Katherine Bowers 🌻

@katiabowers.bsky.social

19C russophone lit studies scholar interested in genre, realism, the novel, gothic, digital humanities, and environmental humanities 👻 book nerd and Data-Sitter 📚 transnational dumpling enthusiast 🥟 https://katherinebowers.hcommons.org

Heartbroken about this utter vandalism. I did my PhD at Nottingham and it was a powerhouse. Management has spent more than a decade attacking languages - this is active destruction, nothing else. Solidarity with colleagues and old friends.

Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 2d ago

'The University of Nottingham has confirmed that it will close its music and languages departments as it presses ahead with more than 500 job cuts despite widespread opposition from staff and students.' A blight on East Midlands and UK higher education.

Yumi tells the inspiring story of three law students from the South Pacific who join a movement to bring climate change before the International Court of Justice via the UN. Their goal: to save their home islands from destruction. See link in bio for details and the full list of event sponsors!

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#Dostoevsky, #Khvoshchinskaya, foreign novels, publishing data, #19c literacy rates, and the story of the Russian novel's rise! And all in one short-ish interview. Had such a nice experience working on this and happy to share it with the community:

North American Dostoevsky Society@dostoevskysociety.bsky.social · 2w ago

Today on the blog! Hilde Hoogenboom and Editor @chloespumpkins.bsky.social discuss Noble Sentiments and the Rise of Russian Novels: A European Literary History (2025) - a 2026 recipient of the Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize by @aseees.bsky.social. Check it out: bloggerskaramazov.com/2026/09/21/a...

“Thick accumulations of Ukrainian consonants conspire against my tongue and my memory: airless crushes of them, like the compressed folds of a concertina.” Lovely piece on learning Ukrainian in wartime by Charlotte Higgins www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

‘The war leaked into every lesson’: learning Ukrainian in a country under siege

The long read: Soon after my first visit to Ukraine four years ago, I began language lessons. It taught me more than I ever expected

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The deadline for our biennial #undergraduate and #graduate essay competitions has been extended! Send us your papers and nominations by July 6!

North American Dostoevsky Society@dostoevskysociety.bsky.social · 10mo ago

#CFP: The North American #Dostoevsky Society invites nominations for our biennial undergraduate and graduate essay competitions! Send us your papers/nominations! Submissions are welcome on a rolling basis until June 22, 2026. bloggerskaramazov.com/2025/12/02/c...

For those interested in critical AI literacy, a hopeful thread: This past semester, for their final project, I asked my @uoe-llc.bsky.social Digital Humanities students to make "AI literacy objects" (AILOs): multimedia digital artefacts intended to foster critical literacy around generative AI +

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I am curious, not least because many non-professors with doctorates follow me, to know what your doctorate was in (broad field ok, narrow if you want to share) and what you do for a living now. TT professors, we'll save you for a different thread. Please share for curiosity's sake, not using data.