Dr. Katie Sagal
Associate Professor; 18thc Brit Lit & Science. Author of Botanical Entanglements (UVA Press). New project on marine ecology in the works. Super into plants, running, art museums, libraries, cheese, pandas, and video games.
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- Reposted by Dr. Katie SagalSpecial Issue of Journal of Gaming & Virtual Worlds 'Video Games & Horror’ Abstract deadline: 1 April 2026 Full article draft deadline: 28 July 2026 www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-g...
- Reposted by Dr. Katie SagalToday on Edge Effects, we take our first dive into Botanical Imaginations with our Spring 2026 Faculty Favorites! Faculty across academic disciplines recommend plant-y books and poems they're excited to read/teach this semester 🌿 📖
- I seem to have deleted all relevant emails -- does anyone know when the Women's Caucus lunch is at ASECS??
- Reposted by Dr. Katie Sagal📢 Our next seminar is scheduled for Tuesday 10 February with Susan Carlile presenting a paper on “Thinking Globally in The Lady's Magazine, or Polite Companion, 1759-1767" 🗓️ Tuesday 10 February, 5pm 📍 HG/09, Heslington Hall & online 🔗 Register www.york.ac.uk/eighteenth-c...
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- Reposted by Dr. Katie SagalRight now from the far left to center right the only divisions I care about are: Team fight vs Team don’t fight. Opposition vs politics as usual. and it’s not a division that maps to precious ideological categories.
- Reposted by Dr. Katie SagalThe glow up for these devices is campaigns like this, which is an attempt to obscure the fact of them building a surveillance network for an authoritarian state.
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- Maybe one day I will spell Linnaeus right on the first try. Today is not that day.
- Reposted by Dr. Katie SagalOpening March 19 at the Ashmolean Museum - In Bloom How Plants Changed Our World 19 Mar – 16 Aug 2026 www.ashmolean.org/exhibition/i...
- Reposted by Dr. Katie SagalDo you work on the history of the #zoo (and #HistNatHist) ? Then you simply have to apply for @sochistnathist.bsky.social Summer Meeting jointly organised with @zslofficial.bsky.social for their 200th anniversary. Deadline for applications 6 February. #AnimalHistory
- 🚨We have a SUPER exciting announcement!🚨 Our next Summer Meeting will be at @zslofficial.bsky.social on the theme of The Zoological Society of London at 200: Science, Society, and the Natural World 🥳 📅1-3 July 2026 🗺️Zoological Society of London Find out how to submit 👇🏻 shnh.org.uk/all-events/c...
- I'm just a girl, sitting here asking authors to stop using SA as a minor plot device to characterize a woman as having a "hard life" or "difficult childhood." Especially when the book has NOTHING TO DO WITH THOSE TOPICS.
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- Reposted by Dr. Katie SagalBHL holds 63 million pages of biodiversity knowledge. Among them are all kinds of marvels, including "Marvels of the Universe", a lavishly illustrated early 20th-century celebration of astronomy, plants, animals, and the oceans. Explore it on BHL: www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography... 🧪
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- I can't help but read "Davos" as "Davros"--sounds about right on the evil scale, though.
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- Reposted by Dr. Katie SagalGoing to keep re-upping this because we just need a couple more (literally) by Friday for this to run! Woohoo!
- I'm running a popular romance course at the University of Liverpool... but only if enough people sign up! Come and join us! www.liverpool.ac.uk/continuing-e...
- Reposted by Dr. Katie SagalOut now! Queer Crafts: Material Practices and the Making of Identity available via the Bloomsbury website and all good bookstores! www.bloomsbury.com/uk/queer-cra...
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- Reposted by Dr. Katie Sagal"abolish ice" doesn't seem so extreme anymore, does it, you preposterous, normalizing fucks
- Reposted by Dr. Katie SagalWe are an MLIS capstone team working with the GAMER Group at the University of Washington seeking input on how TTRPG players find games, or want to find games. If you are a TTRPG player, designer, or both, please consider taking our research survey: uwashington.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
- Reposted by Dr. Katie SagalNew semester, new books! Check out this wonderful, ever changing, list of books available to review for H-Environment! #envhist #envhum #aghist #energy #climate #animalstudies #ecocrit #plantstudies #waterhist #envphil #envtech #histsci #conservation #sustainability docs.google.com/document/d/1...
