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PJ Zaborowski

@pjzaborowski.bsky.social

PhD Candidate and MLIS, University of Iowa. Medieval Literature and Manuscript Culture, Early Printing, and all things bookish.

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When did students stop indenting paragraphs? Is it just my students doing it to spite me or is this a widespread grammatical epidemic? Is this an act of resistance against the tyranny of the "tab" key?

20.05.2025 18:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Interrogating my Teaching Philosophy Exploring the evolution of my pedagogy from graduate school to early career instructor

If you're incredibly bored: To ensure that I keep reflecting on my teaching over the summer, I've started a substack to write about my random pedagogical musings: open.substack.com/pub/pjzaboro...

30.04.2025 19:34 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Life Updates: I defended my dissertation (Messengers and Messaging in Medieval Literature) and I've accepted a position as Assistant Professor of Instruction in the University of Iowa English Department, beginning in the fall. I'm excited to continue working in a department and city that I love.

30.04.2025 19:31 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It's Vortigern. Kind of a confusing guy who may have been a real historical warlord, but also shows up in some King Arthur stories, so nobody is really sure (as far as I know).

06.12.2024 04:37 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I've noticed that deceptive difficulty in a lot of job ads recently...

05.12.2024 20:56 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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How's your end of semester going? Mine:
(BL Royal 20 A II, f. 3 at The British Library)

05.12.2024 20:32 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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The testimony of Eleanor Rykener - the earliest surviving record of a trans person in the English language. She began living as a woman in the 1390s, working as a seamstress & sex worker, until her arrest and imprisonment by the Mayor of London. She may have later escaped prison in 1399.

18.11.2024 16:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1158    πŸ” 404    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 23

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