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Jacquelyn Ardam

@jaxwendy.bsky.social

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Director of the Undergraduate Research Center—Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences @ UCLA. Dog Lady. My book Avidly Reads Poetry is out from NYU Press! She/her. www.jacquelynardam.com

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Jacquelyn Ardam @jaxwendy.bsky.social · 5d

I’m not on here very often but please know that Millie and I are living our best lives in LA

Jacquelyn Ardam @jaxwendy.bsky.social · 10h

I’m writing again after a 3-year hiatus to figure out how to be a director and fall in love! Worth it but I’m glad to be using my brain again. Please enjoy my review of Francesca Wade’s new bio of my love Gertrude Stein for @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social

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A Spectacle and Nothing Strange | Los Angeles Review of Books

Jacquelyn Ardam considers Francesca Wade’s “Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife.”

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Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social · 12h

"Wade pays particular attention to the ways Stein’s writing and her intimate life with Toklas intertwine." Jacquelyn Ardam on Francesca Wade’s "Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife." https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/a-spectacle-and-nothing-strange/

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Jacquelyn Ardam @jaxwendy.bsky.social · 5d

I’m not on here very often but please know that Millie and I are living our best lives in LA

Jacquelyn Ardam @jaxwendy.bsky.social · 21d

There are only five good things left and this summer program is one of them. If you know any major donors, please send them my way thx www.ugeducation.ucla.edu/2025/08/26/s...

Summer Research Incubator Bridges UCLA and Morgan State for First Time - UCLA Undergraduate Education

Students gain intensive research experience, mentorship, and new perspectives in humanities, arts, and social sciences.

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Jacquelyn Ardam @jaxwendy.bsky.social · Jul 11

I’m going to review tf out of this

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Michael Waters @michaelwaters.bsky.social · Jun 5

I wrote for @theatlantic.com about how archivists are contending with our digital detritus — whether we'll be able to save emails, texts, Discord chats, etc, and what that means for how we tell history:

www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...

Archivists Aren’t Ready for the ‘Very Online’ Era

The challenge: how to catalog and derive meaning from so much digital clutter

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Jacquelyn Ardam @jaxwendy.bsky.social · Jun 4

Here I am being extremely articulate about Susan Sontag’s digital archives in the Atlantic!

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Archivists Aren’t Ready for the ‘Very Online’ Era

The challenge: how to catalog and derive meaning from so much digital clutter

www.theatlantic.com

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Jacquelyn Ardam @jaxwendy.bsky.social · May 26

Millie wants you to know that she’s on vacation

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Jacquelyn Ardam @jaxwendy.bsky.social · May 13

I rarely post on here but I'll give this a shot: anyone have any favorite reading (for undergrads doing research) on the idea of "me-search"?

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Jacquelyn Ardam @jaxwendy.bsky.social · Apr 29

she wants you to know that she has things to say

Jacquelyn Ardam @jaxwendy.bsky.social · Apr 17

why yes I will be writing about this

Jacquelyn Ardam @jaxwendy.bsky.social · Apr 16

I would not use the word “Sontagolytes” if I were writing this story today, which I think it proof of my growth as a writer

Jacquelyn Ardam @jaxwendy.bsky.social · Apr 16

I had a really nice conversation with a journalist today about the article I co-wrote about Susan Sontag’s born-digital archives over a decade ago and for an hour this morning it was nice to have an intellectual life that was not under attack
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On Excess: Susan Sontag’s Born-Digital Archive | Los Angeles Review of Books

Susan Sontag’s entire digital life is now available to researchers. What should they do with it?

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Jacquelyn Ardam @jaxwendy.bsky.social · Apr 12

I was going to say something snarky but actually I believe that poetry is GOOD

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Jacquelyn Ardam @jaxwendy.bsky.social · Apr 12

is something else going on in the world rn

Jacquelyn Ardam @jaxwendy.bsky.social · Apr 12

it’s national poetry month and not a single one of you has asked me what I think about poetry

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Jacquelyn Ardam @jaxwendy.bsky.social · Apr 10

my sweet pea

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Jacquelyn Ardam @jaxwendy.bsky.social · Apr 6

In other news happy 3rd birthday to my book!! When I wrote about poetry in the time of Trump I really did not think there would be a Trump 2.0 but here we are!!

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Avidly Reads Poetry

“Poetry has leapt out of its world and into the world”Poetry is everywhere. From Amanda Gorman performing “The Hill We Climb” before the nation at Jo...

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Jacquelyn Ardam @jaxwendy.bsky.social · Apr 5

I’m told they say buy low sell high

Jacquelyn Ardam @jaxwendy.bsky.social · Apr 4

sending my lil university emails as the entire research university infrastructure of this country crumbles around me! also the infrastructure of everything else! 2025!

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Jacquelyn Ardam @jaxwendy.bsky.social · Apr 3

I think I have lost the will to tweet in Trump 2.0

Jacquelyn Ardam @jaxwendy.bsky.social · Mar 23

do I dare to eat a peach

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Jacquelyn Ardam @jaxwendy.bsky.social · Mar 18

taking a break from the horrors to immerse myself in other horrors and omg who wants to discuss the latest ep of Yellowjackets!!

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Meghan O'Rourke @meghanor.bsky.social · Mar 16

I wrote about the Trump administration's assault on higher education & what's really going on:

"If, during the Cold War, the government funded universities as a way of strengthening America, Mr. Trump’s second administration treats them as a threat to be dismantled."
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/o...

Opinion | The View Inside Trump’s Assault on Universities

The Trump administration’s attacks on universities will lead to the permanent diminishment of vital American institutions.

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Jacquelyn Ardam @jaxwendy.bsky.social · Mar 16

Our groomer is getting a bit too gender normative