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Shannon Draucker

@sdraucker.bsky.social
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Associate Prof., English & Gender/Sexuality Studies @ Siena U. Clarinetist. Author of Sounding Bodies: Acoustical Science and Musical Erotics in Victorian Literature (SUNY Press, 2024). All views my own.

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Shannon Draucker @sdraucker.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
A real thrill to see my book for sale at the @metmuseum.org ! Go see the fantastic Musical Bodies exhibit, on view through 9/27! @sunypress.bsky.social
Woman in a black outfit holding a book in the Met museum
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Public Books @publicbooks.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
“Classical music is having a moment in popular culture.” New at PB: From Tar to Maestro to headline-making “orgasm” at a 2023 LA Philharmonic concert, @sdraucker.bsky.social explores the ways other art forms are taking classical music as their subject.
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Can Literary Fiction Save Classical Music? - Public Books
Classical music’s most troubling traditions include erasing Black performers, abusing and harassing in conservatories, and refusing to acknowledge physical injuries.
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Public Books @publicbooks.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
New at PB: @sdraucker.bsky.social reviews 6 books that look at “the ways in which the classical music world extracts and exploits performers’ bodily labor, presenting—often in agonizing detail—the physical pain that music making requires.”
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Can Literary Fiction Save Classical Music? - Public Books
Classical music’s most troubling traditions include erasing Black performers, abusing and harassing in conservatories, and refusing to acknowledge physical injuries.
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Public Books @publicbooks.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
“Writing about the ‘most conservative’ performing art, these novelists present especially nuanced critiques of racial exclusion, gendered violence, sexual abuse, and labor exploitation.” New at PB: The classical music novel, from @sdraucker.bsky.social.
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Can Literary Fiction Save Classical Music? - Public Books
Classical music’s most troubling traditions include erasing Black performers, abusing and harassing in conservatories, and refusing to acknowledge physical injuries.
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NAVSA 2025 @navsa2025.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
"Teaching Victorian Literature in the Aftermaths" promises to be a timely exchange on emerging pedagogical thought by Shannon Drauker, Kimberly Cox, and Abigail Droge #NAVSA2025
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Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada @vsawc.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
The forum on reproductive and sexual justice features essays by Livia Woods, Ashley Miller, @drrd.bsky.social, Erin Spampinato, @sdraucker.bsky.social, Dara Rossman Regaignon, @dustinfriedman.bsky.social, Riley McGuire, Simon Joyce, @alexisdoeslit.bsky.social, and Jill R. Ehnenn
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Shannon Draucker @sdraucker.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
It was an honor to write about @cjdenial.bsky.social ‘s amazing book, A Pedagogy of Kindness!
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Shannon Draucker @sdraucker.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
It was an honor to interview violinist and mystery author Brendan Slocumb about his new book, The Dark Maestro! van-magazine.com/mag/brendan-...
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Learning Culture
Brendan Slocumb on combatting racism through classical music fiction, and his new. book, The Dark Maestro.
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Hannah Alpert-Abrams @halperta.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
I spent the last five years serving public history, arts, and culture at NEH. Please take a moment to let your representatives know you support NEH. Or read on and I can tell you a little bit about why I believe in public funding for the humanities.
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National Humanities Alliance @humanitiesall.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
On Monday, March 31, 2025 we learned that DOGE is targeting the NEH with the aim of substantially reducing its staff, cutting the agency’s grant programs, and rescinding grants that have already been awarded. Learn what steps you can take here: nhalliance.org/federal-fund...
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Save the NEH! – National Humanities Alliance
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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Fun fact: the MLA discount code is good through Feb 12th. 30% off all the books via the link, including preorders on paperbacks. Shop shop shop!
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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Ahh the ever fabulous @sdraucker.bsky.social with her ever fabulous book 🤩
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Shannon Draucker @sdraucker.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
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Shannon Draucker @sdraucker.bsky.social · 15/01/2024
Thrilled to share that my book, Sounding Bodies: Acoustical Science and Musical Erotics in Victorian Literature, is forthcoming from @SUNYPress this summer! sunypress.edu/Books/S/Soun...
[Cover painting by Thomas Wilmer Dewing— A Musician, 1877. Image description: a half-naked white woman with brown hair sits on a chair with her eyes closed and a violin across her lap. The violin rests on a brown cloth. The background color is brown.]
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Shannon Draucker @sdraucker.bsky.social · 08/01/2024
This was so great! Went to today’s session while waiting for my flight. There’s another one tomorrow! @katopodis.bsky.social is a wonderful workshop leader!
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Shannon Draucker @sdraucker.bsky.social · 07/01/2024
Very excited to present on whimsical pedagogy tomorrow at MLA! Please join us at 8:30! #MLA24
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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 07/09/2023
New Job Posting! The English Department at Boston University is hiring a tenure-track professor of Native American and/or Indigenous Literature in English. Any historical period. 2/2 teaching load. Deadline Oct 20. Please share widely. jobs.chronicle.com/job/37520616...
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Shannon Draucker @sdraucker.bsky.social · 05/09/2023
Back to school! Here’s hoping my students are more enthusiastic about this semester’s readings than my dog is.
A stack of books against a brick wall backdrop, with a tan fluffy dog resting next to it.
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