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Luigi de Guzman @ouij.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

MODERN ENGLISH: I’ll stop the world and melt with you

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Guy Gavriel Kay @guygavrielkay.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Kind of Burne-Jones to label them, avoid viewer confusion.

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Rick Godden @rickgodden.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Hi all, LSU is hiring for the long 18th century. Come be my colleague!! Please feel free to share and send it to anyone you might know that is on the market! I'm happy to answer any questions. lsu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/LSU/job/0210...

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Assistant Professor - 18th-Century British Literature

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Megan L. Cook @meganlcook.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The details aren't quite up on the website yet, but @dancingmedievalist.bsky.social and I are organizing a subtheme for the 2027 @sewaneemedieval.bsky.social that I'm extremely excited about. Deadline for abstracts is 10/15, give us all your authentic/inauthentic hot takes!

Scandalous In/Authenticity
Megan L. Cook | Colby College | mlcook@colby.edu
Clint Morrison, Jr. | University of Wisconsin - Whitewater | morrisoc@uww.edu

In response to the conference theme, this thread invites panels and papers that consider moments in medieval literature and culture in which authenticity or inauthenticity becomes a site of scandal, concern, or disruption. Such moments of epistemic crisis inevitably raise foundational questions about perception, the nature of truth, and social norms and cohesion.

Recent work on authenticity and inauthenticity has considered the complicated relationship between the concept of the “original” and the “forgery” respectively, emphasizing their mutually constitutive status. What can we learn about structures of meaning-making in and about the Middle Ages by considering instances disputed, ambiguous, or contested authenticity?

Papers might consider these issues within a range of frameworks, including:
the textual (canon, attribution, translation, apocrypha and pseudepigrapha)
the ludic (disguise, performance, impostors)
the religious (discernment, heresy and orthodoxy, relics)
the aesthetic (artifice, imitation, copying)
the moral (forgery, hypocrisy, deceit)
the political (public attitude, accountability, narrative, sovereignty, succession)

We also welcome proposals that consider questions of authenticity and inauthenticity in the Middle Ages diachronically, whether by looking to medieval ideas about the biblical and classical past, or to post-medieval explorations of the Middle Ages through medievalism, historiography, or even hoax.

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Phillip Maciak @pjmaciak.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I said some things about AI and reading and writing and the robots who run so fast and dance so hard their asses explode. pjmaciak.substack.com/p/butts-on-f...

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Butts on Fire

Some notes on AI at the start of a new school year

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Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I'll post more as I come up with them, and please share yours. I'm syllabus planning with: against-a-i.com and @isanchezprado.bsky.social 's excellent notebook assignment, described here ignaciosanchezprado.substack.com/p/a-year-of-...

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AGAINST AI -

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Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I'm planning on having students do more in-class writing in both my freshman and upper-level classes. If you are too, let's share prompts? Here are some of mine that I'm tinkering with:

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 17/08/2026

"AI" has existed in its current form for barely four years and the fact that it's jammed up the cognitive development of an entire generation that fast (and that there's a specific overclass of techofascists who are deeply thrilled about this) is a big damn red flag. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/17/u...

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What Do Students Lose When They Stop Writing? (Gift Article)

Educators are worried that many students can no longer write essays without A.I. And it’s costing more than just grammar skills.

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Phillip Maciak @pjmaciak.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Fifteen years ago, in the classroom, wikipedia was annoying because it was hard to describe to kids who relied on it why it wasn't a good source to cite in a paper. Now, it's the final remaining example of citational responsibility any of them have ever seen.

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Rick Godden @rickgodden.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Closest I've ever come is a performance project in high school English, where I was Brutus from Julius Caesar. We acted out act IV, scene 3. There are reasons I never did so again lol.

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Rick Godden @rickgodden.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Also, the performance Steve Way gives, of a disabled character that desires, is really notable and fantastic here I think. He is also really funny in a gallows humor sort of way, not the affable crip.

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Rick Godden @rickgodden.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

The performance Steve Way gives, of a disabled character that desires, is really notable here I think. He is also really funny in a gallows humor sort of way, not the affable crip.

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Phillip Maciak @pjmaciak.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

What if they made a season of The Wire about the patriarchy? That show is called FURIOUS, and it's incredible. newrepublic.com/article/2142...

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In Furious, The Serial Killer Is Not The Real Villain

In the new Hulu show, both the killer on the loose and the detectives pursuing her are righteously angry women.

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Karl Steel @karlsteel.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Ok now I've read it and this is fully going right at the start of my fall ma lit theory syllabus

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Rick Godden @rickgodden.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Not the exact bottles, of course, but suitable substitutions. One must be prepared for many contingencies (especially with the semester looming).

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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Fellow early modernists: can anyone recommend a good article that introduces/examines the notion of the history of knowledge in early modern Europe? I'd like to assign one in my graduate seminar. Many thanks! #earlymodern 🗃️

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Rick Godden @rickgodden.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

This seems like a ridiculous take, and substitutes some kind of nostalgic memory of college students of yesteryear. Who says mom and dad are picking up the bills? Who says they aren't working year-round? Forcing college students to do absentee will drive down their vote.

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Rick Godden @rickgodden.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I was thinking the same thing when I was reading what I assume is the same article.

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Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies @acmrs.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Happy fall from Throughlines! This month, we're sharing new contributions from Jonathan Hsy 許維成, on teaching Chaucer through adaptations, and Jennifer L. Morgan, on reading the resistance of enslaved women in the historical archive. Find their videos, resources, and syllabi at Throughlines.org

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Rick Godden @rickgodden.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I happen to have suitable bottles on hand. Might need to try this tonight!

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Rick Godden @rickgodden.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Right there with you. I feel broken by it.

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Rick Godden @rickgodden.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Ugh, this. I understand why so many people are going to paper/writing in class/physical books, but I just can't do it. Physically, I need digital copies. Really feel like mourning a classroom that will never return.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

This actually is the root of a lot of my anger and frustration, and yes, grief. I spent years crafting accessible classrooms, advocating for tech, and now every measure I use for access is misused by (mostly able-bodied) students who want to cheat with gAI. And our institutions are no fucking help.

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I spent years fighting for tech in the classroom for disability access reasons, arguing that no, accommodation wasn't enough, go for universal design. I've given up. I've lost. AI humping motherfuckers ruined it. As they ruin everything.

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Since we are doing this discourse again: I probably talked to more undergraduates about grad school in the humanities than most people, as it’s part of my job as an advisor. My message: people do all kinds of shit in their 20s, and going to grad school aint the worst if you’re funded for it.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Ive been saying this for a while, when you see the hype around "AI" through a disability studies lens, you really do see that so much of the hype and fantasies are about defeating death, but also "curing/conquering" disability. Many powerful people in SV are aging, and it terrifies them.

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Rick Godden @rickgodden.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I know you do lolsob. I'm so tired

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Rick Godden @rickgodden.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Notice how it's never men's fault? It's always a thinly veiled, "Look at what you made me do."

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Rick Godden @rickgodden.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

And about disability in general.

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Rick Godden @rickgodden.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

One of the local air-conditioning businesses here has one, and I refuse to do anything but say "speak to someone."

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Re THAT Stock article, and if you don't think this is harmful, Ive tried to convince at least two elders and my mother to use a cane because they needed it, and each time, they refused violently because "it was shameful" This is how people overextend and hurt themselves, becoming more disabled.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 11/04/2026

I don't know how to explain to the people who pop up when creatives complain about "AI" to say there are legit uses for it just how much they sound like someone saying "Well actually fire is used to make bread" when people are talking about an organized arson ring burning down their fucking houses

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Rick Godden @rickgodden.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

This feels related to masking as well.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

there is something about visible disability tech/prosthetics that catalyzes ableism. Ive never confronted as many brazen questions about my epilepsy as when Charlie was my seizure alert dog. The technology/animal becomes the material focus of all that rage and suspicion re disability.

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Rick Godden @rickgodden.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

If only I could find the energy! Lol

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Rick Godden @rickgodden.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Exactly. To treat it like essentially a fashion accessory. This definitely comes through with the way she calls it a prop at the end. I may have to write about this at some point, having just finished up a book on prothesis.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

something in there about how prosthetics and disability tech catalyzes ableism, in a way that not using prosthetics and disability tech does not. Same with service animals. The technologies, sentient or not, become the catalyst for a flood of suspicion, distrust, anger and ableism.

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Rick Godden @rickgodden.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Just read this dreck. I feel like throwing out my laptop to save it the embarrassment of having displayed this on screen.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Also, all of this hate is related; all of this hate is built on an irrational terror of the figure of the non-normate, and the supposed threats that we pose to their lily white lives

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

This from Vanderbilt looks extraordinarily a) broad, b) vague, and c) at odds with free speech. Like faculty fail both if they suppress or promote political ideas? Which is it? There is no meaningful criteria here, except to give the institution a justification to selectively punish.

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Rick Godden @rickgodden.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

The only response to him is, "Get Flushed!" Seriously, what ghouls they are.

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