Yep. Glad there are increasingly more "academic" medievalists who are making the point clear across many domains e.g. @heyouonline @KVMFinn @ProfCWhit @dorothyk98 @ricutz & many more
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Replying to @JonathanHsy @medievalpoc and
Seriously, though, we ARE fans in a real sense, and pretending otherwise--i.e. that we have some sort of pseudo-scientific impartiality that somehow makes us superior--doesn't make our research any better, and in fact distances us further from the texts and culture we study.
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Replying to @KVMFinn @JonathanHsy and
And, as
@ricutz and others have pointed out already, it entrenches systems of privilege and assumptions within scholarship that roundly deserve to be questioned.1 reply 1 retweet 3 likes -
Replying to @KVMFinn @JonathanHsy and
Yes, there is a sense of us being fans but I also think we need to question what our engagements to this past is like. I don't know if I would say I'm a fan in the sense that is discussed in fan culture. I would say I have an intellectual investment.
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Replying to @dorothyk98 @KVMFinn and
But I think the idea that we are fans is really complicated especially in the ways that
@medievalpoc may be discussing. It's the "fans" who went after the BIPOC in fantasy b/c it upset their "fan" vision of the medieval past.1 reply 2 retweets 4 likes -
Replying to @dorothyk98 @KVMFinn and
How many weird and convoluted online convos have I had with medievalists whose affective engagement to some imagined medieval past means a complete white fragility/defensive when one points out it's a white supremacist symbol etc.
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Replying to @dorothyk98 @KVMFinn and
We all have different reasons for being in medieval studies, but I think we need to be careful that the default assumption is an interest/fan devotion to certain medievalism/medieval keystones. I never finished Tolkien (his fiction, his articles I have finished all of them).
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Replying to @dorothyk98 @KVMFinn and
He bored me. Why do we imagine that medievalist=medieval studies fan of very white cultural objects. I think I am more of a fan of things like what Nick and Joy discussed at Kzoo, Sylvia and Marsha's medievalism. Teresa Cha's medievalism. Anzaldua's medievalism.
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Replying to @dorothyk98 @JonathanHsy and
That is the important counterpoint and it's one that fan studies itself needs to grapple with. (c.f.
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Replying to @KVMFinn @JonathanHsy and
I write about medieval video games, but I don't think I am a fan. In fact, I have someone else play while I take notes. I watch a lot of youtube and read a lot of digital commentary, but I don't think I would describe this as me being a fan.
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Though, I may angle into the video game stuff more through a DH lens, and I have never said I am a fan of DH. I am, however, interested in platform structures and how they structure race, gender, sexuality, etc. I do love watching walk throughs, it's basically literary criticism.
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