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Matthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social · 2h

I'd also thought about Godwin, but wasn't sure I could fit one more on, especially if I do Midlothian, which is really hard to excerpt.

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Matthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social · 2h

I don't, but I'll look it up!

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Matthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social · 2h

Not entirely sure yet; just in the stages of putting together a proposal. I'm thinking Jane Eyre, Melmoth, Heart of Midlothian, Maria; or the Wrongs of Woman; and the Italian.

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Matthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social · 2h

I'd love to hear how it goes for you! Yes the English section is a good shout, especially if I use The Italian to cover something like the Inquisition

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Matthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social · 2h

Am I crazy to add the Spanish section of Melmoth to a course on Madness and Asylums in the Gothic?

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Annie Abrams @annieabrams.bsky.social · 3h

thinking again about something @mcsardo.bsky.social wrote a few years ago-- educate.apsanet.org/thinking-pol...

Rather than rehearsing the ratification debates and entrenching an image of an apolitical Court, APUSG courses could study the structures of their own state and local governments and identify opportunities for civic engagement, debate Court precedents that affect the lives of members of their particular communities, and read political and scholarly texts that better reflect the diversity of the nation and their own political worlds. Such an approach begins by trusting and empowering teachers, encouraging collaboration, and foregrounding the politics in US government and politics.

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Celeste McNamara @celestemcnamara.bsky.social · 5h

Would you like to learn about the strange and scandalous way some 18th-century Venetians got out of dysfunctional marriages? Read my new article (open access!) about annulments for affinity by fornication! #earlymodern #18thcentury doi.org/10.1017/S073...

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Keeping It (Too Much) in the Family: Annulment by Reason of Affinity in Eighteenth-Century Venice | Law and History Review | Cambridge Core

Keeping It (Too Much) in the Family: Annulment by Reason of Affinity in Eighteenth-Century Venice

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Dr Jennie Orr @drjenniferorr.bsky.social · 6h

I know this is the least important point in this whole sorry tale but how dare they appropriate the term 'triage' for this context. People have put hours, sometimes years, of their time into research bids - they are not a problem or condition to be treated.

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Alex Davis @alexdavis1981.bsky.social · 6h

Hallowe'en is creeping closer all the time, and delighted to be working with QUAD - Derby on a lively weekend of horror talks and interviews - ALL HALLOWS HAUNTS takes place from the 30th Oct to 1st Nov! www.derbyquad.co.uk/events-works... #halloween #horror #Derby #Derbyshire

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All Hallows Haunts

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Matthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social · 3h

Sounds great! One of the things I'm struggling with is that our students are pre-emptively enrolled in CourseWorks, which provides ebooks of all their texts. And that just really makes a tech-free or tech-lite approach difficult.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 3h

🚨BREAKING: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) over the past year investigated hundreds of nonprofits across the U.S. that help people register to vote, according to new records analyzed by Democracy Docket. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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ICE probed hundreds of voter registration groups across the U.S.

The agency also contemplated deploying undercover agents to "initiate prosecutions" against the groups and "dismantle" them.

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Matthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social · 3h

Do you require physical books or no? What sort of exercises do you use to teach the note-taking?

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Marc Scully @marcscully.bsky.social · 3h

Interesting, and a new addition to the burgeoning field of Post-Brexit Irish Passport Studies.

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Matthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social · 3h

Man what the fuck is wrong with Megyn Kelly

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John MacNeill Miller @snarlsdickens.bsky.social · 3h

My little contribution to ongoing debates over weird fiction is now up at @pghreviewofbooks.bsky.social! In it I try to explain why we fight about what counts as weird fiction, giving some deeper historical context for disputes over the term and a sense of what the stakes of those debates might be.

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The Dilemma of Defining Weird Fiction - Pittsburgh Review of Books

“Weird” was only intended as a placeholder. When Weird Tales magazine debuted in 1923, the adjective in the title meant the same thing it means in

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 4h

When I first visited Ukraine in 1992, the United States set the global standard for free expression, and Ukrainians quaked in fear. The tables have turned. trib.al/qun3QqL

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Teaching Havel in Kyiv: Lessons From Ukraine for Trump’s America

When I first visited Ukraine in 1992, the United States set the global standard for free expression, and Ukrainians quaked in fear. The tables have turned.

