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@alanirosa.bsky.social
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Reader | Writer | Researcher | Translator | Watercolorer | Opera💕 | Medieval & Early Modern Literature. A mussitator, I am always in nudiustertian mode…writing angry poems and crying to/at/for/about/alongside/in spite of my cat Editorial team @postmedieval

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alanirosa.bsky.social @alanirosa.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Still thinking about this wonderful conference and the exciting research and interventions that were shared @ the splendid Huntington Library, just a week or so ago… ❤️🔥❤️🔥
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CaliopeSRBHP @caliopesrbhp.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
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Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Easter-ish reading: my words on an #earlymodern Portuguese painting of hell that bristles with New World motifs and monsters. #arthistory #monsters
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Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
On the value organizing using your own brain: 🧵 For my PhD, I read a mountain of books and over 2,000 European printed and manuscript maps & atlases c.1450-1650 (and some older ones). I identified 200-ish maps/atlases with distinctive imagery of peoples of the Americas (not just stick figures). 1/
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alanirosa.bsky.social @alanirosa.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Still thinking about this brilliant performance by @lisetteoropesa.com who so perfectly gets the gravitas of the role (to not even mention her absolutely divine voice and precision 💗💐)
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IlliterateScribbler @illiteratescribble.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
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The Partnership for Inclusive Disaster Strategies @disasterstrat.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Con profundo dolor compartimos que Patty Berne, cofundadora y directora de Sins Invalid, se unió a les ancestres el 29 de mayo de 2025. Su amor, visión y lucha viven en nosotres. Honramos su legado continuando el trabajo que lideró. #PattyPresente
Descripción de imagen: Patty Berne, una persona japonesa-haitiana con piel de color café claro, sonríe de manera juguetona; brillan de sus ojos color café amor y luz. Lleva un vestido azul tornasol con hombros descubiertos y un colgante de amatista. Su cabello castaño está recogido en su estilo distintivo: dos moños. Detrás de Patty hay un fondo color rosa, con flores radiantes rojas y amarillas. En la parte superior de la imagen, unas letras mayúsculas de color tornasol forman la frase "PATTY BERNE ¡PRESENTE!" En la esquina inferior derecha, el logotipo de Sins Invalid, un recuadro rectangular negro con letras blancas que dicen "Sins Invalid."
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alanirosa.bsky.social @alanirosa.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
All of these books are really fantastic, with Amphion being a particular favorite!!!
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The University of Chicago Press @uchicagopress.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Check out the new titles in our Thinking Literature series! - Julia Jarcho: Throw Yourself Away - John Lurz: The Barthes Fantastic - Leah Middlebrook: Amphion - Robert Lucas Scott: Reading Hegel - Jennifer Soong: Slips of the Mind Learn more: buff.ly/qO6iA5a. #ACLA2025
Logo for Thinking Literature series at the top, surrounded by five book covers: Reading Hegel, Slips of the Mind, Amphion, Throw Yourself Away, and The Barthes Fantastic.
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alanirosa.bsky.social @alanirosa.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Nearly always Amalia! <3 Thrilled to have my translation in TR. REVIEW OF TRANSLATIONS.
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Folger Shakespeare Library @folger.edu · 08/05/2025
What were the top musical hits of Shakespeare’s England? 🎶 On the podcast, researchers @angelamcshane.bsky.social and Christopher Marsh of the 100 Ballads project discuss what these ballads tell us about moral norms, sensationalism, and everyday life. Listen at: www.folger.edu/podcasts/sha...
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Top Pop Songs of the 1600s | Folger Shakespeare Library
Folger Shakespeare Library is the world's largest Shakespeare collection, the ultimate resource for exploring Shakespeare and his world. Shakespeare belongs to you. His world is vast. Come explore. Jo...
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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Violet Affleck makes a powerful argument that society has a lot to learn from people with Long Covid & ME/CFS about the importance of pacing as a means to prevent “crashes,” both for individuals & societies faced with climate crises. #IllnessPolitics yaleglobalhealthreview.com/2025/05/18/a...
