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Mikhaila Redovian @mikredovian.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Just sent the rough draft of my last diss chapter to my advisor. Still tons of work to do, but this has been herculean (very tight timeline), and I think I need a margarita!

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Mikhaila Redovian @mikredovian.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

This last year I've been working on an interview project asking marine scientists about the places that they study. I thought this project would center on science and place but what emerged is a complex portrait of a discipline responding climate and social change. Read more below! lnkd.in/gzvgpfN4

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Mikhaila Redovian @mikredovian.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Love the person at the IU bookstore who signed off on the “Indiana beat everybody!” t-thirt. I didn’t even go there and I want one!

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Mikhaila Redovian @mikredovian.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Anti-caffeine was in with some colleagues a few years ago and it’s just. Why would I give up the most pleasurable small thing in my morning..? But this is why. Same whole 30 denialism-as-control.

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Mikhaila Redovian @mikredovian.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Dissertation chapter ain’t writing itself! Trying to keep chugging with small progress 💪

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Rob Townsend @rbtownsend.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

"While other universities report that the humanities are shrinking, at Berkeley, the opposite is true. The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring" bit.ly/4ohKuOe

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"The humanities really are a resource — a confidence for living in our times.” Dean Sara Guyer on the modern utility of humanities degrees

This interview originally appeared on the Division of Arts

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Mikhaila Redovian @mikredovian.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

I had an English professor who taught our class that all writing is political. Signed up for that second major in English the next semester.

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Mikhaila Redovian @mikredovian.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

I unironically dream of my car being part of one of these campaigns

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Mikhaila Redovian @mikredovian.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

See also: the student who asked me "what was your experience living through first wave feminism" when I am ~10 years older than said students.

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Mikhaila Redovian @mikredovian.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Maybe instead of unyoking sciences and the humanities these folks should join a union.

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Mikhaila Redovian @mikredovian.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Let me tell you about how often I've explained my English Ph.D. project while wearing my alumni Geology hat in the ~5 days I've been wearing it.

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Mikhaila Redovian @mikredovian.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Zotero lost all of my notes on a very important text I've been working through, on this, the first real day of Daylight Savings Time. Feels like a sign to just pack it in and go back to bed.

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Mikhaila Redovian @mikredovian.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

I agree, but will probably not be asking this question quietly.

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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

huge congrats to all the reasonable & evenhanded university presidents who set new records for advance compliance on this, since nobody even had to ask before they all lined up to make dissent into a crime

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Mikhaila Redovian @mikredovian.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Yay! my favorite Ph.D. sidequest so far (which I also consider one of the more important, designing a cosmopolitan exhibit about the Early Modern era with our library) won an award! Everything is on fire, etc. etc., but this has been a joy! library.ucdavis.edu/graduate-stu...

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Grad Prize Winners – UC Davis Library

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Mikhaila Redovian @mikredovian.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Spouse is reading Paradise Lost for the first time, so I spent last night on the couch listening to him "Oooo" after all of the best parts of Book I (spoiler alert, that's basically all of Book I). Have I reached peak English Academic??

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Mikhaila Redovian @mikredovian.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Our department is reorganizing our library space and as a result, I have brought home a host of Austen novels and thus no longer have any excuse to have not read them. Will I turn into a Victorianist? Check back for updates!

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Mikhaila Redovian @mikredovian.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Why is rereading your own writing so cringey? It's almost as bad as hearing your voice recorded 😬

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Mikhaila Redovian @mikredovian.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Don't worry guys, getting so much "Do not obey in advance" practice fighting my own institution for funding. There's gonna be so much "do no obey in advance-ing" around here

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 21/11/2024

"If a woman doesn't look woman enough to a Republican, they want to be able to inspect your genitals to use a bathroom? It's disgusting. Everyone should reject it completely... they're endangering women, they're endangering girls of all kind, and everyone should reject it. It's gross." - AOC

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Mikhaila Redovian @mikredovian.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

All happy essays are alike; each unhappy essay is unhappy in its own way

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Mikhaila Redovian @mikredovian.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

I go through all the eyeball stabbing of writing and then you tell me there's something WORSE on the other side?! What is this "revising"!?!?!

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Mikhaila Redovian @mikredovian.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Oh wow, being called out on a Monday with "Nobody is Talking about Form" and "Nobody Talks About Form Anymore"

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Mikhaila Redovian @mikredovian.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

It's always fun to talk about MEMS here at UC Davis, and it was especially exciting to contribute some thoughts to the L&S magazine about our collaboration with Shields Library Archives and Special Collections in the spring. Archives are a dream! lettersandsciencemag.ucdavis.edu/arts-humanit...

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Globalizing the Middle and Early Modern Ages

Scholars in the Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) program are working to dispel the caricatures of this era by de-centering European history from the discourse and showing how, in fact, much of...

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Mikhaila Redovian @mikredovian.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Ahh yes, my favorite part of writing where I am so sick of thinking about it that I can cut through distractions basically through spite!

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Mikhaila Redovian @mikredovian.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

Horrible news discovering that not spending the first and last 30 mins of my day on my phone actually does notably improve my life

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Mikhaila Redovian @mikredovian.bsky.social · 29/10/2024

Rat Girl Summer gives way to Rat Girl Fall

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Mikhaila Redovian @mikredovian.bsky.social · 23/10/2024

I have a joke about Achilles, but it makes him look like a real heel

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Mikhaila Redovian @mikredovian.bsky.social · 09/02/2024

Haunting reminder of my most challenging undergrad seminar, "Johnson (Samuel) and his Circle," where nobody said a WORD all semester except me and one other gal. Pour on out for the prof who put up with us!

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Mikhaila Redovian @mikredovian.bsky.social · 01/12/2023

I'm (not so) secretly obsessed with @weratedogs.bsky.social and am surprised to be SO IN MY FEELS about their late CEO Doug. They're all good dogs Brent.

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Mikhaila Redovian @mikredovian.bsky.social · 30/11/2023

Now that the paperwork is filed, do I just breathe into a paper bag for the next month or...?

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Mikhaila Redovian @mikredovian.bsky.social · 30/11/2023

My trusty teal sweatshirt bought from a Zumiez circa 2009, which I STILL wear, which I STILL consider to be my favorite like 👀

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Mikhaila Redovian @mikredovian.bsky.social · 29/11/2023

Sending off my prospectus like: Is this a good project, circle one Yes No

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Mikhaila Redovian @mikredovian.bsky.social · 06/11/2023

I hate to inform you that upgrading my computer has in fact made writing more pleasurable.

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Mikhaila Redovian @mikredovian.bsky.social · 15/10/2023

Absolutely bonkers that somehow the start of the academic term where I have active weekly writing deadlines is somehow less stressful than my summer. Spring me made some big mistakes, is all I'm saying 😂

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Mikhaila Redovian @mikredovian.bsky.social · 27/09/2023

It is FALL, I am WRITING, there will be PIE LATER, how do I bottle this for the whole quarter?!

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Mikhaila Redovian @mikredovian.bsky.social · 24/09/2023

Getting used to a lackluster fall has been the hardest part of living in CA, so it's refreshing that when I need the boost for this coming academic term we're getting absolutely 11/10 fall weather 🍁

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