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Dr. Melissa Schuh
@melissaschuh.bsky.social
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Lecturer in English Literature at Kiel University, deputy editor for @c21literature.bsky.social , contemporary life writing/fiction, English & German, seriality, modernism • she/her •
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Dr. Melissa Schuh @melissaschuh.bsky.social · Feb 7
My favourite publication to date has dropped! The brilliant Anneke Schewe and I are part of this LWU special issue on ‘Dark Academia’ with a piece on ‘Exploring the Dark Side of Dark Academia: Postcolonial Criticism and Genre Hybridity in R. F. Kuang‘s Babel’. So happy to see this in print 🎉
Cover image of a special issue on ‘Dark Academia’ of the academic journal ‘LWU Literatur in Wissenschaft und Unterricht’ edited by Nicola Glaubitz and Martin Klepper. It shows an abstract image with various shades of dark brown and black circles. Photograph of a hard paper copy of a special issue on ‘Dark Academia’ of the academic journal ‘LWU Literatur in Wissenschaft und Unterricht’ edited by Nicola Glaubitz and Martin Klepper. The cover shows an abstract image with various shades of dark brown and black circles. The journal is set up on a windowsill with a succulent and a cactus on either side and the black hardbound book ‘Babel’ by R.F. Kuang next to it. DARK ACADEMIA is a social media trend devoted to the nostalgic stylization of academic life in the humanities that may never have existed in this form. Its visual hallmark is a subdued colour palette – the hues of leatherbound books, wood-panelled libraries, ivy-covered façades of elite universities and (mostly white) tweed-clad academics. Literary examples of dark academia, such as the texts discussed in this theme issue, often explore the ‚dark sides‘ of bookishness, learning and academic culture: violence, sexism, competition, impostor syndrome and complicity with institutional structures that shore up inequality. Dark academia thus responds to the neoliberal restructuration of higher education since the 1990s and its consequences, such as the student loan crisis in the US, expensive tuition fees in the UK, underfunded departments and increasing pressure to study the humanities for employability. Nicola Glaubitz & Martin Klepper: Introduction: Dark Academia Marie-Claire Steinkraus: Between Idealisation and Subversion: Dark Academia in The Picture of Dorian Gray and The Secret History Lucas Mattila: “We think of it as art meets life, Bunny.“ Cruel Optimism in Mona Awad‘s Bunny Sydni Zastre: Secret History, No Future: Gender Failure and Reproductive Futurity at Hampden College Rainer Emig: Dark Academia in Philip Pullman‘s His Dark Materials Katja Anderson, Natasha Anderson: Death, Deceit and Detective Work in Dark Academia Anneke Schewe, Melissa Schuh: Exploring the Dark Side of Dark Academia: Postcolonial Criticism and Genre Hybridity in R. F. Kuang‘s Babel Carolin Wachsmann: BookTok and Dark Academia
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Big Green Books (Simon) @biggreenbooks.bsky.social · 19h
It's #buyastrangerabook day.

Now then, if you'd like a book, but aren't quite sure what, just let
@melissaschuh.bsky.social know the kinda stuff you like reading.

Melissa will then reply with a choice of four books.

You can choose your favourite & Melissa will pay for it!

Get in touch.

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Dr. Melissa Schuh @melissaschuh.bsky.social · 19h
I’ll #BuyAStrangerABook
🤗

Personalised recommendations are my thing, so don’t forget to mention what kinds of things you like to read and I’ll suggest accordingly 📚

@biggreenbooks.bsky.social
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Dr. Melissa Schuh @melissaschuh.bsky.social · 19h
Have you got this @biggreenbooks.bsky.social ?
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Dr. Melissa Schuh @melissaschuh.bsky.social · 19h
I’ll #BuyAStrangerABook
🤗

Personalised recommendations are my thing, so don’t forget to mention what kinds of things you like to read and I’ll suggest accordingly 📚

@biggreenbooks.bsky.social
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Big Green Books (Simon) @biggreenbooks.bsky.social · 19h
IT'S WEDNESDAY!

It's #buyastrangerabook day.

The best of all the days.

I'll give out TWO books.

FOR FREE.

If you'd like one, let me know.

Also, if you'd like to #BuyAStrangerABook too, let me know.

It's a thing! Look.

www.biggreenbookshop.com/stuff-you-mi...

