On Jane Austenβs 250th birthday, would like to encourage fans to check out Fanny Burneyβs work which highly influenced Austen, who even borrowed the phrase βpride and prejudiceβ from Burney. Recommend starting with Evelina.
Also, Burneyβs life was WILD. π€ #JaneAusten #Austen250 #FannyBurney
One year I made these pumpkin snickerdoodles for my class and a student asked me for the recipe, and then she sent a photo of her own pumpkin snickerdoodles at the Thanksgiving table! Genuinely such a nice teaching memory. www.livewellbakeoften.com/pumpkin-snic...
11.12.2025 16:06 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 1
I am so excited about the online course I will be teaching next year at Liverpool Uni on popular romance!
They finally let me run a whole romance course!!!!
Falling in love with love: A History of Popular Romance | Continuing Education | University of Liverpool share.google/QdPJ2ubolU59...
Great to celebrate the launch of βThe Verse of Charles Dickensβ and βThe Plays of Charles Dickensβ with their respective editors - Lydia Craig and @emilyjlm.bsky.social - and - Joanna Hofer-Robinson and @peteorford.bsky.social - at the Charles Dickens Museum.π
21.05.2025 19:14 β π 18 π 6 π¬ 1 π 0
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell casts a huge shadow over the book world. I'm seeing a flood of books that borrow its genre-hopping, generation-spanning format.
So in my latest newsletter, I wonder: is Cloud Atlas becoming a bit of a genre on its own?
buttondown.com/charliejane/...
"i dont know what id do widdout my chatgpt π₯Ίππ" Oh my god go back to Baby School you fucking failure
09.05.2025 04:56 β π 3639 π 1012 π¬ 28 π 15
Graffiti on a brick wall reading "No TERFS on our turf" with a smaller, handwritten statement below reading βtrans rights are human rightsβ
Saw this in Edinburgh a few years ago and have carried the thought with me since π©·
23.02.2025 00:08 β π 7 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0Thank you. 6 students had their visas revoked here at Stanford. It's so horrifying.
06.04.2025 23:39 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Two books placed next to one another. The first is Horror Noire: A History of Black American Horror from the 1890s to Present by Robin R. Means Coleman and the second is The Well-Read Game: On Playing Thoughtfully by Tracy Fullerton and Matthew Faber.
Very excited about the two new books I picked up at #SCMS2025! Love @robinmeanscoleman.bsky.social so I'm especially thrilled to have snagged Horror Noire.
Overall a lovely conference - it was so fun to present on creepy little kids in horror games, and the papers I saw on cozy games were super! πΎ
Rest in Power Linda Williams. π (1946-2025) This loss hangs heavy on my heart. Linda was a legend--inspiring feminist scholar, warm interlocutor always generous to students & newbies, and fierce/indomitable presence whose commitment made us all care more. I'm grateful to have known her!! β€οΈπ’
13.03.2025 13:59 β π 98 π 20 π¬ 2 π 5
A chairde, as they say, "every wishlist helps!" Our gothic horror game, set in #Ireland - specifically set in the Hellfire Club in #Dublin π± - will be going into Early Access this year :))
Find out more below, & wishlist us today. MΓle baochas πββοΈ
Photo of Humans: A Monstrous History by Surekha Davies
Just listened to a wonderful talk from @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social about her very interesting (and very beautiful) book! Excited to display it on my bookshelf π§ββοΈ
11.03.2025 00:47 β π 9 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0
Do not obey in advance: Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want, and then offer themselves without being asked. A citizen who adapts in this way is teaching power what it can do.
How is the top University in the Bluest state in the US reacting to Trumpβs attacks on Academic Freedom in the form of the βAnti-DEI order? The answer is: NOT good. A thread 𧡠about how the University of Hawaiβi at MΔnoa is responding to these attacks.
02.03.2025 01:43 β π 308 π 100 π¬ 8 π 25
Devastating read.
"'You would have thought at some point you escape the poverty trap,' said Nathaniel Hendren, a Harvard economist and an author of the study. Black boys β even rich black boys β can seemingly never assume that."
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Graffiti on a brick wall reading "No TERFS on our turf" with a smaller, handwritten statement below reading βtrans rights are human rightsβ
Saw this in Edinburgh a few years ago and have carried the thought with me since π©·
23.02.2025 00:08 β π 7 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0Ah, if only there was an online option! The topics sound so interesting!
20.02.2025 23:20 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0What does the assignment entail? I imagine it would be transferable to an eighteenth century class!
20.02.2025 22:53 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Interesting. Here's my alternative take: Kill it with fire.
18.02.2025 21:38 β π 1183 π 104 π¬ 36 π 4My hometown!
17.02.2025 03:21 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Yesterday, I discovered a(n apparently v famous) theatre tradition 'Grand-Guignol' that was both unbelievably gross, but also cool af.
I'm kind of ashamed I hadn't heard of it before...
Massive props (no pun intended) to @alexiamandla.bsky.social for her enthusiastic/detailed gore descriptions.
I truly close 4-6 pop ups every time I visit a website now. I can't believe this is what the internet has become.
16.02.2025 01:00 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Every clothing website is now an endless battle. 10% OFF IF YOU SIGN UP FOR TEXTS! ACCEPT COOKIES, EVEN IF YOU'VE BEEN TO THIS WEBSITE 100 TIMES! SPIN OUR WHEEL TO GET 15% OFF IF YOU SIGN UP FOR TEXTS! FREE SHIPPING IF YOU SPEND $300! GIVE US YOUR PHONE NUMBER SO WE CAN TEXT YOU!
I'm exhausted.
Though a true Ann Radcliffe joke would require about 5 times more allowance on the word limit
12.02.2025 21:18 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Ann Radcliffe tries to joke
They wound through black woods of pine as even the last tints of stars died in the savage foliage, seeking safety in the wretched inn; if Misery ever had local habitation, this may have been "her dearest place of seclusion," where even the moon declined to shed her rays.
View down a well lit railway platform with a sleeper train alongside
Now here's an attractive CFP: Railway Aesthetics: Experiencing Locomotion across Media and Cultures. Takes place ON THE TRAIN Vienna-Bucharest-Istanbul, 10-13 September 2025. Deadline for submissions: May 2, 2025 call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/02/...
12.02.2025 10:16 β π 183 π 64 π¬ 9 π 48I think it's helpful, for me, to realize that this is just an old move. These things have happened before. Therefore, we actually do know how to fight it because it's been fought before. We left the monarchy! We beat the Nazis! To say it's old is also to say we won once and we can win again.
11.02.2025 15:08 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Does anyone have experience writing on an ereader? I'm thinking about getting one of those nifty "ereader + keyboard + Microsoft word" devices, but I haven't ever owned an ereader so I'm not sure how people feel about them for long-term writing. I just really need something lightweight for my diss!
08.02.2025 02:04 β π 5 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0How I think I look when I teach / How I actually look when I teach
07.02.2025 02:00 β π 7 π 0 π¬ 0 π 1
White is for Witching has some harrowing descriptions of teeth (and eating things one isn't supposed to) but really I think this topic would be great for the memes
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