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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 · 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 · 29/07/2025
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 · 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 · 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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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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Sarah C. Schaefer @sarahcschaefer.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
See you at #Westmoot!
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Sarah C. Schaefer @sarahcschaefer.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
When I thought of the "Jackson Prison," my mind typically went instead to the more centrally-located old prison site, with its picturesque, medievalizing brick facade. Still imposing, its defunct status made it an object of fascination, not anxiety, fear, or anger.
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Sarah C. Schaefer @sarahcschaefer.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
It also brought me back to growing up in a town known for having what was once the largest walled prison in the world. I still use it as a way of identifying the location to other Michiganders, despite not having seen the site until well into high school.
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Sarah C. Schaefer @sarahcschaefer.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
I've never been much of an annotator, but there are a few instances I remember thinking that it was especially important to do so. Discipline and Punish, purchased at my undergrad mentor's insistence, is one of them.
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Sarah C. Schaefer @sarahcschaefer.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
It conjured up a lot of personal reflection that didn't end up in the piece. My first undergraduate research project, which solidified my art historical interests, examined Toulouse-Lautrec's poster for the serialized memoir of Abbé Faure, "At the Foot of the Scaffold."
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Sarah C. Schaefer @sarahcschaefer.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
I love my friends
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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 · 16/01/2025
oh hey @danshafer.bsky.social
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Sarah C. Schaefer @sarahcschaefer.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Also, what a big time for Embeth Davidtz––Army of Darkness (1992) and Schindler's List (1993)!
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Sarah C. Schaefer @sarahcschaefer.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Sidebar: in my household, Bogus Journey is held up as equal to, if not surpassing Excellent Adventure, in quality.
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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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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
But from paid entry to no photography to basic physical accessibility, it’s pretty clear that this space is meant for a very limited set of audiences (and is in stark contrast with every other museum I’ve visited in Oxford).
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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 · 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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