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Kit Bauserman (ABD)
@kitbauserman.bsky.social
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Ph.D. Candidate @ W&M | Dissertating on Fieldwork, the Gothic & the Digital Humanities | Aesthetics | Environmental Gothic | Digital Cultures | CNU Alum | They/Them

SSAG Social Media Coord.
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If your solstice felt a little gloomy, check out our very own president's Dark Solstice 2025 radio show!

www.mixcloud.com/cypheractive...

#SSAG #DarkNationRadio #DJcypher #gothicmusic
Dark Nation Radio Presents A Dark Solstice 2025
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December 22, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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ssag.bsky.social
Be sure to keep an eye on the SSAG website and our mailing list for a variety of gothic and horror-related cfps and other announcements!

CFPS: americangothicsociety.com/calls-for-pa...

Listserv: www.freelists.org/list/america...

#SSAG #GothicLit #Horror #cfp
FreeLists / Society for the Study of the American Gothic
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December 22, 2025 at 5:31 PM
kitbauserman.bsky.social
Reading some of John Burroughs In the Catskills collection tonight. He is of a slightly different orientation than the nature writers I have encountered so far, but is incredibly enjoyable to read. Definitely should get some use out of his work!
December 18, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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ssag.bsky.social
Study abroad opportunity!
"Haunted Tourism in Scotland"
appstate.via-trm.com/program_broc...

Dates: June 2 - 13, 2026

Dr. Susan Weidman and Chelsea Wilson Thayer are leading a course on haunted history from historical and business perspectives. Details in the link!

#StudyAbroad #SSAG
Brochure | Program Overview
appstate.via-trm.com
December 17, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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joshisimmigration.bsky.social
One of the biggest moments of my career:
USCIS canceled my client’s naturalization oath ceremony. We filed a lawsuit, went to trial, and the judge swore him in right there in the courtroom!
December 16, 2025 at 3:21 PM
kitbauserman.bsky.social
I passed my dissertation proposal defense earlier today! Excited to be writing on fieldwork-based approaches to studying the digital humanities and gothic texts!
December 9, 2025 at 4:24 AM
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meanlouise.bsky.social
For whatever reason this caught fire over the weekend & my mentions have just been a sea of the word #MondayMotivation for going on 3 days & my brain wants it to be Tuesday now.
December 1, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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Registration is now open for March SSAG Symposium participants using this link: americangothicsociety.com/symposium-re.... Please register (and be an SSAG member in good standing) by February 1st to avoid being dropped from the program.
Symposium Registration – Society for the Study of the American Gothic
americangothicsociety.com
December 1, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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ssag.bsky.social
CFP for Folk Horror on Television. Details in the image.

We are currently seeking proposals of 500 words. Proposals should be emailed to [email protected] AND [email protected]. Closing date for proposals is 15 January 2026, and we intend to respond by 23 February 2026.

#CFP #SSAG
November 24, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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Join us @cbuniversity.bsky.social! #job ca.indeed.com/m/viewjob?jk...
Assistant Professor - English (Digital Narratives) - Sydney, NS - Indeed.com
Cape Breton University
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November 20, 2025 at 11:58 AM
kitbauserman.bsky.social
Accidentally attempted one of the most challenging sections of this trail which I had purposefully tried to avoid and got two miles in before deciding to calling it. Slope for the path seemed too challenging and did not want to risk falling into the ocean. Still got to see some incredible views.
November 15, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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mollyknight.bsky.social
Democrats seem to think the pivoting to the center makes them most electable but all it does it piss *everyone* off.

Having beliefs/a backbone and being authentic is the best way to win elections. People are fucking sick of croneyism and corporate suck ups and that is why Zohran cruised to victory
November 10, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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meanlouise.bsky.social
I'm honored to receive the Loretta Lance award from the Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association. Thanks to my Disability Studies co-chair, @meredithea.bsky.social who accepted in my absence.

Picture is from a prior MAPACA trip to Philly for the (closed) Frankenstein & Dracula exhibit
A white woman with chin-length dark hair stands in front of a red wall wearing a black Faculty of Horror t-shirt and black jeans. This was the entrance to the now-closed temporary exhibit, Frankenstein & Dracula: Gothic Monsters/Gothic Science, at the Rosenbach in Philadelphia, PA. The photo is labeled 2025 Loretta Lorance Volunteer Recognition Award and MAPACA. It was shamelessly stolen from the MAPACA instagram.
November 7, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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Please join our Gothic Reading Group on November 7 @ 2:30PM EST for a discussion of Maryse Condé's I, TITUBA, BLACK WITCH OF SALEM.
Here's the Zoom registration link:
gmu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

