Jacquelyn Ardam

It is truly astonishing that any girl emerged from the 90s without an eating disorder

Dawson’s treat #1: the beginning of a 1998 review of Dawson’s Creek in the Washington Post, which refers to Jen as a “chubby blonde.” Also pictured: a screenshot of said “chubby blonde”

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After many years of threatening to write about Dawson’s Creek, I am finally doing it. I will use this space to share archival treats/thoughts and thots/amazing screenshots

she’s more myself than I am

sweaters for senior citizens even in LA

2020 Academy of American Poets Prize On Learning to Dissect Fetal Pigs by Renée Nicole Macklin

it's a good poem

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Director of Instructor Engagement and Educational Development University of California, Los Angeles is hiring. Apply now!

good UCLA academic admin job in the Teaching and Learning Center for folks with admin experience

recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF10633

A Spectacle and Nothing Strange | Los Angeles Review of Books Jacquelyn Ardam considers Francesca Wade’s “Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife.”

I’m writing again after a 3-year hiatus to figure out how to be a director and fall in love! Worth it but I’m glad to be using my brain again. Please enjoy my review of Francesca Wade’s new bio of my love Gertrude Stein for @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social

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"Wade pays particular attention to the ways Stein’s writing and her intimate life with Toklas intertwine." Jacquelyn Ardam on Francesca Wade’s "Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife." https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/a-spectacle-and-nothing-strange/

I’m not on here very often but please know that Millie and I are living our best lives in LA

Summer Research Incubator Bridges UCLA and Morgan State for First Time - UCLA Undergraduate Education Students gain intensive research experience, mentorship, and new perspectives in humanities, arts, and social sciences.

There are only five good things left and this summer program is one of them. If you know any major donors, please send them my way thx www.ugeducation.ucla.edu/2025/08/26/s...

I’m going to review tf out of this

Archivists Aren’t Ready for the ‘Very Online’ Era The challenge: how to catalog and derive meaning from so much digital clutter

I wrote for @theatlantic.com about how archivists are contending with our digital detritus — whether we'll be able to save emails, texts, Discord chats, etc, and what that means for how we tell history:

www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...

Archivists Aren’t Ready for the ‘Very Online’ Era The challenge: how to catalog and derive meaning from so much digital clutter

Here I am being extremely articulate about Susan Sontag’s digital archives in the Atlantic!

www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...

Millie wants you to know that she’s on vacation

she wants you to know that she has things to say

why yes I will be writing about this

I would not use the word “Sontagolytes” if I were writing this story today, which I think it proof of my growth as a writer

On Excess: Susan Sontag’s Born-Digital Archive | Los Angeles Review of Books Susan Sontag’s entire digital life is now available to researchers. What should they do with it?

I had a really nice conversation with a journalist today about the article I co-wrote about Susan Sontag’s born-digital archives over a decade ago and for an hour this morning it was nice to have an intellectual life that was not under attack
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I was going to say something snarky but actually I believe that poetry is GOOD

is something else going on in the world rn

it’s national poetry month and not a single one of you has asked me what I think about poetry

my sweet pea

Avidly Reads Poetry “Poetry has leapt out of its world and into the world”Poetry is everywhere. From Amanda Gorman performing “The Hill We Climb” before the nation at Jo...

In other news happy 3rd birthday to my book!! When I wrote about poetry in the time of Trump I really did not think there would be a Trump 2.0 but here we are!!

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I’m told they say buy low sell high

sending my lil university emails as the entire research university infrastructure of this country crumbles around me! also the infrastructure of everything else! 2025!

I think I have lost the will to tweet in Trump 2.0

do I dare to eat a peach

Opinion | The View Inside Trump’s Assault on Universities The Trump administration’s attacks on universities will lead to the permanent diminishment of vital American institutions.

I wrote about the Trump administration's assault on higher education & what's really going on:

"If, during the Cold War, the government funded universities as a way of strengthening America, Mr. Trump’s second administration treats them as a threat to be dismantled."
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/o...

Our groomer is getting a bit too gender normative