Dr McInnes’s Monster

Me, scrolling past this skeet without immediate context: ha ha yeah those anti-intellectual bastards

Me, seeing the actual news story about Tory plans to curb students from taking degrees like English: THOSE ANTI-INTELLECTUAL BASTARDS!

CLUE is, in many ways, one of our best games about how we’d all like any excuse to wander around other people’s houses checking for weird shit.

The little dog looking out at us should be as famous as The Scream 🖤

Kenojuak Ashevak was born in an igloo in an Inuit camp, Ikirasaq, at the southern coast of Baffin Island. Her father, Ushuakjuk, an Inuit hunter and fur trader, and her mother, Silaqqi, named Kenojuak after Silaqqi's deceased father. Kenojuak remembered Ushuakjuk as "a kind and benevolent man." Her father, a respected angakkuq (shaman), "had more knowledge than average mortals, and he would help all the Inuit people.” According to Kenojuak, her father believed he could predict weather, predict good hunting seasons and even turn into a walrus. Her father came into conflict with Christian converts, and some enemies assassinated him in a hunting camp in 1933, when she was only six. After her father's murder, Kenojuak moved with her widowed mother Silaqqi and family to the home of Silaqqi's mother, Koweesa, who taught her traditional crafts, including the repair of sealskins for trade with the Hudson's Bay Company and how to make waterproof clothes sewn with caribou sinew. When she was 19, her mother, Silaqqi, and stepfather, Takpaugni, arranged for her to marry Johnniebo Ashevak, a local Inuit hunter. Kenojuak was reluctant, but in time, she came to love him for his kindness and gentleness, a man who developed artistic talents in his own right. In 1950 a public health nurse arrived in her Arctic village; Kenojuak, having tested positive in a tuberculosis screening, was sent against her will to Parc Savard hospital in Quebec City, where she stayed for over three years, from early 1952 to the summer of 1955. She had just given birth when she was forcibly transferred; the baby was adopted by a neighbouring family. Several of Kenojuak's children died while she was confined in hospital. In 1966, Kenojuak and Johnniebo moved to Cape Dorset. Many of their children and grandchildren succumbed to disease, as did her husband after 26 years of marriage. Three daughters of Kenojuak, Mary, Elisapee Qiqituk, and Aggeok, died in childhood, and four sons, Jamasie, her adopted s…

Kenojuak Ashevak (Inuk, 1927–2013) :
Floral Passage, 2007
Stonecut and stencil
62.2 x 73.7 cm. | 24.5 x 29 in.

Ashevak, CC ONu RCA is celebrated as a leading figure of modern Inuit art.

A blue-grey staffie, placing his paw on my arm and wearing a look of grave concern

He has something very grave to impart.

Taco Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.Taco is a deep dive into the most iconic Mexican food…

it's national taco day! stellar mexicanist ignacio sanchez prado has a new book right on time!

TACO, in the bloomsbury object lessons series.

chicago, go celebrate with a taco and support our neighbors in little village, pilsen, logan, everywhere

www.bloomsbury.com/us/taco-9798...

I joke that it took me twenty years to figure out how to get this off my chest about Herman Melville, starting from my first encounter as an undergrad in 2005. But it kind of did. So thrilled that this essay has a home at J19: Project MUSE - Melville's Idea of a Wife muse.jhu.edu/article/970112

Another autoincorrect turned ‘Jane Austen and the Masturbating Girl’ from a dense but super fun essay to a dense hot supper…

"Go to Mastodon". I tried that. But it came off as a honey pot for people who get sexually aroused by the thought of watching normies try to install Linux.

#litcrit pals, a really interesting question about the history of discipline from a graduate student here, a question that has me totally stumped:
"which journal in literary criticism was the first to implement modern peer review?" (I think he might mean blind review)
Thank you for your suggestions!

UK Bats - Types of bats - Bat Conservation Trust We are lucky enough to have 18 species of bat in the UK, 17 of which are known to be breeding here - that's almost a quarter of our mammal species. Ever...

