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Emily Hogg @emilyjhogg.bsky.social · Jun 4

Feminized Work and the Labor of Literature
A book about literary depictions of the types of work conventionally associated with women, and the role of gendered labour in the literary world.

Feminized Work and the Labor of Literature

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Emily Hogg @emilyjhogg.bsky.social · Jun 4

And how literary texts themselves (formally, thematically), and the material conditions of their circulation, are implicated in these questions.

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Emily Hogg @emilyjhogg.bsky.social · Jun 4

ultimately the case studies show how thinking about the conventional gendering of work can make the conditions of contemporary labour (insecurity, predatory, care crisis) understandable in a new way.

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Emily Hogg @emilyjhogg.bsky.social · Jun 4

The contributions tackle the subject from so many interesting directions - there are protest comics, early modern noblewomen’s libraries; there’s Buchi Emecheta, Adrienne Rich, Virginia Woolf; gossip and scraps.

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Emily Hogg @emilyjhogg.bsky.social · Jun 4

Edited by me and @charlottejohanne.bsky.social and available from @edinburghup.bsky.social OPEN ACCESS via the link 🎉

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Emily Hogg @emilyjhogg.bsky.social · Jun 4

Feminized Work and the Labor of Literature
A book about literary depictions of the types of work conventionally associated with women, and the role of gendered labour in the literary world.

Feminized Work and the Labor of Literature

edinburghuniversitypress.com

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · Jun 2

I talked to 15 teachers/professors about how AI and ChatGPT is ruining their lives:

www.404media.co/teachers-are...

Teachers Are Not OK

AI, ChatGPT, and LLMs "have absolutely blown up what I try to accomplish with my teaching."

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Emily Hogg @emilyjhogg.bsky.social · Jun 2

extremely obsessed with the concept of this book

Philip Leventhal @philipleventhal.bsky.social · Jun 2

Very exciting to wake up and see the @nytimes.com article on Tom Comitta and his new book, PEOPLE'S CHOICE LITERATURE: THE MOST WANTED & UNWANTED NOVELS! nyti.ms/3ZKS622 @tomcomitta.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social

An Opinion Poll on What Readers Like and Dislike Inspired This Book

For “People’s Choice Literature,” Tom Comitta wrote two books based on the likes and dislikes of American readers.

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Philip Leventhal @philipleventhal.bsky.social · Jun 2

Very exciting to wake up and see the @nytimes.com article on Tom Comitta and his new book, PEOPLE'S CHOICE LITERATURE: THE MOST WANTED & UNWANTED NOVELS! nyti.ms/3ZKS622 @tomcomitta.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social

An Opinion Poll on What Readers Like and Dislike Inspired This Book

For “People’s Choice Literature,” Tom Comitta wrote two books based on the likes and dislikes of American readers.

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Ben Davies @bendavies.bsky.social · Jun 1

Looking forward to hosting 'History & Future of Reading Inside & Beyond the University' Symp. w/TinaLupton. Speakers: LeahPrice JackChen StefanCollini SophieCorser, @bobeaglestone.bsky.social MattRubery JaniceRadway @mattseybold.bsky.social HelenSmall PeterSimonsen LindsayThomas @cnewf.bsky.social

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Éireann @eireannmor.bsky.social · May 30

1. poetry time
2. close reading

Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · May 30

not to be histrionic but I kind of feel like the confluence of Trumpism, algorithmic social media, and LLMs have placed language and the fundamental proposition that words have meaning under unprecedented strain and it’s freaking me out more than a bit

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · May 28

Rest in peace Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, giant of African literature, dies aged 87

Kenyan writer’s death announced by his daughter, who wrote: ‘He lived a full life, fought a good fight’

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Emily Hogg @emilyjhogg.bsky.social · May 26

At the conference, Danish novelist Theis Ørntoft just said (paraphrasing) that literature always has a shamanistic component that can’t be reduced to politics (agreed).

Emily Hogg @emilyjhogg.bsky.social · May 26

was in the supermarket immediately after posting this tweet (or whatever it is) for the first time and realised I had to swap ‘answering’ and ‘asking’, and i do feel it has made this statement at least 10% more interesting.

