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CFPs for ICMS 2019 at Kalamazoo

Posted on August 16, 2018 by carlamthomas

Like I mentioned in my last post, the Early Middle English Society has two accepted panels  for ICMS 2019 held at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI. Please read below for the CFPs and contact information for submitting abstracts to me. … Continue reading →

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Assistant Professor, EMES President, and ICMS Boycott

Posted on July 24, 2018 by carlamthomas

So much has happened since I wrote “Reflections on ISAS 2017 and a Call to Action” last summer.

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A Farewell letter to Medieval Studies

Posted on July 20, 2018 by carlamthomas

Originally posted on "Of the Making of Books there is no end…" (Ecc 12:12):
I no longer think of myself as a medievalist. It’s not because I no longer feel like I belong in this field/discipline/concentration, but because I…

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Reflections on ISAS 2017 and a Call to Action

Posted on August 23, 2017 by carlamthomas

This post is long overdue, and therefore very long, but since the end of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists Biennial Conference 2017 at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa in early August, I’ve had a “babymoon” with John in Maui, … Continue reading →

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Postdoctoral Ambivalence & Pregnancy

Posted on June 22, 2017 by carlamthomas

When you have no job but are pregnant, you have all the feels. Continue reading →

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Why I Started Using Social Media Professionally

Posted on July 23, 2015 by carlamthomas

When I was a third-year PhD candidate, I remember sitting in a (mostly useless) required professionalization workshop in my department, and while I didn’t get much out of the experience, I do remember one piece of information getting my attention: cultivate … Continue reading →

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Wriggling Thoughts: Searchable Ormulum

Posted on February 10, 2015 by carlamthomas

This is going to be a very short post, but I thought I’d go ahead and begin pondering the usefulness of transcribing Holt into a searchable online document. Similar to the accessibility and the search-ability of my translations, we would … Continue reading →

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Dissertation Alteration, Twitter Project, & Orm’s Repetition Reconsidered

Posted on March 23, 2014 by carlamthomas

Well, I seem to be one of those “occasional” bloggers, but it’s not for lack of desire to blog. It’s more like a lack of time and energy to blog. Sometimes I post to work things out, other times I … Continue reading →

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10-Month Blog Hiatus and What Have I Got…?

Posted on September 11, 2013 by carlamthomas

So, I finished the first chapter of my dissertation last November (right before my last blog post on a mini publication I’d been asked to write for SMART), and in January, my meeting on said chapter went exceedingly well. Sure, … Continue reading →

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“Somewhere I Belong” & Early Middle English

Posted on November 29, 2012 by carlamthomas

Perhaps Linkin Park’s “Somewhere I Belong” is not the best song about “belonging” that could have popped into my mind when thinking about the place of early Middle English instruction in the Old English curriculum, but it captures the abandonment, … Continue reading →

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