- Reposted by Dr. Katie Sagal"Academics literally cannot make genAI go away" we also can't make underage drinking go away and we're not advocating for installing bar carts in every classroom.
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- Reposted by Dr. Katie SagalI'm very excited to announce the launch of the #18thC Ecologies Network! Co-convened by myself & @calsutherland.bsky.social at @cecs-york.bsky.social , ECEN is a hub for researchers interested in the many diverse ecologies of the period 🌱 Find out more: hzj520.wixsite.com/eighteenth-c...
- Reposted by Dr. Katie SagalThe #18thC Ecologies Network, based @cecs-york.bsky.social is a hub for researchers interested in the many diverse ecologies the period. Details of their seminar series will be published here: hzj520.wixsite.com/eighteenth-c... #skystorians #climate #environhist 🗃️
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- Very excited to check this out!
- It's very exciting to say that Coastal Gothic, 1719–2020 has just been published in @universitypress.cambridge.org's Elements in the Gothic series – and it's currently open access and *free* to download until the end of December! doi.org/10.1017/9781...
- Reposted by Dr. Katie Sagalthe full speech is something to see & is one of the reasons it is good to have a trans member of congress youtu.be/5LqVMCW4e0c?...
- A perennial favorite!
- Merry Christmas! It's the Hater's Guide To The Williams-Sonoma Catalog! defector.com/the-2025-hat...
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- Student asked me for more adaptations of classic novels from a WoC perspective (thinking of Wide Sargasso Sea), but prompted bc we read this (tinyurl.com/bdeshedj) and she loved the Miss Lambe character. Help?
- Reposted by Dr. Katie SagalWhen I’m accused of “technopessimism“ I counter that I’m not “pessimistic about technology“; I am opposed to the economic, political, and social project of upward wealth transfer that “AI” is being leveraged to bring about. If that phrasing is useful to others, then go ahead and use it.
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- Reposted by Dr. Katie SagalThe special issue I co-edited on "Melville's Queer Afterlives" is here and it's queer. This issue has EVERYTHING: gay pirates, dirty pictures, racist internet fanfic, Gilbert Gottfried, original poetry, and just so many French people. Available at your library, but LMK if you're paywalled...
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- Reposted by Dr. Katie SagalAre you a scholar in Games Studies, Museum Studies and/or Digital Humanities and want to help NMS develop research in Collecting Video Game Heritage? Come and apply to be an IASH Fellow at the University of Edinburgh! Applications Opens - Dec 25 Closes - April 26 www.iash.ed.ac.uk/iash-nationa...
- "Much like the nascent fascism that it has quickly grown to be the representative aesthetic of, it feels like...the goal is to bombard you with its horrors & its excesses so frequently that you become numb to it." aftermath.site/the-alters-a...
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- McSweeney's rarely misses: www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-w...
- Reposted by Dr. Katie SagalTV conspiracies: we’ve hacked their computers but they’ve perfectly cleaned up the evidence! Real conspiracies: To: conspirator From: famous person Attachment: evidence.png
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- Reposted by Dr. Katie SagalC R Y I N G this is so perfect lmao x: www.instagram.com/reel/DQ7cPSf...
- Eliza Haywood 😁
- Reposted by Dr. Katie SagalI'm talking about Anna Laetitia Barbauld again tomorrow! 🗣️🗣️🗣️York Georgian Society lecture: more details here: www.georgianyork.org.uk/events-1/ann...
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- A friendly reminder that our cfp for "Naming & Classifying in the Eighteenth Century" has an extended deadline to Nov. 30. Send us your brilliant ideas! Please share, too. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
- Reposted by Dr. Katie SagalGreat Barrier Reef Anemones (1893) by William Saville-Kent, from The Great Barrier Reef of Australia. Source: RawPixel / Biodiversity Heritage Library pdimagearchive.org/images/cb31c75a-459… #biodiversity #fish #invertebrates #australia #art #publicdomain
- Reposted by Dr. Katie Sagalhey y'all! my questionnaire on player experience in historical videogames is now LIVE! if you play videogames about the past, we want to hear from you! edu.nl/7w3yn
- I'm thrilled to see that the special issue of ECS, "Eighteenth-Century Coasts," is finally out today! Check out my essay on coral, and many other fantastic contributions: muse.jhu.edu/issue/55889
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