Katherine Bowers 🌻

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Please consider signing Elizabeth May's petition to have the federal government recognize endometriosis and adenomyosis as part of the disability law in Canada.

www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

I am curious, not least because many non-professors with doctorates follow me, to know what your doctorate was in (broad field ok, narrow if you want to share) and what you do for a living now. TT professors, we'll save you for a different thread. Please share for curiosity's sake, not using data.

Haven’t found anything yet, but will report if I do!

This is the next talk in our North American Dostoevsky Society virtual speaker series, with gratitude to Oberlin College for hosting! Register below for the Zoom link and join us to hear Michael's work on April 2!

Drawing upon their individual and collaborative research, Dr. Shneiderman and Dr. Baniya explore how European funding is flowing into Nepal, while young people are flowing out of the country through labour migration to global locations including Europe.

Lunch will be served. RSVP on our website!

Excited for this talk coming up on Monday! All welcome

Full respect to Pride and Prejudice but we are clearly in a Northanger Abbey historical moment.

No cheating; your last saved picture of a celebrity is your therapist (I wish!!)

Good news! The TEI 2026 Call for Papers deadline has been extended to February 27th!

tei2026.tei-c.org/CFP.html

Looking forward to seeing your proposal!

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But so thematic lol

The Limits of Pain: On Writing Against Chronic Illness At the start of Bora Chung’s short story “The Head,” a strange creature emerges from the toilet bowl. Resembling “a lump of carelessly slapped-together yellow and gray clay,” it rises from the wate…

“To link something together is to acknowledge that disparate parts are from the same source, that there is an undeniable connection between them.” How her experience with endometriosis has shaped Ysabelle Cheung’s fiction.

Call for (post-PhD) historians and cultural scholars for the pod! We have a specific wishlist of scholarship we’re looking to add to the lineup:
- ancient & medieval history
and/or
- histories of anywhere other than the US and UK, preferably outside Europe

Pitches to: podcast@thisguysucked.com
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Very excited for this news item! And for Braxton's arrival at UBC! 🎉

reMarkable all the way!

The unwritten Handbook of Digital Instability will have a chapter on the broken dream of the Google Books project.

Looking forward to this talk later today!

Same 😈

From this, it is super clear who is running the show in Demons pt 3! We are excited to see how these graphs show the changes in Dostoevsky's novel's social structures over time. More adventures in network graphing with @fyodor76.bsky.social #digitaldostoevsky

This talk kicks off our 2026 thematic speaker series on “Infrastructure and Power” - join us tomorrow online to hear Kiran Klaus Patel share his research. All welcome! Registration link below

Call for Applications: 2026 Deborah A. Martinsen Symposium Travel Award The North American Dostoevsky Society stands with all the people of Ukraine, Russia, and the rest of the world who condemn the Russian invasion of Ukraine. See our statement here. The North Am…

The North American Dostoevsky Society invites #applications for a special Deborah A. Martinsen Travel Award to support travel to the XIX International #Dostoevsky Symposium in Buenos Aires. More information can be found on Bloggers K:
bloggerskaramazov.com/2026/01/21/c...

Thanks :)

Our ASEEES panel in the spotlight! Featuring some stylometry work and visualizations from @fyodor76.bsky.social and myself (including this intense cloud of 19th-century author "neighbourhoods")

Anton Chekhov. Earliest Stories This volume presents the first comprehensive annotated edition of Chekhov's earliest stories in English. Translated as part of a unique project involving 85...

I finally received this Chekhov volume in the mail today! I have a translation in it, among a lot of others, ranging from prominent Chekhov scholars to undergrad students. Excited it's finally out in the world! www.academicstudiespress.com/9798887198095/

Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy, no. 27 | Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy | Manifold @CUNY <h3>Edited by Patricia Belen, Stefano Morello, Gregory J. Palermo, Danica Savonick, and Brandon Walsh</h3> <p>“More students in a single classroom; fewer instructors to engage them. Extravagant AI co...

The whole issue is excellent, though! Check them all out here: cuny.manifoldapp.org/projects/jit... with big thanks to the editors for their good work putting this issue together! :)

A Dostoevsky Laboratory: Creating a TEI Training Workshop for Undergraduate Students Using Minimal Computing | A Dostoevsky Laboratory: Creating a TEI Training Workshop for Undergraduate Students Usin... by Katherine Bowers and Kate Holland

I keep forgetting to share! But @fyodor76.bsky.social and I published an article in the most recent issue of @jitp.bsky.social, a special issue on minimalist DH pedagogy. It's all about our wonderful undergrad TEI workshop from a few years ago! cuny.manifoldapp.org/read/a-dosto...

A Frozen State - University of Toronto Press

This afternoon's task: finishing the proofs for my chapter in this exciting book! utppublishing.com/doi/book/10....

Next week, on Jan 20, @bgorski.bsky.social is giving a #Sawchen Lecture at UBC on "Networking Cultural Markets: Capitalism and Literature in Post-Soviet Russia." All are welcome! Details and registration for the Zoom at this link:
cenes.ubc.ca/events/event... @ubc-cenes.bsky.social

Voice AI Concerns to Vancouver School Board Vancouver School Board (VSB) are planning to collaborate with Microsoft to introduce Generative AI into classrooms. As parents and guardians of children at VSB schools, we do not consent to our child...

Vancouver people: The Vancouver School Board is planning to introduce generative AI into classrooms, here's a petition to ask them not to.

actionnetwork.org/petitions/vo...

Join us on Zoom January 27th at 10 AM for the first talk in our CES Spring 2026 Speaker Series!

The Speaker Series features scholars from around the world who specialize in topics related to Europe and the languages spoken there.

Register here: ubc.zoom.us/meeting/regi...