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Melissa McLeod

@melmac.bsky.social
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Teacher, researcher, writer on Victorian literature, culture, and politics; hot takes my own

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Melissa McLeod @melmac.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Crying laughing
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Melissa McLeod @melmac.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Sid & Nancy, A Room with a View, Hannah & her Sisters (fav when it came out and for many years thereafter; no longer watch Woody Allen films)
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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Gloria Steinem died with fewer rights than she had during her lifetime. That fact needs to be front and centre of every media report, every dedication, every discussion of her death.
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Melissa McLeod @melmac.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Cassandra Wilson, Star Jazz Singer, Dies at 70 www.nytimes.com/2026/09/02/a... Bad news scene continues
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Cassandra Wilson, Star Jazz Singer, Dies at 70
With a low and smoky voice, she conjured the blues tradition of her native Mississippi in both her own songs and in covers.
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Stone Cold Jane Austen @abbyhiggs.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
BREAKING: There’s been a massive recall of whatever it is you just put in your mouth
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Hey everybody. On the 25-year anniversary, we're reprinting the much revered 9/11 edition of The Onion and sending that free to every member this month. It's been 25 long years. Look back in anger.
The front page of The Onion's September edition from September 2001 featuring the headline "U.S. Vows to Defeat Whoever It Is We're At War With."
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Melissa McLeod @melmac.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Loving Dolly Was Easy. Understanding Her Was Hard. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/o... One of the most beautiful things I’ve read about an artist
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Opinion | Loving Dolly Parton Was Easy. Understanding Her Was Hard.
She didn’t see herself as a saint; she identified as something we needed even more: a writer.
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 25/08/2026
[Exit Queen.]
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I’m at the vigil for Jason Arday in London (Trafalgar). Very big turnout, easily thousands of us here
Thousands of people
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Melissa McLeod @melmac.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Deciding on the readings to include on a syllabus and just getting up and walking away in despair is like shopping for something you really want, seeing way too many choices and leaving the store
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Derek Long @dereklong08.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Come work with me! Two tenure-track faculty searches in the Department of Media & Cinema Studies @mediaatillinois.bsky.social: Media & Society: tinyurl.com/mreff8av Sports Media: tinyurl.com/2p337e7y
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Tenure-Track Assistant Professor, Media and Society
The Department of Media and Cinema Studies in the College of Media at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign invites applicants for a full-time (...
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Melissa McLeod @melmac.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Frank Brassiere
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Melissa McLeod @melmac.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
If you’re in the mood to laugh riotously and cry ugly in one afternoon, read George Eliot’s “Amos Barton”
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Melissa McLeod @melmac.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Tell me I’m old without telling me I’m old: “Your institutional memory makes you a valuable committee member.”
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Melissa McLeod @melmac.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
My English dept’s projected incoming freshman majors for this AY is up 127%! 11 to 25 isn’t overwhelming but still. CS down 177% maybe we’re capturing kids who really wanted to major in English all along and now AI has given them permission? Cautiously optimistic in GA
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Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
If you are a philosophy grad student or early career scholar and have been thinking of working in scholarly publishing, this role at the APA Blog would be a great way to get some experience on your resume philjobs.org/job/show/31609
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Series Editors for the APA Blog, American Philosophical Association - PhilJobs:JFP Series Editors for the APA Blog, American Philosophical Association
An international database of jobs for philosophers
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Melissa McLeod @melmac.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Interesting
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Matthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
I need something that talks about the Gothic's impact on readers' nerves/anxieties/bodies. Any suggestions?
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Heather Chacon @wickettred.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
What are some places online you all go to read things that are interesting but not super cerebral in a jargon way and avoid politics? Frivolity of an interesting kind is fine.
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Hannah Barker @historyhannahb.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Great job in modern British History @manchester.ac.uk - please share 🗃️
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Lecturer in Modern British History (post-1800):Oxford Road
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Melissa McLeod @melmac.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Hey Victorianists, you’re teaching a course on a single Victorian novelist. Which do you choose?
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Melissa McLeod @melmac.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Using gr*k to fact check Merriam-Webster is peak “wtf is wrong with you?”
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Melissa McLeod @melmac.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Huge difference between “AI” and genAI
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Caroline (Carrie) T. Schroeder @ctschroeder.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Jamelle Bouie and Rebecca Onion did a podcast series for Slate on the Reconstruction. Their episodes feature historians and supplementary reading lists of primary and secondary sources. Highly recommend slate.com/podcasts/rec...
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Reconstruction
A Slate Plus podcast that finds the seeds of our present politics in the period after the Civil War.
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Cindy Anh Nguyen @cindyanguyen.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
postdoctoral fellow in computational humanities and publishing: CMU cmu.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/CMU/job/Pitt...
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Postdoctoral Fellow in Computational Humanities and Publishing - CMU Libraries and CMU Press - UEIS
The Carnegie Mellon University Libraries and Carnegie Mellon University Press invite applications for a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Computational Humanities and Publishing. This is an exciting opportun...
