Emily Bloom
@Bloomily
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Author of I Cannot Control Everything Forever. Assistant Professor (Literature) at Sarah Lawrence College. Rep’d Laura Usselman @skagency. She/her
New York, NY
Joined September 2009
Grateful and a little stunned to see I Cannot Control Everything Forever among the New Yorker's Briefly Noted
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Join Robert Volpicelli and I for a seminar on "diagnosis" at MSA Boston. If you interested in medical humanities, disability studies, or diagnostic reading practices, please join us!
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What a pleasure it was talking with Tim Kail for the @sarahlawrencecollege podcast. He got me to confess to watching Love is Blind, which is the mark of a great interviewer.
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This week on The Sarah Lawrence College Podcast, we're joined by Emily Bloom, author of I Cannot Control Everything Forever: A Memoir of Motherhood, Science, and Art. Host Tim Kail discusses Emily's...
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RT @sofheyman: Today! In-person registration is now closed, but you can still sign up to join us virtually for a panel about @Bloomily's me….
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The Motherhood and Technology Working Group is hosting a book launch for group member Emily Bloom ’s latest work, I Cannot Control Everything Forever: A…
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Looking forward to talking with some very smart folks about my book. Event will be in person at Columbia's Heyman Center and over Zoom on Tuesday, October 1st at 6:15pm.
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The Motherhood and Technology Working Group is hosting a book launch for group member Emily Bloom ’s latest work, I Cannot Control Everything Forever: A…
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"The Caregiving Crisis is Not Going Away" for the Chronicle. I've had a lot to say on this topic lately. Thank you to everyone I interviewed for this piece, who were so generous sharing their experiences.
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For faculty members of the “sandwich generation” — charged with caring for both children and aging parents at the same time — the financial costs are astronomical.
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It was such a pleasure editing this collection with @lahartvillalta. Contributions by @berylpong, Libbie Rifkin, Dania Dwyer, Lynn Deboeck, and Eleanor Russell.
"Precarity, Caregiving, and Covid," edited by @Bloomily and @lahartvillalta, considers the "blurring" of the academic and personal, "examining what it means to perform academic labor and care work at the same time and in the same space.".Read it here:
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Grateful to Naomi Michalowicz for reading my "spider-book" and reviewing it for Synapsis:
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Spidersilk Towards the end of her memoir, I Cannot Control Everything Forever, Emily Bloom evokes the image of a spider as a way to reflect upon the duality of motherhood. Moving from Ovid’s myth of...
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Everyone should hire Anna.
the second of the two fellowships i'd gotten for this summer just had its funding cut, too 🥴 so if anyone has any leads on TA/teaching/etc work either remotely in the NYC area, i am urgently looking!.
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Writing an article on caregiving and academia. Are there any academics out there who are caregivers (parental care, elder care, partner care, etc. ) who left academia or took a different career path due to caregiving demands and would be interested in talking? Feel free to DM.
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I wrote a piece in Lit Hub about parenting memoirs and disability.
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When my daughter was a year old, my mother handed me a worn-out copy of Pearl S. Buck’s The Child Who Never Grew (1950). The act of giving me this book felt significant, like an inheritance that sh…
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What an extraordinary panel of scholars to join for my first ASAP conference. Thank you @samanthanpinto for wrangling us together.
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RT @commongood_mag: "One thing that I’m slowly learning to do is to approach science as descriptive rather than prescriptive." @Bloomily ht….
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In her new memoir, ‘I Cannot Control Everything Forever,’ Emily C. Bloom reflects on motherhood.
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I am so grateful to @abbyjperry for this thoughtful interview:
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In her new memoir, ‘I Cannot Control Everything Forever,’ Emily C. Bloom reflects on motherhood.
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Looking forward to tomorrow's conversation with @LaurenGolden__ at 6:00pm at Fordham Lincoln Center. RSVP here:
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Join us at Fordham Lincoln Center (Lowenstein Building, the Atrium, 113 W 60th St, New York, NY 10023) on April 30th at 6:00pm for the launch of Emily C. Bloom's I Cannot Control Everything Forever:...
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Hometown book launch tonight at 6:30pm! If you're in Ann Arbor, please stop by.
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