Ethan Campbell
@profgawain.bsky.social
Former English professor, medievalist, editor, writer. Books: The Gawain-Poet and Anticlericalism (2018); The English Apocalypse (2024): https://isdistribution.com/BookDetail.aspx?aId=184714.
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Ethan Campbell
@profgawain.bsky.social
· May 27
The English Apocalypse: A Fourteenth-Century Translation of the Book of
Revelation from Columbia University, MS Plimpton Add. 03
Before translators at the University of Oxford began producing the first Wycliffite Bibles in the 1380s, few complete books of the Bible had ever been translated into Middle English. One notable excep...
metseditions.org
The full text of my book THE ENGLISH APOCALYPSE is now online on the new Middle English Text Series website!
In addition to introductory material, the site includes the full Middle English text of the Apocalypse with hypertext links to all of my explanatory notes.
metseditions.org/editions/89r...
In addition to introductory material, the site includes the full Middle English text of the Apocalypse with hypertext links to all of my explanatory notes.
metseditions.org/editions/89r...
Every once in a while, I just marvel that we live in an era where the author who wrote the scripts to half our nightmares as kids, and made millions of us want to become writers, is just out here giving his takes on music and bantering with folks.
Chicago. The world loves their music. I don’t.
I love your incorporation of music into your works you’ve a broad musical taste. What’s your least favorite musical act? Is there a song that has you scrambling to shut off your radio?
November 15, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Every once in a while, I just marvel that we live in an era where the author who wrote the scripts to half our nightmares as kids, and made millions of us want to become writers, is just out here giving his takes on music and bantering with folks.
My weekly ten votes for Andy Richter have saved him again, I see #DWTS
a man in a suit and tie is smiling and clapping
ALT: a man in a suit and tie is smiling and clapping
media.tenor.com
October 22, 2025 at 2:05 AM
My weekly ten votes for Andy Richter have saved him again, I see #DWTS
God, I love this town.
More to come, but confrontation still ongoing with the masked agents trying to leave Canal Street and a spontaneous crowd of counter protesters.
October 21, 2025 at 9:11 PM
God, I love this town.
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You had me at not being a sexual predator.
October 16, 2025 at 11:17 PM
You had me at not being a sexual predator.
A wonderfully descriptive article by Carson Vaughan, with some great photography, about the part of the world where I grew up.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/t...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/t...
Floating the Lazy Rivers of Nebraska’s Spring-Fed Water World
www.nytimes.com
September 27, 2025 at 9:35 PM
A wonderfully descriptive article by Carson Vaughan, with some great photography, about the part of the world where I grew up.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/t...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/t...
Pearl Jam’s “Animal” was the perfect needle-drop for the final scene of Alien: Earth. But I didn’t realize *how* perfect it was until I played the song on my phone … and remembered the cover art for that album was an angry sheep. 😂
September 26, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Pearl Jam’s “Animal” was the perfect needle-drop for the final scene of Alien: Earth. But I didn’t realize *how* perfect it was until I played the song on my phone … and remembered the cover art for that album was an angry sheep. 😂
One of my favorite etymologies. It's wild to think that in the 1940s, cartoon viewers might hear Elmer Fudd called a "nimrod" and think, "Hilarious, an ironic reference to the mighty hunter from Genesis!" Just a different world.
I was delighted to learn, long ago (but was just reminded of it), that the transition of "nimrod" from the biblical mighty warrior to our modern-day maroon meaning derives from Looney Tunes.
September 17, 2025 at 7:07 PM
One of my favorite etymologies. It's wild to think that in the 1940s, cartoon viewers might hear Elmer Fudd called a "nimrod" and think, "Hilarious, an ironic reference to the mighty hunter from Genesis!" Just a different world.
I wasn't expecting to see a Pete Ricketts campaign ad on my TV in Brooklyn while watching Nebraska football. That was ... unsettling.
September 7, 2025 at 2:02 AM
I wasn't expecting to see a Pete Ricketts campaign ad on my TV in Brooklyn while watching Nebraska football. That was ... unsettling.
My all-time favorite movie that I saw in theaters on its opening weekend: Jurassic Park
My all-time favorite movie that I’ve never seen in theaters: Date Night
My all-time favorite movie that I’ve never seen in theaters: Date Night
My all-time favorite movie that I saw in theaters on its opening weekend: [tie] Return to Oz and Brazil
My all-time favorite movie that I’ve never seen in theaters: [if we're excluding films made before I was actually going to the movies]: Exorcist III
QT with your answers to these two questions.
My all-time favorite movie that I’ve never seen in theaters: [if we're excluding films made before I was actually going to the movies]: Exorcist III
QT with your answers to these two questions.
My all-time favorite movie that I saw in theaters on its opening weekend: Inglourious Basterds
My all-time favorite movie that I’ve never seen in theaters: The Last of the Mohicans
QT with your answers to these two questions
My all-time favorite movie that I’ve never seen in theaters: The Last of the Mohicans
QT with your answers to these two questions
September 1, 2025 at 2:12 AM
My all-time favorite movie that I saw in theaters on its opening weekend: Jurassic Park
My all-time favorite movie that I’ve never seen in theaters: Date Night
My all-time favorite movie that I’ve never seen in theaters: Date Night
When I visited Rome, I was kind of delighted to find that the site where Julius Caesar was killed is now a feral cat colony. The cats are just fed by volunteers, though — I don’t think they’re expected to kill rats 😂
Curtis Sliwa calls for feral cat ‘colonies’ to claw back at NYC rat problem: ‘Caped crusaders at night’
Curtis Sliwa calls for feral cat ‘colonies’ to claw back at NYC rat problem: ‘Caped crusaders at night’
Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa, the GOP mayoral candidate, said putting pairs of feral cats near rat-infested hot spots will solve the problem.
