Erica Weaver

Assistant Professor of English @UCLA, working on poetry, reading practices, and attention/distraction, esp. pre-Conquest. Early medievalist. She/her.

[Erica Weaver @ericamweaver]

CAN'T WAIT for some dating Beowulf types to buy the volume Dan Remein & I are currently editing--Dating Beowulf: New Essays on Intimacy--and then realize it has nothing to do w/ the date of composition & they have instead bought essays on queer & feminist approaches to the field.

[Erica Weaver @ericamweaver]

@UCLAenglish graduates, absolutely enormous congratulations! It has been an honor and delight getting to read and think with you, and I'm in awe of your resilience and grace. Take very good care, keep in touch, and, for OE + 10A students, don't forget about Halley's Comet!

[Erica Weaver @ericamweaver]

@HwaetsUp on Bryher's novel Beowulf as queer palimpsest; and @MDockrayMiller on Wiglaf's challenge to Beowulf's ‘static, heroic masculinity’. In short, "Our title is admittedly a little cheeky, but it is meant in
part as the site of an alternative discourse about the poem."

[Erica Weaver @ericamweaver]

Some exciting news: Dating Beowulf: Studies in Intimacy is now freely available at https://t.co/kYPY5G8bYv! Huge thanks to @UCLA_Library and @ManchesterUP for supporting open access, to my co-editor & co-author Dan Remein, & to our readers & contributors: #medievaltwitter

[Erica Weaver @ericamweaver]

Catalin Taranu on the poem's engagement with race, masculinity, and anxiety; Robin Norris on ‘Sad men in Beowulf’; @vestigiaflammae on translation, Heaney, and Meyer; @irinibus on Andreas as ‘Beowulf's most loving reader’;

[Manchester University Press @ManchesterUP]

Congrats @ericamweaver and Daniel Remein, 'Dating Beowulf' has just arrived into the office! Features essays from some of the most prominent figures in the field, incl @b_a_saltzman @James_A_Paz @MaryKateHurley @vestigiaflammae @irinibus
@MDockrayMiller #medievaltwitter

[Dr. Mary D-M @[email protected] @MDockrayMiller]

New blog post: editing "Anglo-Saxon" out of the conversation https://t.co/6dNdll3meT #Commit2Change #ILoveOldEnglish #medievaltwitter

[Erica Weaver @ericamweaver]

@cspaide @accommodatingly Congrats, Dr.!!

[Stewart J. Brookes @Stewart_Brookes]

Am VERY excited that THIS has just arrived. Yes, it’s the three volume Ælfric “Lives of Saints”, edited and translated by Mary Clayton and Juliet Mullins. YES!
#ILoveAelfric #MedievalTwitter
@DumbartonOaks @Harvard_Press

[Emma Stanford @e_stanf]

It's a book that can't be read in the library that owns it, why isn't this a Borges fable

[Erica Weaver @ericamweaver]

As a counterpoint to the transphobia, homophobia, and racism on the ISXX listserve, I highly recommend Miller Oberman's The Unstill Ones, a gorgeous collection of poems on transness and translation from Old English:
https://t.co/Tt6ELEGLLJ #medievaltwitter

[Erica Weaver @ericamweaver]

@M_G_Aiello Congratulations! This looks fabulous, and I look forward to reading it.

[Benjamin A. Saltzman @b_a_saltzman]

Hey, #medievaltwitter, check out my @washingtonpost @madebyhistory piece on why the future of #privacy will be #medieval.

https://t.co/bknrRn2XyB

[Erica Weaver @ericamweaver]

@erik_kaars Leigh Ann Craig @VCU is doing really smart work on medieval understandings of mental illness.

[Axel Folio, PhD, White Tears Distiller 🪁 @ISASaxonists]

Here's something to ponder before we all party hard (cause that's what academics do) on the weekend.

This JUST arrived on the listserv this morning. #medievaltwitter #shakerace

Someone send me something strong to drink. Also send cake and or gifs.

[Erica Weaver @ericamweaver]

@crfontaine I have, though am going to do even more this year! In my experience, students tend to respond really well. I think the broader frameworks give them an entryway when they're still getting a handle on grammar. It also helps them remember that OE is part of a larger world.

[Erica Weaver @ericamweaver]

As we #commit2change, I’m thinking about ways to foster richer and more inclusive Intro. Old English syllabi and classrooms. Please add thoughts, #medievaltwitter, if so inclined! Here are a few things I've tried and/or am excited about this term:

[Erica Weaver @ericamweaver]

@ISASaxonists Live action shot of the ISAS listserv serving up white fragility + racism

[Stephen Hopkins @phil_lol_ogist]

@adam_miya @ISASaxonists These are just early and small steps, of course, but I'm looking forward to refocusing my own and my classes' optics on what the EMages were and who they belong to.

[Stephen Hopkins @phil_lol_ogist]

During last week's overview of *PIE we scrutinized the troubling nationalist and romantic underpinnings of much early philological work (Aryan and Anglo-Saxon were what we scrutinized). Plus, I pointed them to threads by @adam_miya and @ISASaxonists for more.