Dr Basil Arnould Price
@basilaprice.bsky.social
He/Him 🏳️⚧️ ✨ Asst. Prof. of Queer and Medieval Literature @SUNY, previously UCLA, York, UO ✨Gender, Empire, and Race in the Old Norse World ✨my own bad opinions
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Sagas and Sovereignty in Kalaallit Nunaat, Grænland, and Red, White, and Blueland
by Basil Arnould Price
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New work from me in The Sundial, all about Greenland and imperial fantasies, old and new.
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“The elites are ecstatic about imagining a vast, uneducated, and unproductive population forced to pay companies like OpenAI to access the written word and to approximate thought.”
Must read piece by Noah McCormack with too many quotaboe lines to select one! thebaffler.com/salvos/we-us...
Must read piece by Noah McCormack with too many quotaboe lines to select one! thebaffler.com/salvos/we-us...
We Used to Read Things in This Country | Noah McCormack
Technology changes us—and it is currently changing us for the worse.
thebaffler.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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If you know anyone who works on medieval Judaism, please send them this! Binghamton is hiring a Talmud/Rabbinics assistant prof: half in Judaic Studies, half in the Med/Ren center. A killer R1 job for the right person, and not a ton of applicants so far....
binghamton.interviewexchange.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:44 AM
If you know anyone who works on medieval Judaism, please send them this! Binghamton is hiring a Talmud/Rabbinics assistant prof: half in Judaic Studies, half in the Med/Ren center. A killer R1 job for the right person, and not a ton of applicants so far....
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#GLAM friends, quite a lot of you went to IU for your undergrad, MLS, and PhD! Those of us still here would appreciate alumni support against the upper administration’s nonsense, especially in regard to academic/intellectual freedom
My undergrad alma mater, Indiana University, has gone full Project 2025 - from eliminating liberal arts majors, to suppressing campus protest to shuttering the student paper. A group of alums are organizing thanks to @juliedicaro.bsky.social. Join us by filling the form.
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Alumni For a Better IU
Connecting alumni to save IU
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November 8, 2025 at 5:30 PM
#GLAM friends, quite a lot of you went to IU for your undergrad, MLS, and PhD! Those of us still here would appreciate alumni support against the upper administration’s nonsense, especially in regard to academic/intellectual freedom
Harm reduction in action.
November 7, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Harm reduction in action.
Odense is my favourite city in Europe and SDU is wonderful! A great opportunity ✨⬇️
3-year postdoc with CODICUM project for a medievalist placed in Odense, Denmark!
Special focus on Latin, palaeography & Dominican text and book history 📖😍🕵️
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Special focus on Latin, palaeography & Dominican text and book history 📖😍🕵️
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3-year postdoc position in medieval studies
3-year postdoc position in medieval studies The Department of Culture and Language invites applications for a 3-year postdoc position in Dominican studies within the CODICUM project. The position is e...
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November 7, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Odense is my favourite city in Europe and SDU is wonderful! A great opportunity ✨⬇️
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We are now accepting submissions for Vagantes 2026, hosted by The University of Rochester, April 9-11!
See the CFP below, and feel free to share with graduate students and colleagues who might be interested.
Abstracts are due 12 December 2025.
See the CFP below, and feel free to share with graduate students and colleagues who might be interested.
Abstracts are due 12 December 2025.
September 19, 2025 at 5:48 PM
We are now accepting submissions for Vagantes 2026, hosted by The University of Rochester, April 9-11!
See the CFP below, and feel free to share with graduate students and colleagues who might be interested.
Abstracts are due 12 December 2025.
See the CFP below, and feel free to share with graduate students and colleagues who might be interested.
Abstracts are due 12 December 2025.
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Terrible news. Universities are being decimated.
'Music and modern foreign languages degrees are among courses being suspended at the University of Nottingham, with the institution saying it “cannot rely on additional income” from the coming tuition fee rises.' 1/3
Nottingham suspends music, language and nursing courses
University says financial uncertainties continue as government’s proposed student levy will ‘wipe out any benefits’ from rising tuition fees
www.timeshighereducation.com
November 6, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Terrible news. Universities are being decimated.
