Talia Schaffer
I like thinking about Victorian care, disability, feminism, and also cooking (not necessarily Victorian).
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- Reposted by Talia Schaffer📣 We’re hiring! Cornell University Press is seeking a Director of Editorial, Design, and Production. A key role at the heart of scholarly publishing. 🔗 Details + application: cornell.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/CornellCaree...
- Reposted by Talia SchafferCFP: CUNY English Student Association Graduate Conference on Beauty, Pleasure, Value. Proposal deadline 2/20.
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- Ok, I’m in tears now. Our era has its anthem. Thank you, Bruce.
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- Beautifully put, and absolutely right.
- This excerpt from @adamserwer.bsky.social's latest points to something that Alex Pretti's vocation as a nurse brought to mind: What we're seeing in Minneapolis is resistance, but resistance based on care. I've said before that what we need is a care economy. What we're getting is a care resistance.
- Reposted by Talia SchafferResidency for two emerging writers to explore the feminist archive at Nottingham Women's Library. Details in link. Please share :)
- Reposted by Talia SchafferJob posting: Public Affairs Specialist @ Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Closes: February 13, 2026; Salary: $85,447 - $111,087
- Reposted by Talia SchafferNever forget that it was decentralized, autonomous, grassroots direct action that achieved this victory. Not politicians, parties, or petitioning. Let this be the first in a series of victories in which we drive out all the forces of repression and tear down all the structures of oppression.
- Reposted by Talia SchafferJews in Minneapolis are holding a Havdalah service tonight (7:30-8 pm ET) to come together as a Jewish community to find hope and strength in our tradition. Join them here to separate the sacred from the profane: templeisrael.zoom.us/j/81682319533
- Reposted by Talia SchafferFrom this moment forward (and before, but clearly now): -If you work for ICE. -If you vote for money for ICE. You are complicit. This is the gestapo. You're on the wrong side. You can't pretend not to know.
- Reposted by Talia SchafferIn solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.
- Reposted by Talia SchafferThe clergy just keep coming to this anti-ICE protest. Genuinely unclear where they all will go — it’s packed outside on the sidewalk already.
- Reposted by Talia Schaffer📣 Calling all experts on 18th-century Britain! Apply for this fantastic job by 15 Feb. 📣 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQE665/a...
- Reposted by Talia SchafferBirkbeck is hiring a Lecturer in Medieval Studies (c.1300-1500), full-time and open-ended. They will be formally based in English but expected to be able to contribute about 0.5FTE to History, including teaching and supervision. Closing date Feb 23rd: cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...
- Reposted by Talia SchafferSharing this Assistant Professor position in Science, Technology & Society Studies at Maastricht University. The role focuses on sustainability and environmental challenges - great fit for STS scholars working at the intersection of technology and society. #AcademicJobs #STS vacancies.maastri...
- Reposted by Talia SchafferWe are still accepting applications for a #tenured #associateprofessor in #QueerStudies @blsbaruch.bsky.social with an appointment @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social! Besides the base salary, there’s summer salary and research support. Application deadline is now Jan 5. cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/...
- Reposted by Talia SchafferLast post for the year to say that @jcblibrary.bsky.social we've been thinking hard about how to support scholars and scholarship amidst the multi-dimensional crises for humanities research. We remain committed to our traditional fellowships (indeed in the wake of NEH revocation we expanded), but 1/
- Recommending this to absolutely everyone! www.publicbooks.org/victorian-ma...
- Reposted by Talia SchafferFor civilians: an academic dept typically has to out maneuver other depts to get a tenure line! I tell grad students applying to red state jobs to indicate that they are familiar with & would be happy spending a decade or more there. A single sentence has moved them to the top of a pile. 1/
- Reposted by Talia Schaffer🗃️ My History Department is hiring for a tenure track position in Native American history. See link for details! jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...
- @sinsleyh.bsky.social offers a characteristically thoughtful, generous and appreciative assessment of Austeniana. I want to read the graphic novel!
- Stephanie Insley Hershinow surveys recent Austen-related works on Jane Austen's 250th birthday: "Austen offers endless opportunity for examination and reexamination; still, it might be fair to ask what more one can say about our dear Jane." lareviewofbooks.org/article/happy-birth…
- Reposted by Talia SchafferThere is an absolute fucking scandal going down at The New School, wherein at appears that the university is funnelling to a MEMBER OF THE SCHOOL’S BOARD while purging faculty and staff. This should be headline news. x.com/uaw7902/stat...
- What a devastating and brilliant article on "education’s auto-cannibalism: universities consuming their own purpose while cheerfully marketing the tools of their undoing." But the good news is that our students are fighting their institutions' betrayal. www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
- Reposted by Talia SchafferJob Posting: Victorian Periodicals Review Associate Editor (Application Deadline: 12/15/25) navsa.org/News/13568271
- Reposted by Talia Schaffer"Penn does not maintain information on employees’ religion" Gift link to article. Link to petition supporting Penn's refusal to collect and hand over this information below.
- Reposted by Talia SchafferTeaching post-doc position in UVa’s College, renewable for up to three years total. Apply!
- Reposted by Talia SchafferJOB POSTING! Andrew W. Mellon Curator of Rare Books and Prints at the @folger.edu amherst.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/FSL_Em...
- Reposted by Talia SchafferWonderful #Tiles in the chancel at St Oswald's, Ashbourne, part of the refitting by George Gilbert Scott. Such intricate patterns, & a fascinating study of them by Rita Wood! victorianweb.org/art/design/c...
