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Talia Schaffer

@taliaschaffer.bsky.social
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I like thinking about Victorian care, disability, feminism, and also cooking (not necessarily Victorian).

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Prof MNP @nushpowell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Please share!! The Department of English at Arizona State University invites applications for an Assistant Professor, Indigenous Studies position. PhD in literature, rhetoric, media studies, linguistics, or related discipline required at the time of appointment. apply.interfolio.com/194236
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Ros Ballaster @ballasterros.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSX678/t... We are looking for a special scholar to lead our remarkable team in 18th century literature @engfac.bsky.social
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Thomas Warton Professorship of English Literature at University of Oxford
Discover an exciting academic career path as a Thomas Warton Professorship of English Literature at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity - apply today!
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Jessica R Valdez @jrvaldez.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
We're hiring in the long eighteenth century at LSU. Please spread the word and let me know if you have any questions. It's a wonderful department to work in! lsu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/LSU/job/0210...
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Assistant Professor - 18th-Century British Literature
All Job Postings will close at 12:01a.m. CST (1:01a.m. EST) on the specified Closing Date (if designated). If you close the browser or exit your application prior to submitting, the application progre...
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Talia Schaffer @taliaschaffer.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I share everyone's mistrust of a new Christmas Carol movie that aims to make Scrooge relatable, but rethinking Scrooge is actually the most interesting area of ACC scholarship these days, like the brilliant reading of Scrooge as neurodiverse by @essaka.bsky.social. www.cambridge.org/core/element...
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Disability and the Gothic
Cambridge Core - English Literature: General Interest - Disability and the Gothic
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Deirdre Flynn @deirdreflynn.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Lecturer in British Romantic Literature University of Glasgow Full time permanent www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSS069/l...
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Lecturer in British Romantic Literature at University of Glasgow
Explore an exciting academic career as a Lecturer in British Romantic Literature. Don't miss out on other academic jobs. Click to apply and explore more opportunities.
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Talia Schaffer @taliaschaffer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
The Clarissa group was so delightful, and now there’s added UNCLE TOBY value! Join us!
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Talia Schaffer @taliaschaffer.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
If you care about scholarship, please consider signing this petition. University of Exeter is going to be decimated unless we can stop it. c.org/p6HMYK2BbN
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Stop Redundancies at the University of Exeter
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Talia Schaffer @taliaschaffer.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
evergreen post
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This is a rousing and clarifying account
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Talia Schaffer @taliaschaffer.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Beautiful piece on what narrative medicine can do
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
"nearly 75% of instructional staff in American higher education now work outside the tenure system. Contingency no longer exists at the edges of academic life; it increasingly defines the structure through which the university teaches, adapts, + reproduces itself." working-mass.com/2026/06/04/i...
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Intellectual Homelessness: The Adjunct and the Disappearing University - Working Mass
By: Ashraf Hazeyen Every semester, the adjunct professor walks into the classroom carrying the full symbolic weight of the university while possessing almost none of its protections. They enter with a...
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Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
"Working class" in 2026 means a blue haired barista with they/them pronouns, a Asian immigrant nail technician, and an undocumented hotel cleaner. And we are going to keep having the same fights until we let the midcentury illustrator mirage of the white guy in plaid with the lunch pail go.
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LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · 03/06/2026
eavesdropping on a couple of english lit academics in st. john, i overheard confirmation of what is surely going to be the biggest literary news story of the year
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Meredith Martin @mmvty.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
humanities.princeton.edu/2026/05/18/p...
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Princeton Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts Accepting Applications Through August 4 —
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/05/2026
Trump: "If Democrats took control of the country, I think this country is finished. These people are sick."
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
universities have the brainpower, resources,+ community obligation to develop on-site secure NON PROFIT learning management systems + ed tech overseen by actual educators, not data-extraction censorious surveillance profiteers! VOID THE CONTRACTS theamericanvandal.substack.com/p/mamdani-wi...
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Mamdani Win Could Be The First Step Towards Seizing The Means of Knowledge Production
Let CUNY socialize EdTech for all of us.
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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Breaking NEWS!! Federal judge rules DOGE illegally terminated NEH grants last year in a summary judgment in favor of plaintiffs AHA, ACLA, and MLA, and orders the restoration of 1400 terminated grants
Federal Judge Rules to
Restore
National Endowment for the Humanities
Funding In Historic Case
This afternoon, May 7, 2026, US District Judge Colleen McMahon ruled that the mass termination by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) of more than 1,400 grants to support scholars, research institutions, and humanities organizations was "unlawful,
unconstitutional, ultra vires, and without legal effect."
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Lauren Donovan Ginsberg @laurenginsberg.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
“I have a PhD in atmospheric physics. I spent a decade measuring greenhouse gases from satellites. The thing that made me good at it was reading poetry. It trained me to notice what was not being said in a dataset. Every critical decision I made as a scientist was interpretation, not computation.”
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The Humanities Are the Moat
Twenty years of defunding the disciplines that teach judgement. Now we are surprised nobody can tell when AI is wrong.
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Talia Schaffer @taliaschaffer.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
This is so cool! I'm smitten by this info: the contract "was written out twice on a large piece of parchment that was then cut in half along a wavy or tooth-shaped line" so they could be fitted back together to confirm their authenticity.
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Julie Salmon Kelleher @julieskelleher.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
As the spring admission tour crowds grow, I remember sitting at a hotel breakfast with other families on college move-in day and thinking, this feels so familiar. 10 Austen quotes to show college admission is the new 19th c marriage market: www.underrevision.com/blog/post/23... #janeausten #college
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Blog Post - Julie Salmon Kelleher
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Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
In honor of Habermas, a meme I made
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AAUP @aaup.org · 13/03/2026
We are hiring a Membership Specialist in the Department of Organizing and Services. Full consideration of applications will be given to those submitted by March 26. Details here:
