Dropped Mikeme: don’t mind me, I’m just taking a gander
petting zoo employee: put the goose down
Ethan Campbell
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English professor, medievalist, writer
@pebonilla Also rare to see a college president, current or former, speak up to defend an adjunct.
Peter BonillaNot to put too fine a point on it, but a university's former president criticizing the current administration for their handling of a free speech/academic freedom controversy is just about unprecedented in my experience. It's just one of those unspoken customs. That's how badly Hamline has managed the firing of art history lecturer Erika López Prater.
https://www.startribune.com/readers-write-hamline-university-controversy-mary-moriarty-legalizing-marijuana/600242702/
https://www.startribune.com/readers-write-hamline-university-controversy-mary-moriarty-legalizing-marijuana/600242702/
Shakespeare:
"When I came, alas, to wive,
With a hey ho, the wind and the rain ..."
New York Times Spelling Bee: "Oh no, you don't!"
(They don't count the word #wive or #wiving in today's puzzle. One of these days I'm going to compile a list of all the perfectly good #Shakespeare words the #NYTSpellingBee has rejected.)
The #MedievalAcademyOfAmerica weighs in on the incident of an #adjunct art history professor getting fired at #HamlineUniversity:
https://www.themedievalacademyblog.org/medieval-academy-of-america-statement-on-the-case-of-hamline-university-and-dr-erika-lopez-prater/
The statement draws attention to how little protection “precariously employed” adjuncts have against violations of their academic freedom. I would argue that it also shows how much power non-faculty administrators, “deans and deanlets,” have gained over even full-time faculty in the modern university.
Medieval Academy of America Statement on the Case of Hamline University and Dr. Erika López Prater
The Medieval Academy of America condemns the decision of Hamline University not to renew Dr. Erika López Prater’s teaching contract following the widely-reported incident in which López Prater show…
Michael 
@ProfGawain Thanks for sharing this essay. It offered me some fascinating insights into Tolkien's work, and I might also give The Green Knight another go now I understand a little more about the underlying story.
I was also very pleased to see Ghân-buri-Ghân get some attention as he's one of my favourite minor characters in the books.
@mykd Thanks — glad you enjoyed it!
@Travis_View The entire premise of the show Billions, that billionaires are these cunning, ruthless, evil geniuses, has been ruined by those Elon Musk texts.
Travis_ViewThis week on QAnon Anonymous we go over bizarre testimony released by the January 6th committee and chat with Charlie Warzel about what Elon Musk's text messages reveal about his intentions for Twitter.
Episode 215: Q Deposition, the Jan 6 Committee & Musk's Twitter feat Charlie Warzel
We cover Jim Watkins’ deposition in front of the January 6th committee and the ongoing debates around the so-called Twitter Files. To help us with the latter we're joined by Charlie Warzel, a staff wr
And last, by way of #Introduction ... here’s a link to an article I wrote for a blog, which talks about one of the classes I like to teach: Tolkien’s Medieval English Sources. It’s about #Tolkien , The #LordOfTheRings, the #GawainPoet , #Shakespeare , #AMidsummerNightsDream , these weird #medieval creatures called #woodwoses , and more:
https://apilgriminnarnia.com/2018/02/14/wood-woses-tolkiens-wild-men-and-the-green-knight-by-ethan-campbell/
https://apilgriminnarnia.com/2018/02/14/wood-woses-tolkiens-wild-men-and-the-green-knight-by-ethan-campbell/
