Kit Bauserman (ABD) @kitbauserman.bsky.social · 9hMy sole want in life (beyond an academic job) is to just teach a recurring upper-level seminar on the gothic across media 000
Kit Bauserman (ABD) @kitbauserman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I am in love with the American Folk Horrors (University of Wales Press, 2027) cover. Also so cool to see something of mine finally hit print. If you get a copy, give "‘It’s (Not) Just Land’: Agency, Landscape and New Materialism in Folk Horror Podcasts" a read! press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...press.uchicago.eduAmerican Folk HorrorsThe first book to analyze the distinct folk horror of the Americas.While the majority of writing about folk horror focuses on the British tradition, American Folk Horrors centers the key folk horror t... 010
Kit Bauserman (ABD) @kitbauserman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Not necessarily saying it should be a university requirement, but I think a lot of people would benefit from taking an Intro to Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies course in college. It is not too deep into the theory, but TA'ing is opening my eyes to its important place in the university. 010
Reposted by Kit Bauserman (ABD)Society for the Study of the American Gothic @ssag.bsky.social · 23/09/2026SSAG members: Have thoughts about the "Politics & the Gothic" roundtable or other pieces in AGS? We're looking for "Engagements" (250-1k words) responding to an articles, interviews, provocations, or exhumations in prior issues. Contact Christina Connor at cconnor@hccfl.edu if you are interested! 021
Kit Bauserman (ABD) @kitbauserman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Excited to start revising this chapter. Doing photography in the Valley was a very rewarding experience in getting to place myself in relation to my hometown and the broader region 000
Reposted by Kit Bauserman (ABD)Society for the Study of the American Gothic @ssag.bsky.social · 12/09/2026We're meeting on September 18, at 3:30 p.m. (EDT) to discuss stories from Carmen Maria Machado's Her Body and Other Parties starting with "The Husband Stitch," "Real Women Have Bodies," "The Resident," and "Difficult at Parties." Register in advance for this meeting: gmu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...gmu.zoom.usWelcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Society for the Study of the American Gothic Reading Group. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.Meeting for "Her Body and Other Parties" by Carmen Maria Machado 032
Kit Bauserman (ABD) @kitbauserman.bsky.social · 08/09/20263/4 dissertation body chapters are officially drafted. On track to have #4 ready before 2027 or at least very early in it. 011
Kit Bauserman (ABD) @kitbauserman.bsky.social · 01/09/2026I came across an ad yesterday for a position that had such a weirdly strong fit I just spent three hours drafting the cover letter for it in the middle of the night. Going to edit it tomorrow, edit my website, and send it off. 020
Kit Bauserman (ABD) @kitbauserman.bsky.social · 30/08/2026I got some advice to read Jonathan Crary's Techniques of the Observer for my dissertation and man this is some of the densest prose I have seen in a while. 000
Kit Bauserman (ABD) @kitbauserman.bsky.social · 27/08/2026It is always nice to get praise from those who inspired your work. Had a really good meeting today with an academic whose work deeply inspired my own and I am looking forward to continuing to talk and exchange ideas with them. 020
Kit Bauserman (ABD) @kitbauserman.bsky.social · 20/08/2026I was looking at an opening at UT Austin's Center for Humanities yesterday and went through this exact process. Got an odd vibe from the research profiles and dug a little deeper and saw its deeply tied to the Civitas Institute and the UF Hamilton Civic Leadership & Classical Education School. 020
Reposted by Kit Bauserman (ABD)Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 20/08/2026To put it in perspective: the ACLS (and god bless them, this is not a criticism!) in its last two award cycles for individual fellowships, spent $3.5 million, less than 1/2 of what just one right-wing foundation - Templeton - spent on humanities research. finance.yahoo.com/economy/poli... 38933
Reposted by Kit Bauserman (ABD)Society for the Study of the American Gothic @ssag.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Join our Gothic Reading Group on Aug. 17, 2026, for Narrative of the Life of Arthur Gordon Pym. Registration Link: gmu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...gmu.zoom.usWelcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Society for the Study of the American Gothic Reading Group. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.Meeting for The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket by Edgar Allan Poe 043
Kit Bauserman (ABD) @kitbauserman.bsky.social · 31/07/2026All I want in life is to move to a creepy small town where my knowledge of gothic literature and the occult helps expose the town's dark underbelly through a series of folklore, unsolved crimes, curses, and conspiracies. 072
