I'm on this search committee too-- happy to answer questions etc.

NEW: Tenure-track position in History at UC Berkeley in the GLOBAL HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY. We are casting a wide net here: *all* periods, places, and fields are under consideration. I'm on the search committee, so do let me know if you have questions.

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Announcing The Parapraxis Film Festival Friday, September 19 - Thursday, September 25, 2025 361 Stagg Street, Suite 407, Brooklyn at @lightindustry.bsky.social Organized by Perwana Nazif and Hannah Zeavin For program, speaker list, & ticketing information: lightindustry.org/parapraxis

“The Blockage and the Blockade”: Editors of @parapraxismag.bsky.social on resistance inside and outside the clinic — and on the need not to let psychoanalysis retreat back to the consulting room for individual treatment away from strikes, riots, uprisings www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/the...

Join us this fall! Our 7th seminar with the Psychosocial Foundation, on the topic of Romance, is enrolling now: For more information: www.thepsychosocialfoundation.org/seminars For registration: www.thepsychosocialfoundation.org/store/p/the-...

Also check out @hzeavin.bsky.social 's terrific book The Distance Cure (includes discussions of ELIZA)

This interview by @annehelen.bsky.social with @hzeavin.bsky.social will slay you if you're a modern parent pca.st/podcast/909a... Seems like Mother Media could be the next More Work for Mother i.e. helping a whole generation rethink their childhood when they read it in college/grad school

Issue 06: Resistance starts shipping this week. Order yours now. Feeling restless. Hunger tactics. Laughing in the face of fascism. Diagnosing revolution. Madness in the Maghreb. Essays by Fady Joudah, Ussama Makdisi, Mary Turfah, Hannah Proctor, & more. www.parapraxismagazine.com/store/p/para...

THIS THURSDAY ON TGS @thisguysucked.com: the brilliant Hannah Zeavin @hzeavin.bsky.social gives me the lowdown on a psychiatrist who made a whole lot of regular women feel like Very Bad Moms. We also talk about our matching Freud plants.

going to my childhood hometown this week to talk about archiving childhoods & MOTHER MEDIA with Annie Baker & Leslie Jamison at McNally Jackson. Would love to see you there: mcnallyjackson.com/event/06052025

"We all think of Freud as like, a mom obsessive, and that’s a false memory. There’s a lot of cultural misremembering of psychoanalysis, for better or for worse." @hzeavin.bsky.social reflects on the history of psychoanalytic discourse and motherhood in connection with her new book, "Mother Media":

"[Zeavin's] book is by far the most intellectually rewarding, and it is full of fascinating forays into historical byways." ‪ @washingtonpost.com reviews "Mother Media" in a joint review alongside other new books about motherhood: www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/0...

What an issue! @hzeavin.bsky.social's RevCom diaries, @sarahlovescali.bsky.social on Ayahuasca and the soul, Tammy Kim's gorgeous essay on middle age and aging parents, the best short story you'll read this year (by Gillian Linden), and much more. Subscribe and start reading!

Portland!!! I'm so excited to talk with @hzeavin.bsky.social about Mother Media at @powells.bsky.social tomorrow at 7!! Come out!!!

“Who I was becoming was the least of my concerns. We were at war.” @hzeavin.bsky.social on life as a tweenage member of the RevCom Youth Brigade: www.nplusonemag.com/issue-50/ess...

ALICE NOTLEY 1945 - 2025 pictured here with Anne Waldman, Rome, 1979 featured in "Alice Notley, The Art of Poetry No. 116" @theparisreivew.bsky.social at THE PARIS REVIEW, an interview by Hannah Zeavin www.theparisreview.org/interviews/8...

We at the Review mourn the loss of Alice Notley (1945-2025). In celebration of her life and work, we’ve unlocked her Art of Poetry interview, along with her poems, from our archive. buff.ly/qiSx3j8

n+1’s 50th issue is out today! Feat. @hzeavin.bsky.social, Andrew Liu, @hamrahrama.bsky.social, @richardbeck.bsky.social, Iman Mersal, @cgvanderburg.bsky.social, Gemma Sack, @sarahlovescali.bsky.social, E. Tammy Kim, Lisa Borst, Gillian Linden, and Maureen McLane. www.nplusonemag.com/magazine/iss...

Alice Notley passed away Monday night in Paris, where I'm writing from. This will come as a shock to many, but she was battling a number of maladies in recent months, and things had gotten difficult rapidly. Her work is out there. Please feel free to spread the word.

"We all think of Freud as like, a mom obsessive, and that’s a false memory. There’s a lot of cultural misremembering of psychoanalysis, for better or for worse." @hzeavin.bsky.social reflects on the history of psychoanalytic discourse and motherhood in connection with her book, "Mother Media":

Every UC faculty member should be aware of this incident, especially now that we're facing changes to our faculty disciplinary processes for the second time in as many years.

these editors, these writers, this surge of psychoanalysis as a meaningful framework for understanding culture, politics, and daily life! pre-order or subscribe today!

