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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 · 26/02/2026

whats right, living by conviction, and holding administrations accountable for their stewardship of the community and its most cherished values.

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Emily Waller Singeisen @esing.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

All that to say, I think graduate students and faculty members should recognize that we are the guardians of that recent history & it’s important for students to see their participation in a university community as not just sports camaraderie etc. but also continuing a legacy of standing up for

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Emily Waller Singeisen @esing.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

university archives to see ephemera—flyers, zines, posters—that students made for those protests, and I have encouraged students to think about how history is recorded in real time, as well as what it means for an institution to archive stories that conflict with the “official narrative.”

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Emily Waller Singeisen @esing.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

It changed how I teach about UNC history. I’ve made a point to share about violent police suppression against that student activism, the university’s complicity in harming and silencing students, and the surveillance against professors who speak out against genocide. Next week, we will go to the…

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Emily Waller Singeisen @esing.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Because campus communities almost completely turn over every four years, movements like this become distant history in the blink of an eye. It hadn’t even occurred to me that my students knew almost nothing about that time; that they were sophomores in high school when we were in the thick of it.

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Emily Waller Singeisen @esing.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

But last semester, when teaching a freshman class on student protests against the Vietnam War, a student raised their hand and said, “I heard about another war protest on campus recently where students were camping on Polk Place. Do you know anything about that?”

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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 · 25/01/2026

Congrats Hardeep! Can’t wait to read this!

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Emily Waller Singeisen @esing.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

There certainly were some who found unexpected books that excited them, don’t get me wrong! It was simply noteworthy to me that many students measured success or failure in terms of “time spent.”

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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 · 22/01/2026

3. One of the most valuable takeaways from the session was helping students see how information is arranged and connected. Students shared that the process of physically moving between ideas helped them see connections they hadn’t thought of before. Digital search simply doesn’t facilitate that.

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

2. One of the most common responses I received was that finding physical books “wastes time” or “takes too long.” In the age of AI searching, my students overwhelmingly view research as a task to complete; I want to help them view it as a meandering path—even one to find pleasure in.

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

1. The physical space of the library is overwhelming. Not only do students struggle to understand the Library of Congress classification, but actual wayfinding can be a challenge! Encouraging students to wander through the stacks helped overcome the intimidation.

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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

How I did not even know there was a British version…?!

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

The first thing they said about the article was “It was weird” 😂 but they ended by saying “He had some good points” …in freshman speak that is a slam dunk.

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

The discussions about narrator v. author and about imagination (it’s “about” the urn but he’s more interested in imaginative scenes beyond the urn) were the portions they lingered on the most.

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

But even that proved fruitful for discussion: can sexual desire be compatible with admiration? Why do we assume that the speaker is intrinsically noble or good? Can we say that the speaker is rapey without saying that Keats is? Perhaps Keats’ desires are not transparent to Keats himself…

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

It was a really interesting conversation. Consistent with other classes I’ve taught (maybe because of geography? Age? Covid generation?), they are ~so~ scandalized by reading sexuality in the poem—they seemed to view this as cheapening the beauty and admiration that the speaker expresses

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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

So excited to read this! I was truly delighted perusing others’ essays for the issue!

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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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