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Dr Ellie Crookes @elliecrookes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Wonder if the Americans getting torn up about LeBron’s betting ads would have a conniption if they found out about their clebreties coming over to Australia and doing the same thing here for YEARS. Our little backwater media hides a multitude of sins 🤷‍♀️

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Dr Ellie Crookes @elliecrookes.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

What is it about me that says it’s cool for a colleague (unknown academic to me) to come into my class 5 mins before the end and loom behind me in silence, waiting impatiently for me to finish??? Is it the pink cardigan or just my general femaleness? I can get rid of the cardigan, if need be.

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Dr Ellie Crookes @elliecrookes.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

'The Many Joans of Arc' is out in the world!!! If you are interested in the historical and/or imagined Jeanne d'Arc, women's histories, historical anachronism, the misuse of the medieval, or occult weirdness then this might be the book for you. Available now: www.arc-humanities.org/978180270007...

Flyer for book:
Ellie Crookes
The Many Joans of Arc: Embodying Medievalism Worldwide
This book centres on the phenomenon of the Joans of Arc
—a global medievalist trend of women being celebrated
as their nation’s own Joan. Though these women bear
the name of a medieval French woman, use of the title is
bound to diverse and shifting preoccupations,
prejudices, and prerogatives of the post-medieval
world. Joan’s legend has been moulded to fit a vast array
of sometimes strange, often problematic agendas. The
overarching aim of this book is to demystify the
implications that arise when the ghost of Joan leaves the
temporal and spatial bounds of medieval France to haunt
post-medieval spaces and possess post-medieval
personas.
BIOGRAPHY
Ellie Crookes is Lecturer in English Literature at the
University of Wollongong (Dharawal land). She
specializes in the study of medievalism, examining how
the motifs, legends, and characters of the medieval past
are adopted, adapted, and manipulated to suit the needs
of post-medieval people.

Contains an image of the front cover. Depicts the Irish woman Maud Gonne as a Joan of Arc figure, wearing medieval armour and carrying a banner adorned with Irish symbols (a harp and a Celtic cross)

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Ich do not knowe ynogh wayes to saye: support public higher ed. Even thrugh hard tymes, even thrugh low enrollementes. Do not destroye livelihoodes and gut programs yn the name of an illusory efficiencye. Supportinge educacioun ys a social goode for a free societye not a return on investment.

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Dr Ellie Crookes @elliecrookes.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

She finally arrived!! You can buy this wonderful collection of papers on the intersection of medievalism and Reception, edited by @ikax.bsky.social and me, here: boydellandbrewer.com/978184384730...

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Dr Ellie Crookes @elliecrookes.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

A little medieval mantra by Julian of Norwich for those furiously trying to get things done before the end of the year …but all will be well, all will be well, and all manner of thing will be well

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Dr Ellie Crookes @elliecrookes.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

I am chapter 9 in this lovely collection! I examine the overwriting of Elizabeth Siddall’s identity/agency by a medievalised persona constructed by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Rossetti sought to position himself as a successor to Dante by creating a Beatrice for himself in his own wife and muse.

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Dr Ellie Crookes @elliecrookes.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

1. I find myself spending perhaps maybe a little bit too much time trying to figure out the lore of children’s tv shows. At the moment, I’m obsessed with Peppa Pig. So, this is a stupid thread written in the hopes of cleansing my brain of this obsession.

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Dr Ellie Crookes @elliecrookes.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

What is your best student ‘hot take’ for an English lit essay, aka, a clear and funny ‘they did not read the book’? Mine is that Frankenstein is a heartwarming ‘enemies-to-friends-to-lovers’ tale. And let me tell you, they really went to town with their analysis. It was fucking great.

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spinelli ✨ @spinellicross.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

people who use goodreads: jeff bezos owns goodreads and if you want a better alternative there is a black woman owned company called storygraph that you can use to replace it. you can transfer all of your data from goodreads to storygraph and have your mind be free of trumpie jeff bezos! win win. 💙

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Dr Ellie Crookes @elliecrookes.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Little tip for lit lecturers wanting to deter the use of GenAi: set an obscure poem/extract studied in class for the take home exam and omit the poet’s name… I played around with ChatGPT and it throws out the wildest guesses. Note: I wasn’t seeking to catch them out, this was a post hoc revelation.

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a group of people wearing tuxedos and headphones are sitting at a desk with their hands on their faces .

ALT: a group of people wearing tuxedos and headphones are sitting at a desk with their hands on their faces .

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