Judith Rauscher

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a child is driving a red toy car down a street . Alt: a child is driving a red toy car down a street . The text says: I'll be there.

Of course I'm going! And so is @spychalam.bsky.social and @timeflieslike.bsky.social

Promotionsstelle (100%, E13) am Sprachlabor der Universität zu Köln bei Axel Bohmann, in den Bereichen Mehrsprachigkeit, English as a Medium of Instruction und Digital Literacy:

Some #Springflowers for you all. Visited the last crocuses in Cologne's botanical garden again during lunch break today. #Flora #Köln

Sehr sehr zu empfehlen; hört/ seht es euch an.besonders ab Min 19 / 19:30…zu wiss. Autonomie, Plagiatssoftware, KI in der Drittmittelantragsbegutachtung. ⬇️

Am 25./26. März findet der Workshop „Netze. Infrastrukturen der Energie“ im Rahmen des @dfg.de Netzwerks „Energie @ Literatur“ an der HU Berlin statt. Gäste sind herzlich willkommen. Informationen: energyandliterature.wordpress.com/events/
@victoriaherche.bsky.social @judithrauscher.bsky.social

Collage of four photos: two images of a park with flowers covering the ground. One of a person walking between camelias bushes. Two people standing over a little basin full of camelias flowers

#Frühling in Köln! Krokusse und Kamelien!
#Spring in Cologne! Crocuses and Camelias!

It is so important to keep hammering in this point. People always ask me why I would have to go visit archives - why not just look at a scan? Because they haven’t been scanned! And they are never going to be! There are millions & millions of pieces of paper in every archive.

Photo collage of 1. RikeScheffler talking to Alhierd Bacharevic, 2. Rike Scheffler talking to Joyelle McSweeney, 3. all the writers and their translators on stage with Rike Scheffler and Uljana Wolf. A photo of Rike, Joyelle, and myself in front of the Poetica 11 Logo.

A few impressions from last week's #Poetica11, a literary festival hosted every year at the @unicologne.bsky.social & in the city. This year, I got to collaborate with Rike Scheffler for a panel discussion with the Poetica poets & by helping to bring to Cologne US poet @joyellemcsweeney.bsky.social.

Did you know that 2/3 of Americans are at least “somewhat worried” about global warming -- but 85% of Americans either underestimate how many others are worried, or don’t know enough to say?

This key misunderstanding tanks our sense of collective efficacy. How do we overcome it? Talk about it!

Photo of Stefan Benz discussing Tommy Pico's poetry.

Photo of Mahshid Mayar asking a question with other audience members listening intently

Photo of Mareike Spychala smiling while being introduced

Photo of several Poetica poets, Rike Scheffler and myself during the panel discussion

Today, out conference on #AnthropoceneNecropoetics continued with two panels l, focusing, first, on Indigenous perspectives and Settler #Necropolitics and, second, on the eco-logics of necropolitics & questions of history, followed by a panel discussions with this year's # #Poetica poets.

Mahshid Mayar introducing the first keynote speaker

Joyelle McSweeney speaking about artist Eva Hesse

Photo of parts of the audience of the conference

Marata Werbanowska responding to a question of Lynn Keller participating via Zoom

Yesterday, the conference took off with a mind-bogglingly rich keynote by @joyellemcsweeney.bsky.social who spoke about many things beside her suggestive idea of #necropastoral. We then continued our discussion with a panel on "Ruination, Resignation, Renewal."

Conference poster composed of lines and textures.

Starting @unicologne.bsky.social : The DFG-funded conference on "Anthropocene #Necropoetics: Empire, Violence, and Ecological Ruin in US #Poetry" that I'm organizing with Mahshid Mayar. So exciting! #EnvHum #AmericanStudies

Cover if Forrest's Daughters of a Coral Dawn.

I love Joanna Russ's book. Another favorite of mine is Katherine V. Forrest's /Daughters of a Choral Dawn/ and it's sequels. But if you haven't read the other books in Charnas's #HoldfastChronicles, I would recommend those, too.

I think Macpherson's /The Cambridge Introduction to Margaret Atwood/ (2010) could be suitable for Abiturient:innen, at least in parts. It's not overladen with references to other scholars.

