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Rachel Teukolsky

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Scholar of the 19th c & other things. English prof at Vanderbilt U Author of _Picture World_ (Oxford UP 2020) and also _Writing on Fire_ (Broadview P 2024) www.rachelteukolsky.net

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Rachel Teukolsky @rachelteukolsky.bsky.social · Oct 26

My textbook is finally available! 'Writing on Fire: A Fierce Yet Friendly Guide to Writing Humanities Essays in College.' There are chapters on close reading, thesis statements, all the good stuff. If you teach writing via a humanities subject, check it out! broadviewpress.com/product/writ...

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Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 4d

I thought I'd put the administration's proposed "compact" with universities in context, so I wrote the blog post below.

It's especially for journalists covering this story!

Many details about how the compact itself works and why the administration has retreated to this strategy.

Balkinization: The Art of Replacing the Law with the Deal

A group blog on constitutional law, theory, and politics

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Susan Zieger @susanzieger.bsky.social · 15d

Please join me for the online launch of my book Logistics and Power: Supply Chains from Slavery to Space, next Tuesday, Sept. 30 at 2 p.m. PST. Join Brett Neilson, Paul Apostolidis, and Jaime Acosta Gonzalez for discussion and q&a introduced by Dylan Rodriguez (UCR). Register at bit.ly/ZiegerBook.

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Christina Proenza-Coles @proenzacoles.bsky.social · 13d

Barzillai Lew (b. 1743) served with distinction during the American Revolutionary War. He purchased the freedom of his future wife, Dinah Bowman, for $400 in 1767. The 1790 census lists him as head in a household of 14 free people of color. Their house became a stop on the Underground Railroad.

Oil on canvas portrait of a young man in 18th century clothing once identified as Barzillai Lew. Now the National Portrait Gallery lists both the sitter and the artist as "unknown."

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Dr. Katie Sagal @aksagal.bsky.social · 23d

Hello #academicsky! I'm sharing a cfp for an edited collection on "Naming & Classifying," pulled together by me, Kristin Girten, & @aaronrhanlon.com . We'd love to see your work! Please also circulate to anyone you think might be interested. Deadline 10/31. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Naming and Classifying cfp final

CFP: Naming and Classifying in the Long Eighteenth Century Whereas “the nineteenth century can be seen as the century of counting and measuring,” the eighteenth century can be seen as the century of ...

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · Sep 6

"The Department of History invites applications for an assistant professor who will make enough leftist remarks to annoy conservative talk radio hosts but whose politics will ultimately support the neoliberal mission of the university."

Honest Academic Job Postings

English department seeks a tenure-track assistant professor specializing in Shakespeare, Romanticism, Victorianism, modernism, post-modernism, post...

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Stephen Guy-Bray @stephengb.bsky.social · Aug 29

Hello everyone. Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax has a tenure-track job in Enlightenment rhetoric and / or 18th-century literature. Tell everyone.

www.msvu.ca/about-msvu/c...

Full-time Academic positions

Inspired by a strong tradition of social responsibility and an enduring commitment to the advancement of women, Mount Saint Vincent University promotes academic excellence and the pursuit of knowledge...

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Rachel Teukolsky @rachelteukolsky.bsky.social · Aug 7

I’m excited for this research day on the syllabus I’m working on: “Research I. Browsing, Skimming, Learning, Honing. Taking notes. Going down Rabbit Holes. Following the Clues. Going Deep & Taking Shortcuts. What Research and Poems Have in Common.”

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Amy Sherman @andcleverness.bsky.social · Aug 7

#PublishingJob
Acquisitions Editor
University of Tennessee Press
Knoxville, TN
salary band: $50K-$90K
👇

Acquisitions Editor | Libraries

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Matthew Boedy @matthewboedy.bsky.social · Aug 4

The 2025 @aaup.org Faculty in the South Survey is live. If you are a professor in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, or Texas it's for you. Ends 8/29 at 5pm Eastern forms.gle/v7T3BH2w9LXs...

2025 AAUP Faculty in the South Survey

The Georgia conference of the American Association of University Professors [AAUP] and its partners in states across the South have been at the forefront of fighting attacks on higher education. To as...

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Josh Johnson @joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social · Jul 26

When you strip away humanity

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · Jul 15

On the left is a post today from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. On the right is literal Nazi propaganda from the 1930s.

@DHSgov on X: Remember your Homeland’s Heritage.

