Rohan Maitzen

@rmaitzen
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English prof, critic, blogger. Mostly reading and writing about Victorian literature, detective fiction, contemporary fiction. Essays and reviews in the TLS, Q&Q, LARB, CNQ, etc. It's pronounced "Rowan." She / her. Halifax, NS
Websitehttp://rohanmaitzen.com
Twitter@RohanMaitzen
Bloghttps://rohanmaitzen.com/novelreadings/
@ofbooksandbikes If you do that it takes your followers / follows with you, right? Thinking of doing the same before I'm in too deep on this one but a bit muddled about the consequences.
A server is being started "for readers, writers, thinkers, artists, academics, enthusiasts or anyone who just wants to follow the conversation" - this might be a good way for some of us to find a more humanities-centered local timeline. https://zirk.us/about
We can't let the #histodons keep showing us up, lit folks! Can we rally around #LitStudies as our hashtag, at least while we're still settling in?
@smaran Seems like finding a consistent hashtag would help, but what?

After spending a few days scoping out Mastodon, it's time for a brief #introduction. While I work in DC journalism, I am here to discuss #movies, #music, #genealogy, and, especially, #books. My taste in fiction often gravitates toward the darkly humorous or strange, but I'm genre agnostic. Most of my nonfiction reading is #history, often about the early 20th century in my home state of #Montana.

I plan to use this differently than I've used Twitter, but I don't know exactly what that means.

@Helannsta Brave woman! 😂
@VCP Almost certainly that hour made a longer-lasting difference to that student than any grading could. Don't you often feel that, that it's the relationship and the conversation that's "outside" requirements that really makes something happen?

"For the egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief."

GE, Middlemarch (Chapter 53)