Lara Dodds

The booke of love ys long & boringe
No folk kan lyft the damned thinge
Crammid ful of charters & lore & rubrics
And ynstructiouns for daunsing -
But Ich? Ich love it whan thou readest to me;
And thee, thou kanst reade me eny thinge.

("The Book of Love" by The Magnetic Fields)

Women, Gender and Sexuality in Premodern Literature and Culture Welcome to Cambridge Core

Delighted to be series editor for Cambridge Elements in Women, Gender and Sexuality in Premodern Literature and Culture. If you have something cool and interesting you’d like to work with us on please get in touch (micrograph 20-30k)

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I second this! Today colleagues received messages purporting to share files from their Department Head (me!) which I did not send. Be careful!

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Why I will never get rid of my Buffy the Vampire Slayer DVD.

Something good??

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

Thanks for looking out for me, Mira!

This is the second time I’ve seen reference to this phrase in two days. I definitely don’t know what it means,

If you are an author who is writing about reproductive justice, well I have good news. The University of Iowa is launching a special book series focused on RJ and we are looking for contributors. Details on the website and a kick off event tomorrow! lrj.sites.uiowa.edu

Fired Scholars and Big Grants to Favored Projects: Inside Trump’s N.E.H.

Today marks six months since nearly 70% of staff at the National Endowment for the Humanities were fired without cause.

If you do nothing else today, please read and *share* this recent article outlining what this year, mostly without us, has looked like at #NEH.

archived: archive.is/LgVyh

Upcoming Margaret Cavendish Society Conference! Call For Papers: www.unb.ca/fredericton/...

If you’re in the Deep South and you want EC on hand, we’ve got you.
Discreet, free, and delivered with the kind of care our state refuses to provide.

I also don’t use Google Scholar. MLA bibliography all the way!!

She shouldn't have to keep doing this by herself. She is supposedly a member of a political party and every single one of her *colleagues* should be BLASTING the fascist in chief. ALL OF THEM. Where is the solidarity???

Your review made me want to read Atonement again, but I doubt I would pick up this again. I might reread Possession or Station Eleven instead!

Thank you for the review. I also didn’t love the second half. I didn’t feel it gave me greater insight.

"[R]eflecting on the harms of AI is not itself harm reduction. It may even contribute to rationalizing, normalizing, and enabling harm. Critical reflection without appropriate action is thus quintessentially critical washing." zenodo.org/records/1567...

Headshots of Michelle Dowd and Lara Dodds and an image of the cover of their 2025 book, with details of the virtual talk, superimposed on a background of Artemisia Gentilleschi's painting Judith Slaying Holofernes.

The seminar on Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early Modern World invites YOU to our December 4 Zoom seminar with @laradodds.bsky.social and Michelle M. Dowd! They will discuss their new book on early modern women's writing. 5:30pm Eastern. Register here: wellesley.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Y'all, It's TOMORROW.

Imani Perry and Tananarive Due discuss a titan of Afrofuturist fiction, Octavie E. Butler, and her masterwork,

"Lilith’s Brood: The Xenogenesis Trilogy". My favorite is"Dawn"

Mon, Nov 24 from 6- 7pm EST
Online, Free

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#Lit #OctaviaEButler

If you’re a journalist who’s still on Twitter, from now on in your writing you have to replace “the American people want” with “troll bots in Eastern Europe demand”

Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.

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I can’t believe how stupid everything is

Ok, but how are the robots going to feel when they find out ‘robot’ comes from the Czech word ‘robota’ which means “forced labor”??

At this point, it seems all too quaint to call AI a bubble; it's a black hole. It's all you're allowed to think or talk about, when you're allowed to think or talk at all. Students whose entire lives will be poorer and sadder because of AI have learned to praise it instinctively, imagine […]

This week:

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Our cat joins us for yoga. She’s jumped on my back during cat-cow, but she really loves to get on spouse’s stomach during savasana.

Publications by Non-Tenure-Track Historians Since we began publishing in 2019, Contingent has published end-of-year lists of books and articles by non-tenure-track historians released in the past calendar year. To submit something for inclusion...

A reminder that we're collecting books, chapters, and journal articles by non-TT historians for publication in our year-end lists. Anything with a 2025 pub date is eligible and you can submit for your friends/colleagues! contingentmagazine.org/yearly-pub-l...