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Katherine Fusco

@fuscowrites.bsky.social

English Professor and Writer. Struggling department chair and mom. New book: Hollywood's Other's: Love and Limitation in the Star System (Columbia UP). https://cup.columbia.edu/book/hollywoods-others/9780231220927/ Future book: Anita Loos bio.

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Assistant Professor English The University of Nevada, Reno (UNR) appreciates your interest in employment at our growing institution. We want your application process to go smoothly and quickly. Final applications must be submitt...

Quick reminder that University of Nevada is hiring TWO TT jobs in literature, one in Af-Am and one in U.S. Lit 1865-1930 with desired queer theory focus. The close date for both positions is Halloween 10/31.

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23.10.2025 13:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Save 20% on new and forthcoming books in Modernist Studies with code CUP20SM at cup.columbia.edu. It features an array of book covers.

Save 20% on new and forthcoming books in Modernist Studies with code CUP20SM at cup.columbia.edu. It features an array of book covers.

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Announcing our new and forthcoming books in Modernist Studies! buff.ly/HCJbjw9 @xenoglossic.bsky.social @kristingrogan.bsky.social @fuscowrites.bsky.social @maebhlong.bsky.social @matfournier.bsky.social @adam-mckible.bsky.social @skkeller.bsky.social @notquitehydepark.bsky.socia

08.10.2025 15:15 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Lecturer II / Teaching Assistant Professor, English, Core Writing The University of Nevada, Reno (UNR) appreciates your interest in employment at our growing institution. We want your application process to go smoothly and quickly. Final applications must be submitt...

#technicalwriting #RhetComp
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24.09.2025 21:58 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Assistant Professor English The University of Nevada, Reno (UNR) appreciates your interest in employment at our growing institution. We want your application process to go smoothly and quickly. Final applications must be submitt...

And here's our third position. Assistant Professor of U.S. literature from the period 1865-1930 with a desired secondary area in Queer Theory.

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24.09.2025 16:10 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Assistant Professor, English (African American Literature) The University of Nevada, Reno (UNR) appreciates your interest in employment at our growing institution. We want your application process to go smoothly and quickly. Final applications must be submitt...

We are hiring three positions this year! Here are the first two. The third is coming soon. Please share!
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23.09.2025 12:53 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Thanks to @petecant.bsky.social for this interview!

17.09.2025 19:48 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I was so busy doing all the department chair things that I almost missed my own pub day! So, so happy to have this out in the world. And so thankful to @philipleventhal.bsky.social for his guidance.

03.09.2025 01:48 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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Against Technofeudal Education Pillars For Protecting Our "Core Infrastructure" From OpenAI

Labor Day reading for my fellow profs: theamericanvandal.substack.com/p/against-te...

01.09.2025 13:10 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Writing and Coaching Events β€” katherine fusco Upcoming writing pushes, planning sessions, and retreats for academic faculty.

Always the Friday writing room. 7-9am pst.
katherinefusco.com/events

27.08.2025 19:32 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Want to support Nevada Humanities? Come to this year’s lit crawl on 9/13! 🎈

Lydia Huerta, Renata Keller, Prisca Gayles, and I will be talking about our books at 3:30 at the downtown library. πŸ“š

Get the program: nevadahumanities.org/literarycrawl

πŸ“– over 120 panelists at over 40 Reno locations! 😁

26.08.2025 12:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Love her!

22.08.2025 23:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Oh my god…of course it is!

21.08.2025 12:48 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks Maggie!

20.08.2025 11:57 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Woohoo!! Excited to receive my copy of HOLLYWOOD'S OTHERS: LOVE AND LIMITATION IN THE STAR SYSTEM -- by the always brilliant @fuscowrites.bsky.social , hot off the press from @columbiaup.bsky.social πŸŽŠπŸ“š

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19.08.2025 14:48 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
AGAINST AI -

I assume most of y'all have already encountered this resource. If not, here's an invaluable collection of Anti-AI resources from @annakornbluh.bsky.social and colleagues: against-a-i.com?fbclid=IwY2x...

