祖思薪 Eugenia Zuroski
@zugenia.bsky.social
English and Cultural Studies prof; poet; editor of @ecfjournal.bsky.social. Thinking in semiotic squares and cosmological circles. she/they/we
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It looks like my book A FUNNY THING: EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE UNDISCIPLINED is available for preorder, and will be out next month!
Please ask your university libraries to order it—if enough copies sell, it will flip to open access!
www.cambridge.org/core/books/f...
Please ask your university libraries to order it—if enough copies sell, it will flip to open access!
www.cambridge.org/core/books/f...
A Funny Thing
Cambridge Core - English Literature 1700-1830 - A Funny Thing
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Out TODAY! Tell your libraries! I want to get this baby open access so much!!
How very dare my child suggest (assert, directly) that I couldn’t win Dancing with the Stars
November 26, 2025 at 1:31 AM
How very dare my child suggest (assert, directly) that I couldn’t win Dancing with the Stars
Out TODAY! A Funny Thing in paperback!
My book A FUNNY THING: EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE UNDISCIPLINED is now available for pre-order in a paperback priced for humans! Go get it!
A Funny Thing | Cambridge University Press & Assessment
www.cambridge.org
November 25, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Out TODAY! A Funny Thing in paperback!
File this under Taurus rising consults Taurus moon
The child: [Complains about being made to do things at school]
Me: [Explains why they find it so annoying and also why it’s not always bad to be made to do things you find annoying]
The child: I needed to hear that, but I don’t appreciate it
Me: [Explains why they find it so annoying and also why it’s not always bad to be made to do things you find annoying]
The child: I needed to hear that, but I don’t appreciate it
November 25, 2025 at 1:02 PM
File this under Taurus rising consults Taurus moon
The child: [Complains about being made to do things at school]
Me: [Explains why they find it so annoying and also why it’s not always bad to be made to do things you find annoying]
The child: I needed to hear that, but I don’t appreciate it
Me: [Explains why they find it so annoying and also why it’s not always bad to be made to do things you find annoying]
The child: I needed to hear that, but I don’t appreciate it
November 25, 2025 at 1:01 PM
The child: [Complains about being made to do things at school]
Me: [Explains why they find it so annoying and also why it’s not always bad to be made to do things you find annoying]
The child: I needed to hear that, but I don’t appreciate it
Me: [Explains why they find it so annoying and also why it’s not always bad to be made to do things you find annoying]
The child: I needed to hear that, but I don’t appreciate it
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"While other universities report that the humanities are shrinking, at Berkeley, the opposite is true. The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring" bit.ly/4ohKuOe
"The humanities really are a resource — a confidence for living in our times.” Dean Sara Guyer on the modern utility of humanities degrees
This interview originally appeared on the Division of Arts
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November 23, 2025 at 3:38 PM
"While other universities report that the humanities are shrinking, at Berkeley, the opposite is true. The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring" bit.ly/4ohKuOe
Are we just living in a version of Veep starring JD Vance? 🧐
Let’s be clear.
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social got Trump so charmed that Trump posted two photos of the two of them with Franklin Roosevelt’s portrait behind them AND one of just Mamdani and FDR’s portrait.
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social got Trump so charmed that Trump posted two photos of the two of them with Franklin Roosevelt’s portrait behind them AND one of just Mamdani and FDR’s portrait.
November 22, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Are we just living in a version of Veep starring JD Vance? 🧐
How many times a day do you think about how the narrator of On the Calculation of Volume is stuck at the tail end of Scorpio season
November 22, 2025 at 4:01 PM
How many times a day do you think about how the narrator of On the Calculation of Volume is stuck at the tail end of Scorpio season
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Hey humanities scholars! Share your #peerreview experience as an editor, author, or reviewer for humanities (or HSS) journals to help us reimagine a more inclusive, less labor-intensive system. Get a $50 gift card for completing the survey: surveymonkey.com/r/celj-peer-...
Re-Imagining Peer Review: A CELJ Survey
This survey examines various systems of peer review currently in use in humanities and humanistically oriented social sciences (HSS) journal publishing. The goal of the survey is to uncover current ch...
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November 21, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Hey humanities scholars! Share your #peerreview experience as an editor, author, or reviewer for humanities (or HSS) journals to help us reimagine a more inclusive, less labor-intensive system. Get a $50 gift card for completing the survey: surveymonkey.com/r/celj-peer-...