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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
WANTED! Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics (Education) Education, Communication & Society King's College London Salary: £45,031 to £52,514 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRT413/l...
"The Embankment terrace entrance to the Strand Campus overlooking the River Thames, originally designed by Sir William Chambers, was completed by Sir Robert Smirke in 1835"
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Matthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Please consider applying for this fabulous opportunity
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Melissa McLeod @melmac.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Who gives classroom lectures/conference talks without using slide desks?
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Melissa McLeod @melmac.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
JHC
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Melissa McLeod @melmac.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Dear— Thank you for your email. I will be out of the office until [date]. I will have perfectly good WiFi and cell service, but I will not respond to your email because I don’t want to. All best, Melissa
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Melissa McLeod @melmac.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Hilarious. I believe they genuinely thought there was tremendous pent up demand
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Melissa McLeod @melmac.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Perfect PSA
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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
We’re appointing a writer-in-residence! Join us to respond to our holdings related to the Bloomsbury Group (including the archives of Leonard and Virginia Woolf’s Hogarth Press) ahead of a major exhibition in 2027. Applications close 19 May. Best of luck! collections.reading.ac.uk/news-and-vie...
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Call for Applications: Writer in Residence - Blooming Bloomsbury and the Modernist Archives Publishing Project -Creativity and Community Co-Curation (2026)  | Museums and Collections
The selected writer will spend the summer months (June—September 2026) drawing inspiration from MAPP to develop new creative work. From September to December, they will build on this...
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Melissa McLeod @melmac.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Remember course packets?
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Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies at York @cecs-york.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
We’re very pleased to share news of this research fellowship position, working with our wonderful CECS / English Literature colleague Prof Mary Fairclough @maryfairclough.bsky.social on the collected works of Mary Wollstonecraft: 🔗 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRL782/r...
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Research Fellowship: The Collected Works of Mary Wollstonecraft at University of York
Explore an exciting academic career as a Research Fellowship: The Collected Works of Mary Wollstonecraft. Don't miss out on other academic jobs. Click to apply and explore more opportunities.
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Melissa McLeod @melmac.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
What I tell myself after 4 years working on this stupid Bleak House article “As Katharine Hepburn used to say: ‘I'd rather fail at something difficult than succeed at something that comes too easily.’”
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Natalia Cecire @ncecire.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
12-month fixed-term post in pre-1800 literature and creative writing at Sussex: jobs.sussex.ac.uk/job/dbd70010...
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Assistant Professor in English and Creative Writing Ref: 43481 (Fixed Term) - Job page - University of Sussex Job Search
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Angela Potochnik @apotochnik.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
We're hiring a postdoc with research interests in AI explainability, ethics, and trustworthiness who is also interested in public engagement with AI and AI ethics. The postdoc will work with the UC Center for Humanities and Technology (CHaT)... #philsky #philsci
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Postdoctoral Fellow in AI Ethics, College of Arts and Sciences
Postdoctoral Fellow in AI Ethics, College of Arts and Sciences
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Russ Poldrack @russpoldrack.org · 27/04/2026
Our lab (w/ @patrickgbissett) is hiring a full-time research coordinator to work with us on cognitive control, dense fMRI, computational modeling, and human-AI interaction. Designed for post-bacs looking to start a Ph. D in ~2 years. Please repost. phxc1b.rfer.us/STANFORDNLbWAG
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Social Science Research Coordinator (Hybrid Opportunity) in School of Humanities and Sciences, Stanford, California, United States
Professor Russ Poldrack’s lab is seeking a new full-time Research Coordinator. The RC will work closely with and report directly to Dr. Patrick...
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Melissa McLeod @melmac.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Uh oh
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Melissa McLeod @melmac.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
2+2=5
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Ruth Ahnert @ruthahnert.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
JOB: Machine Learning Engineer at Cambridge Digital Humanities for interesting (fixed term) project with CAMPOP www.cdh.cam.ac.uk/about/news/n...
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Now Hiring: Machine Learning Engineer - CDH
Cambridge Digital Humanities seeks to appoint a Machine Learning Engineer on a fixed term basis to support an applied computer vision and machine learning project with CAMPOP (Cambridge Group for the ...
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Melissa McLeod @melmac.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Sitting in the hair salon listening to several conversations about aging parents
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Melissa McLeod @melmac.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Tell me you’re hungry without telling me you’re hungry
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Melissa McLeod @melmac.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Switchboard operators? Joking, right?
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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
“Applications are invited from well-qualified candidates with expertise in literature in English of the long eighteenth century (1660–1830).”
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Melissa McLeod @melmac.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
We’re ready for the ice storm in Georgia y’all
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Sahan Journal @sahanjournal.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty and Attorney General Keith Ellison are asking for the public to share evidence in the fatal ICE shooting of Renee Nicole Good. Written by Katrina Pross
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Moriarty, Ellison ask for public’s help sharing evidence in ICE shooting
Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty and Attorney General Keith Ellison are asking for the public to share evidence in the fatal ICE shooting of Renee Nicole Good.
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Melissa McLeod @melmac.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
“We had whistles. They had guns.”
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