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Emily Waller Singeisen @esing.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

🚨Calling all nineteenth centuryists! @ryancarroll.bsky.social and I are welcoming submissions for a special issue of Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies next summer!

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Emily Waller Singeisen @esing.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Big news coming out of Parents Magazine in 1930

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Emily Waller Singeisen @esing.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

My new mantra for writing a dissertation

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Emily Waller Singeisen @esing.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Excited to share this latest article in International Journal of the Classical Tradition, in which I think about archaeology, illustration, and Sappho’s body in print. rdcu.be/fjmaq

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Object/ifying Sappho

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Lucinda Menaul @lhmenaul.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

My obsession with finding Pegasus in unusual places was warmly rewarded at the Wilson Library’s Special Collections at Chapel Hill. Thanks @esing.bsky.social for organising such a great opportunity for us visiting from King’s College London!

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Emily Waller Singeisen @esing.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

The funniest thing about this is how it perfectly illustrates feminist critiques about the relationship between imperialism and patriarchy. “You know how women are subjugated to men in marriage? We want to do that to foreign governments in the Middle East.”

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Emily Waller Singeisen @esing.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

This year marks the second annual UNC-KCL Colloquium in Classical Reception. If you’re in or around the Research Triangle, we would love for you to join us!

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Emily Waller Singeisen @esing.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Excited to share my latest in CUSP Journal. I use Bakhtin’s concept of the chronotope to theorize the relationship between time and space in Pierre Louÿs’s Les Chansons de Bilitis. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

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Emily Waller Singeisen @esing.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Spring cleaning in a household with two academics is just shuffling books around to new flat surfaces

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Emily Waller Singeisen @esing.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Told my sister I’m taking my qualifying exams this week. Her: Then you’ll have a PhD? Me: No, then I have to write and defend a prospectus. Her: But then you’ll have a PhD? Me: No, then I have to write and defend a diss. Her: Then what? Me: Then I’ll be done. Her: and you’ll get a job? Me: …🫠

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

“I watched him die… then I watched them maneuver his body like a rag doll— only to discover it was because they wanted to count the bullet wounds and see how many they ‘got’, like he was a deer.”

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Chanea Bond @heymrsbond.com · 28/01/2026

It’s meeeeeeeee! Let me know what you think.

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Emily Waller Singeisen @esing.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Last week, I asked my 20 undergrad students who had checked out a physical book from the library and only 2 raised their hands. So today, we went to the library to change that. Here’s what I learned:

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Emily Waller Singeisen @esing.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

“The struggle over the flag, fought among the ruins, is also a struggle over the ruins themselves, the history those ruins speak to, and what they say about who gets to live on this land.” www.thedriftmag.com/in-ruins/

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In Ruins

Archaeological Warfare in the West Bank

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Emily Waller Singeisen @esing.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

#academicsky Are there other college instructors out there that have used standards-based grading? I’m considering switching from a contract grading system and would appreciate some insights…

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Emily Waller Singeisen @esing.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Forget the Ken Burns American Revolution doc—this is my American Revolution. #RHOSLC

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Emily Waller Singeisen @esing.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

For my intro class next semester, I’m teaching a close reading unit focused on narrators and narration. texts I’m considering include: -Arrested Development -Billy Budd -Love Island -Fall of the House of Usher -Lucian’s True History -Fleabag …#AcademicSky what else should be on this list?

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Emily Waller Singeisen @esing.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Prof. Dan-el Padilla Peralta’s work has inspired me and so many other young scholars across disciplines. It was a privilege to be able to organize an interdisciplinary gathering at UNC to engage with his current and forthcoming publications! englishcomplit.unc.edu/2025/11/crit...

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Critical Speaker Series welcomes Prof. Dan-el Padilla Peralta - UNC English & Comparative Literature

For the inaugural event of the 2025–26 academic year, the Critical Speaker Series of Department of English & Comparative Literature (ECL) partnered with the Department of Classics to welcome Dan-el Pa...

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Emily Waller Singeisen @esing.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Today’s used book store delivery: “Petronius”’ unexpurgated guide to New York (feat. disinterested cat)

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Emily Waller Singeisen @esing.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Aubrey Beardsley’s fetuses are unsettling for *many* reasons, but one of the main reasons is because they look like Dr. Moron from Loony Tunes

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Emily Waller Singeisen @esing.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

To all fellow academics concerned about censorship and the violation of faculty members’ first amendment rights, please consider signing this petition to reinstate Prof. Dixon at UNC: www.change.org/p/reinstate-...

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Reinstate Professor Dixon at UNC

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 30/09/2025

Excited to introduce Vibes from Meta. Eat your slop, piggies!

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Emily Waller Singeisen @esing.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Assigned this fabulous essay by @drbeard79.bsky.social to my freshman students for class today and the discussion felt like a sociological experiment into Gen Z’s conservative sexual politics.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 20/09/2025

The Onion’s Exclusive Interview With Gavin Newsom theonion.com/the-onions-exclusive-i…

The Onion: How do you respond to accusations that you’re beholden to large donors?