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Matthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social · 4h

We're going back to the mid-80s on Saturday and I am ripshit. We just pulled out our duvet because it was in the 40s at night and now we're hitting 84?!

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Matthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social · 4h

The point about Turner's brushstroke functioning as "walls of incomplete opacity: screens of mediation" that "short-circuit long-standing literary-critical and pictorial categories." Just amazing.

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Matthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social · 5h

You've hit on my pedagogy perfectly, Nathan!

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David Turner @profdavidturner.bsky.social · 5h

I'll be discussing Disability a History of Resistance with Robin Ince at the British Library on 23 November. Come and join us for this Disability History Month event! events.bl.uk/events/resis...

A yellow flier for Resistance a History of Disability in Britain thanking place at 7pm on 23 November the British Library. The image includes photos of the author David Turner and host Robin Ince,two middle aged white men,either side of Turner's book cover.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

SUSAN COLLINS: I was successful in getting road salt removed from the Canada tariff list TROY JACKSON: What about everything else? We can't eat road salt

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Matthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social · 17h

Chicken and cauliflower shawarma

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Annie Abrams @annieabrams.bsky.social · 17h

YES

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 20h

🚨BREAKING: GOP lawyer Cleta Mitchell and convicted election denier Tina Peters are pushing a scheme to have Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick seize voting machines, as part of a broader effort for the Trump administration to interfere with the midterm vote. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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Election deniers Cleta Mitchell and Tina Peters want Trump’s commerce secretary to seize voting machines

The problem? No federal official can seize control of election administration from the states and counties, who hold the power run elections under the U.S. Constitution.

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Matthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social · 18h

So excited to be forced to make time for this stunning book

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Matthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social · 18h

The restaurant was out of the cheese I wanted. Don’t worry; we got comte.

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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 20h

“For entire disciplines, this is existential”

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SUP Mktg Dir @supmktg.bsky.social · 20h

The latest in our groundbreaking series, Inventions: Black Philosophy, Politics, Aesthetics (series editor David Marriott).

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Matthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social · 21h

What if this book I'm writing is actually about the failure to provide care and social and political conditions that prevent the provision of care?

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Matthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social · 22h

Just explained to my med students that I'm becoming, if not a Mary Musgrove-stan, at least a Mary Musgrove rehabilitater

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Dale Townshend @dalegothic96.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

An exciting Gothic conference that I'm co-organising with Strawberry Hill House and a few other organisations, to be held at Strawberry Hill next June. Please circulate the CFP far and wide: www.strawberryhillhouse.org.uk/gothic-confe...

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Gothic Conference 2027 - Strawberry Hill House & Garden

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Timothy C. Baker @timothycbaker.bsky.social · 23h

This is an excellent piece that captures what many (most?) of us think.

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 23h

Constructed ignorance as a weapon and tool of control.

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Leanne C. Powner @leannecpowner.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Academic prose is driven by its argument. Simply assembling and reporting facts is not, in almost all cases, publishable professional scholarship. Even primarily descriptive scholarship still contains an argument about what you found and why it matters.

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Jonathan V. Last @jvl.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Super weird to have a reporter in the pooled press applying for the job of handling the pooled press for Trump . . . www.thebulwark.com/p/propagandi...

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The Propagandist in the Press Pool

From “covering” Trump to covering FOR Trump.

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 06/10/2026

"[W]hen a majority of the justices on our highest court show themselves to be consistently indifferent to the growing chasm between law and justice, it is not 'public rhetoric' that causes Americans to distrust the Court. It is the Court that surrenders its own legitimacy in the eyes of the public."

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Matthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

My students did such a good job today of working through the idea of noticing and making local claims. We started with some Degas and Monet and then two paragraphs from North and South. Huge props to @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social and @johannawinant.bsky.social for their amazing scaffolding

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