Emily Waller Singeisen

90% of how Rubio described “the West” while in Athens (e.g., "fierce individuality,” “relentless ambition”) is just a rehashing of ideas plucked from Ayn Rand. Encouraging people to “ethical egoism” is how we got this level of inequality—which now sits at a higher level than Ancient Athens ever had.

New Nobel winner Anne Carson’s playful, deeply intelligent work riffs off and reinvents ancient classics – and often lands with breathtaking emotional force.

beyond parroting the greek miracle component of white supremacy, Rubio also presents a version of Greek thought that has neither the delphic imperative of self-knowledge nor the corrective warning of "nothing to excess"

🚨Calling all nineteenth centuryists! @ryancarroll.bsky.social and I are welcoming submissions for a special issue of Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies next summer!

Big news coming out of Parents Magazine in 1930

My new mantra for writing a dissertation

Excited to share this latest article in International Journal of the Classical Tradition, in which I think about archaeology, illustration, and Sappho’s body in print. rdcu.be/fjmaq

My obsession with finding Pegasus in unusual places was warmly rewarded at the Wilson Library’s Special Collections at Chapel Hill. Thanks @esing.bsky.social for organising such a great opportunity for us visiting from King’s College London!

The funniest thing about this is how it perfectly illustrates feminist critiques about the relationship between imperialism and patriarchy. “You know how women are subjugated to men in marriage? We want to do that to foreign governments in the Middle East.”

This year marks the second annual UNC-KCL Colloquium in Classical Reception. If you’re in or around the Research Triangle, we would love for you to join us!

Excited to share my latest in CUSP Journal. I use Bakhtin’s concept of the chronotope to theorize the relationship between time and space in Pierre Louÿs’s Les Chansons de Bilitis. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

Spring cleaning in a household with two academics is just shuffling books around to new flat surfaces

Told my sister I’m taking my qualifying exams this week. Her: Then you’ll have a PhD? Me: No, then I have to write and defend a prospectus. Her: But then you’ll have a PhD? Me: No, then I have to write and defend a diss. Her: Then what? Me: Then I’ll be done. Her: and you’ll get a job? Me: …🫠

“I watched him die… then I watched them maneuver his body like a rag doll— only to discover it was because they wanted to count the bullet wounds and see how many they ‘got’, like he was a deer.”

“The struggle over the flag, fought among the ruins, is also a struggle over the ruins themselves, the history those ruins speak to, and what they say about who gets to live on this land.” www.thedriftmag.com/in-ruins/

#academicsky Are there other college instructors out there that have used standards-based grading? I’m considering switching from a contract grading system and would appreciate some insights…

Forget the Ken Burns American Revolution doc—this is my American Revolution. #RHOSLC

For my intro class next semester, I’m teaching a close reading unit focused on narrators and narration. texts I’m considering include: -Arrested Development -Billy Budd -Love Island -Fall of the House of Usher -Lucian’s True History -Fleabag …#AcademicSky what else should be on this list?

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Prof. Dan-el Padilla Peralta’s work has inspired me and so many other young scholars across disciplines. It was a privilege to be able to organize an interdisciplinary gathering at UNC to engage with his current and forthcoming publications! englishcomplit.unc.edu/2025/11/crit...

Today’s used book store delivery: “Petronius”’ unexpurgated guide to New York (feat. disinterested cat)

Aubrey Beardsley’s fetuses are unsettling for *many* reasons, but one of the main reasons is because they look like Dr. Moron from Loony Tunes

Excited to introduce Vibes from Meta. Eat your slop, piggies!

Assigned this fabulous essay by @drbeard79.bsky.social to my freshman students for class today and the discussion felt like a sociological experiment into Gen Z’s conservative sexual politics.

The Onion’s Exclusive Interview With Gavin Newsom https://theonion.com/the-onions-exclusive-interview-with-gavin-newsom/

Reading about Noel Billing’s attacks on Maude Allen after her 1906 performance of Salomé. His hit piece was titled, “The Cult of the Clitoris”… I just want to know why a lesbian punk rock band hasn’t stolen this title because it’s truly inspired.

I am having a hard time reconciling "Charlie Kirk was a fierce advocate of open dialogue and free expression" with "we must identify and persecute everyone who is insufficiently mournful"

Thrilled to be included among fabulous contributors to the latest edition of Dilettante Army, “Ekphrasis.” Read on for speculations about AI boyfriends, avant-garde burlesque shows, killer machines, and the Freudian death drive. dilettantearmy.com/articles/ekp...

Thrilled to be included among fabulous contributors to the latest edition of Dilettante Army, “Ekphrasis.” Read on for speculations about AI boyfriends, avant-garde burlesque shows, killer machines, and the Freudian death drive. dilettantearmy.com/articles/ekp...

“It is central to human nature to hate someone you have harmed.” proprium humani ingenii est odisse quem laeseris #Tacitus

they invented the oracle of delphAI

Me, a comparatist, when Reviewer 2 tells me my work isn’t art historical enough to be art history, classical enough to be classics, or literary enough to be lit crit: