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Jenny Leetsch
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juniorprofessor of anglophone literatures and cultures (university of trier) • views my own • she/her • #firstgen

website: https://www.jenniferleetsch.com/

“soar, eat ether, see what has never been seen; depart, be lost, but climb."
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timeflieslike.bsky.social
Deadline extended until Dec 1st!: Are you interested in joining an awesome research network on Funny Women*: Transatlantic Perspective? Check out the link for details: networks.h-net.org/group/announ...
Please share with your friends and colleagues!
DEADLINE EXTENSION to Dec 1st! Call for Contributions / Declarations of Interest for Research Group: Funny Women*: Transatlantic Perspectives | H-Net
We are looking to form a research group dedicated to the work of funny women / funny folx on both sides of the Atlantic across different media (literature, performance, film/TV, social media,…). The p...
networks.h-net.org
November 25, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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artinsociety.bsky.social
18th-century Dutch naturalist/collector Albertus Seba’s detailed engravings of hedgehogs (Thesaurus, 1734)
Image of hedgehog from above and behind Image of hedgehog lying on its back like an upturned beetle
November 25, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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litgangwichteln.bsky.social
Herzlich willkommen zum #litgangwichteln!

In diesem Thread erfährst Du alles für das diesjährige #litgangwichteln.
In aller Kürze: Wir überraschen und erfreuen uns gegenseitig mit einem Buchgeschenk per Post – und die zu beschenkenden Menschen werden dafür zugelost.

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November 23, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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melissaschuh.bsky.social
On my way home from a sunny Bamberg after an amazing, rich #BritCult2025 conference, where I got to share in a collaborative panel discussing queer romance and queer happy endings with the all together brilliant Anneke Schewe, @jennyleetsch.bsky.social , and Amanda Boyce. @susannegruss.bsky.social
Presentation slide featuring the cast of the Heartstopper Netflix series with the title: Why are we like this? : Seriality, Genre, and Queer Joy in Alice Oseman‘s Heartstoppet (2022-), by Anneke Schewe and Melissa Schuh Photograph of a bridge in Bamberg with the rising sun in the background. Photograph of a sunlit river back in Bamberg.
November 22, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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melissaschuh.bsky.social
Who could say no to a conference duck 🦆? I chose a pink one to match my outfit 😍

@susannegruss.bsky.social #BritCult2025 @jennyleetsch.bsky.social
Glass bowl full of a colourful assortment of small resin ducks, with a pink one set next to the bowl University of Bamberg tote bag in navy with white lettering, with a yellow name Tag including pronouns and a small pink resin duck on it.
November 20, 2025 at 10:45 PM
jennyleetsch.bsky.social
en route to #BritCult2025!! Umstieg in Würzburg hat geklappt, nun trägt mich der Regio hoffentlich reibungslos nach Bamberg. 🤞🤞🤞

Very much looking forward to meeting old friends and new colleagues! ✨
susannegruss.bsky.social Susanne Gruss @susannegruss.bsky.social · 6d
It's cold, there is a tiny bit of snow. Almost 100 conference speakers and participants are on their way to Bamberg today, most of them by train. It's fortunate that DB has a long history of dealing really well with the first snow of the year, right? RIGHT??? #britcult2025
November 20, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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phdhurtbrain.bsky.social
What? These? No! I need these. They’re my emotional support unanswered emails.
November 19, 2025 at 4:51 AM
jennyleetsch.bsky.social
Very happy to see this out in the world! A deeply collaborative attempt at thinking ecological dependencies from/across a variety of disciplines. Thank you @dependencybonn.de for providing us with the space + resources to develop this. Check the book out here: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
November 14, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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roopikarisam.bsky.social
I deeply appreciate how many friends I have who also believe that when daylight savings time ends, it's perfectly acceptable to have a drink at the campus hotel bar at 4pm.
November 6, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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whitehorsepress.bsky.social
We're delighted to announce a new book, forthcoming in March: 'Grasping Soil: A Syllabus and Essays for the Environmental Humanities', edited by Emily Brownell; now open for pre-orders. More information: www.whpress.co.uk/publications... #envhum #envhist #soil
November 5, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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hystericalblkns.bsky.social
What an evening. Beyond grateful for what we made together.

Lecture available on line for 2 weeks.
propcazhpm.bsky.social Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 27d
Now listening to the 4th Annual Alchemy Lecture:
Sound—at the Interregnum.

First alchemist is Glen Coulthard, Yellowknives Dene, Prof. First Nations and Indigenous Studies and Political Science

