Rachel Feder
@rachelfeder.bsky.social
English Prof @ University of Denver Weird books, all genres rachelfeder.com
Front Range friends! I’m reading spooky stories at Tattered Cover Aspen Grove with some of my faves this Thursday & hope you’ll join us if you can 🎃❤️🦇✨ www.eventbrite.com/e/spooky-sto...
Spooky Stories with Rachel Feder & Friends at Tattered Cover Aspen Grove
Join us for a FREE night of spooky story-telling from local authors!
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If you're in the Denver area, come see me read with Rachel and a bunch of other awesome people on Thursday!
Rachel Feder@rachelfeder.bsky.social · yesterdayFront Range friends! I’m reading spooky stories at Tattered Cover Aspen Grove with some of my faves this Thursday & hope you’ll join us if you can 🎃❤️🦇✨ www.eventbrite.com/e/spooky-sto...
Front Range friends! I’m reading spooky stories at Tattered Cover Aspen Grove with some of my faves this Thursday & hope you’ll join us if you can 🎃❤️🦇✨ www.eventbrite.com/e/spooky-sto...
Spooky Stories with Rachel Feder & Friends at Tattered Cover Aspen Grove
Join us for a FREE night of spooky story-telling from local authors!
eventbrite.com
I don’t know man, I’m just so happy about the Anne Carson Noble. Her work has had such a profound influence on so many of us, and I don’t think we talk about it enough.
A dissertation I advised became this perfect book and yes I am absolutely going to make this my entire personality
The transactional system of education to which grades are central is the chief barrier to student learning. Anything that undermines it is worth doing. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
Grades Get in the Way of Learning. A Worthy Experiment.
Making space for student self-regulation is good, actually.
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Tonight @professordemerita.bsky.social & I shared first pages from our collaborative Mary Shelley universe novel-in-process at the fabulous bicentennial conference for The Last Man organized by @eileenmhunt.bsky.social & I think all of this is very norm-core & not nerdy at all 🖤🖤🖤🖤
Just @emilyhughes.bsky.social, one of our best living horror critics, talking about alienation, the institutional Gothic, BACKROOMS, and Walter Benjamin. Don't miss it. www.darkertimes.com/walter-benja...
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Hallucination
Or, why I stopped worrying and learned to love Walter Benjamin in the Backrooms.
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don’t wanna brag but robots who run book clubs really seem to love my book
I'm very excited to share my latest paper, which has just been published (open access!) in Synthese. In "Synthetic Temporalities", I explore how using AI might impact the relationship between knowledge, agency, and time. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Synthetic temporalities – phenomenological perspectives on epistemic agency, time, and AI - Synthese
This paper will explore the kind of insights that the phenomenological tradition and its various conceptualisations of the temporalities of agency might have to offer for thinking about our increasing...
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my kid took this picture of me trying to pose with my book & i’ve never felt so seen
I am finalizing my syllabus for Taylor Swift as Literature and only assigned one (1) Adorno, plz clap
Mary Shelley plz don’t make me write about Derrida girl
Did I do anything goth for Mary Shelley’s birthday you ask? LET ME TELL YOU. My kid & I CAUGHT A GIANT FEMALE BLACK WIDOW and then we DROVE IT TO THE BUG ZOO🕷️
if astrology isn’t real then why is hegel a virgo
Anna Kornbluh@annakornbluh.bsky.social · last mo.hbd hegel, everbody do a dialectics today
I wrote about Dolly Parton in my latest @nytopinion.nytimes.com column. Thank you. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/o...
Opinion | The Greatest Story Dolly Parton Ever Wrote Was Herself (Gift Article)
She didn’t see herself as a saint; she identified as something we needed even more: a writer.
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Grateful for this thoughtful interview in @macabredaily.bsky.social! www.macabredaily.com/articles/pap...
PAPER CUTS: Rachel Feder Reinvents The Gothic Governess For The Modern Age (INTERVIEW) — Macabre Daily
Rachel Feder was kind enough to answer some of our questions about how her new novella, "The Turn," came to be, the inspirations, past and present, she drew upon, and what she hopes readers walk away ...
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No idea how The Turn got into Vogue Adria but I’m into it! vogueadria.com/short-books-...
6 books you can finish in a day to get back into reading
The end of summer is the perfect time to ease back into reading. We highlight new books you can finish in a day and effortlessly return to your routine.
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Made my year, any season! (and yes, MWS was a Virgo Sun)
Rachel Feder@rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2mo agoVirgo. Season.
“look what you made me do [write a theory of genre]” -taylor swift
It’s here! From the team that brought you Clarissa 2025, join us to read a rollicking delight of a novel. Whether you’re rereading or reading for the first time, there are lots of ways to join. We’ll have weekly Substack posts and bimonthly hybrid meetings.
Tristram Shandy 2026@tristramshandy2026.bsky.social · 2mo agoThe Substack’s inaugural post is up! Come check out the page! It has all the information about meeting times and how to stay involved! All are welcome to join the reading group. Come hang out with us! tristramshandy2026.substack.com/p/the-tristr...
I for one welcome the return of our blue book overlords
Last night I was reading one of Melville’s letters to Hawthorne to my husband while he did the dishes and he said “you are reading porn at me and you are not helping me”
Rachel Feder@rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2mo agoDid Nathaniel Hawthorne write this
Stepped inside the humanities building to find the walls being painted lavender with no announcement or explanation. love to see a university respond to a budget crisis the exact same way I would
The idea of a Black academic being hounded to death for alleged acts of plagiarism in an era when universities are entering into contracts with AI companies and encouraging AI use among students, while Big Tech is stealing EVERYTHING humans write...
