Katherine Bowers 🌻
@katiabowers.bsky.social
19C russophone lit studies scholar interested in genre, realism, the novel, gothic, digital humanities, and environmental humanities 👻 book nerd and Data-Sitter 📚 transnational dumpling enthusiast 🥟 https://katherinebowers.hcommons.org
Look what I just got! Thank you, @ankahajkova.bsky.social! Excited to read!
November 14, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Look what I just got! Thank you, @ankahajkova.bsky.social! Excited to read!
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Maybe it’s just the Humanities professor in me, but let it be noted that events of today (ahem) have demonstrated the value of being able to assess a large volume of qualitative data and do careful textual analysis with deep attention to context.
November 13, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Maybe it’s just the Humanities professor in me, but let it be noted that events of today (ahem) have demonstrated the value of being able to assess a large volume of qualitative data and do careful textual analysis with deep attention to context.
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Modern Languages students at the University of Nottingham have started a petition to save languages degrees. Please sign and share www.change.org/p/stop-the-r...
Sign the Petition
Stop the removal of Modern Languages courses at the University of Nottingham!
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November 7, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Modern Languages students at the University of Nottingham have started a petition to save languages degrees. Please sign and share www.change.org/p/stop-the-r...
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Staggering harm is being done to #language learning in Higher Ed. No oversight or strategic thinking, with cold spots now present. Petitions alone this week in response to closures:
Nottingham · Change.org
Leicester · Change.org
#edusky #langsky @britishacademy.bsky.social @hetanshah.bsky.social
Nottingham · Change.org
Leicester · Change.org
#edusky #langsky @britishacademy.bsky.social @hetanshah.bsky.social
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November 12, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Staggering harm is being done to #language learning in Higher Ed. No oversight or strategic thinking, with cold spots now present. Petitions alone this week in response to closures:
Nottingham · Change.org
Leicester · Change.org
#edusky #langsky @britishacademy.bsky.social @hetanshah.bsky.social
Nottingham · Change.org
Leicester · Change.org
#edusky #langsky @britishacademy.bsky.social @hetanshah.bsky.social
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Petition started by students in Modern Languages at the University of Leicester. The department has been told it will close despite its stellar NSS record and brilliant teaching and research - the same devastating short-term thinking as elsewhere. Please sign and share www.change.org/p/save-moder...
Sign the Petition
Save Modern Languages courses at the University of Leicester
www.change.org
November 12, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Petition started by students in Modern Languages at the University of Leicester. The department has been told it will close despite its stellar NSS record and brilliant teaching and research - the same devastating short-term thinking as elsewhere. Please sign and share www.change.org/p/save-moder...
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Holy shit, just learned about the typewriter art of Montserrat Alberich Escardívol, a Catalan typist. Using an extra wide typewriter and 180 color ribbons, she built up elaborate images from simple characters like 'm' and '.' and ';'. Here is her typewritten painting of the Cathedral of Barcelona.
November 12, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Holy shit, just learned about the typewriter art of Montserrat Alberich Escardívol, a Catalan typist. Using an extra wide typewriter and 180 color ribbons, she built up elaborate images from simple characters like 'm' and '.' and ';'. Here is her typewritten painting of the Cathedral of Barcelona.
I've just signed this petition to save modern languages at the University of Nottingham: c.org/WjsgXNLstG
We Can Make an Impact.
Stop the removal of Modern Languages courses at the University of Nottingham!
c.org
November 12, 2025 at 1:19 AM
I've just signed this petition to save modern languages at the University of Nottingham: c.org/WjsgXNLstG
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Join us November 17th, 2:30-4 pm for "Of Bubbies and Bundists: Re-approaching Modern Eastern European Jewish History" by Dr. Itamar Manoff! This talk is co-sponsored by the UBC Jewish Faculty Network and funded by the UBC Equity and Inclusion Office StEAR Grant.
November 6, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Join us November 17th, 2:30-4 pm for "Of Bubbies and Bundists: Re-approaching Modern Eastern European Jewish History" by Dr. Itamar Manoff! This talk is co-sponsored by the UBC Jewish Faculty Network and funded by the UBC Equity and Inclusion Office StEAR Grant.
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UBC’s department of Computer Science invites applications for up to 2 full-time tenure-track positions. The department is particularly interested in researchers in: visualization, robotics, reinforcement learning, data management, and data mining. @cs.ubc.ca
science.ubc.ca/about/careers
science.ubc.ca/about/careers
October 21, 2025 at 5:07 PM
UBC’s department of Computer Science invites applications for up to 2 full-time tenure-track positions. The department is particularly interested in researchers in: visualization, robotics, reinforcement learning, data management, and data mining. @cs.ubc.ca
science.ubc.ca/about/careers
science.ubc.ca/about/careers
John's game is on sale! If you want to have more twine-powered text-based space exploration in your life, definitely check it out! 🚀 🪐 👾
Beyond the Chiron Gate is 50% off on Steam as part of the Roguelike Celebration @roguelike.club sale! Along with many other cool games!
