🚨Calling all nineteenth centuryists! @ryancarroll.bsky.social and I are welcoming submissions for a special issue of Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies next summer!
Emily Waller Singeisen
@esing.bsky.social
Ph.D. Student @ UNC | MA UPenn | Comparatist | Classical Reception, 19th & 20th c. | Illustrated books 📚
Excited to share this latest article in International Journal of the Classical Tradition, in which I think about archaeology, illustration, and Sappho’s body in print. rdcu.be/fjmaq
Object/ifying Sappho
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My obsession with finding Pegasus in unusual places was warmly rewarded at the Wilson Library’s Special Collections at Chapel Hill. Thanks @esing.bsky.social for organising such a great opportunity for us visiting from King’s College London!
The funniest thing about this is how it perfectly illustrates feminist critiques about the relationship between imperialism and patriarchy. “You know how women are subjugated to men in marriage? We want to do that to foreign governments in the Middle East.”
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5mo agoJD Vance: "You know what? My wife has the right to skydive, but she doesn't jump out of an airplane because she and I have an agreement she's not gonna do that, because I don't want my wife jumping out of an airplane."
This year marks the second annual UNC-KCL Colloquium in Classical Reception. If you’re in or around the Research Triangle, we would love for you to join us!
Excited to share my latest in CUSP Journal. I use Bakhtin’s concept of the chronotope to theorize the relationship between time and space in Pierre Louÿs’s Les Chansons de Bilitis. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
Project MUSE -- Verification required!
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Spring cleaning in a household with two academics is just shuffling books around to new flat surfaces
Told my sister I’m taking my qualifying exams this week. Her: Then you’ll have a PhD? Me: No, then I have to write and defend a prospectus. Her: But then you’ll have a PhD? Me: No, then I have to write and defend a diss. Her: Then what? Me: Then I’ll be done. Her: and you’ll get a job? Me: …🫠
“I watched him die… then I watched them maneuver his body like a rag doll— only to discover it was because they wanted to count the bullet wounds and see how many they ‘got’, like he was a deer.”
Last week, I asked my 20 undergrad students who had checked out a physical book from the library and only 2 raised their hands. So today, we went to the library to change that. Here’s what I learned:
“The struggle over the flag, fought among the ruins, is also a struggle over the ruins themselves, the history those ruins speak to, and what they say about who gets to live on this land.” www.thedriftmag.com/in-ruins/
In Ruins
Archaeological Warfare in the West Bank
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#academicsky Are there other college instructors out there that have used standards-based grading? I’m considering switching from a contract grading system and would appreciate some insights…
For my intro class next semester, I’m teaching a close reading unit focused on narrators and narration. texts I’m considering include: -Arrested Development -Billy Budd -Love Island -Fall of the House of Usher -Lucian’s True History -Fleabag …#AcademicSky what else should be on this list?
Prof. Dan-el Padilla Peralta’s work has inspired me and so many other young scholars across disciplines. It was a privilege to be able to organize an interdisciplinary gathering at UNC to engage with his current and forthcoming publications! englishcomplit.unc.edu/2025/11/crit...
Critical Speaker Series welcomes Prof. Dan-el Padilla Peralta - UNC English & Comparative Literature
For the inaugural event of the 2025–26 academic year, the Critical Speaker Series of Department of English & Comparative Literature (ECL) partnered with the Department of Classics to welcome Dan-el Pa...
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Today’s used book store delivery: “Petronius”’ unexpurgated guide to New York (feat. disinterested cat)
Aubrey Beardsley’s fetuses are unsettling for *many* reasons, but one of the main reasons is because they look like Dr. Moron from Loony Tunes
To all fellow academics concerned about censorship and the violation of faculty members’ first amendment rights, please consider signing this petition to reinstate Prof. Dixon at UNC: www.change.org/p/reinstate-...
Sign the Petition
Reinstate Professor Dixon at UNC
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Excited to introduce Vibes from Meta. Eat your slop, piggies!
Assigned this fabulous essay by @drbeard79.bsky.social to my freshman students for class today and the discussion felt like a sociological experiment into Gen Z’s conservative sexual politics.
Dr Andrew McInnes@drbeard79.bsky.social · 12mo agoSo, I wrote a thing about my vase-fucking skeet and resulting thread with thanks to @romgothsam.bsky.social, @profchander.bsky.social, @philistella.bsky.social, & @gothicbodies.bsky.social for inspiration PLUS a shout out to a very old *undergraduate* essay by @joanpassey.bsky.social
The Onion’s Exclusive Interview With Gavin Newsom https://theonion.com/the-onions-exclusive-interview-with-gavin-newsom/
Reading about Noel Billing’s attacks on Maude Allen after her 1906 performance of Salomé. His hit piece was titled, “The Cult of the Clitoris”… I just want to know why a lesbian punk rock band hasn’t stolen this title because it’s truly inspired.
I am having a hard time reconciling "Charlie Kirk was a fierce advocate of open dialogue and free expression" with "we must identify and persecute everyone who is insufficiently mournful"
After Charlie Kirk's death, teachers and professors nationwide fired or disciplined over social media posts
At least a dozen faculty and staff have faced fallout over insensitive comments online.
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Thrilled to be included among fabulous contributors to the latest edition of Dilettante Army, “Ekphrasis.” Read on for speculations about AI boyfriends, avant-garde burlesque shows, killer machines, and the Freudian death drive. dilettantearmy.com/articles/ekp...
Ekphrasis Ex Machina: Desire and the Death Drive in the Age of AI
Emily Singeisen contextualizes AI, a technologically novel way of exploiting language, within some very old fantasies.
dilettantearmy.com
Thrilled to be included among fabulous contributors to the latest edition of Dilettante Army, “Ekphrasis.” Read on for speculations about AI boyfriends, avant-garde burlesque shows, killer machines, and the Freudian death drive. dilettantearmy.com/articles/ekp...
Ekphrasis Ex Machina: Desire and the Death Drive in the Age of AI
Emily Singeisen contextualizes AI, a technologically novel way of exploiting language, within some very old fantasies.
dilettantearmy.com
“It is central to human nature to hate someone you have harmed.” proprium humani ingenii est odisse quem laeseris #Tacitus
