Dr. Brenna Duperron
@brenna_duperron
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(Hiatus —email me if you need me)✨On Job Market ✨PhD in English Literature ✨CIS x Medieval 🏰 ✨ Margery Kempe and friends ✨Fantasy Medievalism ✨She/Her/Hers ✨
Kjipuktuk, Mi’kma’ki
Joined June 2010
STILL TIME (Due April 27th!): How have Indigenous/colonized populations appropriated the ‘medieval’? How has this appropriation shed light on the settler-colonial ideology that permeates medievalism? There is still time to submit to NCS 2026! Why not submit to my panel?
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Dropping in briefly to remind y'all to get your submissions in for ICMS (due Sept 15). Please see attached for panels organized by myself and @sarahlavoy Please email questions, as I am not frequently on X right now. Thanks!
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Thank you to the Tolkien Society for inviting me to speak at #Westmoot 2025! Take a look at the other keynote speakers — I’m honoured to be in their company!
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We are very pleased to announce our keynote speakers and special guests for the inaugural Westmoot! Keynote Speakers Janet Brennan Croft Janet Brennan Croft is Associate University Librarian for...
#Westmoot is delighted to introduce Anna Smol as one of the keynote speakers for Westmoot 2025! Anna is a Professor Emerita from the Department of English at Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. @TeawithTolkien
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Congrats to two of ILSA's BRILLIANT members Jordan Abel and Niigaan Sinclair on winning Governor General's Literary Awards for Fiction (Abel) and Non-Fiction (Sinclair)! Click here to learn more about these amazing reads: https://t.co/TAKK3gqdyI
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I am excited to share with you the CFP for Contemporary Indigenous Horror https://t.co/VEjxgNZBX8, a forthcoming collection co-edited by myself and @borwein_ns @MSVU_English
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The media labelling of the US president-elect as the "once-and-future president" is messing with my Arthurian brain synapses
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It seems the educators may have forgotten nothing of the sort, but they simply chose to respect the trauma of those who actually experienced recent war and tragedy. The refugee children that this was meant to protect and respect don’t deserve to be centred in their own school?
In demanding that veterans and members of the Canadian Armed Forces not wear their uniforms while observing Remembrance Day, the leaders at this school are disgracing themselves while demeaning the people who protect our country. Remembrance Day is a day on which we honour those
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Psyched to witness this gathering and learn from this exciting line-up from afar with the livestream option (register now!)
We're proud to announce Indigeneity: A RaceB4Race Symposium. Join us at Arizona State University February 7-8, 2025 as we seek to expand and develop our understanding of indigeneity, from its place in the premodern world to its role in the present. https://t.co/nn7VYxv2s3
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I think I just hit a new personal poppy record. Between buying it at the exit of the grocery store and getting home, I’ve already managed to lose it 🤦♀️
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Cfp: Tolkien and War. 21st annual Tolkien at the University of Vermont hybrid conference. 5 April 2025. Proposals by 2 Feb. 2025. https://t.co/iRNbo9aNok
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CFP: Tolkien and War. 21st Annual Tolkien at the University of Vermont hybrid conference. April 5, 2025; proposals due Feb. 2.
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Somewhat ironically, I can’t seem to make it through ‘Call of Cuthulu’ today without unexpectedly falling asleep…
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It's #Halloween and our fabulous new exhibition on #MedievalWomen has just opened! So of course we had to do a blogpost on MEDIEVAL WITCHES 🧙♀️😈🔥 Read it here🔗 https://t.co/4O8ZSerhte
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CRT friends: do you have a favourite (undergraduate accessible) anthology for understanding race?
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Happy Indigenous Peoples' Day! Today and everyday, we celebrate Native pasts, presents, and futures. Check out @Throughlines_ with Larissa FastHorse, @TyDefoe, and Michael John Garcés on community informed creative practice and centering Native voices. https://t.co/x3Jdyf3ur3
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I believe that they still have space if you are looking to engage with the Mi'kmaq language to learn more about the culture, language, and land on which you are living (for those on Mi'kma'ki)
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Just downloaded this last night! Excited to dig in
The article I wrote with my brilliant friend and colleague Jordan Chauncy, "Settler Fantasies and Queer Disruptions: A Nonbinary Reading of Gerald's Wolves," is out *now* in Medieval Ecocriticisms! You can download a copy FREE from my personal website: https://t.co/bWHek3u6to
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A lovely discussion and vibrant work coming out of the Atlantic Medieval and Early Modern Group. I always enjoy dipping into some Early Modern witchery once and awhile. It was a joy to get to showcase some Indigenous creatives engagement with medievalism with y'all (more soon!)
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The Bloomsbury Academic Writing Fellowship offers publishing support for early career scholars with Black African or African Caribbean heritage based in the UK. Apply by 20th October for financial support and mentorship: https://t.co/BHVJZgaUKY
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The first 1000 of our digitised manuscripts have now returned and are available to view online. They include over 600 Ancient, Medieval and Early Modern items, from the Sherborne Missal and the Amherst Manuscript to the Eadui Psalter! https://t.co/aAGqsL1ufe
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