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Sarah Jane Cervenak @sjcerv.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Check out the new show of works by artists paris cian and Ruth Owens called “erotics of flight” at The Front Gallery (NOLA) Curated by Allison Young, “erotics of flight presents a constellation of works by paris cian and Ruth Owens 1/3 (flier made by paris cian)

A dark grey photograph of the sea is affronted by text at top “October 10, 2026-November 1, 2026” followed by middle text “erotics of flight: paris cian and Ruth Owens; at bottom The Front Gallery; 4100 St. Claude Ave.

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Curated by Allison K. Young

erotics of flight presents a constellation ot works by pars cian and kuth Owens that imagine the coasta. landscapes of Louisiana, the circum-Caribbean, and the Black Atlantic as sites ot rugitivity, ancestral memory: and eco-teminist erotics. Across painting, drawing, and sculpture, the artists invoke histories of marronage, or escape from enslavement on New World plantations.

They envision the more-than-human ecologies of swamps, bayous, and mangrove torests as vital spaces ot retuge and spiritual communion.

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seriously Audre Lorde's conception of the erotic as central to the "lifeforce of women." Lorde connects the erotic to a capacity for feeling deeply and thinking otherwise, through
creativity, joy, and embodied self-knowledge. Owens' paintings imagine speculative tutures in which Black remme igures traverse intertidal landscapes, while clar o oyster shells, son allery space through installations, and salvaged material. In their respective offerings, each artist invokes ephemeral ecologies and spatial practices of fugitivity.

erotics of flight honors the gestures of love, courage, and resistance found across maroon histories and their contemporary resonances.

October 10th 2026 - November 1st 2026

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

One thing I wanted to say at the time but couldn’t find the strength: regular people have no idea how academics publish books. We rarely have editorial or fact-checking support or services. Academic stars — overwhelming white men — get those resources but we almost never do.

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Jenny Leetsch @jennyleetsch.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

folky, dreamy saturday soundtrack for chasing each and every typo in my manuscript - someone once recommended reading the whole thing backwards, and that really helps. music.apple.com/de/album/the...

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„The Knife, The Needle“ von Elanor Moss bei Apple Music

Album · 2026 · 9 Titel

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

What will the creature made all of seadrift do on the dry sand of daylight; what will the mind do, each morning, waking?

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Hessischer Flüchtlingsrat @fr-hessen.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Seit 1972 (!) gibt es in Deutschland ein Programm, das geflüchtete und zugewanderte Menschen auf ihrem Weg ins Studium unterstützt. Jetzt plant die Bundesregierung, es zum Jahresende ersatzlos (!) einzustellen. Die Petition dagegen steht bei 98.000 Unterschriften, bringt sie doch auf 100.000!

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Bildungsberatung GF-H – stärken statt streichen!

Das kostenfreie Programm bietet unter anderem:   • Beratung bei Studienwahl, Studienfachentscheidung und Studienfinanzierung • Sprachkurse, die Voraussetzung für die Aufnahme eines Studiums sind ...

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GASt e.V. – Gesellschaft für Australienstudien @gast-gafas.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

#JobAlert | »The International Research Training Group (#IRTG) Cultures of Repair, jointly convened by the University of Potsdam and the University of Melbourne, is seeking two postdoctoral researchers to join our team.« #PostDoc buff.ly/hYOc6jZ

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Jenny Leetsch @jennyleetsch.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

The essay is wild. The essay is unpredictable. The essay can bite.

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Jenny Leetsch @jennyleetsch.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Deadline 15/09: University of Trier's TRANSMARE Institute is once again calling for applications for short-term scholarships (6 months, extension possible) for female ECRs working on maritime worlds and relations: transmare.uni-trier.de/stellenaussc... (English version below) #BlueHumanities #EnvHum

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Anschubstipendien für Promotions-/Projektvorhaben aus Mitteln des Jeanne Baret-Förderfonds | TRANSMARE

(English version below) Anschubstipendien für Promotions-/Projektvorhaben Das TRANSMARE-Institut vergibt gemeinsam mit dem Forschungszentrum Europa in regelmäßigen Abständen Anschubstipendien für Nach...

