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Emily Banks

@emilyabanks.bsky.social
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Poet; author of Mother Water (Lynx House Press, 2020). Scholar of American gothic literature & Shirley Jackson. Assistant Professor at Franklin College. Buy book here 🥰: lynxhousepress.square.site/product/…

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Emily Banks @emilyabanks.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
We don't talk enough about how Scooter Braun is Jack Antonoff's Waluigi
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Emily Banks @emilyabanks.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
New poem in NYQ! 🤡 nyq.org/magazine/art...
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The Clown – New York Quarterly
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Katie Bonevento @constructivedeath.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
So excited to share that my article on queer temporality and maternal anxiety in Hill House and Beau is Afraid was published today!! Many thanks to the incredible editorial team at @sjsociety.bsky.social ❤️ Can’t wait to dive into the rest of the issue!
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The Shirley Jackson Society @sjsociety.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Our new issue of Shirley Jackson Studies, with the very timely theme of "Shirley Jackson in an Age of Anxiety," is out now! Read below for essays and reviews by @miriamricher.bsky.social, @constructivedeath.bsky.social, @sadiehartmann.bsky.social & more: shirleyjacksonstudies.org?page_id=668
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Shirley Jackson Studies - Shirley Jackson Studies
Volume 3, Issue 2: Jackson in an Age of Anxiety 01 "Comfortably isolated": Folk Horror and the Suburban Ideal in Shirley Jackson’s The Road Through the Wall By Miriam Richer 02 Tell It Again: The Anxi...
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Emily Banks @emilyabanks.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Okay, I can admit when I'm wrong, AI is actually super helpful for my research.
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Emily Banks @emilyabanks.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Thank you, @nataliesolmer.bsky.social!💕
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The Shirley Jackson Society @sjsociety.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
We've extended our deadline till June 30th! Thank you to everyone who's already submitted abstracts. We're enjoying reading them!
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 21/04/2026
Not a penny to make life more affordable for American families, but $70 BILLION for ICE to terrorize our communities.
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Emily Banks @emilyabanks.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
As an Americanist, it always strikes me how many people are unaware of the violence and animosity between Christian groups that necessitated separation of church and state. I think we're about to get a good reminder of that!
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The Shirley Jackson Society @sjsociety.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
📣NEW CFP📣 for Vol. 4, Issue 2 of Shirley Jackson Studies! Our theme for this issue is "Bodies and Embodiment." Abstracts due May 31st. shirleyjacksonstudies.org?page_id=35
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Call for Submissions - Shirley Jackson Studies
Calls for Proposals for Vol. 4, Issue 2--Bodies & Embodiment in Jackson [deadline: May 31, 2026] Shirley Jackson Studies invites proposals exploring the role of the body and embodiment in the works of...
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New Ohio Review @newohioreview.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
"This year we’re kicking underwire to the curb. / This year we’re breaking up with cup spillage. "--"The Algorithm Sells Me a New Bra" by @emilyabanks.bsky.social, Winter Online Exclusive Featured art: "Embrace" by Rachel Hall. newohioreview.org/2025/11/07/t...
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New Ohio Review @newohioreview.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
"I can make anyone / tell me everything / I want to hear / for a night."--"Riddle" by @emilyabanks.bsky.social newohioreview.org/2025/11/08/r...
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By Emily Banks It was everything I didn’t haveand all I wanted.  If I could have itI knew I would have allI didn’t have and everythingI wanted.  It was a key to the cityof dreams, a hacke…
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Rep. Ana-María Rodríguez Ramos @handle.invalid · 10/02/2026
We have received numerous credible reports of torture, killing, and inhumane treatment of detained individuals at the Camp East Montana migrant detention facility, located within Fort Bliss. #txlege
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Emily Banks @emilyabanks.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Watching Stranger Things like WHO TF IS MADELINE
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The Shirley Jackson Society @sjsociety.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
✨ New CFP ✨ We're planning for two panels at the American Literature Association's annual conference in Chicago, May 20-23. Submit abstracts for "Jackson in an Age of Anxiety" and "Jackson and Animality" by January 15th. americanliteratureassociation.org/wp-content/u...
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The Shirley Jackson Society @sjsociety.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
DEADLINE EXTENDED! Submit by February 1st.
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Emily Banks @emilyabanks.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Two new poems in @newohioreview.bsky.social! newohioreview.org/2025/11/07/t... newohioreview.org/2025/11/08/r...
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The Algorithm Sells Me a New Bra
By Emily Banks Hate bras? This is the bra for you.I can’t gatekeep. I hadn’t worn a bra in yearsbut this changed me. Are you a memberof the Itty Bitty Titty Club (IBTC)?Well it’s here finally, a br…
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Emily Banks @emilyabanks.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
The absolute joy I feel when I start reading a student's paper and encounter the normal grammatical errors.
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Emily Banks @emilyabanks.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Also, all you profs who were grading strictly on grammar and style, I hope you're happy! I'm at a point where I basically cry tears of joy when I see a paragraph full of comma splices, misplaced modifers, and Edgar "Allen" Poe.
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Emily Banks @emilyabanks.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
I am sorry that I ever complained about grading before AI. Please can we just have that back I'll be so much more grateful
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The Shirley Jackson Society @sjsociety.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
🤡New Shirely Jackson Studies CFP!!!🎃 Submit your abstract for Vol. 4, Issue 1, "Jackson and Animality" by December 15th! shirleyjacksonstudies.org?page_id=35
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Call for Submissions - Shirley Jackson Studies
Call for Proposals for Vol. 4, Issue 1--Jackson & Animality [deadline Dec. 15, 2025] Jonas, Merricat’s feline companion in We Have Always Lived in the Castle, is possibly the most recognizable animal ...
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Chanea Bond @heymrsbond.com · 03/10/2025
Reasons to Teach High School English when the World is on Fire Black girls in advanced academics who write literary analyses about “Their Eyes Were Watching God.” Queer kids who call the English Department The Fruit Factory. Allowables and Legacies by Nikki Giovanni.
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Emily Banks @emilyabanks.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Anti-Zionism is antisemitism, game 2 of the Yankees v. Red Sox Wild Card series on Yom Kippur is antisemitism, all deadlines this week are antisemitism.
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Emily Banks @emilyabanks.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
That first sin after tashlich feels like an impulse purchase when you've just paid your credit card bill, I'll face that next cycle
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
We live in a country where the president can order a comedian to be yanked off TV. What I describe is not a democracy.
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The Shirley Jackson Society @sjsociety.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Interested in joining an SSAG roundtable on Shirley Jackson's The Witchcraft of Salem Village this March? Email ebanks@franklincollege.edu with a few sentences on what you'd like to talk about by next Monday, 9/22! ~5 minute presentations followed by discussion. americangothicsociety.com/symposium/
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American Nightmares II: Return to Salem – Society for the Study of the American Gothic
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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
its 2026. the only legal jobs are ICE agent, AI server farm maintenance, and beef tallow renderer
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Nate Wolff @natewolff.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Nature” (1836)
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Emily Banks @emilyabanks.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Hurting a poet is soo funny like throwing free sacks of flour at a baker
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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
edited tweet by normal_now

