Student-designed manuscripts in a scattered pile. They are made of parchment and mostly written with black ink. Some feature illuminations—one from The Decameron has a wolf and a lamb, others have knights, etc.
My medieval lit students have started turning in their manuscript projects, and I am SO excited. I made that ink in my kitchen! They (mostly) wrote with quills on parchment!
Wait, let me send my kid too!
A screenshot of the first page of “Forming Beauty in Shake-speares Sonnets” by Bellee Jones-Pierce.
My piece is on Shakespeare’s Sonnets and disability poetics. Thanks to @matthewharrison.bsky.social for allowing me to try this idea out at MLA a couple of years ago and to Dianne for bringing me into dazzling LFAM galaxy.
Peeking in to live vicariously through everyone who went to #shax2026 and to say how happy I am that Literary Form After Matter is out in the world! And open access! Dianne and Katherine have been fabulous to work with, and the whole book is a treat.
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Wikipedia now has higher standards than all universities
This was so fun to read.
I am running a creative nonfiction workshop in Spring 2026! We’re going to focus on form. *rubs hands together* If you’ve published an essay (or read a recent essay) that mixes academic criticism with another form and/or CNF techniques, please tell me so!
On my way out of the building, I ran into someone from my cohort who finished his dissertation three years before I did—and that’s how I knew it was a dream.
I found a librarian, and she pointed to a sign that said the library closed at 6 PM. I asked when the hours had changed, and told her that I live ten hours away and couldn’t just come back, etc. etc. I was so sad!
Dreamt I was working on my dissertation and had gone to Atlanta to use the library at Emory. I wrote call numbers for everything, then I tried to go to the stacks. The elevators would go to a couple of floors, but not the floors I needed.
I regret to inform you that we are still not done with finals here, and I am running out of gas.
It's so fucked up to have been a kid during the D&D is the devil freakout and the Tipper Gore dirty lyrics freakout and live to see the teen suicide machine get such a pass.
Just swept the Alexander Pope category in Jeopardy!, bitches.
Even by the standards of The Atlantic, this is an extraordinarily weak evidence base for an article.
Data from a tiny handful of schools that isn't measuring the variable at issue and a few thin, secondhand anecdotes.
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Everyone! In! My! Neighborhood!
Sharing the video of this because it’s such a ghoulish thing to say that I’m honestly in disbelief that I even heard her properly
I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
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Remember: they used thousands of academic books too! If you’re a scholar, check for your books too. This isn’t just novelists and pop writers, it’s academic books too!
lithub.com/remembering-.... read this achingly beautiful piece by @thrasherxy.bsky.social I keep thinking, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social was irreplaceable but she nurtured a whole-ass huge forest (or series of forests). No one can replace her, except for all of us doing the work she nurtured in us.
New byline!! Got to shout out some of the disabled movies worth watching for @letterboxd.social!!
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Just discovering this database of books as symbols in Renaissance art--a wonderful resource #EarlyModern #HerBook basiraproject.org
As someone who's been a freelancer for 10 years, I thank the stars for the Editorial Freelancers Association rates. I am by nature a doormat, and I tend to work with organizations I believe in, and often the one thing preventing me from torpedoing my ability to feed my child is that cold hard table.
WHAT PROFESSORS CAN SAY Texas A&M is limiting how instructors may discuss gender identity and race in classrooms amid statewide debates over academic freedom.
Let me fix that for you:
Texas A&M is limiting how instructors may discuss gender identity and race in classrooms in an assault on academic freedom unseen in America since the Red Scare.
Shelley, I GUESS.
Good thread, and I will add that men DO NOT LIKE IT when women say "hey, you fucked up," and to the extent that women tend to soften the blow with indirectness, it's because men feel like their honor is insulted if they have to take feedback from women.
This is horrifying.
Today on the blog: a magnificent find by @franceswolfreston.bsky.social of a book that the poet Katherine Philips gave to Mary Jeffreys; a discussion with important scholarly implications for the study of Philips earlymodernfemalebookownership.wordpress.com/2025/10/27/h... #EarlyModern #HerBook