Juliane Witte

Thank you!!

My first article written during my PhD is out with NordEuropaForum 🥳 it's based on a page or so of my MA Thesis written while in Utrecht 😊
edoc.hu-berlin.de/items/d1dfc7...

Yeah, I thought I was prewarned by the reports from last summer but nope.

There Is No Safe Word How the best-selling fantasy author Neil Gaiman hid the darkest parts of himself for decades.

www.vulture.com/article/neil...

Absolutely horrifying.

Not sure how I got here, but Họskuldr Dala-Kollsson is emerging as a major villain in my thesis 🧐

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STOP USING MEDIEVAL
AS AN INSULT
THE MIDDLE AGES
WERE NOT DARK AGES¹
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𝗙𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝗶𝗻 #𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻
𝗜𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘁 #𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗵 #𝗘𝗽𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗶𝗻 #𝗠𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗲𝘃𝗮𝗹 #𝗦𝗰𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗮
Edited by Marianne Kalinke

More info: bit.ly/3V3AsV6

#Iceland #Romance #Literaturesky #Literature #Medievalsky #Medievalists

By my beard! There's a Luxembourgish translation of 'The #Hobbit' which I only found about this week. And quite a lovely edition (incl. the drawings of #Tolkien) too!

📢Upcoming Talks #medievalsky
🔖The Kemble Lecture 2024
🗣️Prof. Elaine Treharne, Stanford University
📜‘Mundane Matters: Early English Manuscripts, 700-1200, and the Aesthetics of the Ordinary'
📅Thursday (5.30pm), 28 November 2024

The West Passage by Jared Pechaček, honestly blew me away with imagery and ideas I'd never read anywhere else before!

The PhD life (when it goes well!). From Simone de Beauvoir, 'The Age of Discretion', in The Woman Destroyed.

Paginagrote advertentie KNAW tegen de bezuinigingen met handtekeningen van 511 leden (KNAW en de Jonge Akademie) www.knaw.nl/nl/themas/st...

Just added up the word counts of the various drafts for my dissertation chapters and although many of those need work, I am low-key ecstatic to have passed 50k before my 2-year mark 😅 this PhD thing might just be doable! 🙌🏻

It was an absolute pleasure to have Dr. Tom Grant deliver a guest lecture on "Beowulf and its Scandinavian Cousins" in my module today 😁

The life of an academic is full of glitz and glamour and the motion-detector light turning off on you as you scan your 50th page out of a hundred.

Normally I would be teaching my module on medieval monsters now but today we're striking because it's monstrous that a third of our students live at the poverty line, that PhDs receive part-time pay for full-time work, and that post-PhD there is no job security!

monsters still believe in u. dracula and frankenstein are cheering u on

Ah good to hear 😊 Thank you so much for being with us the past three days!

GEMMA was an absolute blast! Three days of fascinating papers on Gender, Emotion and Monstrosity in the Middle Ages, brilliant conversations, and delicious food. But yes, now sleep!

We had an amazing first day at #GEMMA full of interesting ideas and exchanges about gender, emotion and monstrosity in the Middle Ages, topped off by a fascinating keynote from Sif Rikhardsdottir!

I'm exactly the same 😅 why not spend the money on things (I.e. books) that make me happy?

Highly stylized print of a young girl and cat face to face in profile. The girl's girl is composed of bold black lines in a geometrical bob cut and a dark red leaf-like shape surrounds her eye, pointing up. The space behind her is filled with the same red as the leaf. The cat is black with a huge, round white eye crossed. over with a slim black pupil and a slash of the same red of the leaf and the space behind the girl. Everything about it bold, strong, striking.

Girl with Cat. Ca. 1940 - 1952. portlandartmuseum.us/mwebcgi/mweb...

Augustini Soliloquia, Cambridge, Queen’s College, ms 25

The complete manuscripts collection of Cambridge Queen’s College is now accessible online! 📚
tinyurl.com/4w4yjtzb

Medievalsky

Nordic Mythology Podcast on Instagram: "In this week’s episode, Spooky Month continues with Assist... 25 likes, 0 comments - nordicmythologypodcast on October 28, 2023: "In this week’s episode, Spooky Month continues with Assistant Professor of Old Norse-Icelandic ..."

The Nordic Mythology Podcast episode I recorded last week is out now! Give it a listen😊
www.instagram.com/p/Cy8Mr3YrJm...

There are five things on my schedule for November, from a 3-day conference we've been planning for months to an open day, teaching observations, and workshops, all on top of the normal schedule, all shoved into a 2-week period... that's a lot of things 🫠

Photo of page of a book where note 19 reads ???.

Of course it was note 19 that I was interested in! 🗃️ #History #MedievalSky

So excited to have received a review copy of this book as I've loved Whiteley's work since reading The Beauty in 2014!

Natalie Zemon Davis, Historian of the Marginalized, Dies at 94 She wrote of peasants, unsung women, border crossers and, most popularly, Martin Guerre, a 16th-century village impostor recalled in a 1980s movie.

A lovely obituary in the the New York Times.

Very much looking forward to start teaching my seminar on monstrosity and the Other in Old Norse and Old English literature (with a sneak peek at some Middle English) today!