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Last week I attended another virtual Teaching That Succeeds event. Hosted by Holly, Elana, and Kata, this free session focused on the decoding threshold: the point when older students disengage fro…

Explore the connection between Tennyson's poetry and Ian Bostridge's music, highlighting the beauty of 'Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal.'

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As I listen to the Gloucester History Festival talks online, I’ve added so many books to my reading list. While I initially prioritized the talks on medieval Europe, Vikings, and Anglo-Saxons, I ha…

Natalie tells the stories of the Nine Earthly Muses. With Edith Hall and Nikita Gill.

In an earlier blog post, I mentioned that I’ve begun a slow read of Christine de Pizan’s The Book of the City of Ladies. Though I possess a Christine de Pizan coffee mug, and her work is often refe…

A few weeks ago, Joseph Bottum’s Poems Ancient and Modern substack shared John Saxe’s “The Blind Man and the Elephant.” This 19th-century comic verse describes six blind men trying to understand an…

⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ Dr. Lucy Worsley is one of my favorite author-historians, and I’ve been anticipating her book Queens and Kings: An Unusually Personal History of the Monarchy since she announced it on soc…

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⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ I’m thrilled to review another virtual course on medieval women! This is my third course with Nathen Amin and Dr. Nicola Tallis, and each course has been a delight. I’ve taken The Tudors:…

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Free · No ticket needed Eight Tudor historians. Two hours. Nothing to pay. Every October a few hundred Tudor obsessives get together for three days of talks, music, feasting, and arguing about whether...

I’ve decided to study Christine de Pizan’s The Book of the City of Ladies. I’m participating in an online close read of this medieval text that will span the next 11 months. Christine de Pizan (136…

My interest in Tudor England stretches back over several decades and many books, and I know there are a lot of other people who share a passion for the period.

Get excited! I’m presenting virtually at Tudorcon 2026 in October! At Tudorcon 2025, I spoke about poetry in the Tudor Court: What is Tudorcon? Tudorcon is a conference about Renaissance history an…

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In his TED presentation, Jacob Collier conducts an orchestra through a song they don’t know and haven’t rehearsed. He builds each part systematically, telling the musicians the notes and techniques…

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We often think about disabilities in isolation — as if someone won’t share limitations with a person possessing a different diagnosis. But the most interesting thinking comes from putting diff…

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Tracy Borman is a formidable Tudor historian and a purposeful writer. I’ve read many of her nonfiction books, including Anne Boleyn and Elizabeth I, The Private Lives of the Tudors, and Crown &…

My second poetry collection, At Every Stage I’ve Been, is coming out in October 2026. Through Friday August 14, you can still get the pre-order discount! Pre-orders during this time help the book’s…

For the past few years, I have embarked on an independent study of medieval and Renaissance Europe. I’ve read 30+ books and enrolled in several digital courses. I’ve attended live video discussions…

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How does the brain see the "big picture"? A new study reveals that the primary visual cortex (V1) calculates statistical summaries of visual scenes.

Immense, entirely itself, it wore that yard like a dress, with limbs low enough for me to enter it and climb the crooked ladder to where I could lean…

Emily K. Michael is a blind poet, musician, and writing instructor from Jacksonville, FL. She serves as the poetry editor for Wordgathering: A Journal of Disability Poetry and Literature at Syracuse U...

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