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Employment Opportunities
Learn about positions on our collegial, mission-driven national staff.
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
I'm one of many professors quoted in this report from Alice Speri. I really appreciate The Guardian taking an angle which has basically eluded every other major outlet.
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‘I wish I could push ChatGPT off a cliff’: professors scramble to save critical thinking in an age of AI
As AI has upended the way students learn, academics worry about the future of the humanities - and society at large
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Tim Walker @twalk.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Oxford U.P. is looking for proposals for the series Race in Nineteenth-Century Literatures and Cultures. Go for it! :)
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Talia Schaffer @taliaschaffer.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Read this - the best analysis of Scrooge I’ve seen!
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Helen Gittos @helengittos.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
We are hiring .... Because John Nightingale is retiring... for a Tutorial Fellowship in European History 400-1000... www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQP650/t...
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Tutorial Fellowship in History, and Associate Professorship (or Professorship) of Medieval British and European History at University of Oxford
Explore an exciting academic career as a Tutorial Fellowship in History, and Associate Professorship (or Professorship) of Medieval British and European History. Don't miss out on other academic jobs....
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Avi Lifschitz @diderotesque.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Early medievalists! Come join us at Magdalen College, Oxford: apply for this permanent job by 27 March. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQP650/t...
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Tutorial Fellowship in History, and Associate Professorship (or Professorship) of Medieval British and European History at University of Oxford
Recruiting now: Tutorial Fellowship in History, and Associate Professorship (or Professorship) of Medieval British and European History on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academic job o...
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
look at my country man, we’re getting out-No Kings’d by the fuckin’ british
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 14/02/2026
Roses are red, They look nice on a shrine Here is the skull, Of St. Valentine. (Photo taken in Rome’s Chiesa di Santa Maria in Cosmedin of the relic of the 3rd Century martyr, a cleric who ministered to persecuted Christians and could apparently restore sight to the blind.)
Photo of a skull in a golden box on an altar
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Letters of Note @lettersofnote.com · 12/02/2026
Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin
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Matthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
If you’re around NYC 6 March and want to chat about care, vulnerability, and the Gothic, you should truck down to the Columbia Irish Studies Seminar
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Cornell University Press @cornellupress.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
📣 We’re hiring! Cornell University Press is seeking a Director of Editorial, Design, and Production. A key role at the heart of scholarly publishing. 🔗 Details + application: cornell.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/CornellCaree...
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Director of Editorial, Design, and Production (REMOTE)
Established in 1869 as the first American university press, shortly after the founding of Cornell, the press embodies and advances the university’s core values by disseminating fundamental and practic...
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William Orchard @billeo.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
CFP: CUNY English Student Association Graduate Conference on Beauty, Pleasure, Value. Proposal deadline 2/20.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
A hero and lady justice
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Talia Schaffer @taliaschaffer.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Ok, I’m in tears now. Our era has its anthem. Thank you, Bruce.
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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Hearing folks are bummed they missed the Eyes on ICE training - but good news, it's all recorded and public! We'll be holding more live trainings soon, but if you aren't one of 200,000 who already watched it, find it here: www.youtube.com/live/zqka9fU...
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Eyes on ICE: Document and Record
YouTube video by No Kings
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Talia Schaffer @taliaschaffer.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Beautifully put, and absolutely right.
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Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · 26/01/2026
Residency for two emerging writers to explore the feminist archive at Nottingham Women's Library. Details in link. Please share :)
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Emerging Writer's Residency 2026 - Nottingham City of Literature
A paid residency for emerging writers. Applications are open to explore the feminist archive at the Nottingham Women's Library.
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Diane Zorich @dzorich.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Job posting: Public Affairs Specialist @ Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Closes: February 13, 2026; Salary: $85,447 - $111,087
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Public Affairs Specialist IS-1035-11
Job Opening: Public Affairs Specialist IS-1035-11 at National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, DC.
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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 27/01/2026
Never forget that it was decentralized, autonomous, grassroots direct action that achieved this victory. Not politicians, parties, or petitioning. Let this be the first in a series of victories in which we drive out all the forces of repression and tear down all the structures of oppression.
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From Rapid Response to Revolutionary Social Change
Participants in the rapid response networks in the Twin Cities describe their experiences and reflect on how these neworks could contribute to revolutionary social change.
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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Jews in Minneapolis are holding a Havdalah service tonight (7:30-8 pm ET) to come together as a Jewish community to find hope and strength in our tradition. Join them here to separate the sacred from the profane: templeisrael.zoom.us/j/81682319533
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
From this moment forward (and before, but clearly now): -If you work for ICE. -If you vote for money for ICE. You are complicit. This is the gestapo. You're on the wrong side. You can't pretend not to know.
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MinnMax @minnmax.com · 23/01/2026
In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 23/01/2026
The clergy just keep coming to this anti-ICE protest. Genuinely unclear where they all will go — it’s packed outside on the sidewalk already.
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Avi Lifschitz @diderotesque.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
📣 Calling all experts on 18th-century Britain! Apply for this fantastic job by 15 Feb. 📣 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQE665/a...
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Associate Professorship in Eighteenth Century History at University of Oxford
An opportunity for an academic position as a Associate Professorship in Eighteenth Century History is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openings.
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Brodie Waddell @brodiewaddell.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Birkbeck is hiring a Lecturer in Medieval Studies (c.1300-1500), full-time and open-ended. They will be formally based in English but expected to be able to contribute about 0.5FTE to History, including teaching and supervision. Closing date Feb 23rd: cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...
Birkbeck, University of London, is seeking a Lecturer in Medieval Studies to join our dynamic team within the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Autumn 2026. 