19.08.2025 13:16 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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a cartoon of a man holding a hose in front of a house Alt: Hank Hill sprays himself in the face

Starting first semester of chairing English. It's drinking from a firehose on behalf of all my favorite people.

14.08.2025 00:30 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Gene Tierney Hollywood’s Gene Tierney, the lasting impact of her wartime and postwar films, and her continuing legacy. Gene Tierney may be one of...

And if you haven't yet, check out Will's fabulous Gene Tierney book: wsupress.wayne.edu/978081434820....

13.08.2025 12:40 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

What a lucky gal! Blurbed by the inimitable Will Scheibel!

13.08.2025 12:21 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

aw, shucks. But really, Pinto is an idol of mine. I love her book Infamous Bodies! Buy her book from @dukepress.bsky.social and then buy mine from @columbiaup.bsky.social .

08.08.2025 00:54 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The β€œOther” Koch Brother Freddie Koch allows a reporter inside his private realm.

to be fair, it's the "other brother," Frederick Koch. Still, tho. www.vanityfair.com/style/societ...

28.07.2025 18:12 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Folks sometimes push back when I insist that Anita Loos was no feminist. But I can put her socializing with both Pat Nixon and a Koch in the early 60s...I love her, too, but I'm just saying....

28.07.2025 18:07 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Now Available! HOLLYWOOD'S OTHERS: LOVE & LIMITATION IN THE STAR SYSTEM, by Katherine Fusco.

Use the coupon code CUP20 and save 20%: bit.ly/4kN4HcR @fuscowrites.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social

22.07.2025 18:18 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Attempted and largely failed to make Nanaimo bars for Canada Day. 🍁 a rustic Nanaimo, I think. (It looked better once I cut it into bars)

01.07.2025 23:21 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

the story today is of a profoundly low energy military parade being met with millions of americans in nationwide protests denouncing the dictatorial pretensions of the president

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Some Notes on the City of Angels and the Nature of Violence I think maybe it's begun, the bigger fiercer backlash against the Trump Administration which is itself a violent backlash against every good thing that's happened over the past several decades – the a...

"At its heart the Trump Administration is violently divisive, isolationist, and segregationist, and solidarity is our first duty and most profound rejection of that agenda."

for this insight, Solnit has been suspended from fb

www.meditationsinanemergency.com/some-notes-o...

11.06.2025 11:55 β€” πŸ‘ 188    πŸ” 87    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 8
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Late in the day....Running "mommy camp" for the kiddos means that the #1000wordsofsummer were about 1,000 words of fast and shallow revision in the backyard. One kid's at a play date. The other at practice. Dog is chewing a stick. I'll take it.

11.06.2025 00:55 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

#1000wordsofsummer Mostly feeling for L.A. Very distracted. Instead of new words, worked on revising last week's words about Anita's first Broadway play.

Also: Anita would hate what is happening in her beloved L.A. She abhorred violence and opposed anything she perceived as government overreach.

09.06.2025 14:22 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

the funniest thing about the β€œice agents are human beings with families” line is that there is no evidence to support the claim. oh they’re real people? what are their names? as far as I’m concerned they’re the T-1000 until proven otherwise

07.06.2025 23:31 β€” πŸ‘ 8192    πŸ” 1517    πŸ’¬ 36    πŸ“Œ 108

Just caught up with @jordanrbrower.bsky.social 's article in @jcmsjournal.bsky.social about A24 as the antibildung studio (and so many other smart arguments). So good. Worth assigning to the many students are fans. Plus, the line "Korine’s bad taste is his own" made me laugh aloud!

08.06.2025 00:40 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I took yesterday off from #1,000wordsofsummer because it was Clementine's kindergarten graduation.

Today, I was back at it. I hired @carolinemalloyphd.bsky.social for a retreat/accountability day and revised 5,500 words of the book's first chapter. Moved from sh*tty first draft to first draft!

06.06.2025 21:11 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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