Juliane Witte
@julianewitte.bsky.social
Medievalist :) PhD on female anger & social monstrosity in Old Norse literature @ the University of Tübingen in progress 📖
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Post-doc with a medieval intellectual and book history project, working with manuscript fragments from across the Nordic world: 👇 #MedievalSky
December 26, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Post-doc with a medieval intellectual and book history project, working with manuscript fragments from across the Nordic world: 👇 #MedievalSky
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She was fired for teaching what she was hired to teach. She was fired for doing what she did not do. She was fired for breaking a law that does not exist.
Texas A&M University will not reinstate a lecturer who was fired after a video of her teaching about gender identity in a children’s literature class went viral, despite a faculty appeals panel unanimously concluding that her dismissal was not justified.
Texas A&M won’t reinstate fired lecturer despite findings
A vice chancellor upheld the firing of Melissa McCoul, seen in a viral video being confronted by a student on her gender identity teachings, saying the termination was done with “good cause.”
www.texastribune.org
December 26, 2025 at 5:40 PM
She was fired for teaching what she was hired to teach. She was fired for doing what she did not do. She was fired for breaking a law that does not exist.
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Discovered this yesterday. Still sad about it. MMDC was such a great resource : (
🚨MMDC.NL IS DOWN.🚨
THIS IS TERRIBLE
(Sharing English version of the redirect page. Sure MMDC was very web 2.0 but it existed! Waiting for a replacement if/when is 😩)
THIS IS TERRIBLE
(Sharing English version of the redirect page. Sure MMDC was very web 2.0 but it existed! Waiting for a replacement if/when is 😩)
Medieval Manuscripts in Dutch Collections (MMDC)
Search through all books, newspapers, magazines and other publications that are stored in the KB warehouses.
www.kb.nl
December 24, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Discovered this yesterday. Still sad about it. MMDC was such a great resource : (
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People are harshing on some “diverse reading challenge” thing that’s going around, and I get it, but looking at what you read and asking yourself “what isn’t represented here?” is imo a good and healthy practice
December 24, 2025 at 5:12 PM
People are harshing on some “diverse reading challenge” thing that’s going around, and I get it, but looking at what you read and asking yourself “what isn’t represented here?” is imo a good and healthy practice
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Medievalist friends! Applications are open until end of Feb for a fully-funded PhD in Arthurian Literature with the brilliant Louise D'Arcens @medievalafterlives.bsky.social and myself, based between Sydney (Australia) and Groningen (The Netherlands).
Please share widely!
tinyurl.com/f7su6urv
Please share widely!
tinyurl.com/f7su6urv
Global PhD on Middle English Arthurian romance
The University of Groningen and Macquarie are offering a co-funded scholarship to support a student undertaking doctoral research in medieval literature.
tinyurl.com
December 18, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Medievalist friends! Applications are open until end of Feb for a fully-funded PhD in Arthurian Literature with the brilliant Louise D'Arcens @medievalafterlives.bsky.social and myself, based between Sydney (Australia) and Groningen (The Netherlands).
Please share widely!
tinyurl.com/f7su6urv
Please share widely!
tinyurl.com/f7su6urv
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📣The Society for the Study of Medieval Emotions is delighted to support an INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE exploring the theme of GRIEF ACROSS PERIODS AND REGIONS (University of St Andrews, 24-25 June 2026). The deadline to submit proposals is Monday 2 February. 👇
December 12, 2025 at 12:30 PM
📣The Society for the Study of Medieval Emotions is delighted to support an INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE exploring the theme of GRIEF ACROSS PERIODS AND REGIONS (University of St Andrews, 24-25 June 2026). The deadline to submit proposals is Monday 2 February. 👇
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British Library staff asked for a decent pay. Instead they got ‘a few money-saving present ideas’, such as ‘consider not giving presents this holiday season’. They are on strike this week. I wrote about it for @lrb.co.uk. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...
