Tom Ue

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Prof in English of the Long Nineteenth Century, Cape Breton University

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Join us! We come w/ pizza! #research

They heard us! Instead of tambourines, they are now handing out noisemakers this size!

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Has anyone read any fiction recently that references the pandemic/Covid in a way that isn't central to the narrative? Like Ali Smith's Summer — it's there, it gets a bit of attention, but it's not the main focus.

Literature Compass is doing well! Congrats to Jamie & me, who have been heading the contemporary section for eons.

Hurrah! My RA Callum's & my paper on Neil Burger's Voyagers has passed peer review. The feeling never gets old.

Long day ahead!

What a great mail day!

I’m in love.

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Every time a Walmart closes the entire structure should be immediately consumed by a giant tree like in Ferngully 🤔

My RA Callum McNutt & I are in good company!

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Science solved the problem of needing to take a literature class

Congrats, Diana Maltz & @broadviewpress.bsky.social! X

Liza of Lambeth is the oft-neglected work of realist fiction that launched the career of one of the most prolific novelists of the 20th century. Maugham captures working-class life in a vivid, freshly relevant tale about illicit romance, women's experiences, and health and medicine.

Look what arrived! Warm congrats to my friend & mentor Margaret Stetz!

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My latest for Shelfdust, on The Ecstasies of Jimmy O: "Maybe the Silver Age is also about the pleasures of the flesh, and the many different things a body can do and feel within extravagantly escapist enclaves." #Superman #JimmyOlsen #LizardGunk shelfdust.com/2024/07/03/s...

Shelfdust’s Column, Jimmy Olsen: Issue #1shelfdust.com The Ecstasies of Jimmy O By Anna Peppard I don’t get off on transforming into a giant turtle to violently blaze through the upper atmosphere before crashing with a SPLOOSH and a concrete-cracking KE...

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Lisa Jardine Grant of Royal Society offers funding for: Extended research trips for UK & overseas-based researchers to use Royal Society's rich historical collections & related London collections (up to £8,000 available for travel & subsistence) & more. Deadline 10 October 2024, 3pm. #histsci #HPS 🗃️

The Lisa Jardine Grant Scheme | Royal Societybit.ly Travel grants to support archival research and career development in interdisciplinary studies.

Final go at my int abt Blackeyed Theatre's fab production of Valley of Fear! #Sherlock #Holmes #ConanDoyle

Wow!

Finally got some time to explore a bit!

Final day at the archives! Today, I’m mostly digitalizing comics.

I look forward to presenting some new work on #Superman at #FSNNA24 in October! @fanstudies.bsky.social

Off to the reviewers we go! Thx, @ludiprice.bsky.social & Lyn, for the opportunity; & congrats, Callum McNutt, on our third(?!) opus! This paper's on Neil Burger's Voyagers!

Dear god.

Does it count if I take a picture of the salad?

Clever ad.

Next spring!

Back to the archives!

Proofs are here! Thx to my nine sections of Reading & Writing: Economy for all of their insights!