Harvard referencing system feels like a hate crime against me personally.

One of these references is not like the others...

If anything can force me to spend the whole Saturday on zoom, it is #HFRNWorkshop2023 - brilliant papers and discussions!

My favorite story that emerged from a Moscow archive: Sylvia Townsend Warner's reading and criticism of Lukács's The Historical Novel. Many thanks to The Journal of the Sylvia Townsend Warner Society for publishing it (and in open access, too!): doi.org/10.14324/STW.2…

Happy MSCA rejection letters morning!

A short review of Sylvia Townsend Warner's 'Mr Fortune's Maggot' from Otago Witness (28/VII/1927) ends with: 'There is no love interest in the book.' My cackling can probably be heard across the sea.

Non-tenure track assistant professor positions

And the most tedious of them all is writing an email asking for a recommendation letter. Takes me a week, every time.

I have zero context for this publication (EuroUniversity Tallinn, 1998) but I think about the title often.

You can always count on tumblr to provide the best and most accurate takes.

I often misread 'George Lucas' as 'Georg Lukács' and end up being very confused about the latter having hot philosophical takes on Star Wars.

Oh the delightful simultaneity of courses planning, book writing, and workshop organisation.

It's official: as of yesterday, I am a lecturer in Slavic and Russian studies at Tallinn University. Very happy to stick around; very anxious about the responsibility.

Oh look, a new publication! This one is about Przybyszewska's utopianism in the face of interwar crises and the absolute banger that is Cyrograf na własnej skórze: taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/…