Dr. Kavita Mudan Finn

@kvmfinn.bsky.social

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Medievalist. Early Modernist. Fan Scholar. Shakespearean. Interests: queenship, popular history, medievalism, fandoms, then&now

A picture book with a dark blue-green cover and iridescent text reading “Allthe world’s your stage: Shakespeare for Today,” by Farah Karin-Cooper. Illustrations from left to right: (1) a young man and woman wearing masks and dancing (Romeo & Juliet); a dark-skinned young man in Renaissance clothing holding a skull (Hamlet); a man with the head of a donkey (Midsummer Night’s Dream).
Paperback copy of the new Oxford World’s Classics edition of Shakespeare’s Henry VI, Part 2 sitting on a bookcase. Cover has a red heraldic rose, an unhappy-looking king, and possible witch, and a soldier on horseback, all surrounded by a wash of bloody red.
Cover for the New Oxford Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part II. General editor Emma Smith. Text edited by Rory Loughnane. Introduction by Kavita Mudan Finn. Image on the right is a composite of a red heraldic rose, a stylized version of the official royal portrait of King Henry VI of England, a man wielding a sword on a rearing horse with a white rose in the background, and a man and a woman appearing to practice witchcraft.
Political sign in red/white/blue with a photo of a majestic grey striped cat. Text reads: Somerville, Ardently I admire and lolve you. Vote for Mr. Darcy.
Title page for Oxford World's Classics edition of William Shakespeare's Henry the Sixth Part Two with an introduction by Kavita Mudan Finn, text edited by Rory Loughnane
A stemless cocktail glass filled with red liquid sits on a brown leather coaster on top of a cluttered desk. In the background are wires and Ruby Lal's biography of Nur Jahan.
A blond, bearded man wearing elaborate armor stands in a body of water. His expression is both fearful and guilty. He is Théoden, king of Rohan, from Tolkien's Lord of the Rings. Text reads "You are a lesser son of greater sires."
Photograph of a large alligator with its mouth open. Text superimposed: Lydgator. Can I interest you in some Chaucerian fanfic?
Cartoon drawing of a teenage girl with black hair and glasses, and a neutral expression (Tina Belcher from Bob's Burgers). Text above reads WINDOWS? and text below reads Not in this economy.
A sad-looking brown and white dog (basset hound) in a crate, wearing a surgical collar.
A dog’s nose poking out of a pile of blankets next to an empty toy bin
Tiny black and white shih tzu, wearing a cone and pointedly not looking at the viewer.
Black and white shih tzu in a cone, glaring murderously at the viewer.
Paperback book, white cover with green geometric pattern. Shakespeare Through Islamic Worlds by Ambereen Dadabhoy.
Screenshot of a Word document. Main text: Rous and André were only the first of many to take a stab at the late king. Footnote: Literarily speaking. If we're being technical, the first ones were Lord Stanley's soldiers on Bosworth Field.
A tiny black and white Shih Tzu napping on a bed, all curled up.