Xine Yao PhD (she/they)
@xineyaophd.bsky.social
DISAFFECTED: THE CULTURAL POLITICS OF UNFEELING @DukePress | @phdivaspodcast | Associate Professor | BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker | Co-Director @qUCL.bsky.social | rhymes w fine
from the colonies
https://www.dukeupress.edu/disaffected
from the colonies
https://www.dukeupress.edu/disaffected
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A vocabulary of touch: exhibition of sculpture by blind and partially blind artists opens in Leeds - The Art Newspaper
A vocabulary of touch: exhibition of sculpture by blind and partially blind artists opens in Leeds
The Henry Moore Institute's new show, ‘Beyond the Visual’, unpacks the value of the haptic and how perception involves all the senses
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November 29, 2025 at 1:14 PM
A vocabulary of touch: exhibition of sculpture by blind and partially blind artists opens in Leeds - The Art Newspaper
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Your periodic reminder that science is not done by a few selected "stars scientists". Science is done by hundred of thousands. Siloed money mean a few flashy discoveries and a lot of waste. Want to change things? Make funding accessible and stop funding calls with less than 2% success rate.
· #AcademicSky ·
The European Research Council is launching €7m Plus Grants for ambitious, long‑term research — open to researchers at any career stage but limited to about 30 awards; current ERC grantees and applicants are ineligible, reports @clanicholson.bsky.social.
The European Research Council is launching €7m Plus Grants for ambitious, long‑term research — open to researchers at any career stage but limited to about 30 awards; current ERC grantees and applicants are ineligible, reports @clanicholson.bsky.social.
ERC’s new €7m Plus Grants open to researchers at any career stage - Research Professional News
European Research Council president describes scheme as part attempt to lure US talent
www.researchprofessionalnews.com
November 29, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Your periodic reminder that science is not done by a few selected "stars scientists". Science is done by hundred of thousands. Siloed money mean a few flashy discoveries and a lot of waste. Want to change things? Make funding accessible and stop funding calls with less than 2% success rate.
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It remains not only so shameful and such a profound betrayal but also just so EMBARRASSING that universities are signing things that are like:
"Men" and "Women" are defined the way President Buttface said in his Big Fancy Statement.
Signed,
The Leader of an Actual Institution of Higher Education
"Men" and "Women" are defined the way President Buttface said in his Big Fancy Statement.
Signed,
The Leader of an Actual Institution of Higher Education
November 29, 2025 at 1:29 PM
It remains not only so shameful and such a profound betrayal but also just so EMBARRASSING that universities are signing things that are like:
"Men" and "Women" are defined the way President Buttface said in his Big Fancy Statement.
Signed,
The Leader of an Actual Institution of Higher Education
"Men" and "Women" are defined the way President Buttface said in his Big Fancy Statement.
Signed,
The Leader of an Actual Institution of Higher Education
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With the release of Wicked: For Good last week, it's a great time to watch the Wicked: The Real Story documentary featuring Dr Xine Yao, Associate Professor in American Literature to 1900 at UCL English.
Find it on Apple TV: buff.ly/TCG7Ofr
@xineyaophd.bsky.social @uclnews.bsky.social
Find it on Apple TV: buff.ly/TCG7Ofr
@xineyaophd.bsky.social @uclnews.bsky.social
November 27, 2025 at 9:30 AM
With the release of Wicked: For Good last week, it's a great time to watch the Wicked: The Real Story documentary featuring Dr Xine Yao, Associate Professor in American Literature to 1900 at UCL English.
Find it on Apple TV: buff.ly/TCG7Ofr
@xineyaophd.bsky.social @uclnews.bsky.social
Find it on Apple TV: buff.ly/TCG7Ofr
@xineyaophd.bsky.social @uclnews.bsky.social
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Haven't received as many contributions as usual for this year's lists--could be many things, but one aspect is surely that our ability to get this in front of people is much diminished. If you know folks whose stuff should be on here, please suggest it! contingentmagazine.org/yearly-pub-l...
