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jotorresbarth.bsky.social
Asst. prof of TV/media studies. Current book project: US radio + TV horror anthologies 1940s-1960s, gender/domestic space + media technology, the uncanny. #FirstGen. She/her.
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did anyone else’s Hulu app suddenly decide the Oscars are over?

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with the exception of some footnotes and that one! last! sentence!, I’ve completed a draft of something I’ve been working on in some form since my dissertation and I think it’s pretty good so…please clap

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frantically liking all the social media replies to the inaccurate comments deriding Jason Isaacs’s “Southern accent”explaining that what he’s doing is, in fact, a SPOT ON old-school rich North Carolina good-ol’-boy

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please help spread the word about my student's dissertation research, and fill out the survey if you qualify!

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the semester worked out so that two of my favorite examples for teaching historical empathy (Baby Face and Betty, Girl Engineer) were back-to-back today

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I’ve been listening to more French podcasts recently, including one on current events called Letter from America, and let me tell you our situation sounds even stupider in French

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one of my students this semester has extensive knowledge of minor 90s sitcoms (due to parental influence) and occasionally says things like "I just love TV" and it makes me feel like the kids might be okay

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prepping to discuss Dark Shadows with my Radio and TV Horror seminar tomorrow, and I guess I'm feeling a bit preemptively protective

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Happy Twin Peaks Day, my friends ☕️

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I have been cracking myself up thinking about this Instagram comment for days now

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90s musical nerd kids rise up

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in the past 2.5 months I have quite literally not been anywhere that’s not 1) campus 2) the grocery store or 3) the townie bar for trivia and I think it may be causing me to lose it

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after watching this week’s episodes of Yellowjackets and Severance I find myself missing the time when TV shows tempered their ambitions

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that last 30 minutes of The Substance really goes hard, huh

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between the literature and classics scholars, we have determined that the quote preceding upper admin’s address to the faculty about the recent executive orders is from the Aeneid and says that the path to hell is easy but it’s much harder to get back

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Please repost! Radio and audio media scholars: sign up to mentor (established scholars) or be mentored (grad students/ECRs) through the RPTF/RAMP SIG/BEA mentorship program! beaweb.org/wp/rptf-ment...

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Hey media studies folks: here's a visiting faculty position with the good folks in the UW-Madison Media and Cultural Studies program. App deadline is February 28. jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/communi...

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welp

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