Kathy Lavezzo

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Whiteness, medievalism, immigration: rethinking Tolkien through Stuart Hall - postmedieval This essay rethinks Tolkien’s scholarship and fiction in light of his rejection at Oxford of Stuart Hall, who approached him regarding graduate work on William Langland. I argue that Tolkien’s white m...

This piece blew my mind about Tolkien’s real life racism toward his would-be colleague Stuart Hall

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Bad Medievalism and the Modernity Problem - Kathy Lavezzo Challenges the assumptions made over the medieval/modern divide by examining the medieval roots of modern racism Humanists have long insisted on a chasm separating modernity and the Middle Ages. In Ba...

To put on reading list this new book by @klavezzo.bsky.social

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Agree! It’s too much like Twitter to my taste but can’t do the others anymore.

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This essay teaches really well!

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Lavezzo "rethinks Tolkien’s scholarship and fiction in light of his rejection at Oxford of Stuart Hall, who approached him regarding graduate work on William Langland" + argues "that Tolkien’s white medievalism contains his most deeply felt racist formations"

'Whiteness, medievalism, immigration: rethinking Tolkien through Stuart Hall' - Kathy Lavezzo.
Rethinks Tolkien’s scholarship & fiction in light of his rejection of Stuart Hall. Argues that Tolkien’s white medievalism contains his most deeply felt racist formations link.springer.com/epdf/10.1057...

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Treasured gift from @harrys.bsky.social

Happy holiday Jon!

Chicago and Harry

The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear. Gramsci

mom reached the embroidering gramsci phase

Sula is the culmination of the course precisely due to the reasons you outline. Your piece adumbrates Weheliye and others’ recent work on the human. A restorative holiday to you and yours. ❤️

Grateful for your presence in this world. Your piece on Sula and the human is central to my introduction to the major course.

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A consensus is emerging: Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. Where is the action? | Nesrine Malik It may feel hopeless to see supportive states continue to back Israel, but bearing witness matters for future reckoning, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

“It simply becomes accepted that rights are not bestowed by humanity, but by the parties who decide who is human… If they must die, let it be a crime.”

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A beautifully written and generously evocative review!

Volume 57 Issue 3 | Genre | Duke University Press

New issue of Genre is out, with review by me of @harrys.bsky.social's excellent book, read review, buy book, have a good weekend read.dukeupress.edu/genre/issue/...

Musk’s wealth in 2012: $2 Billion
Musk’s wealth in 2024: $447 Billion

Bezos’s wealth in 2012: $18 Billion
Bezos’s wealth in 2024: $249 Billion

Zuckerberg’s wealth in 2012: $44 Billion
Zuckerberg’s wealth in 2024: $224 Billion

Minimum wage in 2012: $7.25
Minimum wage in 2024: $7.25

Boycott Amazon. I have. It can be done!

Medievalists for Palestine Intake Form

Interested in joining MfP? Fill out our intake form! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Open Letter to NYU Leadership On December 12, the NYU administration invited the NYPD to arrest two faculty members who were supporting students involved in a nonviolent protest at the main library. The university also designated...

📣 Action Alert:

Please sign our open letter demanding that NYU administration rescind the Persona Non Grata designations of our colleagues and students and drop charges against arrested colleagues, we urge you to do so now!

Please also circulate to your networks!

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MLA and BDS: The Resolution, the Blocked Debate, Some Responses, a Resignation Austin, Texas MLA Convention on January 8, 2016 Chris here with the Story Thus Far.   A  group of members of the Modern Language Association...

On Dec 6 I resigned from the MLA Exec Council in dissent against its decision to block the vote on resolution 2025-1 & in solidarity w/ the proposers & members. Chris Newfield, w/ whom I served for 2 yrs, has kindly posted my resignation letter on his blog: utotherescue.blogspot.com/2024/12/mla-...

MLA and BDS: The Resolution, the Blocked Debate, Some Responses, a Resignation Austin, Texas MLA Convention on January 8, 2016 Chris here with the Story Thus Far.   A  group of members of the Modern Language Association...

"It may be the 'right' decision based on a narrow construal of the EC’s fiduciary duty. But members are also right to ask: What does this say or, indeed, not say about the organization’s values and principles?"

From @rcolesworthy.bsky.social letter of resignation from the MLA Executive Council.

Former Modern Language Association Presidents Call for BDS Vote In late October, the leadership of the Modern Language Association (MLA)—one of the largest and wealthiest US scholarly organizations in the humanities—refused to allow the organization’s Delegate …

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Panorama of Baldwin's Giovanni's Room

My office neighbor Pia invited her General Education Literature students to do creative final assignments. Behold a panorama of Baldwin's Giovanni's Room.

Yes, we'll be there!