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Anna Gibson

@annagk.bsky.social
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Victorianist, English prof, Dickens Notes co-editor, novel fiend, Brit.

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Anna Gibson @annagk.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
(Assume they have already had "the talk" and are still interested 😅)
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Anna Gibson @annagk.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
A question for those involved in PhD literature admissions: I'm gathering resources for MA students considering PhDs. It's been a while, y'all! Any advice/insights/tips that you'd be happy for me to pass on to students? (I'll paraphrase but also happy to share attributed quotes.)
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Anna Gibson @annagk.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Are you teaching Dickens this semester? Check out our new teaching resources at Dickens Notes, and consider incorporating the working notes and serial publication into your course!
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Anna Gibson @annagk.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
What a pleasure it was to chat with the incomparable @nathankhensley.bsky.social about Action Without Hope!
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Dickens Notes @dickensnotes.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Come hear Dickens Notes co-director Anna Gibson talk about Charles Dickens's working notes at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London on July 2! This is part of the V&A's free Lunchtime Lecture series.
vam.ac.uk
Lunchtime Lectures: Story Weaving: Charles Dickens's Working Notes - V&A Academy Talk at V&A South Kensington · V&A
This event is part of the free Lunchtime Lecture series. No booking is required.
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Cathy Waters @catherinefaver.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
A slide of imperative verbs (addressed to himself? Or to the narrative?) gleaned from Dickens’s memoranda and notes as part of www.dickensnotes.com project and a session with the manuscripts themselves in the V&A National Art Library. Thanks to Anna Gibson and Adam Grener for a great workshop!
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Anna Gibson @annagk.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Teaching with Dickens’s working notes or about his compositional process? Consider submitting materials to the Dickens Notes Project!
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Anna Gibson @annagk.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
This is just the best! Contribution idea: This lovely reading assignment by @aktange.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/akta...
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
teachers! excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone. take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE against-a-i.com
against-a-i.com
AGAINST AI
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Anna Gibson @annagk.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Thwarted in my evening reading. @nathankhensley.bsky.social, my cat is a fan 😁😻
Cat on bookCat asleep on book
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Anna Gibson @annagk.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
I don’t think we really need EEG to tell us that outsourcing thinking to AI decreases learning in writing tasks, but I suppose we can hope that studies like this *might* check the institutional bandwagoning. arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...
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Anna Gibson @annagk.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Maybe we just dispense with the paper now and get them turning in an essay prompt with a rubric. Optional: they feed it to ChatGPT and grade it themselves. Who needs instructors 😆😜😭
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Anna Gibson @annagk.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
These kind of ChatGPT performances are like having conversations with a sociopath. It lies so confidently—such a symptom of our current times, except with these odd extended apologies.
open.substack.com
Diabolus Ex Machina
This Is Not An Essay
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Pete Orford @peteorford.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Last night I had the pleasure of hearing @annagk.bsky.social talk to our Dickens postgraduates about www.dickensnotes.com - a fantastic open access resource showing Dickens's working notes for his novels. Highly recommended!
dickensnotes.com
Digital Dickens Notes Project
The Digital Dickens Notes Project is an exploration of Charles Dickens's Working Notes
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Anna Gibson @annagk.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
It was such a pleasure to talk with you all!
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Anna Gibson @annagk.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
I spent much of last semester applying for an NEH grant. All that work is wasted now. But this is so much bigger than my own disappointment.
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Anna Gibson @annagk.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Devastating
npr.org
Cultural groups across U.S. told that federal humanities grants are terminated
Among the thousands of groups affected by the sudden cessation of funds are state arts councils, museums, historic sites, archives, libraries, educators and media outlets in all 50 states.
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Anna Gibson @annagk.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
"Al Gurad did not understand why his visa was terminated and the State Department had not provided a reason for the decision."
technicianonline.com
Two NC State students leave U.S. after visas terminated
Two NC State graduate students left the U.S. after the State Department revoked their visas. The University was not notified beforehand but offered support.
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Anna Gibson @annagk.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Devastating. For those of us waiting for the result of grant applications, and for those who have active or awarded grants, this is just awful. But the impact of this move will be pervasive and long-lasting.
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ACH @ach.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
ACH has confirmed reports that DOGE is at the NEH. Chair Shelly C. Lowe has been replaced by Acting Chair Michael McDonald. ACH remains committed to a diverse, inclusive, and supportive DH. To engage in advocacy efforts: secretary@ach.org. Read our statement of support for NEH: buff.ly/bQeRaGw
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Scientists and journalists need to figure out right quick how to explain to the average person how a massive change in research indirects will impact the medical care they and their children get (eg at the local children’s hospital), the education their children will get, the price of tuition, etc.
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Devin Garofalo @devingarofalo.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
This is a very helpful thread re: the slashing of overhead rates on NIH grants. It is an atrocity and, as OP states, an attempt to decimate higher ed. This guidance goes into effect immediately, affecting not only future but also current grants, which is to say current university budgets.