Our summer issue of @parapraxismag.bsky.social is now available for pre-order, with its absolutely stacked TOC. Like all little magazines right now, we're trying to survive and keep doing what we do best. A subscription or a pre-order helps us do that:

Thrilled that #Motherdom has been reviewed in @washingtonpost.com along with brilliant books by Nancy Reddy and @hzeavin.bsky.social also taking on the pseudoscience and unforgiving cultural norms afflicting mothers @versobooks.bsky.social

"It would be easy to give up the ghost, to let psychoanalysis go. But why should psychoanalysis retreat from collective symptoms back into the consulting room for individual treatment?" -The Editors introduce Issue 06 www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/the...

Announcing Issue 06: Resistance, now available for pre-order. Essays by Fady Joudah, Jamieson Webster, Dylan Saba, Yasmin El-Riafe, Ussama Makdisi, Mary Turfah, Hannah Proctor, & more. For full TOC: www.parapraxismagazine.com/magazine To pre-order: www.parapraxismagazine.com/store/p/para...

I’ll make my quarterly half-hearted appeal to a beneficent rich person to fund @pinko.online which so far has done everything for free

Hannah Zeavin and Helen Charman return to the podcast to discuss the history of technology, media and mothering throughout the 20th century. EPISODE 79: TELL ME ABOUT YOUR MOTHER... w/ Hannah Zeavin and Helen Charman @hzeavin.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social

“We have long known that psychoanalysts love poetry—though I think the jury is out on whether they, as a class, can be said particularly to love poets.” Hannah Zeavin on John Ashbery’s analyst. buff.ly/mLk2sfZ

"Mother Media" is an essential history for understanding how we mother now, and how motherhood itself became a medium. Learn more about @hzeavin.bsky.social's latest book, now featured on our blog:

Read this fantastic essay

Last month I delivered a talk on psychoanalysis and poetry at Saint Mark's Church. Today, it appears in the @parisreview.bsky.social. I wrote it at JClo's house, and he makes a cameo: www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/05...

This Friday (May 9), Skylight Books welcomes @hzeavin.bsky.social to celebrate the publication of her new book, "Mother Media." Join her in conversation with Rosie Stockton:

Spoke with @hzeavin.bsky.social about her incredible new book Mother Media for Interview www.interviewmagazine.com/literature/h...

In a week when the 'mum guilt' has kicked in heavily, excited to have received a copy of @hzeavin.bsky.social 's new book Mother Media. Now to wrestle some time to myself to actually read it...

Happy pub day to @hzeavin.bsky.social's "Mother Media: Hot and Cool Parenting in the Twentieth Century"! Read an excerpt of "Mother Media" in LARB Quarterly, no. 44: Pressure: lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-...

In "Mother Media," a compelling study of modern motherhood and technology, leading historian of psychology @hzeavin.bsky.social provides an essential history for understanding how we mother now and how motherhood itself became a medium: mitpress.mit.edu/978026204955...

Next week! 5 May, 7-8.30pm UK time, @bconceived.bsky.social are hosting @hzeavin.bsky.social & Helen Charman in discussions about The Technological and Political Mediation of Motherhood. Sign up for this free, online event: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/c25ec8...

my second book published today. i can't contact any feeling about it, i am just absolutely gutted. If you pick it up, pick up a book of JClo's too, or instead. I guess I'll spend the rest of my life relearning what it is to write without being able to text him while doing it.

@hzeavin.bsky.social on class, race, gender and how caregivers disrupt the fiction of the nuclear family.

There's a little excerpt from MOTHER MEDIA's first chapter--on the fantasy of the self-reproducing nuclear family, the nanny panic, the family's attention economy, & maternal immediacy--over at @literaryhub.bsky.social today: lithub.com/nanny-as-nui...

Men in plainclothes, one in a balaclava, raided the Charlottesville courthouse today. They abducted a local painter whose case (allegedly fighting with his roommate) was being dismissed, and another who was there paying fines. They took them away in unmarked vans. dailyprogress.com/news/local/c...

Children as young as *four* are being put in the position of representing themselves without lawyers/parents present in front of immigration judges in cases that will determine whether they are deported. gothamist.com/news/4-year-...

5/13 at 7:30 PM | Author and psychology historian @hzeavin.bsky.social explores the relationship between mothering and technology––and its contradictions––with UW’s @malahern.bsky.social 🎟 Get tickets: buff.ly/k83bOpL

🚨NEW EPISODE 🚨We're joined by the brilliant Hannah Zeavin of @parapraxismag.bsky.social to talk about her brand-new book, "Mother Media: Hot and Cool Parenting in the 20th Century."! CC @mitpress.bsky.social www.buzzsprout.com/2131830/epis...

& the book's first excerpt appeared in @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social's issue 44 "Pressure," online now!

i'll be doing some events for MOTHER MEDIA with some extremely wonderful interlocutors. come say hi. i'll drop the links below for the events as i have them: