Annals of Womenâs Deceit
In literature and life, women lie
https://books.substack.com/p/diary-laura-kolb-from-the-literary
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I wrote a thing for
@bookpostusa.bsky.social
. It is about how Medea and Becky Sharp and Amy Dunne and a bunch of other fictional ladies-who-lie are all telling us something real:
books.substack.com/p/diary-laur...
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Diary: Laura Kolb, From the Literary Annals of Womenâs Deceit
In literature and life, women lie
https://books.substack.com/p/diary-laura-kolb-from-the-literary?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=22&post_id=155876038&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=1nv3lr&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
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I wrote a thing. It contains a misreading of The Shining wrapped in some details about my own ridiculous life. But it is really about friendship and making stuff.
electricliterature.com/the-shining-...
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"The Shiningâ Helped Me Acknowledge the Violence in My Marriage - Electric Literature
The link between creative ambition and destruction showed me that my experiences fit a pattern
https://electricliterature.com/the-shining-helped-me-acknowledge-the-violence-in-my-marriage/
over 1 year ago
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Matthew Harrison
over 1 year ago
Thinking with Laura Kolb on creativity and domestic violence today:
electricliterature.com/the-shining-...
(
@ztul.bsky.social
no idea if you still have a Stephen King reading list, but this can go on the pile.)
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"The Shiningâ Helped Me Acknowledge the Violence in My Marriage - Electric Literature
The link between creative ambition and destruction showed me that my experiences fit a pattern
https://electricliterature.com/the-shining-helped-me-acknowledge-the-violence-in-my-marriage/
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Reina Hardy
almost 2 years ago
I did not think I'd see this day (January 8th). We sold my book!
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