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Call for Papers for an excellent series. The editors are great and the journal open access. #CfP
“The Public Curatorship of the Medieval Past”
olh.openlibhums.org/news/863/
“The Public Curatorship of the Medieval Past”
olh.openlibhums.org/news/863/
Second Call for Articles: The Public Curatorship of the Medieval Past
The Public Curatorship of the Medieval Past Special Collection explores how the medieval past is ‘curated’, that is, collected, interpreted, and communicated, across both professional and popular soci...
olh.openlibhums.org
October 28, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Call for Papers for an excellent series. The editors are great and the journal open access. #CfP
“The Public Curatorship of the Medieval Past”
olh.openlibhums.org/news/863/
“The Public Curatorship of the Medieval Past”
olh.openlibhums.org/news/863/
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A new special issue of English Studies I'm really keen to put together! Please consider submitting and circulate widely! @drchrislouttit.bsky.social bookshoplit.com/cfp-booksell...
CFP: Bookselling and Literature
Bookselling and LiteratureA Special Issue of English Studies Guest Editor: Matthew Chambers (matthew.chambers@uj.edu.pl) One of the best-known literary friendships was formed in a bookshop, and one…
bookshoplit.com
November 3, 2025 at 10:28 AM
A new special issue of English Studies I'm really keen to put together! Please consider submitting and circulate widely! @drchrislouttit.bsky.social bookshoplit.com/cfp-booksell...
i don't know why, but paul gilroy's 'postcolonial melancholia' looks to me like the VHS cover for some lost late-90s movie
November 4, 2025 at 8:50 PM
i don't know why, but paul gilroy's 'postcolonial melancholia' looks to me like the VHS cover for some lost late-90s movie
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New awareness campaign
November 3, 2025 at 3:23 PM
New awareness campaign
Alright Old Norse folks, how are we translating 'skráveifa' as in Jón skráveifa Guttormsson?
November 1, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Alright Old Norse folks, how are we translating 'skráveifa' as in Jón skráveifa Guttormsson?
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It's Halloween! 🎃
Naturally I am working on the preface to Monster Theory 3.0, under contract with @uminnpress.bsky.social and offering more than twenty new essays in monster studies as well as a rethinking of "Monster Culture (Seven Theses)."
Naturally I am working on the preface to Monster Theory 3.0, under contract with @uminnpress.bsky.social and offering more than twenty new essays in monster studies as well as a rethinking of "Monster Culture (Seven Theses)."
October 31, 2025 at 4:09 PM
It's Halloween! 🎃
Naturally I am working on the preface to Monster Theory 3.0, under contract with @uminnpress.bsky.social and offering more than twenty new essays in monster studies as well as a rethinking of "Monster Culture (Seven Theses)."
Naturally I am working on the preface to Monster Theory 3.0, under contract with @uminnpress.bsky.social and offering more than twenty new essays in monster studies as well as a rethinking of "Monster Culture (Seven Theses)."
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Spread the word! A new postgraduate and early career researcher seminar series at @universityofleeds.bsky.social! For those studying the Late Antique, Medieval, and Early Modern periods. We look forward to reading your proposals! #medievalsky #earlymodern #lateantique
October 30, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Spread the word! A new postgraduate and early career researcher seminar series at @universityofleeds.bsky.social! For those studying the Late Antique, Medieval, and Early Modern periods. We look forward to reading your proposals! #medievalsky #earlymodern #lateantique
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i'm sure the "faculty forum" on "reducing burnout" and "enhancing resilience" will include helpful things like "join your faculty union" and "here's a bucket of money" and "we hired a bunch of new full time faculty to reduce the teaching load across the university"
October 30, 2025 at 7:17 PM
i'm sure the "faculty forum" on "reducing burnout" and "enhancing resilience" will include helpful things like "join your faculty union" and "here's a bucket of money" and "we hired a bunch of new full time faculty to reduce the teaching load across the university"
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Árnastofnun og Íslensku- og menningardeild Háskóla Íslands efna til málþings sem helgað er minningu Jenny Jochens (1928-2025).
Laxdæluþing í minningu Jenny Jochens
Háskóli Íslands býður upp á fjölbreytt nám á grunn og framhaldsstigi. Lögð er áhersla á fræðilega nálgun og rannsóknatengt nám með góð tengsl við atvinnulíf og nýsköpun
hi.is
October 29, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Árnastofnun og Íslensku- og menningardeild Háskóla Íslands efna til málþings sem helgað er minningu Jenny Jochens (1928-2025).
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📢Fully Funded PhD Opportunities @thetimes University of the Year @durham_uni's Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 🎓
durham.ac.uk/research/ins...
durham.ac.uk/research/ins...