As Lecturer in Medieval Studies you will contribute to the teaching of Medieval English literature and Medieval history across the Faculty, within our School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication, and School of Historical Studies - this includes our BA English and BA History programmes, as well as postgraduate taught programmes in the two subject areas.

This post is offered on a permanent contract at Birkbeck, full time 35 hours per week, with a salary of £44,247 rising to £60,858 per year. Teaching hours will vary from 6pm - 9pm, Monday to Friday. 

To be successful, you will bring research expertise in the literature, history and culture of the Late Medieval period (c.1300-1500), and demonstrate a capacity to contribute to interdisciplinary research and teaching, participate actively in curriculum development, supervise doctoral students, and help shape the intellectual life of our vibrant academic community.

We would also welcome applicants who would be able to contribute to collaborative teaching programmes or research in the Faculty, in areas such as identity, race/ethnicity, or gender - experience of collaboration with cultural institutions, whether through research or teaching, is also welcome.

Core responsibilities will initially include programme/module administration, teaching, supervision, assessment, student support and pastoral care.  You will also be equipped to supervise doctoral students.

With a PhD in any area of Medieval Studies, you will contribute the Faculty’s and Schools’ research impact and culture, and to the intellectual and cultural life of the institution and the various communities and partners with whom we work and serve.
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Shelly Eversley @shellyeversley.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
We are still accepting applications for a #tenured #associateprofessor in #QueerStudies @blsbaruch.bsky.social with an appointment @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social! Besides the base salary, there’s summer salary and research support. Application deadline is now Jan 5. cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/...
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Jobs | City University of New York
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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Last post for the year to say that @jcblibrary.bsky.social we've been thinking hard about how to support scholars and scholarship amidst the multi-dimensional crises for humanities research. We remain committed to our traditional fellowships (indeed in the wake of NEH revocation we expanded), but 1/
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Talia Schaffer @taliaschaffer.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Recommending this to absolutely everyone! www.publicbooks.org/victorian-ma...
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Victorian Materialisms, Crip Realities - Public Books
Raised-text print in the 19th century transformed literacy, reading practices, media representations of blindness, medical and journalistic discourse, and, most importantly, the everyday lives of blin...
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