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Kirstyn Leuner @kleuner.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Here we are: cold, curious, excited. Four hours with the actors went by like [snap]. Life changing. Thank you Maura Tarnoff for organizing, and Lesley Currier for the programming. And to the actors, 💜.

21 of us, mix of students and faculty, at the San Quentin gate (gray skies, also very cold!)

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Kirstyn Leuner @kleuner.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Scene: dinner, last night Husband: what are you doing tomorrow? Riding? Working? Me: getting on a bus at 6:30am to go to San Quentin for their Shakespeare program workshop. Husband: awesome!

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Kirstyn Leuner @kleuner.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Me last night: I will be on my bike at 6am, workout done by 8am, ahead of the day. Me at 6:24: sweats, tea, cat, email, failing so hard

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Kirstyn Leuner @kleuner.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

You and Lisa are both so generous, brilliant, and resilient. We've been writing together through A LOT.

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Kirstyn Leuner @kleuner.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Yesterday my first-year college students in my writing course reminded me that they were in middle school during the pandemic. That made it feel like forever ago to me, but we still had that shared memory of trying to learn/work stuck at home for so long.

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Kirstyn Leuner @kleuner.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

First class of fall term: just print it, and go outside. The room alarm beeped all class (will be fixed), and the room's computer projector didn't project. We still had a great class thinking about thinking and thinking about writing. IT is coming to our rescue ... #teaching #paper #justprintit

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pam lach @plach.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Sending love to all my colleagues submitting reappointment, tenure, or promotion files today. And sending love to everyone out there who's done it recently or will be submitting soon. It's a lot of work to package up all of your work, especially while the world crumbles around us.

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BOO! k HistoriAAAH 🎃 @book-historia.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Sometimes at the end of a long day you need to carve out some time to hang out with tiny books

Allie’s hand holding a book in red Morocco, roughly the size of an iPhone +

Allie’s hand holding a small book with a gilt tooled spine, roughly the size of an old iPhone

Allie’s hand holding a tiny little worn out chonky book, roughly the size of an Oreo (if Oreos were square)

Allie’s hand holding the chonky tiny book open to the first page

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Kirsten Read @kreadlab.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

spreading the word that my dept ☀️🌴 is looking to hire a TT faculty with *undergraduate* teaching and research mentoring enthusiasm in Clincal / Counseling / Community Psyc ❤️ if you / a colleague / or a PhD student is looking 👀 ... consider applying: wd1.myworkdaysite.com/en-US/recrui...

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Clinical Psychology Assistant Professor for the Department of Psychology

Position Type: Clinical Psychology Assistant Professor for the Department of Psychology Position Type: Regular Salary Range: The salary range for this position is $85,947 to $95,410, depending on the ...

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Kirstyn Leuner @kleuner.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

I don't want to ditch students' chance to experience the writing process with all its creativity, for an exam.

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Kirstyn Leuner @kleuner.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

We start classes Monday. I'm finalizing syllabi. Having trouble assigning argumentative research essays with - I hate to say it - the same level of implicit trust in students as before AI stole the writing process. How are we handling this?

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

For those not following the drama earlier, it's for sharing this piece advocating for nonviolence (but not being judgy about how targeted people respond either). And saying some things about governmental/ institutional violence.

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Some Notes on the City of Angels and the Nature of Violence

I think maybe it's begun, the bigger fiercer backlash against the Trump Administration which is itself a violent backlash against every good thing that's happened over the past several decades – the a...

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Kirstyn Leuner @kleuner.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

sweet fancy moses, thank you. this is good beta @rscar.bsky.social I've never used this plugin. In return for this life-changing info, I offer you a Whitney Houston music video. <3 www.youtube.com/watch?v=eH3g...

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Whitney Houston - I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Official 4K Video)

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Kirstyn Leuner @kleuner.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Dear #AI #people, let me be clear for all of us out here. We want to copy our essay written in one citational style and paste it into a #genai window, and say "convert this essay in MLA 9th style to Chicago 17th" and hit enter. Is that too much to ask? #pleaseandthankyou #theleastyoucandoforus

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Kirstyn Leuner @kleuner.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

btw: I'm down to needing to delete only 30 more words!