October 29, 2025 at 9:32 AM
📢Fully Funded PhD Opportunities @thetimes University of the Year @durham_uni's Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 🎓
durham.ac.uk/research/ins...
durham.ac.uk/research/ins...
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Just a few days left to join in on Ceræ's 13th volume committee! Any and all postgraduates & ECRs working in medieval and early modern studies are welcome - get in contact by Oct. 31! More info here: #medievalsky #academicsky #historysky ceraejournal.com/2025/10/02/c...
Call for New Committee Members
Ceræ: An Australasian Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies is an open-access, award-winning, peer-reviewed journal directed by a committee of international graduate students and early caree…
ceraejournal.com
October 29, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Just a few days left to join in on Ceræ's 13th volume committee! Any and all postgraduates & ECRs working in medieval and early modern studies are welcome - get in contact by Oct. 31! More info here: #medievalsky #academicsky #historysky ceraejournal.com/2025/10/02/c...
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In 2023, I was a Visiting Fellow at @antrelclaottawa.bsky.social. Got to experience the department as a world class center for our discipline (especially Late Antiquity). University management now wants to axe their honours programme.
Please consider signing and sharing this petition for support:
Please consider signing and sharing this petition for support:
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Save Greek and Latin at the University of Ottawa!
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October 28, 2025 at 3:31 PM
In 2023, I was a Visiting Fellow at @antrelclaottawa.bsky.social. Got to experience the department as a world class center for our discipline (especially Late Antiquity). University management now wants to axe their honours programme.
Please consider signing and sharing this petition for support:
Please consider signing and sharing this petition for support:
I'm delighted to say that my article, "Sufficient Tragedy: Masculinity as Cruel Optimism in Beowulf," which I published in English Studies in 2024, is the currently featured Article of the Month on Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index website!
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"Article of the Month: Indexers select an article or essay at the beginning of each month that is outstanding in its line of argument, wealth of significances, and writing style. We particularly look for pieces that will be useful as course readings. [Picture of the reconstructed Sutton Hoo helmet]. Price, Basil Arnould. "Sufficient Tragedy: Masculinity as Cruel Optimism in Beowulf." English Studies 105, 5 (2024): 681-702. Available open access from the Taylor & Francis website: https://doi.org/10.1080/0013838X.2024.2393068"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ohw24ue5afhhv6lrjmlxtrbo/bafkreiaxgwxeecjmkldneue74z4qfwaiuvboqn43q5mb3f4mcys4zjiwya@jpeg)
October 28, 2025 at 4:04 PM
I'm delighted to say that my article, "Sufficient Tragedy: Masculinity as Cruel Optimism in Beowulf," which I published in English Studies in 2024, is the currently featured Article of the Month on Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index website!
It’s finally coming out ! Get ready Old Norse studies 😈🏳️⚧️
October 27, 2025 at 8:15 PM
It’s finally coming out ! Get ready Old Norse studies 😈🏳️⚧️
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Some transmasc art that “doesn’t suck.” oh look it’s all people of color what a coincidence
WRITING
Cameron Awkward-Rich
Shaawan Francis Keahna
Cyrée Jarelle Johnson
Yoon Ha Lee
Hasib Hourani
VISUAL
Whess Harman
Theo Cuthand
MUSIC
Brown Boy Magik
Dua Saleh
WRITING
Cameron Awkward-Rich
Shaawan Francis Keahna
Cyrée Jarelle Johnson
Yoon Ha Lee
Hasib Hourani
VISUAL
Whess Harman
Theo Cuthand
MUSIC
Brown Boy Magik
Dua Saleh
October 26, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Some transmasc art that “doesn’t suck.” oh look it’s all people of color what a coincidence
WRITING
Cameron Awkward-Rich
Shaawan Francis Keahna
Cyrée Jarelle Johnson
Yoon Ha Lee
Hasib Hourani
VISUAL
Whess Harman
Theo Cuthand
MUSIC
Brown Boy Magik
Dua Saleh
WRITING
Cameron Awkward-Rich
Shaawan Francis Keahna
Cyrée Jarelle Johnson
Yoon Ha Lee
Hasib Hourani
VISUAL
Whess Harman
Theo Cuthand
MUSIC
Brown Boy Magik
Dua Saleh
finally finished making a short and dirty guide to middle english, a language that i famously do not like. hopefully my students appreciate my tables!
October 21, 2025 at 12:20 AM
finally finished making a short and dirty guide to middle english, a language that i famously do not like. hopefully my students appreciate my tables!
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Lecture writing.
October 20, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Lecture writing.