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Brooke Thomas-Hollahan @medievalappalachia.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The academic urge to make things longer than they need to be—today’s flavor: “in a word, x” instead of just “x,”

Brooke Thomas-Hollahan @medievalappalachia.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Currently been living off $300/paychecks for months because my grad institution keeps having “systems errors” and won’t give me my stipend, and I’ve yet to have a single adjunct position pay me for this semester. . . “There, there”s appreciated

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Brooke Thomas-Hollahan @medievalappalachia.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I’m teaching a sci-fi class this semester for the honors college. It’s my first time (besides first-year comp) that I’m teaching something out of my wheelhouse. So far, it’s been DELIGHTFUL! I’m having a great time! Making them read Margaret Cavendish’s Blazing World to start!

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J. Michael Mull @jmichaelmull.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

even now, she's still teaching us

screen on car radio reading:
Dolly Parton
Love is Like A Butt
(it should be Butterfly but the last part couldn't fit on the screen)

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Brooke Thomas-Hollahan @medievalappalachia.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Join the Tristram Shandy 2026 Reading Group—a public-facing Substack project hosted by folks at the CUNY Graduate Center! Check this page (which links to the Substack) for more info!

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Brooke Thomas-Hollahan @medievalappalachia.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Why is my uber driver always on the phone, and who could they POSSIBLY be talking to all day everyday??? I could never get someone to talk to me for hours everyday while I work 😭

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Brooke Thomas-Hollahan @medievalappalachia.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

#18thcenturyists #literaturesky anyone can join! We have everyone from medievalists to modernists and from PhDs to non-academics

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Brooke Thomas-Hollahan @medievalappalachia.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

My wonderful friends have a substack reading group hosted through the CUNY Graduate Center. If you’re interested in Tristram Shandy (and why wouldn’t you be???) follow the link or QR code!!!! Info in flyer/alt text! tristramshandy2026.substack.com/p/coming-soo...

Flyer for Tristram Shandy Reading Group with the following information:

Meetings: first and third Friday of the month, 11am-1pm EST in September, October, and November: 9/4, 9/18, 10/2, 10/16, 11/6, 11/20.
Closing celebration: Friday, December 4, at 4-6pm EST.
In the English Lounge and on Zoom

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Loren Easterday Lee Cantrell @loren325.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Connect with your favorite medievalists at #NCS2026 with this starter pack! go.bsky.app/JEwKXsA #medievalsky #medieval 👋🤓🤝🤓👍

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Brooke Thomas-Hollahan @medievalappalachia.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Spotted in Newark on the ground where, some would say, it belongs

A printed paperback copy of Everyman, the medieval morality play

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Brooke Thomas-Hollahan @medievalappalachia.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Just finished A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms episode 5, and my TV started auto playing a meditation video #iykyk #knightofthesevenkingdoms

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Brooke Thomas-Hollahan @medievalappalachia.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Secured my first big-kid publication in @arthurianajrnl.bsky.social A big thank you to everyone who helped me get this into working shape and to print. The folks at the journal could not have been more supportive, kind, and helpful. It really means a lot to an emerging scholar.

Cover of Arthuriana volume 35 number 4 Winter 2025

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Brooke Thomas-Hollahan @medievalappalachia.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Had my first TT job interview via Zoom the other day. Here’s advice I DIDN’T get in my mock interview: Don’t do it next to a fruit bowl! In slow motion, a fruit fly drifted my way, & w/ one unassuming breath, ‘twas inhaled. Obviously, u can’t see it on Zoom, so I had to act like nothing happened.

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Brooke Thomas-Hollahan @medievalappalachia.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

I’m currently going through the Tenure-Track interview process for the first time (in medieval Lit/English, of course). It’s extremely daunting. So, if anyone has good advice/interesting experiences to share, leave a comment! I’d love to hear! #medievalsky

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Brooke Thomas-Hollahan @medievalappalachia.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

First ever article has been accepted for publication 🥳 I’m officially “serious”

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Brooke Thomas-Hollahan @medievalappalachia.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Rewatching The Conjuring (2013) scene where Ed yells out the witch/demon thing’s name (found it in historical records) to kill it. Demons really got screwed over by print culture, I guess.

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Brooke Thomas-Hollahan @medievalappalachia.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

I’ll be damned before I fail to eat the garnishes in my cocktails. In this economy?