Newsom: I assure you, there is no one I won’t betray in my pursuit of power.

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Emily Waller Singeisen @esing.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Reading about Noel Billing’s attacks on Maude Allen after her 1906 performance of Salomé. His hit piece was titled, “The Cult of the Clitoris”… I just want to know why a lesbian punk rock band hasn’t stolen this title because it’s truly inspired.

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

I am having a hard time reconciling "Charlie Kirk was a fierce advocate of open dialogue and free expression" with "we must identify and persecute everyone who is insufficiently mournful"

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After Charlie Kirk's death, teachers and professors nationwide fired or disciplined over social media posts

At least a dozen faculty and staff have faced fallout over insensitive comments online.

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Emily Waller Singeisen @esing.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Thrilled to be included among fabulous contributors to the latest edition of Dilettante Army, “Ekphrasis.” Read on for speculations about AI boyfriends, avant-garde burlesque shows, killer machines, and the Freudian death drive. dilettantearmy.com/articles/ekp...

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Ekphrasis Ex Machina: Desire and the Death Drive in the Age of AI

Emily Singeisen contextualizes AI, a technologically novel way of exploiting language, within some very old fantasies.

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Emily Waller Singeisen @esing.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

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Ekphrasis Ex Machina: Desire and the Death Drive in the Age of AI

Emily Singeisen contextualizes AI, a technologically novel way of exploiting language, within some very old fantasies.

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Joel @sentantiq.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

“It is central to human nature to hate someone you have harmed.” proprium humani ingenii est odisse quem laeseris #Tacitus

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

they invented the oracle of delphAI

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Rev. Dr. Liz Gloyn @lizgloyn.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Mind you, this also comes back to my central contention that the best job market advice in the hellscape is that there is absolutely no way you can meet the eternally moving goalposts, so you should do what you want to do and be happy with it instead.

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Emily Waller Singeisen @esing.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Given the hellacious job market, I’ve been conditioned to scrutinize every piece of my writing as though it needs to fit neatly into a coherent, unitary approach that I’m bringing to the field. Instead, let’s all strive for the confidence of a white male intellectual in the early 20th century.

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Emily Waller Singeisen @esing.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

One of the things I find genuinely inspiring about reading Freud is his unabashed willingness to speculate wildly. The man would unapologetically publish diametrically opposed ideas in two papers within a mere three year span without giving a single fuck.

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Emily Waller Singeisen @esing.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

“I am not some sleek, futuristic glyph. I am the battered, coffee-stained backbone of writerly panic—the gasping pause where a thought should have ended but simply could not.” www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...

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The Em Dash Responds to the AI Allegations

“In recent months, a curious fixation has emerged in corners of academia: the em dash. More specifically, the apparent moral panic around how it is...

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Emily Waller Singeisen @esing.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

What am I writing about right now? According to my stream of consciousness marginal comments…

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Getty @gettymuseum.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Close up on an ancient plate featuring a light pink octopus with bright eyes and a smile. The octopus has two arms waving above its head in a friendly manner.

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Emily Waller Singeisen @esing.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

From this morning’s research in the Wilson Library: a Beardsley proof for the Savoy that quite literally bears the fingerprints of Arthur Symons

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Emily Waller Singeisen @esing.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

This week’s reading just arrived! So excited to crack into this timely new work from @platanoclassics.bsky.social

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Amalia S. Levi, PhD @amaliasl.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

"Archives are not inert historical collections. They always stand in an active, dialogic, relation to the questions which the presents puts to the past; and the present always puts its questions differently from one generation to another." Stuart Hall, "Constituting an archive"

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Emily Waller Singeisen @esing.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

If any of my #rarebooks friends have done research at Princeton Firestone Library, I would love to ask you a couple of logistical questions about visiting as an out-of-towner! Simple Q’s but the library phone number redirects to the website and I can’t find the info I’m looking for…

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dr hardeep dhindsa (he/him) @hardeepsdhindsa.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

❗My shop is back❗Check out my illustrations of classical antiquities in all their polychromatic glory🏺 www.redbubble.com/people/Neo-C...

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Neo-Classicist is an independent artist creating amazing designs for great products such as t-shirts, stickers, posters, and phone cases.

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Emily Waller Singeisen @esing.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

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Emily Waller Singeisen @esing.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

One of the projects my summer students are completing is a cultural history of the pandemic focusing on an object, and I’m showing them Bo Burnham’s Inside this week. I was curious about how something so zeitgeist-y would hold up, but I have to say 5 years later I still think it’s f*cking genius.

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Emily Waller Singeisen @esing.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

One of the hardest things to teach students in this AI hellscape is that complexity can sometimes be a sign of poor writing and sometimes a sign of great writing. Students often assume that saying something in a wordier, more roundabout, jargon-laden way is what “academic writing” is…

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Emily Waller Singeisen @esing.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Who needs coffee when you have Academia to make you feel white hot rage before 8 a.m.?

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