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Caroline Bishop @doctorepiscopa.bsky.social · 15h

Several years ago, we saw a truck in New Mexico (NM plates, too) with bumper stickers for both the Yankees AND the Patriots. One of the worst things I've seen, tbh.

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Caroline Bishop @doctorepiscopa.bsky.social · 11d

Re-upping this thread on classical studies under fascist regimes.

Caroline Bishop @doctorepiscopa.bsky.social · Nov 20

Just finished a fantastic chapter by Philippe Rousselot on Cicero's reception among totalitarian regimes ("Cicéron face aux dictateurs, 1920–1945"), available open-access here: www.degruyter.com/document/doi...

I'm going to do a short thread since its lessons seem unfortunately pertinent now.

Portraying Cicero in Literature, Culture, and Politics

Cicero has played a pivotal role in shaping Western culture. His public persona , his self-portrait as model of Roman prose, philosopher, and statesman, has exerted a durable and profound impact on th...

www.degruyter.com

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Caroline Bishop @doctorepiscopa.bsky.social · Sep 1

Yes! It totally blew my mind.

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Caroline Bishop @doctorepiscopa.bsky.social · Sep 1

I am shook that it's been twenty years, aka the lament of the middle aged. I wouldn't be the scholar I am now without the medieval courses I took.

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Caroline Bishop @doctorepiscopa.bsky.social · Aug 12

Newborn phase means I'm just now seeing this but I strongly third both Isabel and Liz's comments. It is not an exaggeration to say that my career would not be the same if I hadn't had ktl!

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Caroline Bishop @doctorepiscopa.bsky.social · Jul 21

Though, admittedly, I guess maybe he was gallant? But geez, classicists, can we please stop failing the "don't be openly racist" challenge?

Caroline Bishop @doctorepiscopa.bsky.social · Jul 21

If you're not familiar with this charmer (perhaps because, unlike me, you didn't grow up in spitting distance of the Battle of Franklin), he was one of the Confederacy's worst generals who was responsible for huge losses of life. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Be...

John Bell Hood - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Caroline Bishop @doctorepiscopa.bsky.social · Jul 21

My face when I opened what I expected to be a regular piece of classical scholarship from 1998 and this was the beginning of the first sentence: "Gen. John Bell Hood, the most gallant figure of the whole Christian age, was thinking of historiography when he wrote..." 😬😱☠️

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Caroline Bishop @doctorepiscopa.bsky.social · Jul 17

I also don't understand how people can keep their child sitting still to do their hair in the morning without something playing in front of them.

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Caroline Bishop @doctorepiscopa.bsky.social · Jul 17

I'm convinced these people are lying. It's a Venn diagram that overlaps with the people who claim that their children are reading and solving equations at two and a half (and are also lying).

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Caroline Bishop @doctorepiscopa.bsky.social · Jul 16

When I last taught Myth in 2017, I was several weeks into the semester when a student approached me and asked me what the abbreviation "pp" meant on the syllabus. At regional R1s this definitely started before covid or AI, but both have absolutely exacerbated it.

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Caroline Bishop @doctorepiscopa.bsky.social · Jul 8

Any recent PhDs still looking for something for this coming academic year should apply to our postdoc! Its inaugural holder was a classicist!

More info here: www.depts.ttu.edu/provost/huma...

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Caroline Bishop @doctorepiscopa.bsky.social · Jul 8

When I lost my kitty after eighteen and a half years together, a friend told me I'd see her out of the corner of my eye sometimes, and those would be the times she was coming back to check on me. I still think of that today. ❤️

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Caroline Bishop @doctorepiscopa.bsky.social · Jul 8

This is why we started weekly writing groups for women faculty at Texas Tech when I arrived here in 2015 - to give them protected time to work on research.

Amy Diehl, Ph.D. @amydiehl.bsky.social · Jul 7

In a study of professors, women got 378 new work requests over 4 weeks vs 118 for men. Women spent more time on service, advising & teaching; men on research. Orgs should track who is taking extra duties & ensure they are rewarded and distributed fairly. www.forbes.com/sites/kimels...

Being Too Helpful At Work Can Hurt Your Career—Here’s How To Say No

Women are more likely to take on behind-the-scenes duties at work—extra tasks like onboarding or event planning—and it's hurting their careers. Here's how to say no.

www.forbes.com

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Caroline Bishop @doctorepiscopa.bsky.social · Jul 6

This.

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Caroline Bishop @doctorepiscopa.bsky.social · Jul 5

I once interviewed someone over Zoom while breastfeeding. Sadly, Cicero didn't have the equipment for that sort of display.

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Caroline Bishop @doctorepiscopa.bsky.social · Jul 5

You're obviously not missing anything valuable.

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Caroline Bishop @doctorepiscopa.bsky.social · Jul 5

Really sorry that something so vile was said to you. The rise of fascism is certainly revealing everyone's true colors, for both good and ill.

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Caroline Bishop @doctorepiscopa.bsky.social · Jul 5

It really shocked me that someone would express those views publicly!

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Caroline Bishop @doctorepiscopa.bsky.social · Jul 5

This is a subtweet (subskeet?) of Sarah Pomeroy, who seems to have no problem identifying publicly with these views.

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Caroline Bishop @doctorepiscopa.bsky.social · Jul 5

It is truly upsetting that a senior scholar in classics, with the protections and stature of tenure, would openly gloat about the US denying visas to people (often nontenured) due to their political views. Maybe the worst thing I've ever seen on the Classics listserv, and that's saying something.

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Caroline Bishop @doctorepiscopa.bsky.social · Jul 2

This includes #classics, by the way. I spent a year at Indiana as a VAP - it was a wonderfully supportive place for me and all the classes I taught were highly enrolled. This is a tragedy.

Nick Kapur @nickkapur.bsky.social · Jul 1

Bloodbath in Indiana higher ed as public colleges and universities ordered to eliminate 20% of all degree programs, apparently based purely on student demand (=enrollments) and not any rational calculation of need or value.

www.ipm.org/news-section...

Indiana public colleges cut almost 20% of degrees

Public Indiana colleges and universities have eliminated 19 percent of their degree programs to meet requirements added to the state’s budget, according to the Commission for Higher Education.

www.ipm.org

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Caroline Bishop @doctorepiscopa.bsky.social · Jun 29

Have biked over it many times. Something about crossing state lines on a long bike ride makes it feel extra epic.

Mr. P. Explores @mrpexplores.bsky.social · Jun 28

The Chain of the Rocks Bridge; an iconic abandoned span over the Mississippi River between Illinois and Missouri, just north of St. Louis, Missouri; once part of Route 66, now open for pedestrians and bikes, with one hell of a view!

#abandoned #urbex #architecture #Missouri #Illinois #photography

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Caroline Bishop @doctorepiscopa.bsky.social · Jun 26

If I don't automatically get granted full professorship for that, they're going to need to rethink the whole system.

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Caroline Bishop @doctorepiscopa.bsky.social · Jun 26

Indeed! And Cicero himself would be quite offended if anyone dared to be brief about him...

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