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Busra I. C.

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Western University, Comparative Literature, Ph.D. Research on boredom in modern literature. post45.org/sections/contemporaries-…

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Busra I. C. @buscopur.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I'm revamping my syllabus and looking for good articles/book chapters/essays on digital writing and/or writing for digital media platforms.
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Busra I. C. @buscopur.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
"I’m so lonely I befriended a cockroach" www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...
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Japan’s PM: I’m so lonely I befriended a cockroach
Leader known for working long hours shares her sense of isolation in social media posts
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Busra I. C. @buscopur.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
For those interested in presenting a paper on loneliness, submit your abstract to the virtual ACLA panel I'm organizing. Briefly, this seminar invites papers that explore depictions of loneliness in literature, film, television, and visual culture. (1/) +
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Busra I. C. @buscopur.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
TT job in Media Studies: www.uvic.ca/faculty-staf...
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HUMS 250-115 - Faculty & staff - University of Victoria
Inspired by and honouring place, we are a community-minded, globally engaged university where we transform ideas into meaningful impact.
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Busra I. C. @buscopur.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Peter Toohey's "A History of Boredom" will soon be available in Turkish with a new translation.
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Busra I. C. @buscopur.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
New Nuri Bilge Ceylan just dropped - almost: thefilmstage.com/nuri-bilge-c...
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Nuri Bilge Ceylan Sets Summer Shoot for New Film Pale Sun
Nuri Bilge Ceylan usually takes more than a few years between films as of late, and thus we've been waiting to hear what might be next. The Turkish filmmaker has now unveiled his latest feature, follo...
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University of Glasgow @glasgow.ac.uk · 16/03/2026
New research from School of Humanities @uofgartshums.bsky.social shows 90% of Humanities alumni now work in mid–senior roles across 24 sectors, with 91.7% reporting high career fulfilment. Read More: gla.ac/3Nr1Ewf
Pictured at the McMillan Reading Room, University of Glasgow Library - Jodie Pike (report author and Humanities student intern) 
Dr Tanya Cheadle (event co ordinator and Director of Learning, Teaching and Student Experience at the School of Humanities) and Tessa Carroll (Humanities student intern). Photo Credit: Martin Shields
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Busra I. C. @buscopur.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Joan Didion uses Times New Roman for her notes. (From Notes to John)
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Busra I. C. @buscopur.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
there is an essay for and about everything @atpost45.bsky.social and @post45.bsky.social. Today, as I was looking for sources on blurb economy, I found this: post45.org/2018/11/the-...
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The Literary Blurb Economy – Post45
Michael Maguire
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Busra I. C. @buscopur.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Got your book through interlibrary loans today! The size is so cute!!! @seeshespeak.bsky.social
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Busra I. C. @buscopur.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d... "Record numbers of Swedish retirees are enrolling in a university run “by pensioners for pensioners” amid increased loneliness and a growing appetite for learning and in-person interactions."
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‘Keeps your mind alert’: older Swedes reap the benefits of learning for pleasure
Retirees with ‘fantastic hunger for education’ taking part in university organised events in record numbers
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Busra I. C. @buscopur.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
just watched episode 7 of Pluribus - i think it's one of the best explorations of deep loneliness depicted in and through silence. i think anyone (or only those who have) who has experienced it that deeply in their everyday life would appreciate it.
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Busra I. C. @buscopur.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Looking for recommendations while I have limited discount subscription: Any good Apple TV series? So far watched Severance, The Studio, Down Cemetery Road, Pluribus, Slow Horses, Silo and loved them.
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James Danckert @jamesdanckert.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
AI and LLMs trend towards sameness of expression - it might just make us all more boring! www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/the-...
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Is AI Making Us Boring?
AI works by predicting the most likely next thing, but in doing so, it risks becoming predictable and monotonous—and so do we if we rely too much on the tool.
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PVermeulen @pverm23.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
With Alex Dunst, I edited a special issue on the question of literary value. Silkworms, angels, utopias, Edouard Louis, Thomas Pynchon, and much more. www.boundary2.org/2025/12/alex...
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Alexander Dunst and Pieter Vermeulen–The Question of Literary Value: An Introduction
This article is part of the b2o: an online journal special issue “The Question of Literary Value”, edited by Alexander Dunst and Pieter Vermeulen. The Question of Literary Value: An Introduction Alexa...