A collage of six books: Holgate's /Sojourn in the City of Amalgamation/, Jack London's /The Iron Heel/… Sinclair Lewis's /It Can't Happen Here/, Suzy McKee Charnas's /Walk to the End of the World/, Atwood's /The Handmaid's Tale/, and Marge Piercy's /Woman on the Edge of Time/

These are the books I discussed in my talk on "Dystopias of Reproductive Work in North Am. #SpeculativeFiction" this week. I'd recommend all of them to a wider audience, except /Sojourn/ (1835) which is viciously racist. Be advised though that all of them contain brutal violence, some of it sexual.

Collage of three photos: me at the train station, the cover of Suzy McKee Charnas's The Slave and the Free (Walk to the End of the World & Motherlines), and a chocolate cake

Earlier today I gave a talk (in German 😲) @ruhr-uni-bochum.de on "Dystopias of Reproductive Work in North American Speculative Fiction" in @nitzkesolvejg.bsky.social's super cool lecture class on "Dystopias of Work." 📚 I can recommend it. You get cake. 🍰 #CompLit #AmericanStudies #FeministSF #SFF

Renaissance, zeitgenössische britische Literatur und die Rolle von Piraten auf der Theaterbühne! Susanne Gruß ist jetzt bei Real Scientists DE! Diese Woche freuen wir uns auf unsere Kuratorin Susanne Gruß ( @susannegruss.bsky.social )! Susanne ist Anglistin und beschäftigt sich sc...

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Close-up of a 10-cent piece and 3 tiny books. One of them carries the title "Whitman's Poems'

Received a "Old Library" DYI booknook as a Christmas present and started to assemble it over the weekend. One of the books in the library is "Whitman's Poems"! 😍

Four photos of a wintry forest and landscape at sunset without snow.

It's been a while: Happy holidays, everyone! I hope you get to rest a bit!

In der nächsten Woche findet der nächste Workshop des DFG-Netzwerks „Literatur & Energie“ in Bochum & Köln mit u.a. @doctoressa.bsky.social @judithrauscher.bsky.social @victoriaherche.bsky.social @untamed.bsky.social statt! Herzliche Einladung! energyandliterature.wordpress.com/events/

Pop Culture in Context The Pop Culture in Context book series takes a broadly interdisciplinary approach to examine all aspects of popular culture, including mass media, fandom, and ephemera, across all media, platforms, an...

The #PopCultureInContext series is co-edited by @hermioneclone.bsky.social, @judithrauscher.bsky.social, and me, guided by the wonderful @davideisler.bsky.social. If you’ve got ideas you’d like to pitch, please get in contact with us!

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Photo collage of four women opening the ceremony, my name badge, a woman giving a talk and 8 women singing in formation.

Yesterday,I attended the opening ceremony of the 5-year celebration of @euniwell.bsky.social, a 12-partner university alliance focused on human and ecological #Well-Being. We heard a wonderful talk by #Happiness researcher Lara Aknin & an amazing performance by the all-female vocal ensemble Aember 🤓

Veery pretty!

Cfp for special issue of J19, "Adaptations."

We've extended the deadline for submissions to our special issue, "Adaptations," to January 15th, 2026. Attaching the cfp here: please submit!

Cover-reveal of the first book in the @degruyterbrill.bsky.social book series 'Pop Culture in Context' I co-edit with @lizwfab.bsky.social & @hermioneclone.bsky.social! Congrats to Vaughn @gvaughnjoy.bsky.social & many thanks to @davideisler.bsky.social,our editorial director,for all your hard work!

Photo of the cover of the novel Nomansland by Lesley Hauge, which features a woman in worn clothes on a black horse shooting an arrow. A small blurb reads: "On an island of women alone, who.is the real enemy?"

Just finished /Nomansland/ (2010) by #LesleyHauge, which offers a take on the kind of #SingleSexNarrative I am interested in that is reminiscent of #feminist #criticalutopias from the 1980s, such as #PamelaSargent 's /The Shore of Women/ (1986) & #SheriTepper 's /The Gate to Women's Country/ (1988)

Photo of a rural landscape with meadows, fields, woods, and hills in the distance. There are clouds in the blue sky

Still on vacation in the #Sauerland, which I will from now on refer to as the German Shire! #Hiking

Photo of a yellow field with a dozen tall white wind generators. The clouds in the sky are dramatic and dark

On vacation in a region called the Sauerland, which I will from now on refer to as the German Midwest. #Thunderstorm

I am also utterly thrilled to be one of the editors of this new series, and to be working with @lizwfab.bsky.social and @judithrauscher.bsky.social ! ❤️ We can't wait to hear your pop culture book ideas!