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Ethan Campbell @profgawain.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I don't think Giada wants to come back 😄 #dwts

Ethan Campbell @profgawain.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

They keep trying to downplay that Jenna Dewan is already a professional dancer (okay, not in ballroom, sure), and then Val weeps when he meets her and calls her an "icon in this space," and gives away the game. 😂 #dwts

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Ethan Campbell @profgawain.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Now it's clear why they separated the men and women ... if they'd gone together, two men would've been eliminated. The women are significantly better. #dwts

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Ethan Campbell @profgawain.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I love you, Guillermo, but I’m voting for Ezra. #dwts

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Ethan Campbell @profgawain.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Correction: ALMOST beat them. I guess the refs decided to rob WMU instead. Oh well, they still have the coolest medieval conference, and the swans, and Bell's, and Bilbo's Pizza. #wmu #icms #kalamazoo

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Ethan Campbell @profgawain.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Yes, medievalists on Bluesky, THAT Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo just beat Michigan at football. #icms #kzooicms

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Ethan Campbell @profgawain.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

LOL, between Ricketts and Pillen ads and a godawful defense, Nebraska's not exactly showing its best on national TV this afternoon. (I'm watching in Brooklyn, NY.)

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Ethan Campbell @profgawain.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

This is my once-in-four-years reminder that I really don’t understand soccer. Why do they all writhe in pain at the slightest touch? Why don’t they know how to stop a clock? I just googled “what is offsides in soccer,” and the answer was a bunch of gobbledygook. #WorldCup

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Ethan Campbell @profgawain.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Maybe it’s the American in me, but I don’t think this 0-0 game has been ruined by a little entertainment from the Muppets and Shakira. 😂 #WorldCup

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Ethan Campbell @profgawain.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

This is an incredibly valuable insight.

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Ethan Campbell @profgawain.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Fireworks going off in Brooklyn right now.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

FUCK ICE NOW AND FOREVER

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Ethan Campbell @profgawain.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Some book mail came today, from @modernlanguage.bsky.social ... my essay on "teaching Arthur through Shakespeare" in the anthology "Teaching the Arthurian Tradition," edited by Dorsey Armstrong and Arielle C. McKee. On sale May 29!

Book cover: Teaching the Arthurian Tradition, edited by Dorsey Armstrong and Arielle C. McKee, published by the Modern Language Association.

First page of an essay: "Merlin and the Fool: Teaching Arthur through Shakespeare" by Ethan Campbell.

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Ethan Campbell @profgawain.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

I have a chapter on teaching Arthurian literature through Shakespeare's King Lear in this new anthology from @modernlanguage.bsky.social -- "Teaching the Arthurian Tradition," edited by Dorsey Armstrong and Arielle McKee. Available (at long last) on May 29th! www.mla.org/Publications...

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Teaching the Arthurian Tradition

From the Middle Ages to the present, legends of King Arthur and his court have prompted readers to contemplate leadership and community, love and loyalty, the spiritual realm, and more, and the tales ...

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Ethan Campbell @profgawain.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

I second Emily's recommendation for this show that's running just one more week at TFANA in Brooklyn. Seriously one of the best Shakespeare-related productions I've ever seen (and I've seen hundreds of them!).

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TheValuesVoter @thevaluesvoter.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

The reason America is broken is largely because something has become broken in the American Church.

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daviss @daviss.org · 16/01/2026

Short time ago at the Whipple federal building just outside of Minneapolis. Homeland Security police and Border Patrol officers chase down and arrest a protester.

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Ethan Campbell @profgawain.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

I like literary fiction, but honestly, the list of Bram Stoker Award nominees is just as interesting as the Pulitzer Prize.

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Ethan Campbell @profgawain.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Every once in a while, I just marvel that we live in an era where the author who wrote the scripts to half our nightmares as kids, and made millions of us want to become writers, is just out here giving his takes on music and bantering with folks.

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Christopher @thephdgamer.com · 17/10/2025

You had me at not being a sexual predator.

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Ethan Campbell @profgawain.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

A wonderfully descriptive article by Carson Vaughan, with some great photography, about the part of the world where I grew up. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/t...

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Floating the Lazy Rivers of Nebraska’s Spring-Fed Water World

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Ethan Campbell @profgawain.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Pearl Jam’s “Animal” was the perfect needle-drop for the final scene of Alien: Earth. But I didn’t realize *how* perfect it was until I played the song on my phone … and remembered the cover art for that album was an angry sheep. 😂

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Ethan Campbell @profgawain.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

One of my favorite etymologies. It's wild to think that in the 1940s, cartoon viewers might hear Elmer Fudd called a "nimrod" and think, "Hilarious, an ironic reference to the mighty hunter from Genesis!" Just a different world.

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Ethan Campbell @profgawain.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

I wasn't expecting to see a Pete Ricketts campaign ad on my TV in Brooklyn while watching Nebraska football. That was ... unsettling.

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Ethan Campbell @profgawain.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

When I visited Rome, I was kind of delighted to find that the site where Julius Caesar was killed is now a feral cat colony. The cats are just fed by volunteers, though — I don’t think they’re expected to kill rats 😂

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 27/08/2025

it won't happen automatically. but there is very obviously an opportunity for ambitious types who want to quite literally save the American republic to have their names written in history. crowns are in the gutter waiting to be picked up

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Ann Aguirre @annaguirre.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

As an old white lady, it's unlikely I would be stopped by ICE but if I am, I plan to ask them for their parents' names and telephone numbers because I want to talk about how they were raised.

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Ethan Campbell @profgawain.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Wow. I wish my city (New York) had a mayor like this.

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Ethan Campbell @profgawain.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

“He thought it was funny,” Ms. Pirro said of the defendant in a video posted online. “Well, he doesn’t think it’s funny today, because we charged with him with a felony.” Ehhh … no, still funny. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/u...

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Man Charged With Assaulting Federal Agent With Sandwich in D.C.

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Ethan Campbell @profgawain.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Look at that, I have a new hero -- from my home state!

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Ethan Campbell @profgawain.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

A new Park Slope institution: LUYA Omakase sushi bar

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Ethan Campbell @profgawain.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

No thank you, AI robot, I don't need a summary of the book THAT I'M COPYEDITING.

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Ethan Campbell @profgawain.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Ever since we took a family trip to Sweden six years ago and I friended a bunch of distant aunts and cousins on Facebook, my feed looks like this every Midsommar.

Image from the movie Midsommar; women in flower garlands lined up to dance

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Ethan Campbell @profgawain.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

I just read that Tom Crewe review of Ocean Vuong. While parts of his broader critique might be valid, I do think for a viciously bad review to really work, the out-of-context quotes from the book you're mocking have to be clearly ridiculous, and most of these are just ... not?

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Ethan Campbell @profgawain.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Richard Jefferson’s suit, you guys. #NBAFinals

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 14/06/2025

Massive #NoKings march in New York City!

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Ethan Campbell @profgawain.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Not gonna lie, I kind of love this. (The tourists waving, not the NYPD collaborating with ICE.)

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Ethan Campbell @profgawain.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

“A crossover to make your feet go one way and your soul go another.” Brooklyn Nets fans already know, but Richard Jefferson is underrated as a color commentator. #NBAFinals

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NBA Stat @nbastat.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

The call by the Korean crew... Incredible. #NBA

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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 06/06/2025

Haliburton, as called in: Brazil, France, Iceland, U.S. (in Spanish), Albania, U.S. (ESPN Radio), Indianapolis, Oklahoma City, the Netherlands, Türkiye, Canada, and Croatia:

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Ethan Campbell @profgawain.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Would you look at that — I have a new hero.

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Ethan Campbell @profgawain.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Wow. I've spent a lot of years in evangelical Christian spaces, heard more cringey "come to Jesus" sermons than I care to admit, and I have never heard an altar call this off-putting.

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Ethan Campbell @profgawain.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

An article about my publisher, the Middle English Texts Series, and the funding challenges it faces now that all NEH grants have been terminated by the Trump administration. METS isn't going anywhere yet! But it does need new donors. www.library.rochester.edu/about/news/m...

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METS & the medieval scholarly community face possibility of an unthinkable loss

This April, thousands of organizations received word that their federal grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) were abruptly terminated as part of a broader effort to reduce feder...

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Ethan Campbell @profgawain.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

The full text of my book THE ENGLISH APOCALYPSE is now online on the new Middle English Text Series website! In addition to introductory material, the site includes the full Middle English text of the Apocalypse with hypertext links to all of my explanatory notes. metseditions.org/editions/89r...

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The English Apocalypse: A Fourteenth-Century Translation of the Book of Revelation from Columbia University, MS Plimpton Add. 03

Before translators at the University of Oxford began producing the first Wycliffite Bibles in the 1380s, few complete books of the Bible had ever been translated into Middle English. One notable excep...

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