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Talia Schaffer

@taliaschaffer.bsky.social

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

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Sami Schalk @drsamischalk.bsky.social · 7h

Job Alert! @uwmadisongws.bsky.social is hiring an assistant professor or recently tenured associate professor who works on gender or sexuality and aging. If this sounds like you, please apply! If it’s not you, please share with your networks.

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Assistant/Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies (RISE - THRIVE) - Madison, Wisconsin, United States

Current Employees: If you are currently employed at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process.Job Category:FacultyEmployment Type:Regula...

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Research Society for Victorian Periodicals @rs4vp.org · 1d

Are you doing #19thC attribution research? Do you have DH skills and nowhere to use them? YOU could be the next editor of the Curran Index! We're still accepting applications thru next week on 15 Oct. Lead this ongoing + fully supported DH project into its next iteration! rs4vp.org/curran-edito...

Lead the Curran Index as Our New Editor – RSVP

RSVP seeks a new Editor or Editors to lead the Curran Index! Applications should be sent to VP Alison Chapman by October 15.

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J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 2d

We're hiring. It's a real needle-in-a-haystack search for an experienced teacher who can help reimagine our flagship (i.e., huge) intro course for a new era. 3/3 load. Convenient to Hollywood and Holbox.

usccareers.usc.edu/job/los-ange...

Open-rank Assistant, Associate Professor of Cinema and Media Studies at USC

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 3d

You had me at “time”

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Marsh's Library @marshslibrary.bsky.social · 3d

Delightful doodles of some pipe smoking Georgians found by Maddock Fellow Danielle Magnusson on the works of Ben Jonson, printed in 1616 #Readers #Epigrams

Bottom corner of a 17th century book showing drawings

Title page of 'Epigrammes' by Ben Jonson, showing doodles at the bottom of the page

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Michael Yarbrough (he/him) @mwyarbrough.bsky.social · 17d

CUNY @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social is hiring two tenured associate professors in Black, Race, and Ethnic Studies! Review of applications begins October 1. See link for more info.

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Jobs | City University of New York

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Michael Yarbrough (he/him) @mwyarbrough.bsky.social · 17d

The CUNY Alliance to Defend Higher Education is outraged by UC-Berkeley admin's decision to simply turn over its constituents' personal data to the Trump Department of Ed.

We support our Berkeley colleagues and call on CUNY not to repeat this mistake

Add your voice here: forms.gle/Kd2PGNagHoLM...

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Research Society for Victorian Periodicals @rs4vp.org · 24d

Peterson Fellowships open today! Named for Yale professor and our dear friend, Linda H. Peterson, the Peterson Fellowship is designed to support one scholar for four full-time months conducting research focused on the British periodical press of long #19thC. Applications due Nov. 15!

The Linda H. Peterson Fellowship – RSVP

The Linda H. Peterson Fellowship was named after the widely influential Yale professor and longtime RSVP Board member and Vice President, Linda Peterson. The purpose of the Peterson Fellowship is to…

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Rachel Hope Cleves @rachelcleves.bsky.social · 27d

Come be my colleague! Research Chair in Trans Studies position open at @uvic.ca www.uvic.ca/faculty-staf...

SOSC/HUMS 250-108 - Faculty & staff - University of Victoria

Inspired by and honouring place, we are a community-minded, globally engaged university where we transform ideas into meaningful impact.

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Shannon Watts @shannonrwatts.bsky.social · 29d

The problem with allowing guns everywhere is that no one is safe anywhere.

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HigherJobz @higherjobz.bsky.social · Sep 9

#AssistantProfessor in #SoutheastAsianHumanities at UC Berkeley | USA 🌏Tenure-track, start July 2026. Eligibility: PhD. 📅 Deadline: 25 Oct 2025. 🔗 More details: higherjobz.com/assistant-pr... #AcademicJobs #ResearchJobs #PostdocJobs #PhDPosition #AcademicTwitter @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social

Assistant Professor – Southeast Asian Humanities | UC Berkeley | HigherJobz

Apply for a tenure-track Assistant Professor role in Modern Southeast Asian Humanities at UC Berkeley. Deadline: 25 Oct 2025.

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Laura K. Nelson @lauraknelson.bsky.social · Sep 8

📊The Sociology Department at Stony Brook University invites applications for *two* tenure-track Assistant Professor positions to begin in Fall 2026. [They] seek scholars who specialize in issues of global inequality and justice, broadly construed.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · Sep 6

Know your rights, Illinois.

Stay safe and stay informed.

Know & Exercise Your Rights Flyer provided by the Illinois Immigration Information Hub.

1. Remain Calm. 2. You have the right to deny entry without a valid warrant. 3. You have the right to remain silent. 4. You have the right to speak with an attorney. 5. You have the right to not sign anything.

For more information, head to: https://www.illinoisimmigrationinfo.org/

Know & Exercise Your Rights Flyer provided by the Illinois Immigration Information Hub.