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 15/12/2025
Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
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Busra I. C. @buscopur.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
TDK, 2024 yilinin kelimesi/kavrami: kalabalik yalnizlik. tdk.gov.tr/icerik/basin... 2024, word of the year in Turkish "kalabalik yalnizlik" - difficult to translate, but something that would mean loneliness in the crowd or crowded loneliness (not proud of my translation skills atm)
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2024 Yılının Kelimesi/Kavramı: “Kalabalık Yalnızlık” – Türk Dil Kurumu
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Modernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Important news: the deadline for the joint BAMS/MSA conference in Loughborough has been extended to December 29, 2025! You can review the CFP, and find links to the submission platform, here. www.moderniststudies.org/conference/M...
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The Modernist Studies Association is devoted to the study of the arts in their social, political, cultural, and intellectual contexts from the later nineteenth through the mid-twentieth century. The o...
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Denise Wong @heyitsdenisew.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
💫 My book is finally in print! Immensely grateful to all my colleagues and to @emilysharp.bsky.social , @elizabethfr.bsky.social, and the whole team at @edinburghup.bsky.social for their support throughout the writing, revision, and publication process! 🚨 (For a 30% discount, use code NEW30)
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Busra I. C. @buscopur.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
just watched Oliver Laxe's SIRAT. It shakes you to the core, stays w/you, hypnotizes you. Profound sadness, hopeless pursuit of hope & helpless resignation to hopelessness masterfully combined. The political background is nicely inserted. Captivating ambiance. Intense, jarring, memorable.
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Günter Leypoldt @guenterleypoldt.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Thrilled to announce my new book (electronic version out now, print next month) — it proposes a new value theory grounded in the longue durée of literary institutions, 1800–present.
Cover of my book: Literature's Social Lives: A Socio-Institutional History of Literary Value. The Cover depicts a bookseller in 1930s Cambridge, with a book rack on her back, and a customer perusing one of her books
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Bethany Wasik @bethanywasik.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
FYI1: The superb webinar "Turning your Dissertation into a Book" is up! FYI2: It's the 1st for "Publishing with University Presses Webinar Series" co-sponsored by @aupresses.bsky.social (HT, Faculty Outreach Committee) and hosted by Rutgers CMSI. #ReadUP #PublishUP www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SST...
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Turning Your Dissertation into a Book
YouTube video by The Samuel DeWitt Proctor Institute (The Proctor Institute)
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Busra I. C. @buscopur.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
archive.org/details/corn...
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Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine
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Busra I. C. @buscopur.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
I'll be taking a break from social media for a while (starting tomorrow) and I won't be checking my messages here often. But I have been using the messages function &would like to be able to keep in touch with people I have connected with here. So, if there is anything, please feel free to email me.
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Busra I. C. @buscopur.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Comparative Literature - Assistant Professor (Theory, Modern French literature and Spanish-language literatures of Latin America) - Université de Montréal universityaffairs.ca/search-job/?... (I don't know Spanish 😭 someone get this and hire me for a different/similar position?)
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Search Jobs - University Affairs
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College for Social Sciences and Humanities | UA Ruhr @college-uaruhr.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Unique opportunity for postdocs from the University Alliance Ruhr #UARuhr working in the social sciences and/or the humanities: with its #PostdocLab programme, the College for Social Sciences and Humanities offers funding for cross-university working groups. 🔔 Call: www.college-uaruhr.de/postdoclab
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Busra I. C. @buscopur.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
I have finished my PhD (with a diss titled "Bored As Hell: Reading Boredom in Modern Literature) a month ago & am now officially in my post-PhD stress era, currently gathering info & looking for PostDoc fellowships--and ofc, needless to say, ideally FT/TT positions. (1/)
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Warwick History Post-Doc Club @post-doc-club.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Great news! JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month www.jstor.org/action/showL...
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Busra I. C. @buscopur.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
Associate professorship in German Literature and Culture at University of South Denmark. (someone get this and then hire me?) - fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
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Associate professorship in German Literature and Culture
The Department of Culture and Language invites applications for an associate professorship in contemporary German literature and culture February 1st, 2026, or as agreed. The successful candidate will...