Sometimes on campus you accidentally walk by a Law school and the professor is writing like "laws = real" on the board and everyone is taking notes like its actual school
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Emily Banks @emilyabanks.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
I love my job it is my dream job I would have done unspeakable things for it but changing a schedule from MTRF-->MWF is absolute hell
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Dr SpookyGoth @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
A t shirt that says don't bully me I'll come
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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
*Academics in early August
Ralph Wiggem “I’m in danger” meme
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Mike Thorn @mikethorn.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
On the latest @craftworkpod.bsky.social episode, @miriamricher.bsky.social & I had a great conversation with @emilyabanks.bsky.social about creative process, craft, and her amazing poetry collection, Mother Water. tinyurl.com/572zhet3
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Emily Banks @emilyabanks.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
I loved chatting with Miriam and Mike on @craftworkpod.bsky.social!
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Holy shit, they did it. They wrote the headline.
NYC Mass Shooting Was Nearly Impossible to Prevent, Experts Say
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Emily Banks @emilyabanks.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
ngl he kind of went off with "Happy Birthday — and may every day be another wonderful secret"
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Emily Banks @emilyabanks.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
I'm still seeking another panelist for Shirley Jackson: Memory and Forgetting at PAMLA in November! Submit below or let me know if you're interested. pamla.ballastacademic.com/Home/S/19720
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Emily Banks @emilyabanks.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
I'm just so confused on what other context you'd hear Shylock used in.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
"A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people." —The Declaration of Independence
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daryl "rupert pumpkin" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
better lyrics than katy perry
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The Shirley Jackson Society @sjsociety.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
last day to submit an abstract for PAMLA! memory and forgetting!
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The Shirley Jackson Society @sjsociety.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Don't forget! Abstracts for our PAMLA 2025 panel, "Shirley Jackson: Memory and Forgetting," are due June 30th. I hope some of you will join us November 20th-23d in San Francisco. 🌉🦭🌞 Follow this link to submit your proposal: pamla.ballastacademic.com/Home/S/19720
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The Shirley Jackson Society @sjsociety.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Four days! Let's get anxious!
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The Shirley Jackson Society @sjsociety.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
✨Deadline extended!✨ We are now accepting proposals for Vol. 3, Issue 2 of Shirley Jackson Studies, "Jackson in an Age of Anxiety," until June 15th. Details here: shirleyjacksonstudies.org?page_id=35
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Call for Submissions - Shirley Jackson Studies
Call for Proposals for Vol. 3, Issue 2 --Jackson in an Age of Anxiety [deadline extended: June 15, 2025] Shirley Jackson’s fiction is pervaded by a profound sense of anxiety, unease and even dread. In...
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Emily Banks @emilyabanks.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Today as I was unthinkingly bobbing my head to music at an event another prof came up and told me, "I see you are starting to dance a little." You guys we canNOT let more white people into this country
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The Shirley Jackson Society @sjsociety.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
TWO NEW CFPs!!!! *Shirley Jackson Studies 3.2 - Jackson in an Age of Anxiety - abstracts due May 30th! shirleyjacksonstudies.org?page_id=35 *PAMLA 2025, November 20-23 in San Francisco - Shirley Jackson: Memory and Forgetting - abstracts due June 30th! pamla.ballastacademic.com/Home/S/19720
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Call for Submissions - Shirley Jackson Studies
Call for Proposals for Vol. 3, Issue 2 --Jackson in an Age of Anxiety [deadline: May 30, 2025] Shirley Jackson’s fiction is pervaded by a profound sense of anxiety, unease and even dread. In the short...
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Emily Banks @emilyabanks.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Going to become a millionaire with an OF that's just me parallel parking
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Emily Banks @emilyabanks.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Kids today using ChatGPT to create images of their future families with random boys... y'all will never know the struggle of Morphthing
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