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Calling all contingent historians and their editors--if you haven't submitted for this year's lists, why not? Seriously, these are our most highly read pieces of the year. They are a great way to get your scholarship in front of people and SELL YOUR BOOKS.
Thank you to @erinbartram.bsky.social for the idea as a public scholarly companion to Contingent's end of year list of publications from non-tenure track historians.
Submissions for @contingent-mag.bsky.social are due by November 29th if you haven't submitted yet!
Submissions for @contingent-mag.bsky.social are due by November 29th if you haven't submitted yet!
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 21, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Calling all contingent historians and their editors--if you haven't submitted for this year's lists, why not? Seriously, these are our most highly read pieces of the year. They are a great way to get your scholarship in front of people and SELL YOUR BOOKS.
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Today would be a good day to pre-order my forthcoming book Sylvia Plath and the Supernatural for your university library.🥰
Thank you to everyone who does this.
www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...
Thank you to everyone who does this.
www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...
Sylvia Plath and the Supernatural | Cambridge University Press & Assessment
www.cambridge.org
November 20, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Today would be a good day to pre-order my forthcoming book Sylvia Plath and the Supernatural for your university library.🥰
Thank you to everyone who does this.
www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...
Thank you to everyone who does this.
www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...
As someone who was introduced to William Wordsworth and Gertrude Stein by the Anastasia Krupnik books, I heartily agree
Idk I think it's fine if people work back from popular culture to learn more about folklore roots, culture, heritage, etc. People have to start somewhere.
Turning into my father one "the problem is no one reads enough books these days" grumble at a time
November 20, 2025 at 11:35 AM
As someone who was introduced to William Wordsworth and Gertrude Stein by the Anastasia Krupnik books, I heartily agree
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This was a GOOD DAY with @zugenia.bsky.social as we talked about our new books, wonder, wit, research, pedagogy, and friendship.
Enjoying @titachico.bsky.social and @zugenia.bsky.social in conversation here at @umdenglish.bsky.social about their new books, on wonder and wit.
November 19, 2025 at 2:55 AM
This was a GOOD DAY with @zugenia.bsky.social as we talked about our new books, wonder, wit, research, pedagogy, and friendship.
It’s been such a good day!
Enjoying @titachico.bsky.social and @zugenia.bsky.social in conversation here at @umdenglish.bsky.social about their new books, on wonder and wit.
November 18, 2025 at 11:42 PM
It’s been such a good day!
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The New York Times obit for Alice Wong doesn’t mention Covid or Gaza
It ignores two of her biggest causes because of political bias
Alice fought tirelessly for Covid mitigations
She fought for the people of Gaza
She rightfully reminded us that the genocide in Gaza is a disability justice issue
It ignores two of her biggest causes because of political bias
Alice fought tirelessly for Covid mitigations
She fought for the people of Gaza
She rightfully reminded us that the genocide in Gaza is a disability justice issue
November 17, 2025 at 11:31 AM
The New York Times obit for Alice Wong doesn’t mention Covid or Gaza
It ignores two of her biggest causes because of political bias
Alice fought tirelessly for Covid mitigations
She fought for the people of Gaza
She rightfully reminded us that the genocide in Gaza is a disability justice issue
It ignores two of her biggest causes because of political bias
Alice fought tirelessly for Covid mitigations
She fought for the people of Gaza
She rightfully reminded us that the genocide in Gaza is a disability justice issue
Had a meeting with a student—not a humanities major—and I said at one point “I just love literature so much” and they said “Yeah, we can tell” and praise or pejorative, I’ll take it
November 16, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Had a meeting with a student—not a humanities major—and I said at one point “I just love literature so much” and they said “Yeah, we can tell” and praise or pejorative, I’ll take it
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One way I have found to mourn someone is to set up a monthly sustaining donation to a mutual aid effort they cared about. If you can join me in honoring Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social with a sustaining donation today, please do. Thank you Alice, and I will not let the bastards grind me down.
November 15, 2025 at 12:34 PM
One way I have found to mourn someone is to set up a monthly sustaining donation to a mutual aid effort they cared about. If you can join me in honoring Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social with a sustaining donation today, please do. Thank you Alice, and I will not let the bastards grind me down.
