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Jillian Sayre
@jillio.bsky.social
Director, Mid-Atlantic Regional Center for the Humanities (MARCH)
Associate Professor, English
Rutgers-Camden

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the halftime show was not only fantastic but I am so excited for the future 90-part tiktok analyses that demonstrate the importance of close reading. “Treat this text like Kendrick Lamar wrote it” is now a standard part of my class prompts.
February 10, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Google Arts and Culture app wanted me to think about this painting today. I wonder why. (Reader, I do not in fact wonder why) “Rockwell's political statement expressed the right of American citizens to understand their government's actions.”

https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/FAHHqjmF3M3APg
February 3, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Had so much fun talking “book history on a budget” w/ @ldicuirci.bsky.social at the Bibliographical Society of America this weekend (also featuring MARCH makerspace researcher Sophia Westfall and her experiments with ink and paper!) Am so grateful for the great conversations all day long
January 27, 2025 at 1:12 AM
You know what’s the best part of hiking in Iceland? You get to do it with sheep.
July 19, 2023 at 11:37 PM
I’ve been hiking for a week in Iceland and it was pretty cool.
July 18, 2023 at 8:31 PM
My partner thought it was weird when I put Jeff VanderMeer’s birthday on our calendar but I needed a reminder:
I turn 55 today. Have a hummingbird I saw two years ago at this time. And all I want for my birthday are donations to my new enviro nonprofit, if you can: https://www.sunshinestatebiodiversitygroup.com/donate
July 7, 2023 at 5:29 PM
The hottest social media app is called Loomings. it gathers people who have little or no money in their purse and those who have nothing particular to interest them on shore and sends them to sail about a little and see the watery parts of the world.

Watch the rope.
July 6, 2023 at 10:03 PM
Just hanging out with friends in the pollinator garden
July 5, 2023 at 8:56 PM
I’ve been limiting myself to Bookwyrm and Instagram for a while now so please forgive me if I default to posting pictures of rocks I’ve met and quotes from books I’m reading for non-work purposes.
July 5, 2023 at 6:09 PM