the world is terrible but my brilliant seniors love Coetzee

I am so proud that my partner @samirabady.bsky.social was one of the journalists breaking this AI vending machine and making it order live fish www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anth...

thoughts on Austen from our dear and brilliant @sinsleyh.bsky.social !

i wrote a book about ye olde porn. thanks @annakornbluh.bsky.social for this lovely holiday treat! www.sup.org/books/litera...

a perfectly timed ray of light, as i finish an article and wonder if it's garbage!

I got to do a lightning round about my devotion to Clarissa with @sinsleyh.bsky.social, and she has honored me beyond measure by pairing it with one by Frances Ferguson. Swoon! open.substack.com/pub/clarissa...

as the world burns, can I recommend having your students read "To His Coy Mistress" out loud to cleanse your soul

oh no, I think my students don’t think I’m funny. I have no pedagogy without jokes

Had a fun and digressive gab about Haywood’s Fantomina on @didntreadit.bsky.social ! Contains a hot take on All Fours, memories of teenage horniness, and a warning against teaching Tess of the D’urbervilles during a pandemic open.spotify.com/episode/2hWR...

trailblazer 🙏 www.nytimes.com/2025/03/30/a...

Eighteenth-Century Studies is looking for a new Reviews Editor. I'm finishing up my term and happy to answer questions about it! asecs.org/publications...

I just did this, do this, now. The vote is in the morning.

Friends, give me audiobook recommendations! I usually prefer listening to nonfiction and reading fiction in physical books. Go!

the world is terrible but this is the poncho set my godmother made me in 1978

when you show up to dinner and Jack has not one but two bottles of wine breathing on the table 👇

boosting for the nighttime crew

CFPs for Restoration/Early 18th C forum are up for #mla2026: Up Close and Literary, and Political Imperatives. Propose your papers--and please share!

cheeseball author with her book

glad i didn't have to be the first to say it

Calling all trans studies and 18th c folks! Come to our #MLA2025 panel on "Gender and Embodiment: Trans Studies Approaches," Sat Jan. 11, 5:15-6:30. Happy hour beverages encouraged.

ok FINE i'll write my #mla2025 paper

oh, just a necklace of my book cover for What Pornography Knows! what a gift. ahem, also available in full-size paperback 😂 www.sup.org/books/litera... #pornstudies

Coming soon(ish) from Routledge, with co-editors Lisa Sigel, Colette Colligan, and @sarahebull.bsky.social !! #pornstudies

side-smile pie vibes

that special pleasure of Outlook being down

okay FINE hi again over here

Re-upping for the Wednesday crowd: MLA Restoration/Early 18th C forum has two guaranteed sessions, on Caribbean Restorations and Trans Studies Approaches. Submit by March 15! (Info below in the janky pics)

Are u ready to submit yr work to ECF journal for consideration? We have spots open in the October issue for flash essays (500-1000 wds) and Reflections (1500-4000 wds). Questions? E: [email protected] #18thCentury Guidelines ecf.humanities.mcmaster.ca/guidelines/ Submit mc04.manuscriptcentral.com

And also, 18th c (and adjacent) folks: propose to this guaranteed panel on Trans Studies Approaches at #MLA2025. Circulate widely!

18th c (and adjacent) folks: get your proposals ready for this guaranteed panel on Caribbean Restorations at #MLA2025. Circulate widely!

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just tricia, being right again

we know this already, but still: these numbers.

today was 400 hours long but i think i finally have a syllabus for Early English Feminisms. is it nearly identical to the last time i taught it? kinda. did it still take me forever to write? why yes it did

Will my book get burned at the one Florida library that holds it, I wonder?

i do not want to hear the audio on your devices! especially on public transit! happy festivus to all (except people scrolling social media with sound on)

one of the most important things I've read in 2023:

A poignant reflection on the BL’s cyberattack. I had the good luck of finishing a research trip there on Oct. 27, four days before the whole thing became inaccessible. The thought of a truly silent reading room makes my heart hurt. www.publicbooks.org/how-to-lose-...

Avidly isn’t on here (yet?), but I am! Check out this special series I co-edited with Sarah Mesle, and queue up your winter break rom-com viewing. https://avidly.lareviewofbooks.org/2023/12/14/romcom-superlatives/

Hey #18thC folks, what would YOU put on a syllabus for "Eighteenth-Century Feminisms"?

how about never using "said" as an adjective ever again #amgrading

the consulting company now setting up to shred American University uses the same report for every school and doesn't bother to change the filename on the pdfs

blessing your feed with Liz Phair, whose show last night completed my soul

everybody starts a class on Lee Edelman by playing the Sex Pistols right

this is pretty delightful. gift link: www.nytimes.com/2023/11/10/b...

Thanks, nighttime Bluesky. Morning people, chime in!

I have read so little for pleasure in the last year that it’s truly sad-making. Give me your favorite recent novels, Bluesky, and don’t make them gothic! Which I surprisingly don’t like.

oh hell yes

tell me what’s better than listening to 25 undergraduates talk to each other about Eve Sedgwick

oh my god