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Candace Barrington
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Candace Barrington @candacebarrington.bsky.social · Sep 8
In the category of medievalists and their marvelous projects: Dr. Krista Sue-Lo Twu's The Book of the North brings together her knowledge of manuscript production with local culture and its natural history.
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Follow the project's progress via social media!
Krista Twu awarded Imagine Chair at University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
by Candace Barrington I am delighted to spread the news that, as of 1 July 2025, Dr. Dr. Krista Sue-Lo Twu is the Imagine Fund 2025-2027 Arts, Design, and Humanities Chair at the University of Minn…
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Candace Barrington @candacebarrington.bsky.social · Apr 28
I'm sharing the announcement from Medieval Academy of America regarding their online community meeting to share information about cuts to research funding.
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Cuts to Federal Funding Emergency Community Meeting: Medieval Academy of America
by Candace Barrington Today, the Medieval Academy of America announced an emergency community meeting to be held online, Tuesday, 6 May 2025, 1:00 EDT. Here’s the announcement: Many of us hav…
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Candace Barrington @candacebarrington.bsky.social · Apr 17
An update on the beloved Middle English Text Series
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They are not folding. Join them in the fight.
Middle English Text Series: Call for Action
by Anna Siebach-Larsen and Thomas Hahn Along with many other medievalists, I received the devastating news that the Middle English Text Series (METS) had its NEH funding summarily slashed by the fe…
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Candace Barrington @candacebarrington.bsky.social · Apr 11
Jacquelyn Hendricks's recently published in *Children's Literature Association Quarterly* brings together Chaucer’s The Pardoner’s Tale, J.K. Rowling, and social media. The article helped me see all three in new ways. Here's her followup for P&P. ncspedagogyandprofession.org/2025/04/11/t...
Teaching the Pardoner with Social Media
by Jacquelyn Hendricks At the end of 2024, I learned about Jacquelyn Hendricks’s recent article that brings together Chaucer’s The Pardoner’s Tale, J.K. Rowling, and social media.…
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Candace Barrington @candacebarrington.bsky.social · Apr 11
@newchaucersociety.bsky.social wants to ensure that graduate students and early-career medievalists know about important research resources and apply for them. Here's an important one: the Newberry Library in Chicago.
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Candace Barrington @candacebarrington.bsky.social · Mar 9
I FORGOT!
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Candace Barrington @candacebarrington.bsky.social · Mar 9
I'll add 20 years to your 5.
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Candace Barrington @candacebarrington.bsky.social · Mar 9
The due dates for proposals to the Middle English panels and the Chaucer panel at the 2026 MLA (8-11 January) are right upon us: 10 March - 21 March.

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Call for papers for Middle English AND Chaucer panels at MLA 2026
9 March 2025 by Candace Barrington The committees responsible for organizing the Middle English and the Chaucer panels at the 2026 MLA Conference request your proposals for these five calls. 1. The…
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Candace Barrington @candacebarrington.bsky.social · Feb 28
The cfp for 2026 NCS Congress is very globally inflected. Read it and be inspired!
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2026 New Chaucer Society Congress at University of Freiburg: Call for paper proposals now available
by Candace Barrington The program committee co-chairs for the 2026 NCS Congress, Mary Flannery and Ryan Perry, have released the call for paper proposals. You will find both the full cfp and the gu…
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Candace Barrington @candacebarrington.bsky.social · Feb 19
A quick reminder that the nomination deadline for the first Creative Medievalisms online workshop is fast approaching. Liz Schirmer and I need nominations for the 4 April Patience Agbabi workshop by *3 March 2025.*
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Candace Barrington @candacebarrington.bsky.social · Jan 23
Check out IPPS/NCS Creative Medievalisms online workshops for students. Patience Agbabi on 4 April 2025. Sarah Tolmie on 25 April 2025.

For complete information on how to nominate your students for these free-to-student workshops, go to
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Candace Barrington @candacebarrington.bsky.social · Jan 23
Check out IPPS/NCS Creative Medievalisms online workshops for students. Patience Agbabi on 4 April 2025. Sarah Tolmie on 25 April 2025.

For complete information on how to nominate your students for these free-to-student workshops, go to
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Candace Barrington @candacebarrington.bsky.social · Jan 22
Sharing the invitation from the IPPS folk: Another Sloooooow Piers is coming up!
Sloooooow Piers
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Sloooooow Piers
IPPS Reading Group, 2024-2025 Join the fun with Larry Scanlon and Mary Alcano as they read C.5, The Author’s Apologia and Reason’s Sermon on Friday, 24 January 2025, 11:30 – 12:45…
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · Dec 29
How about ynstead of pouringe a ton of moneye ynto A.I. we just funde public educacioun and use the bookes we alreadye have that it ys being trained upon?
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Candace Barrington @candacebarrington.bsky.social · Nov 18
Good thing I knew my Chaucer dates!
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Candace Barrington @candacebarrington.bsky.social · Nov 14
Bluesky academics, let's get to know each other! Quote this & tell me: 1) a project you are working on & 2) an odd idea/theory you aren't working on but keep thinking about.

1) Chaucer as translator; translations of Chaucer.
2) the ethics of forgetting
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Jonathan Hsy 許維成 @jonathanhsy.bsky.social · Nov 14
Bluesky academics, let's get to know each other! Quote this & tell me: 1) a project you are working on & 2) an odd idea/theory you aren't working on but keep thinking about.

1) book on life writing by medieval disabled authors & disability justice today
2) a global literary history of dumplings
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Travis Chi Wing Lau (劉志頴) @travisclau.bsky.social · Nov 13
Bluesky academics, let's get to know each other! Quote this & tell me: 1) a project you are working on & 2) an odd idea/theory you aren't working on but keep thinking about.

1) monograph on the British cultural history of anti-vaccination in c18/c19
2) social media transformations of language use
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Candace Barrington @candacebarrington.bsky.social · Nov 14
I've created a BlueSky account for Global Chaucers. Follow [email protected] the latest announcements.
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Candace Barrington @candacebarrington.bsky.social · Nov 12
New post from CCSU grad student and fanfiction fans: Fanfiction in Academia: The Wife of Bath globalchaucers.com/2024/10/28/f...
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Fanfiction in Academia: The Wife of Bath
by Sydney Lauer and Georgine Revilloza Fig. 1. Fan illustration depicting “The Wife of Bath.” Digital illustration by Caitlyn Chellew, 2022,  . When two of my CCSU gradua…
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