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Emily Hogg @emilyjhogg.bsky.social · May 26

exciting today to be at a conference answering questions literary studies traditionally hasn’t been good at asking, about the practical and tangible effects of literature and how we measure them. Organised by @yazell.bsky.social Tatiana Tilly and, not pictured, Leonardo Nolé.

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Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · May 22

Me in The New Statesman today on poverty.

Please share :)

A cold childhood

My unheated home wasn’t a temporary discomfort. The chill got into my bones.

www.newstatesman.com

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Emily Hogg @emilyjhogg.bsky.social · May 22

really liked reading this. Very interesting on close reading as both (desperately needed) individual practice of attention AND inherently relational appeal to the other.

Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · May 22

Hell yeah. Here's my manifesto: close reading for all.

On Sigrid Nunez, and Karl Ove Knausgaard, and Erich Auerbach, and why close reading is an answer to AI.

Thanks to @brandyjensen.bsky.social, rockstar editor, who rules. For @defector.com defector.com/close-readin...

Close Reading Is For Everyone | Defector

In Sigrid Nunez’s 2018 novel The Friend, a famous writer kills himself. Not long before, he complains to the narrator about readers: “People talking about a book as if it were just another thing, like...

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Charlotte J. Fabricius @charlottejohanne.bsky.social · May 1

’Feminized Work and the Labor of Literature,’ edited by @emilyjhogg.bsky.social and me, is out now with @edinburghup.bsky.social! Working on this book has been an absolute dream – a study in feminist community building and the importance of critically and socially engaged scholarship. 1/

A hand, holding a copy of the book 'Feminized Work and the Labor of Literature,' edited by Emily J. Hogg and Charlotte J. Fabricius.

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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · Mar 25

Open Letter from CRMEP Students & Researchers on Kingston University’s Proposed Closure of the Department of Humanities
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Open Letter from CRMEP Students & Researchers on Kingston University’s

Wednesday, March 5th, 2025 As of Wednesday 25th February 2025, Kingston University management are proposing the closure of the entire Department of Humanities, including the world-renowned Centre fo...

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Loughborough English @lboroenglish.bsky.social · Feb 25

The Queen unveils a statue of Aphra Behn in Canterbury today, marking a momentous occasion in the recognition of the first full-time professional woman writer in the English language. Loughborough English's Prof Emerita Elaine Hobby has been central to this campaign.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Canterbury: Camilla to unveil new Aphra Behn statue in town

Camilla is to unveil a state of Aphra Behn, the first woman to earn a wage as a professional writer.

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Emily Baughan @emilybaughan.bsky.social · Jan 14

I wrote here about playgroups, and the playschool I chair as the last remaining hold out of an anarchic, feminist moment from the 1970s which has lasted til the present day emilybaughan.substack.com/p/of-church-... but the early years funding crisis has come for us too and we look set to close 💔

Of church halls and custard creams

or, the strange disappearance of community playgroups

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Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · Oct 7

Will the detective investigating your murder be sad?

A spoof of an infographic showing a map of Europe, colour-coded by which countries will offer food to visitors. The caption is "Will the detective investigating your murder be sad?" The Nordic territories are labelled "sad", Northern Europe is labelled "sad & wet", Eastern Europe, Southern France and Northern Italy are labelled "sad and drunk" and the Mediterranean nations are labelled "sexy". It's less funny when you explain it, to be honest.

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Emily Hogg @emilyjhogg.bsky.social · Dec 16

Here is a JOB: a full professorship in literature (any period, any specialism) - please share share share. fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

DIAS Professor of Literature at the Faculty of Humanities

The Danish Institute for Advanced Study (DIAS) and the Department of Culture and Language at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU) invite applications for a fully tenured professorship in the study...

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Emily Hogg @emilyjhogg.bsky.social · Dec 16

Here is a JOB: a full professorship in literature (any period, any specialism) - please share share share. fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

DIAS Professor of Literature at the Faculty of Humanities

The Danish Institute for Advanced Study (DIAS) and the Department of Culture and Language at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU) invite applications for a fully tenured professorship in the study...

fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com

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Joyce Chaplin @joycechaplin.bsky.social · Dec 13

Please enjoy this shot of Elvis getting a polio shot backstage at the Ed Sullivan show as part of a pro-vaccination campaign in 1956, posted here today for no reason whatsoever

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