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A Chronically Ill Earth: COVID Organizing as a Model Climate Response in Los Angeles
BY VIOLET AFFLECK I spent the January fires in Los Angeles arguing with my mother in a hotel room. She was shell-shocked, astonished at the scale of destruction in the neighborhood where she raised…
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James Paz @jamespaz.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Delighted to see that my creative-critical Old English eco-poetics article is now out, Open Access, in Postmedieval (thanks to @postmedieval.bsky.social): link.springer.com/article/10.1... #medievalsky #oldenglish
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Storm-thoughts and ice-songs: A creative-critical response to Old English eco-poetry - postmedieval
This article looks at how ecocritical readings of The Wanderer, The Wife’s Lament, and Exeter Book riddles can inspire an ‘ecocreative’ way of rewriting and reimagining Old English verse. My creative-...
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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
if you're in the mood to read a strong affirmation about the worth of disabled lives in the face of a eugenicist administration.... so was i, so i wrote one: buttondown.com/theswordandt...
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Disability, Eugenics, and the Value of Human Life
The eugenicists Your worth is not tied to what you can do. Your worth is not tied to your health. Your worth is not tied to all the things you can do...
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Disability is not a moral failing. It’s not a punishment. It’s not karma. It’s part of the human experience. Our bodies are frail, and given enough time most people will experience disability. The idea that we’re lazy, choosing not to “try hard” or want to be sick is a fallacy born out of ableism
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alanirosa.bsky.social @alanirosa.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
So thrilled to have my translation of this gorgeous (that is, bleak and beautiful) poem by the ever cheery Paolina Secco Suardo Grismondi (Lesbia Cidonia) appear in SWWIM! @swwim.bsky.social #translation #poetry #italianliterature #18thcentury #settecento #poesia #letteratura
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Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
I signed copies of HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY at Harvard Book Store today. Get them while they last, @medievalacademy.bsky.social #MAA2025 #Shax2025 #RenSA2025 folks and #Cambridge #Boston folks! 💙📚 🧪🗃 #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #politics #18thCentury #HAMH 1/2
Historic street corner with a store, Harvard Book Store, on both sides of the corner, with dark trim around windows and borders. Grey stone, brick, and ironwork building. Oval signs hang from above, with bookstore’s name.Me in a busy bookstore signing a copy of HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY. Other copies are on a low table nearby. I’m wearing a mid-blow sweater with a bright yellow collar and yellow and white flowers on it.Me in front of a tall bookcase, gesturing at my book.Three rows of said bookcase. HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY is at the left-hand corner of the lowest visible shelf.
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The Parker Library @parkerlibcccc.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Parker Library On the Web massively transformed the access to medieval manuscripts Just listen to @stewartbrookes.bsky.social give a powerful testimony on the impact it had for research www.corpus.cam.ac.uk/articles/ope... #PLOW #ParkerLibrary
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Opening up Access
Dr Stewart Brookes recalls the time before and after Parker Library On the Web, and remembers the difference that online access to medieval manuscripts made for researchers
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Guillaume Candela @guillaumecandela.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
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Capitalisme, une histoire de la Terre : avant l’ère industrielle
Peut-on parler de capitalisme avant l’ère industrielle ? La question fait débat. En soulignant sa nature systémique et interconnectée, l’approche globale proposée par Alessandro Stanziani permet une n...
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alanirosa.bsky.social @alanirosa.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
#eatonfire #lafires
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alanirosa.bsky.social @alanirosa.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
❤️❤️
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alanirosa.bsky.social @alanirosa.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Helpful mental health resources re: fires Thanks for sharing, Jonathan!
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alanirosa.bsky.social @alanirosa.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
This, exactly, and more. I’m really struggling w words right now, but it’s like heartbreak after heartbreak, uggghh 💔 #LAfires #pasadena #altadena #EatonFire #PalisadesFire
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alanirosa.bsky.social @alanirosa.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
One of the many fire-related issues tearing at my heart right now #LAfires #EatonFire #firefighters
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alanirosa.bsky.social @alanirosa.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Absolutely heartbreaking and infuriating #EatonFire #LAFires
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Jonathan Hsy 許維成 @jonathanhsy.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
#LAFires
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alanirosa.bsky.social @alanirosa.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Really terrifying
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The Digital Orientalist @digitalorientalist.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
In our final post of 2024 🎉 Anais Wion explores PEMM, a new database hosting 1000+ manuscripts and 2500 illuminations of Ethiopian Marian miracles. digitalorientalist.com/2024/12/31/e...
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Ethiopic Miracles: A Database to Link Images and Texts of Marian Miracles
The Princeton Ethiopian, Eritrean & Egyptian Miracles of Mary Project (PEMM), hosted by Princeton University, aims to bring together the miracles of the Virgin Mary that have circulated in the …
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alanirosa.bsky.social @alanirosa.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
What will surely be an absolutely brilliant talk (and take) by Véronique Tadjo! So sad to miss it
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Amy Elias @amyjelias.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Princeton UP is #hiring! PUP seeks an Editorial Assistant (US - Remote or Hybrid) to support two acquisition editors and assist in the signing, development, and publishing of distinctive and outstanding books in anthropology, sociology, and religious studies.
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alanirosa.bsky.social @alanirosa.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Really, the main reason I regret the end of semesters is because it puts our lovely Mahindra Humanitied Renaissance Studies Seminar on a brief hiatus.😿 Thrilled though, by our wonderful lineup for both semesters of the AY & still absorbing the brilliant talk Anne J. Cruz treated us to yesterday!
Poster for Anne J. Cruz’s 12/12 lecture: “A Feminist Theology of Pain: Women’s Imitation of Christ in Medieval & Early Modern Europe,” for the Mahindra Humanities Center’s Renaissance Seminar. The image shows the opened attire and wounded back of a flagellant.
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alanirosa.bsky.social @alanirosa.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
If anyone loves and/or hates the roguish Clemente Palma, as one does, I have an article (“El impulso autorial malévolo…”) in the latest MLN on Palma’s intertextual borrowings from French lit… (And I also love this cover and the article related to it!) #literature #shortstory #literaturaperuana
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alanirosa.bsky.social @alanirosa.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Hellscape!
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alanirosa.bsky.social @alanirosa.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Quelle tristesse d'apprendre le décès de Christiane Klapisch-Zuber, une grande historienne qui a apporté une contribution précieuse… une contribution absolument remarquable aux études de genre prémodernes et aux études médiévales au sens plus large du terme.
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Art Herstory @artherstory.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Rachel Ruysch: Nature Into Art at Die Pinakotheken A "Pick of the Week" in Apollo – The International Art Magazine's Art Diary www.apollo-magazine.com/rachel-ruysc...
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Rachel Ruysch: Nature Into Art | Apollo Magazine
The Dutch artist populated her floral still lifes with beetles, butterflies, classical sculptures and other unexpected details
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 26/11/2024
‘Opera should be an unstoppable art form’: Royal Opera announce Netia Jones as associate director
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‘Opera should be an unstoppable art form’: Royal Opera announce Netia Jones as associate director
The Royal Ballet and Opera have created a new role, allowing Jones to drive development and new commissions The Royal Ballet and Opera today announces that Netia Jones has been appointed to the newly created position of associate director of The Royal…
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David Petts @davidpetts1.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Some of the amazing early medieval gold thread recovered by our Durham University/ DigVentures excavations at Lindisfarne (Holy Island)
Fragments of gold thread recovered from archaeology excavation
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alanirosa.bsky.social @alanirosa.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Yay, I’m súper emocionada!
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Brett Rushforth @brettrushforth.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Hello, new followers! Reposting this recent announcement for those who missed it: New era for the HLQ. Please share widely! If you study the #earlymodern period (c. 1400-1800) in any discipline, we'd love to see what you're working on. www.pennpress.org/journals/jou...
A flyer advertising a call for submissions for the Huntington Library Quarterly. The Text reads: The Huntington Library Quarterly (HLQ) is a peer-reviewed journal featuring original research and new perspectives on the early modern period, broadly defined (c. 1400–1800). Its content reflects an early modern world that was connected and cosmopolitan, with diverse communities and cultures increasingly linked by the circulation of people, ideas, social practices, and material objects in ways that transcend disciplinary and geographic boundaries. We invite submissions that draw on the sources, methods, and theoretical frameworks of literature, art, history, science, medicine, material culture, music, performance, and critical cultural studies, with a preference for scholarship that is broadly legible across disciplines.

HLQ’s historical focus on Britain and its American colonies has been dramatically expanded to embrace broader and more diverse fields of inquiry, including scholarship rooted in continental Europe, the African Diaspora, and the Indigenous Americas, as well as their intersections with Mediterranean, Pacific, and Indian Ocean worlds.

The Huntington Library Quarterly (HLQ) invites article submissions for two featured issues that will mark the journal’s new direction. Submissions received before 15 January 2025 will be evaluated for the first of these issues, to be published in September 2025. Submissions received before 15 March 2025 will be evaluated for the second of these issues, to be published in December 2025.
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