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Eleanor Franzen @eleanorfranzen.bsky.social · 19h

There is precisely one defensible use case for ChatGPT in the humanities, and that is "clear, succinct explanations of literary theory concepts, with examples". Émile Benveniste's I-you polarity in 100 non-jargon words, please. Literally nothing else. #academia

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 1d

You will absolutely never guess what the context is for this rather ominous passage

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 3d

MAGA and its agenda are *wildly* unpopular, and media are hugely out of touch for not saying so. Politicians who tap into this reality will thrive, and media outlets that reflect this truth will earn enormous audiences.

G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 4d

A majority of adults oppose Trump’s use of the National Guard in America cities www.gelliottmorris.com/p/a-majority...

A majority of Americans oppose Trump sending the National Guard to Democratic-run cities

The president is defying the will of the people, federal judges, and the Constitution

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Shani Cadwallender @overleaf.bsky.social · 5d

Chuffed to be in vol.2 of @plantperspectives.bsky.social.
Thanks to all at the journal & @rbgkew.bsky.social for including my weird little piece about working-class C19th poet Eliza Cook, trees, illness& intertemporal weirdness.

Read it here:
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Eleanor Franzen @eleanorfranzen.bsky.social · 5d

I LOVE @overleaf.bsky.social's writing, both critical and creative. Now you can read it too! Her article is now out OA, exploring C19 poet Eliza Cook, the Slaugham Yew, and their C21 traces/resonances. doi.org/10.3197/WHPP... #19thcentury #poetry #ecopoetry #arborealhumanities #academia

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Eleanor Franzen @eleanorfranzen.bsky.social · 5d

Yes, it was recorded! I'm sure you could DM the seminar account and get the deets

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Eleanor Franzen @eleanorfranzen.bsky.social · 6d

Attending online! Full of interesting tidbits, from what a C18 valet did immediately after unpacking his master's belongings (find a fellow English servant and go drinking) to what these journals don't include (surprisingly, servants rarely wrote about their actual work). #18thcentury #academia

Tim Hitchcock @timhitchcock.bsky.social · 6d

Just listening to @richardjansell.bsky.social talking eloquently about servants and their journals on the grand tour @long18thsem.bsky.social @ihrlibrary.bsky.social

A photo of a seminar room with an audience facing forward. The speaker is at the front behind a podium

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Eleanor Franzen @eleanorfranzen.bsky.social · 7d

How cool does this lineup look! Thrilled to be part of Romanticism Across Borders's 25-26 series - thanks for asking me @paulinehortolland.bsky.social et al.!

deven parker @devenparker.bsky.social · 7d

Check out this year's program for 'Romanticism Across Borders' virtual speaker series. I'm on there along with some of my favorite people 👯✨

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10d

I knew they’d come for the archivists and librarians but honestly I assumed it would be for a reason better than “Our Special Boy wants to give his friend a sword! Give him a sword!”

Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 10d

“They asked for a sword, and we said, ‘Well, we do have swords, but we can’t give them away because they’re museum artifacts,’” said Todd Arrington, forced to resign as head of Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library.”

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Eleanor Franzen @eleanorfranzen.bsky.social · 21d

Can't make it this week, but this promises to be fascinating - d'Eon is a figure of enduring intrigue. I've signed up to attend the other seminars for the term online now! #c18 #long18thcentury #history #genderstudies #academia

Tim Hitchcock @timhitchcock.bsky.social · 22d

Very much looking forward to Dan Gosling (TNA) speaking on 'A Question of Sex? Assessing Lord Mansfield’s “judgment” on the sex of the Chevalier d’Eon' this Wed. @long18thsem.bsky.social @ihrlibrary.bsky.social All welcome online or in person, but please register: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

A Question of Sex? Assessing Lord Mansfield’s “judgment” on the sex of the Chevalier d’Eon

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Litteraria Pragensia: Studies in Literature & Culture @litterariaprag.bsky.social · Sep 3

The new LP issue has arrived: 'Romantic Shock and Surprise,' edited by David Duff (Queen Mary University of London) and Laurent Folliot @sorbonne-universite.fr. Université Cover design by Karolína Bendová. Read in open access: litterariapragensia.ff.cuni.cz/magazin/2025...

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Eleanor Franzen @eleanorfranzen.bsky.social · 27d

Sorry for never being on Bluesky anymore, BUT I had my first article published @litterariaprag.bsky.social! Here it is, free to read: Radical Reform and the Shock of the Past in Mary Robinson's Vancenza #gothic #C18 #romanticism #academia #womenwriters litterariapragensia.ff.cuni.cz/wp-content/u...

