Magistra Cohen (she/her)
@magistracohen.bsky.social
Formerly working w/@/for many, now writing about myth & YA @ NU. 3rd gen. Chicagoan. Self-styled Tom Joad of Latin teachers. Spirit of '76. Immoderata mulier, proud of my alumnx, #confelicity. Reminding you to💉NOW. I salt vibes.
https://linktr.ee/navacohen
https://linktr.ee/navacohen
Pinned
(My dissertation prospectus was approved, pending a few light revisions)
I guess I’m here now, so I guess I’ll introduce myself. My name is Nava & I taught Latin to young students for just shy of 25 years. Still heavily involved in pedagogy & teacher training, but working on reception of heroines of Gk myth in YA in the comp lit dept at Northwestern. Giving up 🐦 hurts.
Slept in my Wham! shirt and woke up before I had to go go.
Slept in my Jimmy Buffett shirt and woke up in Margaritaville.
Slept in my Smiths shirt woke up in a coma
December 10, 2025 at 5:22 AM
Slept in my Wham! shirt and woke up before I had to go go.
Reposted by Magistra Cohen (she/her)
Really appreciated the opportunity to discuss linear reading, explicit reading strategies, & my favorite 19th c. professor William Gardner Hale at the #LatinPedagogyWorkshop
Go read Hale's The Art of Reading Latin: How to Teach It
at drive.google.com/file/d/1ghPA...
Go read Hale's The Art of Reading Latin: How to Teach It
at drive.google.com/file/d/1ghPA...
December 5, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Really appreciated the opportunity to discuss linear reading, explicit reading strategies, & my favorite 19th c. professor William Gardner Hale at the #LatinPedagogyWorkshop
Go read Hale's The Art of Reading Latin: How to Teach It
at drive.google.com/file/d/1ghPA...
Go read Hale's The Art of Reading Latin: How to Teach It
at drive.google.com/file/d/1ghPA...
Reposted by Magistra Cohen (she/her)
Love the charge to speak directly about learning strategies & metacognition!
I did some of this type of work w/my Latin 101 students this quarter. Besides talking about study strategies, I provided articles (& my take-aways) about why the strategies work.
URL in alt-text.
#MagistraGetsToTeach101
I did some of this type of work w/my Latin 101 students this quarter. Besides talking about study strategies, I provided articles (& my take-aways) about why the strategies work.
URL in alt-text.
#MagistraGetsToTeach101
December 5, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Love the charge to speak directly about learning strategies & metacognition!
I did some of this type of work w/my Latin 101 students this quarter. Besides talking about study strategies, I provided articles (& my take-aways) about why the strategies work.
URL in alt-text.
#MagistraGetsToTeach101
I did some of this type of work w/my Latin 101 students this quarter. Besides talking about study strategies, I provided articles (& my take-aways) about why the strategies work.
URL in alt-text.
#MagistraGetsToTeach101
Reposted by Magistra Cohen (she/her)
No disrespect meant to Allen or Greenough, btw. Love them too.
Anyone want to shout out a favorite 19th c. professor?
#ClassicsBluesky
Anyone want to shout out a favorite 19th c. professor?
#ClassicsBluesky
Really appreciated the opportunity to discuss linear reading, explicit reading strategies, & my favorite 19th c. professor William Gardner Hale at the #LatinPedagogyWorkshop
Go read Hale's The Art of Reading Latin: How to Teach It
at drive.google.com/file/d/1ghPA...
Go read Hale's The Art of Reading Latin: How to Teach It
at drive.google.com/file/d/1ghPA...
December 5, 2025 at 8:24 PM
No disrespect meant to Allen or Greenough, btw. Love them too.
Anyone want to shout out a favorite 19th c. professor?
#ClassicsBluesky
Anyone want to shout out a favorite 19th c. professor?
#ClassicsBluesky
Reposted by Magistra Cohen (she/her)
Joy Reeber @nimiumamatrix.bsky.social presents Comprehensible Choices: New Methods for
New Students.
Find her presentation slides at tinyurl.com/latinpedagog...
#LatinPedagogyWorkshop
New Students.
Find her presentation slides at tinyurl.com/latinpedagog...
