Dr Polina Ignatova

The Dead Wouldn’t Stay Buried: Medieval Horror Stories YouTube video by The Resurrectionists Podcast

Really enjoyed chatting about medieval zombies on the Resurrectionists podcast. What a productive week I'm having!
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I'm in this picture and I like it! My article ‘The Legend of the Serra Revisited: Identifying the Composite Creature’ has just been published with Preternature. Big thank you to the editors for their hard work 🦭

In 2022 my amazing colleague Emelie and I went on a trip to Östersund to see the Nordic Myths exhibition at Nationalmuseum Jamtli. We then wrote an article, which later grew into two articles. Super happy to see Part 1 published today, check it out, there are pictures!
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Binged One Piece up to the ongoing episodes, what a time to be alive!

My colleague and I are launching a new podcast series called Memory and Nature. If you are a researcher in environmental humanities, we will probably want to interview you! To express interest, send us an abstract by 1 February 2026. See the cfp for details ⬇️

When people say that German or any other language is romantic, Dr. Daruwalla thought, all they really mean is that they've enjoyed a past in the language (c) John Irving, 'A Son of the Circus'

Watched Puss in Boots 2 bc a friend of a friend said it's the best animated film ever. Well, Puss meets the personification of death and reassesses his life by making meaningful connections w/ others. In other words, very Irvin Yalom-y

Open-Access Teaching Module on the Black Death Now Available Free, new materials for teaching the Black Death

My thanks to TEAMS (Teaching Association for Medieval Studies) for posting a notice on their newsletter of the new #OpenAccess teaching module on the Black Death: teams-medieval.org/untitled-4/. #histmed #MedievalSky #PandemicPedagogy 🧪🗃️

Tell me this job was created for a friend w/o telling me this job was created for a friend

Finished Wednesday's 2nd season. Why does a late-autumn motorcycle road trip with Uncle Fester suddenly look so good?

Come to my seminar on sea monsters on Monday at Stockholm University! (It will be in English 😉)

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Едва я вымолвил эти слова, поводья терпения выскользнули из рук дервиша, и он, обнажив меч своего языка, пустил коня красноречия на поле дерзости и, погнав его на меня, воскликнул

После разлуки с ним я твёрдо решил свернуть на весь остаток жизни ковёр страсти

Прошло оживление на базаре его красоты

Не держись рукой своих укоров за полу моей злой судьбы

Успокоив дэвов своего желудка, он заснул

Про тусовку с друзьями в заведении с очень плохой музыкой:

Слишком поздно призывает нас к молитве муэдзин -
Он не ведает, насколько эта ночь была длинна.

О сынок, выкинь из головы безрассудные мысли и подбери ноги воздержания под полу спокойствия, ибо мудрецы говорят: "Счастье даётся не по труду", и потому лучше причинять себе меньше волнений

На днях под видом дервиша к нам подошёл один вор и нанизал себя на нитку нашего общества

Любимые формулировки из Гулистана Саади (перевод Рустама Алиева):

Однажды ночью, о минувших годах размышляя и даром погубленную жизнь в памяти оживляя, камни дома сердца своего я подтачивал алмазами слёз

Environmental medievalists, we want to see you at the animal sessions at the IMC 2026! Please submit your abstracts by 10 September 🦔 @imc-leeds.bsky.social @leedsims.bsky.social

1st day back from my conference Eurotrip - @imc-leeds.bsky.social (where we've plotted forthcoming sessions w/ Medieval Animal Data-Network) and @memstudiesassoc.bsky.social in Prague (where I've tried out medieval studies from the memory perspective). Now let's catch up on this pile of emails

I think SAS should just start slapping all non-EU citizens at the boarding like we deserve

Travelling to the UK w/ a visa (duh). SAS puts me on the spot by calling me together w/ several other holders of uncool passports to their desk through the fucking intercom.
This is besides the fact I can't check in online bс again my passport is uncool.

Publications are like buses...
My article on representations of fish in medieval children's literature has just come out and it's in OA:

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I struggle a lot with American English I realise

Today I have sent out two documents: a publishing agreement for my article and a presentation pic for a pole dancing competition 🤘

Prioritising AI over - well - natural intelligence is a perfect example of how ✨some people✨ want to see humans as expendable materials. I said what I said.

That moment in a romcom when an ugly girl shows up in her prom dress #akademiskahögtiden #Sweden

Love that autocorrect tries to replace godkänd with goddamn