Skip to content
  • Home Home Home, current page.
  • Moments Moments Moments, current page.

Saved searches

  • Remove
  • In this conversation
    Verified accountProtected Tweets @
Suggested users
  • Verified accountProtected Tweets @
  • Verified accountProtected Tweets @
  • Language: English
    • Bahasa Indonesia
    • Bahasa Melayu
    • Català
    • Čeština
    • Dansk
    • Deutsch
    • English UK
    • Español
    • Filipino
    • Français
    • Hrvatski
    • Italiano
    • Magyar
    • Nederlands
    • Norsk
    • Polski
    • Português
    • Română
    • Slovenčina
    • Suomi
    • Svenska
    • Tiếng Việt
    • Türkçe
    • Ελληνικά
    • Български език
    • Русский
    • Српски
    • Українська мова
    • עִבְרִית
    • العربية
    • فارسی
    • मराठी
    • हिन्दी
    • বাংলা
    • ગુજરાતી
    • தமிழ்
    • ಕನ್ನಡ
    • ภาษาไทย
    • 한국어
    • 日本語
    • 简体中文
    • 繁體中文
  • Have an account? Log in
    Have an account?
    · Forgot password?

    New to Twitter?
    Sign up
EileenAJoy's profile
Eileen A.F. Joy
Eileen A.F. Joy
Eileen A.F. Joy
@EileenAJoy

Tweets

Eileen A.F. Joy

@EileenAJoy

Thinker, Writer, Publisher, Believer. Pronouns: She/her or they/them. Sexuality: Hexagonal. Founding Director of punctum books & a recovering medievalist.

Santa Barbara, CA
punctumbooks.com
Joined May 2017

Tweets

  • © 2021 Twitter
  • About
  • Help Center
  • Terms
  • Privacy policy
  • Cookies
  • Ads info
Dismiss
Previous
Next

Go to a person's profile

Saved searches

  • Remove
  • In this conversation
    Verified accountProtected Tweets @
Suggested users
  • Verified accountProtected Tweets @
  • Verified accountProtected Tweets @

Promote this Tweet

Block

  • Tweet with a location

    You can add location information to your Tweets, such as your city or precise location, from the web and via third-party applications. You always have the option to delete your Tweet location history. Learn more

    Your lists

    Create a new list


    Under 100 characters, optional

    Privacy

    Copy link to Tweet

    Embed this Tweet

    Embed this Video

    Add this Tweet to your website by copying the code below. Learn more

    Add this video to your website by copying the code below. Learn more

    Hmm, there was a problem reaching the server.

    By embedding Twitter content in your website or app, you are agreeing to the Twitter Developer Agreement and Developer Policy.

    Preview

    Why you're seeing this ad

    Log in to Twitter

    · Forgot password?
    Don't have an account? Sign up »

    Sign up for Twitter

    Not on Twitter? Sign up, tune into the things you care about, and get updates as they happen.

    Sign up
    Have an account? Log in »

    Two-way (sending and receiving) short codes:

    Country Code For customers of
    United States 40404 (any)
    Canada 21212 (any)
    United Kingdom 86444 Vodafone, Orange, 3, O2
    Brazil 40404 Nextel, TIM
    Haiti 40404 Digicel, Voila
    Ireland 51210 Vodafone, O2
    India 53000 Bharti Airtel, Videocon, Reliance
    Indonesia 89887 AXIS, 3, Telkomsel, Indosat, XL Axiata
    Italy 4880804 Wind
    3424486444 Vodafone
    » See SMS short codes for other countries

    Confirmation

     

    Welcome home!

    This timeline is where you’ll spend most of your time, getting instant updates about what matters to you.

    Tweets not working for you?

    Hover over the profile pic and click the Following button to unfollow any account.

    Say a lot with a little

    When you see a Tweet you love, tap the heart — it lets the person who wrote it know you shared the love.

    Spread the word

    The fastest way to share someone else’s Tweet with your followers is with a Retweet. Tap the icon to send it instantly.

    Join the conversation

    Add your thoughts about any Tweet with a Reply. Find a topic you’re passionate about, and jump right in.

