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Esther Liberman Cuenca @estherlcuenca.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

We're hiring a TT position in U.S. History (open field) at Texas A&M University-Victoria! We're looking for those willing to teach applied history. Review of apps begins 10/24. Not on the search committee but can answer any questions as dept chair. tamus.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/TAMUV_...

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Assistant Professor - History

Job TitleAssistant Professor - History Agency Texas A&M University - Victoria Department College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences Proposed Minimum SalaryCommensurate Job LocationVictoria, Tex...

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Esther Liberman Cuenca @estherlcuenca.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I am honored to have been invited to give a public talk at Texas A&M as the Glasscock Humanities Center's Short-Term Fellow. The talk is on my medieval tattooing project, forthcoming from Cambridge UP. If you find yourself near College Station on Oct 28, come on by, my talk is open to the public.

Poster for the talk "Ethnographies of Skin" showing a tattooed Renaissance figure.

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Esther Liberman Cuenca @estherlcuenca.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

My book, "The Making of Urban Customary Law in Medieval and Reformation England," received an honorable mention for the Lynn Hollen Lees Book Prize for Best Book in European Urban History from the UHA, www.urbanhistory.org/awards

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Esther Liberman Cuenca @estherlcuenca.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

My new article on true crime, murder, and the politics of adaptation in 16thc England was just published in The Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies. I started this article in 2022. It's been a long road to publication. It was also fun to write! Check it: read.dukeupress.edu/jmems/articl...

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Arden's True Crime Histories: Murder and Remembrance in Reformation England

The murder of Thomas Arden (d. 1551), once a mayor of Faversham, was first described in a memorandum in the Wardmote Book, one of Faversham's custumals. Arden's murder was popularized in Holinshed's C...

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Esther Liberman Cuenca @estherlcuenca.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

My anti-AI pedagogy is now entirely geared towards the creation of in-class commonplace books. Arts and crafts and bits and bobs with reading notes and reflections. I've gone bespoke in a time of copy/paste.

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Esther Liberman Cuenca @estherlcuenca.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I now have grad students in counseling psychology. My qualifications? A phd in medieval history, expertise in Middle English paleography, and the fact that I will mess with your head.

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Esther Liberman Cuenca @estherlcuenca.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Does anyone have access to The Ricardian: Journal of the Richard III Society, vol. 36 (2026)? It has a review of my book, "The Making of Urban Customary Law in Medieval and Reformation England," but my school does not have access to it. It's written by Adele Sykes and I need it for my annual review.

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Esther Liberman Cuenca @estherlcuenca.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

It was a pleasure to speak with @profgabriele.com on this topic! Hopefully, my book on the topic "Body Art and Tattoos in the Global Middle Ages," will be out in 2027 (from Cambridge University Press)

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Esther Liberman Cuenca @estherlcuenca.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

For those escaping TX because you can’t teach gender or race as you are trained to do … I understand this. But then what happens to the students who are here? I cannot leave, and I have to figure out the answer. Because our students at public universities deserve the same education found elsewhere.

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Esther Liberman Cuenca @estherlcuenca.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Ah, yes. The reason why I got a PhD in medieval history: to chair the psychology program and mentor a cohort of graduate students in clinical psychology. (Regional academic life!)

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Esther Liberman Cuenca @estherlcuenca.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

I co-edit a book series for Boydell & Brewer on "The Urban World in the Middle Ages." Open to *BOOK* proposals c. 800–1600, covering urban life, societies, or cultures in Europe, Mediterranean, or Islamic world. For more info, email me, CuencaE@tamuv.edu. Happy to hear from 1st-time book authors.

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Asif Siddiqi @historyasif.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Olga Nechaeva in the @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social on the reception to 'Heated Rivalry' in Russia: "..when queer intimacy is routinely silenced, a story that gives equal voice to desire and sincerity can be quietly transformative.." lareviewofbooks.org/article/heat... #heatedrivalry

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A Romance You Watch in Secret | Los Angeles Review of Books

The Russian-language reception of Crave’s ‘Heated Rivalry’ shows how tenderness, desire, and character complexity shape a phenomenon that transcends borders.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

There's a tendency online for people to black out the names and email addresses of people who send them notes like this but I'm all for making it public.

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Esther Liberman Cuenca @estherlcuenca.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Yes. I met and had lunch with Rubenstein in 2022 at the Institute for Advanced Study, where he is a big donor and board member. He's very serious about history and the arts and storied American institutions.

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Esther Liberman Cuenca @estherlcuenca.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

What’s to become of my medieval women class now that TAMU has eliminated the women’s studies program? I don’t know. The audit of my syllabus is not done but it’ll probably be flagged because it has J Bennett’s “lesbian-like” article. Students are aware that free speech is a thing of the past in TX.

