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I wrote about Lorde's new album Virgin - great to work with you again, @annalouwalker.bsky.social

04.07.2025 17:30 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

I wrote about Lorde's new album Virgin - great to work with you again, @annalouwalker.bsky.social

04.07.2025 17:30 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Charli XCX has released a video for 'Party 4 U', 5 years after the song's release. Wondering if the billboard is a reference to the famous billboard in The Great Gatsby. One of the best love/yearning songs ever written.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=agu2...

15.05.2025 16:45 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Wisteria in Worcester College

Wisteria through a corridor

Wisteria across an Oxford quad

It’s wisteria season at Worcester College.

29.04.2025 14:26 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The Limits of Critique? Reading the Wild Psychoanalyst in Djuna Barnes’ <i>Nightwood</i> | Modernist Cultures Since its publication, literary critics have commonly read Djuna Barnes’ Nightwood as a novel that resists interpretation. Even where scholars have applied, for example, psychoanalytic theory to the t...

My article “The Limits of Critique? Reading the Wild Psychoanalyst in Djuna Barnes’ Nightwood" is the featured article in the new issue of Modernist Cultures journal ☺️ euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3...

28.04.2025 13:55 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Rewriting Nora: Ibsen, Gender, and the Struggle for Self-Determination — Caesura “I’m not fit to be a mother. There’s something else I’d have to do first — to change myself from a doll to a real human being.” With these words, Nora Helmer (Sarah Wharton) leaves her husband Torvald...

Just noticed my Telos article 'The Feminine Character: The Allegory of Ibsen’s Women in Adorno’s Modernist Literary Theory' is cited in @leonieettinger.bsky.social's great article 'Rewriting Nora: Ibsen, Gender, and the Struggle for Self-Determination’ caesuramag.org/posts/rewrit...

15.04.2025 11:03 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1

Many thanks Marie! I'm very glad it's out in the world now :)

15.04.2025 10:56 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

My article on Nightwood, (post)critique and wild psychoanalysis is now out! If you're interested, you can find it in the most recent issue of Modernist Cultures: www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3...

14.04.2025 13:15 — 👍 11    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Creative Writing: Or, Writing with Virginia Woolf Course Synopsis: In this 8-week course, we will be reading works by the modernist writer Virginia Woolf - as well as works by figures such as Loy, Stein, Cixous, Sontag and Ozick - to inspire creative writing assignments in fiction and creative nonfiction. The aim is not to emulate Woolf exactly in the assignments (although writing in a Woolfian mode may be part of the student’s approach in some assignments). Instead, the aim is to inspire creative writing by a) critically analysing and unpacking a specific writer’s approach to fiction and creative nonfiction, and by b) responding to prompts inspired by moves that Woolf and other critical-creative writers have made in their work. Woolf has been chosen because of her flexible approach to both fiction and nonfiction, often melding the two to create: self-reflective diaries and letters, nonfiction essays employing literary technique, fiction inspired by autobiography, biographies that treat the subject as a character, and literary criticism that is itself literary.

Currently drafting a syllabus for a new course that I'm really excited about - 'Creative Writing: Or, Writing with Virginia Woolf'

11.04.2025 12:03 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

The Limits of Critique? Reading the Wild Psychoanalyst in Djuna Barnes’ <i>Nightwood</i> | Modernist Cultures Since its publication, literary critics have commonly read Djuna Barnes’ Nightwood as a novel that resists interpretation. Even where scholars have applied, for example, psychoanalytic theory to the t...

Pleased that my article “The Limits of Critique? Reading the Wild Psychoanalyst in Djuna Barnes’ Nightwood” is out now in Modernist Cultures journal:

www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3...

@modernistudies.bsky.social

08.04.2025 09:51 — 👍 9    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Charli XCX unofficial fan pack magazine

Treating myself to some avant-garde literature

25.03.2025 11:29 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Brat by Charli XCX is a work of contemporary imagist poetry – and a reclamation of ‘bratty’ women’s art Charli XCX’s Brat can be seen as part of a multimedia tradition of women’s writing that is honest and no longer afraid of being labelled ‘bratty’.

With her BRIT award for Songwriter of the Year, there's been a lot of discourse on Charli XCX's lyricism recently. Here's my piece on why I think Charli can be read as an imagist poet (also featured, the argument that Party 4 U = The Great Gatsby): theconversation.com/brat-by-char...

11.03.2025 12:44 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I would love to! I supervised a dissertation student who read it as a part of research, but that's the only instance in my teaching to date. If I get to teach Modernist Theatre again I would definitely include it on the syllabus.

11.03.2025 12:40 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you! My students are always surprised more isn't written on her, especially once you get beyond Nightwood. I love teaching 'From Fifth Avenue Up' to get them into the groove of her writing before we tackle the prose. And what a fabulous dissertation topic!!!

07.03.2025 16:32 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Thank you Sean! I hope you are well :)

07.03.2025 16:29 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

9 years ago today, Charli xcx released ‘Vroom Vroom.’

26.02.2025 05:01 — 👍 207    🔁 18    💬 7    📌 17

Excited that my next journal article, "The Limits of Critique? Reading the Wild Psychoanalyst in Djuna Barnes’ Nightwood" will be out in the next issue of Modernist Cultures. Expect discussions of (post)critique, interpreting 'difficult' texts, and 'wild-analysis'. @modernistudies.bsky.social

25.02.2025 12:16 — 👍 16    🔁 4    💬 3    📌 1

Trying this out. Expect English Literature, Theory, and Snoopy content (perhaps all at once).

24.01.2025 12:57 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0