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Historian, biographer, teacher, cat fan, New Yorker. Prof at Bronx Community College and @bam-bio-mem.bsky.social & @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social‬ Author of Emerson's Daughters from @umasspress.bsky.social
Great opportunity. #lifewriting
So excited to announce the Clio Fellowship for Archival Research! Applications are due March 1st, 2026 📣 More info here: biographersinternational.org/news/new-bio...
November 24, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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📢 Tomorrow!
Amanda Rubin-Lewis & Devorah Baum lead a powerful seminar on Beradt’s 'The Third Reich of Dreams' — a dream archive that reveals the psychological tremors of fascism.
🗓 25 Nov | 🕑 14:00
📍 Wolfson College + Zoom
🎟️ buff.ly/XdYgc3y
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November 24, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Tomorrow!! In-person and via Zoom. (Link for in person wasn't working for a few days, but it is back up). thoreaufarm.org/emersons-dau... @umasspress.bsky.social #lifewriting
Kate Culkin in Conversation with Megan Marshall: The Art of Biography and Emerson’s Daughters | Thoreau Farm
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November 19, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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Sandy Jimenez is one of our many brilliant graduates of @bam-bio-mem.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFWh...
Sandy Jimenez Interview on CUNY TV for URBAN U, about COMIC BOOKS October 13, 2025!!!
YouTube video by Sandy Jimenez
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November 6, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Great interview with BAM students Ausma Palmer and Meghan Racklin on their Eating Disorders in Life Writing Conference, to be held Friday 11/7, 9:30 to 5 pm at the CUNY Graduate Center:
www.gc.cuny.edu/news/student...
Students Turn Personal Experience into Scholarship With Conference on Eating Disorders and Life Writing
Biography and Memoir master’s students Meghan Racklin and Ausma Palmer bring new voices and perspectives to an overlooked and sensitive topic in memoir studies.
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November 5, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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NBC New York is just one of many news outlets featuring the Center for Urban Research’s fantastic election results map!
www.nbcnewyork.com/news/politic...
How did your neighborhood vote for NYC mayor? See breakdown by election district
The results are in. Zohran Mamdani was elected the next New York City mayor Tuesday night, capping a stunning ascent for the 34-year-old leftist. His economic and anti-establishment views resonated wi...
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November 6, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Love it that @umasspress.bsky.social is suggesting Emerson's Daughters as the gift "for the feminist" in your life. 40% off with the code HOLIDAY until Jan. 3. #lifewriting www.umasspress.com/tis-the-seas...
'Tis the season for giving books! Our annual holiday sale has arrived! - University of Massachusetts Press
The holidays are fast approaching, which means that it’s time for our annual holiday sale! In case you’re not sure what to buy, we’ve curated a list of
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November 4, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Great line up of classes in the fall for @bam-bio-mem.bsky.social @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social
Spring 2026 Classes in the Biography and Memoir MA Program!
November 3, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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Nov 13, 3pm-4:30pm @gctlc.bsky.social x PS2 @humanitiescuny.bsky.social present Sip n Chat F25 edition. Celebrating our 2025 ERI/PS2 Summer Public Research Fellows & TLC Fellows

Open to all students @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social — chat with your peers, snack away, & create community with us
October 29, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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This special issue focuses on testimonio as a genre that is inextricably connected to gender, class, and ethnicity and is used by women from the Américas to claim their agency while challenging multiple forms of oppression.

For more information:
centerforthehumanities.org/wsq-testimon...
October 29, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Today!
TOMORROW: Wednesday 10/29 from 3-4pm in @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social Room 6203.02: Join us for a conversation on oral history, friendship, and social movement research with faculty member Dr. Benjamin H. Shepard, where he'll discuss his latest book!

@commonnotions.bsky.social
October 29, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Happy publication day to @thewaroncars.bsky.social (Co-authored by @bam-bio-mem.bsky.social & @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social alum extraordinaire @sgoodyear.bsky.social )
It's finally here! "Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves From the Tyranny of the Automobile" is now available wherever you buy books. Thank you to everyone who has made this day possible, including our amazing podcast listeners. We hope everyone finds the book valuable!

www.lifeaftercars.com
October 21, 2025 at 7:33 PM
What an honor to have the brilliant biographer Megan Marshall agree to be in conversation with me at Thoreau Farm. Nov. 20--in person and streaming. thoreaufarm.org/emersons-dau... #lifewriting #thoreau #ralphwaldoemerson @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social
Kate Culkin in Conversation with Megan Marshall: The Art of Biography and Emerson’s Daughters | Thoreau Farm
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October 21, 2025 at 3:33 PM
The Ralph Waldo Emerson has scheduled two more tours of its exhibit on Ellen Tucker Emerson and Edith Emerson Forbes, after the first two sold out. Oct. 25 at 11 and 2. #ralphwaldoemerson #lifewriting
Emerson's Daughters: An Author's Tour of the Emerson House
Visit the Ralph Waldo Emerson House on October 25, 2025 for a special guided tour of the Ellen & Edith Exhibition with Kate Culkin, the author of Emerson’s Daughters. Ticket reservations are recommend...
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October 4, 2025 at 11:38 AM
An amazing piece by Mollie Barnes and Susanna Ashton about a staircase central to Harriet Jacobs' narrative. #harrietjacobs #materialculture
A staircase in a small, decorative arts museum tells a harrowing story of terror, abuse and enslavement
The staircase was originally acquired due to its craftsmanship. Only later did scholars realize that it was where Harriet Jacobs suffered abuse at the hands of her enslaver.
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September 30, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Tuesday!
September 30, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Reminder! I'm speaking at the Concord Free Public Library on Sept. 25. In person and also live streamed. This wonderful library was critical to my research for Emerson's Daughters. @umasspress.bsky.social #lifewriting
Emerson’s Daughters - Ellen Tucker Emerson, Edith Emerson Forbes, and Their Family Legacy
You are registering to attend this event in person. [Register for Live Stream]Professor Kate Culkin will discuss her new book,   Emerson’s Daughters - Ellen Tucker Emerson, Edith Emerson Forbes, and T...
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September 24, 2025 at 12:29 PM
This conference is being organized by two wonderful students in the @bam-bio-mem.bsky.social program @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social Should be great. #lifewriting
September 15, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Loved seeing this article honoring Richard Smith, a talented historian of Concord who is retiring from the role of Thoreau. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/s...
A Thoreau Impersonator Bids a Fond Farewell to Walden Pond
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September 12, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Can't wait for this event @cuny.edu next Tuesday. #lifewriting
September 6, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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Academics! Tell me! What are your favorite AI guidelines, approaches, policies? We're crowd-sourcing favs! padlet.com/huntercolleg...
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August 26, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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part two of my trip into Ginsberg, audiotape, war, rock, &c.
Allen Ginsberg's 1965
In my last post (see above), I was writing about Allen Ginsberg’s audiotape experiments, which he began in late 1965 and produced one of his greatest poems the following year, “Wichita Vortex Sutra.” ...
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July 15, 2025 at 8:31 PM
I'll be in conversation with Pat Valenti--biographer of Sophia Peabody Hawthorne and Rose Hawthorne Lathrop-on Sept 30. Sponsored by the Victorian Society of NY @umasspress.bsky.social @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social #lifewriting vicsocny.org/calendar/bey...
Beyond Self-Reliance: Biography, Recovery, and Women’s Contributions to the American Renaissance | The Metropolitan Chapter of the Victorian Society in America
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August 29, 2025 at 10:53 AM