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Esther Liberman Cuenca @estherlcuenca.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

This is correct. Also, I took 12 years and my heart was into it but …stuff happens. Also, lots of adjuncting

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/01/2026

vance has to stay on the good sign of the teen nazis that are his primary constituency

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Esther Liberman Cuenca @estherlcuenca.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Good piece by Adam Serwer. Love this part in particular. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

A reminder that Liam Ramos, the son of legal residents in Minnesota, is still being held in a Texas prison. A five year old little boy - and America’s global reputation - now scarred for life. (📸 Ali Daniel’s/AP)

Little Liam Ramos stood facing an ICE vehicle with his cartoon blue wooly hat. A state-sponsored terrorist ICE agent is holding him by his rucksack.

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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

"Good tsar, bad boyars" has been a recurring theme of Trumpism every year the dude's been office. It's wild.

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Memento (artemis) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

As seen on r/nursing Alex Pretti's coworkers taking a moment of silence to honor him

screenshot of a reddit post in r/nursing

Photo of a hospital hallway where staff in scrubs stand with their hands clasped and heads bowed

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Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

when I talk about how this is truly the only show to have a romance novel structure, this is what I mean: every other romance adaptation turns the fundamentally, crucially narrow focus of a romance novel into a broader tv world. this show feels different because it does not.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Dril "alright that's fine heres what I think happened" post

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Paul Halsall @pbhalsall.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

The Internet Medieval Sourcebook is 30 year old today. with an inception date of 26th January 1996. It turns out that although not in any sense breaking new scholarship, it remains my most longstanding contribution to the republic of letters. sourcebooks.fordham.edu/sbook.asp

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Len @len.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

imgaine getting sent packing with your ass in your own two hands by some of the nicest people in the world and then showing up in a city that is famous for booing santa claus

From the Independent: "ICE is rumored to be heading for Philadelphia. Everyone is saying the same thing'

Reaction from ben doyle (@thewheatgerm): "this is the equivalent of hitler sending you to stalingrad"

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

until recently, i was a dumbass. but no longer.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

During the Soviet era, at times of govt instability, the state broadcaster would typically preempt scheduled broadcasts by airing performances of Swan Lake

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Heated Rivalry News @hrnews.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

what do you mean 🧍🏽‍♀️

Bell Media has announced "Heated Rivalry" will return for a second season, but the exact date is uncertain. Stockman says discussion about a stand-alone episode between seasons to tide fans over "has come up," but no decisions have been made.

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Heated Rivalry News @hrnews.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdami advises New Yorkers to stay home and read ‘Heated Rivalry’ during the winter storm via hearts530

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Now requires a disambiguation page

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

How many January 6 insurrectionists were armed? Is the position now that Capitol police could have shot them all? Just trying to keep up

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Esther Liberman Cuenca @estherlcuenca.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Something I needed to write to a prospective author: "Let me contact you next week. There might be a hiccup: TX is expected to freeze this weekend. My hope is that the electric grid holds up. It didn’t in 2021 and it was traumatic (no water, electricity, etc.). So fingers crossed I don’t die? haha."

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Had to bring this over for "rinses his ass" 🤌

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

“Look: Rome wasn’t burned in a day.”

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Esther Liberman Cuenca @estherlcuenca.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

I had a dream that an article I submitted to the "Journal of Reassessing the Passion Narrative" got a good response from readers and that its publication was imminent. Paging Dr. Freud...?

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

This essay by @alexanderchee.bsky.social about Heated Rivalry is so great and I have a lot of thoughts about it I should not publish on Al Gore's internet: querent.substack.com/p/i-would-st...

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I Would Start A War In Your Arms

A Heated Rivalry Notebook

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Alexorcist II: The Heretic @atomicgiant.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Had a prelim job interview today with an a.i. chatbot

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 15/01/2026

I found a HR soundtrack playlist on youtube and all the comments sections are full of people talking about heated rivalry except for the russian classical piece that plays during the funeral celebration scene because the comments are turned off on that one.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

ive seen more articles this week about how the phrase “abolish ice” could hurt dems in the midterms than ive seen articles about how paramilitary death squads terrorizing cities will hurt republicans in the midterms

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Chris Cantwell @ifyoucantwell.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

I had one manager who would say “Don’t talk to me until I’ve had my morning coffee. My morning coffee is two rocks of crank.” He was later fired for playing American History X on the store TVs

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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

“The women who are in it are all treated with respect. The men do their own emotional labor. It’s not on us to fix, defend ourselves, or worry. We, as women, can just watch this and relax.” THE 👏🏽 MEN 👏🏽 DO 👏🏽 THEIR 👏🏽 OWN 👏🏽 E👏🏽MO👏🏽TION👏🏽AL👏🏽 LA👏🏽BOR👏🏽

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Joseph Fink, we're going to win @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Again, all polls show that abolishing ICE is an incredibly popular position, completely in the mainstream center of American politics. "Centerism" has nothing to do with what's in the center, but is instead an absolute and radical stance against the idea of change

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Esther Liberman Cuenca @estherlcuenca.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

#heatedrivalry is actively destroying the american workforce (complimentary)

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