Stephanie Russo
@drstephr.bsky.social
Historical fiction, Anne Boleyn, Jane Austen, pop girlies and fitness. Currently writing about counterfactual historical fiction. Australia's most important member of the BeyHive. Alena Smith stan. Editor of the Journal of Historical Fictions
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Stephanie Russo
@drstephr.bsky.social
· Apr 16
The Anachronistic Turn: Historical Fiction, Drama, Film and Television
The Anachronistic Turn: Historical Fiction, Drama, Film and Television is the first study to investigate the ways in which the creative use of anachronism in historical fictions can allow us to rethin...
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This is absolutely obscene. Tax the rich.
January 19, 2026 at 4:47 AM
This is absolutely obscene. Tax the rich.
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I always return to: Why in god’s name would you, a wonderfully intelligent, curious, beautiful human being with an infinite capacity for learning and a fathomless depth of interiority give up a single iota of your creativity to a chatbot that can neither think, nor feel, nor create? Have some pride
No, these are very serious comments.
ChatGPT has absolutely no goddamn place in graduate education. It steals from other authors, routinely gets major facts wrong, hallucinates sources, and generally makes the prose flat and boring as hell.
And if you shill for it in my mentions, I'll block you.
ChatGPT has absolutely no goddamn place in graduate education. It steals from other authors, routinely gets major facts wrong, hallucinates sources, and generally makes the prose flat and boring as hell.
And if you shill for it in my mentions, I'll block you.
January 18, 2026 at 12:46 AM
I always return to: Why in god’s name would you, a wonderfully intelligent, curious, beautiful human being with an infinite capacity for learning and a fathomless depth of interiority give up a single iota of your creativity to a chatbot that can neither think, nor feel, nor create? Have some pride
The biggest own goal imaginable.
Adelaide Festival board has retracted their statement of 8 January and have an extended an invite to Randa Abdel-Fattah for the 2027 Writers' Week
January 15, 2026 at 12:40 AM
The biggest own goal imaginable.
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The Journal of Historical Fictions historicalfictionsresearch.org/the-journal-... is looking for peer reviewers! If you would like to be involved, please contact Stephanie Russo at [email protected]
January 14, 2026 at 7:21 AM
The Journal of Historical Fictions historicalfictionsresearch.org/the-journal-... is looking for peer reviewers! If you would like to be involved, please contact Stephanie Russo at [email protected]
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Abdel-Fattah launches defamation proceedings against Premier Malinauskus.
This will be a very revealing case, if it gets to court
This will be a very revealing case, if it gets to court
Breaking: Randa Abdel-Fattah launches defamation proceedings against SA Premier
Palestinian-Australian author Randa Abdel-Fattah says her lawyers have launched defamation proceedings against South Australian Premier Peter Malinauskas, following his public commentary about her sch...
www.abc.net.au
January 13, 2026 at 11:37 PM
Abdel-Fattah launches defamation proceedings against Premier Malinauskus.
This will be a very revealing case, if it gets to court
This will be a very revealing case, if it gets to court
Brilliant op ed by Adler but these are dark times we are facing.
January 13, 2026 at 1:26 AM
Brilliant op ed by Adler but these are dark times we are facing.
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the reluctance for anyone still actively supporting Twitter/X to reconsider about what they're doing remarkable. Would you keep working or giving quotes to a newspaper that was publishing erotica about 11 year old kids? or photos of people that were photoshopped to remove their clothing?
January 12, 2026 at 11:43 PM
the reluctance for anyone still actively supporting Twitter/X to reconsider about what they're doing remarkable. Would you keep working or giving quotes to a newspaper that was publishing erotica about 11 year old kids? or photos of people that were photoshopped to remove their clothing?
Yet another reason to opt out of the entire broken system
ARC’s new schedule is at www.arc.gov.au/funding-rese...
It will now take A YEAR, or more, for researchers to know whether their grants are successful or not.
For example, early-career researchers are to submit DECRA proposals 11 March this year but they may not be announced 'til 9 March NEXT YEAR!
It will now take A YEAR, or more, for researchers to know whether their grants are successful or not.
For example, early-career researchers are to submit DECRA proposals 11 March this year but they may not be announced 'til 9 March NEXT YEAR!
