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profmaleficent.bsky.social
Medievalist. Mom. Harpy. Five hissing possums in a trenchcoat. Author of “rewarding but frustrating” scholarship ;)
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Imagine actually typing out either of those tweets and not feeling embarrassed. Universities are losing billions of dollars thanks to a Republican president, American science/higher ed is being decimated, millions will lose jobs/be impacted, and here you two are whining about your feelings.

submitted 88 days ago • 3 comments

If your first response is to call the cops, you're on the wrong side. Period. We also heard of some ruckus outside the plenary. Wonder what actions might be planed for the last day of the conference? #MAA2025 #MedievalSky #AcademicSky #MedievalAcademy

submitted 89 days ago • 1 comment

A sad day for Columbia and for our democracy. "Additionally the school believed there was considerable overlap between needed campus changes and Trump’s demands" has got to be one of the most depressing sentences ever written. www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

submitted 89 days ago • 106 comments

Columbia University has failed to defend academic freedom & freedom of speech & allowed a great institution to be bullied & extorted into submission by an administration hellbent on contorting higher education to their will. The AAUP condemns this capitulation. We can & must fight back.

submitted 89 days ago • 43 comments

@governorferguson.bsky.social I am a state employee and primary earner for my family of four. I started my assistant professorship in 2016 with a starting salary of $72k. I have been meritorious each of those years, and yet because of the state’s refusal to grant faculty actual cola raises 1/many

submitted 110 days ago • 1 comment

"The only thing the men of Beowulf succeed in leaving behind is war. Its poet knew this, knew that kings grow old and foolish, that splendid civilizations go up in flames, and that every victory is hollow and provisional." @nybooks.com www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

submitted 126 days ago • 0 comments

From the NEH’s new applicant guidelines. As a friend observed, gender “ideology” includes heterosexuality, so technically no human-focused content is allowed for these HUMANITIES-focused grants. But we know that they won’t enforce their new rules in this way. We know who this will disqualify. 1/?

submitted 126 days ago • 1 comment

And speaking of the book, here's a handy link! I truly cannot thank @mahinder.bsky.social and everyone at @cornellupress.bsky.social enough for their support of and belief in this beast of a project! www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

submitted 197 days ago • 0 comments

I recently sat down with Miranda Melcher of @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social to talk about my book Monstrous Fantasies. Listen in if you're interested in hearing about why the intro begins with an erasure poem, or why I yell about American Sniper in the coda: newbooksnetwork.com/monstrous-fa...

submitted 197 days ago • 0 comments