Literature prof | currently writing on: medieval plant grafting; worm reproduction | they/them | science before 1700, book history, sci fi, whale facts 🐋
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Literature prof | currently writing on: medieval plant grafting; worm reproduction | they/them | science before 1700, book history, sci fi, whale facts 🐋
🌐 aylinmalcolm.com 📍Toronto
We have a HUGE number of majors and the university has mostly invested in…renovating classrooms to hold more students. Most of my enrollments are now up to 100.
Me, yesterday, going to bed early after a wild evening of texting my brother about frogs
Finally teaching a medieval grad class = I'm going to email a bunch of friends in a few months and tell them how much my students like their essays
To briefly emote – I think a dozen people (mostly students) wrote letters of support for this. I was grateful to get the award but those letters would have been extremely meaningful with any outcome
Hung my comically oversized teaching award up in my office today
In this case, the poem itself includes a ten-year period of wandering in the woods, so life imitates art
Medieval studies is reading a weird 700 year old poem and then, ten years later, finding something original to say about it
Congratulations! Excited to pick up a copy.
Featuring articles on Irish settlements as contact zones, space in Mandeville's Travels, otters in a St Brendan video game, and contemporary poetic "revoicings" of medieval maritime landscapes.
The essay cluster I co-edited with Andrew Richmond on "Premodern Digital Ecologies" is out: academic.oup.com/dsh/issue/41...
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Fantastic!
The long-expected return of the aspidochelone