Just in time for the new year, my latest article in Medieval Feminist Forum is out! I am so grateful to the award committees for the SMFS Graduate Student Prize and the 2024 Debbie White Gender and Medieval Studies Essay Prize for believing in it. Read illicitly here: tinyurl.com/BAP-BADTRANS...

"We envision a resistance that is...a repudiation of the efficiencies that automated algorithmic education falsely promises: a resistance comprising the collective force of small acts of friction." "How to Resist AI in Education" by me & @cnygren.bsky.social www.publicbooks.org/four-frictio...

This is nonsense ! Please read my article in The Sundial about weird empire building fantasies in Kalaallit Nunaat. medium.com/the-sundial-...

To all the young people in New York and across our country who count on gender-affirming care: I won't let this administration come for you, your doctors, or your lifesaving health care.  Your health care is still legal and protected.  I'll always fight for you.

Part 2 arrives: a first attempt at a timeline of 500 years of Native trans men and transmasc history landbodymind.substack.com/p/notes-towa...

Vacancy: Assistant Professor of Celtic, with a specialism in Old Irish, University of Cambridge. #MedievalSky www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...

"Heyla!" Beowulf By All, 2021 Tarren Andrews and the Flathead Indian Reservation 🇺🇸

Publication day! I am delighted to say that my newest article - "On “Post-ness”: Colonialism, Periodization, and Old Norse-Icelandic Studies" - has been published by Exemplaria, one of my absolute favourite journals! Read it illicitly here: tinyurl.com/POSTNESS-BAP

12 dead at a mass shooting at a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach.💔 A 43-year-old father of two, Ahmed al Ahmed, snuck up & tackled a gunman to disarm him. Ahmed was shot twice. Both Jewish & Muslim faiths teach that “to save one life is to save all humanity.” Let us hold fast to our humanity.❤️

Applications are open for MA and PhD positions in my department. Quite honestly, I think it’s a great place to do grad school in English. Tell your friends! MA: www.uoguelph.ca/arts/sotec/g... PhD: www.uoguelph.ca/arts/sotec/g... #AcademicSky

Long shot request: do any of my #medievalsky buddies have a modern English translation of Richard Coer de Lyon? I’d love to assign it for a class on medieval heroes and monsters, but I really don’t think that struggling with the Middle English will be productive !

I teach the history of medieval art for goodness’ sake. I’m not going to pretzel myself trying to convince anyone that learning about this subject will make a better [insert job here]. As soon as I agree that it’s a legit ground for debate, I lose. Instead let’s point out the fallacy of the premise.

The ad for the second postdoctoral position on our @leverhulme.ac.uk Britain’s Early Medieval Letters project is now live. We’re looking for an Old English specialist (who also works with Latin). 32-month FT post. Deadline for apps is 16 Jan 🙂 jobs.kent.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Since a decision regarding my and my department’s future is apparently imminent (as in, should happen in the next month or two), I thought this is a good time to repost this. Please keep your fingers crossed for Scandinavian Studies at Tübingen, and for me.

Pipes froze ❄️ I love calamity at the end of the semester!

The UArctic Congress 2026 is coming to Tórshavn next May — and the call for abstracts is officially open! 🎉 If you work with Arctic research, Indigenous knowledge, sustainability, oceans, climate, biodiversity, or northern communities, this is 4u! 🔗 uarcticcongress.fo 1/6 @uarctic.bsky.social

The unspeakable cruelty and grotesque behavior of our government continues to shock.

This is the only way I’m going to get my marking done.

I now feel compelled to re-share this on the perils of citing writers of a certain age when doing history. salutemmundo.wordpress.com/2025/03/20/n...

So the next time someone tries to draw you into a conversation about that piece they saw on 60 Minutes or read in the NYT about how educators are coping with/ combatting/whatever students using GenAI, don’t accept that framing. Make it about the industry that is impoverishing their education.

It is a waste of educators’ labor to worry about policing students’ work or jury rigging AI-proof assignments.There are desultory ways of going about responding to such papers. But that doesn’t mean acquiescence. That means working towards and demanding structural changes at our institutions.

I’ve been thinking about the intellectual and affective labor involved in reading AI Generated student papers. I’m forecasting a little of the proposal that @cnygren.bsky.social and I advance in a piece that’ll be out soon but here’s where I’ve personally landed (o speak for myself not for us both):

Call for Applications: Mary Jaharis Center Grants 2026–2027 Call for Applications: Mary Jaharis Center Grants 2026–2027 The Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture is pleased to announce its 2026–2027 grant competition. www.themedievalacademyblog.org/call-for-app...

It’s cold here. ❄️

#medievalsky, don't forget to submit your papers! #CFP !!! We want to hear all about your favorite antagonists, outlaws and troublemakers! @leedsims.bsky.social Last day for sending them in is Dec 8th!

Paying danegeld pre-emptively has always worked out remarkably well for the appeaser. Don't look it up.

Northwestern joins the growing list of US universities which are caving to Trump by agreeing to illegally ban trans people from facilities. Banning trans people from bathrooms is illegal in Illinois, as affirmed by law and a court ruling. www.illinoislegalaid.org/legal-inform...

Delighted to be heading to @imc-leeds.bsky.social with a very full dance card - don’t miss Dan Reeve and I’s four sessions on queer and trans temporalities ! 🏳️‍⚧️⏰ #imc2026

A bilingual Dano-Norwegian/northern Sámi catechism from 1728, afaik the first printed book in Northern Sámi

How does one cope with loads of writing deadlines, a pile of grading, and, as of yesterday, a broken arm?

Congrats to Rowan Dorin, whose book No Return: Jews, Christian Usurers, and the Spread of Mass Expulsion in Medieval Europe is the Finalist for the @jewishstudies.bsky.social Jordan Schnitzer Book Award in the Medieval & Early Modern Jewish History & Culture category! Learn more: hubs.ly/Q03VrNlT0

The incredible @jameyj.bsky.social deserves all the accolades in the world, and this article is 🔥🔥🔥

Hi! This is today ! Please come along !

They're destroying American higher ed and CELEBRATING IT. It's obscene.

“the loss of deep literacy is not an organic development or an accident without an author but rather the intentional consequence of concrete actions undertaken by the unholy alliance of capital and the state, which has availed itself of technology to slowly erode our capacity to understand…”

Can't wait for this special issue of @parergon.bsky.social! Always great to work with Dr Cassandra Schiling and @flindersuniversity.bsky.social DECRA Fellow in Medieval History, @mattfirth.bsky.social and of course, ANU's Prof. Rosalind Smith!

Message to all faculty: your expertise is no longer trusted or valued at this so-called “university.”

Hey if you're into energy, environment, pipelines, Great Lakes, Indigenous rights, or just a habitable planet, checkout this webinar about how we can start to dismantle the infrastructure that sustains fossil capitalism. It's a great panel that happens to include me. @billmckibben.bsky.social

This looks fantastic for those working on later medieval gender and politics.

In the same week, both the University of Nottingham and the University of Leicester announced closing their Modern Languages departments. Disastrous for the sector as a whole and for the ML landscape in the Midlands: c.org/4X7VMy9MPD

I’m speaking with some amazing colleagues next week about fire and its dualities in the medieval world - I’ll be talking about eco-apocalypse, how to litigate a hyperobject, and the Sturlungaöld as a never-ending fire-season. Please join us !

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.