Reposted by Kit Bauserman (ABD)Society for the Study of the American Gothic @ssag.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Join our Gothic Reading Group on Aug. 17, 2026, for Narrative of the Life of Arthur Gordon Pym. Registration Link: gmu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...gmu.zoom.usWelcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Society for the Study of the American Gothic Reading Group. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.Meeting for The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket by Edgar Allan Poe 021
Reposted by Kit Bauserman (ABD)jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 24/07/2026an ideologically driven effort to destroy an independent institution and replace its serious and broad-minded approach to american history with MAGA slopnytimes.comTrump Orders Warnings Placed at ‘Inaccurate’ Smithsonian History MuseumPresident Trump said the signage at the National Museum of American History would correct what a disputed White House report described as “extreme political activism.” 692956674
Reposted by Kit Bauserman (ABD)Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Really interesting work from my colleague Jesse Casana, using satellite imagery to assess damage to Syrian archaeological sites from the civil war home.dartmouth.edu/news/2026/07...home.dartmouth.eduStudy Shows Extent of Damage to Historic Sites in Syria | Dartmouth 062
Reposted by Kit Bauserman (ABD)Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Do yourself a favor and google Jimothy 🦝 091
Kit Bauserman (ABD) @kitbauserman.bsky.social · 24/07/2026This is from a chapter on how we can rethink regions and regionality. 010
Reposted by Kit Bauserman (ABD)Society for the Study of the American Gothic @ssag.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Our Gothic Reading Group will meet to discuss Daniel Mason's North Woods on Monday, July 27, at 4:00 p.m. (EDT). Register Here: gmu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...gmu.zoom.us 022
Kit Bauserman (ABD) @kitbauserman.bsky.social · 19/07/2026I gotta say the Adventures in Odyssey radio show did not prepare me for Christopher Nolan's movie at all. 110
Reposted by Kit Bauserman (ABD)Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · 17/07/2026The Taco Bell finger pointing is a psyop to redirect attention from the real culprit, the deregulation and lack of oversight in our food supply 120125073555
Reposted by Kit Bauserman (ABD)Society for the Study of the American Gothic @ssag.bsky.social · 06/07/2026REMINDER: Call for proposals: The SSAG will sponsor a paper session at the American Literature Association’s symposium on the American novel, which will take place in Santa Fe November 5th – 7th of this year. Accordingly, we are issuing a general call for proposals. 122
Kit Bauserman (ABD) @kitbauserman.bsky.social · 03/07/2026Every quote bashing anti-AI movements feels like a bunch of auto-generated word salad. 010
Reposted by Kit Bauserman (ABD)Society for the Study of the American Gothic @ssag.bsky.social · 29/06/2026We will meet to discuss Daniel Mason's North Woods on Monday, July 27, at 4:00 p.m. (EDT). Register here: gmu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...gmu.zoom.usWelcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Society for the Study of American Gothic Reading Group. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.Meeting for NORTH WOODS by Daniel Mason 011
Kit Bauserman (ABD) @kitbauserman.bsky.social · 27/06/2026On Wednesday, I begin a research trip whose seed began in the 1st year of my PhD program. Its frankly a little insane, but I am very excited for what is to come over the coming weeks. This week in Boulder was more an archival visit before the real work begins. 010
Kit Bauserman (ABD) @kitbauserman.bsky.social · 24/06/2026In Boulder for the week doing some work at the Media Archeology Lab and I gotta say my first impression of the place was pretty good CU Boulder has a beautiful campus. 020
Reposted by Kit Bauserman (ABD)sakura christmas @prof-christmas.bsky.social · 23/06/2026#CFP Porous Worlds: Histories, Environments, and Material Relations at the Surface-Subsurface Interface (Bergen, October 28-29, 2026), due September 1. Workshop explores relationship between surface and subsurface w/ keynote by @gabriellehecht.bsky.social #envhist #envhum #extractivism #histstm 11918
Kit Bauserman (ABD) @kitbauserman.bsky.social · 20/06/2026Just got some news that my chapter "‘It’s (Not) Just Land’: Agency, Landscape, and New Materialism in Folk Horror Podcasts" will be coming out in the American Folk Horrors edited collection through University of Wales Press in March 2027! 020
Reposted by Kit Bauserman (ABD)David Ryan Miller @davidryanmiller.com · 15/06/2026Journalists have a duty to tell the public that the president and his aides are seriously considering suspending habeas corpus *when it is happening* rather than saving it for a book rollout over a year later 8867961910
