Picks books up and puts them down. Will work 4 ليمون نعناع.
Professes Arabic and History @ UMD
Occasionally makes bad art and worse Ge'ez translations.
Dr. Rachel Schine
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Hard to believe I became Literature & Medicine's Book Review Editor in 2020 just as I started my tenure-track job. I learned a lot from working closely with other scholars and from a lot of trial and error (mostly error on my part): muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
I was that person today at the @metmuseum.org.
Older woman standing next to me, to her husband: Oh look! There’s a Jewish star in an Islamic art gallery. How interesting!
Me: So… it doesn’t actually become a Jewish symbol until the 13th or 14th century…
We struck up a really nice convo after.
I’m a millennial, which means I remember when schoolmates used to say “That’s so gay” to mean “bad,” and I’m sure many of them would have claimed they were not being homophobic, just using slang. It also would have been journalistic malpractice to accept that explanation unquestioningly.
The point of having students do peer review is not to fix the essay, it’s to give the students a concrete experience of delivering their ideas to an audience and being in community caring about their compositional choices.
ethnonationalism can’t roll like this bsky.app/profile/oemi...
Periodic reminder: I am looking for people to review digital projects at the MAA's Database of Medieval Digital Resources! I'm looking for (PhD) medievalists, not just DH specialists. MAA membership not required!
You can sign up through the form below (pick MDR reviewer) or contact me! #medievalsky
