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Bellee Jones-Pierce
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teacher, writer, mom, scholar // medieval & early modern, lyric, disability // she/her // virgo sun, ADHD rising
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One of my fabulous graduates gave me this watercolor of Ophelia’s flowers. 😭
A framed floral watercolor sitting on a shelf of books about Shakespeare. The watercolor flowers are pansies, columbine, fennel, daisies, rue, and rosemary.
June 1, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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Truly, #Shax2025 and #RSA2025 is the best audience for this t-shirt.
Selfie of a white woman with curly brown hair wearing blue glasses, a green blazer, and a black t-shirt with a graphic from Baz Luhrmann’s ROMEO + JULIET. SAA name tag partially obscures shirt.
March 22, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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Arcturus relaunches and opens for submissions tomorrow! I’m so excited to serve as an assistant poetry editor for this journal, and I can’t wait to read YOUR STUFF. arcturusmag.com
Light text that reads “Arcturus, A MAGAZINE OF NEW PERSPECTIVES. Submissions open March 1st [for] poetry, nonfiction, fiction” on a dark background. The text sits atop a half circle celestial map.
March 1, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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From my cozy evening to yours!
An orange tabby cat snuggled into a gray knit blanket. Two decorated sugar cookies on a Christmas plate. The stocking shaped one is red and white with green sprinkles. The heart shaped one is red with gold and silver stars and Christmas tree sprinkles around the edges. A close up of Chex mix! It has pecans. And twice the regular amount of Worcestershire. A close up view of candied orange peel. Lots of sugar!
December 25, 2024 at 4:43 AM
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Oh, just some light physics / quantum gravity exploration in my fourth grader’s backpack.
A child’s drawing of a theory regarding time travel and gravity. There’s a red S shape that is the timeline. A purple conduit connects two points on the S showing where time travel is possible.
November 16, 2024 at 2:32 AM
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A brick building and trees on a college campus visible through a wet car windshield.
September 6, 2024 at 2:27 PM
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#MLA2024 has been so lovely! If you’re still around this afternoon, consider ending the conference with @kukukadoo.bsky.social, Sujata Iyengar, and me at the Shakespeare’s Sonnets panel organized by @matthewharrison.bsky.social.
Screenshot of the MLA app with info about Session 743–Shakespeare’s Sonnets Sunday, 7 January 2024 • 1:45 PM - 3:00 PM • Loews - Tubman (3rd Floor) Presider Matthew Harrison West Texas A&M U Screenshot of the MLA app with presentation info for Shakespeare’s Sonnets: Presentations Forming Beauty in Shakespeare's Sonnets Lenora Bellee Jones-Pierce, Centenary C of Louisiana Recounting Fair: Shakespeare's Interpretive Labors Katie Kadue, U of Chicago Beauteous Niggard Sujata lyengar, U of Georgia Session Information Forum: English - LLC Shakespeare
January 7, 2024 at 12:32 PM
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Not sure how I’ll manage teaching Aimee Nezhukumatathil’s WORLD OF WONDERS these next few weeks when I can’t read the essays without crying.
The cover of Aimee Nezhukumatathil’s World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments is illustrated with colorful birds, flowers, amphibians, and other creatures drawn by Fumi Nakamura. The book is surrounded by lush grass.
October 15, 2023 at 5:00 AM
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Hands on rare/old books day with my literature students. Photos courtesy of my college’s marketing department.
Five college students standing together to touch look at a large folium from an antiphonal. A student wearing a bandana with skulls and crossbones stands at a table and handles a book. Other books are on the table too. I am teaching, standing by a lectern in front of a slide with info about the first American edition of Wuthering Heights, and smiling at the camera.
October 7, 2023 at 3:27 AM
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I bought myself a weird little copy of the 1610 Mirror for Magistrates for my recent birthday. Someone was trying to put together a whole text from parts of other ones. Lots of repairs and missing bits, which I knew, but it’s in worse condition than I thought (mold on some pages).
1610 Mirror for Magistrates open to the inner title page for England’s Eliza, which has a woodcut of Elizabeth I holding a scepter. The facing page is loose and has a missing bottom corner.
September 22, 2023 at 12:24 PM