Buckle up for the speedy production of some vast literatures.
November 23, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Buckle up for the speedy production of some vast literatures.
Literatures. They grow up so fast. 🥹
We missed the anniversary
January 29, 2026 at 1:16 AM
Literatures. They grow up so fast. 🥹
When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.
June 17, 2026 at 1:18 AM
When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.
Literatures del Jo
December 20, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Literatures del Jo
anyone want some good news in terrible times? remember that search committee I sat on? well, William & Mary's English department hired not one but two scholars working in indigenous literatures this semester.
March 17, 2025 at 7:10 PM
anyone want some good news in terrible times? remember that search committee I sat on? well, William & Mary's English department hired not one but two scholars working in indigenous literatures this semester.
There are also entire literatures on how aliens built the pyramids. Plenty of stupid and mendacious ideas have equally stupid and mendacious literatures supporting them. -OS
My key point here is not substantive. I find Trump's order cruel & terrible, but whether it is constitutional is a separate, crucial question. Left-leaning people like me should assume good faith by those suggesting the order is constitutional & engage with their arguments.
January 24, 2025 at 6:28 PM
There are also entire literatures on how aliens built the pyramids. Plenty of stupid and mendacious ideas have equally stupid and mendacious literatures supporting them. -OS
aw, well, this is kinda sweet...
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Rachel Schine Awarded 2026 Monica H. Green Prize | School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
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February 20, 2026 at 4:20 PM
aw, well, this is kinda sweet...
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The Christmas spirit ruined one of literatures greatest haters, The Grinch. He did his best work when he was an asshole
December 24, 2025 at 5:51 AM
The Christmas spirit ruined one of literatures greatest haters, The Grinch. He did his best work when he was an asshole
Also China had cultures, literatures, languages, and cuisines worth liking
June 13, 2026 at 7:52 PM
Also China had cultures, literatures, languages, and cuisines worth liking
What a way to inspire entire new literatures.
I'm sure we can think of some folks to nominate: originalismblog.com/meese-prize-...
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February 2, 2026 at 1:21 AM
What a way to inspire entire new literatures.
When a billionaire lyke Musk doth speake of "savinge civilization" he doth not meane savinge the beautye and complexitye of diverse cultures, languages, literatures, and philosophyes. For hym "civilization" ys a delivery mechanism for hair implantes, private jets, and wagyu beef.
April 10, 2025 at 2:41 AM
When a billionaire lyke Musk doth speake of "savinge civilization" he doth not meane savinge the beautye and complexitye of diverse cultures, languages, literatures, and philosophyes. For hym "civilization" ys a delivery mechanism for hair implantes, private jets, and wagyu beef.
Wow. The University of Chicago, a world-class institution whose humanities faculty in the past has included Homi Bhabha & Lauren Berlant & Ralph Ellison & Hannah freaking Arendt, is getting rid of basically every graduate department involving the acknowledgment that other cultures & languages exist.
August 13, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Wow. The University of Chicago, a world-class institution whose humanities faculty in the past has included Homi Bhabha & Lauren Berlant & Ralph Ellison & Hannah freaking Arendt, is getting rid of basically every graduate department involving the acknowledgment that other cultures & languages exist.
Assistant Professor in Postcolonial and Global Literatures
Trinity College Dublin
5 year fixed term
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Trinity College Dublin
5 year fixed term
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March 4, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Assistant Professor in Postcolonial and Global Literatures
Trinity College Dublin
5 year fixed term
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Trinity College Dublin
5 year fixed term
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World Languages and Literatures lost their appeal and the entire program and all majors will be eliminated at WVU
August 29, 2023 at 6:50 PM
World Languages and Literatures lost their appeal and the entire program and all majors will be eliminated at WVU
asking grad students why computer programming isnt in languages and literatures is always fun
May 3, 2025 at 1:55 PM
asking grad students why computer programming isnt in languages and literatures is always fun
Writing an introduction is mostly deciding which literatures you're brave enough to annoy
February 9, 2026 at 9:13 AM
Writing an introduction is mostly deciding which literatures you're brave enough to annoy
#bookhistory #histmed 18th Century Literatures job at the University of Alberta! Particular interest in candidates with expertise in Critical Race/Ethnicity Studies; Disability Studies; Environmental Humanities; History of Science/Medicine; and Print Culture/ Book History.
