(he/him/his) Assistant Professor, Poet: c18/c19 British Literature/History of Medicine (immunity and vaccination)/Health Humanities/Disability Studies
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Travis Chi Wing Lau (劉志頴)
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So much of scoliosis discourse is toxically positive, overcoming “language” or curative rehabilitation, but what other ways of talking about what scoliosis-related disabilities (thank you Lisa Johnson for this term I’ve lovingly adopted) might we embrace and circulate?
Love this! bookpile.org
'We seek a humanities- or social‑science‑led researcher whose work examines how people experience, interpret, and are shaped by social and cultural aspects of the digital.'
Ignore the ranking patter but do read the advert. Could this be you? 1/2 #Skystorians
Ah so LLMs operate like senior male academics. Who could have envisioned that technology trained on existing texts could operate in a fundamentally conservative nature
Yeah, it's probably not a great sign of higher-ed's stability and longevity that every few years there's a new flash-in-the-pan technology or subfield of study that all the funding gets funneled towards until another shiny object comes along.
For years I thought it was just an evergreen sprig until an audience member at the Caxton Club—where I was delivering a lecture—pointed out it was a yew.
Thanks for sharing this, Matt!
SUBMISSIONS OPEN TOMORROW!
The Maureen Seaton Book Prize for LGBTQIA+ Emerging Writers is open from 6/10/26 through 7/10/26, with final judge Denise Duhamel.
Named for the beloved poet Maureen Seaton (1947–2024), this prize honors queer voices in the early stages of their literary lives.
I said something like this to a highly-esteemed professor when I was doing my PhD. She said: "the humanities aren't cheap, they're just used to being starved. You think we couldn't spend ten times more if we had it? You think that wouldn't be incredible?"
As @teagerbeza.bsky.social so kindly reminded me, it’s scoliosis awareness month: spinal curvature has shaped my poetics, my academic labor, and my life entirely.
