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Jess

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Sessional English academic, Gadigal land @Sydney_Uni | coeditor Book Reviews @SpaceBetweenJ | incoming @msatweet Grad Student Rep | PhD art & narrative form |

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Resharing my latest essay for @SydReviewBooks, in which I read Gail Jones' tenth novel One Another (@text_publishing) as a defence of immersive and creative forms of criticism at a moment of crisis in literary studies and the humanities more broadly sydneyreviewofbooks.com/reviews/one-wi…


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Kafka, the patron saint of PhDs

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Opening of a letter from T. S. Eliot to a Ms Barnes, 1938: "Now then Djuna don't be a Goose."


At the Beinecke, reading how in 1930, Jean Toomer bemoaned the fact that no one speaks to each other anymore. In fact, he notes that since 1900, there have been complaints that "the art of conversation is a dead art."


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“History is still what hurts, and Jameson’s writings are still here to help us register that wounding and working, in our registration of its effects, towards its undoing and redemption.” Dougal McNeill remembers Fredric Jameson. overland.org.au/2024/09/the-ex…


My supervisor: "Can you send me your full dissertation outline?" Me: "I have concepts of a plan"


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ever since i was a little girl i wanted to fill a gap in the literature


In terms of public-facing humanities, bypassing The Conversation to do this is a flex

I just found this academic article by Australian Olympic breakdancer Raygun that might contextualise her performance in Paris within her research practice, as a postcolonial critique of sportification intellectdiscover.com/content/journa…



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I eat paper. It’s good for my bones.


Had the absolute privilege last week of hearing @kjuanitabrown speak at Dartmouth on Black elegies, art, and the limits of representation. I'm off to go find a copy of her new book immediately

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Have met 2 of these 3 insightful authors at @futures_inst at Dartmouth this week, and everyone should read their newly-published inquiry into Bridgerton and the "conceptual displacements" its post racial speculative history offers @pmteed @cathexsis

I just found this academic article by Australian Olympic breakdancer Raygun that might contextualise her performance in Paris within her research practice, as a postcolonial critique of sportification intellectdiscover.com/content/journa…



Watching a wonderful panel on the pleasures of reading and libraries with Kali Fajardo-Anstine, @zarielle and @PatLeach1 at the Annual Cather Spring Conference in Red Cloud, NE!

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When you’ve got a great parking spot, but you’re not sure how to split it between your three daughters.

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Sorry, you're asking what's the most important thing I've learned at @UNLincoln campus so far? It's that some days, we're all just a squirrel, asleep in a bin

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I've been given the opportunity to do some research in the Special Collections at @UNL_Lib, but I've come across a photograph of this painting and I'm stumped as to whether it's a personal or public (aka, known) work. Art Twitter, can anyone identify it?

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