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English and Media Centre @engmediacentre.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

How is poetry really taught in secondary schools today? We’re mapping the national picture in England. English teachers, your professional insight is essential! 5 minute survey: tinyurl.com/238cz6mu Project supported by Christ Church's Tower Poetry Development Grant

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Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

I'm running a popular romance course at the University of Liverpool... but only if enough people sign up! Come and join us! www.liverpool.ac.uk/continuing-e...

A poster for 'Falling in Love with Love: A History of Popular Romance: An Online Course' including front covers from the following books:
Fantomina by Eliza Haywood, Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, The Sheik by E M Hull, The Quiet Gentleman by Georgette Heyer, Tabitha in Moonlight by Betty Neels, Indigo by Beverley Jenkins, Hen Fever by Olivia Waite, The Isle of the Silver Sea by Tasha Suri

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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

What’s in an A? Half of @marcusluther.bsky.social’s HS students said “meeting expectations,” and the other half “exceeding expectations.” Now I want to survey college faculty asking them what an A means.

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🚨 A new book review has been published in JPRS! Qurratulaen Liaqat reviews Javaria Farooqui's (@javariafarooqui.bsky.social) book "Romance Fandom in 21st-Century Pakistan: Reading the Regency". Follow the link to read it: doi.org/10.70138/FRC... #RomanceResearch

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Megan Rubiner Zinn @mrzinn.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Fun with punctuation and caroling

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Dr ShinyGoth @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

No canons, only archives.

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

"We have classrooms because you have to learn how to sustain a thought aloud— exposed to others and to your own ineloquence— to see that other people can help you reach where you can’t quite go and to see that you can help others reach better clarity…” - Lauren Berlant to 20 y.o. about college #Lit

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 28/11/2025

Absolutely riveted by this video of women filmed in the 1970s reminiscing about their young adult life in the 1890s "I was a feckless girl" "The mud, everywhere, mud to our knees!" "Were the ladies on bicycles or horseback?" youtu.be/pv6V1yHvJyo

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1970: VICTORIAN TEENAGERS reminisce | Yesterday's Witness | Voice of the People | BBC Archive

YouTube video by BBC Archive

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Eric Selinger @emselinger.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Several lines in the image below are highlighted, but the one that jumps out to me isn't: "when you outsource the thinking, you outsource the learning."

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Eric Selinger @emselinger.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

My "Go ahead, use AI if you want, just tell me what you did at the start of the paper" policy lets me tell a student "I know you didn't use AI, because you said that you didn't, but you've written a paper that sounds just like AI, because..." and really lay into it. Doubly satisfying, really.

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Corinne Gressang @corinnegressang.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Students complained to my husband about not getting the classes they wanted. He asked if they use Chat GPT in their classes. They said yes He said: 'well then it doesn't matter what classes you take since you aren't learning anything's I'm dead. 💀 Also I married a good one.

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Eric Selinger @emselinger.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Ahoy Academic (English professor) Sky! If I were interested in adding a James Bond novel to one of my syllabi, is there one in particular that gets taught / discussed most often? Dr. No? From Russia With Love?

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ActuFanfic @actufanfic.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

@journal.transformativeworks.org published an amazing fanzine on the theme of friendships in fandoms. It's really nice to read about what is, essentially, the core and result of many fandoms ! You can read it for free on their website : www.transformativeworks.org/fandom-frien... #zine #fandom

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Fandom Friendships: A Zine | Organization for Transformative Works

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Charlotte @romansdegare.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Question for any romance novel history people out there: does anyone know who might have been the first romance author to write/publish strict dual POV, ie: in equally distributed, alternating chapters? (Or, first-ish, I know tracking firstness in literature is complicated) Feel free to RT/boost

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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Hey folks. I have spent *days* reading and meticulously drafting comments on a very lengthy manuscript. Which I have just found includes an AI-faked quote. Attributed to ME. Here is a thread of my feelings

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a man in a blue shirt says " i am untethered and my rage knows no bounds ! "

ALT: a man in a blue shirt says " i am untethered and my rage knows no bounds ! "

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Chaz Stein @charlottestein.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Many people see Dark Romance as an acceptable Romance to like, because it has the qualities of edgy horror and arthouse films and the like. The grimdark stuff that equals quality to so many. It helps them retain their sense of coolness. It’s why it’s the only type of Romance they like.

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

This should be on a plaque at the base of the Statue of Liberty.

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Rebecca Spang @rlspang.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

I have to tell you what really happened to the plums... Elise New seems to have offered them to Woody Allen in exchange for his involvement with her edX MOOC. One creepy slimey scammy thing after another in those files. (via splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app)

email from Elise New to Woody Allen: Dear Woody,
Tel:
Fax
As I know Jeffrey has told you, I really enjoyed our conversation on the plane last spring about William
Carlos Williams's "This Is Just to Say." You offered a reading of the poem that seemed to me
completely persuasive and plausible and, yet, also, one that is not strictly dictated or delimited by the
lines themselves. These are lines that seem to me unusually open to divergent readings-- including, for
instance, a reading much more coaxing and seductive; another, much more defensive and manipulative;
another, much more about language itself as a mode of sharing. I left our conversation wanting to
explore with you the aggressive (or maybe mock aggressive) reading you gave, as well as the way this
poem, perhaps more than many, sustains so many readings. You helped me think about Williams's
poem as it seems in some ways more like a "script" than a poem, a poem written in such a way as to be
turned by different voices in different directions, a poem that might even be "directed" by the reader. I'd
love to hear you read the poem again and, if you are willing, to discuss it a bit with me on camera for my
upcoming Massive Open Online Course on American poetry.