January 12, 2026 at 7:40 AM
Yet another reason to opt out of the entire broken system
I haven't seen Hamnet yet but it's probably my favourite novel of the past ten years so yay!
January 12, 2026 at 4:29 AM
I haven't seen Hamnet yet but it's probably my favourite novel of the past ten years so yay!
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Will there be calls for a Royal Commission into Islamophobia?
Will Grant Hackett get involved? Will community leaders blast the Albanese government for not listening to the Islamophobia envoy? Will Pauline Hanson be castigated by Sky for causing this, as Mehreen Faruqi was castigated over Bondi?
Will Grant Hackett get involved? Will community leaders blast the Albanese government for not listening to the Islamophobia envoy? Will Pauline Hanson be castigated by Sky for causing this, as Mehreen Faruqi was castigated over Bondi?
On Saturday, an imam and his wife were allegedly victims of a violent hate crime — forced off the road by another car, with attackers then getting out to assault the imam/threaten his wife.
ANIC put out a statement on Sunday arvo, noting rising islamophobia.
The media is just getting to it now.
ANIC put out a statement on Sunday arvo, noting rising islamophobia.
The media is just getting to it now.
January 11, 2026 at 11:26 PM
Will there be calls for a Royal Commission into Islamophobia?
Will Grant Hackett get involved? Will community leaders blast the Albanese government for not listening to the Islamophobia envoy? Will Pauline Hanson be castigated by Sky for causing this, as Mehreen Faruqi was castigated over Bondi?
Will Grant Hackett get involved? Will community leaders blast the Albanese government for not listening to the Islamophobia envoy? Will Pauline Hanson be castigated by Sky for causing this, as Mehreen Faruqi was castigated over Bondi?
Like Uni Councils filled with property developers.
The Adelaide Writers Festival now wrecked by the Adelaide Festival Board, half of which was appointed late last year: a marketing executive; a former politician; a local councillor/real estate agent; an airport manager; a lawyer; a media consultant; and a banker. Another public arts takeover fiasco.
January 11, 2026 at 6:47 AM
Like Uni Councils filled with property developers.
The description of poetry bros in a bookstore bar in We Love You Bunny just made me laugh so hard I snorted
January 11, 2026 at 5:49 AM
The description of poetry bros in a bookstore bar in We Love You Bunny just made me laugh so hard I snorted
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Elon Musk's X is currently mass-producing deepfake images of women and children.
The federal government — which says it's "committed to restricting access to nudify tools" — has no plans to stop its 7 figure X annual advertising spend or using it as a major comms platform
The federal government — which says it's "committed to restricting access to nudify tools" — has no plans to stop its 7 figure X annual advertising spend or using it as a major comms platform
The Australian government is spending millions supporting Elon Musk's deepfake porn factory, X
A spokesperson for the prime minister says the government is committed to protecting Australians from online harms. Tell that to the Australian victims of X-produced image-based abuse.
www.crikey.com.au
January 9, 2026 at 4:41 AM
Elon Musk's X is currently mass-producing deepfake images of women and children.
The federal government — which says it's "committed to restricting access to nudify tools" — has no plans to stop its 7 figure X annual advertising spend or using it as a major comms platform
The federal government — which says it's "committed to restricting access to nudify tools" — has no plans to stop its 7 figure X annual advertising spend or using it as a major comms platform
The entire Festival is now dead, but the board doesn't care. Seems the real aim here is to get rid of Adler.
Zadie Smith and Masha Gessen will also withdraw from Adelaide Writers Week, according to InDaily.
www.indailysa.com.au/news/just-in...
www.indailysa.com.au/news/just-in...
'Dark days': Writers' Week staff reject axing as authors leave in droves - News | InDaily, Inside South Australia
Writers' Week staff reject the board's decision to axe a prominent Palestinian author, in an email to authors seen exclusively by InDaily.
www.indailysa.com.au
January 9, 2026 at 1:04 AM
The entire Festival is now dead, but the board doesn't care. Seems the real aim here is to get rid of Adler.
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Absolutely disgraceful.
The Adelaide Festival has cancelled Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah from appearing.