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Jenny Leetsch @jennyleetsch.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

So excited to see this out! And just in time for the last round of edits on my book on slavery and ecology in the 18th/19th-century Atlantic world -- can't wait to dive in and listen for the echoes and afterlives @femmenoire.bsky.social #EnvHum

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hannah @hannahkateboast.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

The Google Books preview of the Routledge Companion to World-Literature and the Environment is online early. I have a chapter in here on Water and Waste in Palestinian Literature, which discusses speculative fiction and nature writing as new genres in this context. books.google.co.uk/books?id=HxD...

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The Routledge Companion to World-Literature and the Environment

The Routledge Companion to World‐Literature and the Environment takes a broad, global overview of the history, present and potential futures of environmental and literary studies, demonstrating that w...

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Jenny Leetsch @jennyleetsch.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

JOB! university of cologne -- required profile: "completed PhD in Heritage Studies, Ethnology, Social and Cultural Anthropology, History, Art History, Area Studies, Environmental Studies, or a related subject; a research focus on Heritage Ecologies is desirable"

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Christina Orlando @cxorlando.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

book homies: tell me a book that's not out yet that you're hype about or want other people to get hype about! shoutout some upcoming releases, brag about a galley you've read recently, or share that pre-order link!

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GAPS @gapsnet.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

📢 Call for Papers to the Postcolonial Narrations ECR conference! Postcolonial Unearthings: Bodies of Memory and Narrative Resurrections: 📍LMU Munich, Germany 🗓️16-17 September 2026 ⚠️Abstracts by 1 June 2026 postcolonial-narrations.net/current_conf...

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Current Conference – Postcolonial Narrations

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Jenny Leetsch @jennyleetsch.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

JOB ALERT: 2 PhD positions at POESIS: Power, Knowledge, and Servitude at Sea, a new research group led by the wonderful Rapti Siriwardane-de Zoysa, funded by the Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies, based at the German Institute of Development and Sustainability. Deadline: 17 May 2026.

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Jenny Leetsch @jennyleetsch.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

en route to Utrecht to join the orca uprising! excited for tons of amazing panels and workshops in one of my favourite cities. will be presenting a paper on equiano’s marine animals! 🐋🦭 @easlce.bsky.social easlce2026.sites.uu.nl

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Home | EASLCE 2026

“Join the Orca Uprising!”Nonhuman Resistance and Multispecies (In)Justice 11th Biennial EASLCE ConferenceUtrecht University14–17 April 2026 The 11th edition of the biennial conference of the European ...

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The Plant Initiative @theplantinitiative.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Open access book, free download - Forest Encounters, edited by Urška Jurman & Mateja Kurir. 20+ contributors. "By acknowledging both the human and more-than-human perspectives, the book contributes to imagining and shaping a future of and for the forest.." forest-encounters.net/book-2/

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rosie fremdsand @fromrosiewithlove.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

der schlaf ist eine qualle, sie ist schön und glitzert und leuchtet und heute frisst sie deine nacht, zerbrochenes und rauch

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Jenny Leetsch @jennyleetsch.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

t-minus one week until this baby has to be sent off to EUP. watch me try limiting my use of “entangled” to twice max./chapter… 😭 (who am I kidding!) #BlackAtlanticEcologies #EnvHum #SlaveryStudies #Lit 🌊🌳🪨🌾

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Mid Theory Collective @mid-theory.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Adaptation is everywhere! This spring MTC is running a new series called ADAPTATION ANXIETY, where new and returning writers consider literary adaptations from the last few years. To kick off our managing editor Martha Henzy takes on the unsexy absolution of the gothic monster.

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Not My Byronic Hero! Or, Whither the Monster?

Adaptation is everywhere! In the spring of 2026, MTC is running a new series called Adaptation Anxiety, where new and returning writers consider literary adaptations from the last few years. We ask…

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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

I was on Twitter for the writers and the book recommendations, the essays, the poetry, the community. I am here now for the same. I’m a nerd. Please reply with a favorite recent essay or poem or story or book recommendation, and thank you.

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Avery Hill Publishing @averyhill.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

The pre-launch page for our Kickstarter for Orlando by @julesscheele.bsky.social is now up! This stunning adaptation of Virginia Woolf's classic novel will be funding in April, but you can sign up now so you don't miss it when it goes live! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ave...

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Books, bitches!