Anna Aslanyan | On the Picket Line
On Monday morning, more than a hundred people formed a picket line outside one of the entrances to the British Library...
www.lrb.co.uk
December 10, 2025 at 1:14 PM
British Library staff asked for a decent pay. Instead they got ‘a few money-saving present ideas’, such as ‘consider not giving presents this holiday season’. They are on strike this week. I wrote about it for @lrb.co.uk. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...
Obligatory rune stone visit while in Utrecht. It's a copy of the larger 10th ct. Jelling stone, gifted in 1936 😊
December 11, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Obligatory rune stone visit while in Utrecht. It's a copy of the larger 10th ct. Jelling stone, gifted in 1936 😊
Super happy to get my copy of '"verlorn ist daz sluzzellin": Produktive Rezeption mittelalterlicher Werke im 21. Jahrhundert' today, where I contributed a chapter on Zemeckis' Beowulf! Look forward to reading the other contributions 😊
November 10, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Super happy to get my copy of '"verlorn ist daz sluzzellin": Produktive Rezeption mittelalterlicher Werke im 21. Jahrhundert' today, where I contributed a chapter on Zemeckis' Beowulf! Look forward to reading the other contributions 😊
My first article written during my PhD is out with NordEuropaForum 🥳 it's based on a page or so of my MA Thesis written while in Utrecht 😊
edoc.hu-berlin.de/items/d1dfc7...
edoc.hu-berlin.de/items/d1dfc7...
September 23, 2025 at 7:39 AM
My first article written during my PhD is out with NordEuropaForum 🥳 it's based on a page or so of my MA Thesis written while in Utrecht 😊
edoc.hu-berlin.de/items/d1dfc7...
edoc.hu-berlin.de/items/d1dfc7...
Not sure how I got here, but Họskuldr Dala-Kollsson is emerging as a major villain in my thesis 🧐
December 17, 2024 at 12:56 PM
Not sure how I got here, but Họskuldr Dala-Kollsson is emerging as a major villain in my thesis 🧐
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STOP USING MEDIEVAL
AS AN INSULT
THE MIDDLE AGES
WERE NOT DARK AGES¹
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(•ㅅ•) ||
/ づ
STOP USING MEDIEVAL
AS AN INSULT
THE MIDDLE AGES
WERE NOT DARK AGES¹
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November 25, 2024 at 9:59 AM
|￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣|
STOP USING MEDIEVAL
AS AN INSULT
THE MIDDLE AGES
WERE NOT DARK AGES¹
|＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿|
(\__/) ||
(•ㅅ•) ||
/ づ
STOP USING MEDIEVAL
AS AN INSULT
THE MIDDLE AGES
WERE NOT DARK AGES¹
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(\__/) ||
(•ㅅ•) ||
/ づ
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𝗙𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝗶𝗻 #𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻
𝗜𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘁 #𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗵 #𝗘𝗽𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗶𝗻 #𝗠𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗲𝘃𝗮𝗹 #𝗦𝗰𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗮
Edited by Marianne Kalinke
More info: bit.ly/3V3AsV6
#Iceland #Romance #Literaturesky #Literature #Medievalsky #Medievalists
𝗜𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘁 #𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗵 #𝗘𝗽𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗶𝗻 #𝗠𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗲𝘃𝗮𝗹 #𝗦𝗰𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗮
Edited by Marianne Kalinke
More info: bit.ly/3V3AsV6
#Iceland #Romance #Literaturesky #Literature #Medievalsky #Medievalists
November 22, 2024 at 12:13 PM
𝗙𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝗶𝗻 #𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻
𝗜𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘁 #𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗵 #𝗘𝗽𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗶𝗻 #𝗠𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗲𝘃𝗮𝗹 #𝗦𝗰𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗮
Edited by Marianne Kalinke
More info: bit.ly/3V3AsV6
#Iceland #Romance #Literaturesky #Literature #Medievalsky #Medievalists