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Grateful for brave editors, for the brothers who read this before I submitted it and for my OU Classical Studies colleagues who are my secret island where no one would ever say this kind of careerist nonsense in a disciplinary ocean that is full of it 💚
“Chella stop writing on the complicity of Classics in the genocide of the Palestinians, you’ll ruin your career.”
“Chella your article on the complicity of Classics in the genocide of the Palestinians is in the top 10!”
Shall we just stop with the careerist nonsense now?! 🤷🏼♀️
“Chella your article on the complicity of Classics in the genocide of the Palestinians is in the top 10!”
Shall we just stop with the careerist nonsense now?! 🤷🏼♀️
November 14, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Grateful for brave editors, for the brothers who read this before I submitted it and for my OU Classical Studies colleagues who are my secret island where no one would ever say this kind of careerist nonsense in a disciplinary ocean that is full of it 💚
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Message to all faculty: your expertise is no longer trusted or valued at this so-called “university.”
November 14, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Message to all faculty: your expertise is no longer trusted or valued at this so-called “university.”
My book A FUNNY THING: EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE UNDISCIPLINED is now available for pre-order in a paperback priced for humans! Go get it!
A Funny Thing | Cambridge University Press & Assessment
www.cambridge.org
November 14, 2025 at 1:01 PM
My book A FUNNY THING: EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE UNDISCIPLINED is now available for pre-order in a paperback priced for humans! Go get it!
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I missed & now can’t get behind the paywall to hate-read E. Gordon Gee’s take on “higher ed’s woes” in CHE but might I recommend this book instead—co-ed by @thetattooedprof.bsky.social & Lisa Di Bartolomeo & penned in part by veterans of his own war on higher ed at WVU? sunypress.edu/Books/T/The-...
The Campus Crisis Toolkit
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November 14, 2025 at 12:19 PM
I missed & now can’t get behind the paywall to hate-read E. Gordon Gee’s take on “higher ed’s woes” in CHE but might I recommend this book instead—co-ed by @thetattooedprof.bsky.social & Lisa Di Bartolomeo & penned in part by veterans of his own war on higher ed at WVU? sunypress.edu/Books/T/The-...
I’m sorry, but what the fuck is a “top banker”
November 12, 2025 at 2:34 AM
I’m sorry, but what the fuck is a “top banker”
This is 100% why I am a De Palma Stan forever
If a filmmaker is gonna do one for the money, the high bars are DePalma's The Untouchables and Mission: Impossible. Make it so good that it never occurs to anyone to ask about your motivation for making it. So good that they're just grateful it exists.
November 12, 2025 at 1:50 AM
This is 100% why I am a De Palma Stan forever
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Yes! The thing abt public libraries that is so beautiful & crucial is the idea that *anybody* could do this — you need no credential, there’s no gatekeeping, literally any person can be an intellectual. You can come from absolutely nothing & yet, by means of curiosity + work, create real knowledge
I wrote a significant chunk of my first book at a Chicago Public Library, an amazing public space where people could read books and newspapers, access the internet, or just keep warm for a while on a cold day. This is appalling.
CPL is an absolute palace to the people and these proposed cuts are abominable. Artificial austerity. Chicago folks, read this, check the links to bug the mayor and your alders—this can be fought and won.
November 8, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Yes! The thing abt public libraries that is so beautiful & crucial is the idea that *anybody* could do this — you need no credential, there’s no gatekeeping, literally any person can be an intellectual. You can come from absolutely nothing & yet, by means of curiosity + work, create real knowledge
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"(Poe) is a node that allows us to access so many...conversations. (W)hat does Poe allow us to access?"
Catch a great new interview with @PoeStudies editor Kelly Ross and Debra Rae Cohen and Eugenia Zuroski of the @CELJ
Catch a great new interview with @PoeStudies editor Kelly Ross and Debra Rae Cohen and Eugenia Zuroski of the @CELJ
Featured Journal: Poe Studies — Council of Editors of Learned Journals
The editor of Poe Studies was interviewed by CELJ Board members, Debra Rae
Cohen and Eugenia Zuroski as CELJ’s newest featured journal!
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November 6, 2025 at 7:45 PM
"(Poe) is a node that allows us to access so many...conversations. (W)hat does Poe allow us to access?"
Catch a great new interview with @PoeStudies editor Kelly Ross and Debra Rae Cohen and Eugenia Zuroski of the @CELJ
Catch a great new interview with @PoeStudies editor Kelly Ross and Debra Rae Cohen and Eugenia Zuroski of the @CELJ