Megan L. Cook
@meganlcook.bsky.social
Your favorite medievalist's favorite medievalist. Middle English literature and/in early modern books, with a side of textual editing. In progress: Dirtbag Medievalism, Chaucer's Readers: 1400-2000, Lydgate's Shorter Works
LMAOooooooooooooo
(I listen to first wave ska while I write and hippy new age shit while I fall asleep, so this tracks)
(I listen to first wave ska while I write and hippy new age shit while I fall asleep, so this tracks)
December 3, 2025 at 5:28 PM
LMAOooooooooooooo
(I listen to first wave ska while I write and hippy new age shit while I fall asleep, so this tracks)
(I listen to first wave ska while I write and hippy new age shit while I fall asleep, so this tracks)
Did you send a fancy hot toddy kit to my office? If so, 1) thank you and 2) please reveal yourself, mysterious benefactor!
December 1, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Did you send a fancy hot toddy kit to my office? If so, 1) thank you and 2) please reveal yourself, mysterious benefactor!
I asked Aphrodite what it’s like being so beautiful, but she said she doesn’t speak with members of the press except by prior arrangement with her agent
November 30, 2025 at 2:12 PM
I asked Aphrodite what it’s like being so beautiful, but she said she doesn’t speak with members of the press except by prior arrangement with her agent
Meet Fox “Fluffy” Mulder, the newest resident of Spacecat Castle and a total dreamboat
November 29, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Meet Fox “Fluffy” Mulder, the newest resident of Spacecat Castle and a total dreamboat
Hello from the President Gerald R. Ford Tribute Room
November 28, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Hello from the President Gerald R. Ford Tribute Room
In related news, I am so psyched to be teaching this seminar, which is centered on BL Add 37049 aka the Yorkshire Miscellany aka the manuscript with all the smiling skeletons, once again.
November 21, 2025 at 3:35 PM
In related news, I am so psyched to be teaching this seminar, which is centered on BL Add 37049 aka the Yorkshire Miscellany aka the manuscript with all the smiling skeletons, once again.
We are in a classroom space crunch and I have just written to request the classroom with the requisite tech for my digital MSS seminar, even though it will be a small group and the room can accommodate more students. Ora pro nobis.
November 21, 2025 at 3:34 PM
We are in a classroom space crunch and I have just written to request the classroom with the requisite tech for my digital MSS seminar, even though it will be a small group and the room can accommodate more students. Ora pro nobis.
I'd briefly forgotten that the MLA session on Chaucer and Lydgate that Clint and I organized is going to kick ass
November 20, 2025 at 5:01 PM
I'd briefly forgotten that the MLA session on Chaucer and Lydgate that Clint and I organized is going to kick ass
Not a single thought in his beautiful head
November 16, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Not a single thought in his beautiful head
Running in a cemetery at dusk in 45 degree weather while listening to said single
November 15, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Running in a cemetery at dusk in 45 degree weather while listening to said single
This image was an advanced alt-text challenge:
November 15, 2025 at 8:11 PM
This image was an advanced alt-text challenge:
To let people know exactly how much fun I am at parties:
November 14, 2025 at 9:10 PM
To let people know exactly how much fun I am at parties:
Too cloudy for good aurora viewing here at the moment, but some nifty shots from the roof nonetheless
November 12, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Too cloudy for good aurora viewing here at the moment, but some nifty shots from the roof nonetheless
Just that the cost of attendance is the same per semester, whether the student is enrolled in 12 credits or 20 (16 is a full load), so that there's no way APs lower the total cost of attendance, though they do create more room for electives if the student is passing out of distribution reqs
November 7, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Just that the cost of attendance is the same per semester, whether the student is enrolled in 12 credits or 20 (16 is a full load), so that there's no way APs lower the total cost of attendance, though they do create more room for electives if the student is passing out of distribution reqs
As a millennial woman, I am excited to learn that I have ruined the workplace not once but twice.
November 6, 2025 at 8:52 PM
As a millennial woman, I am excited to learn that I have ruined the workplace not once but twice.
A fun thing about living where I do is that there are always one or two races where I'm like, "huh, had no idea that was an elected position."
November 5, 2025 at 3:18 AM
A fun thing about living where I do is that there are always one or two races where I'm like, "huh, had no idea that was an elected position."
Raise your hand if you, too, owned a copy of this at some point during your college/grad school years
October 31, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Raise your hand if you, too, owned a copy of this at some point during your college/grad school years
In which Ina simultaneously demands dinner and prevents me from getting it for her
October 30, 2025 at 2:02 PM
In which Ina simultaneously demands dinner and prevents me from getting it for her
You'll have to trust that this is my left arm with friends at Liquid c 2001
October 30, 2025 at 1:56 AM
You'll have to trust that this is my left arm with friends at Liquid c 2001
50 pages in. She changes a lot of names of places that are obviously recognizable, but not the Liquid Room, the alt coffee shop that employed many of my friends and in which I spent a great deal of time
October 30, 2025 at 1:54 AM
50 pages in. She changes a lot of names of places that are obviously recognizable, but not the Liquid Room, the alt coffee shop that employed many of my friends and in which I spent a great deal of time
I went to see Jonathan Richman in concert and now my brain feels better
October 29, 2025 at 1:52 AM
I went to see Jonathan Richman in concert and now my brain feels better
In other non-work book news, I finally got a hold of a copy of Natasha Stagg’s new novel Grand Rapids, which is set in GR in 2001, and I am prepared to have Some Thoughts, though I don’t as yet know whether they will be pro or con
October 26, 2025 at 10:14 PM
In other non-work book news, I finally got a hold of a copy of Natasha Stagg’s new novel Grand Rapids, which is set in GR in 2001, and I am prepared to have Some Thoughts, though I don’t as yet know whether they will be pro or con
It has really been a while since I read a book that brought me as much joy as this one, which is full of witchcraft and trans resilience and rare books and Alan Rickman. Truly spectacular
October 26, 2025 at 9:48 PM
It has really been a while since I read a book that brought me as much joy as this one, which is full of witchcraft and trans resilience and rare books and Alan Rickman. Truly spectacular
Richard III (act 4 scene 4) in Portland, Maine
October 18, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Richard III (act 4 scene 4) in Portland, Maine