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Brooke Thomas-Hollahan @medievalappalachia.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

APA style sucks, and I will not be revising that opinion. That is all.

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Brooke Thomas-Hollahan @medievalappalachia.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Not the fortune you want when your car dies and you have to get a new one

Panda Express cookie fortune stating:“Don’t live beyond your means”

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Brooke Thomas-Hollahan @medievalappalachia.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Wild! My 1099 is gonna be the death of ME. #thanksCUNY (Me finding out I owe $4k in taxes as a grad student making tens of thousands BELOW a living wage ☠️)

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CUNY English PhD Program @cunyenglish.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Announcing the 2025 English Department Awards! We're delighted to share this year's winners - please join us in congratulating the students who received Dissertation Year Fellowships and Dissertation Prizes! @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social

Navy flyer with golden star designs in the top corners and golden and white text that reads:

ENGLISH PROGRAM
2025 AWARD WINNERS

Kadison Award
Brooke Thomas

Cohen Travel Award
Jeff Voss

Alumni and Faculty Dissertation Year Fellowship
Vallerie Matos

The Millennium Dissertation Year Fellowship
Charlie Markbreiter

The Robert Adams Day Dissertation Year Fellowship
Joseph Cáceres

The Jane Marcus Fellowship Award
Madeleine Barnes

Milton F. Steinhardt Memorial Fellowship Award
Sandra Goldstein Lehnert

The Irving Howe Prize for the Best Dissertation Involving Politics and Literature
Nicole Cote, “Mediating Disaster: Shaping Perceptions of Risk, Environment, and Ways Forward”

The Alfred Kazin Prize for the Best Dissertation in American Literature and Culture
Stefano Morello, “Let’s Make a Scene!: East Bay Punk and Subcultural Worlding”

The Paul Monette Prize for the Best Dissertation in Lesbian/Gay Studies
Matthew Knip, “Before Melville’s Masts: Sex in the Age of Sail”

The Timothy Healy Prize for the Best Dissertation on Twentieth-Century Poetry and Poetics
Sokunthary Svay, “The Resonance of Generation Loss: Cambodian Diasporic Cultural Production After The Khmer Rouge”

The Calder Prize for the Best Dissertation Involving Interdisciplinary Work
Andrew Thomas Dunn, “Post-Truth and the Poetics of Attitude on Media”

The Alumni and Doctoral Faculty Prize for the Most Distinguished Dissertation of the Year
Destry Maria Sibley, “Narrating Mother, Narrating Twenty-First Century America: On Choice, Refusal, and Relation”

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Brooke Thomas-Hollahan @medievalappalachia.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Going to be at Kalamazoo for the medieval conference next week! If you’re there too, come to the Ecocriticisms I: Animals session to see me talk about Sir Gowther, dogs, and video game theory! Let’s get beers if you don’t hate it (or even if you do hate it, as long as you’re nice about it lol)

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Brooke Thomas-Hollahan @medievalappalachia.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

And remember ladies, if his hair looks like this, he probably believes chastity belts were a real thing.

Two stuffy dudes in red robes from the late 17th to 18th century as typified by those dumb wigs they wore

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Brooke Thomas-Hollahan @medievalappalachia.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Rome has some of the most incredible and artistically innovative fountains. The Trevi fountain is sure to be crammed with tourists this time of year, but do not to miss hidden gems like this: Saccus Neptuni

Someone’s knockoff purse on the ground full of water coming out of a public drinking hose in Rome.

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Brooke Thomas-Hollahan @medievalappalachia.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Let’s say ur at someone’s house & u have a glass with a lime, but they aren’t there to tell u what to do w/ it at night’s end. What do u do? Be honest not ideal. A) leave it in sink w/ lime B) leave in sink & toss lime in trash C) hand wash D) leave on counter lime in E) counter w/ lime in trash

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Brooke Thomas-Hollahan @medievalappalachia.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Realizing I’m from an era where the “posers” were all wannabe hipsters fighting over who knew Bon Iver in his Volcano Choir iteration instead of something cooler is a real punch to the ego . . .

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Brooke Thomas-Hollahan @medievalappalachia.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Just learned that an acquaintance got denied a passport renewal bc he’s trans—something I’ve already seen ppl report happening to them on TikTok—I’m talking KEPT & sent in a BLACK HOLE. Not just denied gender marker, but effectively REVOKED. I’ve seen others online report the same . . . Taken! KEPT!