New Life in a New Land - Morgan Weistling

[Painting of a family]

Nazi propaganda: "The Nazi Party secures the national community"

[Painting of a German family]

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Dr. Carly Maris @vintagehistorian.bsky.social · Jul 10

“I asked Chat GPT” “I asked Grok”

Ok well I asked Sappho and she said

…….
…….
..[b]osom

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Susan Zieger @susanzieger.bsky.social · Jun 23

My book LOGISTICS AND POWER will be out on September 9 from University of California Press, and is available for pre-order now!
www.ucpress.edu/books/logist...

Logistics and Power by Susan Zieger - Hardcover

Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.

www.ucpress.edu

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · Jul 4

If there is one lesson to draw from the history of fascism in the interwar period in Europe, it is this:

Democracy falls if and when mainstream conservatives and centrist/center-right elites decide to make common cause with extremists because they consider the “radical Left” the more acute threat.

one dozen bats at a keyboard @panasonicdx4500.bsky.social · Jul 4

“The New York Times collaborated with a white nationalist eugenicist hacker and agreed to keep his identity a secret to publish a Zohran Mamdani hit piece” is a way bigger story than “18 year old Zohran Mamdani ticked ‘African American’ on his Columbia application because he was a citizen of Uganda”

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Rachel Teukolsky @rachelteukolsky.bsky.social · Jul 4

Thanks so much, Deirdre!

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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · Jun 4

*Action without Hope: Victorian Literature after Climate Collapse* is out today! The official release got pushed back due to an issue w the art, & despite being mostly about literature it's very visual.

So to celebrate its full entry into the world, a thread of some of my favorite images from it:

Action without Hope

A study of how writers from the early phases of our prolonged climate emergency used aesthetic strategies to redefine the category of action. What does it feel like to live helplessly in a world that ...

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · Jun 4

It's the one year book-iversary of Holding It Together, and I think its message is more urgent than ever. Because the book is about how the US came to rely on women as its safety net. But that story is fundamentally a story of what happens when billionaires don't want to pay their fair share. 1/

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · Jun 4

Other countries have safety nets. The US has women.

Their labor creates the illusion of a DIY society, making it seem like we don't need a net.

Writing HOLDING IT TOGETHER was a labor of love and fury and I'm so grateful to share it with you all #PubDay

www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/697130...

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · Apr 24

Phenomenal thread:

Michael W. Kraus @mwkraus.bsky.social · Apr 23

I am teaching my phd writing workshop course this quarter, question: are there any words/phrases said to you by an advisor/mentor that stuck with you, were memorable, or particularly helpful? If so please reply below!

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MNG - University Presses @mngupbooks.bsky.social · Apr 9

As the first collection to bring together Hall’s work on the visual, this volume assembles Hall’s essays, lectures, reviews, catalog texts, and conversations on art, film, and photography.

📚30% off #ArtHistory titles: buff.ly/JAsjrEz

@dukepress.bsky.social @forarthistory.org.uk
#ForArtHistory2025

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Thomas Smits @thomassmits.bsky.social · Feb 5

🚀📈 Making Victorian visual culture searchable: Introducing an open-access and AI-powered dataset of 72,000 illustrations from the Illustrated London News (1842-1890). (w. Bethany Warner, @pfyfe.bsky.social and @bcgl.bsky.social)

openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/articles/10....

A Fully-Searchable Multimodal Dataset of the Illustrated London News, 1842–1890 | Journal of Open Humanities Data

The Journal of Open Humanities Data (JOHD) aims to be a key part of a thriving community of scholars sharing humanities data. The journal features peer reviewed publications describing humanities rese...

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Henry Rothwell @henryrothwell.bsky.social · Jan 24

'Bright Coast, Long Shadows', Bryan Angus, linocut.
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · Jan 13

‘Ben Affleck evacuated his home in Pacific Palisades on Wednesday but so did the retirees, surfers and young families living in Palisades Bowl, a mobile home community, where units cost $1200 a month.’

Anahid Nersessian writes from LA, on the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ja...

Anahid Nersessian | Under the Santa Anas

In last November’s election, a majority of California voters declined to outlaw forced labour among incarcerated...

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Julie Johnstone @essencepress.bsky.social · Dec 21

a recent new work: words perhaps fitting for midwinter, words that recur for me when working

held thought connect turn shadow enfold still flow reveal unfold touch leaf thread surprise light hold

space play shelter pause hide quiet stream glimpse enclose between air gather open breath fold close

sewn double-sided concertina book form, containing the words listed in the post, four different images

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