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Explore an endless text-based universe filled with exotic planets, strange life forms, and ancient civilisations. Manage a crew of space explorers, upgrade their ship, and brave dangerous worlds to ga...
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October 21, 2025 at 9:37 PM
John's game is on sale! If you want to have more twine-powered text-based space exploration in your life, definitely check it out! 🚀 🪐 👾
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And yes we need things like translations of German classics by people who have Black studies in mind, so yes, we do need new translations
One translation is never definitively sufficient
One translation is never definitively sufficient
October 21, 2025 at 6:08 PM
And yes we need things like translations of German classics by people who have Black studies in mind, so yes, we do need new translations
One translation is never definitively sufficient
One translation is never definitively sufficient
UBC friends, the Centre for European Studies is opening its student research fellow competition again this year. Undergraduates and graduates are welcome to apply! Please share with your students who are working on any topic related to Europe! See below!
Applications for our CES Fellowships are LIVE! Winners receive a $250 stipend, a shared work station in the Centre for WT2026 T2, and the opportunity to present their research findings to the broader UBC community! Competition closes Nov. 15! Apply here: ces.cms.arts.ubc.ca?p=16093
UBC
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October 17, 2025 at 12:58 AM
UBC friends, the Centre for European Studies is opening its student research fellow competition again this year. Undergraduates and graduates are welcome to apply! Please share with your students who are working on any topic related to Europe! See below!
Friends, if you're interested in thinking about time machines and media at this event, but not in the Vancouver area, you can join via Zoom also! The link for registration (or to rsvp for in person if you are at UBC) is here: ces.ubc.ca/events/event...
Join us October 15th in the IKBLC Dodson Room for the UBC Time Machine Symposium! This symposium will explore the ways that audiovisual and other media can be considered as time machines and to function as media archaeologies of the future.
October 10, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Friends, if you're interested in thinking about time machines and media at this event, but not in the Vancouver area, you can join via Zoom also! The link for registration (or to rsvp for in person if you are at UBC) is here: ces.ubc.ca/events/event...
Woohoo!
Dr. Katherine Bowers and Dr. Kate Holland (U of Toronto) have received a SSHRC Insight Grant for the project “Computational Dostoevsky.” This funding will support the project through 2029.
@katiabowers.bsky.social @fyodor76.bsky.social
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@katiabowers.bsky.social @fyodor76.bsky.social
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UBC
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October 9, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Woohoo!
Excited to host this talk by Tatiana Filimonova next week in the Centre for European Studies about the creation of this anthology of Siberian Indigenous writing! This one is only in person, so join us there, UBC people! Oct 16, 3pm, details below.
This talk will present "Reindeer Caravan: An Anthology of Indigenous Writing from Siberia" – a book that is currently being prepared for publication with Amherst College Press. Learn more on our website: ces.ubc.ca/events/event...
*Co-sponsored by @ubcenglish.bsky.social & @ubc-cenes.bsky.social
*Co-sponsored by @ubcenglish.bsky.social & @ubc-cenes.bsky.social
October 7, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Excited to host this talk by Tatiana Filimonova next week in the Centre for European Studies about the creation of this anthology of Siberian Indigenous writing! This one is only in person, so join us there, UBC people! Oct 16, 3pm, details below.
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#litcrit pals, a really interesting question about the history of discipline from a graduate student here, a question that has me totally stumped:
"which journal in literary criticism was the first to implement modern peer review?" (I think he might mean blind review)
Thank you for your suggestions!
"which journal in literary criticism was the first to implement modern peer review?" (I think he might mean blind review)
Thank you for your suggestions!
October 7, 2025 at 3:20 AM
#litcrit pals, a really interesting question about the history of discipline from a graduate student here, a question that has me totally stumped:
"which journal in literary criticism was the first to implement modern peer review?" (I think he might mean blind review)
Thank you for your suggestions!
"which journal in literary criticism was the first to implement modern peer review?" (I think he might mean blind review)
Thank you for your suggestions!
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For people wanting a distraction from the end of the world who are into critical making/literary DH/info viz/Dickinson, I'm giving a talk on 7 Oct (12pm EST/5pm GMT) at @scholarslab.bsky.social on plotspaces, a thing I invented to think about spatial imaginaries cal.lib.virginia.edu/event/15242444
October 6, 2025 at 4:50 PM
For people wanting a distraction from the end of the world who are into critical making/literary DH/info viz/Dickinson, I'm giving a talk on 7 Oct (12pm EST/5pm GMT) at @scholarslab.bsky.social on plotspaces, a thing I invented to think about spatial imaginaries cal.lib.virginia.edu/event/15242444
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If you are a supporter and reader of @contingent-mag.bsky.social one of the biggest things you can do to help us at the moment is get this CFP to the NTT folks in your life. The fracturing of social media has made it very difficult to get the word out esp. to adjuncts and VAPs.