#SSAG #GothicLiterature #ReadingGroup
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Gothic Reading Group: I, TITUBA, BLACK WITCH OF SALEM. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Gothic Reading Group: I, TITUBA, BLACK WITCH OF SALEM. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
gmu.zoom.us
November 5, 2025 at 7:51 AM
kitbauserman.bsky.social
I found this gem in a local bookstore.
November 3, 2025 at 5:50 AM
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roryblank.bsky.social
Let's Learn about types of ghosts
A roughly drawn chart with large text at the top that says "recognizing ghost types" with a subtitle that says "there are many kinds of ghosts and we can learn about all of them, ok" Then there are several drawings of different ghosts, mostly sheet ghosts of sorts Rude - on a skateboard, flipping the bird Discreet - wearing sunglasses and a hat Long - long Hunk - has handsome chiseled features Forgotten Chores - is looking at a to do list Satan - has horns Pervert - has a giant foot Melting - goop Dad - has a mustache and wrinkles Bird - has a beak and wings Sultry - is laying down with a hand on its head 2 Parter - is cut in two horizontally Freaky - a weird looking one that has arms and legs and giant eyes and a sideways mouth Past Memory - inside a polaroid Floating Head - you can figure this out, it's a severed head Flat - i think you get the idea tiny - very small, this is also self explanatory mouth - mouth video tape - a small ghost coming out of a tape silly - wearing groucho glasses and has a fake arrow through head headband And a big one in the center labeled "normal style"
October 29, 2025 at 8:32 PM
kitbauserman.bsky.social
Just submitted an application for my first ACLS fellowship. This feels surreal.
October 27, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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hookland.bsky.social
As C.L. Nolan said: “We must acknowledge there are places where the land growls.”
theghostmonk.bsky.social The Ghost Monk @theghostmonk.bsky.social · Oct 19
"[Kipling] told me that in his own part of Sussex he had noticed a sharp division between benevolent lands and tracts of the countryside which seemed maleficent. 'There is a wood, he told me, 'which is full of a sense of ferocity and evil, secretive and menacing.'"
- R T Hopkins
#Hookland #Kipling
Illustration by Mervyn Peake from an edition of the tales of the Brothers Grimm. It shows a child in a creepy, gnarly wood and she is looking back over her shoulder as if she has realised something is following her.
October 19, 2025 at 7:00 PM
kitbauserman.bsky.social
I need to put that Gordon Lightfoot's "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" inspired one of my dissertation chapters somewhere in the body.
October 19, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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ssag.bsky.social
Please join our Gothic Reading Group on November 7 @ 2:30PM EST for a discussion of Maryse Condé's I, TITUBA, BLACK WITCH OF SALEM.
Here's the Zoom registration link:
gmu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

#SSAG #GothicLiterature #ReadingGroup
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Gothic Reading Group: I, TITUBA, BLACK WITCH OF SALEM. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Gothic Reading Group: I, TITUBA, BLACK WITCH OF SALEM. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
gmu.zoom.us
October 18, 2025 at 6:55 PM
kitbauserman.bsky.social
I never imagined I would spend a Saturday in grad school parsing through 17th- and 18th-century sermons as part of my work on horror/American Gothic media.
October 18, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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ssag.bsky.social
Please join our Gothic Reading Group on November 7 @ 2:30PM EST for a discussion of Maryse Condé's I, TITUBA, BLACK WITCH OF SALEM.
Here's the Zoom registration link:
gmu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

#SSAG #GothicLiterature #ReadingGroup
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Gothic Reading Group: I, TITUBA, BLACK WITCH OF SALEM. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Gothic Reading Group: I, TITUBA, BLACK WITCH OF SALEM. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
gmu.zoom.us
October 6, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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“October Country... that country where it is always turning late in the year. That country where the hills are fog and the rivers are mist; where noons go quickly, dusks and twilights linger, and midnights stay."

~ Ray Bradbury

#October
October 1, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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Tomorrow is the deadline!
ssag.bsky.social Society for the Study of the American Gothic @ssag.bsky.social · Sep 27
Proposals for our Biannual conference in Salem, MA, "American Nightmares II: Return to Salem" are due Oct. 1st, 2025. Please check our website for details:

americangothicsociety.com/symposium/
#SSAG #CFP #Conference #GothicLiterature
American Nightmares II: Return to Salem – Society for the Study of the American Gothic
americangothicsociety.com
September 30, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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Sydney Mortimer Laurence (1865-1940)
"The North Star" c.1920.
Oil on Canvas.
September 29, 2025 at 7:29 AM