I realized today that my article on source study and the plot of romeo and juliet was published online a few days ago! i'm very proud of this one & if you're working on R+J or teaching the play, please check it out

Tomorrow is the first event in the Research Seminar Series I've convened with Oliver Dixon, for Cambridge Film and Screen. Very excited for a busy term ahead, all welcome!

House viewing is so stressful… it’s probably a bad idea to do thesis submission, job applications, and house viewings at the same time 😭

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

Taner Akçam, Marianne Hirsch, and I introduce the Genocide and Holocaust Studies Crisis Network and call for immediate concrete measures to prevent further atrocity crimes and to protect civilians in Gaza.

Buffy is so old there were only 103 named elements, we’re at 118 now. (Yes I pause every show that has a periodic table to see if its period accurate)

I had the pleasure of interviewing Miriam Margolyes earlier this week for @bigissue.com. 🎤 The full interview will be out soon, but due to the latest news on Palestine today, I thought I’d share this clip early. 👇 Miriam Margolyes: “I feel it particularly because I’m Jewish”. 💬

IT HAS A COVER! Pleased to announce that _The Campus Crisis Toolkit: Strategies and Solidarity For the Rest of Us_ is coming from @sunypress.bsky.social in Feb. With 25 chapters from over 40 contributors, the book tackles everything from anti-DEI laws to consultants and cuts to campus violence (1/2)

Look, I get it. Thanks THI for running these numbers. But it’s just so frigging depressing to measure scholarship and learning by $$. We Humanitarians profit the world in other ways too. 😔

France will recognize Palestine as a state, amid snowballing global anger over people starving in Gaza. “The urgent thing today is that the war in Gaza stops and the civilian population is saved.″ France has Europe’s largest Jewish population & largest Muslim population in western Europe.

“We love your argument but we hate your text. Can you do this on a different (group of) text(s)” How do you figure I came up with this argument?

And this is perhaps why Kpop Demon Hunter (and many Disney/Pixar films) is well-received among the queer audience:)

Perhaps a good time to re up the New Fascism Syllabus, an online repository of resources on neofascism, populism, and authoritarianism, including a research repository and relevant secondary literature. newfascismsyllabus.com

Written by our SIG member @maguiregeoff.bsky.social, BODIES OF WATER explores the fluid, queer aesthetics of contemporary Latin American cinema sunypress.edu/Books/B/Bodi...

“Viewpoint diversity”: Promoting white nationalists, banning ideas white nationalists don’t like “Viewpoint discrimination”: Holding white nationalists to basic standards of evidence and logic “Free speech”: If white nationalists speak, others are obligated to listen, treat it as worthy of respect

Let’s be very clear: do not allow Israel and the U.S. to co-opt women’s rights and the feminist Woman, Life, Freedom Revolution to justify their criminal war on Iran. My essay: www.feministgiant.com/p/essay-neta...

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I did it! Now I have a first full draft of the PhD thesis:)

shower thoughts: if students are using #ChatGPT to write, would examiners eventually use #ChatGPT to mark? If and when that happens, will we have a system where #ChatGPT directly talk to each other in complete gibberish? 😅

Another thing you can do for the queer artists and writers and so on whose work you admire this Pride month: go give their books etc solid star ratings on (sigh) sites like Amazon and Goodreads. Because people who hate the existence of that work are always gonna be punitively low-rating them,

Another day another straw man argument made by the reviewer…

This has been a quietly simmering right-wing panic for a few years now, the alleged "epidemic" of children cutting off their parents. There's no evidence for this phenomenon whatsoever, much less the bizarre "SJW therapy-speak" explanation they always reach for.

The last 5k words of thesis to write and then it’s done omg! I can do this!💪

Lol it’s true!

I’m excited to be presenting at this workshop on May 30th. I will talk about Inxeba/The Wound (2017), privatization of nature, and sexual ecologies in queer cinema. Do come along if you’re around at that time!

Rey Chow on coercive mimeticism. This also relates to a point she made previously about the unequal distribution of cultural labour and how, I quote, ‘all humans and all discourses are created equal—but some are more equal than others.’ The Protestant Ethnic is a fantastic read!

We convene a mutual aid network for our comrades in German studies. To find out more about how to request resources, share resources, or help get involved with convening the network, check out our website: www.ddgccollective.org/ddgc-mutual-....

For all horror lovers! This looks so interesting!!🎉🎉

Happy World Penguin Day to all penguins, but especially Nils, who didn’t let living in Edinburgh (or being a penguin) stop him from becoming The Colonel-in-Chief of the Norwegian King’s Guard. He’s also been knighted. His official title is Brigadier Sir Nils Olav III and here he is looking regal af

This is all going to get harder, but they literally cannot legislate you out of existence. When tomorrow arrives, you will still be here, you will still be who you are, and we will all still be here with you.

One thing I wish people understood about authoritarianism is life often looks more or less the same. Troops aren’t marching down the street every day; people go to restaurants, have their office jobs. But everyone knows that stepping out of line, even slightly, can derail your life with no recourse

One week left to submit a proposal for Sexual Ecologies! Academic papers, creative responses, video essays…all welcome! Details here: tinyurl.com/2b4tu8r6. Generously funded by @baftss.bsky.social @crasshlive.bsky.social @mmll-cambridge.bsky.social

It’s a heist movie but just with a bunch of humanities scholars trying to get their grant money back.

Isn’t everything right now just exhaustingly stressful? The dissertation, the job market, politics, etc…anyway spending some time by the sea. I can only take so much stress…

“Marine Le Pen, the French far-right leader, was found guilty of embezzlement by a criminal court in Paris on Monday and immediately barred from running for public office for five years.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/w...

“Happy” anniversary to The List. A year of this webpage mapping, watching managers cut jobs & departments to meet local KPIs while transforming the shape of higher education & research across the country. And government enabling this.

If you were going to teach a course on fascist aesthetics, what would you include? Sontag, Kracauer, and Benjamin would have to be in the assigned readings; Triumph of the Will, Cabinet of Doctor Caligary, and Birth of a Nation in the assigned films. What else?

we really need to stop saying “arrested” by ICE. the word you’re looking for is “kidnapped”.

It is truly sick that universities have preyed on international students for exploitatively exorbitant tuition fees and now they are allowing those same students to be thrown to the wolves with nary a fucking complaint.

I wrote this yesterday before I heard the news about Sussex being fined £585,000 by the higher education regulator OfS led by Arif Ahmed (what a confirmation of bias!) and the repetition of that old cover story, 'Hounded.' Hope it helps. Killjoy solidarity! feministkilljoys.substack.com/p/hounded

Mourning the loss of Linda Williams. It’s hard to think of another scholar whose work helped define such a diverse range of subfields. For me, her 1981 essay “Film Body: An Implantation of Perversions” was a beacon showing how fundamental feminist analysis could be for early cinema. RIP

Just finalised everything:) hope I won’t say anything stupid tomorrow (and hopefully students will laugh at my surgically inserted jokes in the lecture)🤞

9 sunny and warm days in a row, in England, that’s a miracle

Das ist so ein furchtbarer Satz. Es gibt keine ideologiefreie Wissenschaft. Die Art, wie wir die Welt sehen, beeinflusst die Art, wie und wonach geforscht wird.

Writing a lecture is so hard…now I’m worried my slides won’t be pretty enough for a younger generation😬