CFP: A Time of Monsters
The monster has been here all along. It is a historical constant that manifests in wildly different ways across time, place, and culture. Whatever form it takes, the monster claws at categories; it un...
contingentmagazine.org
October 5, 2025 at 9:41 PM
If you are a supporter and reader of @contingent-mag.bsky.social one of the biggest things you can do to help us at the moment is get this CFP to the NTT folks in your life. The fracturing of social media has made it very difficult to get the word out esp. to adjuncts and VAPs.
Excited about this talk next week also! 🥕 🥦 🥬 📖 This one is in person or online on Thurs, Oct 9 at 12:45pm Pacific - join us!
In this colloquium talk, @ubcenglish.bsky.social professor Vin Nardizzi will provide an overview of his recently published book, Marvellous Vegetables in the English Renaissance.
Join us October 9th in BuTo 997 or over Zoom!
Join us October 9th in BuTo 997 or over Zoom!
October 3, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Excited about this talk next week also! 🥕 🥦 🥬 📖 This one is in person or online on Thurs, Oct 9 at 12:45pm Pacific - join us!
On Oct 14 @ 12:30pm Pacific @chloespumpkins.bsky.social is giving a Sawchen Lecture! It's about how #19thC artistic production evaluates and represents history (using the example of Koz'ma Minin). It's virtual! All are welcome, and you can learn more & register here: cenes.ubc.ca/events/event...
October 3, 2025 at 5:23 PM
On Oct 14 @ 12:30pm Pacific @chloespumpkins.bsky.social is giving a Sawchen Lecture! It's about how #19thC artistic production evaluates and represents history (using the example of Koz'ma Minin). It's virtual! All are welcome, and you can learn more & register here: cenes.ubc.ca/events/event...
U of T is hiring a Slavic Comparativist with a preferred focus on media and/or digital studies!
We have a job going in my department! jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...
Assistant Professor - Slavic Comparativist
Assistant Professor - Slavic Comparativist
jobs.utoronto.ca
October 2, 2025 at 4:10 PM
U of T is hiring a Slavic Comparativist with a preferred focus on media and/or digital studies!
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The North American #Dostoevsky Society invites applications for the Deborah A. Martinsen Conference Travel Award. This cycle will support an award of up to $1000 towards the cost of attending the 2025 @aseees.bsky.social Convention. The deadline is September 29.
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Call for Applications: 2025 Deborah A. Martinsen Conference Travel Award
The North American Dostoevsky Society stands with all the people of Ukraine, Russia, and the rest of the world who condemn the Russian invasion of Ukraine. See our statement here. The North America…
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September 19, 2025 at 4:30 PM
The North American #Dostoevsky Society invites applications for the Deborah A. Martinsen Conference Travel Award. This cycle will support an award of up to $1000 towards the cost of attending the 2025 @aseees.bsky.social Convention. The deadline is September 29.
bloggerskaramazov.com/2025/09/18/c...
bloggerskaramazov.com/2025/09/18/c...
Since so many people in my timeline seem to be considering deleting academia.edu, here's a thing I wrote ages ago that is still mostly up to date info about good ways to share your academic work green open access: blog.seej.org/index.php/20...
The Ins and Outs of Open Access
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September 17, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Since so many people in my timeline seem to be considering deleting academia.edu, here's a thing I wrote ages ago that is still mostly up to date info about good ways to share your academic work green open access: blog.seej.org/index.php/20...
In excellent news, this beauty arrived at my office today! So happy to see it making its way around the world to our truly global author list. And especially happy to finally hold the finished (and weighty!) volume in my own hands!
September 16, 2025 at 11:54 PM
In excellent news, this beauty arrived at my office today! So happy to see it making its way around the world to our truly global author list. And especially happy to finally hold the finished (and weighty!) volume in my own hands!
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“As scholars of literature, we have something desperately important to teach our students: what and how we read matters.” Today on the blog, Vadim Shneyder sits down with Melissa Frazier to discuss #Dostoevsky, #science, and the power of #language:
bloggerskaramazov.com/2025/09/15/a...
bloggerskaramazov.com/2025/09/15/a...
A Chat with Melissa Frazier about Signs of the Material World
The North American Dostoevsky Society stands with all the people of Ukraine, Russia, and the rest of the world who condemn the Russian invasion of Ukraine. See our statement here. Today Vadim …
bloggerskaramazov.com
September 15, 2025 at 6:38 PM
“As scholars of literature, we have something desperately important to teach our students: what and how we read matters.” Today on the blog, Vadim Shneyder sits down with Melissa Frazier to discuss #Dostoevsky, #science, and the power of #language:
bloggerskaramazov.com/2025/09/15/a...
bloggerskaramazov.com/2025/09/15/a...