Over a week after the end of the semester, three students made me a digital card together and sent it today. ❤️ A few days ago, a student (that I had for three consecutive semesters!) sent me her review of Sunrise on the Reaping, which she read purely for enjoyment. I love teaching.

I'm looking through a 17th-century commonplace book of medicinal recipes and this woman gives a recipe for "a vomit to cleer yr body, a fine gentle thing." MA'AM.

I just want to teach them to write...

A student just told me she ordered the rest of the Twilight series books (after we read the first one in class) and "started a little library" with her cousin and I couldn't be more delighted. Imagine the journey she's begun.

A student named Frankenstein's monster Dennis in their adaptation project. DENNIS.

One of my students says she's "10 toes down behind my girl, Moll Flanders." She supports women's rights, but also women's wrongs.

Heads up for US colleagues- starting Jan 8th, those of us flying to the UK on US passports will need a visa: natlawreview.com/article/what...

Ever wonder how women learned about experimental science during the long eighteenth century? Join me (for free!) at 5 pm (GMT) on 21 November to hear more my research on the topic: www.youtube.com/live/veM-pG9... #histsci #histSTM #hps #sts #women

There's always one quiet class each semester. Pulling out all my tricks to get them talking. Today's strategy involves no talking at all: silent discussion!

Starting a quick, fluffy read as a reward for (1) organizing a math-themed family costume (number line), (2) making dinner before taking the family to math-o-ween, and (3) submitting another job application. I deserve a treat.

Not me reading Twilight in a coffee shop on a Sunday morning with a lavender honey latte and calling it *class prep*

I taught the first 4 chapters of Twilight today because I'm a very serious goose. The students are LOVING being experts on vampires after reading stories/novels/films all semester. And now I hand them Twilight to see what happens? *chef's kiss*

Recipes and circulation of knowledge - a CFP for a january conference in Paris at the Institut d’Histoire de l’Art. Food historians ! #recipebook #manuals #earlymodern 🗃️ #18c #flavors networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

Excited to hear Deanna Koretsky and @profchander.bsky.social discuss The Black Vampyre today! Just taught this wild text a couple of weeks ago.

I had students draw Dracula today based on the text description, and we had a lot of fun figuring out what his "long, white mustache" might look like. Apparently, most of my students' default referent for "vampire" is the dad from the movie Hotel Transylvania.

Today, one of my students told me she didn't find me insufferable 😌

From the Barcelona ISECS early career seminar earlier this month, @susannah-sm.bsky.social with Ananya Kabir of KCL and Heena Goswami of U Delhi. Sorry not to have any good photos of Susannah's great talk , "Ruination, Chronic Illness, and Networks of Care in the Long Eighteenth Century."

PSA: I know its become a sort of rallying meme but trust me white folks, you do not want to be asking your desi friends/colleagues "are you team coconut" just had someone try that and the results were... not good. Just don't. It won't end well.

Okay, AI is not about to be a threat to academic research and publishing. It's already here. Taylor & Francis has sold Routledge "data" to Microsoft without consent of authors. www.thebookseller.com/news/academi...

A student just emailed me that they're reading the Throne of Glass series and that she hopes Celaena and Chaol are "endgame." Don't worry, I won't ruin it for her. But the joy I feel when students keep emailing about books is exquisite. This will sustain me for days.

Reskeet with how old you are using a vague proxy: I had one of those pocket-sized digital cameras to hang on my wrist. Mine was teal.

My brain is all over the place today. Glad today's writing tasks were revision of one (short-ish) thing and researching another.

Spent a large portion of the morning poring over the book fair flyer -- it's BOGO!!! -- to plan kiddo's possible selections. It's one of the best feelings and a lovely way to spend 7am.

The #18thc enthusiasm for having useful information ready to hand knew no bounds. Here's a printed handkerchief that records around its edges the going rates in London for hackney cabs, hackney chairs, & Thames watermen, & the distances between principal cities in Britain. Who needs a smartphone?

Today the Board at St. Norbert College wrote to deny all applications for tenure and promotion. 4 of the 5 faculty still up for tenure were in the humanities, and 2 of the 5 were in my discipline of English, which means humanities has now lost 18 positions, and English has gone from 8 faculty to 3.

I'm just a girl, sitting at her messy desk, trying to write, while her kid sounds out words and reads next to her.

Texas already defunded public schools by about 90% over the tenure of Rick Perry while I was those schools. There isn't much more funding to cut, and yet here we are.

Lily Greenberg Call ran Berkely's AIPAC affiliate group, worked on Biden & Harris's presidential campaigns, and worked in the Biden White House, until today Now, she's the 1st Jewish political appointee to publicly resign in protest of US support for Israel’s war on Gaza apnews.com/article/resi...

happy dracula going out in his lizard fashion day to you all

One of my students says that Tamlin would "eat up Wordle" and this is an a t t a c k

Check out the #cfp for the special issue of Studies in the Novel @lydiacooper.bsky.social and I are guest editing on disease and disability in the novel. Please share widely and please consider auottong www.studiesinthenovel.org/submit/call-...

Has anyone taught a vampire lit course recently? Are you willing to share your thoughts or reading list? I'd love to hear about it. I have some ideas but I'm too excited about the idea to think clearly (read: my tentative reading list is already way out of control.)

Pulitzer Prize Board acknowledges the "extraordinary real-time reporting" of student journalists covering campus protests. www.pulitzer.org/news/stateme...

Reading the end-of-semester reflections from students is always a bright spot. We worked hard together, and this semester had its own challenges, but they read books and wrote meaningful things. I am grateful.

I’m visiting the Lawrence Public Library and found what is possibly the strongest opener for any book ever

On top of all The Horrors happening globally, my favorite brewery is closing forever today. Fort Worth is getting a little less funky.

ATTN NEW YORKERS The NY Public Library has a plea out for signatures to push the city not to cut their budget and force them to reduce collections, end services, reduce maintenance, and close 2 days a week. It takes mere seconds to sign. They need 50,000. Pleas sign and SHARE WIDELY

According to colleagues, IU faculty arrested at the Palestine solidarity encampment in Bloomington have been slapped w 1yr bans from campus. I have seen many examples of police brutality agst campus protests over the yrs- inc student bans - but I have never heard of faculty targeted this way before

statement by UT Austin faculty, announcing a strike tomorrow in protest of the police presence on campus

But at least we tackled that TikTok menace

columbia university achieving the daring dream of a no-student no-faculty all administration university

You're never fully dressed without a new little coffee stain

"Why is the same university that capitalizes on the legacy of Edward Said and enshrines The Wretched of the Earth into its Core Curriculum so scared to speak about decolonization in practice?" - Student Editorial Board for the Columbia Spectator www.columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2024...

I'd much rather get takes like "the queen is such a homie" than the vacuous prose of generative AI

Always impressed by those who make it to/through the last panel at #asecs.

The library board “fired the library director for refusing to move or remove 113 books that they feel are ‘inappropriate.’ The rest of the staff did something heroic in solidarity with their colleague: they walked out, locked up the library, and said No to this unethical board action.”

Extroverted too close to the sun yesterday so I'm starting the day really feeling my chronic stuff but thank goodness for coffee.