Busra Copuroglu
@buscopur.bsky.social
The University of Western Ontario, Comparative Literature, Ph.D. Research on boredom in modern literature; European & Turkish Lit.
https://post45.org/sections/contemporaries-essays/bored-as-hell/
https://post45.org/sections/contemporaries-essays/bored-as-hell/
can we turn off the AI overview feature in Google search? I don't like it. It provides wrong, missing, or misleading info and sometimes starts the answer with a strong YES or NO and triggers my anxiety about serious questions (i.e., health related or bureaucratic) bc
November 25, 2025 at 3:24 AM
can we turn off the AI overview feature in Google search? I don't like it. It provides wrong, missing, or misleading info and sometimes starts the answer with a strong YES or NO and triggers my anxiety about serious questions (i.e., health related or bureaucratic) bc
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Important news: the deadline for the joint BAMS/MSA conference in Loughborough has been extended to December 29, 2025! You can review the CFP, and find links to the submission platform, here. www.moderniststudies.org/conference/M...
The Modernist Studies Association is devoted to the study of the arts in their social, political, cultural, and intellectual contexts from the later nineteenth through the mid-twentieth century. The o...
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November 20, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Important news: the deadline for the joint BAMS/MSA conference in Loughborough has been extended to December 29, 2025! You can review the CFP, and find links to the submission platform, here. www.moderniststudies.org/conference/M...
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💫 My book is finally in print! Immensely grateful to all my colleagues and to @emilysharp.bsky.social , @elizabethfr.bsky.social, and the whole team at @edinburghup.bsky.social for their support throughout the writing, revision, and publication process! 🚨
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November 7, 2025 at 1:15 PM
💫 My book is finally in print! Immensely grateful to all my colleagues and to @emilysharp.bsky.social , @elizabethfr.bsky.social, and the whole team at @edinburghup.bsky.social for their support throughout the writing, revision, and publication process! 🚨
(For a 30% discount, use code NEW30)
(For a 30% discount, use code NEW30)
just watched Oliver Laxe's SIRAT. It shakes you to the core, stays w/you, hypnotizes you. Profound sadness, hopeless pursuit of hope & helpless resignation to hopelessness masterfully combined. The political background is nicely inserted. Captivating ambiance. Intense, jarring, memorable.
November 3, 2025 at 12:44 AM
just watched Oliver Laxe's SIRAT. It shakes you to the core, stays w/you, hypnotizes you. Profound sadness, hopeless pursuit of hope & helpless resignation to hopelessness masterfully combined. The political background is nicely inserted. Captivating ambiance. Intense, jarring, memorable.
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Thrilled to announce my new book (electronic version out now, print next month) — it proposes a new value theory grounded in the longue durée of literary institutions, 1800–present.
October 29, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Thrilled to announce my new book (electronic version out now, print next month) — it proposes a new value theory grounded in the longue durée of literary institutions, 1800–present.
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FYI1: The superb webinar "Turning your Dissertation into a Book" is up!
FYI2: It's the 1st for "Publishing with University Presses Webinar Series" co-sponsored by @aupresses.bsky.social (HT, Faculty Outreach Committee) and hosted by Rutgers CMSI. #ReadUP #PublishUP
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SST...
FYI2: It's the 1st for "Publishing with University Presses Webinar Series" co-sponsored by @aupresses.bsky.social (HT, Faculty Outreach Committee) and hosted by Rutgers CMSI. #ReadUP #PublishUP
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SST...
Turning Your Dissertation into a Book
YouTube video by The Samuel DeWitt Proctor Institute (The Proctor Institute)
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October 30, 2025 at 3:41 PM
FYI1: The superb webinar "Turning your Dissertation into a Book" is up!
FYI2: It's the 1st for "Publishing with University Presses Webinar Series" co-sponsored by @aupresses.bsky.social (HT, Faculty Outreach Committee) and hosted by Rutgers CMSI. #ReadUP #PublishUP
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SST...
FYI2: It's the 1st for "Publishing with University Presses Webinar Series" co-sponsored by @aupresses.bsky.social (HT, Faculty Outreach Committee) and hosted by Rutgers CMSI. #ReadUP #PublishUP
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SST...
I'll be taking a break from social media for a while (starting tomorrow) and I won't be checking my messages here often. But I have been using the messages function &would like to be able to keep in touch with people I have connected with here. So, if there is anything, please feel free to email me.
October 10, 2025 at 11:26 PM
I'll be taking a break from social media for a while (starting tomorrow) and I won't be checking my messages here often. But I have been using the messages function &would like to be able to keep in touch with people I have connected with here. So, if there is anything, please feel free to email me.
Comparative Literature - Assistant Professor (Theory, Modern French literature and Spanish-language literatures of Latin America) - Université de Montréal
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(I don't know Spanish 😭 someone get this and hire me for a different/similar position?)
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(I don't know Spanish 😭 someone get this and hire me for a different/similar position?)
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October 8, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Comparative Literature - Assistant Professor (Theory, Modern French literature and Spanish-language literatures of Latin America) - Université de Montréal
universityaffairs.ca/search-job/?...
(I don't know Spanish 😭 someone get this and hire me for a different/similar position?)
universityaffairs.ca/search-job/?...
(I don't know Spanish 😭 someone get this and hire me for a different/similar position?)
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Unique opportunity for postdocs from the University Alliance Ruhr #UARuhr working in the social sciences and/or the humanities: with its #PostdocLab programme, the College for Social Sciences and Humanities offers funding for cross-university working groups.
