Kirstyn Leuner

Yesterday my first-year college students in my writing course reminded me that they were in middle school during the pandemic. That made it feel like forever ago to me, but we still had that shared memory of trying to learn/work stuck at home for so long.

First class of fall term: just print it, and go outside. The room alarm beeped all class (will be fixed), and the room's computer projector didn't project. We still had a great class thinking about thinking and thinking about writing. IT is coming to our rescue ... #teaching #paper #justprintit

Sending love to all my colleagues submitting reappointment, tenure, or promotion files today. And sending love to everyone out there who's done it recently or will be submitting soon. It's a lot of work to package up all of your work, especially while the world crumbles around us.

Allie’s hand holding a book in red Morocco, roughly the size of an iPhone +

Allie’s hand holding a small book with a gilt tooled spine, roughly the size of an old iPhone

Allie’s hand holding a tiny little worn out chonky book, roughly the size of an Oreo (if Oreos were square)

Allie’s hand holding the chonky tiny book open to the first page

Sometimes at the end of a long day you need to carve out some time to hang out with tiny books

Come work with us! Santa Clara University English Dept. is hiring a TT Assistant Professor in Creative Writing. scu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/scu/job/Tenu.... #jobs #academicjobs #creativewriting #highered #jobslist

spreading the word that my dept ☀️🌴 is looking to hire a TT faculty with *undergraduate* teaching and research mentoring enthusiasm in Clincal / Counseling / Community Psyc ❤️

if you / a colleague / or a PhD student is looking 👀 ... consider applying:
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I don't want to ditch students' chance to experience the writing process with all its creativity, for an exam.

We start classes Monday. I'm finalizing syllabi. Having trouble assigning argumentative research essays with - I hate to say it - the same level of implicit trust in students as before AI stole the writing process. How are we handling this?

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...

For those not following the drama earlier, it's for sharing this piece advocating for nonviolence (but not being judgy about how targeted people respond either). And saying some things about governmental/ institutional violence.

YouTube video by whitneyhoustonVEVO Whitney Houston - I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Official 4K Video)

sweet fancy moses, thank you. this is good beta @rscar.bsky.social I've never used this plugin. In return for this life-changing info, I offer you a Whitney Houston music video. <3 www.youtube.com/watch?v=eH3g...

Dear #AI #people, let me be clear for all of us out here. We want to copy our essay written in one citational style and paste it into a #genai window, and say "convert this essay in MLA 9th style to Chicago 17th" and hit enter. Is that too much to ask? #pleaseandthankyou #theleastyoucandoforus

Both ;)

btw: I'm down to needing to delete only 30 more words!

imagine how amazing that would be tho.

what I really want to use AI for is to turn this essay that is in MLA 9th edition into Chicago. Anyone done this and not hated themselves for the mess it made?

At one point I really wanted to write my diss or a book on this and it got put on hold. Was just musing about this with @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social after the Book Lab symposium. A great topic for an edited collection. Early DH and Romanticism.

peonies make everything, even the most terrible of things, a little bit better. They are my chosen flower - especially the ones that are just learning to open up. :)

keeping it real: I've had an article and a grant proposal rejected in under 7 days, both co-authored with colleagues at SCU. Ouch. Next week is now about turning at least one of those puppies around to send it back out.

My feelings exactly! Let's definitely find a way to collaborate in zine-land or otherwise, and hopefully it won't be 10 more years (or more) before we are in the same room again! :)

@michaellasley.bsky.social I'm going to do a CAFE on some things that hatched from the symposium :) stay tuned ...

Some would say week 8 + behind on grading = the worst time for travel to a symposium. Actually it was the best time for the intellectual haven of #buildingbooklabs @skeuomorphpress.org. Pics of last day zine charter workshop @literaturegeek.bsky.social; + me, happy. #letterpress #bookarts #printing

20250520_booklabsymposium

Sitting with a post #BuildingBookLabs25 buzz—in such a dark year, it was pure joy to learn in community with incredible book historians, artists, printers, & makers

I’m grateful to library technical specialist & photographer extraordinaire JP Goguen, who took gorgeous pictures of our time together

"Building Book Labs" symposium hosted by @skeuomorphpress.org (not done yet!) has been nonstop relationship building + note-taking, how to make book arts more integrated at SCU, scholarship collab ideas, teaching ideas for modules + courses, workshops, and open-houses. #bookarts #printing #binding

ooo. interesting idea. I'm also looking at JHE. I realized I can rattle off the names of my discipline and subdiscipline journals way better than I can more broad higher ed and humanities pubs.

Question: I have a co-authored article (4-5k words) on academic freedom that was previously aimed for Profession, but it is not accepting submissions right now. Suggestions on where else to send it that is peer-reviewed?

"Having overheated myself with dancing, I was obliged to be let blood; this, however, did not prevent me from keeping my engagement to dance ... the following evening." -ES Gooch, 1792. Will bleed to dance.

I'll start by sharing that I've been writing a ton lately, and I'm really loving the Focus Keeper App on my phone. I am trying Pro version for a week and will let you know what I think.

Hello bluesky peeps - I'm trying again to get it together and engage here regularly, since the loss of twitter and increased ick factor of FB. I miss the conversation and don't want to fall too far out of the loop.

phrase I just said to myself:
there's probably the death of an author in my office.
...
time to go home.

I don't have to be good at matching faces-to-names in conversation to be a good teacher. I just have to try, and I do.
#idieonthishill