academics are like sorry for the self-plug but given the news from Tampa if you want to learn about how a different man-made monster took the Gulf of Mexico “by storm” in the nineteenth century check out my article “Kate Chopin and the Rise of Literary Regionalism”!!!

Event: 22 March 2025, Cambridge Festival: Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic Day of Events asnc.cam.ac.uk/news/?p=2861

a tip I wish I’d been given as a grad student is to make your work as seminal as possible

🚨 Postgraduate students in the School are organising a conference titled *Widame (Proto-Celtic "we found out"). Postgraduate researchers are invited to submit a 200 word abstract and short biography to [email protected] by 25 April 2025. #CfP #CelticStudies

Honored to learn that my translation of "Cruel Loss of Sons" by Egill Skallagrímsson, published in The Paris Review 250, has been longlisted for Deep Vellum’s Best Literary Translations Anthology 2025. Many thanks to all involved! theparisreview.org/poetry/8357/fr… W. W. Norton & Company Liveright Books

Just another beautiful day in the past ☀️

Enough. Stop equivocating. Stop aiding ethnic cleansing. Stop arming Israel.

The problems in our society are not caused by migrants or refugees. They are caused by an economic system rigged in favour of corporations and billionaires. If the government wanted to improve people’s lives, it would tax the rich and build an economy that works for us all.

Did Nigel Farage write this speech? Dehumanising and divisive. We deserve better than this.

here’s mine

NEW: AI is not revolutionary. It’s a gimmick, writes Jonathan Malesic. hedgehogreview.com/web-features/t…

The last paragraph is something like a Hippocratic oath for humanities professors

#saveWOT #The Wheel of Time deserves to be completed with this wonderful cast. #Sony needs to find another platform #HBO, #Appletv, or others — to give this amazing story the future it deserves. Fans won’t give up!

A lovely conversation on Vikings in video and tabletop games with fellow Old Norse scholars and gamers!

Though the Wheel may pause, the story of THE WHEEL OF TIME must be told. Elaida has not played her last card, and with the power of our incredible fans, we’ll weave this tale back to life. 🙏🏼❤️ #TwitterOfTime #SaveWOT

Want to know more about one of the most influential scholars of British (especially early medieval) coinage? Come to a special event in memory of Michael Dolley, supported by British Num. Soc. and hosted by The British Academy on 11 July! britnumsoc.org/?view=article&…

#CFP for #IMC2026 'New Approaches to Medieval Office Liturgy'. Please share widely and get in touch if you have any questions!

Calling all Celticists, students of Britain's medieval past, readers of Old Norse! A reminder that the deadline to submit abstracts for CCASNC 2026 has been extended by one week! The updated deadline is 17 November

unfortunately it's come to my attention, upon a final re-read of my writing sample the day before the last deadline, that it is deeply embarassing and actually the worst piece of philosophical writing ever produced by a human mind