- Reposted by Talia Schaffer"[admin]...who regard the...students of their own universities with such contempt as to be undeserving of the education that in many cases those administrators themselves, or their parents, or their children received...are an enemy of the educational enterprise" 🎁 link www.wsj.com/opinion/mont...
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- Behold the tragicomic catastrophe at Montclair State as their admin tries to replace departments with vacuous corporate pablum, for reasons even they don't understand. Adam Rzepka is blazing on this: academeblog.org/2025/11/13/t...
- Need some Austen in your December? Try this symposium! udel.libcal.com/event/15550706
- Reposted by Talia SchafferIf you or anyone you know would be interested in a GREAT Victorian studies conference in the spring, here's the CFP. Proposals due Dec 6. Especially let anyone within driving distance of Cincinnati know! The lovely @nathankhensley.bsky.social will be keynote speaker. midwestvictorian.org/conference/
- Reposted by Talia SchafferThe Dept of Biology at Loyola University. Chicago has an open lecturer position in Gender, Sexuality, and the Biology of Sex. The successful candidate will have a 50% affiliation with the Women's Studies and Gender Studies program and 50% Dept of Biology. www.careers.luc.edu/postings/34131
- Reposted by Talia SchafferJOB Assistant Professor in the History of Knowledge Pre-1400, University of Cambridge www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...
- ok, this is worth being on Bsky for
- In Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897), Dr Seward’s journals are famously ‘Kept in Phonograph’. Join me for a nerdy deep dive in which I, brandishing back-of-an-envelope math, calculate the cost of Seward's phonograph habit, & encounter a creature more uncanny than Dracula himself! 1/14 #Gothic
- Reposted by Talia Schafferhonestly the only piece worth reading on the platner situation. @tressiemcphd.bsky.social is absolutely cooking here. (gift link)
- Reposted by Talia SchafferThe Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies is hiring an Assistant/Associate Professor in Black Feminisms. Read more about the position and apply at go.umd.edu/WGSSBlackFeminisms🌈🎓 #AcademicSky #Blackademics #PhDSky
- Reposted by Talia SchafferEvent: Victorianist Writing Retreat at Dickens Universe 2026 (Application Deadline: 12/1/25) navsa.org/News/13556934
- If you're an independent scholar, faculty, high school teacher, or alt-ac professional, check out this beautiful opportunity at Dickens Universe! dickens.ucsc.edu/vwr/
- Reposted by Talia SchafferHere are the companies destroying the east wing of the White House
- Reposted by Talia SchafferMany people are outraged that Trump is demolishing part of the White House. But of course Trump can't do it without help. It's ACECO LLC of Silver Spring MD ("full-service demolition") that is tearing down the People's House. You can call them and let them know how you feel. 1/
- Reposted by Talia SchafferTo quote @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social, I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win
- This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings
- Reposted by Talia SchafferPurdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!
- Reposted by Talia SchafferLeah and I just got off the stage in DC. More than 200k. Double what we saw for Hands Off! This movement is incredible. We’re better than fear. We’re braver than billionaires. We’re bigger than ever. And we will win. #NoKings
- Reposted by Talia Schaffervia @marydudziak.bsky.social The Germans are basically funding 3 year asylum professorships for US academics seeking to flee the country for the remainder of the Trump Administration.
- Reposted by Talia SchafferWe will soon be announcing a new Fellowship through the British Association for Romantic Studies which supportsthe work of independent researchers. It's a tight deadline but if you fall into this category or know anyone who does, watch this space @bars.bsky.social
- Reposted by Talia Schaffer📣 JOB 📣: The University of North Alabama is hiring! Tenure-track Assistant Professor of Medieval History, subfield in science, technology, or medicine preferred. Great department in a growing public regional university and beautiful town. Come be my colleague! www.higheredjobs.com/faculty/deta...
- Reposted by Talia Schaffer❌👑 OCTOBER 18 ❌👑 NoKings.org
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- Reposted by Talia SchafferJob Alert! @uwmadisongws.bsky.social is hiring an assistant professor or recently tenured associate professor who works on gender or sexuality and aging. If this sounds like you, please apply! If it’s not you, please share with your networks. jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...
- Reposted by Talia SchafferThe deadline for application is Oct 15. If you or somebody you know works on periodicals and attribution research, do apply (or spread the word).
- Are you doing #19thC attribution research? Do you have DH skills and nowhere to use them? YOU could be the next editor of the Curran Index! We're still accepting applications thru next week on 15 Oct. Lead this ongoing + fully supported DH project into its next iteration! rs4vp.org/curran-edito...
- Reposted by Talia SchafferPeterson Fellowships open today! Named for Yale professor and our dear friend, Linda H. Peterson, the Peterson Fellowship is designed to support one scholar for four full-time months conducting research focused on the British periodical press of long #19thC. Applications due Nov. 15!
- Reposted by Talia SchafferWe're hiring. It's a real needle-in-a-haystack search for an experienced teacher who can help reimagine our flagship (i.e., huge) intro course for a new era. 3/3 load. Convenient to Hollywood and Holbox. usccareers.usc.edu/job/los-ange...
- Reposted by Talia SchafferYou had me at “time”
- Reposted by Talia SchafferDelightful doodles of some pipe smoking Georgians found by Maddock Fellow Danielle Magnusson on the works of Ben Jonson, printed in 1616 #Readers #Epigrams
- Reposted by Talia SchafferThe CUNY Alliance to Defend Higher Education is outraged by UC-Berkeley admin's decision to simply turn over its constituents' personal data to the Trump Department of Ed. We support our Berkeley colleagues and call on CUNY not to repeat this mistake Add your voice here: forms.gle/Kd2PGNagHoLM...
