Shawna Ross

Two Assistant Professor jobs in Early Modern just opened at A&M! apply.interfolio.com/134781

Job alert: TT Assistant Professor of English at Texas A&M University. Focus is Critical AI Studies. Come join us! apply.interfolio.com/130758

Today's From-the-Vaults Treasure

In case you ever wondered what Sarah Bernhardt sounded like. (At the very least, you gotta check out the Phèdre track; it's wild.)

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feeling that "the youths" are not engaged?

I just thought ... changing my email inbox to high-contrast ... would make new asks more legible.

Reader, it didn't.

Today is the birthday of Charlotte Riddell (1832-1906). Riddell specialized in ghost stories and novels of London city life. Weird Stories (1882) contains some of the best supernatural fiction of the Victorian era. Her ghost stories are a unique blend of classic entertainment and social commentary.

PSA:

Beginning September 25, every U.S. household can again place an order to receive four more free COVID-19 rapid tests delivered directly to their home.

www.covid.gov/tests

Leveling up my gear w/peripherals for my new laptop. Spent an agonizingly long time researching stands. Finally landed on the Roost for portability. www.therooststand.com/collections/.... Can't wait to get it set up with my mechanical keyboard (Cherry MX Browns). What's everyone else using?

I've decided to sidle into Bluesky by being really, really naive and simple, rather than re-cultivate whatever it was I did on Twitter when I tried to entertain. So here is just a link to a non-paywalled chapter on labor and DH, edited by @jamesosullivan.bsky.social mla.hcommons.org/deposits/ite...

Will forward to a graduate student doing a Wordsworth-based visualization project. Will be so helpful!

Teaching Henry James's _In the Cage_ to my digital cultures class. So far, they've really responded to my reading of it as about parasocial relationships. I've learned a lot more about their personal lives (and vice versa) than I thought I would.

An Open Letter from Faculty at West Virginia University - Boston Review The crisis here spells disaster for the future of public education.

Please read our open letter to the WVU Board of Governors published in the Boston Review today. @jessiew.bsky.social , @rosecasey.bsky.social and I wrote it together and we mean every word.

Especially excited to teach Murderbot at the end of the semester! Not just a great book that meets my curricular needs, but (squee!) a local writer. @marthawells.bsky.social

Bookstack for my Digital Cultures and Human Thinking course. Was super-chuffed at the incidental color coordination. Anyone else want to share a course bookstack?

Yikes!

#intro Me right now: a big lecture class on digital cultures & human thinking, committee work for a revised Environmental Studies program, and an article that close-reads early hypertext editions of The Waste Land. Feeling great b/c I just finished an interview w/an awesome informant for the article

My department will be hiring a TT assistant professor of Latinx/Chicanx / U.S Mexican /U.S. Central American Lit and Culture. I am on the search committee so ppl can get in touch with me if they have questions.
I will share the job ad as soon as it's available but please share with interested folks!

Thanks so much! I'm looking forward to getting back into the groove.