iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Jillian Sayre

@jillio.bsky.social

Director, Mid-Atlantic Regional Center for the Humanities (MARCH) Associate Professor, English Rutgers-Camden jilliansayre.net

Posts Replies Media

Jillian Sayre @jillio.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

the halftime show was not only fantastic but I am so excited for the future 90-part tiktok analyses that demonstrate the importance of close reading. “Treat this text like Kendrick Lamar wrote it” is now a standard part of my class prompts.

000

Jillian Sayre @jillio.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Google Arts and Culture app wanted me to think about this painting today. I wonder why. (Reader, I do not in fact wonder why) “Rockwell's political statement expressed the right of American citizens to understand their government's actions.” artsandculture.google.com/asset/FAH…

000

Jillian Sayre @jillio.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Just asked Linus, who is half way through authority (I’m reading it aloud to them), what L’s Southern Reach musical would look like and Linus suggested that it would be just Annihilation and maybe an opera. So I’m staying tuned for that. The kids are alright?

010

Jillian Sayre @jillio.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Had so much fun talking “book history on a budget” w/ @ldicuirci.bsky.social at the Bibliographical Society of America this weekend (also featuring MARCH makerspace researcher Sophia Westfall and her experiments with ink and paper!) Am so grateful for the great conversations all day long

Table with material ephemera, syllabus, books with scalpels on top for book anatomy experiments, examples of experiments in organic books, and examples of weird books to explore at our panel

192

Jillian Sayre @jillio.bsky.social · 20/07/2023

You know what’s the best part of hiking in Iceland? You get to do it with sheep.

Tall figure in hiking gear walking away from camera and toward two Icelandic sheep who watch him warily.

Six Icelandic sheep in two groups of three walk down a ridge toward a river

030

Jillian Sayre @jillio.bsky.social · 18/07/2023

I’ve been hiking for a week in Iceland and it was pretty cool.

Figure sitting on riverbank looking away from camera. Green foreground with mountain and glacier in background

Rams head mountain on the Kjalvegur in Iceland. A layered circular cloud to its left

0100

Jillian Sayre @jillio.bsky.social · 07/07/2023

My partner thought it was weird when I put Jeff VanderMeer’s birthday on our calendar but I needed a reminder:

000

Jillian Sayre @jillio.bsky.social · 06/07/2023

The hottest social media app is called Loomings. it gathers people who have little or no money in their purse and those who have nothing particular to interest them on shore and sends them to sail about a little and see the watery parts of the world. Watch the rope.

000

Jillian Sayre @jillio.bsky.social · 05/07/2023

Just hanging out with friends in the pollinator garden

Flowering milkweed with a very happy bee head down in a blossom.

010

Jillian Sayre @jillio.bsky.social · 05/07/2023

I’ve been limiting myself to Bookwyrm and Instagram for a while now so please forgive me if I default to posting pictures of rocks I’ve met and quotes from books I’m reading for non-work purposes.

3110