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Erica Weaver

@ericamweaver

Assistant Professor of English @UCLA, working on poetry, reading practices, and attention/distraction, esp. pre-Conquest. Early medievalist. She/her.

 Los Angeles, CA
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Joined September 2012
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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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Emma Stanford@e_stanf1 Nov 2019
It's a book that can't be read in the library that owns it, why isn't this a Borges fable
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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
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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…
Perspective | To understand today’s global data economy, look to the Middle Ages

Perspective | To understand today’s global data economy, look to the Middle Ages

The mysterious omniscience of our digital age resembles the medieval belief in an all-knowing God.

washingtonpost.com
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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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Replying to @phil_lol_ogist @adam_miya @ISASaxonists
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.
A V Hudson (@wyrdwritere) profile pictureA V Hudson@wyrdwritere19 Sep 2019
Hooray, it's Theodore of Tarsus' day! Middle Eastern scholar, refugee, archbishop of Canterbury + great teacher. My favourite bit from his students' notes (preserved in Milan, Biblioteca Ambrosiana, M. 79 sup.): In Edessa, melons grow so large a camel can barely carry 2 of them.
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I don't know what that org is going to look like, but I know what sort of field I want for everyone. One that is inclusive and nurtures generations of people to appreciate the richness of the past in its diversity, so that any one will know that the field itself is for them. 7/15
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THREAD: So it looks like the name-change passed. Congratulations. I want you to remember that this is the least you can do. The lowest of bars. Worry more about changing the field than you are a name-change from hereon in. 1/15
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This isn't about a name-change. You all have work to do. This isn't about a name-change. You all have work to do. This isn't about a name-change. You all have work to do. This isn't about a name-change. You all have work to do. Repeat.
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Replying to @ericamweaver
Thank you, @ericamweaver. To add to that, I proposed we remove the serial sexual abuser's lifetime membership. That is the LEAST we could have done. That was shot down. What message are we sending the vulnerable and abused in our community?
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Structural racism is the best reason to change the name, & our combatting of racism shouldn’t stop there. But there lots of good reasons to change Anglo-Saxon to something better, & few I compelling ones I can think of to keep it other than inertia & nostalgia.
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It also creates a false sense of continuity across over 600 years of history, far longer than any other section of the standard periodization since the beginning of recorded history.
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“Anglo-Saxon” has always been a way to isolate our field from other eras in history - it’s common to see information signs in England that seperate it from the medieval period entirely.
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Lots of great scholarship over the past generation or two has dramatically expanded & complicated the old nationalistic picture of the field. That would have been reason enough even without the racist implications to reassess our core terminology.
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As I implied I have colleagues with better arguments to look to on this, but I’ll also just add that the hyphenated Anglo-Saxon is an invented modern term that has always been awkward for a variety of reasons, obscuring more often than illuminating & eliding complexities.
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I’m not a member of ISAS, but I’m an historian of the field, albeit far from the best qualified to speak about the issues under debate right now. I’d just like to add my voice to those calling for a change from the term Anglo-Saxon & a deeper self-examination of structural racism
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The International Society of Anglo-Saxonists (#ISAS) has some serious problems. As a member & board member I want to give a little insight to what's been going on recently+
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