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Talia Schaffer
@taliaschaffer.bsky.social

I like thinking about Victorian care, disability, feminism, and also cooking (not necessarily Victorian).

Art 32%
History 23%
The clergy just keep coming to this anti-ICE protest.

Genuinely unclear where they all will go — it’s packed outside on the sidewalk already.
In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.
📣 Calling all experts on 18th-century Britain! Apply for this fantastic job by 15 Feb. 📣
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQE665/a...
Associate Professorship in Eighteenth Century History at University of Oxford
An opportunity for an academic position as a Associate Professorship in Eighteenth Century History is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openings.
www.jobs.ac.uk
Sharing this Assistant Professor position in Science, Technology & Society Studies at Maastricht University. The role focuses on sustainability and environmental challenges - great fit for STS scholars working at the intersection of technology and society. #AcademicJobs #STS

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Birkbeck is hiring a Lecturer in Medieval Studies (c.1300-1500), full-time and open-ended.

They will be formally based in English but expected to be able to contribute about 0.5FTE to History, including teaching and supervision.

Closing date Feb 23rd: cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...

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We are still accepting applications for a #tenured #associateprofessor in #QueerStudies @blsbaruch.bsky.social with an appointment @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social! Besides the base salary, there’s summer salary and research support. Application deadline is now Jan 5.

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Jobs | City University of New York
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Last post for the year to say that @jcblibrary.bsky.social we've been thinking hard about how to support scholars and scholarship amidst the multi-dimensional crises for humanities research. We remain committed to our traditional fellowships (indeed in the wake of NEH revocation we expanded), but 1/

For civilians: an academic dept typically has to out maneuver other depts to get a tenure line! I tell grad students applying to red state jobs to indicate that they are familiar with & would be happy spending a decade or more there. A single sentence has moved them to the top of a pile. 1/

@sinsleyh.bsky.social offers a characteristically thoughtful, generous and appreciative assessment of Austeniana. I want to read the graphic novel!
Stephanie Insley Hershinow surveys recent Austen-related works on Jane Austen's 250th birthday: "Austen offers endless opportunity for examination and reexamination; still, it might be fair to ask what more one can say about our dear Jane." https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/happy-birthday-jane/
🗃️ My History Department is hiring for a tenure track position in Native American history. See link for details!

jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...
​Assistant or Associate Professor of History
jobs.colorado.edu

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Stephanie Insley Hershinow surveys recent Austen-related works on Jane Austen's 250th birthday: "Austen offers endless opportunity for examination and reexamination; still, it might be fair to ask what more one can say about our dear Jane." https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/happy-birthday-jane/
There is an absolute fucking scandal going down at The New School, wherein at appears that the university is funnelling to a MEMBER OF THE SCHOOL’S BOARD while purging faculty and staff.

This should be headline news.

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What a devastating and brilliant article on "education’s auto-cannibalism: universities consuming their own purpose while cheerfully marketing the tools of their undoing." But the good news is that our students are fighting their institutions' betrayal.
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself
Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.
www.currentaffairs.org

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Job Posting: Victorian Periodicals Review Associate Editor (Application Deadline: 12/15/25) navsa.org/News/13568271
NAVSA - Job Posting: Victorian Periodicals Review Associate Editor (Application Deadline: 12/15/25)
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"Penn does not maintain information on employees’ religion"

Gift link to article. Link to petition supporting Penn's refusal to collect and hand over this information below.
Federal Suit Seeking Names of Some Jewish Employees at Penn Sparks Backlash
www.nytimes.com

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Wonderful #Tiles in the chancel at St Oswald's, Ashbourne, part of the refitting by George Gilbert Scott. Such intricate patterns, & a fascinating study of them by Rita Wood! victorianweb.org/art/design/c...
"[admin]...who regard the...students of their own universities with such contempt as to be undeserving of the education that in many cases those administrators themselves, or their parents, or their children received...are an enemy of the educational enterprise"

🎁 link

www.wsj.com/opinion/mont...
Opinion | Montclair State’s Inhumanity to the Humanities
Goodbye, English department. Hello, Institute for Complex Systems and Algorithmic Infused Societies.
www.wsj.com

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Behold the tragicomic catastrophe at Montclair State as their admin tries to replace departments with vacuous corporate pablum, for reasons even they don't understand. Adam Rzepka is blazing on this: academeblog.org/2025/11/13/t...
The Eternal Synergy of the Spotless Mind
BY ADAM RZEPKA A large public university is wiping out all of its humanities departments. It isn’t sure why. As I write this, our Interim Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHSS…
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If you or anyone you know would be interested in a GREAT Victorian studies conference in the spring, here's the CFP. Proposals due Dec 6. Especially let anyone within driving distance of Cincinnati know! The lovely @nathankhensley.bsky.social will be keynote speaker. midwestvictorian.org/conference/
Conference
“The Underground: Prohibition, Abolition, Expression”2026 Call for Papers April 10-12, 2026, hosted by Xavier University, Cincinnati, Ohio. Baker Street Station on the Metropolitan Railway, 1863 &#…
midwestvictorian.org
The Dept of Biology at Loyola University. Chicago has an open lecturer position in Gender, Sexuality, and the Biology of Sex. The successful candidate will have a 50% affiliation with the Women's Studies and Gender Studies program and 50% Dept of Biology.
www.careers.luc.edu/postings/34131
Biology and Women’s Studies and Gender Studies, Lecturer (Gender, Sexuality, and the Biology of Sex ), Non-Tenure track
Salary Range: $65,000 - $75,000Benefits Information: https://www.luc.edu/hr/benefits/The Department of Biology and the Women’s Studies and Gender Studies (WSGS) Program in the College of Arts and Scie...
www.careers.luc.edu

ok, this is worth being on Bsky for
In Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897), Dr Seward’s journals are famously ‘Kept in Phonograph’. Join me for a nerdy deep dive in which I, brandishing back-of-an-envelope math, calculate the cost of Seward's phonograph habit, & encounter a creature more uncanny than Dracula himself! 1/14 #Gothic
JOB
Assistant Professor in the History of Knowledge Pre-1400,
University of Cambridge

www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...
Assistant Professor in History of Knowledge Pre-1400
Applications are invited for the position of Assistant Professor in History of Knowledge Pre-1400, in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge. Please note
www.cam.ac.uk
honestly the only piece worth reading on the platner situation. @tressiemcphd.bsky.social is absolutely cooking here. (gift link)
Opinion | A Nazi Tattoo Exposes Democrats’ Greatest Weakness
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The Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies is hiring an Assistant/Associate Professor in Black Feminisms. Read more about the position and apply at https://go.umd.edu/WGSSBlackFeminisms🌈🎓 #AcademicSky #Blackademics #PhDSky

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Event: Victorianist Writing Retreat at Dickens Universe 2026 (Application Deadline: 12/1/25) navsa.org/News/13556934
NAVSA - Event: Victorianist Writing Retreat at Dickens Universe 2026 (Application Deadline: 12/1/25)
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