Eric Selinger
@emselinger.bsky.social
Poetry maven turned popular romance scholar. Founding Editor of the Journal of Popular Romance Studies. Off-hours singer and lyricist for the JRC Alte Rockers.
Several lines in the image below are highlighted, but the one that jumps out to me isn't: "when you outsource the thinking, you outsource the learning."
7. the kinda appealing, but substantively indefensible, idea that somehow AI is different to other technology, like calculators, in a pedagogical context — but we totally ban a great deal of technology in the classroom.
(Section 3.7 here doi.org/10.5281/zeno...)
9/n
(Section 3.7 here doi.org/10.5281/zeno...)
9/n
November 19, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Several lines in the image below are highlighted, but the one that jumps out to me isn't: "when you outsource the thinking, you outsource the learning."
My "Go ahead, use AI if you want, just tell me what you did at the start of the paper" policy lets me tell a student "I know you didn't use AI, because you said that you didn't, but you've written a paper that sounds just like AI, because..." and really lay into it. Doubly satisfying, really.
November 19, 2025 at 4:25 PM
My "Go ahead, use AI if you want, just tell me what you did at the start of the paper" policy lets me tell a student "I know you didn't use AI, because you said that you didn't, but you've written a paper that sounds just like AI, because..." and really lay into it. Doubly satisfying, really.
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Students complained to my husband about not getting the classes they wanted.
He asked if they use Chat GPT in their classes.
They said yes
He said: 'well then it doesn't matter what classes you take since you aren't learning anything's
I'm dead. 💀 Also I married a good one.
He asked if they use Chat GPT in their classes.
They said yes
He said: 'well then it doesn't matter what classes you take since you aren't learning anything's
I'm dead. 💀 Also I married a good one.
November 19, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Students complained to my husband about not getting the classes they wanted.
He asked if they use Chat GPT in their classes.
They said yes
He said: 'well then it doesn't matter what classes you take since you aren't learning anything's
I'm dead. 💀 Also I married a good one.
He asked if they use Chat GPT in their classes.
They said yes
He said: 'well then it doesn't matter what classes you take since you aren't learning anything's
I'm dead. 💀 Also I married a good one.
Ahoy Academic (English professor) Sky! If I were interested in adding a James Bond novel to one of my syllabi, is there one in particular that gets taught / discussed most often? Dr. No? From Russia With Love?
November 19, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Ahoy Academic (English professor) Sky! If I were interested in adding a James Bond novel to one of my syllabi, is there one in particular that gets taught / discussed most often? Dr. No? From Russia With Love?
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@journal.transformativeworks.org published an amazing fanzine on the theme of friendships in fandoms. It's really nice to read about what is, essentially, the core and result of many fandoms ! You can read it for free on their website : www.transformativeworks.org/fandom-frien...
#zine #fandom
#zine #fandom
Fandom Friendships: A Zine | Organization for Transformative Works
www.transformativeworks.org
November 13, 2025 at 1:10 PM
@journal.transformativeworks.org published an amazing fanzine on the theme of friendships in fandoms. It's really nice to read about what is, essentially, the core and result of many fandoms ! You can read it for free on their website : www.transformativeworks.org/fandom-frien...
#zine #fandom
#zine #fandom
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Question for any romance novel history people out there: does anyone know who might have been the first romance author to write/publish strict dual POV, ie: in equally distributed, alternating chapters? (Or, first-ish, I know tracking firstness in literature is complicated)
Feel free to RT/boost
Feel free to RT/boost
November 18, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Question for any romance novel history people out there: does anyone know who might have been the first romance author to write/publish strict dual POV, ie: in equally distributed, alternating chapters? (Or, first-ish, I know tracking firstness in literature is complicated)
Feel free to RT/boost
Feel free to RT/boost
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Hey folks. I have spent *days* reading and meticulously drafting comments on a very lengthy manuscript. Which I have just found includes an AI-faked quote. Attributed to ME.
Here is a thread of my feelings
Here is a thread of my feelings
a man in a blue shirt says " i am untethered and my rage knows no bounds ! "
ALT: a man in a blue shirt says " i am untethered and my rage knows no bounds ! "
media.tenor.com
November 16, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Hey folks. I have spent *days* reading and meticulously drafting comments on a very lengthy manuscript. Which I have just found includes an AI-faked quote. Attributed to ME.
Here is a thread of my feelings
Here is a thread of my feelings
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Many people see Dark Romance as an acceptable Romance to like, because it has the qualities of edgy horror and arthouse films and the like. The grimdark stuff that equals quality to so many. It helps them retain their sense of coolness. It’s why it’s the only type of Romance they like.
November 15, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Many people see Dark Romance as an acceptable Romance to like, because it has the qualities of edgy horror and arthouse films and the like. The grimdark stuff that equals quality to so many. It helps them retain their sense of coolness. It’s why it’s the only type of Romance they like.
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This should be on a plaque at the base of the Statue of Liberty.
Ate at a Thai/Jewish fusion food truck named L'Thaim and it was fantastic. Curry latkes.
November 14, 2025 at 6:42 PM
This should be on a plaque at the base of the Statue of Liberty.
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I have to tell you what really happened to the plums...
Elise New seems to have offered them to Woody Allen in exchange for his involvement with her edX MOOC.
One creepy slimey scammy thing after another in those files.
(via splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app)
Elise New seems to have offered them to Woody Allen in exchange for his involvement with her edX MOOC.
One creepy slimey scammy thing after another in those files.
(via splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app)
November 13, 2025 at 3:42 AM
I have to tell you what really happened to the plums...
Elise New seems to have offered them to Woody Allen in exchange for his involvement with her edX MOOC.
One creepy slimey scammy thing after another in those files.
