I'm a student pursuing a doctoral degree in late medieval history. My main interests include but are not limited to Latin, Italian, cultural theory, educational curriculum, historiography, cognitive processes, language-theory, gender relations and THE WESTERN CANON (mwahaha); i am not particularly interesting, avant-garde or risque; My main hobbies include the exciting activities of cooking, baking, going to the gym, eating green apple-caramel lollipops, restaurant reviewing and acting as child-like and sassy as possible. I keep these entries from the years of my life - no matter how i feel about them today - available because i find it useful to revisit events i now interpret differently. My name is heather, i'm of Montreal and i was born in the nefarious, ominous year 1984.

NEMLA Abstract Submitted!

Just hit send on my abstract submission for the Northeast Modern Languages Association Conference held this upcoming April in Montreal.
Back to my Latin translations…
Boccaccio’s De Casibus Virorum Illustrium, in recounting various aspects of Nero’s life, presents clues to the socio-political circumstances and concerns of its contemporary audience. This paper analyzes the depiction of those [...]

One down, but one more to go

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The paper, entitled “The Great Florentine Fire of 1304 and Collective Memory in Boccaccio’s De Casibus Virorum Illustrium” was successfully submitted via staircase three hours ago. Although it is too short and skimpy on the references, it is completed. This after a disaster i have been telling people about quickly on MSN but [...]