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Rachel Teukolsky

@rachelteukolsky.bsky.social
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Scholar of the 19th c & other things. English prof at Vanderbilt U Author of _Picture World_ (Oxford UP 2020) and also _Writing on Fire_ (Broadview P 2024) www.rachelteukolsky.net

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 11/02/2026
Ireland: a proper country.
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Ireland announces scheme to provide basic income for artists
The Basic Income for Artists (BIA) project is believed to be the first permanent one of its kind in the world.
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Dr. Antje Gamble @drantjegamble.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Amazing thread for #Caturday
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Orlaith Darling @darlingorlaith.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Send in your abstracts for the Sadness + Gender conference we're holding in June 2026! We have some fantastic keynote speakers and specialist panels lined up and would love to see you all in Dublin! #cfp @ucdhumanities.bsky.social @ucddublin.bsky.social @molimuseum.bsky.social
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Rachel Teukolsky @rachelteukolsky.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
It turns out that the publisher of 'Writing on Fire' is also a specialist in Victorian literature! I had fun meeting Don this past weekend at the NAVSA conference.
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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
You can only pick one. I’m sorry. Jane Austen or Mary Shelley
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
While the top 1% control $54 TRILLION (not a typo)
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◥◤Kriston Capps 250 @kristoncapps.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Conservative-leaning tech investors are racing to build a new American colossus, and they want something much, much bigger than the Statue of Liberty. Meet the new monuments men of the tech right and their plans for statue-maxing: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
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America’s Tech Right Is Obsessed With Building Giant Statues
With proposals for a 450-foot statue of Prometheus on Alcatraz and a 650-foot George Washington, MAGA adherents are racing to build America’s largest statue.
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Luca Migo @victinibcn.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Nashville Tennessee: #NoKings awesome attendance especially for a red state!
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Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
I thought I'd put the administration's proposed "compact" with universities in context, so I wrote the blog post below. It's especially for journalists covering this story! Many details about how the compact itself works and why the administration has retreated to this strategy.
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Balkinization: The Art of Replacing the Law with the Deal
A group blog on constitutional law, theory, and politics
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Susan Zieger @susanzieger.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Please join me for the online launch of my book Logistics and Power: Supply Chains from Slavery to Space, next Tuesday, Sept. 30 at 2 p.m. PST. Join Brett Neilson, Paul Apostolidis, and Jaime Acosta Gonzalez for discussion and q&a introduced by Dylan Rodriguez (UCR). Register at bit.ly/ZiegerBook.
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Christina Proenza-Coles @proenzacoles.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Barzillai Lew (b. 1743) served with distinction during the American Revolutionary War. He purchased the freedom of his future wife, Dinah Bowman, for $400 in 1767. The 1790 census lists him as head in a household of 14 free people of color. Their house became a stop on the Underground Railroad.
Oil on canvas portrait of a young man in 18th century clothing once identified as Barzillai Lew. Now the National Portrait Gallery lists both the sitter and the artist as "unknown."
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Dr. Katie Sagal @aksagal.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Hello #academicsky! I'm sharing a cfp for an edited collection on "Naming & Classifying," pulled together by me, Kristin Girten, & @aaronrhanlon.com . We'd love to see your work! Please also circulate to anyone you think might be interested. Deadline 10/31. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Naming and Classifying cfp final
CFP: Naming and Classifying in the Long Eighteenth Century Whereas “the nineteenth century can be seen as the century of counting and measuring,” the eighteenth century can be seen as the century of ...
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 06/09/2025
"The Department of History invites applications for an assistant professor who will make enough leftist remarks to annoy conservative talk radio hosts but whose politics will ultimately support the neoliberal mission of the university."
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Honest Academic Job Postings
English department seeks a tenure-track assistant professor specializing in Shakespeare, Romanticism, Victorianism, modernism, post-modernism, post...
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Stephen Guy-Bray @stephengb.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Hello everyone. Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax has a tenure-track job in Enlightenment rhetoric and / or 18th-century literature. Tell everyone. www.msvu.ca/about-msvu/c...
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Full-time Academic positions
Inspired by a strong tradition of social responsibility and an enduring commitment to the advancement of women, Mount Saint Vincent University promotes academic excellence and the pursuit of knowledge...
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Rachel Teukolsky @rachelteukolsky.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
I’m excited for this research day on the syllabus I’m working on: “Research I. Browsing, Skimming, Learning, Honing. Taking notes. Going down Rabbit Holes. Following the Clues. Going Deep & Taking Shortcuts. What Research and Poems Have in Common.”
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Amy Sherman @andcleverness.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
#PublishingJob Acquisitions Editor University of Tennessee Press Knoxville, TN salary band: $50K-$90K 👇
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Acquisitions Editor | Libraries
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Matthew Boedy @matthewboedy.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
The 2025 @aaup.org Faculty in the South Survey is live. If you are a professor in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, or Texas it's for you. Ends 8/29 at 5pm Eastern forms.gle/v7T3BH2w9LXs...
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2025 AAUP Faculty in the South Survey
The Georgia conference of the American Association of University Professors [AAUP] and its partners in states across the South have been at the forefront of fighting attacks on higher education. To as...
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Josh Johnson @joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
When you strip away humanity
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
On the left is a post today from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. On the right is literal Nazi propaganda from the 1930s.
@DHSgov on X: Remember your Homeland’s Heritage.

