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Deidre Lynch

@drbibliomane.bsky.social

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She/her, 1st gen, Canadian who's at Harvard but isn't OF Harvard-posts mainly about books (w/ cats & flowers thrown in for good measure). Now writing an itty-bitty book that aims to be a literary & media history of scrap. Website: https://deidrelynch.org

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Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · May 8

A JANE AUSTEN GUIDE TO FACULTY MEETINGS
(an intermittent series)

"He said it, she knew, to be contradicted"--Persuasion, ch. 7

(on the distribution of service commitments)
"Every body allows that the talent of writing agreeable letters is peculiarly female."--Northanger Abbey, ch. 3

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Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 14m

Thank you for writing this. So powerful; I share your heartbreak.

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Tita Chico @titachico.bsky.social · 40m

Lisa Moore: "like the medieval monks and nuns who buried precious manuscripts to hide them from the kings who burned their abbeys, we will preserve this knowledge and progress for another time in the future."

Tita Chico @titachico.bsky.social · 45m

www.statesman.com/opinion/colu...

After 35 years at UT Austin, I hardly recognize my university | Opinion

What was once a beacon of access and discovery is now fighting for its soul and mission as political attacks upend norms, rules and rights, Lisa L. Moore writes.

www.statesman.com

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Lindsey Eckert @lindseckert.bsky.social · 41m

2025, the year in which I earnestly email colleagues the phrase, "Well this seems terrible; I'd rather not be assessed by robots."

We're living in the future, and I hate it here.

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Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 21h

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Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 21h

I wonder whether there might be something for you in Muriel Spark's A Far Cry from Kensington. The character who is denounced by the narrator as a "pisseur de copie" is not exactly a critic, but the phrase itself is kind of useful!

Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 1d

With its "medico-electrical apparatus," was Dr. James Graham's "celestial bed" in his "Temple of Health" in 1779 London a prototype for DJT's "med bed"?
There are just too many ways in which the #18thc is a useful guide to the hucksterism of 2025 America.
daily.jstor.org/the-prince-o...

Black and white image showing a nubile woman, in deshabille, reclining on the Celestial Bed, a kind of couch with a canopy over it. Statue of Mercury in a niche behind her.

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Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 1d

thank you! I just got it! I’m very excited to sit down with it.

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Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 1d

Remembering a good line in a satire that a clever sophomore published in the Harvard Crimson about a year and a half ago:
"I didn't know when my calculus midterm was, so I asked a New York Times reporter."

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Tom Keirstead @tomkeirstead.bsky.social · 1d

A film crew has taken over a block nearby and lined it with vintage cars. They’ve even erected a couple of phone booths. Any Torontonians around who know what’s going on?

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Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 1d

Also in T’ronna, “Queens Quay.”

Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you!

Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 1d

I have been trying to buy that very book! Should I?

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Caroline Levine @carolinelevine.bsky.social · 2d

Cornell alums!
Cornell continues to be pressured by the current administration in DC to reach a deal to restore federal research funding.
Please consider signing this petition!
Please also share widely with any Cornell graduates you know!

Alumni in Support of Cornell’s Independence, Democracy, and Academic Freedom

Please add your name below if you agree to be a signatory of the following message to be delivered to the Cornell Board of Trustees: Dear Members of the Cornell Board of Trustees, Ongoing attacks on A...

docs.google.com

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Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 3d

@emilyherring.bsky.social , I think you would like this too!

Ivan Kreilkamp @ivan812.bsky.social · 3d

Happened on this 1919 edition of Henri Bergson’s Matter and Memory with amazing annotations thruout. There’s a coding system distinguishing between comments made: (1) At Home, Sept 22, 1925; (2) at Berea, KY, Feb 11, 1928; (3) At Home, Sept 29, 1930; & (4) Cottage, July 22, 1933 😮

Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 3d

Amazing! Thank you, Ivan!

Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you !

Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 3d

#litcrit pals, a really interesting question about the history of discipline from a graduate student here, a question that has me totally stumped:
"which journal in literary criticism was the first to implement modern peer review?" (I think he might mean blind review)
Thank you for your suggestions!

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Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 3d

Today's mood.

Winged stone angel collapsed, arms akimbo, over tombstone with the inscription "Died Roma, Jan 7 1896"

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Erik Simpson @erikthesimpson.bsky.social · 3d

Job Alert! Tenure-track, Creative Non-Fiction (broadly conceived), Grinnell College. joblist.mla.org/job/2000443/...

Assistant Professor of English: Creative Writing Tenure Track job with Grinnell College | 2000443

Research and teaching interests might include: screenwriting/tv writing, memoir, lyric essay, narrative journalism, graphic storytelling.

joblist.mla.org

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William Orchard @billeo.bsky.social · 3d

Scholarship opportunity: Black and Latino men, undergrads, deadline applicants 10/31

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Tita Chico @titachico.bsky.social · 3d

Again in awe of the tremendous good that is the Eighteenth-Century Poetry Archive. Thank you to Alexander Huber bsky.app/profile/c18a... for this fantastic archive.

#C18L
#poetry

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 3d

ACLS statement against White House “compact”: THIS IS SOVIET SHIT

Screenshot from statement “Universities and colleges have one mission: to advance knowledge. Faculty carry out the mission by conducting research and teaching students. The knowledge they produce and circulate is independently assessed by professional peers. Interfering with that process by forcing knowledge to pass through a political filter is a tactic adopted by the Soviet Union and other authoritarian states. The White House is dressing up its compact as a reasonable corrective to what it views as problems in campus culture. Let no one be deceived. This proposal imposes government censorship on academia. It is anti-American, and it weakens our democracy by devaluing academic expertise.”

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Kate Holland @fyodor76.bsky.social · 8d

We have a job going in my department! jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...

Assistant Professor - Slavic Comparativist

jobs.utoronto.ca

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Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 4d

I really want to use this photo in the slides for my Dracula lectures this coming week.
@tomkeirstead.bsky.social says Toronto, but this might well be the view from Renfield's cell in Dr. Seward's lunatic asylum.

Tom Keirstead @tomkeirstead.bsky.social · 4d

It’s getting to be that season! Full moon and spider, Toronto, Ontario.

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Sarah Noonan @sarahloleet.bsky.social · 4d

Saint Mary's College is hiring for a 2yr VAP in Global Anglophone Literature! I'm happy to answer any questions about working at SMC via DM. Please share widely! joblist.mla.org/job/2000469/...

English Faculty (Visiting Assistant Professor - 2 Year) job with Saint Mary's College | 2000469

Saint Mary's College invites applications for a 2-yr Visiting Assistant Professor of English (Global Anglophone Lit), with the possibility of renewal.

joblist.mla.org

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