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PhD candidate & teaching fellow @ UNC-Chapel Hill | Medieval & Early Modern lit. History of religion & medicine. Demonism. Imagination & horror. | He/They. 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸
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“Annuntio vobis gaudium magnum: Habemus Grimaceum!”
Purple-pink water vapor rises from the chimney stack of the Lancaster County Solid Waste Management Authority's waste-to-energy facility in Conoy Township. The words “waste-to-energy” are seen on the side of the building framed by two verdant trees.
May 4, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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“Fade into (Jesu).” feat. Mazzy Star and John Donne by Jon Stitch.
November 18, 2024 at 8:28 PM
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I am still here! Just infrequent at posting. As a catchup/distraction, here’s a sneak peek at next semester. ⚗️🏝️✨📖📚
Front page of syllabus for ENGL 146: Speculative Fiction. List of readings for ENGL 146.
November 4, 2024 at 8:50 PM
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I always do at least one costume change per year. Happy Halloween from Foxe’s Actes and Monuments! 😅😇
Khristian wearing a fox onesie looking at the title page of Foxe’s Actes and Monuments floating above his open palm. A cartoonish halo hovers over his head. Khristian wearing a fox onesie and holding a copy of the Oxford World Classics edition of Foxe’s Book of Martyrs (Actes and Monuments).
November 1, 2023 at 4:02 AM
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Happy Halloween! My best friend and I went as Calvin and Hobbes.
Khristian dressed as John Calvin, his expression one of exhaustion with the world of embodiment…and Catholics. Everett dressed as Thomas Hobbes, contemplating geometry and repulsed by monarchy. Everett dressed as Thomas Hobbes and Khristian dressed as John Calvin making silly faces in their office.
October 31, 2023 at 4:21 PM
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"A drowsy, dreamy influence seems to hang over the land, and to pervade the very atmosphere...Certain it is, the place still continues under the sway of some witching power, that holds a spell over the minds of the good people, causing them to walk in a continual reverie.“
Khristian in a skull-print knitted sweater sitting in front of the wooden “Welcome to Historic Sleepy Hollow” sign. The Headless Horseman Sculpture on Broadway in Sleepy Hollow, NY. The Old Dutch Church atop a small hill, framed by the adjoining Sleepy Hollow Cemetery’s iron fencing. A mix of historic, replacement, and contemporary headstones in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery.
October 20, 2023 at 4:55 PM
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See y’all in April! 🥰
Screenshot of an email confirming Khristian’s enrollment in an SAA seminar.
October 2, 2023 at 12:49 PM
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Happy October! 🍂🍁🎃
In front of a window: a sage stoneware jack o’lantern stacked on top of a white one with lit tea lights in them. Framed by star-shaped string lights. A neon palm reader sign hangs in the window behind.
October 1, 2023 at 11:16 PM
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A camp little Kempe!
Mirror-photo of a woodcut tattoo on Khristian’s lower forearm of William Kempe from Kemps nine daies vvonder (1600). Mirror-photo of a woodcut tattoo on Khristian’s lower forearm of William Kempe from Kemps nine daies vvonder (1600).
September 25, 2023 at 8:11 PM
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Happy Equinox, everyone! 🍁🍂
On a balcony/covered porch, a plastic skeleton sitting on a stool with a potted fern in his lap. Red lanterns and mid century modern bird feeders festooned above. Leaves and rain cover the ground in the arboreous surroundings. A box of Macedonian halva with pistachios and another of Droste drinking-chocolate on a black table-runner patterned with white and gold Halloween florals and moths.
September 23, 2023 at 8:25 PM
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Overcast, low humidity, and 68°?! With a breeze?! 😭😭😭🧡🧡🧡
Clip art of a dancing skeleton
September 22, 2023 at 2:57 PM
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Many many thanks to Lisa Hopkins, Bill Angus, and Kibrina Davey for their work editing this incredible collection and for generously including me in it. Available now from Manchester UP!
