A brief article reporting on an educational strategy to use video assignments on Exeter Book Riddles for an Old English course.

Reports on the existence of a set of paper dolls based on the Old English poem Beowulf, published in various Dutch newspapers in the 1930s.

A Dutch article that discusses some of the Old English sources that inspired J. R. R. Tolkien.

This article reflects on the pedagogical legacy of bell hooks.

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O trabalho apresenta o resultado de um estudo empírico com o objetivo de analisar a produção do XX Encontro Nacional de Pesquisa e Pós-Graduação em Ciência da Informação de 2019 a fim de perceber os temas mais recorrentes a partir da análise textual dos resumos dos artigos. A amostra analisada consiste em 488 artigos distribuídos em 11 grupos de…[Read more]

QRt is digital pop ARt! * PRURITUS MIGRANS * CC: BY-NC-SA

The diagram depicts some ways in which faculty and staff development offerings are essential components in the discovery and charting of various pathways to intellectual leadership. Such opportunities facilitate and help to map potential paths made of stepping stones and milestones on the way to the horizon. Faculty and staff development…[Read more]

Vae terrae et mari! * QRt by PRURITUS MIGRANS * CC: BY-NC-SA

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The Irish Sea which separates Great Britain and Ireland has often been written about in terms of divisions, threats, and hazards. Facing each other across that sea, the coast of Wales and Ireland’s eastern seaboard have a more complex story to tell, one characterised by intimate if troubled lines of connection. A place of passage for centuries, t…[Read more]

The Irish Sea which separates Great Britain and Ireland has often been written about in terms of divisions, threats, and hazards. Facing each other across that sea, the coast of Wales and Ireland’s eastern seaboard have a more complex story to tell, one characterised by intimate if troubled lines of connection. A place of passage for centuries, t…[Read more]

ALARM BELLS! * QRt by PRURITUS MIGRANS * CC: BY-NC-SA

In a recent issue of the Journal of Language Evolution, Syrjänen et al. (2021) investigate the suitability of computing Cummins and McInerney’s (2011) TIGER rates for estimating the tree-likeness of linguistic datasets compiled for phylogenetic reconstruction. The authors test the TIGER rates on a diverse sample of simulated data, which by and lar…[Read more]

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This editorial discusses the articles published and the activities undertaken by The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship during 2021, and calls for research system-wide cultural changes and wider contextual awareness in order to make scholarly communication fairer and up to the challenges of our time.

The commercial level trading which emerged at the start of the Bronze Age was made possible by a common written language. That language was Akkadian in its syllabic (cuneiform) form, its phonetic form (Phaistos Disk and these Minoan Linear A tablets) and all the early alphabetic texts prior to the rise of Greek and Latin. These translated Minoan…[Read more]

This digital anthology was created by students in Honors 120: Questions and the Spirit of Inquiry, taught by Dr. Jessica A. Hutchins at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. The course explores the question “What Is Identity?” through perspectives from the humanities, sciences, arts, and the students’ own lived experience. Students worke…[Read more]

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While many in academia around the U.S. may anchor themselves in cynical opposition to the proliferation of neoliberal discourse and the policies that accompany, I propose that language departments are in a uniquely privileged position within the humanities to assert the value of our programs within the neoliberal paradigm. Specifically, the…[Read more]