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Deidre Lynch

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She/her, 1st gen, Canadian who's at Harvard but isn't OF Harvard-posts mainly about books (w/ cats & flowers thrown in for good measure). Now writing an itty-bitty book that aims to be a literary & media history of scrap. Website: https://deidrelynch.org

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Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · May 8

A JANE AUSTEN GUIDE TO FACULTY MEETINGS
(an intermittent series)

"He said it, she knew, to be contradicted"--Persuasion, ch. 7

(on the distribution of service commitments)
"Every body allows that the talent of writing agreeable letters is peculiarly female."--Northanger Abbey, ch. 3

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Caroline Levine @carolinelevine.bsky.social · 18h

Cornell alums!
Cornell continues to be pressured by the current administration in DC to reach a deal to restore federal research funding.
Please consider signing this petition!
Please also share widely with any Cornell graduates you know!

Alumni in Support of Cornell’s Independence, Democracy, and Academic Freedom

Please add your name below if you agree to be a signatory of the following message to be delivered to the Cornell Board of Trustees: Dear Members of the Cornell Board of Trustees, Ongoing attacks on A...

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Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 1d

@emilyherring.bsky.social , I think you would like this too!

Ivan Kreilkamp @ivan812.bsky.social · 1d

Happened on this 1919 edition of Henri Bergson’s Matter and Memory with amazing annotations thruout. There’s a coding system distinguishing between comments made: (1) At Home, Sept 22, 1925; (2) at Berea, KY, Feb 11, 1928; (3) At Home, Sept 29, 1930; & (4) Cottage, July 22, 1933 😮

Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 1d

Amazing! Thank you, Ivan!

Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you !

Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 1d

#litcrit pals, a really interesting question about the history of discipline from a graduate student here, a question that has me totally stumped:
"which journal in literary criticism was the first to implement modern peer review?" (I think he might mean blind review)
Thank you for your suggestions!

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Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 1d

Today's mood.

Winged stone angel collapsed, arms akimbo, over tombstone with the inscription "Died Roma, Jan 7 1896"

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Erik Simpson @erikthesimpson.bsky.social · 1d

Job Alert! Tenure-track, Creative Non-Fiction (broadly conceived), Grinnell College. joblist.mla.org/job/2000443/...

Assistant Professor of English: Creative Writing Tenure Track job with Grinnell College | 2000443

Research and teaching interests might include: screenwriting/tv writing, memoir, lyric essay, narrative journalism, graphic storytelling.

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William Orchard @billeo.bsky.social · 1d

Scholarship opportunity: Black and Latino men, undergrads, deadline applicants 10/31

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Tita Chico @titachico.bsky.social · 1d

Again in awe of the tremendous good that is the Eighteenth-Century Poetry Archive. Thank you to Alexander Huber bsky.app/profile/c18a... for this fantastic archive.

#C18L
#poetry

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 1d

ACLS statement against White House “compact”: THIS IS SOVIET SHIT

Screenshot from statement “Universities and colleges have one mission: to advance knowledge. Faculty carry out the mission by conducting research and teaching students. The knowledge they produce and circulate is independently assessed by professional peers. Interfering with that process by forcing knowledge to pass through a political filter is a tactic adopted by the Soviet Union and other authoritarian states. The White House is dressing up its compact as a reasonable corrective to what it views as problems in campus culture. Let no one be deceived. This proposal imposes government censorship on academia. It is anti-American, and it weakens our democracy by devaluing academic expertise.”

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Kate Holland @fyodor76.bsky.social · 6d

We have a job going in my department! jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...

Assistant Professor - Slavic Comparativist

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Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 2d

I really want to use this photo in the slides for my Dracula lectures this coming week.
@tomkeirstead.bsky.social says Toronto, but this might well be the view from Renfield's cell in Dr. Seward's lunatic asylum.

Tom Keirstead @tomkeirstead.bsky.social · 2d

It’s getting to be that season! Full moon and spider, Toronto, Ontario.

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Sarah Noonan @sarahloleet.bsky.social · 3d

Saint Mary's College is hiring for a 2yr VAP in Global Anglophone Literature! I'm happy to answer any questions about working at SMC via DM. Please share widely! joblist.mla.org/job/2000469/...

English Faculty (Visiting Assistant Professor - 2 Year) job with Saint Mary's College | 2000469

Saint Mary's College invites applications for a 2-yr Visiting Assistant Professor of English (Global Anglophone Lit), with the possibility of renewal.

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Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 3d

#TinyJoys and self-indulgence (but maybe it will brighten you timeline as well?)
Probably the last of the bouquets I will buy at the farmers market this season.

Pink and yellow and purple flowers in a bouquet in a green vase, in a somewhat untidy kitchen. Cosmos, helianthus, celosia, zinnia, and other flowers that sadly I cannot name.

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Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 3d

Don't forget Dominie Sampson in Scott's Guy Mannering!

Black and white illustration of Dominie Sampson, the poor schoolmaster in Guy Mannering, jubilant at his discovery of a library full of books, throwing his arms in the air.

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Jen Howard @jenhoward.bsky.social · 3d

Attn! Are you an alum from one of the 9 schools the federal government just attacked? Sign this alumni petition now to support your school, defend democracy, and build a grassroots movement for campus freedom across America. alumni.controlshift.app/petitions/tr...

STAND WITH YOUR SCHOOL: Trump attacks 9 universities. Sign the alumni petition now.

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Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 4d

True for me as well.

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Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 5d

Carlisle's research/editing skills are so good--I have taken advantage of them multiple times. Hire them! (A message to chairs of search committees too . . . )

Carlisle Yingst @ceyingst.bsky.social · 5d

anyway, apropos of nothing, if anyone needs provide editing, proofreading, or archival/special collections/bibliographical research services, I have those skills that can be used on a freelance basis and otherwise

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Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 5d

Every so often? once every couple a years? Fathers too!

Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 5d

In my "Modern Monsters" class, this was the fun week we studied Coleridge's "Christabel" and Rossetti's "Goblin Market."
Lines like "Behold! her bosom & half her side--"
Like "She sucked & sucked & sucked the more."

Of course, this was also the week one of my students' mothers visited the class.

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Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 6d

That sounds just amazing: I'm really envious!

Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 6d

Maddin's "My Winnipeg" (which, for the record, I adore) is all about the impossibility of ever actually getting OUT of Winnipeg. So the metaphor might suggest that one can never actually finish reading Poe?
Please tell us more about the event.

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Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 7d

This is wonderful--thank you very much!

"It confounds their categories of high and low
when your Caliban outplays your Prospero."
🔥

Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 8d

🎉🎉🎉, Georgina!

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Clare Clarke @clareclarke.bsky.social · 8d

One of the great uses of Michaelmas. And surely one of the best openings to a novel ever.

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