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Aylin Malcolm

@malentendre.bsky.social

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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 🐋

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@malentendre.bsky.socialSep 27, 2026, 4:33 PM

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.

@malentendre.bsky.socialSep 19, 2026, 4:31 PM

Me, yesterday, going to bed early after a wild evening of texting my brother about frogs

@malentendre.bsky.socialSep 16, 2026, 1:21 AM

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

@malentendre.bsky.socialSep 14, 2026, 11:02 PM

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

@malentendre.bsky.socialSep 14, 2026, 10:45 PM

Hung my comically oversized teaching award up in my office today

Standing on a green lawn, The Poster accepts a torso-sized framed certificate from an associate dean. There was a skunk waddling around just out of frame but you'll need to take my word for itThe same certificate on a blank wall next to a thermostat and some books. Certificate declares that the Faculty Teaching Excellence Award has been presented to Aylin Malcolm by the College of Arts at the University of Guelph. Thermostat incorrectly, but optimistically declares that it's 70 degrees.
@malentendre.bsky.socialSep 10, 2026, 4:54 PM

In this case, the poem itself includes a ten-year period of wandering in the woods, so life imitates art

@malentendre.bsky.socialSep 10, 2026, 4:52 PM

Medieval studies is reading a weird 700 year old poem and then, ten years later, finding something original to say about it

@malentendre.bsky.socialSep 7, 2026, 1:28 PM

Congratulations! Excited to pick up a copy.

@malentendre.bsky.socialSep 5, 2026, 5:27 PM

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.

@malentendre.bsky.socialSep 5, 2026, 5:26 PM

The essay cluster I co-edited with Andrew Richmond on "Premodern Digital Ecologies" is out: academic.oup.com/dsh/issue/41...

#MedievalSky @vickymcalister.bsky.social @linguistaria.bsky.social

@malentendre.bsky.socialSep 2, 2026, 6:47 PM

Fantastic!

@malentendre.bsky.socialSep 2, 2026, 1:19 PM

The long-expected return of the aspidochelone

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