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Anna Gibson @annagk.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Everything is bleak. But my Brit Lit survey students are writing about why The History of Mary Prince matters in 2025, and they are giving me hope.
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Nicholas Guyatt @nicholasguyatt.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
For me the scariest thing about week 1 (and the transition) has been precisely this phenomenon of “anticipatory obedience”; institutions are showing us the thinness of their commitment to values they previously claimed to hold
NYT quote
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Anna Gibson @annagk.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
That one’s length is intimidating even to me! It’s been sitting on my to-read shelf since we moved into this house.
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Anna Gibson @annagk.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
I was hoping for something more recent so we could consider how we reframe “Victorian” now. But I love teaching the JE/WSS pairing!
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Anna Gibson @annagk.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
I love it too! That was my default pick. I just wish I could find something that engaged more meaningfully with race.
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Anna Gibson @annagk.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
From *there* it gets weird? 😆
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Anna Gibson @annagk.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
I just taught A Christmas Carol this week; I hadn’t heard of Mr. Timothy!
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Anna Gibson @annagk.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Ahh, both of those sound so fun! One day I want to teach a Jane Eyre class filled with retellings. So easy to fill a syllabus!
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Anna Gibson @annagk.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Possibly! I just have to create some sort of connecting thread to the rest of the syllabus. Part of my goal here is to get students thinking about how we imagine "The Victorians" or Victorian literary forms from a 21st-C perspective.
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Anna Gibson @annagk.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Oh, also bonus points if it engages in some way with one or more of these: Jane Eyre, Great Expectations, Story of an African Farm, Goblin Market, the Brownings, Toro Dutt)!
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Anna Gibson @annagk.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
I haven't read it! And now I'm down a "weird fiction" rabbit hole on the interwebs 😆
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Anna Gibson @annagk.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
My initial plan was to teach Possession, since we're reading EBB and RB poems earlier in the semester, and I have a soft spot for Byatt. But ideally I want something that takes up imperialism. Considered Laura McNeil's The Swan's Nest, too, but... meh.
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Anna Gibson @annagk.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Course description is here!
docs.google.com
ENG 560: Re-Forming Victorian Literature
ENG 560: Re-Forming Victorian Literature What is “Victorian literature”? What does it mean, in our 21st-century present, to study the period of Queen Victoria’s reign? Our semester will begin with th...
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Anna Gibson @annagk.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Best "Neo-Victorian" novels to teach: go! I'm teaching a grad class ("Re-Forming Victorian Lit") next semester. I want to end with a 21st-C novel that's explicitly taking up/engaging with Victorian forms. Ideally not centered solely on white British characters. Course description in thread.
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Anna Gibson @annagk.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Yay @emmadavenport.bsky.social ! Can’t wait to read this!
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Anna Gibson @annagk.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
It’s busy in here! This list o’ lists is super helpful for finding your people in the midst of this academic social media migration.
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Anna Gibson @annagk.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
Would love to be added if there’s room for more!
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Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 30/09/2024
* Digital Dickens Notes Project, an online critical edition of the working notes Charles Dickens used during serial composition of his novels, directed by @annagk.bsky.social and @adamgrener.bsky.social, and reviewed by Beverly Park Rilett #ReviewsInDH reviewsindh.pubpub.org/pub/digital-...
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Review: Digital Dickens Notes Project
A review of Digital Dickens Notes Project, an online critical edition of the working notes Charles Dickens used during serial composition of his novels, directed by Anna Gibson and Adam Grener
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Adam Grener @adamgrener.bsky.social · 15/11/2023
Grateful to the Digital Scholarship and Publishing Studio at the University of Iowa for the opportunity to share the dickensnotes.com project @annagk.bsky.social and I direct--excited to connect with the DH community here over the next few days!
dickensnotes.com
Digital Dickens Notes Project
The Digital Dickens Notes Project is an exploration of Charles Dickens's Working Notes
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Anna Gibson @annagk.bsky.social · 14/11/2023
Also open to podcasts, graphic texts, other serial forms.
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Anna Gibson @annagk.bsky.social · 14/11/2023
I really want to undermine the 19thC vs. 21stC oppositional tendency and think about continuities & intriguing connections, experiments in form and content, transgressive potential of serial narratives, etc.
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Anna Gibson @annagk.bsky.social · 14/11/2023
Planning a Serials & Storylines seminar next semester. What are the most narratively intriguing serial tv shows you've watched recently? Which shows have you taught (esp. paired with 19thC texts) that worked well?
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Anna Gibson @annagk.bsky.social · 06/11/2023
@adamgrener.bsky.social & I are excited to share the latest version of the Digital Dickens Notes Project. Check out our transcriptions, annotations, and introductions to Dickens's Working Notes @ www.dickensnotes.com. There's heaps of new material for Little Dorrit & Hard Times.
dickensnotes.com
Digital Dickens Notes Project
The Digital Dickens Notes Project is an exploration of Charles Dickens's Working Notes
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William Orchard @billeo.bsky.social · 07/10/2023
Why Majoring in the Humanities Can Be A Great Career Move | U.S. News www.usnews.com/education/ar...
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