listening: noisescapes of mining, air traffic and urban expansion on Yellowknife land
#YUAlchemy
The 2025 Alchemy Lecture: Sound—at the Interregnum
YouTube video by York University - Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
www.youtube.com
October 31, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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arthistoryanimalia.bsky.social
For #NationalCatDay please admire this absolute masterpiece:
Gertrude Abercrombie (USA, 1909-1977)
#Black Cat on Pink, 1952
Oil on Hardboard, 4.5 x 4 cm (1 3/4 x 1 5/8 in.)
www.artcurial.com/en/sales/608...
#CatsInArt #WomenArtists
Small painting of a goofy looking black cat with green eyes, sitting up and sticking its little pink tongue out, on a salmon colored table with grey wall behind; signed and dated on bottom
October 30, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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katherinegroo.bsky.social
I find it v difficult to put into words how honored and lucky i feel to have edited this issue on feminist historical methods, to have had so many important pieces of writing and thinking entrusted to me over these last few years. 1/
online.ucpress.edu/fmh/issue/11/4
Volume 11 Issue 4 | Feminist Media Histories | University of California Press
online.ucpress.edu
October 30, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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miriamposner.com
Whatever strategy you’re about to suggest, we’ve thought about it. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
ChatGPT Harm Reduction for Writing Assignments
ChatGPT Harm Reduction for Writing Assignments Because this document has escaped containment, a couple points of explanation. I wrote this for myself and a few colleagues as we work out how to handle...
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October 28, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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leguinbot.bsky.social
What will the creature made all of seadrift do on the dry sand of daylight; what will the mind do, each morning, waking?
October 26, 2025 at 4:11 AM
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arthistoryanimalia.bsky.social
Resharing for #MoleDay !
arthistoryanimalia.bsky.social Art History Animalia @arthistoryanimalia.bsky.social · Dec 31
For #ManuscriptMonday / #MedievalMonday: a cute little #mole in a 13th c. English #bestiary!
British Library Harley MS 3244 fol 49v (England, c. 1236-1250)
detail from an illuminated medieval manuscript, illustration of a mole in a bestiary, drawn as a cute little grey creature with back legs standing up on lettering and front webbed legs facing forward, as if digging through the text
October 24, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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dan-sinnamon.bsky.social
Today is pub day for my third book: Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century. It is a handbook on how to read. It argues for the foundational importance of *caring* to thought. It offers an anatomy of close reading's five steps so we can hone the skills to perform them. It argues for why to read
October 21, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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archaeoborders.bsky.social
“In the stories of these creatures, we glimpse both our fear of the wild past and our responsibility for the future.” Wise words indeed
The medieval folklore of Britain’s endangered wildlife ‘omens’ – from hedgehogs to nightjars
Medieval people believed that witches would transform into hedgehogs to steal milk.
theconversation.com
October 20, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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leilaessai.bsky.social
“Just tell me where you are, Habibi. I will come and get you.” If you read one thing today, read this by @abunour.bsky.social
abdallahaljazzar.bsky.social Abdallah Aljazzar @abdallahaljazzar.bsky.social · Oct 18
Honoured to have my article published in @irishtimes.com today. A piece of me and Gaza and Nour — on paper. ❤️

www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
October 19, 2025 at 5:59 AM
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hanatiss.bsky.social
Yes, this! “Our tool can design whole curriculum for you” - no, thank you, that’s the part of my job I enjoy the most.
theferocity.bsky.social Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · Oct 20
That’s the other thing that baffles me about AI and creative writing, actually.

The work IS the joy for me. I don’t want to be able to snap my fingers and have a completed “product.” I want to be transformed by the process. I’m an author but I do this because I enjoy the rigor of being a writer.
theferocity.bsky.social Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · Oct 20
In terms of process, I enjoy writing but revising????? Oh, that’s my real kink. A second or third draft???? A fourth???? Making tweaks on my desktop AND my phone???? *moans* I’m a WHORE for revision.
October 20, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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October 18, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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monalisavitti.bsky.social
by Sylvia Plath, for the season
October 10, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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isaliba.bsky.social
UN experts* urged Germany to stop criminalising, punishing, & suppressing legitimate Palestinian solidarity activism.

“We are alarmed by the persistent pattern of police violence & apparent suppression of Palestine solidarity activism by Germany” they said.

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UN experts urge Germany to halt criminalisation and police violence against Palestinian solidarity activism
GENEVA – UN experts* today urged Germany to stop criminalising, punishing, and suppressing legitimate Palestinian solidarity activism.“We are alarmed by the persistent pattern of police violence and a...
www.ohchr.org
October 16, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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jennyleetsch.bsky.social
Sharing, as always, my syllabi for the new term! One class on 🤖Afrofuturism🤖, the other on 🌿Postcolonial Ecologies🌿. And as I have deleted my Academia account (see below), I will now be uploading the files on my own website (hcommons is also a good alternative): www.jenniferleetsch.com/teaching
October 13, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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theresaheyd.bsky.social
my gen AI teaching statement
Summary: If we work together, in the context of my teaching, or as part of prospective or ongoing supervision of term papers, projects, BA and MA theses, predoctoral and postdoctoral projects, I ask you and expect you to not make use of generative AI tools. In the context of writing and linguistic research, this concerns first and foremost the textual output of Large Language Models, but also extends to generative tools for image and video synthesis. I do not use generative AI in my teaching, research, preparation, assessing, grading, or interaction with you, and I expect the same of you. The only reasonable use case I currently see for generative AI tools is doing critical sociolinguistic research on them – not with them – and if this is something you are interested in pursuing, please feel free to reach out. Please do not use generative AI to produce text that you submit to me for supervision or grading. This includes portions of text (“only the abstract”, “only the literature review”), draft versions, and related textual work such as shortening, expanding, summarizing, editing your own work. Please do not use generative AI for the development of research questions, hypotheses, data and method outlines, literature reviews, or bibliographies. Please do not use generative AI for the generation of data, or for the interpretation of data. Please do not use generative AI to circumvent reading, e.g. by generating digests of summarized research literature. Please do not use generative AI for your processes of brainstorming, pondering, reasoning, doubting, rejecting, and generally thinking and wondering about the work you are engaged in.
October 14, 2025 at 4:23 PM