per the advice from followers of my Unprofessional Instagram™, I am hereby inaugurating my Professional Twitter™! stay tuned for further tweets which will probably feature a) ancient history and b) mostly lower case letters
@MeganBunce12 Just seeing all of your tweets about this! SO sorry to hear about Alfred’s hospital stay, but glad to hear that he’s back home now. Hope you all are recovering from what I’m sure was a very stressful few days!
Had the best time helping out at the #DuraEuropos2022 conference this week! Hats off to Anne Chen and @LR_Brody for their organizational prowess, my fellow grad assistants (pictured here), and the speakers for their excellent and thought-provoking papers. This was such a joy!
bonus: this great pic of me deep in conversation by a photograph of my personal fave structure at Dura (the temple of Azzanathkona), on display at @FowlkesBlair’s fantastic @yaleism exhibition (also part of the centennial commemoration of the Yale-French excavations at the site)!
Humanities friends, stop using Google Maps screenshots in your presentations! Thanks to Technology™ it's easy and free to make maps from scratch that look professional (or at least professional enough), even with my level of extremely limited technical skills. A tutorial thread!
the REAL reason for my grand return is to advertise this lecture happening tonight. there's also an associated symposium happening tomorrow, which yours truly is participating in (!!!)
Wednesday, Nov. 10th 5:30pm the 14th Annual Rostovtzeff Lecture @yale Harriet Flower
“Women’s Property Rights and Political Crisis in Republican Rome: the Dowry of Licinnia, wife of Gaius Gracchus.” https://t.co/yirReK7XQ8
closely related to this is the excessive use of "awesome," "excellent," and "amazing"--always paired with an exclamation point, because duh. my email excitement refuses to be tamed(!!!)
since feb 11 I have thought about this tweet every single time I write an email. specifically about the fact that unless my email is ≤ three sentences long, there are always...more than two exclamation points per email
"Dear Mr. Hughes: I am the author of a three act dramatic play ... I have tentatively chosen as a title ... a line from one of your poems ... 'a raisin in the sun' ... " Lorraine Hansberry to Langston Hughes, 1958 in LH Papers https://t.co/NGHxzkmxDi
When our doors open on Wednesday we won’t look the same. It was time for our good old bookshop to have a tidy - now all of our academic books, including history and classics, are kept together in the impressive Norrington Room, bastion of knowledge. (2/4)