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hannah @hannahkateboast.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

My article 'Ghost nets and rusting machines: rivers in the contemporary Canadian long poem' is now published in Interventions, as part of a special issue on World Literature and Commodity Frontiers: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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“Ghost nets and rusting machines”: rivers in the contemporary Canadian long poem

Water has long been fundamental to settler efforts to expand resource frontiers in Canada. European fur traders used the region’s waterways to access animal populations in its interior, forming the...

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Pause @ Real Scientists DE @realscientists.de · 09/02/2026

Dieser thread einer LitProf hat spannende Vorschläge, Studierenden zum Lesen zu bringen; „Reading Scenario Experiments“, zB: „Lest bei Kerzenlicht/draußen in der Natur. Lest jemand anderem vor. Lest mit einem Block und zeichnet Szenen, die ihr lest.“ Der Prozess ist kreativ und soll auch so sein!

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same old ghost 🌿🪻 @sameoldghost.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Need a sticker of this immediately actually

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Aarthi Vadde @aarthivadde.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Page proofs arrived today (!) and actual book coming August 2026!!!

Title page from my forthcoming book We the Platform: How the Internet Changed Twenty-First-Century Literature. Copyright Columbia University Press printed at the top.

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UniGR-Center for Border Studies @unigr-cbs.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

𝗔𝗿𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗯𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝗲𝘅𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗯𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝘀𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗮𝗿𝘀? The UniGR-CBS is pleased to announce the launch of its 2026 Research Fellowships! Eligible are postdoctoral researchers, senior researchers, and professors. Apply now (28/02/2026): fellow.borderstudies.org

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Aadita Chaudhury @aadita.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

So exhausted from staying with the trouble.

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Morgan Fahey @morganfahey.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

In which @alexanderchee.bsky.social writes beautifully (as always) about the way Heated Rivalry has become a fragment shored against the ruin of almost everyone's mental health, and the artistic and narrative joys of both its universality and its specificity. open.substack.com/pub/querent/...

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I Would Start A War In Your Arms

A Heated Rivalry Notebook

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Jenny Leetsch @jennyleetsch.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

first week back at work 2026: wildly oscillating between binging heated rivalry insta edits and stewing over the german research foundation funding bid I have to finish - I contain multitudes!

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Jenny Leetsch @jennyleetsch.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

liebe @rennmausinuk.bsky.social, hier noch einmal ganz offiziell: ich bin ✨hin und weg✨, gleich zweimal absolut ins schwarze getroffen! um die patti smith autobiographie schon oft im laden herumgeschlichen, und super gespannt auf das debut von tochi eze! danke-danke-danke! #litgangwichteln

photograph of two books laying on a grey couch: patti smith’s new memoir bread of angels, featuring a black and white cover (a picture of the artist, hands raised, in midst of foliage), and the novel this kind of trouble by tochi exe, with an orange cover featuring leaves on a branch, which include the title and author name.

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Jenny Leetsch @jennyleetsch.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

this is not only a fantastic article, it’s also helped me discover this graphic/comic biography of one of my favourite artists!

Cover of a book, a comic biography of artist Ana Mendieta (published in 2011); the cover is black with white letters, in the lower right hand corner there is a black and white drawing of a naked female figure hugged by a skeleton, both sit in a bed of leaves which also blow out from
them and scatter across the cover.

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profchander @profchander.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

me to grad students: share your work with each other, talk, exchange ideas! me to me: no one can ever see this draft it's garbage and they'll think i'm garbage and then i'll have to move into a dumpster where i belong

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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

My love for em dashes is as old as the hills and as mighty as my inability to make a transition between thoughts literally any other way and I will be damned if I let the clankers take that from me

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Jenny Leetsch @jennyleetsch.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

mit dem postgang gleich mein eigenes wichtelgeschenk in empfang nehmen dürfen! bin schon sehr gespannt, warte mit dem auspacken aber noch bis weihnachten, glaube ich. aufregend!! #litgangwichteln

photo of an unopened parcel, signed with the hashtag litgangwichteln, next to an advent wreath.

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Jenny Leetsch @jennyleetsch.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

das #litgangwichteln packerl macht sich die tage auf den weiten weg. dieses jahr sind die verpackungs-vibes weniger weihnachtlich, dafür umso thematisch passender zum buch. ich hoffe so sehr, meine wichtel-person hat es noch nicht gelesen! 🌱

a wrapped present, viewed from above. the wrapping paper is midnight blue, the card is a very light turquoise and has gold-embossed stems and flowers on it. the present is tied with a green ribbon that looks like tiny leaves.

