If you know anyone who works on medieval Judaism, please send them this! Binghamton is hiring a Talmud/Rabbinics assistant prof: half in Judaic Studies, half in the Med/Ren center. A killer R1 job for the right person, and not a ton of applicants so far....

#GLAM friends, quite a lot of you went to IU for your undergrad, MLS, and PhD! Those of us still here would appreciate alumni support against the upper administration’s nonsense, especially in regard to academic/intellectual freedom

Harm reduction in action.

Odense is my favourite city in Europe and SDU is wonderful! A great opportunity ✨⬇️

We are now accepting submissions for Vagantes 2026, hosted by The University of Rochester, April 9-11! See the CFP below, and feel free to share with graduate students and colleagues who might be interested. Abstracts are due 12 December 2025.

Terrible news. Universities are being decimated.

Call for Papers for an excellent series. The editors are great and the journal open access. #CfP “The Public Curatorship of the Medieval Past” olh.openlibhums.org/news/863/

A new special issue of English Studies I'm really keen to put together! Please consider submitting and circulate widely! @drchrislouttit.bsky.social bookshoplit.com/cfp-booksell...

i don't know why, but paul gilroy's 'postcolonial melancholia' looks to me like the VHS cover for some lost late-90s movie

New awareness campaign

Alright Old Norse folks, how are we translating 'skráveifa' as in Jón skráveifa Guttormsson?

It's Halloween! 🎃 Naturally I am working on the preface to Monster Theory 3.0, under contract with @uminnpress.bsky.social and offering more than twenty new essays in monster studies as well as a rethinking of "Monster Culture (Seven Theses)."

Spread the word! A new postgraduate and early career researcher seminar series at @universityofleeds.bsky.social! For those studying the Late Antique, Medieval, and Early Modern periods. We look forward to reading your proposals! #medievalsky #earlymodern #lateantique

i'm sure the "faculty forum" on "reducing burnout" and "enhancing resilience" will include helpful things like "join your faculty union" and "here's a bucket of money" and "we hired a bunch of new full time faculty to reduce the teaching load across the university"

Árnastofnun og Íslensku- og menningardeild Háskóla Íslands efna til málþings sem helgað er minningu Jenny Jochens (1928-2025).

📢Fully Funded PhD Opportunities @thetimes University of the Year @durham_uni's Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 🎓 durham.ac.uk/research/ins...

Just a few days left to join in on Ceræ's 13th volume committee! Any and all postgraduates & ECRs working in medieval and early modern studies are welcome - get in contact by Oct. 31! More info here: #medievalsky #academicsky #historysky ceraejournal.com/2025/10/02/c...

In 2023, I was a Visiting Fellow at @antrelclaottawa.bsky.social. Got to experience the department as a world class center for our discipline (especially Late Antiquity). University management now wants to axe their honours programme. Please consider signing and sharing this petition for support:

I'm delighted to say that my article, "Sufficient Tragedy: Masculinity as Cruel Optimism in Beowulf," which I published in English Studies in 2024, is the currently featured Article of the Month on Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index website!

It’s finally coming out ! Get ready Old Norse studies 😈🏳️‍⚧️

Some transmasc art that “doesn’t suck.” oh look it’s all people of color what a coincidence WRITING Cameron Awkward-Rich Shaawan Francis Keahna Cyrée Jarelle Johnson Yoon Ha Lee Hasib Hourani VISUAL Whess Harman Theo Cuthand MUSIC Brown Boy Magik Dua Saleh

finally finished making a short and dirty guide to middle english, a language that i famously do not like. hopefully my students appreciate my tables!

Lecture writing.

Enjoyed the latest from @katewagner.wehwalt.net on U of C's finances Seems relevant that they also recently built an $80m parking garage (their fourth) Starchitects might be their second love, but the automobile and isolation from the neighborhood is their first. www.thenation.com/article/cult...

Today for @theverge.com, I talk about transfem narratives: the epistemic lockout from mainstream publishing, the advantages and pitfalls of the self-pub model, and what a global transmisogynistic panic implies for our ability to make our voices heard and represent our own lives and worlds.

