Taylor Sims

Taylor Sims

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Taylor is a PhD candidate in History at the University of Michigan, specializing in late medieval and early modern European and women’s history. Her dissertation focuses on gender and lived religion across the English Reformation, specifically how women adapted theological reform at the local level.

Beach Reads

Searching for Solidarity in Madeline Miller’s Circe

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Released just over a year ago, Madeline Miller’s Circe has since appeared on several bestseller lists and earned even more awards, and it makes for the perfect canon-challenging #BeachRead. The novel presents a rich array of themes, stories, and questions that push it past a simple pleasure-book. The narrative centers the mysterious figure of Circe,… Read more →