Publications by Non-Tenure-Track Historians
Since we began publishing in 2019, Contingent has published end-of-year lists of books and articles by non-tenure-track historians released in the past calendar year. To submit something for inclusion...
contingentmagazine.org
November 24, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Haven't received as many contributions as usual for this year's lists--could be many things, but one aspect is surely that our ability to get this in front of people is much diminished. If you know folks whose stuff should be on here, please suggest it! contingentmagazine.org/yearly-pub-l...
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If you like an author's work, the best thing you can do is buy it. The second best thing you can do is ask your local library to buy it. Or, do both!
A reminder that the median book deal for a debut author in the UK is £7000, paid over 12-18 months. (from 2022 Society of Authors report). Some of your favourite writers are struggling. societyofauthors.org/2022/12/06/a....
A profession struggling to sustain itself - The Society of Authors
ALCS report on author incomes shows 60% drop in median incomes since 2006
societyofauthors.org
November 24, 2025 at 5:39 PM
If you like an author's work, the best thing you can do is buy it. The second best thing you can do is ask your local library to buy it. Or, do both!
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I do not do enough ms reviews. HMU presses. If it is out of my wheelhouse, I will say so fast. (I am an early American lit scholar w/ one book w a history LC# and another with a poli sci LC#
if your press asks for names, give 6 to 8--NOT the biggest, most senior stars in your field. None of them will do it. part of the problem is that the ppl best poised are "mid-career"--i.e. have a book, tenure. TWIST: the mid-career folx, IF THEY EXIST, are so fucking overloaded I can't even tell you
November 25, 2025 at 2:15 PM
I do not do enough ms reviews. HMU presses. If it is out of my wheelhouse, I will say so fast. (I am an early American lit scholar w/ one book w a history LC# and another with a poli sci LC#
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if your press asks for names, give 6 to 8--NOT the biggest, most senior stars in your field. None of them will do it. part of the problem is that the ppl best poised are "mid-career"--i.e. have a book, tenure. TWIST: the mid-career folx, IF THEY EXIST, are so fucking overloaded I can't even tell you
November 25, 2025 at 1:49 PM
if your press asks for names, give 6 to 8--NOT the biggest, most senior stars in your field. None of them will do it. part of the problem is that the ppl best poised are "mid-career"--i.e. have a book, tenure. TWIST: the mid-career folx, IF THEY EXIST, are so fucking overloaded I can't even tell you
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This is all so true. And the mid-career people are soooo overloaded. Or sick. Or both. But we do care and we will try if we can do it!
if your press asks for names, give 6 to 8--NOT the biggest, most senior stars in your field. None of them will do it. part of the problem is that the ppl best poised are "mid-career"--i.e. have a book, tenure. TWIST: the mid-career folx, IF THEY EXIST, are so fucking overloaded I can't even tell you
November 25, 2025 at 2:36 PM
This is all so true. And the mid-career people are soooo overloaded. Or sick. Or both. But we do care and we will try if we can do it!
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Same for literary studies. Non-tenure-track lit studies scholars I know you're out there and publishing articles and books. And if you're tenure-track and know NTT authors, let me know about their work! I can reach out and confirm that they're cool with being listed.
Haven't received as many contributions as usual for this year's lists--could be many things, but one aspect is surely that our ability to get this in front of people is much diminished. If you know folks whose stuff should be on here, please suggest it! contingentmagazine.org/yearly-pub-l...
Publications by Non-Tenure-Track Historians
Since we began publishing in 2019, Contingent has published end-of-year lists of books and articles by non-tenure-track historians released in the past calendar year. To submit something for inclusion...
contingentmagazine.org
November 25, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Same for literary studies. Non-tenure-track lit studies scholars I know you're out there and publishing articles and books. And if you're tenure-track and know NTT authors, let me know about their work! I can reach out and confirm that they're cool with being listed.
Great — someone gave some Christian missionaries a fake number but that number so happened to be mine! Had to block 3 attempts to contact me so far today!
November 23, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Great — someone gave some Christian missionaries a fake number but that number so happened to be mine! Had to block 3 attempts to contact me so far today!
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For a change of pace from this relentless week - join us at the 2025 Duke-UNC Critical Games Symposium tomorrow 11/21 12:30-5pm. Full schedule here:
cmac.duke.edu/news/duke-un...