New Life in a New Land - Morgan Weistling

[Painting of a family]Nazi propaganda: "The Nazi Party secures the national community"

[Painting of a German family]
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Dr. Carly Maris @vintagehistorian.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
“I asked Chat GPT” “I asked Grok” Ok well I asked Sappho and she said ……. ……. ..[b]osom
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Susan Zieger @susanzieger.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
My book LOGISTICS AND POWER will be out on September 9 from University of California Press, and is available for pre-order now! www.ucpress.edu/books/logist...
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Logistics and Power by Susan Zieger - Hardcover
Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.
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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
If there is one lesson to draw from the history of fascism in the interwar period in Europe, it is this: Democracy falls if and when mainstream conservatives and centrist/center-right elites decide to make common cause with extremists because they consider the “radical Left” the more acute threat.
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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
*Action without Hope: Victorian Literature after Climate Collapse* is out today! The official release got pushed back due to an issue w the art, & despite being mostly about literature it's very visual. So to celebrate its full entry into the world, a thread of some of my favorite images from it:
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Action without Hope
A study of how writers from the early phases of our prolonged climate emergency used aesthetic strategies to redefine the category of action. What does it feel like to live helplessly in a world that ...
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 04/06/2025
It's the one year book-iversary of Holding It Together, and I think its message is more urgent than ever. Because the book is about how the US came to rely on women as its safety net. But that story is fundamentally a story of what happens when billionaires don't want to pay their fair share. 1/
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Phenomenal thread:
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MNG - University Presses @mngupbooks.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
As the first collection to bring together Hall’s work on the visual, this volume assembles Hall’s essays, lectures, reviews, catalog texts, and conversations on art, film, and photography. 📚30% off #ArtHistory titles: buff.ly/JAsjrEz @dukepress.bsky.social @forarthistory.org.uk #ForArtHistory2025
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Thomas Smits @thomassmits.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
🚀📈 Making Victorian visual culture searchable: Introducing an open-access and AI-powered dataset of 72,000 illustrations from the Illustrated London News (1842-1890). (w. Bethany Warner, @pfyfe.bsky.social and @bcgl.bsky.social) openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/articles/10....
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A Fully-Searchable Multimodal Dataset of the Illustrated London News, 1842–1890 | Journal of Open Humanities Data
The Journal of Open Humanities Data (JOHD) aims to be a key part of a thriving community of scholars sharing humanities data. The journal features peer reviewed publications describing humanities rese...
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Henry Rothwell @henryrothwell.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
'Bright Coast, Long Shadows', Bryan Angus, linocut. bryanangusart.com
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 13/01/2025
‘Ben Affleck evacuated his home in Pacific Palisades on Wednesday but so did the retirees, surfers and young families living in Palisades Bowl, a mobile home community, where units cost $1200 a month.’ Anahid Nersessian writes from LA, on the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ja...
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Anahid Nersessian | Under the Santa Anas
In last November’s election, a majority of California voters declined to outlaw forced labour among incarcerated...
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Julie Johnstone @essencepress.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
a recent new work: words perhaps fitting for midwinter, words that recur for me when working held thought connect turn shadow enfold still flow reveal unfold touch leaf thread surprise light hold space play shelter pause hide quiet stream glimpse enclose between air gather open breath fold close
sewn double-sided concertina book form, containing the words listed in the post, four different images
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 20/12/2024
Me, googling: ah yes, purchased by private equity.
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Rachel Teukolsky @rachelteukolsky.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Agree! (Also--'Writing on Fire' appears in the archive for its chapter on close reading! Grateful to Scott Newstok for including it!)
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Roses are redde Noble are the manatees Yf we wante a bettir future Teach artes & humanityes
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Cominsitu @cominsitu.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Mein Gott this cover goes hard!
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Debra Rae Cohen @debraraecohen.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
I'm happy to say that the special issue of Modern Fiction Studies that Catherine Keyser and I edited is now out! The theme is Women Thinking in Public (which feels even more important now than it did when we put the issue together). Hooray for feminist collaboration!
Journal cover: photo shows a woman leaning against a wall reading a newspaper.
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Rachel Teukolsky @rachelteukolsky.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Where do I find the soothing cute cat content on here?
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Rachel Teukolsky @rachelteukolsky.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
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Rachel Teukolsky @rachelteukolsky.bsky.social · 26/10/2024
My textbook is finally available! 'Writing on Fire: A Fierce Yet Friendly Guide to Writing Humanities Essays in College.' There are chapters on close reading, thesis statements, all the good stuff. If you teach writing via a humanities subject, check it out! broadviewpress.com/product/writ...
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Writing on Fire - Broadview Press
Writing on Fire -
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Rachel Teukolsky @rachelteukolsky.bsky.social · 21/06/2024
Do you have an answer ready when someone asks 'What's your favorite book?' (often seems to happen when I mention I'm an English prof) At this point I'm finding myself overwhelmed by the question--how to sum it all up in a single choice??
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Rachel Teukolsky @rachelteukolsky.bsky.social · 15/06/2024
Testing out this platform! Here's a link to an article that came out earlier this year--in which I consider why the Apollo Belvedere sculpture, a hunk of marble, came to symbolize European race; and how Walter Pater played a part. "White Desire: Pater and Race" cdn.vanderbilt.edu/vu-cas/wp-co...
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Rachel Teukolsky @rachelteukolsky.bsky.social · 08/06/2024
Finally getting around to setting up a Bluesky account, in my usual 'late adopter' mode . . . curious to see how it's different from twitter/X
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