The Adelaide Festival has cancelled Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah from appearing.
January 8, 2026 at 2:53 AM
Absolutely disgraceful.
The Adelaide Festival has cancelled Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah from appearing.
The Adelaide Festival has cancelled Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah from appearing.
It is almost as if people want the RC to come up with a set conclusion 🤔
Intriguing reporting from Nine here - the objection to former High Court justice Virginia Bell to lead the royal commission apparently relates to a previous decision where she upheld the democratic right to protest www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
Virginia Bell’s role in protest laws under scrutiny as Albanese weighs royal commission
Judgments handed down by former high court judge Virginia Bell and another contender, former Federal Court of Australia chief justice James Allsop, are under scrutiny as the government decides on a ro...
www.smh.com.au
January 8, 2026 at 5:23 AM
It is almost as if people want the RC to come up with a set conclusion 🤔
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Despite everything we’ve seen over the past two years, this is probably the most shameful episode in Australian media history/ political collusion.
The lead story on the SMH is Albanese’s political opponent, who lost his seat, trying to force the government to back his own pick for a RC. Madness.
The lead story on the SMH is Albanese’s political opponent, who lost his seat, trying to force the government to back his own pick for a RC. Madness.
January 7, 2026 at 10:34 PM
Despite everything we’ve seen over the past two years, this is probably the most shameful episode in Australian media history/ political collusion.
The lead story on the SMH is Albanese’s political opponent, who lost his seat, trying to force the government to back his own pick for a RC. Madness.
The lead story on the SMH is Albanese’s political opponent, who lost his seat, trying to force the government to back his own pick for a RC. Madness.
There is literally no amount of money you could pay me to go to the US either now or in the foreseeable future.
I think we’re long past the point now that anyone can justify travelling to the US like it’s a normal functional country. Absolutely baffled by people still going there for holidays or conferences.
January 7, 2026 at 10:23 PM
There is literally no amount of money you could pay me to go to the US either now or in the foreseeable future.
It's fine to be racist except when it is convenient for me to pretend to care about racism!
Surprise surprise! Sussan Ley is panicking at the thought that hate speech against LGBTQIA Australians and other targeted minorities might also be outlawed by Labor.
She says she only wants anti-semitism covered. #auspol www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
She says she only wants anti-semitism covered. #auspol www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
Coalition doesn’t ‘need to see’ sexuality protections in hate speech reforms, says Ley
The opposition leader says reforms to the country’s vilification laws must be focused solely on Islamic extremism and antisemitism.
www.smh.com.au
January 7, 2026 at 7:35 AM
It's fine to be racist except when it is convenient for me to pretend to care about racism!
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The reason the Trump regime is trying to demolish the entire international order built after World War II is that they think the wrong side won that war.
Eyes wide open, folks. They're revealing the supervillain plot.
January 6, 2026 at 12:56 AM
The reason the Trump regime is trying to demolish the entire international order built after World War II is that they think the wrong side won that war.
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kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life
January 6, 2026 at 2:00 AM
kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life
Women are too emotional to lead, they say
Insanity: Sources close to the White House told the Washington Post Trump lost interest in backing Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado to lead the country because she accepted her Nobel Peace Prize rather than demanding it be given to Trump, which was viewed as an “ultimate sin.”
January 5, 2026 at 7:40 AM
Women are too emotional to lead, they say
I have been on research sabbatical for half a day and I have already done more research than I did for all of 2025.
January 5, 2026 at 1:54 AM
I have been on research sabbatical for half a day and I have already done more research than I did for all of 2025.
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The dumbest conspiracy is the oligarchs who have been working together for years to find new and increasingly ugly ways to claim territories that may or may not have oil, a diminishing resource that's unbelievably expensive to extract and quickly becoming technologically redundant.
January 3, 2026 at 11:07 PM
The dumbest conspiracy is the oligarchs who have been working together for years to find new and increasingly ugly ways to claim territories that may or may not have oil, a diminishing resource that's unbelievably expensive to extract and quickly becoming technologically redundant.
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I'm seriously starting to question the credibility of the FIFA Peace Prize.
January 3, 2026 at 7:51 AM
I'm seriously starting to question the credibility of the FIFA Peace Prize.