Ellen Muehlberger

Photo of author’s copies of my minimonograph _Magic and Heresy in Ancient Christian Literature_.

they’re here! i only need like 3 of these. CUP sent me 10. so, how about this: i’ll mail the others to the first 7 contingent faculty and/or grad students who email me their mailing address.

it's wild

It's like patriarchy chicken, but in my inbox instead of on the sidewalk

driving home from an errand listening to the radio, and I literally could not find a song on any channel, across genres, that did not center on an imperative directed to an implied woman or girl

it's always right there but today it made me want to scratch my eyes out

It's important to note here that we're not just talking about faculty & university staff. 100s of U.S. colleges are in towns or small cities where they form the major industry & lifeblood of the community. Loss of students -> loss of rent $, restaurant $, bars, bookstores, gaming stores...

Trump Went to War With the Ivies. Community Colleges Are Being Hit.

the trump administration is selling its war on higher education as a strike against the elites who have disadvantaged ordinary americans. in actuality, the administration is destroying advanced education for *everyone* in pursuit of its effort to deskill the american public

The problem is far bigger than Jeffrey Epstein | Rebecca Solnit Treating the scandal as an aberration misunderstands the global epidemic of violence against women

"One of the reasons the epidemic of violence against women is so unacknowledged is because cases like these are talked about individually, and often treated as though they are shocking aberrations rather than part of a pervasive pattern that operates at all levels of society."

Our search for a tenure-track colleague in Early Christianity continues! (Last year’s search was among those canceled due to budgetary uncertainty.) This search is at the assistant professor level. More details in the linked description below; review of applications begins on September 30.

we had one---and it got recycled on to another cat <3

Oh, Carrie, I'm so sorry 💜

A fluffy atop a fluffy!

Not enough of you read Kate Manne’s Down Girl and it shows!!!!

coffee first, then rage, every day

just me getting my morning rage

I mean

and that repost this morning made me feel the same---like, that's C@^%#%a Fucking M@$$, show some respect people

I saw her after and she was characteristically unfazed by it.

Her husband, though---not a person to drop or countenance the f bomb, not by a long shot---heartily agreed with me when I said "I mean, that's Jane Fucking Doe up there, show some respect"

He said this into a microphone in front of 300 people.

He did not give a title of one of the four or five books she had written, he did not talk about her work organizing the subfield she led---years and years of it. He told a thirty-year-old story about her being underestimated and discounted.

Instead he got up there and winged it. Winging it included telling a story about how the speaker was a new grad student at his institution, and when she arrived, her advisor-to-be was confused because she was a woman. Ha ha ha, wasn't it funny that she wouldn't have been admitted if he had realized?

I remember attending a lecture where a leader of the field--actually, no, *the* leader of the field---was set to speak to about 300 people. The person tasked with introducing her did not prepare an introduction.

That repost has me feeling some feelings this morning

This website update is shared as a reminder that if you are interested in writing for the Anchor Yale Bible Series (a monograph or a commentary) you should contact me and not the previous editor John Collins...

yalebooks.yale.edu/the-anchor-y...

is this the start of a revenge heist movie, because if you are looking for compatriots, I am in for The Sword Clawback

If you are applying to a PhD, don't use an LLM in composing your proposal.

If you are doing a PhD, don't use an LLM to do the writing and reading and thinking for you.

Sorry, I am going to die on this hill.

I haven't---and I fired off that thread and then sheepishly realized I was inventing an entire field that already exists, ie, sports history, in my zeal

but hey, sports has long, long been a place where folks create and enforce gender norms, so hey, there's a twisted logic to why you'd turn to sports to get your anti-trans work done

oops, there's the dissertation

yes, I'm all "you like them? name three songs" but the fact is none of Those Who Are Concerned (tm) can name a single song

and yet they get taken seriously

and even if you could come up with that kind of info (or, say, you could tell me what state Leadville happens in, or what the two courses are for Unbound and their relative challenges)---your arguments against trans inclusion would *still* be shit

but it's just so fake on its face

I mean, let's take the sport I care about, bike racing---unless you can tell me which top contender and former Leadville winner barfed her way through Unbound this year, you don't even get to talk about women's racing because I don't believe you care about it

I say this a lot, but truly: you meet these "oh no, women's sports won't be fair!" transphobes and ask them to name three women who competed in the sport they're focused on in the last year and its *crickets*

just the most obvious bad faith, no, insidious faith arguments