Caroline Toy, PhD

Learning Experience Designer. Interests: fan studies, folklore, pilgrimage, inventive religion, experiential learning, being a giant nerd. She/her/hers.

[Caroline Toy, PhD @jctoy23]

Excited to be back with the @ReligiousSounds team for the ARSP symposium at OSU!

[Caroline Toy, PhD @jctoy23]

Awesome comments on returning to campus from some of my colleagues!

[Caroline Toy, PhD @jctoy23]

@Benavidez_Gabe As the first PhD (but not first doctorate, and third-generation advanced degree holder) in my family, I think it would be *so* disingenuous to call myself first gen. That’s a whole different level of achievement and a deeply different experience.

[Caroline Toy, PhD @jctoy23]

@healthvermont Can you give any kind of update on why first vaccinations are happening so slowly (according to the Vaccine Dashboard)? It looks like most shots right now are second doses.

[Caroline Toy, PhD @jctoy23]

Thread summarizing the CAS paper, possibly of interest to media and fan studies folks as well as #aarsbl19 #rpc folks!

[Caroline Toy, PhD @jctoy23]

Laurel Zwissler bringing Melissa Willcox's "serious parody" to bear on The Satanic Temple in a paper on Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. Smart take on the Baphomet controversy in CAS. #aarsbl19 #rpc

[Caroline Toy, PhD @jctoy23]

Just heard a paper on Good Omens' play on apocalyptic literature on the SBL side...now in an AAR presentation on marginalized religion in Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. *So* want to hear the discussion we'd be having if these were on the same panel! #aarsbl19 #sblbpc #rpc

[Caroline Toy, PhD @jctoy23]

Switching back and forth between simultaneous AAR and SBL popular culture panels. I really wish these weren't at the same time; they'd produce such interesting conversations across/between theoretical foci. #aarsbl19 #sblbpc

[Caroline Toy, PhD @jctoy23]

Just delighted to see serious consideration of religion and theology in Good Omens, thanks to Phil Quanbeck and Karl Jacobson. #aarsbl19 #sblbpc

[Caroline Toy, PhD @jctoy23]

One thing I miss as someone not studying texts is this type of insight into translation: Deborah as "woman of fire" rather than "wife of Lappidoth" #sblbpc

[Dan Clanton, Jr. @DanClantonJr]

Like the book of Judges? What about #gameofthrones? Jennifer J. Williams is talking about Deborah & Melisandre in our Bible & Popular Culture session right now at #aarsbl2019
#sblbpc

[American Religious Sounds Project @ReligiousSounds]

Thank you again to all who attended the #religioussounds workshop at #AARSBL19 and helped to make it such a success. A friendly reminder as people begin to check out and return home: please tip your hotel housekeeping staff!

[Caroline Toy, PhD @jctoy23]

@ProfessorIsIn Also truth: alt-ac, post-ac, non-ac, etc still maintain "academic" as the default, still marginalize other possibilities and ambitions. The room: whoa #aarsbl19

[Caroline Toy, PhD @jctoy23]

Grad students at #aarsbl19, this workshop with @ProfessorIsIn is super useful and validating, and there are still plenty of seats! CC-26B at 3:30.

[Temple University CLA Graduate Students @CLA_grad]

We are at #aarsbl19 with @ProfessorIsIn learning and preparing for diverse careers!

[Caroline Toy, PhD @jctoy23]

@ProfessorIsIn @ProfessorIsIn comparing the success-measuring hoops grad students and early-career academics jump through to the Hunger Games and it feels so true...

[Caroline Toy, PhD @jctoy23]

@KPacyniak @jenzaquinn FACT. (I have used this to defend my work to people who say pilgrimage can’t be pilgrimage without traditional religion.)

[Caroline Toy, PhD @jctoy23]

Meeting lots of great people today! Please forgive me if we re-meet later; I’m exceptionally bad with names and faces, but if I see your badge I’ll remember you.

[Caroline Toy, PhD @jctoy23]

Great thread here on our panel! #aarsbl19 #sblbpc #rpc

[Caroline Toy, PhD @jctoy23]

@KPacyniak Amen and me too. Oops.

[Caroline Toy, PhD @jctoy23]

Currently presenting on a great religion and popular culture panel - come hear about religion, cosplay, and pilgrimage! #sblbpc #rpc #aarsbl19