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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

The future Pope Leo XIV in 1982.

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This call may be of interest to our readers!

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Jodi McAlister @jodimca.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Okay USA, I know you have plenty of other things going on at the moment, but my new book An Academic Affair will be released in your country in only a few weeks (11 November!!), and if you wanted to pre-order it, I would simply love that. www.simonandschuster.com/books/An-Aca...

A trope graphic for An Academic Affair (a blue cartoon cover rom-com featuring images of a white man and woman glaring at each other while holding large stacks of books). The tropes read: enemies to lovers, fake marriage of convenience, one bed, he falls first, academic rivals.

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Joanne Ella Parsons @joparsons.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Come and study with me! Call for doctoral proposals in the field of Romance and/or Erotica at Falmouth University: www.falmouth.ac.uk/research/phd...

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Romance and/or Erotica

This Research & Knowledge Exchange Doctoral Project brief summarises our priority areas of research interest under the heading of: Romance and/or Erotica

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Eric Selinger @emselinger.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

They're so cute! I had no idea!

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Laura Braunstein @laurabrarian.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Men seldom make passes At Ozymandiasses

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profchander @profchander.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

final project guidelines for both grad and undergrad seminars: 1. pick a topic you care about 2. don’t use ai 3. get smarter

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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.

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Éireann @eireannmor.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

what else can we do? what do we want to do? what feels good? (thinking. making, making ideas....) how can I help you know you want to do this stuff? EDUCATION IS THE NONCOERCIVE REARRANGEMENT OF DESIRE and that includes the teacher's (thanks, Spivak)

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Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

As I considered Hegel’s remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice, I couldn’t help but think that he forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.

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Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Well, I bet this 1848 Wuthering Heights reviewer feels like a wally now

It will live a short and brilliant life, and then die and be forgotten. For when the originality becomes familiarized, there will not be truth enough to sustain it. The public will not acknowledge its men and women to have the true immortal vitality. Poor Cathy's ghost will not walk the earth forever; and the insane Heathcliff will soon rest quietly in his coveted repose.

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Eric Selinger @emselinger.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Romance 'sky, a question for you! My students are loving Bolu Babalola's "Honey & Spice" in part because it's a university-set student romance, and I'd love any recommendations you might have for other recent books with that setting & cast of characters. Might be a fun course focus.

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Eric Selinger @emselinger.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Listening to a podcast about Robert Hayden's "Frederick Douglass" and the first thing the podcaster says about the poem is that it was written in the '60s and reflects the Civil Rights movement. It was, in fact, published in The Atlantic in February 1947: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

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Frederick Douglass

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Jodi McAlister @jodimca.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

I am an academic - hello from the Vice-President of the International Association for the Study of Popular Romance! - so if you want a book that shows what it's really like out there in universities (while still having a HEA!!): An Academic Affair is for you.

simonandschuster.com

An Academic Affair

From the “masterly” (The New York Times) Jodi McAlister, a charming new romance about two English professors who embark on a fake relationship…only...

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Eric Selinger @emselinger.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Off to teach the end of Hadestown and the start of Katrina Jackson's Back in the Day. Summer me made some good choices for this syllabus. Thanks, summer me!

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David Naimon @davidnaimon.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Congratulations Vajra! ICYMI: here is our deep dive together into RAKESFALL, the winner of the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction Audio: tinhouse.com/podcast/vajr... @ursulakleguin.com @vajra.me

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Eric Selinger @emselinger.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

In a reading slump, I was rereading Le Guin last night--taking this prize as a sign to start rereading Chandrasekera instead.

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Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

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

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Evaine 🇨🇦 @evaine.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

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📣 Important update regarding this CfP: the submission deadline for our Special Issue "Romancing the Posthuman" has been extended until 30 November 2025! 🔗 Find all the relevant information through the JPRS website: www.jprstudies.org/submissions/... #RomanceResearch

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Special Issue Call for Papers | Journal of Popular Romance Studies

JPRS publishes special issues on a range of topics relating to the study of romantic love and its representations. These issues contain at least 3 articles on their shared topic, as well as an introdu...

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 18/10/2025

You can easily block the official MAGA government accounts here. Do not engage them. Do not give them what they want.

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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

People always take whatever they want from art. (Part of the reason it is silly so many people fret over whether the "right" messages are in novels and movies.) Musk names spaceships after anarchist space operas. Paul Ryan works out to RATM. Better art isn't going to save a right-wing brain.

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Reyhan Harmanci @harmancipants.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

We wanted to know what it was like to own a Cybertruck. So @zoeschiffer.bsky.social went to the desert got this absolutely amazing quotes (and Michelle Groskopf took the pictures!) www.wired.com/story/owning...

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Eric Selinger @emselinger.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

For the first time in years I'm completely stumped as to what poem or novel to have my students focus on in their Senior Capstone Seminar. Not sure what they OR I will find valuable to read in depth this winter. Unpleasant feeling.

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Laura Vivanco @lauravivanco.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

This update got very long, but maybe that means there's a higher chance of it including something you'd be interested in reading? Most of the entries are to open-access publications, so they're free to view.

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A very long list of new (and some not so new) publications about romance

The open access journal TEXT dedicated a special issue to romance/romantic fiction, under the subtitle " Trope Actually – Popular Romance" b...

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Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

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