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Kirstyn Leuner @kleuner.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

imagine how amazing that would be tho.

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Kirstyn Leuner @kleuner.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

what I really want to use AI for is to turn this essay that is in MLA 9th edition into Chicago. Anyone done this and not hated themselves for the mess it made?

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Kirstyn Leuner @kleuner.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

At one point I really wanted to write my diss or a book on this and it got put on hold. Was just musing about this with @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social after the Book Lab symposium. A great topic for an edited collection. Early DH and Romanticism.

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Kirstyn Leuner @kleuner.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

peonies make everything, even the most terrible of things, a little bit better. They are my chosen flower - especially the ones that are just learning to open up. :)

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Kirstyn Leuner @kleuner.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

keeping it real: I've had an article and a grant proposal rejected in under 7 days, both co-authored with colleagues at SCU. Ouch. Next week is now about turning at least one of those puppies around to send it back out.

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Kirstyn Leuner @kleuner.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

My feelings exactly! Let's definitely find a way to collaborate in zine-land or otherwise, and hopefully it won't be 10 more years (or more) before we are in the same room again! :)

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Kirstyn Leuner @kleuner.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

@michaellasley.bsky.social I'm going to do a CAFE on some things that hatched from the symposium :) stay tuned ...

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Kirstyn Leuner @kleuner.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Some would say week 8 + behind on grading = the worst time for travel to a symposium. Actually it was the best time for the intellectual haven of #buildingbooklabs @skeuomorphpress.org. Pics of last day zine charter workshop @literaturegeek.bsky.social; + me, happy. #letterpress #bookarts #printing

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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 22/05/2025

Sitting with a post #BuildingBookLabs25 buzz—in such a dark year, it was pure joy to learn in community with incredible book historians, artists, printers, & makers I’m grateful to library technical specialist & photographer extraordinaire JP Goguen, who took gorgeous pictures of our time together

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20250520_booklabsymposium

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Kirstyn Leuner @kleuner.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

"Building Book Labs" symposium hosted by @skeuomorphpress.org (not done yet!) has been nonstop relationship building + note-taking, how to make book arts more integrated at SCU, scholarship collab ideas, teaching ideas for modules + courses, workshops, and open-houses. #bookarts #printing #binding

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Kirstyn Leuner @kleuner.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

ooo. interesting idea. I'm also looking at JHE. I realized I can rattle off the names of my discipline and subdiscipline journals way better than I can more broad higher ed and humanities pubs.

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Kirstyn Leuner @kleuner.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Question: I have a co-authored article (4-5k words) on academic freedom that was previously aimed for Profession, but it is not accepting submissions right now. Suggestions on where else to send it that is peer-reviewed?

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Kirstyn Leuner @kleuner.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

"Having overheated myself with dancing, I was obliged to be let blood; this, however, did not prevent me from keeping my engagement to dance ... the following evening." -ES Gooch, 1792. Will bleed to dance.

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Kirstyn Leuner @kleuner.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

I'll start by sharing that I've been writing a ton lately, and I'm really loving the Focus Keeper App on my phone. I am trying Pro version for a week and will let you know what I think.

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Kirstyn Leuner @kleuner.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Hello bluesky peeps - I'm trying again to get it together and engage here regularly, since the loss of twitter and increased ick factor of FB. I miss the conversation and don't want to fall too far out of the loop.

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Kirstyn Leuner @kleuner.bsky.social · 10/10/2023

phrase I just said to myself: there's probably the death of an author in my office. ... time to go home.

