𝕶𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖘𝖙𝖎𝖆𝖓 𝕾𝖒𝖎𝖙𝖍

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 “waste-to-energy” are seen on the side of the building framed by two verdant trees.

“Annuntio vobis gaudium magnum: Habemus Grimaceum!”

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 aren’t successfully challenged.

“Fade into (Jesu).” feat. Mazzy Star and John Donne by Jon Stitch.

Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies - 2025 RaceB4Race First Book Institute RaceB4Race First Book Institute There is a glaring need to support early career premodern critical race scholars through the process of publishing their first book, a critical juncture in an academic ...

Deadline extended: RaceB4Race First and Second Book Institutes for early and mid-career scholars writing books in Premodern Critical Race Studies!

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Equally “This fucked thing is radical actually” and “This radical thing is fucked actually”

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 it’s determined to be in compliance with Senate Bill 17. As a result, they said, “we’re already putting in jeopardy relationships with major funders across the nation.” 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 “whereby scholarly and professional stature are demonstrated and may be appraised.” 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.

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I’m C A C K L I N G.

🧵 with practical next steps. Some of this advice may not apply to you. Some of it may require significant financial security or aid you don’t have. Know that you have options. Ask for what you need and be willing to share what you can.

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, here’s a sneak peek at next semester. ⚗️🏝️✨📖📚

Khristian wearing a fox onesie looking at the title page of Foxe’s 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 Foxe’s Book of Martyrs (Actes and Monuments).

I always do at least one costume change per year. Happy Halloween from Foxe’s Actes and Monuments! 😅😇

Khristian dressed as John Calvin, his expression one of exhaustion with the world of embodiment…and 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 “Welcome to Historic Sleepy Hollow” 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 Cemetery’s 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.“

Screenshot of an email confirming Khristian’s enrollment in an SAA seminar.

See y’all in April! 🥰

In front of a window: a sage stoneware jack o’lantern 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! 🍂🍁🎃

Mirror-photo of a woodcut tattoo on Khristian’s lower forearm of William Kempe from Kemps nine daies vvonder (1600).

Mirror-photo of a woodcut tattoo on Khristian’s 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! 🍁🍂

Clip art of a dancing skeleton

Overcast, low humidity, and 68°?! With a breeze?! 😭😭😭🧡🧡🧡

Urge the White House and Congress to Provide Free N95 Masks! Urge the White House and Congress to Provide Free N95 Masks to the Public! Send an email here: https://actionnetwork.org/letters/freen95s #FreeN95s #BringBackMasks

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 Khristian’s 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 ch′entrate!

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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: “!Alert Carolina! Emergency: Armed, dangerous person on or near campus. Go inside now; avoid windows.”

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 they’re 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: “Hope your birthday’s as happy as a basket full of kittens….Which, by the way, is horrible.”

A red wolf plushie, “Virgo: Music of the Zodiac” 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 Stewart’s Hors D’Oeuvres 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. 🥰

Early
Modern
Trans
DRAMA.

The motion to freeze WVU’s “Academic Transformation” 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: