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Dr. Elizabeth Spragins

@dr-sprockets.bsky.social
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early modern Iberia & Premodern Critical Race Studies @ Holy Cross | author of A Grammar of the Corpse (Fordham UP 2023)

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Butlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026
Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf
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Dr. Elizabeth Spragins @dr-sprockets.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Sorry to miss your panel, I don’t get in until Friday pm, but hopefully see you there!
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Dr. Elizabeth Spragins @dr-sprockets.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Add to the long list of reasons to roast your own coffee.
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Dr. Elizabeth Spragins @dr-sprockets.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....
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Best Article Prize: Volume 19
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Dr. Elizabeth Spragins @dr-sprockets.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
My whole professional life has prepared me for this one crossword clue.
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Dr. Elizabeth Spragins @dr-sprockets.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
I’m really sorry to hear this, Donnie. You’re brilliant and hard working and deserve to be employed and compensated in kind.
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David Wacks @davidwacks.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
The University of Oregon is threatening to lay off many faculty and close entire departments and programs in the humanities. Visit strengthenUO.org for more information, including how you can take action.
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Dr. Elizabeth Spragins @dr-sprockets.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Call for papers for a two-part workshop on Early Modern Iberian Critical Race Studies, to be hosted at Holy Cross (spring 2026) and Johns Hopkins (fall 2026). Please share the call with anyone who might be interested, and feel free to get in touch if you have any questions.
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Mexican Studies Research Collective @mexicanists.org · 24/08/2025
Tenure-Track Faculty Position in Spanish (Colonial Studies Specialist) joblist.mla.org/job/2000149/...
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Tenure-Track Faculty Position in Spanish (Colonial Studies Specialist) job with College of the Holy Cross, Spanish Department | 2000149
The Department of Spanish at the College of the Holy Cross invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track Assistant Professor specializing in ...
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Dr. Elizabeth Spragins @dr-sprockets.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Not to mention the increased grade grubbing the grade book produces.
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Dr. Elizabeth Spragins @dr-sprockets.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
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a cartoon of alice from alice in wonderland says the rabbit hole deepens .
ALT: a cartoon of alice from alice in wonderland says the rabbit hole deepens .
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Dr. Elizabeth Spragins @dr-sprockets.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Ready your inbox for early drafts in, say, October or November.
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Dr. Elizabeth Spragins @dr-sprockets.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
🤣 “blessing.” Stay tuned, more coming.
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Dr. Elizabeth Spragins @dr-sprockets.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Even the footnotes of _The Structure of Spanish History_ are chock full of insanity...
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Dr. Elizabeth Spragins @dr-sprockets.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
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Dr. Elizabeth Spragins @dr-sprockets.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
... Gracias a ellos, cada uno de esos grupos desempeñó su peculiar cometido: el cristiano dominaba y combatía, el mudéjar edificaba castillos y viviendas, el judío administraba las finanzas y hacía todo lo demás […]”
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Dr. Elizabeth Spragins @dr-sprockets.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
"Durante unos cuatrocientos años […] en los reinos cristianos de la Península habían convivido bastante en paz cristianos, mudéjares y judíos, en virtud de un sistema de tolerancia, en su raíz fundado en preceptos islámicos. ...
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Dr. Elizabeth Spragins @dr-sprockets.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
To Malkiel I say, "Can he not, though?"
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Dr. Elizabeth Spragins @dr-sprockets.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
“To preserve purity of caste (a concern, moreover, of Jewish origin), the Spaniard rejected the cultivation of all forms of culture.”⁠
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Dr. Elizabeth Spragins @dr-sprockets.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
“From [the fifteenth century] on, [Christians] had already absorbed the Oriental feeling that nationality and religious faith are inseparable. In this the Spain of today bears a closer resemblance to Israel and the Muslim countries than to any of the Western nations.”⁠
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Dr. Elizabeth Spragins @dr-sprockets.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
“If the anti-semitic ‘Old Christians’ of the past ... could have been convinced that the absurdly stupid notion of ‘purity of blood’ really amounted to a Hispano-Catholic adaptation of a Jewish tradition, ... that particular folly ... would have been much less damaging to Spanish culture.”⁠
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Dr. Elizabeth Spragins @dr-sprockets.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
“Although Hispanism is enjoying a steady development in the United States and Europe, in Spain I have not found a single person capable of explaining to the rest of Europe anything it does not already know about its own culture.”
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Dr. Elizabeth Spragins @dr-sprockets.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
“If there had been some centauric way of coupling the carburetor of a motor with the circulation of his own blood, the Spaniard could have been interested in mechanical inventions."
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Dr. Elizabeth Spragins @dr-sprockets.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Welcome to my private text chain with @cleahy.bsky.social about all things Américo Castro was a total nutcase. For your perusal.
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