(then we can head to the 6pm downtown Durham rally together)
cmac.duke.edu/news/duke-un...
(then we can head to the 6pm downtown Durham rally together)
November 21, 2025 at 4:02 PM
For a change of pace from this relentless week - join us at the 2025 Duke-UNC Critical Games Symposium tomorrow 11/21 12:30-5pm. Full schedule here:
cmac.duke.edu/news/duke-un...
(then we can head to the 6pm downtown Durham rally together)
cmac.duke.edu/news/duke-un...
(then we can head to the 6pm downtown Durham rally together)
Hi friends, colleagues: I am not at #2025ASA American Studies Association in Puerto Rico
& might not be again anytime soon
Please see my reasons: financial, disability, policy
#disability #americanstudiesassociation #ASA2025
& might not be again anytime soon
Please see my reasons: financial, disability, policy
#disability #americanstudiesassociation #ASA2025
November 21, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Hi friends, colleagues: I am not at #2025ASA American Studies Association in Puerto Rico
& might not be again anytime soon
Please see my reasons: financial, disability, policy
#disability #americanstudiesassociation #ASA2025
& might not be again anytime soon
Please see my reasons: financial, disability, policy
#disability #americanstudiesassociation #ASA2025
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Kathleen Stock has written an article against "abortion permissiveness". She claims abortion requires "justification" saying the state should limit "unacceptable decision-making" by women about their own bodies.
This is who anti-trans activists proclaim as the feminist thought leaders of our time.
This is who anti-trans activists proclaim as the feminist thought leaders of our time.
November 21, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Kathleen Stock has written an article against "abortion permissiveness". She claims abortion requires "justification" saying the state should limit "unacceptable decision-making" by women about their own bodies.
This is who anti-trans activists proclaim as the feminist thought leaders of our time.
This is who anti-trans activists proclaim as the feminist thought leaders of our time.
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Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
November 21, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
Congrats to my colleague Mark Ford on the pub of his latest poetry collection The Morlocks: A Fantasia!
Using HG Wells’s The Time Traveler for political satire abt trollish Morlocks on X… with muskets & trumpets… *ahem*
Launch today x.com/newwalkmagaz...
Using HG Wells’s The Time Traveler for political satire abt trollish Morlocks on X… with muskets & trumpets… *ahem*
Launch today x.com/newwalkmagaz...
November 20, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Congrats to my colleague Mark Ford on the pub of his latest poetry collection The Morlocks: A Fantasia!
Using HG Wells’s The Time Traveler for political satire abt trollish Morlocks on X… with muskets & trumpets… *ahem*
Launch today x.com/newwalkmagaz...
Using HG Wells’s The Time Traveler for political satire abt trollish Morlocks on X… with muskets & trumpets… *ahem*
Launch today x.com/newwalkmagaz...
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comrade JCO gets it completely
CHOP FROM THE TOP
(solemn vow never ever to screenshot badsite; solemn exception for this urgent story; rally against these anti-intellectuals detonating public goods for the working people of NJ!)
CHOP FROM THE TOP
(solemn vow never ever to screenshot badsite; solemn exception for this urgent story; rally against these anti-intellectuals detonating public goods for the working people of NJ!)
November 19, 2025 at 3:03 PM
comrade JCO gets it completely
CHOP FROM THE TOP
(solemn vow never ever to screenshot badsite; solemn exception for this urgent story; rally against these anti-intellectuals detonating public goods for the working people of NJ!)
CHOP FROM THE TOP
(solemn vow never ever to screenshot badsite; solemn exception for this urgent story; rally against these anti-intellectuals detonating public goods for the working people of NJ!)
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The petition has reached 1500 signatures but let’s get more!!
RED ALERT: the University of Nottingham is threatening to close its Department of American Studies, putting all staff at risk of redundancy, and ending any American specialist knowledge in the Faculty of Arts.
Sign the petition here to save jobs:
www.change.org/p/save-ameri...
Sign the petition here to save jobs:
www.change.org/p/save-ameri...
