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Kate Travers

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Powys Roberts Postdoctoral Fellow @StHughsCollege. She/They. Thinking about gender, books, empire. Medieval Italian/Occitan. Views my own. Cover: BnF fr. 854.

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Joined May 2011
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📢 New BLOG 📢 @Kate_Travers (@StHughsCollege), 'Perpetual Return: What a Fascist Reading of Dante Tells Us About Philology' intellectualhistory.web.ox.a…

Perpetual Return: What a Fascist Reading of Dante Tells Us About Philology

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Not too far away, the Medieval French Research Seminar will feature Prof Sarah Kay @NYUFrenchDept, @Kate_Travers, and a roundtable on professional careers with @edward_mills and more! 📆 Tuesdays ⌚️ 5pm 📌 @MFOxford @MedFrenchOx @OxfordModLangs
Poster for the Medieval French Research Seminar. Tuesdays at the Maison Francaise. Drinks will be served from 5pm; the presentations will start at 5:15pm. Week 3 – 30 January Professor Sarah Kay (NYU) ‘Nature and the landscape of adventure in Erec et Enide, a Macrobian perspective’. Week 5 – 13 February Roundtable on Professional Careers for Medieval French Postgraduates: Dr Liam Lewis (University of Nottingham), Dr Hannah Marcos (School of Advanced Study, University of London), Dr Edward Mills (University of Exeter), and Dr Kate Travers (St Hugh’s College, Oxford). Week 7 – 27 February Dr Kate Travers (St Hugh’s, Oxford) ‘French Narratives, Italian Contexts: Approaching Chivalric Literature in Northern Italy’ .

ALT Poster for the Medieval French Research Seminar. Tuesdays at the Maison Francaise. Drinks will be served from 5pm; the presentations will start at 5:15pm. Week 3 – 30 January Professor Sarah Kay (NYU) ‘Nature and the landscape of adventure in Erec et Enide, a Macrobian perspective’. Week 5 – 13 February Roundtable on Professional Careers for Medieval French Postgraduates: Dr Liam Lewis (University of Nottingham), Dr Hannah Marcos (School of Advanced Study, University of London), Dr Edward Mills (University of Exeter), and Dr Kate Travers (St Hugh’s College, Oxford). Week 7 – 27 February Dr Kate Travers (St Hugh’s, Oxford) ‘French Narratives, Italian Contexts: Approaching Chivalric Literature in Northern Italy’ .

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It's language time! Starting with the Old Occitan Literature Workshop with @Kate_Travers. 📅 Thursdays of odd weeks ⌚️ 5-6pm 📍 @StHughsCollege
Poster for the Old Occitan Literature Workshop. Full screen-readable details can be accessed in the Medieval Booklet via the link in the first tweet.

ALT Poster for the Old Occitan Literature Workshop. Full screen-readable details can be accessed in the Medieval Booklet via the link in the first tweet.

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Well, it's official ... I'm the new Powys Roberts Postdoctoral Fellow at @StHughsCollege @UniofOxford st-hughs.ox.ac.uk/people/dr-…
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Our conference ‘Where Are We Now? The Location of Modern Languages and Cultures’ is fast approaching! If you wish to attend remotely, please register here: pay.durham.ac.uk/event-durha… ⏰ Online registration will be open till 18 April, noon.
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Solidarity with BL workers. Their work, and working conditions, underpin the HE sector.
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📚 Our picket outside standing strong @britishlibrary this morning. 📑 We are on strike for fair pay, better pensions and to protect our T&Cs. 🚩 Join us from ~08:30 every morning this week. #PCSonstrike
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Back in London for research, feeling fortunate to be teaching Dante and Petrarch at Durham this year. That town really shows medievals knew the value of a view…
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It is with great sadness that I announce... I'm back on Twitter.
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Have you heard?! Check out @notquiteziggy being reviewed by Barbara Newman in the @LRB ! lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v43/n14/…
Barbara Newman · Seven Centuries Too Late: Popes in Hell

Barbara Newman · Seven Centuries Too Late: Popes in Hell

It would be a pusillanimous reader who could not respond to the appeal of a cosmos so complete in every detail, arrayed...

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So exciting! Great CfP for anyone interested in canon formation, questions of authority, and gender in Medieval / Renaissance Italian literature:
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Ready for Adele Bardazzi’s lecture on Mourning in Montale #NYU #italianstudies
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Stage is set for the final session of The Global Dante Project conference on the Rime...
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The @nyumarc annual conference got off to a great start this morning!
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This year’s @margin_nyu CFP is out! Come and join us at the annual symposium!
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CFP: MARGIN’s annual symposium! Please circulate widely and join us for a day of intellectual exchange, laughter, and champagne! In years’ previous, we have been treated to groundbreaking experimental scholarship at these symposia. Please help us make this one just as special!
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A real privilege to see Lydia Davis speak about her ongoing project “Arles” last night, as she focused on the city’s reuse of urban structures
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Ambrogio Camozzi Pistoja bringing up that Tusk tweet as part of the NYU “Dante and...” series
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First in the NYU Italian Studies “Dante And...” series...
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Crowds are gathering for this year’s Tony Judt Memorial Lecture, presented by @RemarqueNYU
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Marking 50 yrs since Stonewall with Matthew Zundel on 1970s Radical Queer Theatre in Italy
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Finished up the #MLA2019 with "Varieties of Self Commentaries" — Akash Kumar, @aly_gran and Anna Wainwright investigating gender, authority, and global geographies in Dante, Colonna and her successors. What a finale!
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