assistant professor of English blue humanities + oceanic lit | British novels in the long 19C | climate fiction | network theory | inclusive pedagogy https://sites.google.com/view/markcelestehttps://bsky.app/profile/markceleste.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/markceleste.bsky.social/post/3mgbvpncxgs2xCheck out my open-access article! I explore how two water-centric #clifi short stories by A.S. Byatt and Vajra Chandrasekera paradoxically use the narrative failure at the heart of the climate crisis as a catalyst for narrative imagination. #bluehumanities #ecocriticism http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/fhu2.7002505 Mar 2026 03:56 +0000at://did:plc:hpwya452txqflpep2upimlac/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgbvpncxgs2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/markceleste.bsky.social/post/3mdnjg7j4hk2gme: "I offer something even better than extra credit." [*students sit up in excitement*] me: "Regular credit." [*general booing, hissing, and throwing of rotten vegetables*]30 Jan 2026 14:32 +0000at://did:plc:hpwya452txqflpep2upimlac/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdnjg7j4hk2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/markceleste.bsky.social/post/3mbruscqfxk2kCarla Arnell calling for the creation of dedicated, credit-bearing writing labs: "If colleges still wish to claim writing skill as an important learning outcome, they need to become more deliberate about what it means to educate student writers in the age of AI." [contains quote post or other embedded content]06 Jan 2026 21:16 +0000at://did:plc:hpwya452txqflpep2upimlac/app.bsky.feed.post/3mbruscqfxk2khttps://bsky.app/profile/markceleste.bsky.social/post/3mbhccagbdc2bFor anyone prepping a #syllabus for a Brit lit survey: Check out my recent open-access article in _Victorians_, which considers how to design an #inclusive survey for non-majors. By centering "amateur" undergrad knowledges, we can rethink Brit lit surveys from below. muse.jhu.edu/article/969209 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/96920902 Jan 2026 16:18 +0000at://did:plc:hpwya452txqflpep2upimlac/app.bsky.feed.post/3mbhccagbdc2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/markceleste.bsky.social/post/3mb5onshab22eThe fat was here, the fat was there, / The fat was all around https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/dec/22/100-tonne-fatberg-discovered-in-east-london-sewer29 Dec 2025 20:33 +0000at://did:plc:hpwya452txqflpep2upimlac/app.bsky.feed.post/3mb5onshab22ehttps://bsky.app/profile/markceleste.bsky.social/post/3maltwcuc2s2bwhen H-Net releases a torrent of notification emails https://media.tenor.com/vnm_g7ElGZQAAAAC/harry-potter-letters.gif?hh=273&ww=49822 Dec 2025 18:19 +0000at://did:plc:hpwya452txqflpep2upimlac/app.bsky.feed.post/3maltwcuc2s2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/markceleste.bsky.social/post/3m7xxbh5yh227"I've had it up to here with your pathetic fallacy, buddy." [contains quote post or other embedded content]14 Dec 2025 20:26 +0000at://did:plc:hpwya452txqflpep2upimlac/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7xxbh5yh227https://bsky.app/profile/markceleste.bsky.social/post/3m7utge5lps2ythe TLDR of mercantile maritime capitalism [contains quote post or other embedded content]13 Dec 2025 14:39 +0000at://did:plc:hpwya452txqflpep2upimlac/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7utge5lps2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/markceleste.bsky.social/post/3m7syluhv2k2myou will be visited by three spirits12 Dec 2025 21:06 +0000at://did:plc:hpwya452txqflpep2upimlac/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7syluhv2k2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/markceleste.bsky.social/post/3m7neh6xcwc2z[1/3] For their final reflection of the semester, I had students pretend to be me and write a short letter of recommendation about their overall work in the course.10 Dec 2025 15:22 +0000at://did:plc:hpwya452txqflpep2upimlac/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7neh6xcwc2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/markceleste.bsky.social/post/3m7dl6mvab22yThe second sentence: a blue Christmas indeed -- Dickens's oceanic imagination at work. [contains quote post or other embedded content]06 Dec 2025 17:56 +0000at://did:plc:hpwya452txqflpep2upimlac/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7dl6mvab22yhttps://bsky.app/profile/markceleste.bsky.social/post/3m7artbgymk2csnow on the dogwoods this morning05 Dec 2025 15:17 +0000at://did:plc:hpwya452txqflpep2upimlac/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7artbgymk2chttps://bsky.app/profile/markceleste.bsky.social/post/3m5fqhx4sik2eTest driving Bluesky -- just in time for #NAVSA2025! Come hear me talk about Victorian cryofiction -- human entanglements with Arctic ice in literary responses to the Franklin Expedition: panel 11G, "The Ends of the Earth," Nov. 15 @ 4:00PM.12 Nov 2025 03:46 +0000at://did:plc:hpwya452txqflpep2upimlac/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5fqhx4sik2e