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Buy A Stranger A Book. #buyastrangerabook - Stuff you might like... - Big Green Bookshop. @biggreenbooks on Twitter. Cheese fan. My Mum says hi.
The Big Green Bookshop an independent online bookshop in selling awesome titles by awesome authors to awesome people
www.biggreenbookshop.com
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Dr. Melissa Schuh @melissaschuh.bsky.social · 6d
Of course! How about something here?
Kalynn Bayron: my dear Henry ND Stevenson: Nimona Xiran Jay Zhao: Iron widow Sheridan le Fanu: carmilla
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The Society of Authors @societyofauthors.bsky.social · 6d
A searchable works list has been released to identify the authors’ works that were stolen by US Corporation Anthropic, to train its AI models. It includes UK authors whose works were copied without their permission or payment.
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Dr. Melissa Schuh @melissaschuh.bsky.social · 7d
🧶 September #Knitting 🧶

Three pairs: Flying Foxtail socks to complete a matching set in “Himmel” and “Dawn Purple” by Mominoki, Dancing Droplet socks in “遠＜の花火“ by Amirisu both by Westknits, and Jelly Roll socks by Mara Bryner in a Halloween set by Punk Rock Unicorn 🧶

#socks #handknitting
Pair of handknitted socks, in a semi-solid white with purple speckles, and a semi-solid light blue yarn, in a brioche pattern, with one sock laid on top of the other on a sock blocker, laid out on a wooden table. Leftover balls of yarn are next to it. Two matching pairs of handknitted socks, in a semi-solid white with purple speckles, and a semi-solid light blue yarn, each with the opposite main colour, in a brioche pattern, with one sock each laid on top of the other on sock blockers, laid out on a wooden table. Leftover balls of yarn are next to them. A hand knitted pair of socks in a variegated navy and neon coloured yarn knitted in a textured pattern with droplet-like stitches, laid out on a wooden table with the leftover ball of yarn next to it. Handknitted pair of jelly roll ankle socks in a variegated black and grey yarn with contrasting purple and orange accents for cuff, arch ribbing and toe, laid out on a white table.
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Dr. Melissa Schuh @melissaschuh.bsky.social · 7d
🤗

Personalised recommendations are my thing, so don’t forget to mention what kinds of things you like to read and I’ll suggest accordingly 📚

@biggreenbooks.bsky.social
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Big Green Books (Simon) @biggreenbooks.bsky.social · 7d
IT'S WEDNESDAY!

It's #buyastrangerabook day.

The best of all the days.

I'll give out TWO books.

FOR FREE.

If you'd like one, let me know.

Also, if you'd like to #BuyAStrangerABook too, let me know.

It's a thing! Look.

biggreenbookshop.com/stuff-you-mi...

UK only
Buy A Stranger A Book. #buyastrangerabook - Stuff you might like... - Big Green Bookshop. @biggreenbooks on Twitter. Cheese fan. My Mum says hi.
The Big Green Bookshop an independent online bookshop in selling awesome titles by awesome authors to awesome people
biggreenbookshop.com
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Dr. Melissa Schuh @melissaschuh.bsky.social · 12d
Of course, just let Simon know your details @biggreenbooks.bsky.social
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Dr. Melissa Schuh @melissaschuh.bsky.social · 13d
Sorry! I didn’t get a proper notification somehow, here’s some ideas…
Sara Collins: the confessions of Frannie Langton Jordy Rosenberg: confessions of the fox Abubakar Adam Ibrahim : Season of Crimson blossoms Margaret Atwood: alias grace
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Dr. Melissa Schuh @melissaschuh.bsky.social · 14d
I’ll #BuyAStrangerABook
🤗

Personalised recommendations are my thing, so don’t forget to mention what kinds of things you like to read and I’ll suggest accordingly 📚

@biggreenbooks.bsky.social
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Big Green Books (Simon) @biggreenbooks.bsky.social · 14d
IT'S WEDNESDAY!

It's #buyastrangerabook day.

The grooviest of all the days.

I'll give out TWO books.

FOR FREE.

If you'd like one, let me know.

Also, if you'd like to #BuyAStrangerABook too, let me know.

It's a thing! Look.

biggreenbookshop.com/stuff-you-mi...