#LatinPedagogyWorkshop
December 5, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Reposted by Magistra Cohen (she/her)
Amata nobis quantum amabitur nulla.
Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
December 7, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Amata nobis quantum amabitur nulla.
Reposted by Magistra Cohen (she/her)
Sweetgreens are made of these
Love and Johnny Rockets
QDOBAuhaus
December 8, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Sweetgreens are made of these
Reposted by Magistra Cohen (she/her)
I have a joke about Odysseus but it will take me ten years to tell it and I'm probably making most of it up anyway.
I have a joke about Narcissus, but I’d be seriously dating myself
December 8, 2025 at 6:49 PM
I have a joke about Odysseus but it will take me ten years to tell it and I'm probably making most of it up anyway.
Reposted by Magistra Cohen (she/her)
Hands down.
December 8, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Hands down.
Reposted by Magistra Cohen (she/her)
This is a great time to break out my only Corpus Tibullianum meme
December 9, 2025 at 12:59 PM
This is a great time to break out my only Corpus Tibullianum meme
The Doors.
Never mind movies you’ve watched multiple times, name a movie you’ve watched once and would never watch again.
December 9, 2025 at 4:21 PM
The Doors.
Note: Lawrence (EW) & Ashland (NS)
A Coca-Cola ad being painted on a wall at Lawrence and Ashland
December 9, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Note: Lawrence (EW) & Ashland (NS)
Hands down.
December 8, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Hands down.
Reposted by Magistra Cohen (she/her)
Hard agree
Get your shingles vaccine! I had a very sore arm for the first shot; the second, I had an even sorer arm and general malaise.
It beat the heck out of what I've heard about shingles from everyone I know who has had shingles.
It beat the heck out of what I've heard about shingles from everyone I know who has had shingles.
I have literally already scheduled the shingles vaccine on my 50th birthday.
Yes, I know it will suck. I don't care. Let's go shingles vaccine.
Yes, I know it will suck. I don't care. Let's go shingles vaccine.
December 8, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Hard agree
Reposted by Magistra Cohen (she/her)
It's a week early, but in case you need backup.
#NoDreidels
#NoDreidels
December 8, 2025 at 3:36 AM
It's a week early, but in case you need backup.
#NoDreidels
#NoDreidels
I have a joke about Odysseus but it will take me ten years to tell it and I'm probably making most of it up anyway.
I have a joke about Narcissus, but I’d be seriously dating myself
December 8, 2025 at 6:49 PM
I have a joke about Odysseus but it will take me ten years to tell it and I'm probably making most of it up anyway.
Reposted by Magistra Cohen (she/her)
I have this joke about Cassandra that you won't believe.
I have a joke about Narcissus, but I’d be seriously dating myself
December 8, 2025 at 1:57 AM
I have this joke about Cassandra that you won't believe.
Reposted by Magistra Cohen (she/her)
I was making good progress on a Sisyphus joke, but now I'm back where I started.
December 8, 2025 at 6:08 PM
I was making good progress on a Sisyphus joke, but now I'm back where I started.
Reposted by Magistra Cohen (she/her)
Good reminder! Happy Monday, dear Bluesky friends 💜
December 8, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Good reminder! Happy Monday, dear Bluesky friends 💜
Starbuckaroo Bonzai
Cinnabon Jovi
Jamba Juice Newton
December 8, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Starbuckaroo Bonzai
Did I remember to eat and drink properly today? No. But did I get some really good writing done and make excellent headway on my chapter? Also no.
December 8, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Did I remember to eat and drink properly today? No. But did I get some really good writing done and make excellent headway on my chapter? Also no.
It's a week early, but in case you need backup.
#NoDreidels
#NoDreidels
December 8, 2025 at 3:36 AM
It's a week early, but in case you need backup.
#NoDreidels
#NoDreidels
Sweetgreens are made of these
Love and Johnny Rockets
QDOBAuhaus
December 8, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Sweetgreens are made of these
So much work to do this weekend, but unfortunately, catching up on the last two days of bsky feels like it was well worth the time. Curses, you interesting mutuals!! Getting back to work now.
December 7, 2025 at 1:55 AM
So much work to do this weekend, but unfortunately, catching up on the last two days of bsky feels like it was well worth the time. Curses, you interesting mutuals!! Getting back to work now.