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Kirstyn Leuner @kleuner.bsky.social · 06/10/2023

I don't have to be good at matching faces-to-names in conversation to be a good teacher. I just have to try, and I do. #idieonthishill

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Kirstyn Leuner @kleuner.bsky.social · 05/10/2023

Somehow I have a 2-inch wide horizontal slice at the top of my forehead that is healing awkwardly. Chances are equal it was a cat at night or my mountain bike helmet when I crashed on Sunday (I'm fine). If it were a couple weeks later I'd just enhance it for Halloween effects.

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Kirstyn Leuner @kleuner.bsky.social · 03/10/2023

My training in teaching (20 yrs ago) consisted mostly of ways to run discussions on literature and make writing assignments. Now, I give more mini lectures w/slides and organized related activities, bc I am concerned that students can otherwise miss the technical + historical details that matter.

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Kirstyn Leuner @kleuner.bsky.social · 03/10/2023

I always think of Fall term as exciting, full of energy, not burned-out-yet, but in reality the first 3 weeks of the term are always so bananas and full of deadlines that all the adrenaline erases the memory of how hard they actually are.

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Kirstyn Leuner @kleuner.bsky.social · 03/10/2023

I miss summer and being less bonkers. Yesterday I submitted a grant proposal + wrote sabbatical proposal + met with 5 students. Climbed from 6-8am, done with work by 7pm to make pizza w/ spouse. Today I'm prepping 2 classes, teaching 2 classes, plus meetings in between. Biking to/from for workout.

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Kirstyn Leuner @kleuner.bsky.social · 30/09/2023

at 5:20pm yesterday, in the last 10 minutes of my literary theory course, we were wrapping up reader response when a spider (small, white) dropped from the ceiling on a line, as if on some gravity ride, and stopped directly in front of me. I froze mid-sentence. Student rescued both me and spider.

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Kirstyn Leuner @kleuner.bsky.social · 30/09/2023

grant proposal submitted. 1 down, 1 to go, and that sabbatical proposal goes out on Monday, too.

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Kirstyn Leuner @kleuner.bsky.social · 27/09/2023

writing goals done for the day! heading out of my bike ride, then back to do all the service and teaching things I can fit in before giving up. This week and next week are completely bananas.

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Kirstyn Leuner @kleuner.bsky.social · 27/09/2023

darling ghosts ftw. All the dead words still count.

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Kirstyn Leuner @kleuner.bsky.social · 27/09/2023

You did it! We did it! We survived! For me, it all goes back to your mohawk hairdo and the leopard print dress at MLA forever ago. I hope you are still celebrating.

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Kirstyn Leuner @kleuner.bsky.social · 27/09/2023

follow-up question: are these tweets over here? Or blues? clouds? airplanes? skywriting?

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Kirstyn Leuner @kleuner.bsky.social · 27/09/2023

The demise of twitter made me a shitty/rare tweeter. But I'm here trying to stay connected! Today is a writing/service day, so I'm playing word-count with my grant proposal. Revise, delete, add, delete. Trying to remain hopeful the time revising will mean I get $.

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Kirstyn Leuner @kleuner.bsky.social · 22/09/2023

Have always wondered: Why is the menu of special characters in Word so tiny?

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Kirstyn Leuner @kleuner.bsky.social · 15/09/2023

Spread the word, friends: Santa Clara University English is hiring a TT Assistant Prof of Postcolonial Literatures and Cultures. Come work with us, we're excited about this position. Details here, I'm happy to answer any questions that I can wd1.myworkdaysite.com/en-US/recrui...

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Tenure-track Assistant Professor of Postcolonial Literatures and Cultures

Position Type: Tenure-track Assistant Professor of Postcolonial Literatures and Cultures Position Type: Regular Salary Range: Salary Range: The salary range is $80,549 - $89,526 and offers within that...

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Kirstyn Leuner @kleuner.bsky.social · 15/09/2023

Hello and thanks! Great to hear from you :)

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Kirstyn Leuner @kleuner.bsky.social · 15/09/2023

My brain immediately goes to Walter Benjamin's flaneur and the Arcades Project ... you'd have to be willing to be expansive in what a text is. But you could circle back to Woolf and Street Haunting, I think!

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