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Josie
@jotorresbarth.bsky.social
Asst. prof of TV/media studies. Current book project: US radio + TV horror anthologies 1940s-1960s, gender/domestic space + media technology, the uncanny. #FirstGen. She/her.
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My new article is out today in Adaptation!
"The Voice of the Woman in the Wall: Uncanny Narration as Domestic Critique in the Suspense Radio Adaptation of ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ (1948)"

academic.oup.com/adaptation/a...
The voice of the woman in the wall: uncanny narration as domestic critique in the Suspense radio adaptation of ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ (1948)
Abstract. This article argues for the significance of radio drama to studies of adaptation and gender through analysis of the Suspense radio play ‘The Yell
academic.oup.com
watching Death Becomes Her and bemoaning the fact that Hollywood no longer makes weird movies
November 28, 2025 at 3:52 AM
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Canada made weird tv shows because it was all being done with government funded art grant money so they fell in this wacky middle ground between “shoestring budget” and “no expectation to generate shareholder value” which is really the best way to make art
November 26, 2025 at 9:31 PM
playing “this book started as a dissertation” bingo
November 26, 2025 at 3:36 PM
coming to an #SCMS26 near you
November 25, 2025 at 10:28 PM
what did he do now
November 20, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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Just a reminder that the deadline for abstracts for this FREE, ONLINE, GRAD STUDENT WORKSHOP is a little less than two weeks away!
November 18, 2025 at 1:30 PM
my colleague told me there was a package for me in the department office “with a funny address label.” guess it’s good we’re a small school…
November 17, 2025 at 5:35 PM
I may live in the middle of nowhere but it’s walking distance from an Art Deco single-screen repertory theater that hosts a yearly festival of horror shorts
November 15, 2025 at 10:24 PM
read a review of the new Luca Guadagnino movie and………the Julia Roberts character is supposed to be pre-tenure??
November 13, 2025 at 1:06 AM
if you are anywhere within the last twenty minutes of a class and say the words “next week,” that class is now over
November 12, 2025 at 9:24 PM
looks like the back row of the second section of my Intro class
photos of Trump sleeping through yesterday's Oval Office event via Andrew Harnik of Getty
November 7, 2025 at 6:14 PM
ok who punked me by giving my email address to the Daily Wire and the Babylon Bee
November 7, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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hey y'all! my questionnaire on player experience in historical videogames is now LIVE! if you play videogames about the past, we want to hear from you! edu.nl/7w3yn
November 6, 2025 at 10:35 AM
watching a panel about a TV history topic featuring several historians and a TV critic and…I am surprised at the things that the critic is surprised by
November 5, 2025 at 11:43 PM
about to find out what students hated more: having to watch a feature-length silent experimental Soviet montage documentary or having to watch Real Housewives of New York
November 5, 2025 at 6:08 PM
admissions has asked whether a potential student can sit in on my Intro class....little do they know that's political economy day on the syllabus
November 5, 2025 at 4:49 PM
but New Yorkers love hating their mayor
November 5, 2025 at 2:53 AM
November 4, 2025 at 2:09 PM
finished teaching my second back-to-back class and, too tired to get my things together and leave, I stood at the podium until the motion-activated lights shut off
November 3, 2025 at 9:27 PM
once again mad at myself for not being born into generational wealth
November 3, 2025 at 5:25 PM
daylight savings ending means an extra hour for grading !!!
November 2, 2025 at 10:36 PM
!!! assigning this when I teach Gaslight next semester in Gender in Film and Media
In our time of the Gaslighter in Chief, the term “gaslighting” is nearly ubiquitous. Its origins in the film and stage versions are well known; but a recently uncovered lost version sheds new light on the meaning of the term, and what we should take away from it.
The Lost Ending of “Gaslight” That You Didn’t Know You Needed - Public Books
The only way to really understand the term is to sit down and watch the harrowing psychological film from which it got its name.
www.publicbooks.org
November 1, 2025 at 6:24 PM
went to look at the Duke UP 50% off sale and saw all the books I bought in the last sale and haven't read
October 29, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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If Dems win the Supreme Court races in Pennsylvania in 9 days, it’s extremely likely the GOP can’t get a majority on that court until 2029.

The GOP really wants to have this majority during the 2028 presidential race.

Can’t put the stakes any more clearly than that. boltsmag.org/pennsylvania...
Inside the Clunky Elections to Control Pennsylvania's Supreme Court - Bolts
The GOP is making an expensive push to end Democrats’ majority on a court at the center of election lawsuits, sparking a fledging campaign season with little precedent or template.
boltsmag.org
October 26, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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TWO great opportunities for graduate students in post45 literary studies in 2026! The Post45 Graduate Symposium @ Duke and @post45data.bsky.social’s virtual workshop for research with their data sets.
We're excited to host a virtual workshop where graduate students can present work-in-progress that engages with data from the Post45 Data Collective in some way.

Editors from the P45DC, Public Books, Post45, and the 19th Century DC will be there to offer feedback.

Proposals are due December 1!
DEAR GRAD STUDENTS,

This March @post45data.bsky.social will be holding a free, online mini-workshop for grads working in the fields of contemporary literature and culture.

More info / abstract submission here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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October 28, 2025 at 3:45 PM