Photo of the first page of Khristian’s chapter on spiritual poison in Romeo and Juliet. A copy of Poison on the Early Modern English stage: Plants, paints and potions on a yellow, cream, and dark gray knitted blanket.
September 20, 2023 at 6:22 PM
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I am safe with my students. The same students with whom I sat through a three-hour lockdown two weeks ago. I will have updates as they’re released.
Screenshot of an Alert Carolina message, reading: “!Alert Carolina! Emergency: Armed, dangerous person on or near campus. Go inside now; avoid windows.”
September 13, 2023 at 5:32 PM
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Had a lovely time celebrating a another trip around the sun yesterday. 🥰
Mirror selfie of Khristian holding a shorthair black cat, framed by autumnal florals. A small, single-portion pecan pie in front of a Grumpy Cat birthday card, which reads: “Hope your birthday’s as happy as a basket full of kittens….Which, by the way, is horrible.” A red wolf plushie, “Virgo: Music of the Zodiac” CD, and heart gelatin mold box with 40s/50s advertising art are positioned together on a dark gray sofa, framed by pillows and autumnal floral arrangements in the background. Martha Stewart’s Hors D’Oeuvres Handbook (1999) on a black table-runner decorated with white and gold Halloween florals.
September 12, 2023 at 9:40 PM
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When I take a class outside:
Screenshoot from Duolingo asking the user to translate a Dutch sentence (Ik loop niet, ik schrijf) into English (I am not walking, I am writing).
September 4, 2023 at 3:16 PM
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Please keep students, faculty, and staff in your thoughts.
Screenshot of WRAL news updates. Text reads: Around 4:30 p.m., the lockdown was lifted and streams of students were seen leaving their classrooms. All remaining classes and UNC-sanctioned events were canceled for the rest of the day. Around 5 p.m., WRAL News learned that one person, a faculty member, died in the shooting.
August 28, 2023 at 11:20 PM
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“The turtle and the rabbit are reading the menu…” but at which restaurant?
Screenshot of Duolingo asking the player to select the words they hear, "De schildpad en het konijn lezen het menu.”
August 27, 2023 at 5:07 PM
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“I don't believe that anybody feels the way I do about you now…”
Cariani, A Concert (c. 1518-1520). Oil on canvas. NGA. Shown from the waist up behind a forest-green ledge or tabletop, a bearded man with a ruddy complexion strums a six-stringed lute between two, light-skinned people.
August 24, 2023 at 11:48 PM
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🇳🇱🍎
Screenshot of Duolingo asking player to translate the Dutch sentence, “De appel spreekt een beetje Nederlands”, into English, “The apple speaks a bit of Dutch.”
August 17, 2023 at 12:29 PM
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τετέλεσται...mostly.
Screenshot of two Fall 2023 courses published on a common course management site.
August 12, 2023 at 11:01 PM
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“Dad, is it spooky season yet?”
Black American short-hair with green-hazel eyes resting on his curled up paws lies on a abstract floral-patterned duvet. A yellow, gray, and cream striped blanket and full bookcases are in the background.
August 7, 2023 at 10:38 PM
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Reading…writing…
Selfie of Khristian, a masc-presenting person with an auburn goatee and russet hair. They’re wearing round tortoiseshell glasses and a forest green hoodie stylized with prints of Keith Haring’s “Radiant Child” and “Barking Dog” on the left and right pectorals, respectively.
August 4, 2023 at 10:28 PM
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Thinking about another 16th-century woodcut tattoo…
Woodcut detail from the entry on “bramble.” The herball or Generall historie of plantes (1597), pp. 1089.
July 30, 2023 at 3:17 PM
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How a head cold in the summer feels…
Illustration from Vie et miracles de saint François d’Assise, c. 1480. Bibliothèque nationale de France, NAF 28640, fol. 84r.
July 29, 2023 at 2:30 PM