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Repetition and Difference From The Epic of Gilgamesh to Contemporary Children's Literature

Reading the Epic of Gilgamesh alongside one of my favorite children’s books

if I were a cocktail Try this smoky margarita recipe with angst, anti-nationalism, and red crushed peppers. We’ve added irony to the rim for an extra kick.

"For the PhD garnish, mix all the dry ingredients together, drown them in coffee, and tip them onto a diaper."

ten lessons from Rita Indiana Yesterday I drove up north to Tufts to attend a book reading by the Dominican writer and singer/song writer Rita Indiana, organized by my dear comrade from University Chicago years, Isabela Fraga.

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The Ottoman Detective now that's some serious serialized fun

New post! Join me for some serial fun in the Ottoman Empire.

The really hungry caterpillar has a worm-like existence, too, but I feel like the butterfly future kind of invalidates it

we are yet to see a bildungsroman with a worm(ish) protagonist

this is great!

I started a substack. Goal: to talk about literature (and stuff) with no jargon. Ideal reader: my father.

Subscribe if you want low-key posts you can read at Costco. The first post is on worms.

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The Literary Misencounter: South-South Hermeneutics in Asli Erdoğan’s The City in Crimson Cloak ABSTRACT. This article examines the award-winning Turkish author Aslı Erdoğan’s The City in Crimson Cloak (Kırmızı Pelerinli Kent, 1998) to explore how post-1989 literature may theorize transnational ...

New pub, where I theorize a notion of “literary misencounter” to think about solidarities in the global South.

I’m always drawn to images of food:

“Dice que ella escondía sus pies entre las piernas de él. Sus pies helados como piedras frías y que allí se calentaban como en un horno donde se dora el pan. Dice que él le mordía los pies diciéndole que eran como pan dorado en el horno.”

Pedro Páramo pairs well with this artisanal mezcal from Oaxaca. Side effect: I want to answer every question with “un rencor vivo.” Example:

—How is grading going?
—Un rencor vivo.

There was this couple at Costco with a black plastic sheet and electric candles on one of the dining tables, sharing a plate of hot chocolate cookies over champagne (or Gatorade who knows) in plastic glasses. I’m not sure if it’s a level of nof.csgiven to aspire for or be afraid of. #happyvalentines

Truly the gift most desired. Along with chocolate-dipped strawberries and a couple’s massage.

I had no idea Baldwin had a strict religious upbringing and had even become a preacher for the Pentecostal church when he was 14. It’s a novel full of heartbreak, racial violence, and familial dysphoria, but also of transcendence and religious ecstasy.

Cooking with my students—still the best pedagogical experience for me. While listening to the latest tunes of Bad Bunny, the students of #foodandidentity learned how to cook mofongo.

Already done. It’s being repatriated.

I had no idea this existed!

Just when I’m teaching a course on indigeneity in Latin America.

The editors of Global Food History are pleased to announce that in 2025 the journal will once again offer a Prize for an Emerging Food Historian. Award winners will receive $100, the opportunity to have their contribution peer-reviewed and—pending successful reviews and revisions—published in the journal with an acknowledgment of the prize win. Articles should be 8,000 to 10,000 words (including notes), and should be based on primary source research. Articles should deal with at least one of the following historical concepts: time (change or continuity), causation and causality, context (historical and historiographical), or complexity. A full description of the journal’s aims and scope is available [link]

Happy Saturday, food history folks! Please share this call for the Global Food History Prize for an Emerging Food Historian, with a deadline of January 1: rachelbherrmann.com/global-food-...

It's Timothee Chalamet with his cunty little moustache with a "hmmm why not" expression

Marcel Proust after eating a tiny little cake

Choose your fighter

What do you think is the bigger problem in higher ed? Woke indoctrination or half the profs making $3,000 per semester? Hard to say

Preparing a course on indigeneity in Latin American culture, and came across this fantastic game called Mulaka, developed through a collaboration with anthropologists and Tarahumara leaders. Can’t wait to play and “read” it with the students.

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge

Day 6

chop from top
chop from the cop
chop from the coach

Sabbatical rental posts are the closest academia gets to MTV Cribs

Cover of the edited collection Soundscapes of the Early Modern Hispanophone and Lusophone Worlds.

🔊🔔🎤 Check out a sneak peek of my edited volume! www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/1...

This weekend marked the first Thinking Food colloquium, the materialization of a question I have been mulling over since I was a grad student. How can I, as a scholar of the early modern past, contribute to addressing the inequities in our food systems and cultures?