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Busra I. C. @buscopur.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Latest Georges Didi-Huberman. This time as a curator of the exhibition, “In the Troubled Air… Image, emotion, utopia": "he questions the nature of human emotions and argues that emotions do not belong to us, but rather exist in space. www.cccb.org/en/exhibitio... www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tMD...
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Georges Didi-Huberman: «Les emocions són inclassificables»
YouTube video by CCCB
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Busra I. C. @buscopur.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
Would make a good AppleTV series. very interesting novel.
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Keith Orejel @keithorejel.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Now that I have a dachshund I think I’m obligated to get this tattoo.
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Busra I. C. @buscopur.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
finished SILO on Apple TV -- very underrated show, i loved it! a lot to think about isolation and aesthetics of isolation.
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Busra I. C. @buscopur.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/o...
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Opinion | I Teach Creative Writing. This Is What A.I. Is Doing to Students.
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Duygu Yıldırım @duyguyildirim.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
In the early modern Ottoman Empire, the most valued tulips featured long, pointed petals and slender forms in contrast to the rounded varieties preferred in Europe. 🌷
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Duygu Yıldırım @duyguyildirim.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
The book’s intro is ready to go… The final title might still change slightly, but for now it’s: “Uncertain Knowledge: The Science of Making Relevance between the Ottoman Empire and Early Modern Europe”
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
new! REALISM AND THE NOVEL: A GLOBAL HISTORY www.cambridge.org/in/universit...
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Realism and the Novel | Cambridge University Press & Assessment
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Busra I. C. @buscopur.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
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Busra I. C. @buscopur.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
just wanted to share that i've just submitted my diss. and i don't know how to be in the world. and i'm scared that something will go wrong. the image below is from our Bored As Hell essay cluster. post45.org/sections/con...
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Irina Dumitrescu @irinadumitrescu.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
For this week's @thetls.bsky.social, I wrote about Christina of Markyate, medieval wonder woman and visionary management consultant: www.the-tls.com/regular-feat...
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Medieval management theory
Did medieval people really believe all those miracle stories they wrote down? Years ago, when I was just beginning graduate school, the medievalist Steven
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Busra I. C. @buscopur.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
terrible revision day 16 days before my diss submission date. i have a weak chapter. need to hear stories of ppl having weak diss chapters.
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Busra I. C. @buscopur.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
does one include the sources mentioned in the footnote in the biblio of one's dissertation? e.g.: I wrote a footnote to provide additional context to my argument & cited a source in the footnote. Do I include that source in my biblio OR do I only write sources I cited in the body of the writing?
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Busra I. C. @buscopur.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
As I’m entering the final stages of my diss revisions, often think about *that* person who brags about submitting their diss to be published as a book without changing even one word. I want the same confidence.
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Busra I. C. @buscopur.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
I want notes about type to be mandatory for every book.
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Busra I. C. @buscopur.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Maybe it’s just me bc i’m a Housewives fan but this is starting to feel like Housewives level drama and social media posting. a reunion episode with these two would be great.
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Busra I. C. @buscopur.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
i watched Jess Armstrong's Mountainhead and did NOT like it. the obviousness of everything it is trying to do made it boring. imho, he should have stopped writing about uber rich/media empires/tech bros etc. with Succession.
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Busra I. C. @buscopur.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
finishing the second season of SEVERANCE. Milchick is such a captivating character and Tramell Tillman dominates the screen and holds your attention. I want to know his story. Severance creators need to team up with Better Call Saul writers for a Milchick prequel or an episode exploring his past.
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Busra I. C. @buscopur.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
I’ve started watching the latest season of RHOBH. I can’t stand Dorit - she’s trying to “bring it” & as usual looks fake&sounds irritating but I really enjoyed this reddit post, a sociolinguistic analysis of Dorit’s multiple accents: www.reddit.com/r/BravoRealH...
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From the BravoRealHousewives community on Reddit
Explore this post and more from the BravoRealHousewives community
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Busra I. C. @buscopur.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
My new strategy to quickly and successfully finish dissertation revisions to submit everything by July: listening to Apple Music’s Sound Therapy to improve cognitive performance
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Busra I. C. @buscopur.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
For cinephiles: would highly recommend TIME TO LOVE on MUBI (Canada). A love story inspired by Sufi tales. Or, one can also see it as falling in love with the image of an idea of a person. a lot to unpack from the perspective of image studies too, as well as its exploration of loneliness.
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