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Brooke Thomas-Hollahan @medievalappalachia.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

It’s wild that there are animals out there—dogs, donkeys, squirrels—that are more famous and culturally relevant than 99% of us will EVER be. This is the future #posthumanists want.

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Tori @toguchi.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

I feel that at times, it's hard for us to find each other in community. I made a Starter Pack for Ryūkyūan Academics-Artists. go.bsky.app/HAzFD2t

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Brooke Thomas-Hollahan @medievalappalachia.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

#wargames folks #medievalsky and #historicalgames folks: Has anyone played Mount & Blade ( #Bannerlord or #Warband ) either for leisure or for pedagogical reasons? If so, what are your thoughts on the game as a medievalism/historical fiction

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Brooke Thomas-Hollahan @medievalappalachia.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

I can’t talk rn—I’m too busy playing INFINITY NIKKI!!!

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Brooke Thomas-Hollahan @medievalappalachia.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

The best Amazon review I’ve seen in a while, which stinks because the shirt was actually 100% cotton and natural fibers are hard to come by on sites like that.

Amazon one-star review saying “I looked like a polygamist” in reference to a cotton, puff-sleeve shirt.

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Hiromi @hiromicota.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Fellow islanders, especially academics: The Okinawan Journal of Island Studies just put out their 5th volume! It has cool articles like “Water Heals and Grows Indigeneity” by Risako Sakai. (This site is mostly in Japanese, but the articles are in English.) riis.skr.u-ryukyu.ac.jp/publication/...

riis.skr.u-ryukyu.ac.jp

Okinawan Journal of Island Studies (OJIS) Volume 5 | 琉球大学島嶼地域科学研究所（RIIS）

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Jeremiah McCall (he/him) @gamingthepast.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Let me know if I've missed you: this is a list of folks who talk and post (and some write) about historical games and history go.bsky.app/DCc9miK

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Dr. Mike Sellraiser III: Sell on Earth @profmikesell.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Interested in the stories we tell with, about, and around games? Follow this group of brilliant makers, scholars, critics, and teachers! Please repost to spread the word and let me know if you'd like me to add you to the community! go.bsky.app/D3qLnWi

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Jillian @nogoodwyfe.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Hello hello graduate students of #MedievalSky UNC and Duke University are co-hosting Vagantes 2025 in Durham, NC, USA Apr 3-5 and still looking for submissions! Here's the CFP--abstracts due by December 9th. (I'm saying come hang out with me and my friends we are nice and also funny) #callforpapers

Call for Papers: Vagantes 2025 at Duke University. Submit: The 24th Annual Vagantes Conference on Medieval Studies invites abstracts from current PhD students and recently graduated MA students for papers relating to the long Middle Ages and its study. We welcome submissions for 20-minute conference papers from across the disciplines alongside multimedia presentations and interdisciplinary scholarship. Open call: Additionally, in honor of the MAA's Centennial, we are soliciting applicants for a roundtable entitled: "Reflections After the Centennial: Creating Futures in Medieval Studies." Abstract submissions may range from research advice for independent scholars, medieval gaming, visions of a capacious medieval studies, and pedagogy outside the academy. Please specify "Open Call" in the email subject and abstract title. All Submissions should consist of a paper title, a 300 word abstract, and a 1-page CV including applicant's name and pronouns. Please submit a PDF to vagantesboard@gmail.com by December 9th, 2024.

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

6 hours under martial law: a drunk scene report from Seoul www.theverge.com/24312920/mar...

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6 hours under martial law in Seoul

On the ground from the protests outside the National Assembly building

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Brooke Thomas-Hollahan @medievalappalachia.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Like this if you get viscerally disappointed when you go to wash your hands in the bathroom see that bar soap is the only option . . .

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Brooke Thomas-Hollahan @medievalappalachia.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Halfway thru a map I’m making for my upcoming #dnd campaign set to start next semester. There’s still a ton of cleaning up to do and towns/features to add—especially at the bottom—but I’m filled with the pre-campaign ✨sparkles✨

Map of fantasy nation with medieval vibes

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Brooke Thomas-Hollahan @medievalappalachia.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Had a nice rainbow over my parents’ farm. The grandkids (my dogs) are going to love living here for the next month (their vacation from the city).

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