Stella J. Fritzell
@bacchictopic.bsky.social
she/they | 🏺PhD candidate | 🥋faculty | queer, feminist, mythologist, philologist, digital scholar | 2024-25 AAUW American fellow
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Just received a HUGE (for me) influx of followers, so here’s a brief intro:
I’m a PhD candidate working on epichoric Greco-Roman myth and landscape - using myth to find local, subaltern voices! I also dabble in digital scholarship and occasionally teach martial arts (mostly Aikido).
I’m a PhD candidate working on epichoric Greco-Roman myth and landscape - using myth to find local, subaltern voices! I also dabble in digital scholarship and occasionally teach martial arts (mostly Aikido).
Someday, someone will tell me to get serious with my slides.
That day was not Saturday.
Many thanks to the Maine Classical Association for inviting me to present on my research at their fall meeting this past weekend!
That day was not Saturday.
Many thanks to the Maine Classical Association for inviting me to present on my research at their fall meeting this past weekend!
November 11, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Someday, someone will tell me to get serious with my slides.
That day was not Saturday.
Many thanks to the Maine Classical Association for inviting me to present on my research at their fall meeting this past weekend!
That day was not Saturday.
Many thanks to the Maine Classical Association for inviting me to present on my research at their fall meeting this past weekend!
I’m feeling a little overwhelmed by the positive response that this paper has received so far. Many thanks to everyone who turned out for the incredible panel this morning!
After a very long day of travel, I'm looking forward to giving this paper tomorrow morning! It's a new foray for me into some Early Christian material (even if it does begin with myth). If you're at #CAAS2025, I'd love to see you!
October 10, 2025 at 5:45 PM
I’m feeling a little overwhelmed by the positive response that this paper has received so far. Many thanks to everyone who turned out for the incredible panel this morning!
After a very long day of travel, I'm looking forward to giving this paper tomorrow morning! It's a new foray for me into some Early Christian material (even if it does begin with myth). If you're at #CAAS2025, I'd love to see you!
October 10, 2025 at 1:57 AM
After a very long day of travel, I'm looking forward to giving this paper tomorrow morning! It's a new foray for me into some Early Christian material (even if it does begin with myth). If you're at #CAAS2025, I'd love to see you!
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Offer still stands ...
Okay teaching colleagues & Historical Game Studies folk. Time to schedule my year.
I like to give a few remote talks yearly to classes or groups that specifically want me & my work. Usually gratis, just because I think I know some good stuff to share.
So ... 1/
#gamingthepast
I like to give a few remote talks yearly to classes or groups that specifically want me & my work. Usually gratis, just because I think I know some good stuff to share.
So ... 1/
#gamingthepast
July 29, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Offer still stands ...
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Any pals know how to cite the digital Lexicon of Greek Personal Names database? Their 'How to Cite' page is blank...
July 23, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Any pals know how to cite the digital Lexicon of Greek Personal Names database? Their 'How to Cite' page is blank...
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BREAKING: The Supreme Court allows the Trump administration to move forward with the abolition of the Department of Education. It gives no explanation for its order. All three liberals dissent. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
From Sotomayor's dissent:
From Sotomayor's dissent:
July 14, 2025 at 7:20 PM
BREAKING: The Supreme Court allows the Trump administration to move forward with the abolition of the Department of Education. It gives no explanation for its order. All three liberals dissent. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
From Sotomayor's dissent:
From Sotomayor's dissent:
Seeking #accessibility recs.
My grandmother has always been HOH and recently experienced total hearing loss. I’m looking for live transcription apps that could help facilitate communication between her and other members of our family. We are split between iOS and Android users.
#deaf #disability
My grandmother has always been HOH and recently experienced total hearing loss. I’m looking for live transcription apps that could help facilitate communication between her and other members of our family. We are split between iOS and Android users.
#deaf #disability
July 6, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Seeking #accessibility recs.
My grandmother has always been HOH and recently experienced total hearing loss. I’m looking for live transcription apps that could help facilitate communication between her and other members of our family. We are split between iOS and Android users.
#deaf #disability
My grandmother has always been HOH and recently experienced total hearing loss. I’m looking for live transcription apps that could help facilitate communication between her and other members of our family. We are split between iOS and Android users.
