(he/他/伊) Literature & language & theory & disability & donuts & ampersands. Cripqueer. Antiracist Medievalisms: From "Yellow Peril" to Black Lives Matter (2021)
As someone who researches #disability & life writing (past & present), I find the proliferating/emergent/shifting first-person academic genre of "my reflections on writing in/through the pandemic" so fascinating. #PandemicLife#amwriting
Some of the academics publishing these things come are trained in Disability Studies, which informs their approach. But some are not & don't ever name "disability" as such; disability is everywhere & nowhere. Don't know what to make of any of it yet #PandemicLife#amwriting
Jun 15, 2021 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Hey tweeps I thought I'd share with you this weird, vivid, non-allegorical academic anxiety dream I had last night #AcademicTwitter 🧵
I had this dream that we were back to in-person teaching but the University had randomly decided the faculty would be grouped into mandatory 5-person teaching pods.
Each pod was an interdisciplinary team that would teach some Big Idea course (e.g., Mind, World, Life, etc.)
Jun 15, 2021 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Shout out to all the weirdos who spent their childhood randomly reading dictionaries & other reference books for fun
As a result of this thread, I did an image search for “golden book encyclopedia” (which we didn’t have/use) and some of those images are a bit yikes
May 6, 2019 • 21 tweets • 11 min read
OK folks a few more thoughts for #MedievalTwitter on that NYT article as #Kzoo2019 approaches. [THREAD] #LitPOC#NotAMonk1/ I’m glad that the #NotAMonk convos are pointing out problems with the NYT article's opening quote (Richard Utz, prominent white male medievalist, “speaking for” the field as if it were “apolitical” and as if monks were apolitical — in the past or present).