UK only
Buy A Stranger A Book. #buyastrangerabook - Stuff you might like... - Big Green Bookshop. @biggreenbooks on Twitter. Cheese fan. My Mum says hi.
The Big Green Bookshop an independent online bookshop in selling awesome titles by awesome authors to awesome people
biggreenbookshop.com
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Dr. Melissa Schuh @melissaschuh.bsky.social · 15d
Some impressions from the annual conference of the German Association for the Study of English in Essen on the topic of “Anglophone Studies and the Public: Past, Present and Future Debates and Interventions” where I got to talk about teaching practices, diversity, and scholarship and activism 📚
Photograph of the Anglistiktag 2025 conference folder with two papers laid out on top, one on Scholarship and|as activism, and the other on antiracist teaching practices. Photograph of the university campus in Essen with a large lecture hall building in the background. Photograph of a blue and yellow series of large letter sculptures spelling Essen. Photograph of a view over the city of Essen from the town hall.
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Dr. Melissa Schuh @melissaschuh.bsky.social · 20d
Absolutely, have a look at these…
ND Stevenson: Nimona Rebecca Kuang: Babel Rivers Solomon: The Deep Elizabeth Lim: Six crimson cranes
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Big Green Books (Simon) @biggreenbooks.bsky.social · 21d
It's #buyastrangerabook day.

Now then, if you'd like a book, but aren't quite sure what, just let @melissaschuh.bsky.social
know the kinda stuff you like reading.

Melissa will then reply with a choice of four books.

You can choose your favourite & Melissa will pay for it!

Get in touch.

UK only
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Dr. Melissa Schuh @melissaschuh.bsky.social · 21d
I’ll #BuyAStrangerABook
🤗

Personalised recommendations are my thing, so don’t forget to mention what kinds of things you like to read and I’ll suggest accordingly 📚

@biggreenbooks.bsky.social
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Dr. Melissa Schuh @melissaschuh.bsky.social · 21d
I’ll #BuyAStrangerABook
🤗

Personalised recommendations are my thing, so don’t forget to mention what kinds of things you like to read and I’ll suggest accordingly 📚

@biggreenbooks.bsky.social
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Big Green Books (Simon) @biggreenbooks.bsky.social · 21d
IT'S WEDNESDAY!

It's #buyastrangerabook day.

The grooviest of all the days.

I'll give out TWO books.

FOR FREE.

If you'd like one, let me know.

Also, if you'd like to #BuyAStrangerABook too, let me know.

It's a thing! Look.

www.biggreenbookshop.com/stuff-you-mi...

UK only
Buy A Stranger A Book. #buyastrangerabook - Stuff you might like... - Big Green Bookshop. @biggreenbooks on Twitter. Cheese fan. My Mum says hi.
The Big Green Bookshop an independent online bookshop in selling awesome titles by awesome authors to awesome people
www.biggreenbookshop.com
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Dr. Melissa Schuh @melissaschuh.bsky.social · 21d
Hi! I‘m so glad you liked Fame ☺️ and that’s a lovely offer but I don’t really have means to receive Books from Simon right now as all our attempts to ship to Germany have turned catastrophic. You could pay it forward to someone else though? And I‘d love to see your suggestions 📚
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Dr. Melissa Schuh @melissaschuh.bsky.social · 23d
Sure! Just let @biggreenbooks.bsky.social Knie your details and that it’s a surprise from me ☺️
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Dr. Melissa Schuh @melissaschuh.bsky.social · 27d
Oh Great! Have a look here…
Deborah Harkness: a discovery of witches Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone: this is his you lose the time war Kevin Kwan: Crazy Rich Asians Kazuo Ishiguro: Klara and the sum
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Dr. Melissa Schuh @melissaschuh.bsky.social · 28d
I’ll #BuyAStrangerABook
🤗

Personalised recommendations are my thing, so don’t forget to mention what kinds of things you like to read and I’ll suggest accordingly 📚

@biggreenbooks.bsky.social
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Big Green Books (Simon) @biggreenbooks.bsky.social · 28d
IT'S WEDNESDAY!

It's #buyastrangerabook day.

The grooviest of all the days.

I'll give out TWO books.

FOR FREE.

If you'd like one, let me know.

Also, if you'd like to #BuyAStrangerABook too, let me know.

It's a thing! Look.

www.biggreenbookshop.com/stuff-you-mi...

UK only
Buy A Stranger A Book. #buyastrangerabook - Stuff you might like... - Big Green Bookshop. @biggreenbooks on Twitter. Cheese fan. My Mum says hi.
The Big Green Bookshop an independent online bookshop in selling awesome titles by awesome authors to awesome people
www.biggreenbookshop.com
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Dr. Melissa Schuh @melissaschuh.bsky.social · Sep 6
Of course, just let @biggreenbooks.bsky.social know your details
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Dr. Melissa Schuh @melissaschuh.bsky.social · Sep 5
Feel free to pick one !
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