nypost.com
September 1, 2025 at 1:43 AM
When I visited Rome, I was kind of delighted to find that the site where Julius Caesar was killed is now a feral cat colony. The cats are just fed by volunteers, though — I don’t think they’re expected to kill rats 😂
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it won't happen automatically. but there is very obviously an opportunity for ambitious types who want to quite literally save the American republic to have their names written in history. crowns are in the gutter waiting to be picked up
August 27, 2025 at 1:40 AM
it won't happen automatically. but there is very obviously an opportunity for ambitious types who want to quite literally save the American republic to have their names written in history. crowns are in the gutter waiting to be picked up
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As an old white lady, it's unlikely I would be stopped by ICE but if I am, I plan to ask them for their parents' names and telephone numbers because I want to talk about how they were raised.
August 21, 2025 at 2:25 AM
As an old white lady, it's unlikely I would be stopped by ICE but if I am, I plan to ask them for their parents' names and telephone numbers because I want to talk about how they were raised.
Wow. I wish my city (New York) had a mayor like this.
Last week, Boston received a letter from AG Bondi threatening to prosecute officials and withhold funds unless we cooperate with carrying out mass deportations.
The US Attorney General asked for a response by today, so here it is: stop attacking our cities to hide your administration’s failures.
The US Attorney General asked for a response by today, so here it is: stop attacking our cities to hide your administration’s failures.
August 19, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Wow. I wish my city (New York) had a mayor like this.
“He thought it was funny,” Ms. Pirro said of the defendant in a video posted online. “Well, he doesn’t think it’s funny today, because we charged with him with a felony.”
Ehhh … no, still funny.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/u...
Ehhh … no, still funny.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/u...
Man Charged With Assaulting Federal Agent With Sandwich in D.C.
www.nytimes.com
August 14, 2025 at 1:11 AM
“He thought it was funny,” Ms. Pirro said of the defendant in a video posted online. “Well, he doesn’t think it’s funny today, because we charged with him with a felony.”
Ehhh … no, still funny.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/u...
Ehhh … no, still funny.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/u...
Look at that, I have a new hero -- from my home state!
Question for Mike Flood: With $450 million being allocated to Alligator Alcatraz, and ICE burning through $8.4 million a day to illegally detain people—How much does it cost for fascism? How much do the tax payers have to pay for a fascist country?
August 5, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Look at that, I have a new hero -- from my home state!
A new Park Slope institution: LUYA Omakase sushi bar
July 26, 2025 at 12:26 AM
A new Park Slope institution: LUYA Omakase sushi bar
No thank you, AI robot, I don't need a summary of the book THAT I'M COPYEDITING.
July 23, 2025 at 1:51 PM
No thank you, AI robot, I don't need a summary of the book THAT I'M COPYEDITING.
Ever since we took a family trip to Sweden six years ago and I friended a bunch of distant aunts and cousins on Facebook, my feed looks like this every Midsommar.
June 20, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Ever since we took a family trip to Sweden six years ago and I friended a bunch of distant aunts and cousins on Facebook, my feed looks like this every Midsommar.
I just read that Tom Crewe review of Ocean Vuong. While parts of his broader critique might be valid, I do think for a viciously bad review to really work, the out-of-context quotes from the book you're mocking have to be clearly ridiculous, and most of these are just ... not?
June 20, 2025 at 2:05 PM
I just read that Tom Crewe review of Ocean Vuong. While parts of his broader critique might be valid, I do think for a viciously bad review to really work, the out-of-context quotes from the book you're mocking have to be clearly ridiculous, and most of these are just ... not?
Richard Jefferson’s suit, you guys. #NBAFinals
June 20, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Richard Jefferson’s suit, you guys. #NBAFinals
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Before I write all night until I pass out —
It’s important to note, there is a lot happening in the world.
Protests all throughout the U.S., people being detained, more.
Many of us are worried. It’s a scary time, but we can’t stop living and finding joy and purpose.
Keep safe.
It’s important to note, there is a lot happening in the world.
Protests all throughout the U.S., people being detained, more.
Many of us are worried. It’s a scary time, but we can’t stop living and finding joy and purpose.
Keep safe.
June 13, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Before I write all night until I pass out —
It’s important to note, there is a lot happening in the world.
Protests all throughout the U.S., people being detained, more.
Many of us are worried. It’s a scary time, but we can’t stop living and finding joy and purpose.
Keep safe.
It’s important to note, there is a lot happening in the world.
Protests all throughout the U.S., people being detained, more.
Many of us are worried. It’s a scary time, but we can’t stop living and finding joy and purpose.
Keep safe.
Not gonna lie, I kind of love this. (The tourists waving, not the NYPD collaborating with ICE.)
June 11, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Not gonna lie, I kind of love this. (The tourists waving, not the NYPD collaborating with ICE.)
“A crossover to make your feet go one way and your soul go another.”
Brooklyn Nets fans already know, but Richard Jefferson is underrated as a color commentator. #NBAFinals
Brooklyn Nets fans already know, but Richard Jefferson is underrated as a color commentator. #NBAFinals
June 9, 2025 at 1:00 AM
“A crossover to make your feet go one way and your soul go another.”
Brooklyn Nets fans already know, but Richard Jefferson is underrated as a color commentator. #NBAFinals
Brooklyn Nets fans already know, but Richard Jefferson is underrated as a color commentator. #NBAFinals