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Eleanor Franzen @eleanorfranzen.bsky.social · Jun 25

#20booksofsummer 7 (forgot to link to reviews of 4-6 but they're on the blog too!): Passing, by Nella Larsen, a novel whose extreme self-awareness stops it from being too schematic, offering instead an exploration of safety and freedom ellethinks.wordpress.com/2025/06/25/2... #books #reading

20 Books of Summer, 7: Larsen

Passing, by Nella Larsen (1929): Probably everyone knows the plot of this already because I seem to be the last person on earth to read it, so really I thought I knew the salient points of the prem…

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Eleanor Franzen @eleanorfranzen.bsky.social · Jun 7

🌊 me please!

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Friends of Lister Lane Cemetery (KAVS) @listerlanecem.bsky.social · Jun 5

Remembering former weaver Finton Burgin, who died on this day in 1860 at the age of 18. He was the son of the widowed Catherine Burgin, died 23rd March 1866, aged 50.

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Eleanor Franzen @eleanorfranzen.bsky.social · Jun 5

So excited about this year's 20 Books of Summer project, I'm out of the blocks fast! Here's what I thought of the first three: ellethinks.wordpress.com/2025/06/05/2... #bookstagram #books #reading #bookreview #20booksofsummer

20 Books of Summer, 1-3: Vo, Sinclair, Bowen

I’m so excited about 20 Books of Summer, I’m already on my way! These first three have all been very different: a distinctly grownup fantasy novella, a sometimes brutally realist memoir…

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Eleanor Franzen @eleanorfranzen.bsky.social · May 31

Indeed! The only thing that might make me consider a deal with a fairy for immortality...

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Eleanor Franzen @eleanorfranzen.bsky.social · May 31

Definitely read Forster! This one would be a great place to start—it was the first one of his that I read, back in the day.

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Eleanor Franzen @eleanorfranzen.bsky.social · May 31

I clung on to May by my fingernails—this is everything I read that WASN'T from the library, including three re-reads, two gripping new/forthcoming releases, and one 99p Kindle punt: ellethinks.wordpress.com/2025/05/31/m... #reading #books #bookreview

May 2025 Superlatives

May. I clung on by my fingernails. Deadlines came and were met. Mental gears were shifted every other day or so. Requirements seemed to cluster mid-month, in one particularly exhausting ten-day spr…

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Eleanor Franzen @eleanorfranzen.bsky.social · May 21

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Eleanor Franzen @eleanorfranzen.bsky.social · May 18

The pleasure was all mine! What a fantastic weekend at the London-Paris Romanticism Seminar's annual symposium, this year at the Sorbonne on Romantic Shock and Surprise. A convivial group of brilliant and, above all, generous scholars—much to ponder and follow up on.

Dr Sharon Choe @sharonchoe.bsky.social · May 18

& also thank you to my fellow panelists @eleanorfranzen.bsky.social & Pauline Hortolland for our fun panel on “Varieties of Gothic Shock”! 🫶🏼

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Eleanor Franzen @eleanorfranzen.bsky.social · May 1

Everything else I read in April, from fifth-century Northumbria to rural Massachusetts: ellethinks.wordpress.com/2025/05/01/a...

April 2025 Superlatives

April was… not the cruellest month! My fiancé had a birthday, which we celebrated with steak and Old Fashioneds in Mayfair. I was in Lyon for a few days for work (it’s really one of my …

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Eleanor Franzen @eleanorfranzen.bsky.social · Apr 28

April's library reading: brief, but magical. ellethinks.wordpress.com/2025/04/28/l... #loveyourlibrary #reading #books #bookreview

#LoveYourLibrary, April 2025

Hosted, as always, by Rebecca at Bookish Beck, posting on the last Monday of every month. There’s no set formula to this; you can post anything about libraries, whether you’ve recently been to an e…

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Eleanor Franzen @eleanorfranzen.bsky.social · Apr 18

The demonisation of trans people isn't normal. People pretend that it is, but it's a culture war that's been manufactured in the past decade. Trans people are here and real and who they say they are. Get with it.

Alex @dirtbagboyfriend.bsky.social · Apr 17

not to invalidate my trans siblings but, personally, cis allies loudly declaring support for us right now does help keep despair at bay even if it changes nothing. I don’t care how you phrase it, how clumsy. Please be there for/with us, loudly. It fights the voices that scream everyone hates us.

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Alex @dirtbagboyfriend.bsky.social · Apr 17

not to invalidate my trans siblings but, personally, cis allies loudly declaring support for us right now does help keep despair at bay even if it changes nothing. I don’t care how you phrase it, how clumsy. Please be there for/with us, loudly. It fights the voices that scream everyone hates us.

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