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Tara MacDonald

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Director of the Centre for Feminist Research; Professor of English and Women’s and Gender Studies, University of Lethbridge, Canada.

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My Gaslighting book arrived! It was such a pleasure to work on this with my brilliant co-editors and such a wonderful group of feminist scholars. ❤️

12.03.2026 00:58 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Groan. Any recs for feminist-informed AI-resistant essays? I can’t seem to find many but it seems like such a natural pairing.

03.03.2026 04:40 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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It's alive! Editor copies of "Victorian Gaslighting" arrived yesterday, and the book is now available for order at sunypress.edu/Books/V/Vict.... Go get (or go ask your library to get) yours! #gaslighting #Gaslight @dbellonby.bsky.social @tara-macdonald.bsky.social @sunypress.bsky.social

13.02.2026 14:07 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

Same!

14.01.2026 03:49 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Reminder: The extended deadline to submit your proposal for VSAWC 2026 is in five days!

11.12.2025 00:18 👍 3 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1
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My office view is really stunning. Pre and post snow!

26.11.2025 05:09 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
a poster for a talk entitled “Apostrophe at Catastrophic Duration: Towards a Lyric Theory of Being the Last Person on Earth” being held at 4pm EST in room SMD 224 at UOttawa

a poster for a talk entitled “Apostrophe at Catastrophic Duration: Towards a Lyric Theory of Being the Last Person on Earth” being held at 4pm EST in room SMD 224 at UOttawa

hello Ottawa! I am giving this talk tomorrow please come!

+ thank you @kqandrews.bsky.social for inviting me!

13.11.2025 19:33 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 3

❤️

05.11.2025 17:03 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Happy to have this new piece out in @publicbooks.bsky.social today about political #gaslighting, a lost version of the play #Gaslight, and how the latter can help us reframe the way we think about and push back against the former!

28.10.2025 16:53 👍 12 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 1

Want to attend NAVSA 2025: Aftermaths but can't make it to DC? Want MORE brilliant Victorianist scholarship than you can get at the in-person event? The NAVSA 2025 DIGITAL PRESESSION is free and open to all —registration required for security

(thread of papers below)

03.10.2025 18:28 👍 16 🔁 15 💬 0 📌 0

Our CFP for our May 2026 conference is live! Please see the attachment or the thread for details about our upcoming conference on VICTORIAN TRADE

26.09.2025 02:58 👍 3 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1
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University launches Centre for Feminist Research | UNews

We launched the Centre for Feminist Research to a packed room of colleagues, students, and friends this morning. A good day! www.ulethbridge.ca/unews/articl...

13.09.2025 01:44 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Cover image for our new book! The essays are really phenomenal and the topic is, sadly, just as urgent today. Doesn’t that Bergman expression sum up a lot?! Available March 2026!

20.08.2025 03:48 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I love this so much!

19.07.2025 04:37 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

So happy!

13.07.2025 17:33 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The book prize is especially validating as my book came out when my son was 9 months old and I was returning as Dept Chair (a combo I do not recommend), and I did not have the energy or time to promote the book. So this feels great.

11.07.2025 14:07 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

THRILLED to share that my book has won the VPFA Second Book Prize! 🎉

11.07.2025 14:02 👍 16 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 1
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‘It’s too late’: David Suzuki says the fight against climate change is lost - iPolitics "We have failed to shift the narrative and we are still caught up in the same legal, economic and political systems," said David Suzuki in an exclusive interview with iPolitics. "For me, what we've go...

Sobering and no doubt accurate. www.ipolitics.ca/2025/07/02/i...

05.07.2025 15:46 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

So sweet!

01.07.2025 15:58 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Bluesky peeps: please help! This is for the book I'm working on. Did you have family fire drills when you were growing up? (And what generation are you?) If you have kids, do you have family fire drills now? THANK YOU for your help and please REPOST this question! 😘 #AcademicSky #Writing #History

28.06.2025 20:01 👍 8 🔁 8 💬 22 📌 1

Babe! You’re still in Amsterdam? Enjoy!!

25.06.2025 20:53 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Narrative, Affect and Victorian Sensation Narrative, Affect and Victorian Sensation

And in more book news, my book on affect theory and sensation fiction is now out in paperback: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-narrati...

21.06.2025 15:20 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Yay! Such great news! And yes: dream editor. 🙂 Enjoy your week off!

20.06.2025 15:55 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Eek! Our Gaslighting book has a date! (And an amazing editor!)

20.06.2025 15:54 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Wanna know the history of #gaslighting? My co-edited book of essays, *Victorian Gaslighting*, will make you an expert! This juicy guide, co-created with @noragilbert.bsky.social and @tara-macdonald.bsky.social, is officially in pre-production at @sunypress.bsky.social and slated for pub in 2026!

20.06.2025 15:25 👍 18 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 2

Watching Mary Poppins with a sick toddler and forgot that the first song is the brilliant Sister Suffragette: “Though we adore men individually / We agree that as a group they're rather stupid.”

01.06.2025 22:23 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Me too!

17.05.2025 16:52 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Friends, big news: starting this July, we are moving back to Canada! I’ll be Director of the Centre for Feminist Research and Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Lethbridge. Very excited!

01.05.2025 20:02 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

I do love this quotation. And I also love the idea of Dorothea as “a little ‘cringe.’”

20.04.2025 22:03 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Come hear me talk about my new(ish) book!

10.04.2025 18:46 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0