    Learn the latest

    Get instant insight into what people are talking about now.

    Get more of what you love

    Follow more accounts to get instant updates about topics you care about.

    Find what's happening

    See the latest conversations about any topic instantly.

    Never miss a Moment

    Catch up instantly on the best stories happening as they unfold.

    Eileen A.F. Joy‏ @EileenAJoy 25 Nov 2019

    Maybe get your facts straight, HistoryGuy? (1) "born into a wealthy New England family" = um, NO. NO ONE is my family is from New England. Try Ireland and Washington state, you dumbass. I was born in DC (again, NOT New England: learn your geography) & went to school in the South.pic.twitter.com/BWU1xLucZx

    8:48 AM - 25 Nov 2019
    • 8 Retweets
    • 25 Likes
    • Dr. Sarah Luginbill Matt Ruen Jack Z nec Axel Folio, PhD, BFF of Mr. Bloodaxe Aloys Fleischmann Chris W👻shingt🎃n Dr C. M. Bromstick🧹, Dublin DHCooper
    2 replies 8 retweets 25 likes
      1. New conversation
      2. Eileen A.F. Joy‏ @EileenAJoy 25 Nov 2019

        "of Washington insiders" = NO. My father worked for Robert Kennedy & worked at the National Science Foundation as a program officer until he had a psychotic break and lost his job when I was in high school. My father never worked full-time again, because of mental illness.

        1 reply 1 retweet 11 likes
        Show this thread
      3. Eileen A.F. Joy‏ @EileenAJoy 25 Nov 2019

        It's true my father's sister was married to Pierre Salinger who was John Kennedy's Press Secretary & my mother worked at the Irish Embassy but after marrying my father, she resigned to stay at home. She went back to work to after my father lost his job & also declared bankruptcy.

        1 reply 1 retweet 9 likes
        Show this thread
      4. Eileen A.F. Joy‏ @EileenAJoy 25 Nov 2019

        My father's mental illness & his inability to ever work again full-time, & as his refusal to ever seriously address his mental health took, and still takes, an immense toll on our family. He was from a wealthy family. He also lost his entire inheritance because of his mania.

        1 reply 1 retweet 9 likes
        Show this thread
      5. Eileen A.F. Joy‏ @EileenAJoy 25 Nov 2019

        "after failing to achieve the success she believed was her birthright as a scholar of Old English" = HUH? How do YOU measure "success," HistoryGuy? I have published plenty and I am still a scholar of Old English. Are you STILL an expert on the Merovingians? What's wrong with you?

        1 reply 1 retweet 13 likes
        Show this thread
      6. Eileen A.F. Joy‏ @EileenAJoy 25 Nov 2019

        "she pursued a similarly lame career as a theorist. And then gave up academia" = Old English studies + Critical Theory go hand in hand, it isn't one after the other, you pompus fucktwaddle. No one "left" academia. How do you define being *in* academia? Is there a secret door?

        1 reply 3 retweets 15 likes
        Show this thread
      7. Eileen A.F. Joy‏ @EileenAJoy 25 Nov 2019

        How do you define intellectual historian, by the way? My PhD was granted in "English" but my Old English supervisor, Joseph B. Trahern, who was kind and supportive, advised me to go outside my school & dept. for better supervision of my project, which was intellectual history.pic.twitter.com/124adRWpvC

        1 reply 2 retweets 12 likes
        Show this thread
      8. Eileen A.F. Joy‏ @EileenAJoy 25 Nov 2019

        My dissertation's two primary directors were Roy Liuzza, an Old English specialist who had also done some work on intellectual history of OE studies, and Owen Bradley, a historian who specialized in 18th-19th-century European political thought. Both were wonderful supervisors.

        1 reply 1 retweet 8 likes
        Show this thread
      9. Eileen A.F. Joy‏ @EileenAJoy 25 Nov 2019

        My dissertation primarily addressed the intellectual history of practices of librarianship from the 16th-21st centuries, using the Cotton Vitellius A.xv manuscript as a touchstone object. The first chapter was published in the British Library Journal: https://www.bl.uk/eblj/2005articles/article1.html …

        1 reply 1 retweet 12 likes
        Show this thread
      10. Eileen A.F. Joy‏ @EileenAJoy 25 Nov 2019

        The final chapter was an exploration of the representation of traumatic history in art (via Beowulf), in order to think about the relations between trauma, memory & art relative to work undertaken in Holocaust studies (e.g. by Dominick LaCapra, Cornell, who was Bradley's mentor).

        1 reply 1 retweet 11 likes
        Show this thread
      11. Eileen A.F. Joy‏ @EileenAJoy 25 Nov 2019

        It may seem silly to even respond to this, but maybe try to understand that this is so TYPICAL of what goes on in early medieval studies: constant gatekeeping, name- & institution-checking: who's your DADDY? I mean, um, WHO did you work with, WHERE did you go to school (etc.)?

        1 reply 3 retweets 19 likes
        Show this thread
      12. Eileen A.F. Joy‏ @EileenAJoy 25 Nov 2019

        This also points to the RIDICULOUS divide that has existed and continues to exist between literature & history scholars, with history scholars constantly being obnoxious twats re: their supposed superiority in understanding history, and who is, or isn't, an "historian." #FuckOff

        1 reply 3 retweets 21 likes
        Show this thread
      13. Eileen A.F. Joy‏ @EileenAJoy 25 Nov 2019

        I am an intellectual historian, whether anyone likes it or not. I am a scholar of Old English literature (present tense) whether anyone likes it or not. & being a theorist is not separate from any of these things. It pains me to even rehearse my background and credentials, ....

        1 reply 1 retweet 16 likes
        Show this thread
      14. Eileen A.F. Joy‏ @EileenAJoy 25 Nov 2019

        because I know from my own research, which has looked at OE studies as a discipline in the late 19th-early 20th centuries, that the *profession* of Old English studies is of very recent vintage, & the hyper-professionalization of all of our disciplines is a 100% shitshow.

        1 reply 1 retweet 20 likes
        Show this thread
      15. Eileen A.F. Joy‏ @EileenAJoy 25 Nov 2019

        Every single thinker in the field of European History, before it was an academic discipline, were simply people who read, thought deeply about what they read (or sifted through, artifacts-wise), and wrote about that. That's the only credentialling necessary to be an historian.

        1 reply 1 retweet 17 likes
        Show this thread
      16. Eileen A.F. Joy‏ @EileenAJoy 25 Nov 2019

        If you think 5+ years in a PhD program is what gives you the right to call yourself an "historian," um...ok. One might go further & say: it's the PhD + all of the publications. Okay. Sure. Makes sense. I've done that, too. But it's not what makes me, or anyone, an historian.

        1 reply 1 retweet 13 likes
        Show this thread
      17. Eileen A.F. Joy‏ @EileenAJoy 25 Nov 2019

        Learn some real fucking history, REAL HISTORY GUY. #LearnSomeFuckingHistory #MedievalTwitter #Racism #Elitism #WhiteMen #AngloSaxonWTFpic.twitter.com/ypTr61o5Er

        1 reply 1 retweet 16 likes
        Show this thread
      18. Eileen A.F. Joy‏ @EileenAJoy 25 Nov 2019

        Note bene: I assume Halsall mistags me as being from a New England family because he knows the story of my father's father, who grew up in an orphanage & was adopted by the Joy family in Spokane, WA, who were descendants of Nantucket whalers, one of whom helped inspire Moby Dick.

        1 reply 1 retweet 6 likes
        Show this thread
      19. Eileen A.F. Joy‏ @EileenAJoy 25 Nov 2019

        Matthew Joy, 2nd mate on the Essex, was partly responsible for the aftermath of a run-in with a whale that led to cannibalism & inspired Melville to write Moby Dick, see here: http://bit.ly/37CcVjF  So I am connected to New England whalers, by way of adoption. End of story.

        0 replies 1 retweet 8 likes
        Show this thread
      20. End of conversation

    Loading seems to be taking a while.

    Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.

      Promoted Tweet

      false

      • © 2021 Twitter
      • About
      • Help Center
      • Terms
      • Privacy policy
      • Cookies
      • Ads info