grammar morning
02.10.2025 10:53 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0@jessiesummerhayes.bsky.social
PhD-doer, Uni of York, working on distributed cognition and nature in Old Norse and Old English poetry (mostly).
grammar morning
02.10.2025 10:53 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0a working from Glasgow kind of day
28.08.2025 14:51 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0riddle-y
08.08.2025 10:01 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Climbing Bidean Nam Bian in Glencoe is an excellent way to have a break from the lab...only a couple of days before going back to the lab 🧗
05.08.2025 07:38 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0Some weekend mountaining to get through a week of herons… or the one Old Norse poetic heron pre-1150 to be exact (unless someone knows something I don’t, in which case do tell!)
04.08.2025 20:32 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I know IMC just happened… but, anyone Old Norse-y fancy giving a paper next year?
21.07.2025 10:40 — 👍 4 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0I was delighted to be invited to contribute one of my #Beowulf poems to the colloquium and to write up my presentation. ‘Against Misdirection’ is a response to Hrothgar’s hostile description of the path to Grendel’s Mother’s Mere creativecritical.net/against-misd...
16.07.2025 07:28 — 👍 9 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1edits and espresso!
16.07.2025 09:09 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Holding Harriet Soper's book "The Life Course in Old English Poetry" in front of a wall overgrown with ivy or a similar green leafy plant
New week, Old English!
Today our featured new book is "The Life Course in Old English #Poetry" by @hattiesoper.bsky.social who examines the linear & unruly paths thru human, nonhuman & more-than-human lives in #OldEnglish poems
#LiteraryStudies #AgeingStudies #AgeStudies #EnglishPoetry #MiddleAges
lovely way to kick off the IMC with a great paper from @jamespaz.bsky.social 🌊
07.07.2025 11:51 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Very excited to be presenting at the IMC next week on Örvar-Odds Saga and the Barkman. 16.30-18.00 on Monday July 7th with the third Medieval Ecocriticisms panel 🌿
30.06.2025 12:46 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0Well, here it is. My copy arrived. Out 5th June. This is the beautiful indie-exclusive edition with it’s gorgeous sprayed edges. Thanks ever so @amyjanebeer.bsky.social, Mary Colwell and @jon-moses.bsky.social for your generous cover quotes. @chiffchat.bsky.social #naturewriting
25.05.2025 13:31 — 👍 70 🔁 15 💬 9 📌 7pretty spot for heatwave IMC prep
30.06.2025 11:30 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0So excited to be giving a paper at IMC! 16:30 on the Monday, if you like ecomedievaly things 🌿
27.06.2025 10:59 — 👍 9 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0Made a bit of time this morning to prepare my paper and handout for this:
14.04.2025 08:36 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 2rather a lot of reading!
19.02.2025 22:21 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Previously, I had been under the impression I was doing a literature PhD. This, however, looks suspiciously like maths to me.
13.12.2024 08:45 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Looking forward to talking about the functional symbolism of the plant-scrolls on the Ruthwell and Bewcastle crosses… I’m convinced those are blackberries and other native English plants, not grapes! Session time is 16.30-18.00 on Monday 7th July.
06.12.2024 17:57 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0