Rick Godden

Roses are redde
Violettes are blue
Sayinge "thys technologye ys the future"
Ys an ideological move

"By removing writing from reporters’ workloads..."

Hey fellow Chaucerians! I'm teaching a seminar this semester on the Canterbury Tales (with a brief HoF detour), and I'm still determining the secondary readings.W hat are some of your favorite recent articles/chapter/books on Chaucer? TIA. Picture for the algorithm.

Similar plan … starting tomorrow

Hard agree.

My year was bad as well, and left me with very little space for reading outside of teaching. I look forward to sitting down with your book in the new year.

Humanities programs have ceded scholarship of the premodern to bad actors on the right. This is a serious problem, not only because it represents a loss of current and future knowledge, but also because it enables white supremacists and Christian nationalists to twist history to their own ends.

Thread. OP's is a very common story. Instead of tailored accommodations, students get "extra time" even if they don't need or want it. And then unneeded "extra time" gives naysayers the grounds to whine about accommodations.

The best stage

Tim Walz Hits Back After Donald Trump Calls Him the R-Word, Taunting President to Release His MRI Results Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz quickly fired back after President Donald Trump lobbed a derogatory remark his way. Walz reposted Trump's insult alongside a bit of speculation about the 79-year-old president'...

I don't love Walz' response here TBH. It reads like, no, you're the ones with disability problems instead of just condemning the use of the r-word. people.com/tim-walz-hit...

sigh. agreed.

I have the same wager tomorrow. I’m gonna lose.

I’m teaching a forbidden course? Ffs

That ... is not great

Alice Wong is pictured with her book, Year of The Tiger. It’s a yellow book with a gorgeous illustrated red Tiger on its cover. She is in her motorized wheel chair and wearing a blue/indigo sweater.

I love you, Alice. Give them hell from behind the veil 🧡

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Alice Wong, disability activist and luminary, dies at 51 - The Sick Times Alice Wong platformed and uplifted people with Long COVID in her final chapter as a lifelong disability advocate and storyteller.

Here is an obituary for Alice Wong from The Sick Times, a publication aligned with disability rights and disability activism, if you are looking for an alternative to reading the nyt one: thesicktimes.org/2025/11/15/a...

Alice Wong, with partially black and blonde hair, serving face and giving the camera one wicked side-eye. She is wearing a multicolored shirt with bright red lipstick to boot.

I thank you, Alice Wong—author, activist, daughter, sister, friend, and innovator—for being with us here for as long as you were.

I thank you for blessing our larger community with your courage, your love, your indignation, and your fierce advocacy through #DisabilityVisibility.

I was just telling my class about her while teaching So Lucky. I’m devastated.

RIP Alice Wong, fiercest, finest, most fabulously dressed freedom fighter and friend. She changed the world a bit at a time every day and never stopped loving it. She taught me so much. I can’t believe this. I miss her bravery and clarity already. 💔♿️

New Chaucer Studies: Pedagogy and Profession

Just out: out latest issue on “access”, featuring @rickgodden.bsky.social, Katherine Little, Kisha Tracy, Sophia Liu, & Stephen Yeager! Also @hannahalucas.bsky.social, Karen Elaine Smyth, an interview with Mohamed K Dhouib, and “How I Teach” with Kristen Haas Curtis! escholarship.org/uc/ncs_pedag...

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Thicc Satan

Wordsworth: welcome to the meeting of Romantic Poets. We need to set our agenda, and I am recommending clouds, flowers, or possibly clouds shaped like flowers

Percy Shelley: or the severed head of a tyrant

William Blake: or thicc Satan

Wordsworth: or what???

Blake: I have produced a sketch-

A guide for reporting on how young disabled and chronically ill people use online communities - J-Source When you’re sick at home, social media can be a lifeline

Anyway, check out my guide fellow reporters! j-source.ca/a-guide-for-...

Stop AI-Shaming Our Precious, Kindly Em Dashes—Please Human writers have always used the em dash. In fact, it’s the most human punctuation mark there is.

I wrote about the em dash

Disability Matters ∞ Ways of Perceiving Our Spring Institute promoted International Conversations about disability perceptions in and outside of medicine hosted by OISE, University of Toronto, Canada in May 2025

In May, our Co-Investigator Prof Tanya Titchkosky led a Spring Institute "Disability Matters ∞ Ways of Perceiving" on disability perceptions in and outside of medicine at OISE University of Toronto. Read Tanya's reflections on the event: sheffield.ac.uk/ihuman/disab...

It feels like these closures are starting to accelerate.

Noah Hawley’s Alien: Earth​ Is Not Such a Tight Ship The new TV series on FX trades in the brutal simplicity and narrative economy of the "Alien"​ franchise ​for something rangier and looser.

Black Sabbath and black-leather Xenomorphs. Chestbursters and headbangers.

I wrote about the heavy metal vibes of ALIEN: EARTH for @newrepublic.com newrepublic.com/article/1991...

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