Summer School in Greifswald zur medizinische Versorgung älterer Menschen insbesondere in ländlichen Regionen 🔽🔽🔽

My fab team @katandthetexts.bsky.social, Lena Gotteswinter and I will host the interdisciplinary conference "Encampment, Confinement, and Community: Camps in U.S. American Media" Dec. 3-5, 2026. Spread the word, apply, and come join us at @tu-dortmund.de! The biggest Christmas tree of Europe awaits.

limesurvey.uni-due.de/index.php/97... Umfrage - für alle an Unis, die es wagen außerhalb von Bayern und BaWü schulpflichtige Kinder zu haben #AcademicParenting

always kinda fun to randomly encounter one's scholarship "in the wild" (=popular blogs) www.them.us/story/what-i...

Joan Scott on why the attack on gender studies by powerful patriarchal men is not a coincidence, but an attempt to silence critique and analysis of their abusive behavior. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

kinda reassuring to know that even one of the best US prose authors was not above enjoying bad puns. I present to you, Pulitzer-prize winning novelist #EdithWharton writing that a letter to Sara Norton "has since been answered mentally though not (ha! ha!) PENtally" 😅

Back to the Roots: mit dem ORF durfte ich über #LadyGaga, Camp, Queerness, und "Bad Romance" sprechen sound.orf.at/podcast/oe1/...

Call for Papers, please circulate! Ethics of queer in/visibility Heidelberg, September 30 - October 2, 2026 queer-in-visibility.de Keynote speakers: J Calder (Linguistics, University of Colorado Boulder) Anna Hájková @ankahajkova.bsky.social (History, University of Warwick)

"A Trump denial is not a fact. That’s the thing. It never was. But for a significant portion of the political press, it functioned as one anyway." great (infuriating) article

Submit to this Edith Wharton society panel at the MLA -- looking for scholars at any level, grad students, independent scholars, WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU!

"Ich verstehe auch, dass Leute wütend sind. Das ist doch aber kein Grund, eine Partei zu wählen, die rechtsradikal ist und menschenfeindliche Politik macht." 👈

Wie umgehen mit AfD-Wählern im Osten? Die Schriftstellerin Juli Zeh hat im taz-Interview Antworten gegeben, die Katrin Göring-Eckardt ärgerten.

As part of #AmSt issue "American Studies across the Decades" I wrote about the surprising timeliness of Schöpp-Schilling's "'Women’s Studies': Ein neuer Schwerpunkt in den Amerikastudien" from 1977: amst.winter-verlag.de/article/AMST...

Gutachten mit Haltung Wie Wissenschaftsministerin Bettina Martin Mecklenburg-Vorpommerns Wissenschaftssystem neu vermessen ließ – und warum der Blick dabei jenseits der nächsten Landtagswahlen geht. Erst im Wiarda-Newsletter, jetzt im Blog: www.jmwiarda.de/index.php/bl...

diskriminierung-umfrage.de Wie es in D'Ignazio's / Klein's #datafeminism so schon heißt: "What Gets Counted Counts"

Eine Oxfam-Studie zeigt: Fast die Hälfte aller Menschen lebt in Armut. Überreiche werden hingegen reicher – und ihr Reichtum wächst immer schneller.

"The sweeping study... found that using AI in education can 'undermine children's foundational development' and that 'the damages it has already caused are daunting.'" They include limiting kids' cognitive, social, and emotional developmen, and increasing inequity. www.npr.org/2026/01/14/n...

Allow me to translate: “it’s okay to kill these people because they’re queers”

Framing Turkish American Literature I am so, very happy to finally share this CfP for a special forum of the Journal of Transnational American Studies. It is a project dear to my heart & I would be grateful if you could help circulate it! Full CfP is here: www.uni-muenster.de/Anglistik/Re...

Gender studies really is the quintessential "useless" major that correctly explains basically everything that's going on in the world right now

Five years ago.

I look forward to travelling to Hamburg on Thursday to talk about "From Letters to Data(base). Transforming Queer Knowledge" www.philosophie.uni-hamburg.de/liberalarts/...

#TimelineCleanse Ich durfte mit @perspective-daily.bsky.social übers Lästern reden perspective-daily.de/article/4046...

*meh* for the wasted potential of "The Abandons" (which, admittedly, I might've mostly watched for the cast)–could've been a show about the diverse dramas of the frontier / the violence of westward expansion. Feels like one mostly about moody/horny teenagers and domineering mothers

new extra-woke identity marker just* dropped: Cis-Atlantic 😱😅 *November 9, 1893

Did not expect to feel personally attacked when I opened the dictionary this morning, but here we are: "... and you will find more schools of thought than you would at a joint conference of Digital Humanities and American Studies." #DH #AmStudies www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/buck...

Stromausfall im Uni-Gebäude ... und ich hab nichts davon, weil der Laptop weiter funktioniert #WorkingInTheDark

eben mal wieder von einer Schülerin für ein schulisches Abschlussprojekt zu #seximus in #medien interviewt worden und kann daraus nur schlussfolgern: (at least some of) the kids are alright 👍#perksofthejob

Neue Ausschreibung an der @unibayreuth.bsky.social : Didaktik der Geschichte, Akademische Ratsstelle

unfortunately, relevant: hinhoeren-und-handeln.podigee.io/8-wie-hochsc...

Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work. Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/

The Against Generative AI bibliography over on my blog is now updated with full dates for each piece, making it easier to find new information (added almost daily): catherinedenial.org/blog/uncateg...

Come work with us! #JobPosting #HigherEd #Anglistik #Amerikanistik part-time, permanent

If you're looking for something to do next Friday: www.heckscher.org/stec_event/s....

"Many people invoke a distinction between illicit uses of A.I. (such as the composition of entire drafts) and innocent auxiliary functions — outlining, for instance. But it is these seemingly benign functions that are the most pernicious for developing minds." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/o...

We were wondering... what Bitch Media pieces are you all eager to see republished? QT with your faves that have been lost into the ether--maybe we can rescue them!

Join this #Harper200 read-a-thon if you can! -- Interested in hosting your own Harper read-a-thon? Learn more at: coloredconventions.org/read-harper-...

www.fg-gender.de/stellenaussc... #genderstudies #jobannouncement

📅 Today! 👇 💡

Probs should rephrase this for my syllabus? 🤔 #AI #highered

JOB AD: 3 3-year postdocs available at the Bonn Center for Slavery and Dependency Studies (BCDSS) @dependencybonn.de: I can highly recommend it as a place to spend (some of) your postdoc phase -- a deeply interdisciplinary environment with wonderful colleagues. shorturl.at/69hMY

Das #GildedAge Projekt meiner Studis hat es (sehr verdient) ins Campus Magazin geschafft #AmericanStudies #HigherEd campus1456.uni-greifswald.de/2025/09/19/k...

OTD in 1840, the English diarist Anne Lister died. In this piece from the archive, Jill Liddington reflects on her own journey with Lister – from the heady days of initial discovery, to the phenomenal global success of Gentleman Jack.

Rarely have I looked forward to the publishing date (of something I wrote) this much: www.psupress.org/books/titles... #EmmaStebbins

" I do want to think about the collective work of creating a university culture that rejects catering to individuals ..." Stephanie Foote on visionaries, confidence men, and the ruin of higher ed. Recommend reading (even if it's a gut punch) muse.jhu.edu/pub/562/arti...

teachers! excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone. take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE against-a-i.com

“Gender studies as a discipline…is defined by a set of debates and problematics.” In this 10-Minute Talk, Judith Butler FBA discusses gender as a field of study and its interdisciplinary contributions to research, social analysis and social movements. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEvH...