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Sarah C. Schaefer

@sarahcschaefer.bsky.social
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Associate Professor, Art History, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Mostly Tolkien.

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Sarah C. Schaefer @sarahcschaefer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I challenge you to name a more perfect eponymous end credits song. youtu.be/rd-0LtV5Axo?...
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Billy Idol - Speed [Official Music Video by the movie "Speed"]
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Sarah C. Schaefer @sarahcschaefer.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I feel like we really get to know (or at least can individually identify) the bus passengers in Speed, but Ortiz and Helen are the only ones whose names we learn. Ruck is apparently "Stephens," but I don't remember that ever being stated in the film?
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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Remember, everyone. It is perfectly acceptable to fixate exclusively on the quantity and relative size of horse penises on display in the Bayeux Tapestry. The motif is, one could argue, the linchpin to its political argument.
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Sarah C. Schaefer @sarahcschaefer.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
I'm in an unprecedented moment of finding "joy" in writing (i.e., not in "having written"). I can only chalk it to a particular combination of circumstances. That the focus is Tolkien is no small factor, but I think it's as much a result of figuring out what procedurally works for me.
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Sarah C. Schaefer @sarahcschaefer.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Images/objects are just as valid forms of historical evidence as texts
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ᴛʜᴇ 𝕍𝔼ℝℕ𝕀𝕊ℍ𝕀ℕ𝔾 @outlawvern.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Ralph Bakshi did.
Two gas-masked fascist goons from the movie WIZARDS
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Sarah C. Schaefer @sarahcschaefer.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
BIG NEWS at the end of theOneRing's post: Karen Wynn Fonstad's maps have found a home at the American Geographical Society Library here at UW-Milwaukee!!! www.theonering.net/torwp/2025/0...
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Wynn Fonstad Middle-earth Map Exhibit At UW-Madison
Recently, the Robinson Map Library at UW-Madison exhibited many of the manuscripts that cartographer Karen Wynn Fonstad developed in making the groundbreaking The Atlas of Middle-earth. TORn Discord m...
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Halloween III: Season of the Ben @franzferdinand2.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
A fun reminder that a loss of 60,000 jobs in and around academia is ~50% more than all coal mining jobs in the entire country.
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Sarah C. Schaefer @sarahcschaefer.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Came across this ad for the Milwaukee School of Engineering in vol 1 issue 2 of Amazing Stories! ‪@msoe-official.bsky.social‬
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Sarah C. Schaefer @sarahcschaefer.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
When talking about periods of history with few or no extant written sources, I implore: PLEASE, don't frame it as "all we have is the material/archaeological record." It reinforces the idea that the written word is the be-all and end-all of historical evidence...
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Sarah C. Schaefer @sarahcschaefer.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Very cool, Popular Mechanics, but why did you use an image of Bryn Celli Ddu in North Wales? #popularmechanics
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Sarah C. Schaefer @sarahcschaefer.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Milein Cosman, who was initially approached to do illustrations for Farmer Giles of Ham. Both images from 1942-43; Eagle and Child on the right. #tolkien
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Sarah C. Schaefer @sarahcschaefer.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Double feature suggestion: "Meatloaf's World" --> Wayne's World and Spice World
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Sarah C. Schaefer @sarahcschaefer.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
An amazing write-up of the venue my spouse has been pouring his lifeblood into!
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Dan Shafer @danshafer.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
NEW: Here's my breakdown of the latest Marquette Poll, which asks about Tony Evers and a third term. Along with those # 's, I took a look at what Wisconsinites agree on, where people stand on Trump's economic policies, and more. Let's recombobulate: www.therecombobulationarea.news/p/evers-thir...
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Evers' third term question, Trump's economic policies, what Wisconsin voters agree on, and more: 5 Takeaways from the June 2025 Marquette Poll
The poll asked a question we've been asking here, too: Should Tony Evers run for a third term? Analysis of those poll results and a whole lot more.
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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Something really important about organizations’ decisions to adopt AI tools which people need to understand is this: it often comes down to a room of a handful of people who are simply uninformed and think it’s just a new norm they’ll be left behind on if they don’t find a use for it in their work.
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Lauren Harper @laurenleharper.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
This appears to be absolutely antithetical to the mission of the National Archives and a thinly-veiled attempt by the Trump administration to give it the authority to decide who gets to conduct research. It’s also entirely unnecessary. You already need to make an appt to conduct research at NARA II
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Sarah C. Schaefer @sarahcschaefer.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Learned a few days ago that Ian Ballantine lived next to Todd Rudgren. My dad about lost his mind.
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Dan Shafer @danshafer.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
I spent the weekend at “The Ben Wikler Show,” aka the WisDems 2025 Convention. Read my 10 takeaways here. Let's recombobulate: www.therecombobulationarea.news/p/10-takeawa...
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10 Takeaways from the WisDems 2025 Convention
From the speeches to the Chair vote to the celebration of outgoing chair Ben Wikler, here's our takeaways from two days in Wisconsin Dells for the Democratic Party of Wisconsin's annual convention.
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Sarah C. Schaefer @sarahcschaefer.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
I watched something recently in which a character described being addicted to making money and I can't get the idea out of my head. Like, what would happen if accruing disgusting amounts of wealth was pathologized to a much greater extent and seen as necessitating treatment (e.g. immersion therapy)?
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Sarah C. Schaefer @sarahcschaefer.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
AS&S is one of my absolute favorite Milwaukee institutions––pls help if you can!
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Donate to Keep American Science & Surplus Alive, organized by Patrick Meyer
A heartfelt message from Pat Meyer, owner of American Science & Surplus: Calling A… Patrick Meyer needs your support for Keep American Science & Surplus Alive
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John Garth @johngarthwriter.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
What can we expect from Tolkien's BOVADIUM FRAGMENTS? tinyurl.com/bovadian #Tolkien #Bovadium
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Tolkien’s road goes on – but there’s traffic ahead at Bovadium
I’ve been waiting for Tolkien’s Bovadium Fragments since 1976, when I first read Humphrey Carpenter’s Tolkien biography… And now it’s almost here. What can we expect?
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Sarah C. Schaefer @sarahcschaefer.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
My OCR version of Nick Groom's "Tolkien, Geology, and Romantic Lithology" keeps reading "stones" as "scones"––"the Seeing Scones," "the philosophical study of scones," "the Scone of Erech"... @willsherwood.bsky.social
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Sarah C. Schaefer @sarahcschaefer.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
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Sarah C. Schaefer @sarahcschaefer.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Unexpected/completely predictable search result following a conversation that started with “How funny would it be if we got a phrenological head for our house?”
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Artforum @artforum.com · 14/03/2025
In her Close-Up on Gustave Doré’s engraving “Newgate—Exercise Yard,” 1872, @sarahcschaefer.bsky.social connects depictions of prisoners ranging from the nineteenth century to Stanley Kubrick’s “A Clockwork Orange,” 1971, and the much-publicized photographs of Luigi Mangione’s 2024 “perp walk.”
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Gustave Doré and Hélidore Pisan’s Newgate—Exercise Yard, 1872
Sarah C. Schaefer argues that today’s viral images of prisoners like Luigi Mangione draw on a 19th-century precedent established by Gustave Doré.
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Sarah C. Schaefer @sarahcschaefer.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
See you at #Westmoot!
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Artforum @artforum.com · 04/03/2025
Following the departure of Sandra Jackson-Dumont, the inaugural director and CEO of the still-under-construction Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, director George Lucas will take primary responsibility for curatorial direction at his namesake institution. www.artforum.com/news/george-...
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George Lucas to Helm Namesake Museum’s “Content Direction” as Director Departs
Sandra Jackson-Dumont, the inaugural director and CEO of the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, will leave the still-under-construction institution.
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Sarah C. Schaefer @sarahcschaefer.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Humbled to have been able to write on Doré's image of Victorian incarceration and its reverberations (van Gogh, Kubrick, Mangione) for this month's Artforum. www.artforum.com/features/gus... @artforum.com @tinariversryan.bsky.social
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Gustave Doré and Hélidore Pisan’s Newgate—Exercise Yard, 1872
Sarah C. Schaefer argues that today’s viral images of prisoners like Luigi Mangione draw on a 19th-century precedent established by Gustave Doré.
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Sarah C. Schaefer @sarahcschaefer.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
I love my friends
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Ralph Bakshi @ralphbakshi.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Have a great weekend!
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Sarah C. Schaefer @sarahcschaefer.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Unreleased test footage of Gandalf vs. Durin’s Bane
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Sarah C. Schaefer @sarahcschaefer.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Brb gonna go barf for a few hours
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Sarah C. Schaefer @sarahcschaefer.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
I AM SO EXCITED FOR THIS BOOK
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Sarah C. Schaefer @sarahcschaefer.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
There's no body of work that I would more desperately wish to experience for the first time again than David Lynch's. Every re-viewing feels both deeper and slightly less enchanted. The surrealistic nostalgia was completely his own. This one is hard.
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a man in a suit and tie is wearing ear buds and looking at the camera .
ALT: a man in a suit and tie is wearing ear buds and looking at the camera .
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Sarah C. Schaefer @sarahcschaefer.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
oh hey @danshafer.bsky.social
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Sarah C. Schaefer @sarahcschaefer.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Tickled that a strong case was made for Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure. My biggest takeaway from watching Ridley Scott's Napoleon was that it drove home how well B&TEA encapsulated that figure. @historyextra.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/my/podcast/w...
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What is the greatest historical movie of all time?
Podcast Episode · History Extra podcast · 15/01/2025 · 33m
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Sarah C. Schaefer @sarahcschaefer.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
A nod to Saint-Lazare (Autun) in Season of the Witch (2011)
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Putri Prihatini @putriprihatini.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
I commissioned my friend Amar to create a calligraphy that forms a Palestine sunbird (Cinnyris osea). The bird's form consists of characters from its Arabic name. Established as the national bird of #Palestine in 2015, this bird is now seen as a symbol of hope, freedom, and resistance. #art
A digital art of a Palestine sunbird, consists of the letters from the bird's Arabic name, which form the image of a flying green and dark blue bird. There are tatreez motifs as accent at the bottom of the calligraphy.
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Sarah C. Schaefer @sarahcschaefer.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
no way this is a real person
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Sarah C. Schaefer @sarahcschaefer.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Grateful to Jeff Zalar and Tony Steinhoff for including me and for their commitment to bringing this excellent volume to fruition! @degruyterbrill.bsky.social
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Sarah C. Schaefer @sarahcschaefer.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
I’m not sure I’ve encountered an institution quite so uneffected by museum practices of the past several decades as the Christ Church Picture Gallery. Nothing wrong with liking the old masters, and I get annoyed with over-zealous picture-takers as much as anybody…
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Sarah C. Schaefer @sarahcschaefer.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
A student asked B if he was doing anything for Thanksgiving. He replied, “Well, my wife is out of town and my cats are dead, but I’ve got a frozen pizza and a bottle of J&B.”
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a woman is crying and saying " i love him so much "
ALT: a woman is crying and saying " i love him so much "
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Sarah C. Schaefer @sarahcschaefer.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
From the Gallery stacks at the Bodleian’s Weston Library
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Sarah C. Schaefer @sarahcschaefer.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
I’d never seen a Schaefer ad abroad before!
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Sarah C. Schaefer @sarahcschaefer.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
I don’t know why but it tickles me every time I see JRRT write “prob” instead of “probably”
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Sarah C. Schaefer @sarahcschaefer.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
About a week to go at the Bodleian and I'm already looking wistfully back on the first few days, which were entirely focused on sketching from Tolkien's drawings (I'm thinking of them as 'visual paraphrases'). Here's a few samples...
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Sarah C. Schaefer @sarahcschaefer.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
I’ve limited myself to rocks in my short time drawing, but John Howe’s talk seemed an appropriate time to attempt a portrait
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Sarah C. Schaefer @sarahcschaefer.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
c’mon, really?
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Sarah C. Schaefer @sarahcschaefer.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Just when you thought Oxford couldn’t get more picturesque…
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