#deaf #disability
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I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
July 3, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
Excited to share that I will be at the #AIASCS in San Francisco this winter to give a paper that considers armed dances as martial arts practices. ⚔️💃🕺🥋
A bit of a departure from my recent conference topics - which were connected with the (nearing completion) dissertation - but it should be fun!
A bit of a departure from my recent conference topics - which were connected with the (nearing completion) dissertation - but it should be fun!
July 3, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Excited to share that I will be at the #AIASCS in San Francisco this winter to give a paper that considers armed dances as martial arts practices. ⚔️💃🕺🥋
A bit of a departure from my recent conference topics - which were connected with the (nearing completion) dissertation - but it should be fun!
A bit of a departure from my recent conference topics - which were connected with the (nearing completion) dissertation - but it should be fun!
Looking forward to dipping my toes into some Late Antique / Early Christian material at #CAAS2025 this fall. I’ll be giving a paper on Aura as a model of “bad” virginity in Nonnos’ Dionysiaca. Really grateful to have these smaller conferences for trying out ideas.
(Now to finish the dissertation…)
(Now to finish the dissertation…)
June 3, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Looking forward to dipping my toes into some Late Antique / Early Christian material at #CAAS2025 this fall. I’ll be giving a paper on Aura as a model of “bad” virginity in Nonnos’ Dionysiaca. Really grateful to have these smaller conferences for trying out ideas.
(Now to finish the dissertation…)
(Now to finish the dissertation…)
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Hey, got some free cycles this summer? Did you know Harvard offers FREE online courses in the U.S. Constitution, Public policy, Civic Engagement in Constitutional Democracy and more? Share widely and get smarter this summer.
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May 24, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Hey, got some free cycles this summer? Did you know Harvard offers FREE online courses in the U.S. Constitution, Public policy, Civic Engagement in Constitutional Democracy and more? Share widely and get smarter this summer.
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The CFP for the Institute for Liberal Arts Digital Scholarship (ILiADS) 2025 is now out! This year we'll be at Bryn Mawr College, June 22-27, doing our usual thing of collaboration, innovation, and fun. We're looking forward to reading your proposals!
iliads.org/call-for-pro...
iliads.org/call-for-pro...
Call For Proposals – ILiADS
iliads.org
March 21, 2025 at 1:35 PM
The CFP for the Institute for Liberal Arts Digital Scholarship (ILiADS) 2025 is now out! This year we'll be at Bryn Mawr College, June 22-27, doing our usual thing of collaboration, innovation, and fun. We're looking forward to reading your proposals!
iliads.org/call-for-pro...
iliads.org/call-for-pro...
A question for fellow academics, classicists, and / or humanists:
If an application field asks you to “state briefly X (expertise, future plans, etc.)” in an essay format, but does not include a word or character count, what would your reasonable expectations about length be?
If an application field asks you to “state briefly X (expertise, future plans, etc.)” in an essay format, but does not include a word or character count, what would your reasonable expectations about length be?
March 13, 2025 at 9:10 PM
A question for fellow academics, classicists, and / or humanists:
If an application field asks you to “state briefly X (expertise, future plans, etc.)” in an essay format, but does not include a word or character count, what would your reasonable expectations about length be?
If an application field asks you to “state briefly X (expertise, future plans, etc.)” in an essay format, but does not include a word or character count, what would your reasonable expectations about length be?
March 13, 2025 at 9:09 PM
A question for fellow academics, classicists, and / or humanists:
If an application field asks you to “state briefly X (expertise, future plans, etc.)” in an essay format, but does not include a word or character count, what would your reasonable expectations about length be?
If an application field asks you to “state briefly X (expertise, future plans, etc.)” in an essay format, but does not include a word or character count, what would your reasonable expectations about length be?
Systems of notation in academic monographs by increasing levels of depravity:
1. Footnotes
2. Chapter endnotes in an edited volume
3. Endnotes
4. Chapter endnotes in a single-authored volume
(Assuming a hard-copy book).
1. Footnotes
2. Chapter endnotes in an edited volume
3. Endnotes
4. Chapter endnotes in a single-authored volume
(Assuming a hard-copy book).
