Assistant Professor of English @UCLA, working on poetry, reading practices, and attention/distraction, esp. pre-Conquest. Early medievalist. She/her.
Los Angeles, CA
Joined September 2012
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CAN'T WAIT for some dating Beowulf types to buy the volume Dan Remein & I are currently editing--Dating Beowulf: New Essays on Intimacy--and then realize it has nothing to do w/ the date of composition & they have instead bought essays on queer & feminist approaches to the field.
Some exciting news: Dating Beowulf: Studies in Intimacy is now freely available at manchesteropenhive.com/view/…! Huge thanks to @UCLA_Library and @ManchesterUP for supporting open access, to my co-editor & co-author Dan Remein, & to our readers & contributors: #medievaltwitter
Catalin Taranu on the poem's engagement with race, masculinity, and anxiety; Robin Norris on ‘Sad men in Beowulf’; @vestigiaflammae on translation, Heaney, and Meyer; @irinibus on Andreas as ‘Beowulf's most loving reader’;
@HwaetsUp on Bryher's novel Beowulf as queer palimpsest; and @MDockrayMiller on Wiglaf's challenge to Beowulf's ‘static, heroic masculinity’. In short, "Our title is admittedly a little cheeky, but it is meant in
part as the site of an alternative discourse about the poem."
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Congrats @ericamweaver and Daniel Remein, 'Dating Beowulf' has just arrived into the office! Features essays from some of the most prominent figures in the field, incl @b_a_saltzman @James_A_Paz @MaryKateHurley @vestigiaflammae @irinibus
@MDockrayMiller #medievaltwitter
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New blog post: editing "Anglo-Saxon" out of the conversation mdockraymiller.hcommons.org/… #Commit2Change #ILoveOldEnglish #medievaltwitter
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Am VERY excited that THIS has just arrived. Yes, it’s the three volume Ælfric “Lives of Saints”, edited and translated by Mary Clayton and Juliet Mullins. YES!
#ILoveAelfric #MedievalTwitter
@DumbartonOaks @Harvard_Press
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It's a book that can't be read in the library that owns it, why isn't this a Borges fable
It's here!
The Super Terrain edition of Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 can only be read by holding a flame close to the pages.
(Pity everyone in the library has sworn an oath not to kindle any fire or flame therein...)
#OnMyDeskToday #Fahrenheit451
As a counterpoint to the transphobia, homophobia, and racism on the ISXX listserve, I highly recommend Miller Oberman's The Unstill Ones, a gorgeous collection of poems on transness and translation from Old English:
press.princeton.edu/books/ha… #medievaltwitter
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Hey, #medievaltwitter, check out my @washingtonpost @madebyhistory piece on why the future of #privacy will be #medieval.
washingtonpost.com/outlook/2…
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Here's something to ponder before we all party hard (cause that's what academics do) on the weekend.
This JUST arrived on the listserv this morning. #medievaltwitter #shakerace
Someone send me something strong to drink. Also send cake and or gifs.
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These are just early and small steps, of course, but I'm looking forward to refocusing my own and my classes' optics on what the EMages were and who they belong to.
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During last week's overview of *PIE we scrutinized the troubling nationalist and romantic underpinnings of much early philological work (Aryan and Anglo-Saxon were what we scrutinized). Plus, I pointed them to threads by @adam_miya and @ISASaxonists for more.
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As part of my #commit2change, in HEL class today we talked abt how impt Theodore and Hadrian were to early med. England's social structure, & material evid of global interaction like carpet pages. Students were excited to learn that EMeng =\= a homogeneous island of white people.
As we #commit2change, I’m thinking about ways to foster richer and more inclusive Intro. Old English syllabi and classrooms. Please add thoughts, #medievaltwitter, if so inclined! Here are a few things I've tried and/or am excited about this term:
We'll read prognostics, monastic sign language, The Alphabetical Dreambook, a charm that invokes the 7 sleepers of Ephesus, and Ælfric's Colloquy, but we won't do any of the usual suspects: Beowulf, Maldon, Sermo Lupi, Alfred.
