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Marisa Mercurio
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PhD in 19c literature | Acquiring Editor, University of Michigan | (she/they)
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Splendid review to start the week at SH today - @marmercurio.bsky.social on the curious Neo-Gothic of Slashed Beauties by A. Rushby (@berkleypub.bsky.social).

“A novel filled with such potential should be a pleasure to untangle.”
Slashed Beauties by A. Rushby
Scholarly analysis of an historical oddity may not be paramount to the success of a Neo-Gothic novel; but this context speaks to Slashed Beauties’s larger issue of flattening gender relations.
strangehorizons.com
December 15, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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Ypsilanti, Michigan has officially decided to fight against the construction of a 'high-performance computing facility' that would service a nuclear weapons laboratory 1,500 miles away.
A Small Town Is Fighting a $1.2 Billion AI Datacenter for America's Nuclear Weapon Scientists
Ypsilanti, Michigan has officially decided to fight against the construction of a 'high-performance computing facility' that would service a nuclear weapons laboratory 1,500 miles away.
www.404media.co
November 10, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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"When we embrace genAI without examining the domino effect it will have on library workers and users, we fail to do our jobs." @marmercurio.bsky.social networks.h-net.org/group/discus...
AI Exacerbates Labor Issues for Library Workers | H-Net
A guest post from Feeding the Elephant: A Forum for Scholarly Communications.Guest post by Marisa Mercurio, acquisitions editor, University of Michigan.
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September 12, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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"When we embrace genAI without examining the domino effect it will have on library workers and users, we fail to do our jobs," writes @marmercurio.bsky.social for #FeedingTheElephant. How has the embrace of AI affect publishing, research, and teaching. Find out!
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Feeding the Elephant | H-Net
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September 10, 2025 at 2:00 PM
My article with @crimereads.bsky.social on one of the best, longest-running, and somehow overlooked Holmes adaptations.
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Elementary is a Masterclass in Sherlock Holmes Adaptation
In 2012, the cable network CBS introduced the world to a new Sherlock Holmes. And he was going stateside. Set in the present day, Elementary places Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller) in New York City where …
crimereads.com
August 14, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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Exclusive: Harvard publisher cancels entire journal issue on Palestine shortly before publication.

My latest.
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Revealed: Harvard publisher cancels entire journal issue on Palestine shortly before publication
As Harvard’s feud with Trump escalated, so did tensions over an ‘education and Palestine’ issue of a prestigious journal. Scholars blame the ‘Palestine exception’ to academic freedom
www.theguardian.com
July 22, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Let's get vegetable Gothic going as a subgenre. Bunnicula takes first spot.
Wednesday's review is the excellent @marmercurio.bsky.social on Margie Sarsfield's Beta Vulgaris. She goes in excited to discover the vegetable gothic, and finds surprises: "readers of Strange Horizons should know that Beta Vulgaris might not fulfill your expectations of a horror novel."
Beta Vulgaris by Margie Sarsfield
These beets aren’t destined for dinner plates.
strangehorizons.com
June 25, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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Wednesday's review is the excellent @marmercurio.bsky.social on Margie Sarsfield's Beta Vulgaris. She goes in excited to discover the vegetable gothic, and finds surprises: "readers of Strange Horizons should know that Beta Vulgaris might not fulfill your expectations of a horror novel."
Beta Vulgaris by Margie Sarsfield
These beets aren’t destined for dinner plates.
strangehorizons.com
June 25, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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They're trying to kill Rumeysa Ozturk for writing a fucking op ed
NEW: Rümeysa Öztürk says she's had 4 painful asthma attacks in ICE custody, and not only is her asthma going untreated but a nurse tore off her hijab, saying, "You need to take that thing off your head." www.aclum.org/sites/defaul...
April 10, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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Today at @strangehorizons.bsky.social, @marmercurio.bsky.social on Marx and horror in the Pacific Northwest.

“Carson Winter shapes his horror novella around the friction between the bourgeoisie and proletariat.”
A Spectre is Haunting Greentree by Carson Winter
Carson Winter shapes his horror novella around the friction between the bourgeoisie and proletariat.
strangehorizons.com
March 26, 2025 at 8:43 PM