March 10, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Systems of notation in academic monographs by increasing levels of depravity:
1. Footnotes
2. Chapter endnotes in an edited volume
3. Endnotes
4. Chapter endnotes in a single-authored volume
(Assuming a hard-copy book).
1. Footnotes
2. Chapter endnotes in an edited volume
3. Endnotes
4. Chapter endnotes in a single-authored volume
(Assuming a hard-copy book).
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Publication news! 🎉 Ancient Pasts for Modern Audiences is NOW AVAILABLE for everybody to read! We are so excited to share this work with you all: www.routledge.com/Ancient-Past... 🎉
Cover art by the wonderful @flaroh.bsky.social!
Cover art by the wonderful @flaroh.bsky.social!
March 10, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Publication news! 🎉 Ancient Pasts for Modern Audiences is NOW AVAILABLE for everybody to read! We are so excited to share this work with you all: www.routledge.com/Ancient-Past... 🎉
Cover art by the wonderful @flaroh.bsky.social!
Cover art by the wonderful @flaroh.bsky.social!
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Call and email your politicians
Found out that TWENTY emails is considered a lot to politicians on an issue.
TWENTY.
As in, they call that getting slammed.
So next time you see a request to email your rep, or call, keep that in mind.
TWENTY is a lot.
TWENTY.
As in, they call that getting slammed.
So next time you see a request to email your rep, or call, keep that in mind.
TWENTY is a lot.
February 7, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Call and email your politicians
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The Trump Administration's list of censored scientific terms that get NSF grant proposals flagged contains "women” and “female”, but no mention of “men” or “male.” There is “black” and “indigenous” on this list, but no “white.” The only identity not censored is mine.
youtu.be/dHXbpj1Z3UU
youtu.be/dHXbpj1Z3UU
Don Beyer Speaks About Trump's NSF Censorship on the House Floor
YouTube video by Congressman Don Beyer
youtu.be
February 7, 2025 at 1:56 PM
The Trump Administration's list of censored scientific terms that get NSF grant proposals flagged contains "women” and “female”, but no mention of “men” or “male.” There is “black” and “indigenous” on this list, but no “white.” The only identity not censored is mine.
youtu.be/dHXbpj1Z3UU
youtu.be/dHXbpj1Z3UU
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This is what revisionist history looks like, in real time. And this also is why it might appear that archaeologists and historians have to dig deep to discover the existence of powerful women and marginalized groups -- because their legacies are so often erased.
NASA workers were told to "drop everything" and spend their time scrubbing mentions of women in leadership, indigenous people, and environmental justice from the web: www.404media.co/nasa-dei-dro...
Workers at NASA Told to ‘Drop Everything’ to Scrub Mentions of Indigenous People, Women from Its Websites
"This is a drop everything and reprioritize your day request," a directive "per NASA HQ direction" stated.
www.404media.co
February 5, 2025 at 10:59 PM
This is what revisionist history looks like, in real time. And this also is why it might appear that archaeologists and historians have to dig deep to discover the existence of powerful women and marginalized groups -- because their legacies are so often erased.
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didn't there used to be a comprehensive spreadsheet of classics journals circulating on twitter back in the day? anyone still have a link to it, or something similar?
January 23, 2025 at 4:35 PM
didn't there used to be a comprehensive spreadsheet of classics journals circulating on twitter back in the day? anyone still have a link to it, or something similar?
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Oxford University Press will be awarding as many as 10 ECRs the opportunity to publish their first book in fully open access as well as in hardback. Today the website was revised to make clear that independent/unaffiliated scholars are eligible. Deadline March 3. academic.oup.com/pages/early-...
January 17, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Oxford University Press will be awarding as many as 10 ECRs the opportunity to publish their first book in fully open access as well as in hardback. Today the website was revised to make clear that independent/unaffiliated scholars are eligible. Deadline March 3. academic.oup.com/pages/early-...
For #AIASCS folks traveling today, this will be the real issue. (Remember the Saints game two years ago…)
#AIASCS there is a home Eagles game today so just, you know, heads up
January 5, 2025 at 2:58 PM
For #AIASCS folks traveling today, this will be the real issue. (Remember the Saints game two years ago…)