SO MUCH THIS IN MEDIEVAL STUDIES (especially around race & gender) #medievaltwitterhttps://twitter.com/nataliereed84/status/998355506153467905 …
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Replying to @JonathanHsy
I'm glad to see more people are exploring how fandom and academia, as far as they function socially, are much more alike than they are different
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Replying to @medievalpoc
Yep. Glad there are increasingly more "academic" medievalists who are making the point clear across many domains e.g.
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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 -
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This may be true, but I also think that sometimes the expectation of "fan" is about an affective devotion to certain kinds of white medievalism. People have asked me a lot in the last year how I became a medievalist. I think they expect some narrative that involves GofT, cosplay,
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Replying to @dorothyk98 @ricutz and
never dressed up, never went to Medieval Times, wasn't into castles (I'm really not now either, unless I am actually doing an architectural/spatial analysis thing), & no Tolkien or Lewis fan as a child. Instead, it happened in college b/c I liked the way
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Replying to @dorothyk98 @ricutz and
the literature, cultural objects, had no fixed rules and experimented all the time. I liked the energy of that experimentation. This is what excites me about the period. This also explains why I am in DH (the possibilities/risk of experiments) and also write about Twitter.
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I think it's really interesting that every time people have asked me this (and these are both medievalists and non-medievalists) they are expecting another answer. The answer I give also makes certain people who expect the affective, I was a Tolkien fan answer, relax&reassess.
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