Sign the Petition
SAVE AMERICAN STUDIES TEACHING AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM
www.change.org
November 18, 2025 at 8:13 PM
The petition has reached 1500 signatures but let’s get more!!
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"Multiple cisgender women have turned down spots on a list of the top female cyclists in the U.K. because the organization compiling the list banned trans women.
"'If they don’t want to ride with all women, then it’s not the kind of ride I want to be part of'…"
www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/11/cis-...
"'If they don’t want to ride with all women, then it’s not the kind of ride I want to be part of'…"
www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/11/cis-...
Cis cyclists decline award because trans women were excluded: We "ride with all women" - LGBTQ Nation
“If they don’t want to ride with all women, then it’s not the kind of ride I want to be part of.”
www.lgbtqnation.com
November 19, 2025 at 7:49 PM
"Multiple cisgender women have turned down spots on a list of the top female cyclists in the U.K. because the organization compiling the list banned trans women.
"'If they don’t want to ride with all women, then it’s not the kind of ride I want to be part of'…"
www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/11/cis-...
"'If they don’t want to ride with all women, then it’s not the kind of ride I want to be part of'…"
www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/11/cis-...
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This is the importance of buying the books we write and teach from university presses. The same administrations that don’t care about the humanities would be just as happy to have academic publishing handled by these companies. We can save our own publishing ecosystem- but we have to do it.
"academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it... The dominant four collectively generated... $12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024."
November 18, 2025 at 12:52 PM
This is the importance of buying the books we write and teach from university presses. The same administrations that don’t care about the humanities would be just as happy to have academic publishing handled by these companies. We can save our own publishing ecosystem- but we have to do it.
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I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care?
The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity
www.cityam.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:27 AM
I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
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Good morning.
If you live in Alberta, you should know that today your government will invoke the notwithstanding clause to wage war against transgender Albertans.
Not because transgender persons are harmful, but because the UCP is distracting you from their mountain of failures.
#ableg
If you live in Alberta, you should know that today your government will invoke the notwithstanding clause to wage war against transgender Albertans.
Not because transgender persons are harmful, but because the UCP is distracting you from their mountain of failures.
#ableg
November 17, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Good morning.
If you live in Alberta, you should know that today your government will invoke the notwithstanding clause to wage war against transgender Albertans.
Not because transgender persons are harmful, but because the UCP is distracting you from their mountain of failures.
#ableg
If you live in Alberta, you should know that today your government will invoke the notwithstanding clause to wage war against transgender Albertans.
Not because transgender persons are harmful, but because the UCP is distracting you from their mountain of failures.
#ableg
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BBC News: "the government believe refugees are deliberately bringing their children to avoid deportation"
As opposed to doing what with their children??
As opposed to doing what with their children??
November 17, 2025 at 10:11 PM
BBC News: "the government believe refugees are deliberately bringing their children to avoid deportation"
As opposed to doing what with their children??
As opposed to doing what with their children??
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November 17, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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"Remembering Alice Wong: Writer, Advocate, Friend"
Steven W. Thrasher on Meeting and Collaborating with the Outspoken Founder of the Disability Visibility Project
published by @literaryhub.bsky.social | art by @mollycrabapple.bsky.social lithub.com/remembering-...
Steven W. Thrasher on Meeting and Collaborating with the Outspoken Founder of the Disability Visibility Project
published by @literaryhub.bsky.social | art by @mollycrabapple.bsky.social lithub.com/remembering-...
Remembering Alice Wong: Writer, Advocate, Friend
Though we were in frequent conversation for a decade, I only got to meet my friend Alice Wong in person just once. And when I did, I was a bundle of nerves—and that was before she cussed me out wi…
lithub.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:22 PM
"Remembering Alice Wong: Writer, Advocate, Friend"
Steven W. Thrasher on Meeting and Collaborating with the Outspoken Founder of the Disability Visibility Project
published by @literaryhub.bsky.social | art by @mollycrabapple.bsky.social lithub.com/remembering-...
Steven W. Thrasher on Meeting and Collaborating with the Outspoken Founder of the Disability Visibility Project
published by @literaryhub.bsky.social | art by @mollycrabapple.bsky.social lithub.com/remembering-...