🔔 Call: www.college-uaruhr.de/postdoclab
🔔 Call: www.college-uaruhr.de/postdoclab
October 1, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Unique opportunity for postdocs from the University Alliance Ruhr #UARuhr working in the social sciences and/or the humanities: with its #PostdocLab programme, the College for Social Sciences and Humanities offers funding for cross-university working groups.
🔔 Call: www.college-uaruhr.de/postdoclab
🔔 Call: www.college-uaruhr.de/postdoclab
I have finished my PhD (with a diss titled "Bored As Hell: Reading Boredom in Modern Literature) a month ago & am now officially in my post-PhD stress era, currently gathering info & looking for PostDoc fellowships--and ofc, needless to say, ideally FT/TT positions. (1/)
September 30, 2025 at 12:43 AM
I have finished my PhD (with a diss titled "Bored As Hell: Reading Boredom in Modern Literature) a month ago & am now officially in my post-PhD stress era, currently gathering info & looking for PostDoc fellowships--and ofc, needless to say, ideally FT/TT positions. (1/)
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Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month
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JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month
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September 29, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month
www.jstor.org/action/showL...
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month
www.jstor.org/action/showL...
Associate professorship in German Literature and Culture
at University of South Denmark. (someone get this and then hire me?) - fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
at University of South Denmark. (someone get this and then hire me?) - fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
Associate professorship in German Literature and Culture
The Department of Culture and Language invites applications for an associate professorship in contemporary German literature and culture February 1st, 2026, or as agreed. The successful candidate will...
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September 27, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Associate professorship in German Literature and Culture
at University of South Denmark. (someone get this and then hire me?) - fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
at University of South Denmark. (someone get this and then hire me?) - fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
Latest Georges Didi-Huberman. This time as a curator of the exhibition, “In the Troubled Air… Image, emotion, utopia": "he questions the nature of human emotions and argues that emotions do not belong to us, but rather exist in space.
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Georges Didi-Huberman: «Les emocions són inclassificables»
YouTube video by CCCB
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August 11, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Latest Georges Didi-Huberman. This time as a curator of the exhibition, “In the Troubled Air… Image, emotion, utopia": "he questions the nature of human emotions and argues that emotions do not belong to us, but rather exist in space.
www.cccb.org/en/exhibitio...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tMD...
www.cccb.org/en/exhibitio...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tMD...
Would make a good AppleTV series. very interesting novel.
August 3, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Would make a good AppleTV series. very interesting novel.
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Now that I have a dachshund I think I’m obligated to get this tattoo.
August 2, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Now that I have a dachshund I think I’m obligated to get this tattoo.
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Cambridge Üniversitesi’nden Mete Atatüre, köyümüzdeki etkinlikte edindiği gözlemleri aktarıyor: 'Buranın işleyişi fikren de bana çok yakın. Katılımcı, ortak üretim fikrini burada deneyimlemiş olduk.'
#bilimlerköyü
#villageofsciences
#bilimlerköyü
#villageofsciences
July 17, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Cambridge Üniversitesi’nden Mete Atatüre, köyümüzdeki etkinlikte edindiği gözlemleri aktarıyor: 'Buranın işleyişi fikren de bana çok yakın. Katılımcı, ortak üretim fikrini burada deneyimlemiş olduk.'
#bilimlerköyü
#villageofsciences
#bilimlerköyü
#villageofsciences
finished SILO on Apple TV -- very underrated show, i loved it! a lot to think about isolation and aesthetics of isolation.
July 19, 2025 at 7:05 PM
finished SILO on Apple TV -- very underrated show, i loved it! a lot to think about isolation and aesthetics of isolation.
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In the early modern Ottoman Empire, the most valued tulips featured long, pointed petals and slender forms in contrast to the rounded varieties preferred in Europe. 🌷
July 15, 2025 at 8:58 PM
In the early modern Ottoman Empire, the most valued tulips featured long, pointed petals and slender forms in contrast to the rounded varieties preferred in Europe. 🌷
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The book’s intro is ready to go…
The final title might still change slightly, but for now it’s:
“Uncertain Knowledge: The Science of Making Relevance between the Ottoman Empire and Early Modern Europe”
The final title might still change slightly, but for now it’s:
“Uncertain Knowledge: The Science of Making Relevance between the Ottoman Empire and Early Modern Europe”
July 12, 2025 at 5:01 PM
The book’s intro is ready to go…
The final title might still change slightly, but for now it’s:
“Uncertain Knowledge: The Science of Making Relevance between the Ottoman Empire and Early Modern Europe”
The final title might still change slightly, but for now it’s:
“Uncertain Knowledge: The Science of Making Relevance between the Ottoman Empire and Early Modern Europe”
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Realism and the Novel | Cambridge University Press & Assessment
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June 26, 2025 at 9:09 PM
just wanted to share that i've just submitted my diss. and i don't know how to be in the world. and i'm scared that something will go wrong. the image below is from our Bored As Hell essay cluster.
post45.org/sections/con...
post45.org/sections/con...
July 9, 2025 at 8:33 PM
just wanted to share that i've just submitted my diss. and i don't know how to be in the world. and i'm scared that something will go wrong. the image below is from our Bored As Hell essay cluster.
post45.org/sections/con...
post45.org/sections/con...
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For this week's @thetls.bsky.social, I wrote about Christina of Markyate, medieval wonder woman and visionary management consultant:
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Medieval management theory
Did medieval people really believe all those miracle stories they wrote down? Years ago, when I was just beginning graduate school, the medievalist Steven
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June 26, 2025 at 9:22 PM
For this week's @thetls.bsky.social, I wrote about Christina of Markyate, medieval wonder woman and visionary management consultant:
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