Valerie Voight
@valerievoight.bsky.social
PhD/Renaissance literature fanatic/rhapsody of follies working on post-Reformation English romance. She/her
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Holy shit, just learned about the typewriter art of Montserrat Alberich Escardívol, a Catalan typist. Using an extra wide typewriter and 180 color ribbons, she built up elaborate images from simple characters like 'm' and '.' and ';'. Here is her typewritten painting of the Cathedral of Barcelona.
November 12, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Holy shit, just learned about the typewriter art of Montserrat Alberich Escardívol, a Catalan typist. Using an extra wide typewriter and 180 color ribbons, she built up elaborate images from simple characters like 'm' and '.' and ';'. Here is her typewritten painting of the Cathedral of Barcelona.
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On his election in 1655, Pope Alexander VII commissioned Gian Lorenzo Bernini to sculpt a skull in marble, which he kept on his desk as a reminder of death's omnipresence. The sculpture was rediscovered in 2021 at Schloss Pillnitz, Dresden
October 11, 2025 at 5:10 PM
On his election in 1655, Pope Alexander VII commissioned Gian Lorenzo Bernini to sculpt a skull in marble, which he kept on his desk as a reminder of death's omnipresence. The sculpture was rediscovered in 2021 at Schloss Pillnitz, Dresden
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A thousand yeses to this from Cole Arthur Riley.
May 8, 2025 at 3:06 PM
A thousand yeses to this from Cole Arthur Riley.
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When I left the Washington Post in 2023, my colleagues and I were worried AI would hoover up our work and enable "zombies" to churn out stories based on our reporting and writing styles.
Today WaPo announced a partnership with OpenAI. And here it is: Zombie Gillian Brockell. I DID NOT WRITE THIS.
Today WaPo announced a partnership with OpenAI. And here it is: Zombie Gillian Brockell. I DID NOT WRITE THIS.
April 22, 2025 at 6:23 PM
When I left the Washington Post in 2023, my colleagues and I were worried AI would hoover up our work and enable "zombies" to churn out stories based on our reporting and writing styles.
Today WaPo announced a partnership with OpenAI. And here it is: Zombie Gillian Brockell. I DID NOT WRITE THIS.
Today WaPo announced a partnership with OpenAI. And here it is: Zombie Gillian Brockell. I DID NOT WRITE THIS.
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Casteen’s 1993 speech ”Special Collections and the Public Good” offered: “Special Collections protect our civilization’s primary unwashed memory of itself, ...
April 16, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Casteen’s 1993 speech ”Special Collections and the Public Good” offered: “Special Collections protect our civilization’s primary unwashed memory of itself, ...
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Today we remember the late John Casteen—UVA’s seventh president from 1990-2010 who passed away last month. Casteen was a library student assistant while studying @uva in the 1960s and an avid supporter of the @uvalibrary system throughout his career.
April 16, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Today we remember the late John Casteen—UVA’s seventh president from 1990-2010 who passed away last month. Casteen was a library student assistant while studying @uva in the 1960s and an avid supporter of the @uvalibrary system throughout his career.
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My Slate piece on the widespread NEH grant cancellations is live. So much gratitude to everyone who took the time to talk with me these past few days while fighting fires on every side.
#humanities #highered #neh
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#humanities #highered #neh
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Say Goodbye to Small-Town Libraries and Museums, Thanks to Trump’s Latest Cuts
The NEH budget is tiny. The loss is huge.
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April 10, 2025 at 9:45 PM
My Slate piece on the widespread NEH grant cancellations is live. So much gratitude to everyone who took the time to talk with me these past few days while fighting fires on every side.
#humanities #highered #neh
slate.com/news-and-pol...
#humanities #highered #neh
slate.com/news-and-pol...
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On Monday, March 31, 2025 we learned that DOGE is targeting the NEH with the aim of substantially reducing its staff, cutting the agency’s grant programs, and rescinding grants that have already been awarded.
Learn what steps you can take here: nhalliance.org/federal-fund...
Learn what steps you can take here: nhalliance.org/federal-fund...