🦇 'Bats' are more than one species. They are an incredibly diverse group of mammals with 1,500 species that we know of. There is a huge diversity of sizes, colours, nose shapes, ear shapes, diet, habitat and more!

In the UK, there are 18 resident species: www.bats.org.uk/about-bats/w...

LOVE this! Feels like they’re all singing - Bohemian Rhspsody, perhaps? I would feel good if the left hand devil was put aside for me!

the used copy i got from the bookstore paid off when i passed it around so everyone could see where the previous reader remarked about rochester, “he a bitch”

Article header: THINKING IN TIME Kathy Alexis Psomiades, Duke University

Caring about thought in time means caring about scholarship as well—it has always seemed strange to me that the call to deepen and enrich our readings of the literature of the past so often goes hand in hand with a shallow and impoverished reading of the texts of our more recent critical past, as if we could throw away the past fifty years of reading practice to encounter the text in all its purity. This is not so much an ethics for me—though I think we might inquire about what it means if you have different ethics for reading one kind of text than another—but a problem of misrecognition of our own thinking and reading.

"Caring about thought in time means caring about scholarship."

Please allow yourself the pleasure of reading Kathy Psomiades, reading a bunch of other people, reading her award-winning book, *Primitive Marriage* (cluster of response-essays now out in VLC)

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Portrait of Lord Byron in a heavy gilded frame; it hangs from chains on a wall in Newstead Abbey, covered in cream and red, strapwork wallpaper

A view of Newstead Abbey from the far side of Eagle Pond

📣CFP: 'Byron and Identity', 2026 Newstead Abbey Byron Conference, deadline 1 January 2026
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#AcademicSky #Romanticism #LordByron

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📣 Announcing the publication of BARS review Issue 61, my first issue as editor!

www.bars.ac.uk/review/index...

Happy to have my essay on P.B. Shelley and Wordsworth's 'woodland state' included in the 'Tree Cultures and the Arboreal Humanities' special issue of @plantperspectives.bsky.social, ed. by @treeseeker.bsky.social & @planthums-uk.bsky.social 🌿🌳

The newest issue of the BARS Review is now published! Check out issue 61 at the link below.
Thanks to all our wonderful reviewers!
www.bars.ac.uk/review/index...

Reminder: BARS 2026 CFP can be found here:
Deadline Sunday 30 November.
www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6101

From The Book of Bogs: Stories from a Yorkshire Moor and Other Peatlands, ed. Anna Chilvers and Clare Shaw.

Monday #morningread
from a newly published cool book by @littletollerbooks.bsky.social:
The Book of Bogs: Stories from a Yorkshire Moor and Other Peatlands

Just typed suppernatural instead of supernatural and want to launch a Gothic supper club for Halloween 🎃

“Mary Shelley has released a new title!”

She hath risen.

Fire extinguisher next to a statue of Joan of Arc

Hell of a thing to put next to a statue of Joan of Arc. (h/t David Pilling)

The author is dead, but somehow the reader never seems to take responsibility

Excited for this #Queer #Crip #18thC #Lifewriting

Watch Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

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ALBINO BAT AMPHORA

Rochester is trying to get Jane to understand that he has what he thinks of as a worthless wife - to see Blanche as a shadow of Bertha - and that she Jane is his worthy partner - after the O’Gall joke, he even says ‘I have no wife’ and she says ‘you are a married man’ 🤯

I never really got what Rochester was doing with his flirtation with Blanche Ingram - trying to make Jane jealous? - but it’s also part of the weird role play of his and Jane’s relationship…

I had also forgotten - and can’t quite believe - that Rochester pretends he’s organised Jane a new position as governess with ‘Mrs Dionysius O’Gall of Bitternut Lodge’: it’s like Rochester is spoofing Charlotte Brontë’s Bunyan-y place names (Gateshead, Lowood, Thornfield) AND the *cheek* of O’Gall!