For more information, head to: https://www.illinoisimmigrationinfo.org/

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Michael Yarbrough (he/him) @mwyarbrough.bsky.social · Sep 4

CUNY friends, we're getting organized!

The CUNY Alliance for Defending Higher Education is organizing faculty & staff to stand up to attacks and advocate for a CUNY-wide defense compact

Follow us @cadhe.bsky.social and sign up on our website to support and stay informed!

cadhe.commons.gc.cuny.edu

The CUNY Alliance to Defend Higher Education

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Megan L. Cook @meganlcook.bsky.social · Aug 30

The University of Southern Maine, just down the street from me, is hiring a medievalist. jobs.chronicle.com/job/37871743....

Assistant Professor in English - Fall 2026 - Portland, Maine (US) job with University of Southern Maine | 37871743

The Department of English at the University of Southern Maine is seeking an Assistant Professor in English to start in the Fall Semester of 2026.

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Stephen Guy-Bray @stephengb.bsky.social · Aug 29

Hello everyone. Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax has a tenure-track job in Enlightenment rhetoric and / or 18th-century literature. Tell everyone.

www.msvu.ca/about-msvu/c...

Full-time Academic positions

Inspired by a strong tradition of social responsibility and an enduring commitment to the advancement of women, Mount Saint Vincent University promotes academic excellence and the pursuit of knowledge...

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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · Aug 27

AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.

Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action

Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.

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Kate Ozment @grubstreetwomen.bsky.social · Aug 25

👉🏼 Rare Books Job Alert: Kelvin Smith Library at Case Western is hiring a director of rare books and university archives. 👈🏼

Pros: Cleveland rocks; our collections are fab, esp in history of print and science; you get to work with me 🥰

Cons: 🤷🏻‍♀️

employment.case.edu/psc/ERECRUIT...

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Talia Schaffer @taliaschaffer.bsky.social · Aug 24

I’m fascinated by “the rib sort of mackrony”!

Talia Schaffer @taliaschaffer.bsky.social · Aug 24

In Britain Elizabeth Robins Pennell wrote macaroni instructions in the 1890s and mid-19th c cookbooks like Mrs Beeton’s all have pasta recipes. Of course they are all terrible, as you’d expect for Victorian food - boil macaroni for half an hour, etc.

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Richards Center Penn State @richardscenter.bsky.social · Aug 24

Please share! We are looking for TWO postdoctoral scholars in African American history and history of the Civil War era. Fellowships are for TWO years, and the anticipated start date is July 1, 2026. The deadline to apply is NOVEMBER 1! Links are in the replies below.

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · Aug 22

We’re hiring a tenured professor of early modern / modern Jewish history. Come work with me.

networks.h-net.org/jobs/68974/u...

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Frank Cogliano @frankcogliano.bsky.social · Aug 18

Job opportunity for an historian at Monticello. This is the 4th time they've tried to fill the role this year (they seem to have given up trying to find a senior person and have dropped the PhD requirement). DM me if you want to know what it's like to work there.

www.monticello.org/thomas-jeffe...

Paycor Job Openings

at Monticello

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Gabriel Winant @gabrielwinant.bsky.social · Aug 18

Despite and amidst everything we’re hiring in US history, nineteenth century careers.historians.org/jobs/2159497...

Assistant Professor, Department of History in Chicago, IL for University of Chicago, History Department

Exciting opportunity in Chicago, IL for University of Chicago, History Department as a Assistant ...

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · Aug 18

good morning happy back to school to all who celebrate, happy one week of summer left to all the syllabus scramblers, happy grr to the quarter system people, here's some help for all of us in the college classroom

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AGAINST AI -

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Talia Schaffer @taliaschaffer.bsky.social · Aug 15

what a gift to all of us! thank you!

Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · Aug 15

teachers!

excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone.

take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE
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AGAINST AI

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · Aug 15

AGAINST AI

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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · Aug 15

Our Flash Sale is back—now featuring more titles than before!

Save 60% on select print editions with code FLASH. This extended collection runs through the end of September, so you’ll have even more time (& titles) to explore. Check out the current collection: press.princeton.edu/sale/flash-s...

Flash Sale. 60% off select print editions with code FLASH

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Michael Yarbrough (he/him) @mwyarbrough.bsky.social · Aug 15

@cuny.edu is providing consultation with an attorney for all current students and employees who need help with immigration issues!

This is an amazing resource and other colleges should do the same. Good for CUNY for stepping up to the plate in this way.

cuny.edu/CIAP

CUNY Immigration Assistance Project (CIAP) – The City University of New York

25 Colleges. One University.

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Talia Schaffer @taliaschaffer.bsky.social · Aug 15

MLA members, read the brave and inspiring words of @paulakrebs.bsky.social and Tina Liu, calling out to "every person in this country who has been touched by reading a book, learning about history, seeing a work of art, watching a play or film, or talking about an idea." www.mla.org/content/down...