(via splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app)
Elise New seems to have offered them to Woody Allen in exchange for his involvement with her edX MOOC.
One creepy slimey scammy thing after another in those files.
(via splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app)
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The future Pope Leo XIV in 1982.
November 11, 2025 at 3:40 PM
The future Pope Leo XIV in 1982.
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Joseph Crawford 's written an open access essay which addresses ethical issues he's considered while teaching a course about romantic fiction.
‘I'm Alright, It's Just so Horrible’: Teaching Romance Fictions, Pre‐ and Post‐#MeToo
This article discusses the author’s experiences of teaching the history of romance fiction to undergraduate students from 2013 to 2024, with a particular emphasis on changing approaches to teaching r...
compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 6, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Joseph Crawford 's written an open access essay which addresses ethical issues he's considered while teaching a course about romantic fiction.
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This call may be of interest to our readers!
Come and study with me! Call for doctoral proposals in the field of Romance and/or Erotica at Falmouth University: www.falmouth.ac.uk/research/phd...
Romance and/or Erotica
This Research & Knowledge Exchange Doctoral Project brief summarises our priority areas of research interest under the heading of: Romance and/or Erotica
www.falmouth.ac.uk
November 7, 2025 at 9:05 PM
This call may be of interest to our readers!
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Okay USA, I know you have plenty of other things going on at the moment, but my new book An Academic Affair will be released in your country in only a few weeks (11 November!!), and if you wanted to pre-order it, I would simply love that.
www.simonandschuster.com/books/An-Aca...
www.simonandschuster.com/books/An-Aca...
October 22, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Okay USA, I know you have plenty of other things going on at the moment, but my new book An Academic Affair will be released in your country in only a few weeks (11 November!!), and if you wanted to pre-order it, I would simply love that.
www.simonandschuster.com/books/An-Aca...
www.simonandschuster.com/books/An-Aca...
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Come and study with me! Call for doctoral proposals in the field of Romance and/or Erotica at Falmouth University: www.falmouth.ac.uk/research/phd...
Romance and/or Erotica
This Research & Knowledge Exchange Doctoral Project brief summarises our priority areas of research interest under the heading of: Romance and/or Erotica
www.falmouth.ac.uk
November 5, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Come and study with me! Call for doctoral proposals in the field of Romance and/or Erotica at Falmouth University: www.falmouth.ac.uk/research/phd...
They're so cute! I had no idea!
Rama Duwaji and her husband Zoran Mandami casting their vote in New York.
November 4, 2025 at 7:01 PM
They're so cute! I had no idea!
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Men seldom make passes
At Ozymandiasses
At Ozymandiasses
i never saw two trunkless legs
i never hope to see 'em
but i can tell you, anyhow,
i'd rather see than be 'em
i never hope to see 'em
but i can tell you, anyhow,
i'd rather see than be 'em
Now Ozymandias was from the Himalayas, where a cold wind howls and blows.
Why he left his home in the peaks to roam 'round the sands, God only knows.
His statue fell down, the desert's boundless and completely bare;
Though it's still scrawled on his pedestal that "ye Mighty should despair!"
Why he left his home in the peaks to roam 'round the sands, God only knows.
His statue fell down, the desert's boundless and completely bare;
Though it's still scrawled on his pedestal that "ye Mighty should despair!"
October 30, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Men seldom make passes
At Ozymandiasses
At Ozymandiasses
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final project guidelines for both grad and undergrad seminars:
1. pick a topic you care about
2. don’t use ai
3. get smarter
1. pick a topic you care about
2. don’t use ai
3. get smarter
October 30, 2025 at 1:27 PM
final project guidelines for both grad and undergrad seminars:
1. pick a topic you care about
2. don’t use ai
3. get smarter
1. pick a topic you care about
2. don’t use ai
3. get smarter
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Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.
October 30, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.
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what else can we do? what do we want to do? what feels good? (thinking. making, making ideas....) how can I help you know you want to do this stuff? EDUCATION IS THE NONCOERCIVE REARRANGEMENT OF DESIRE and that includes the teacher's (thanks, Spivak)
October 24, 2025 at 11:35 PM
what else can we do? what do we want to do? what feels good? (thinking. making, making ideas....) how can I help you know you want to do this stuff? EDUCATION IS THE NONCOERCIVE REARRANGEMENT OF DESIRE and that includes the teacher's (thanks, Spivak)
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As I considered Hegel’s remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice, I couldn’t help but think that he forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.
October 24, 2025 at 11:13 AM
As I considered Hegel’s remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice, I couldn’t help but think that he forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.
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Well, I bet this 1848 Wuthering Heights reviewer feels like a wally now
October 23, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Well, I bet this 1848 Wuthering Heights reviewer feels like a wally now
Romance 'sky, a question for you! My students are loving Bolu Babalola's "Honey & Spice" in part because it's a university-set student romance, and I'd love any recommendations you might have for other recent books with that setting & cast of characters. Might be a fun course focus.
October 23, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Romance 'sky, a question for you! My students are loving Bolu Babalola's "Honey & Spice" in part because it's a university-set student romance, and I'd love any recommendations you might have for other recent books with that setting & cast of characters. Might be a fun course focus.
Listening to a podcast about Robert Hayden's "Frederick Douglass" and the first thing the podcaster says about the poem is that it was written in the '60s and reflects the Civil Rights movement. It was, in fact, published in The Atlantic in February 1947: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
Frederick Douglass
www.theatlantic.com
October 22, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Listening to a podcast about Robert Hayden's "Frederick Douglass" and the first thing the podcaster says about the poem is that it was written in the '60s and reflects the Civil Rights movement. It was, in fact, published in The Atlantic in February 1947: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...