@jennyleetsch.bsky.social
juniorprofessor of anglophone literatures and cultures (university of trier) • views my own • she/her • #firstgen website: https://www.jenniferleetsch.com/ “soar, eat ether, see what has never been seen; depart, be lost, but climb."
sitze gerade in meinem dritten zug heute (auf dem weg von trier nach utrecht, via köln) und BISHER hat alles gut geklappt!! 🤞🤞🤞
06.11.2025 14:20 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I deeply appreciate how many friends I have who also believe that when daylight savings time ends, it's perfectly acceptable to have a drink at the campus hotel bar at 4pm.
06.11.2025 13:28 — 👍 28 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0what a fantastic format this is!? can’t wait to read it.
06.11.2025 14:16 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0We're delighted to announce a new book, forthcoming in March: 'Grasping Soil: A Syllabus and Essays for the Environmental Humanities', edited by Emily Brownell; now open for pre-orders. More information: www.whpress.co.uk/publications... #envhum #envhist #soil
05.11.2025 20:46 — 👍 36 🔁 13 💬 1 📌 0yay!! also: made it onto the last leg of my journey with only minimal delays 🙌
06.11.2025 14:08 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0wish me luck 😂
06.11.2025 10:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0YES!!! c a n n o t w a i t !!! will arrive tomorrow evening, staying till Monday!
05.11.2025 17:39 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0What an evening. Beyond grateful for what we made together.
Lecture available on line for 2 weeks.
Small painting of a goofy looking black cat with green eyes, sitting up and sticking its little pink tongue out, on a salmon colored table with grey wall behind; signed and dated on bottom
For #NationalCatDay please admire this absolute masterpiece:
Gertrude Abercrombie (USA, 1909-1977)
#Black Cat on Pink, 1952
Oil on Hardboard, 4.5 x 4 cm (1 3/4 x 1 5/8 in.)
www.artcurial.com/en/sales/608...
#CatsInArt #WomenArtists
I find it v difficult to put into words how honored and lucky i feel to have edited this issue on feminist historical methods, to have had so many important pieces of writing and thinking entrusted to me over these last few years. 1/
online.ucpress.edu/fmh/issue/11/4
Whatever strategy you’re about to suggest, we’ve thought about it. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
28.10.2025 13:02 — 👍 422 🔁 121 💬 20 📌 17What will the creature made all of seadrift do on the dry sand of daylight; what will the mind do, each morning, waking?
26.10.2025 04:10 — 👍 23 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0Resharing for #MoleDay !
24.10.2025 01:14 — 👍 31 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 0Today is pub day for my third book: Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century. It is a handbook on how to read. It argues for the foundational importance of *caring* to thought. It offers an anatomy of close reading's five steps so we can hone the skills to perform them. It argues for why to read
21.10.2025 12:03 — 👍 429 🔁 81 💬 19 📌 18💜💜💜
21.10.2025 16:04 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0lol ich hatte vor einiger zeit mal das gegenteil: alter weißer mann mich überholt, "jetzt aber mal hop hop!" -- als jogging-anfängerin natürlich super, ganzer lauf im eimer...
21.10.2025 10:47 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0“In the stories of these creatures, we glimpse both our fear of the wild past and our responsibility for the future.” Wise words indeed
20.10.2025 11:28 — 👍 14 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0“Just tell me where you are, Habibi. I will come and get you.” If you read one thing today, read this by @abunour.bsky.social
19.10.2025 05:59 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0werde auch da sein! 🐳 freu mich drauf, euch in person zu treffen!
20.10.2025 08:13 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0Yes, this! “Our tool can design whole curriculum for you” - no, thank you, that’s the part of my job I enjoy the most.
20.10.2025 03:26 — 👍 158 🔁 11 💬 1 📌 0have the best time!!
19.10.2025 19:39 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0columbia road flower market for cafés and cute shops, hampstead heath for autumn walks and pub roast dinners, brick lane for curries. camden market for second hand book shops. + word on the water book barge!
19.10.2025 19:27 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0trinityskitchen / instagram
18.10.2025 17:23 — 👍 82 🔁 15 💬 0 📌 1same!
19.10.2025 18:45 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0will also be there!! can't wait to hear your paper/catch up! 💙
17.10.2025 14:49 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0by Sylvia Plath, for the season
10.10.2025 15:45 — 👍 14 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0love this!! 📦📦📦
16.10.2025 18:34 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0UN experts* urged Germany to stop criminalising, punishing, & suppressing legitimate Palestinian solidarity activism.
“We are alarmed by the persistent pattern of police violence & apparent suppression of Palestine solidarity activism by Germany” they said.
Leseempfehlung @kaiwegner.bsky.social
Sharing, as always, my syllabi for the new term! One class on 🤖Afrofuturism🤖, the other on 🌿Postcolonial Ecologies🌿. And as I have deleted my Academia account (see below), I will now be uploading the files on my own website (hcommons is also a good alternative): www.jenniferleetsch.com/teaching
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