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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 · 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 · 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 · 22/01/2026

Screenshotting my worksheet for anyone interested!

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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 · 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 · 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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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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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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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 · 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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Emily Waller Singeisen @esing.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Keeping with the positive posts as everything around us burns, it was Bee Day at the Farmer’s Market and local children had urgent PSAs to share: “some bees are going to be egstingt” and “we do not wait till the last moment peopol” ‼️

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Emily Waller Singeisen @esing.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

This little fledgling has been learning to fly in our front yard. All of my obsessive research energy has been momentarily redirected to stressing over her safe passage into adult birdhood.

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Emily Waller Singeisen @esing.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Just how out-of-touch are Dems? The Atlantic (rightly) criticizes Obama’s disappearance in the Trump era, but the proposed solutions are laughable. The idea that Obama sitting on a curated podcast set making money counts as political activism particularly absurd against the images coming out of LA

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Emily Waller Singeisen @esing.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Join me at ACLA on Stream A this morning to find out whether this puppy will grant me 20 minutes to present in peace!

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Emily Waller Singeisen @esing.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Who would have thought that an artist known for such grotesque, phantasmagoric designs lived on such a quiet, manicured, suburban street (across from a church no less!)

Aubrey Beardsley’s home (under construction)

The church across the street from Aubrey Beardsley home

The street on which Aubrey Beardsley lived

Me in front of the home of Aubrey Beardsley

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Emily Waller Singeisen @esing.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Drooling over the antiquities in Freud’s study today

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Emily Waller Singeisen @esing.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Using a Mariah Carey lyric for the title of my article draft and I now feel as though it is my duty to remind everyone that one of the earnest, honest to God lyrics to this song is “He’s all up in my George Foreman.” A work of art.

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Emily Waller Singeisen @esing.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Thrilled to share that the inaugural UNC-KCL #ClassicalReception Colloquium will be taking place in just a month at King’s College London! Our topic this year is “Gender and Sexuality: Antiquity and its Legacy.” If you are in London, please join us!

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Emily Waller Singeisen @esing.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

What one year sober looks like [feat. a freshly finalized reading list, my favorite song on repeat, and a stunning gift from @scottsingeisen.bsky.social ]✨ #sobersky

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Emily Waller Singeisen @esing.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

While Aubrey Beardsley’s illustrations for Wilde’s Salomè are stunning, I am obsessed these two editions, published roughly 30 years after Beardsley’s by John Vassos (1927) and Alastair (1922)

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Emily Waller Singeisen @esing.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

I need to know what this woman’s job title is #whitelotus

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Emily Waller Singeisen @esing.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

When the title of your talk is “On Octopussies,” you go all out. (It also helps to have a fabulously talented sculpture artist for a sister.)

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Emily Waller Singeisen @esing.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Me when the computer tells me to read squiggly numbers to prove I’m human #severance

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Emily Waller Singeisen @esing.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

If you’re in the Research Triangle area, come join the UNC English and Comp Lit Department for my lecture this Thursday: “On Octopussies—Ancient and Modern.” I’ll be obsessing over cephalopods in works from Aristotle and Ovid to Beardsley and Picasso!

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Emily Waller Singeisen @esing.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Being bisexual means feeling weirdly attracted to both of these characters. #severance

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Emily Waller Singeisen @esing.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Two years ago, my dearly loved grandfather passed away in Ireland on St. Patrick’s Day. Last year, I went with family to see the place where he departed. Today, I’m listening to Sinead O’Connor and reading Yeats in his honor. 💚

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Emily Waller Singeisen @esing.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

While I’m on a #rarebooks posting kick, this was today’s Special Collections gem: Wharton Esherick’s woodcut illustrations for Song of Solomon published by the Philadelphia-based Centaur Press.

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Emily Waller Singeisen @esing.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

The translator’s preface is a *journey*

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Emily Waller Singeisen @esing.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Everyone admire these fun dust jackets from clandestine publisher Rarity Press’ “Classics of Love” series #bookhistory #classicalreception

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Emily Waller Singeisen @esing.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Me when I get an abstract accepted vs. me when I actually have to write and deliver the paper

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Emily Waller Singeisen @esing.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

I grew up evangelical, so I know this is homophobe for “I am deeply uncomfortable around queer people.” #loveisblind

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Emily Waller Singeisen @esing.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Favorite find from the Eve Sedgewick archive today: these prints, filed together in a folder labeled “Thomas Hardy.”

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Emily Waller Singeisen @esing.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Me, trying to be cool and teach my students to close read through music videos, only to realize all the “cool” songs from when I was in college are now a decade old…

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Emily Waller Singeisen @esing.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

In today’s installment of living in a paranoid police state, learn how to respond in case federal agents come to interrogate you about a student! ✨

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Emily Waller Singeisen @esing.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

I’ve already told two students this week that I don’t prefer to be called “Miss” or “Mrs.”

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Emily Waller Singeisen @esing.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

As someone who spent the weekend working on conference papers, I sympathize hard with this

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Emily Waller Singeisen @esing.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

I spent a good bit of time traveling in Belarus before the political uprisings of 2020, and Minsk is one of my favorite cities in the world. My heart goes out to the Belarusian people, who have long suffered under oppressive regimes. The world must not forget their oppression or their courage.

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Emily Waller Singeisen @esing.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Tired of reading a novel for class on a computer screen (which feels like it should be illegal), @scottsingeisen.bsky.social and I went to the bookstore. …we now have 27 new books to find shelf space for.

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Emily Waller Singeisen @esing.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Angie saying Todd’s got one foot on a banana peel and one foot in the grave #rhoslc

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Emily Waller Singeisen @esing.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Scholars in the humanities drafting an article about why their particular subfield or discipline is “in crisis”:

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Emily Waller Singeisen @esing.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Cat doing her favorite thing (watch the fire), while dog does his favorite thing (watch the cat)

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Emily Waller Singeisen @esing.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

If I may contribute my own #mosaicmonday, this is from nearby Padova—I loved how the light installation filled in the lacuna in the original floor.

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Emily Waller Singeisen @esing.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Calling all #modernists! @madisonstorrs.bsky.social and I are organizing a panel, “The New Woman in Space,” for the USC Comp Lit conference. We are seeking 1-2 more participants to present. If your research corresponds to the topic, we welcome you to submit an abstract!

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