back in the US after a fun and generative NCS. i’ll miss my carbonara and shawarma :(
dr. christopher
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Assistant Professor of medieval literature in Louisiana • University of California, Riverside, PhD • once described as “disgusting and unnerving” feelings, manuscripts, medievalism, queer studies, & haunting • he/him opinions expressed are my own
not having ANY kind of air circulation on this train is a CRIMINAL OFFENSE
a bit of advice™️: don’t move apartments a week before international travel
“The future is queerness’s domain … Queerness is that thing that lets us feel that the world is not enough, that indeed something is missing.” prophetic
Chaucer Doth Tweet@levostregc.bsky.social · 2mo agoWeekende ynspiration. Openinge page of José Esteban Muñoz *Cruising Utopia.* Reade thys out loud.
From ‘Outstanding’ and a good reminder that investing in the arts is a win-win, not a lose-lose, proposition.
Huge book history subplot developing during the World Cup.
Buckinghamshire Archives@bucksarchives.bsky.social · 4w agoIf England win on Saturday, Anthony Gordon (who looks like he died on an English bayonet at the Battle of Culloden) needs to buy the Book of Deer from Cambridge Library and send it to Aberdeen.
My good friend and scholar Amy Ayotte-Juarez wrote about Chaucer and Chappell Roan for @thesowhat.bsky.social ! Go take a look! www.arthuriana.com/tsw/chappell...
Chappell, Chaucer, and the Structural Instability of Fame — Arthuriana
In September of 2024, global pop icon Chappell Roan performed her hit song ‘Good Luck, Babe’ at the MTV Video Music Awards. Before this performance, Roan walked the black carpet, dressed in her first ...
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Writing up my NCS paper and trying to convince myself this paper is about Chaucer.
Worried Kermit the Frog
ALT: Worried Kermit the Frog
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The same medieval Christians that read and adapted Ovidian myth consistently for several hundred years or???
Sonja Drimmer@sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · last mo.That’s…not how that happened.This is why I have to patiently explain to my students every year that it’s not weird that medieval Christian art portrays Greek and Roman myth.
The European Mind Can't Comprehend Neck
Andrew Hammond@ahamm.bsky.social · last mo.Rise for the National Anthem
To the right-wing folks pointing to World Cup visitors gushing about the US as some kind of proof of how great things are: Of COURSE they’re enamored—they’re eating brisket & getting free soda refills They’re NOT having to start a GoFundMe because they got sick Thank you for coming to my TED talk
Nope ☝🏾 not anymore. If English and Social Science degrees are worth more than a Biology degree, I want the cash money! Pay us what you pay them and give us the same research budget too! Imagine what we could do with that?!
Then as now, no truer words. 1/ "Anti-Blackness has survived for centuries not because it was true, but because it was profitable." www.theroot.com/why-black-pe...
oh weird it’s only what english and art departments have been saying this whole time
Anna Kornbluh@annakornbluh.bsky.social · last mo."Hiring of college grads is down across the board. But certain majors are able to access opportunities in a wider array of industries, new LinkedIn data shows." ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH 69% VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS 68% www.forbes.com/sites/courtn...
Universal human rights - including for trans people, women, Palestinians, Jews, disabled people, immigrants, Black and brown people - is not an extreme position. Eliminating death from poverty and a broken healthcare system is not an extreme position.
curious what the political leanings of this individual is going to be? i can hazard a solid guess
Sarah E. Bond@sarahebond.bsky.social · last mo.So many things I wish I could say. jobs.chronicle.com/job/38003953...
my day has been made worse by seeing this ring
Dr Laura Sangha@lsangha.bsky.social · 2mo agowell, I found out what an eyed agate ring is but I wish I hadn't V&A, 1680-1720
i can’t be the only one who couldn’t care less about this water feature
MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 2mo agoWorkers attempt to clean algae out of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, which has been painted blue at the direction of U.S. President Donald Trump, in Washington, D.C., U.S., June 14, 2026. REUTERS/Eric Lee
“To organize the humanities or the sciences around something other than ‘institutionalized disciplines’ is to organize them around something other than understanding the world. It is also to capitulate to a program of austerity done under the fig leaf of innovation and impact.” — Jonathan Kramnick
To borrow from @mariepetersmann.bsky.social in 2023, the theoretical lineage of critical fabulation matters. 1) It's not "from literary theory"; it's by Saidiya Hartman, & explicitly rooted in Black feminist justice. 2) It demands deep immersion in archival materials, *not* avoidance of them. 1/2
Peter Whitewood@pwhitewood.bsky.social · 2mo agoRebranding a hallucination as a ‘critical confabulation’ that can fill archival gaps is a big no from me.
yeah the background of my apple watch is my absolutely disheveled dog named Connor
The Scots found the Boston cop slide @everyone @edsbs.bsky.social @brianmfloyd.bsky.social @cjzero.bsky.social
Happy trans pride from Peggy Hill and her roller derby gals
KOTH Screens@kothscreens.bsky.social · 2mo ago