I did! Overambitious might be one word for it.

At the same time, scholarship on Pearl and SGGK does not often consider just how weird Cleanness and Patience are in context.

An examination of space and place in the Pearl manuscript vis-à-vis gender and sexuality in Middle English literature.

I’m nothing if not consistent.

WHEW that acronym is such a stretch my back started cramping

crazy how The Tempest just… ends

uh ohhhhh

wait till you see what a car can do!

a little on the nose imo

HELL YEAH THIS BOOK SOUNDS RAD

Getting cheeky and teaching a graduate research seminar using Shirley Jackson.

The circle of death is:

Cut faculty (or non-replace) so you offer fewer classes so fewer people enroll so you cut faculty so you offer fewer classes so fewer people enroll so then the market has spoken.

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as an arkansas fan, this hurts

... oh absolutely not.

Pope Leo on an airplane, standing in the aisle, holding a baseball bat.

Say "weak on crime" again. I dare you.

i will vote for any candidate who offers up this slogan

"The new administration will prosecute and convict the old, criminal administration" is a winning argument!

Hi Linda! I'm a first generation PhD that graduated from UC Riverside; I did not purchase regalia but I do hold an assistant professorship in Louisiana. I tried to DM but found I couldn't from my end.

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*googles how to become an astronaut*

I’d trust his knowledge of flavor notes in the roast of the week.

And you’ll at least get some caffeine out of it!

That said, Chaucer’s Pardoner would’ve loved this sort of thing.

Exodus 32.5-8

teaching premodern british literature means confronting the specter of cuckoldry

and students find it really funny

wait does he think that madmen was aspirational?

I like to highlight my “to do” notes in documents but that’s because I have a flair for the dramatic.

good lord

I think people are allowed to draw conclusions about the American people based on their decision to put this man in office bsky.app/profile/pear...

it's wild that we just need 5 - 10 congressional republicans to not suck for this to be over - like they just need to not be total shithead losers for five minutes and they can't even do that bc they actually deeply hate their constituents