Kathleen Lubey

...apparently so dirty that this site won't show the full cover! 😱

i wrote a book about ye olde porn. thanks @annakornbluh.bsky.social for this lovely holiday treat!

www.sup.org/books/litera...

can i keynote at your first convention?

😍 i can't wait to read it!

that is awesome. thank you!!

a perfectly timed ray of light, as i finish an article and wonder if it's garbage!

stop it!!! actually, no, feel free to do this every year 💜

I think Darryl Domingo's novel chapter in the Rhetoric of Diversion touches on this...

The questions were so perfect! Things I hadn’t quite thought about. And…Frances watched soap operas!

I love that I called this a lightning round. Shows that I think in Clarissa proportions!

Toward an Oral History of Clarissa contributed by Stephanie Hershinow

I got to do a lightning round about my devotion to Clarissa with @sinsleyh.bsky.social, and she has honored me beyond measure by pairing it with one by Frances Ferguson. Swoon!

open.substack.com/pub/clarissa...

as the world burns, can I recommend having your students read "To His Coy Mistress" out loud to cleanse your soul

if ease is necessary (a); if you want accolades (b)

I never pre-plan them!!! It's always me riffing if I feel like what I'm saying could in any way be boring 😂 And today I taught Lukacs, so....lot of improv jokes.

oh, 100%. humor (effectual and ineffectual) has been my bread and butter for 25 years...there's no stopping me now

oh no, I think my students don’t think I’m funny. I have no pedagogy without jokes

I mostly hate everything but gods do I LOVE my students

awful.

late to this game! @sarahebull.bsky.social is more likely to know... i'm inclined to say no, that they'd be more affiliated with medical/apothecary shops, but i'm unsure.

there is literally no reason not to do this

i cannot believe your bottle lasted that long!!!

Vintage Smut With Things to Say: Eliza Haywood's "Fantomina," with Kathleen Lubey Didn't Read It · Episode

Had a fun and digressive gab about Haywood’s Fantomina on @didntreadit.bsky.social ! Contains a hot take on All Fours, memories of teenage horniness, and a warning against teaching Tess of the D’urbervilles during a pandemic

open.spotify.com/episode/2hWR...

It was long overdue! I’m so happy we finally were in the same place. A fantastic day!

totally speechless

I wish I'd had the chance to meet her!

Linda Williams, Who Introduced Pornography to Academia, Dies at 78 One of the first to write seriously about a fraught subject, she also played a major role in developing the field of film studies and feminist film theory.

trailblazer 🙏

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/30/a...

just wanna scream into the void that i truly cannot believe the world we're living (hahaha i mean dying) in

thank you so much crystal--means a ton to hear that.

Eighteenth-Century Studies is looking for a new Reviews Editor. I'm finishing up my term and happy to answer questions about it!
asecs.org/publications...

I guess I should be plugging this, too! haha