Assistant Professor (tenure-track), Global 18th -Century Literatures
Location - This role is in-person at North Campus Edmonton. The Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta invites applications for a tenure-track appointment in Global 18th-C...
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September 24, 2026 at 2:13 PM
#bookhistory #histmed 18th Century Literatures job at the University of Alberta! Particular interest in candidates with expertise in Critical Race/Ethnicity Studies; Disability Studies; Environmental Humanities; History of Science/Medicine; and Print Culture/ Book History.
We're so pleased today to call out to the Department of World Languages and Literatures at PSU, a sponsor of our upcoming conference ALTA49: Give and Take (Oct 21-24 in Portland, OR)! Your support makes this gathering possible - thank you! buff.ly/EYwyUTN
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World Languages and Literatures
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September 23, 2026 at 4:30 PM
We're so pleased today to call out to the Department of World Languages and Literatures at PSU, a sponsor of our upcoming conference ALTA49: Give and Take (Oct 21-24 in Portland, OR)! Your support makes this gathering possible - thank you! buff.ly/EYwyUTN
Call for proposals for a free online conference on ‘Literatures & Medicines’ hosted by us lot at Bournemouth University next April. #Comicsstudies and #GraphicMedicine papers are very welcome, please share and submit! www.litsampersand.org/literatures-...
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December 17, 2024 at 9:46 PM
Call for proposals for a free online conference on ‘Literatures & Medicines’ hosted by us lot at Bournemouth University next April. #Comicsstudies and #GraphicMedicine papers are very welcome, please share and submit! www.litsampersand.org/literatures-...
This promo is still running, in case anyone needs some literatures!
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August 5, 2026 at 9:09 AM
This promo is still running, in case anyone needs some literatures!
I’d warmly welcome Starter Pack recommendations for me & others here: rivers, environmental histories/futures, land access, mountaineering, more-than-humanism, Rights of Nature, climate, Neolithic->Roman archaeology, (Quaternary) Earth science, literatures of the Anthropocene, any points beyond…🙏
November 17, 2024 at 2:07 AM
I’d warmly welcome Starter Pack recommendations for me & others here: rivers, environmental histories/futures, land access, mountaineering, more-than-humanism, Rights of Nature, climate, Neolithic->Roman archaeology, (Quaternary) Earth science, literatures of the Anthropocene, any points beyond…🙏
There is a Eurocentric denialism maybe rooted in an original Greek sense of inferiority: Egyptians and Hittites produced whole written literatures while Greek peoples were still nonliterate. They left prose annals and memorial inscriptions where Greek bards left us beautiful, myth-saturated poetry.
July 29, 2026 at 1:34 PM
There is a Eurocentric denialism maybe rooted in an original Greek sense of inferiority: Egyptians and Hittites produced whole written literatures while Greek peoples were still nonliterate. They left prose annals and memorial inscriptions where Greek bards left us beautiful, myth-saturated poetry.
Oof. Corrected by one of literatures foremost baby raccoons
October 1, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Oof. Corrected by one of literatures foremost baby raccoons
So here's a starter pack for languages, literatures, cultures and societies, very broadly defined.
If you'd like to be added or removed, comment below or send a message
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If you'd like to be added or removed, comment below or send a message
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November 8, 2024 at 1:54 PM
So here's a starter pack for languages, literatures, cultures and societies, very broadly defined.
If you'd like to be added or removed, comment below or send a message
go.bsky.app/TdEXaP2
If you'd like to be added or removed, comment below or send a message
go.bsky.app/TdEXaP2