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@joshreid
Associate Professor of Early Modern Studies, ETSU Spenser, Milton, Romance Epic, Translation Studies General Editor, The Manchester Spenser Book Review Editor, The Spenser Review https://etsu.academia.edu/JoshuaReid
Has to be a @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social right?
DHS illegally takes another life
Iβm convinced at this point that Trump supporters with brains, hearts, and eyes pull a Mike Johnson and donβt actually watch him as a subconscious prophylactic against the truth.
7 out of 7 Jimmys
Me in September: That article? I'll write it during January break.
Me in October: That review? I'll write it in January.
Me in November: Spring syllabi? That's what January's for.
Me in December: Whew, I'm burnt out. But I can catch my breath during break.
Me in January: Ooops.
Loved CRβs pick for #1 and his moving description of its impact.
First βοΈ in East TN!
*Global Bunyan and Visual Art π€¦
Global Milton and Visual Art is a great volume too
Marvel comics + American Evangelical cultural preoccupations of Apocalypticism, Anti-Intellectualism, and Hypermasculinity. Channeling my inner @maklelan.bsky.social
@kkdumez.bsky.social work on Christian Masculinity was essential
New Publication: βThe Pilgrimβs Progress as Marvel Comic,β in Angelica Duran and Katherine Callowayβs Global Milton and Visual Art.
This was a fun one to write! Christian is on soteriological steroids.
My family makes horror movies every Halloween. This year, our homage to 90s classic Are You Afraid of the Dark?
youtu.be/Vq0lU1Wu7uU?...
Taylor Swiftβs true Love Story. Fate of Ophelia is a banger!
It was a meeting,
Led by two idiots,
Full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
I also thought Revengers Tragedy
A.I. is Errourβs vomit
Itβs kind of wonderful that the first British edition of This Is Shakespeare mixes up Lysander and Demetrius just like the rest of us do.
Doctors I trust more than RFK Jr
How did you like Book Two?
I adore this book. Teach it in a Monsters class
My heart leaps up when I walk
A college campus at start of fall:
So was it when a freshman student;
So is it now I am a professor;
So be it when I shall grow old,
Or let me retire!
This looks amazing!
Man this inflation is getting out of hand
The author teaches ethics but thinks the humanities has nothing to do with his work? Ever heard of medical humanities? Leveraging Levitical purity laws is particularly offensive. The solution to unprecedented attacks on the university system is not every discipline for itself.
I didnβt have tentacled rabbits on my eschatological herald Bingo card but here we are