Reposted by Kit Bauserman (ABD)Society for the Study of the American Gothic @ssag.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Join us on June 22 at 4:30 PM EDT for our Gothic Reading Group to discuss Daniel Kraus' Whalefall. Register Here: gmu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...gmu.zoom.usWelcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Society for the Study of American Gothic Reading Group. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.Reading Group meeting for Whalefall by Daniel Kraus 073
Kit Bauserman (ABD) @kitbauserman.bsky.social · 14/06/2026Currently deep in the midst of my annual urge to move out to Seattle 010
Reposted by Kit Bauserman (ABD)Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 13/06/2026The Vanderbilt report and Trump’s attack on the NIH and NSF are part of the same right-wing effort to attack the authority of all peer-reviewed knowledge so that they can police what researchers write, say, publish, and think to ensure it complies with corporate-friendly aims. 217763
Reposted by Kit Bauserman (ABD)Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 13/06/2026In fact, a key charge of the Vandy report is that non-humanistic disciplines risk being ‘infected’ by allegedly relativist humanistic methods and ideas, which is a covert attack on queer, anti-racist, and decolonial methods in scientific inquiry. So yes, the Vandy report is an attack on science. 06112
Kit Bauserman (ABD) @kitbauserman.bsky.social · 12/06/2026Working on writing up an early draft of my Shenandoah Chapter and spent most of today writing up on Gothic photography. Honestly its fun, most of the (limited) secondary I am working with on the topic are tied to the terror-era of gothic criticism so I have some space to write my own thoughts. 010
Reposted by Kit Bauserman (ABD)Pop Culture & Theology (& Religion, too) @popandtheology.bsky.social · 11/06/2026Anyone going to see Spielberg’s Disclosure Day? 😏popularcultureandtheology.comCall for Papers: Spielberg’s Alien Imaginary and American SpiritualityCall for Papers From Close Encounters to Disclosure: Spielberg’s Alien Imaginary and American Spirituality Proposed Edited Volume for the Pop Culture and Theology Series Since the release of … 024
Kit Bauserman (ABD) @kitbauserman.bsky.social · 11/06/2026We'd definitely appreciate your submission! 010
Reposted by Kit Bauserman (ABD)Society for the Study of the American Gothic @ssag.bsky.social · 11/06/2026Requesting American Gothic Studies submissions! AGS is the first scholarly journal dedicated to the American Gothic and publishes rigorously vetted scholarship on the topic. This encompasses literature, film, television, comics, and new media, as well as cultural artifacts and practices. 155
Reposted by Kit Bauserman (ABD)King Algamemnon @adamrothman.bsky.social · 07/06/2026I recently published an article on an esoteric historical subject. It took me years. AI could not have researched and written it, and even if it could, relying on AI to do these things would have deprived me of the knowledge and joy I gained doing something I love to do and is worthwhile. 1357666
Reposted by Kit Bauserman (ABD)Matthew Cheney @melikhovo.bsky.social · 07/06/2026As an old weird queer, I support the New Queer Weird. And the old queer weird. And the queer weird. Weird and queer, queer and weird, all good. 1123
Reposted by Kit Bauserman (ABD)David Allsopp @doublehelix.bsky.social · 30/05/2026It needs to be stated over and over - this isn't just a matter of errors: The point is that LLM AI is literally incapable of reviewing or validating research data. It absolutely cannot do that job, at all, ever. But it is very good at generating something that looks like a convincing review. 10466155
Kit Bauserman (ABD) @kitbauserman.bsky.social · 06/06/2026Its the gap between breadth of knowledge and depth of knowledge. 000
Reposted by Kit Bauserman (ABD)Society for the Study of the American Gothic @ssag.bsky.social · 05/06/2026CFP: Theory and Practice in Horror Transmedia Fandom and Creation (IGI Scientific Publishing) (Ed.) Jason DeHart, University of Tennessee Knoxville, United States Proposals Submission Deadline: July 17, 2026 Full Chapters Due: October 30, 2026 Submission Date: October 30, 2026 112
Kit Bauserman (ABD) @kitbauserman.bsky.social · 05/06/2026Do a backpack, I went with a messenger bag for years and a backpack is just more comfortable, has more space, and does not hurt your shoulders. 030
Kit Bauserman (ABD) @kitbauserman.bsky.social · 01/06/2026Some photographs from my fieldwork in the Shenandoah Valley this month. 020
Reposted by Kit Bauserman (ABD)Society for the Study of the American Gothic @ssag.bsky.social · 26/05/2026LA Review of Books is looking for someone to review Alma Katsu's forthcoming incarnate. Contact Jeffrey Weinstock for more information. #BookReview #SSAG 053
Kit Bauserman (ABD) @kitbauserman.bsky.social · 20/05/2026Thanks! I feel like I've been writing non-stop since Thursday and I kind of just want to crash and forget about the world for a few days 010
Kit Bauserman (ABD) @kitbauserman.bsky.social · 20/05/2026Finally got the chapter drafted and submitted to my committee. 8400 words in 6 days has been a bit of a fever dream for me. 120
Kit Bauserman (ABD) @kitbauserman.bsky.social · 19/05/2026Got a good bit of writing in today. Was hoping to finish this chapter by June 1st, but looks like I might end up over a week ahead of schedule for this revision. 050