𝗜𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘁 #𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗵 #𝗘𝗽𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗶𝗻 #𝗠𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗲𝘃𝗮𝗹 #𝗦𝗰𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗮
Edited by Marianne Kalinke
More info: bit.ly/3V3AsV6
#Iceland #Romance #Literaturesky #Literature #Medievalsky #Medievalists
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📢Upcoming Talks #medievalsky
🔖The Kemble Lecture 2024
🗣️Prof. Elaine Treharne, Stanford University
📜‘Mundane Matters: Early English Manuscripts, 700-1200, and the Aesthetics of the Ordinary'
📅Thursday (5.30pm), 28 November 2024
🔖The Kemble Lecture 2024
🗣️Prof. Elaine Treharne, Stanford University
📜‘Mundane Matters: Early English Manuscripts, 700-1200, and the Aesthetics of the Ordinary'
📅Thursday (5.30pm), 28 November 2024
November 20, 2024 at 12:43 PM
📢Upcoming Talks #medievalsky
🔖The Kemble Lecture 2024
🗣️Prof. Elaine Treharne, Stanford University
📜‘Mundane Matters: Early English Manuscripts, 700-1200, and the Aesthetics of the Ordinary'
📅Thursday (5.30pm), 28 November 2024
🔖The Kemble Lecture 2024
🗣️Prof. Elaine Treharne, Stanford University
📜‘Mundane Matters: Early English Manuscripts, 700-1200, and the Aesthetics of the Ordinary'
📅Thursday (5.30pm), 28 November 2024
The PhD life (when it goes well!). From Simone de Beauvoir, 'The Age of Discretion', in The Woman Destroyed.
November 15, 2024 at 3:17 PM
The PhD life (when it goes well!). From Simone de Beauvoir, 'The Age of Discretion', in The Woman Destroyed.
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Paginagrote advertentie KNAW tegen de bezuinigingen met handtekeningen van 511 leden (KNAW en de Jonge Akademie) www.knaw.nl/nl/themas/st...
November 13, 2024 at 10:10 PM
Paginagrote advertentie KNAW tegen de bezuinigingen met handtekeningen van 511 leden (KNAW en de Jonge Akademie) www.knaw.nl/nl/themas/st...
Just added up the word counts of the various drafts for my dissertation chapters and although many of those need work, I am low-key ecstatic to have passed 50k before my 2-year mark 😅 this PhD thing might just be doable! 🙌🏻
August 8, 2024 at 4:48 PM
Just added up the word counts of the various drafts for my dissertation chapters and although many of those need work, I am low-key ecstatic to have passed 50k before my 2-year mark 😅 this PhD thing might just be doable! 🙌🏻
It was an absolute pleasure to have Dr. Tom Grant deliver a guest lecture on "Beowulf and its Scandinavian Cousins" in my module today 😁
June 10, 2024 at 12:17 PM
It was an absolute pleasure to have Dr. Tom Grant deliver a guest lecture on "Beowulf and its Scandinavian Cousins" in my module today 😁
The life of an academic is full of glitz and glamour and the motion-detector light turning off on you as you scan your 50th page out of a hundred.
December 22, 2023 at 11:03 AM
The life of an academic is full of glitz and glamour and the motion-detector light turning off on you as you scan your 50th page out of a hundred.
Normally I would be teaching my module on medieval monsters now but today we're striking because it's monstrous that a third of our students live at the poverty line, that PhDs receive part-time pay for full-time work, and that post-PhD there is no job security!
November 20, 2023 at 1:25 PM
Normally I would be teaching my module on medieval monsters now but today we're striking because it's monstrous that a third of our students live at the poverty line, that PhDs receive part-time pay for full-time work, and that post-PhD there is no job security!
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monsters still believe in u. dracula and frankenstein are cheering u on
November 19, 2023 at 1:15 AM
monsters still believe in u. dracula and frankenstein are cheering u on
GEMMA was an absolute blast! Three days of fascinating papers on Gender, Emotion and Monstrosity in the Middle Ages, brilliant conversations, and delicious food. But yes, now sleep!
GEMMA is over and we are tired, but our hearts and minds are full, of new ideas and new connections, new people and new questions. Thanks to everyone who participated, it was amazing! Now: sleep.
November 11, 2023 at 6:54 PM
GEMMA was an absolute blast! Three days of fascinating papers on Gender, Emotion and Monstrosity in the Middle Ages, brilliant conversations, and delicious food. But yes, now sleep!