Save the NEH! – National Humanities Alliance
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April 1, 2025 at 10:19 PM
On Monday, March 31, 2025 we learned that DOGE is targeting the NEH with the aim of substantially reducing its staff, cutting the agency’s grant programs, and rescinding grants that have already been awarded.
Learn what steps you can take here: nhalliance.org/federal-fund...
Learn what steps you can take here: nhalliance.org/federal-fund...
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Yes it’s all fascism right now but holy cricket on a cracker, let’s all God’s children gather round to make fun of Duke being the saddest, most pathetic privileged whiners in the history of institutions:
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/s...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/s...
Duke Says ‘White Lotus’ Went ‘Too Far’ With School References
In a show that features an array of disturbing story lines, the actions — and wardrobe — of a character have gone “too far” for the university.
www.nytimes.com
March 27, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Yes it’s all fascism right now but holy cricket on a cracker, let’s all God’s children gather round to make fun of Duke being the saddest, most pathetic privileged whiners in the history of institutions:
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/s...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/s...
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Today is publication day! Check out our new issue with four articles, a conversation on race, an exhibition review, and many book reviews #EarlyModern www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/emw/curr...
Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal | Vol 19, No 2
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March 20, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Today is publication day! Check out our new issue with four articles, a conversation on race, an exhibition review, and many book reviews #EarlyModern www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/emw/curr...
This one hurts. I was John's teaching assistant for his final Icelandic saga course in Fall 2020. While we initially had some trepidation about working together, we grew to like and respect each other a great deal. 1/3
OBITUARY: John Thomas Casteen III passes away at 81
Casteen may be best remembered as the founder of AccessUVA, a scholarship program to support undergraduate students whose qualifications were excellent, but whose families would be hard pressed to aff...
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March 20, 2025 at 3:47 PM
This one hurts. I was John's teaching assistant for his final Icelandic saga course in Fall 2020. While we initially had some trepidation about working together, we grew to like and respect each other a great deal. 1/3
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A nice reminder that, to find queer people in the Renaissance, all you need to do is play the hits. It is in fact comphet that distorts the historical record!
LGBTQIA+ As we resist those who claim diversity distorts scholarship, let’s run through the acronym & show how easy it is to find the rainbow in every era. We don’t even need to look beyond the Renaissance celebrities that are household names! 1/?
(Countdown to Inventing the Renaissance)
(Countdown to Inventing the Renaissance)
February 6, 2025 at 9:42 PM
A nice reminder that, to find queer people in the Renaissance, all you need to do is play the hits. It is in fact comphet that distorts the historical record!
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This is a typically brilliant thread, & yet another reminder that when we delve into the unedited & non-canonical sources, the lives of women in the past are much more visible than we are often led to believe.
Sometimes working with manuscripts gets us really, really close to the people from the past allowing us to hear their voices. This is a story of a letter from a schoolgirl to her teacher, written probably sometime at the end of the 9th or the beginning of the 10th century. A thread 🧵 #medievalsky /1
December 22, 2024 at 7:51 PM
This is a typically brilliant thread, & yet another reminder that when we delve into the unedited & non-canonical sources, the lives of women in the past are much more visible than we are often led to believe.
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After decades, tiny 500-year-old royal portrait is identified as Mary Tudor
Art historian says miniature is of Henry VIII’s daughter – not his sixth wife Katherine Parr
by Richard Brooks for The Guardian
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...
Art historian says miniature is of Henry VIII’s daughter – not his sixth wife Katherine Parr
by Richard Brooks for The Guardian
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...
After decades, tiny 500-year-old royal portrait is identified as Mary Tudor
Art historian says miniature is of Henry VIII’s daughter – not his sixth wife Katherine Parr
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2024 at 2:09 PM
After decades, tiny 500-year-old royal portrait is identified as Mary Tudor
Art historian says miniature is of Henry VIII’s daughter – not his sixth wife Katherine Parr
by Richard Brooks for The Guardian
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...
Art historian says miniature is of Henry VIII’s daughter – not his sixth wife Katherine Parr
by Richard Brooks for The Guardian
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...