Hey y’all! I’ll see you at Kalamazoo where I’m presenting a paper called “Beowulf’s Trans Body” for a session on Old English Trans Studies, organised by the lovely Caz Batten and Jon Davis-Secord 🏳️‍⚧️🗡️

UFS agreed on Saturday; Executive Committee approved the following statement this morning. I’ve signed the petitions that UFS charged me to. Now I’m asking you to share our statement opposing the McMahon-Mailman mutual assured destruction compact. dspace.sunyconnect.suny.edu/server/api/c...

Your challenge for this weekend is to put in an abstract for Queer Bibliography 2026. It's what all the cool kids are doing. The theme is Space, Place, Community (widely understood, certainly not limited to the South). CFP: shorturl.at/XAVJ0; Submit: forms.gle/XD7FgrrStp3j... Athens GA and online

On Indigenous Peoples' Day I'm re-sharing the episode of @thisguysucked.com on which I spoke with host @ceaubin.bsky.social about why, even in his own day, people thought Christopher Columbus sucked. 💙📚 🗃 #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #renaissance #maps #geography #cartography #empire 1/2

Proof day! Excited to see this piece in Exemplaria. ❤️

Ireland has a population of 5m and we've a waiting list approaching 15 years. Why? Because their mandatory, archaic and traumatic psychiatric and psychological assessments are a deliberate bottleneck to ensure as few people as possible can access healthcare a nurse can do!

Sewanee subtheme on movement as resistance and refuge is live! Submit a proposal to think about the potential readings of movement as response to crisis with me: www.sewaneemedievalcolloquium.com/movement-as-...

🚨🚨 @utaustin.bsky.social is working to eliminate its Black studies, Latin studies, and gender studies depts -- utterly reneging on its mission and depriving students of the full educational opportunities they deserve. Please--scholars AND publishers--share & write to UT leaders. #SaveUT

Announcing my book, Techno-Negative! It will be out in Spring 2026, published with @uminnpress.bsky.social.

If you are a supporter and reader of @contingent-mag.bsky.social one of the biggest things you can do to help us at the moment is get this CFP to the NTT folks in your life. The fracturing of social media has made it very difficult to get the word out esp. to adjuncts and VAPs.

NEW: Oregon and Portland filed an amended complaint in their lawsuit against Trump tonight, with a new plaintiff added who is joining them: California. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

These are communications degrees. This is literally what communications is for. Can't have fine arts, but we can have hyper-specific degrees in influencing. Because a liberal arts education is only for the wealthiest scions, everyone else goes into debt for glorified job training.

Hey #medievalsky ! I’m designing a medieval hero & monsters literature class. If anybody has some syllabi they would be willing to share, I would super appreciate it !

Yale professor Tarren Andrews understands the importance of language. She teaches her students that law is a linguistic technology shaped by culture. Find more of her thoughts and pedagogy including videos and reading lists on Throughlines. www.throughlines.org/scholars/tar...

what the hell is this

#CADHE statement in support of Texas Tech Faculty. #MADC

4 year fully funded PhD at University College Cork in the field of Old Norse-Viking Studies, working on artistic and literary representations of the Vikings for the ERC-funded @norsemap.bsky.social project. www.ucc.ie/en/hr/vacanc... #medievalsky

transgender for everybody, especially me.

TT job in open field of Indigenous Studies/Literatures, St. Thomas More College, USask: universityaffairs.ca/search-job/?...

VT just closed its religious studies department.

‘No amount of knowledge about medieval literary culture can make the Pearl Manuscript tell us what it means. Everyone has to speculate at some point.’ @tomlukejohnson.bsky.social on the manuscript that contains the only copy of ‘Gawain and the Green Knight’: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

"Mary Thompson-Jones’s recent book, AMERICA IN THE ARCTIC, offers a timely and informative narrative of how the United States acquired and maintained its status as an Arctic power."—Heather A. Conley, Foreign Affairs

It’s 🏳️🌈COVER REVEAL💪🏽 Friday for @crileysnorton.bsky.social & Darius Bost! A BLACK QUEER HISTORY OF THE US is the first-ever Black history to center queer voices, tracing the lives of LGBTQ+ Black Americans from slavery to present day. Watch this space in January 2026!👀 Cover design: Louis Roe