Purple-pink water vapor rises from the chimney stack of the Lancaster County Solid Waste Management Authority's waste-to-energy facility in Conoy Township. The words โwaste-to-energyโ are seen on the side of the building framed by two verdant trees.
โAnnuntio vobis gaudium magnum: Habemus Grimaceum!โ
Watch Indigeneity: A #RaceB4Race Symposium live now
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The budget shortfall at Sonoma State, an HSI, is 8 million, leading to layoffs of 25% of faculty and shuttering programs. The system is paying 17 million to OpenAI. We always say budgets are moral documents. This is why.
UNC is eleventh. Severe impact on future research if proposed cuts arenโt successfully challenged.
โFade into (Jesu).โ feat. Mazzy Star and John Donne by Jon Stitch.
Deadline extended: RaceB4Race First and Second Book Institutes for early and mid-career scholars writing books in Premodern Critical Race Studies!
First Book Institute: acmrs.submittable.com/submit/30956...
Second Book Institute: acmrs.submittable.com/submit/30956...
@acmrs.bsky.social #PCRS
Equally โThis fucked thing is radical actuallyโ and โThis radical thing is fucked actuallyโ
Meanwhile, the impacts on research are already being felt. According to the faculty member in the College of Education, one prestigious grant from the Spencer Foundation has been delayed until itโs determined to be in compliance with Senate Bill 17. As a result, they said, โweโre already putting in jeopardy relationships with major funders across the nation.โ Those in the College of Education were also told that they will not receive travel funds to present research at conferences that deal with race, color, ethnicity, gender identity, or sexual orientation. If scholars choose to pay out-of-pocket to attend such conferences, the faculty member added, they must say that they are not representing the university. (Reese, meanwhile, said that faculty members can get travel funding to engage in activities โwhereby scholarly and professional stature are demonstrated and may be appraised.โ She denied any delay concerning the Spencer Foundation grant.)
I have been concerned for years that states will block faculty from attending certain conferences or accepting some grants. It looks like that is now happening at North Texas.
www.chronicle.com/article/a-te...
Iโm C A C K L I N G.
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Front page of syllabus for ENGL 146: Speculative Fiction.
List of readings for ENGL 146.
I am still here! Just infrequent at posting. As a catchup/distraction, hereโs a sneak peek at next semester. โ๏ธ๐๏ธโจ๐๐
Khristian wearing a fox onesie looking at the title page of Foxeโs Actes and Monuments floating above his open palm. A cartoonish halo hovers over his head.
Khristian wearing a fox onesie and holding a copy of the Oxford World Classics edition of Foxeโs Book of Martyrs (Actes and Monuments).
I always do at least one costume change per year. Happy Halloween from Foxeโs Actes and Monuments! ๐ ๐
Khristian dressed as John Calvin, his expression one of exhaustion with the world of embodimentโฆand Catholics.
Everett dressed as Thomas Hobbes, contemplating geometry and repulsed by monarchy.
Everett dressed as Thomas Hobbes and Khristian dressed as John Calvin making silly faces in their office.
Happy Halloween! My best friend and I went as Calvin and Hobbes.
Heading to #scsc2023. Anyone going to be around Baltimore this weekend?
Khristian in a skull-print knitted sweater sitting in front of the wooden โWelcome to Historic Sleepy Hollowโ sign.
The Headless Horseman Sculpture on Broadway in Sleepy Hollow, NY.
The Old Dutch Church atop a small hill, framed by the adjoining Sleepy Hollow Cemeteryโs iron fencing.
A mix of historic, replacement, and contemporary headstones in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery.
"A drowsy, dreamy influence seems to hang over the land, and to pervade the very atmosphere...Certain it is, the place still continues under the sway of some witching power, that holds a spell over the minds of the good people, causing them to walk in a continual reverie.โ
Screenshot of an email confirming Khristianโs enrollment in an SAA seminar.
See yโall in April! ๐ฅฐ
In front of a window: a sage stoneware jack oโlantern stacked on top of a white one with lit tea lights in them. Framed by star-shaped string lights. A neon palm reader sign hangs in the window behind.
Happy October! ๐๐๐
Mirror-photo of a woodcut tattoo on Khristianโs lower forearm of William Kempe from Kemps nine daies vvonder (1600).
Mirror-photo of a woodcut tattoo on Khristianโs lower forearm of William Kempe from Kemps nine daies vvonder (1600).
A camp little Kempe!
On a balcony/covered porch, a plastic skeleton sitting on a stool with a potted fern in his lap. Red lanterns and mid century modern bird feeders festooned above. Leaves and rain cover the ground in the arboreous surroundings.
A box of Macedonian halva with pistachios and another of Droste drinking-chocolate on a black table-runner patterned with white and gold Halloween florals and moths.
Happy Equinox, everyone! ๐๐
Clip art of a dancing skeleton
Overcast, low humidity, and 68ยฐ?! With a breeze?! ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐งก๐งก๐งก
Please do this! It's great the government is going to send people free COVID tests again. But we also need them to send people free N95 masks.
Photo of the first page of Khristianโs chapter on spiritual poison in Romeo and Juliet.
A copy of Poison on the Early Modern English stage: Plants, paints and potions on a yellow, cream, and dark gray knitted blanket.
Many many thanks to Lisa Hopkins, Bill Angus, and Kibrina Davey for their work editing this incredible collection and for generously including me in it. Available now from Manchester UP!
Lasciate ogni speranza voi chโฒentrate!
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Hoping newbies will see this post about the #earlymodern and What's History feeds.
Screenshot of an Alert Carolina message, reading: โ!Alert Carolina! Emergency: Armed, dangerous person on or near campus. Go inside now; avoid windows.โ
I am safe with my students. The same students with whom I sat through a three-hour lockdown two weeks ago. I will have updates as theyโre released.
Mirror selfie of Khristian holding a shorthair black cat, framed by autumnal florals.
A small, single-portion pecan pie in front of a Grumpy Cat birthday card, which reads: โHope your birthdayโs as happy as a basket full of kittensโฆ.Which, by the way, is horrible.โ
A red wolf plushie, โVirgo: Music of the Zodiacโ CD, and heart gelatin mold box with 40s/50s advertising art are positioned together on a dark gray sofa, framed by pillows and autumnal floral arrangements in the background.
Martha Stewartโs Hors DโOeuvres Handbook (1999) on a black table-runner decorated with white and gold Halloween florals.
Had a lovely time celebrating a another trip around the sun yesterday. ๐ฅฐ
Early
Modern
Trans
DRAMA.
The motion to freeze WVUโs โAcademic Transformationโ passed 747 to 79!!!
Screenshoot from Duolingo asking the user to translate a Dutch sentence (Ik loop niet, ik schrijf) into English (I am not walking, I am writing).
When I take a class outside:
