Courtney E. Rydel

@cerydel

Professor @ Washington College, medievalist, feminist, pilgrim, cook and needlewoman. She/her.

Joined August 2013
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    8 Dec 2018

    I said if I got tenure I’d dye my hair pink. Was not kidding.

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  2. 23 Jun 2021

    Extremely excited to have just ordered my copy of "Antiracist Medievalisms: From “Yellow Peril” to Black Lives Matter" ! I'm so psyched to read it!

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    22 Mar 2021

    1 - Welcome to , muslin edition. Muslin has been all over my feed, so let me cut to the chase: The finest fabric in human history was perfected by the Bengali people but tragically lost in the wake of imperialism & economic ruin at the hands of the English. 🤬🤬

    18th - early 19th century muslin gown, made in India. A woman's gown. (c)Victoria and Albert Museum, London Fine muslin ground with decoration in applied tinsel, spangles and foil. The peshwaz was made for a small wearer. The bodice portion is heavily embellished with wide bands of decoration around the sleeves, neck, hem, front-opening, and down the middle of the ground panels. The bands are made of silver-gilt, bordered by strips of green foil, with rows of blossoms in red foil and sequins. The same style of bands decorate the edges and hems of the skirt panels, and the wrists of the sleeves. The main ground of the sleeves and skirt is embellished with a motif of silver-gilt strip couched into four-pteal blossoms, regularly divided by serrated rows of silver-gilt foil. A deep striped trim lines the inside bottom hem of the skirt.
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    23 Mar 2021

    "Poetry dances to the rhythm of time, and time rarely keeps a steady beat." - Ibn al-Mu'tazz (d. 908), author of Kitab al-Badi', a book about poetry that is considered one of the earliest works of Arabic literary criticism

    إذا أحسستَ في لفظي فتوراً وخطّي والبلاغة والبيان ِ فلا ترْتبْ بفهمي إنّ رقصي على مقدار إيقاع الزمان ِ -ابن المعتزّ Poetry dances to the rhythm of time, and time rarely keeps a steady beat.
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    21 Mar 2021

    I hope you enjoyed my series of newly discovered wall paintings from the territory of the medieval Kingdom of Hungary. I presented 10 monuments that are currently being restored in Slovakia, Romania, Ukraine as well as in Budapest. 1/4

    Detail of medieval wall painting at Rádos/Roades, Transylvania
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  6. 23 Mar 2021

    Looks fantastic! Just purchased a copy from independent bookshop in Philadelphia (named after Harriet Tubman).

    I won the NAACP Image Award in Poetry for The Age of Phillis! Y’all, did this really happen?! I just got the email. But I can’t believe it.
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    22 Mar 2021

    This is fascinating to me as an academic who is currently studying 16th century medicine, and finding that we could learn an awful lot from 16th century treatments for stillbirth, and that we only know this now because academia has changed unrecognisably by allowing women in.

    This is, of course, nonsense
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  8. 23 Mar 2021

    Just had a SPECTACULAR meeting with a student and colleague in Econ on a senior thesis examining how dystopian economics in The Hunger Games reflects real-world problems. Interdisciplinarity for the win!

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    18 Mar 2021

    How many of us never learned anything about Asian American history in school? 🖐️ (raises hand) The stellar documentary series “Asian Americans” is now streaming for free on PBS

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  10. 19 Mar 2021

    Very interesting, fellow higher ed folks & Marylanders.

    The Maryland Legislature is considering a bill that would grant collective bargaining rights to community college faculty. The present bill would stagger the implementation dates (9/1/2022, 9/1/2023 and 10/1/2024) depending on the named institutions:
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    18 Mar 2021

    Huge news: Google Chrome now offers live auto-captioning for ANY video/audio anywhere on the internet. Because they’re auto-generated, it’s still important to add your own captions when making a video. BUT this is a massive leap for web access.

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  12. 19 Mar 2021

    Helpful information for those of us who want to know the names of those lost in the Atlanta shootings. Again, it feels like the absolute LEAST we can do (in addition to donating, listening, supporting actual AAPI folks in our lives) to GET THEIR NAMES CORRECT.

    Just a note that HyunJung's last name is not Park. Folks should either be using HyunJung Grant, her married name. Her maiden name, HyunJung Kim, would also be an option and is the name her son used in his Gofundme.
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    19 Mar 2021

    A reminder that the deadline for my department's tenure track search in early modern drama is March 26, a week from today

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    18 Mar 2021

    Washington College English Majors! Looking for funding for experiential learning projects (internships, independent research, study abroad, etc)? Sophie Kerr Promise Grants are now available to help fund your projects. Check your emails for more info!

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    17 Mar 2021

    in Washington, D.C.

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  17. 19 Mar 2021

    2/2 It’s the humanity of people—specifically women—from East Asia that anti-Asian racism erases, and that Records of the Listener so poignantly brings to life. You CANNOT love the literature of the past and ignore the communities of the present.

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  18. 19 Mar 2021

    (TW: Anti-Asian violence) To prep for my Global Middle Ages course today, on Hong Mai’s Records of the Listener, I also need to practice correctly pronouncing the names of six Asian women killed in Atlanta in a racist mass shooting. 1/2

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    17 Mar 2021

    You know, , you don’t have to ONLY care about white supremacist violence when it comes carrying medieval symbols or yelling medieval rallying cries. Or is it really just about the symbols for you? It’s a rhetorical question because I know the answer.

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    9 Mar 2021

    From the first Black women in each house of the General Assembly, to the first Black woman to be a doctor of medicine in the US, to a suffragist & journalist, these women have inspired generations. We are proud to highlight their legacies for .

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    8 Mar 2021

    Announcement: the "Mother of All Pandemics" Bibliography on the (Black Death) & has migrated to a new site on Google Docs: . All future updates will be posted there.

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