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Jenny Leetsch

@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."

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a man with glasses and a mustache is wearing a white shirt and says yes . ALT: a man with glasses and a mustache is wearing a white shirt and says yes .
06.11.2025 14:57 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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    📌 0

I 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    📌 0

what a fantastic format this is!? can’t wait to read it.

06.11.2025 14:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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We'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    📌 0

yay!! also: made it onto the last leg of my journey with only minimal delays 🙌

06.11.2025 14:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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wish me luck 😂

06.11.2025 10:01 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

YES!!! 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    📌 0

What an evening. Beyond grateful for what we made together.

Lecture available on line for 2 weeks.

31.10.2025 04:59 — 👍 51    🔁 20    💬 1    📌 1
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

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

30.10.2025 03:45 — 👍 87    🔁 27    💬 0    📌 0
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Volume 11 Issue 4 | Feminist Media Histories | University of California Press

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

30.10.2025 01:15 — 👍 79    🔁 26    💬 6    📌 0
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ChatGPT Harm Reduction for Writing Assignments ChatGPT Harm Reduction for Writing Assignments Because this document has escaped containment, a couple points of explanation. I wrote this for myself and a few colleagues as we work out how to handle...

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    📌 17

What 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    📌 0

Resharing for #MoleDay !

24.10.2025 01:14 — 👍 31    🔁 10    💬 0    📌 0

Today 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    📌 0

lol 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
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The medieval folklore of Britain’s endangered wildlife ‘omens’ – from hedgehogs to nightjars Medieval people believed that witches would transform into hedgehogs to steal milk.

“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    📌 0

werde auch da sein! 🐳 freu mich drauf, euch in person zu treffen!

20.10.2025 08:13 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

Yes, 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    📌 0

have the best time!!

19.10.2025 19:39 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

columbia 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    📌 0
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trinityskitchen / instagram

18.10.2025 17:23 — 👍 82    🔁 15    💬 0    📌 1

same!

19.10.2025 18:45 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

will also be there!! can't wait to hear your paper/catch up! 💙

17.10.2025 14:49 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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by Sylvia Plath, for the season

10.10.2025 15:45 — 👍 14    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

love this!! 📦📦📦

16.10.2025 18:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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UN experts urge Germany to halt criminalisation and police violence against Palestinian solidarity activism GENEVA – UN experts* today urged Germany to stop criminalising, punishing, and suppressing legitimate Palestinian solidarity activism.“We are alarmed by the persistent pattern of police violence and a...

UN 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

16.10.2025 15:59 — 👍 19    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 2

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

13.10.2025 14:32 — 👍 8    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

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