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Dr. Melissa Schuh @melissaschuh.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

It’s the most wonderful time of the year, because my book is out now, fresh off the press! Happy book birthday to “Literary Autobiography: Contemporary Novelists and their Self-Representations” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025) 📕🎉! doi.org/10.1007/978-... @hss.springernature.com

Book cover: Melissa Schuh, Literary Autobiography: Contemporary No Elises and their Self-Representations (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025)

Flyer: Melissa Schuh
Literary Autobiography
Contemporary Novelists and their Self-Representations
-Explores the narrative strategies developed by novelists as they cross generic boundaries of �ction and non-fiction
-Presents case studies of works by canonical contemporary authors
-Develops de�nitions and concepts to analyse forms of autobiographical writing that �flaunt their �fictionality

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"Melissa Schuh's Literary Autobiography offers a theoretically elegant and literarily sensitive rethinking of the fraught relationship between the novel and autobiography. Central to the book is the concept of performative contradiction, which Schuh develops as the defining aesthetic strategy of literary autobiography—a strategy that embraces fictionality not to undermine life writing, but to open it toward deeper questions of truth, identity, and narrative ethics. Schuh's analyses of Roth, Coetzee, and Grass persuasively show how these works form an aesthetic lineage that contemporary autofiction continues to draw from. This book will be indispensable for scholars across life writing studies, narratology, and literary ethics."
—Stefan Kjerkegaard, Aarhus University, Denmark
Why do novelists write about themselves? What modes do novelists use to manipulate representations of their personality? Why is it often late in their career that novelists write about their own lives? This book develops the concept of literary autobiography as a genre responding to a profound uncertainty about the knowability of the self, often negotiated through a particular concern with the writing life. Comprising a particular sub-genre and style of contemporary life writing, the autobiographies examined in this book foreground their formal
'literariness' through the explicit use of fictionality, disrupting established (auto) biographical tropes by employing narrative innovations associated with postmodern fiction and prefigured by modernist experimentation. Taken together, they exemplify an aesthetics of performative contradiction, in which novelistic strategies cast doubt on the veracity of the life represented. Exploring works by canonical and popular novelists - J.M. Coetzee, Philip Roth, Günter Grass, Elena Ferrante, and Karl Ove Knausgard - this book addresses the increasing novelisation of contemporary life w…

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Journal of Art in Society @artinsociety.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

18th-century Dutch naturalist/collector Albertus Seba’s detailed engravings of hedgehogs (Thesaurus, 1734)

Image of hedgehog lying on its back like an upturned beetle

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Litgangwichteln @litgangwichteln.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Herzlich willkommen zum #litgangwichteln! In diesem Thread erfährst Du alles für das diesjährige #litgangwichteln. In aller Kürze: Wir überraschen und erfreuen uns gegenseitig mit einem Buchgeschenk per Post – und die zu beschenkenden Menschen werden dafür zugelost. 1/21

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Dr. Melissa Schuh @melissaschuh.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

On my way home from a sunny Bamberg after an amazing, rich #BritCult2025 conference, where I got to share in a collaborative panel discussing queer romance and queer happy endings with the all together brilliant Anneke Schewe, @jennyleetsch.bsky.social , and Amanda Boyce. @susannegruss.bsky.social

Presentation slide featuring the cast of the Heartstopper Netflix series with the title: Why are we like this? : Seriality, Genre, and Queer Joy in Alice Oseman‘s Heartstoppet (2022-), by Anneke Schewe and Melissa Schuh

Photograph of a bridge in Bamberg with the rising sun in the background.

Photograph of a sunlit river back in Bamberg.

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Dr. Melissa Schuh @melissaschuh.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Who could say no to a conference duck 🦆? I chose a pink one to match my outfit 😍 @susannegruss.bsky.social #BritCult2025 @jennyleetsch.bsky.social

Glass bowl full of a colourful assortment of small resin ducks, with a pink one set next to the bowl

University of Bamberg tote bag in navy with white lettering, with a yellow name Tag including pronouns and a small pink resin duck on it.

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Jenny Leetsch @jennyleetsch.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

en route to #BritCult2025!! Umstieg in Würzburg hat geklappt, nun trägt mich der Regio hoffentlich reibungslos nach Bamberg. 🤞🤞🤞 Very much looking forward to meeting old friends and new colleagues! ✨

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