@ladoche.bsky.social
PhD'ing: Discourses of Value in Contemporary Book Culture at Birmingham City University | Beaujolaise at heart 🍇
Want to do a (funded for UK students) PhD with me? If you're interested in games, posthumanism, avatars, affect, embodiment or any of the other stuff I do (or my colleagues do for that matter) take a look! www.bcu.ac.uk/research/doc... #PhDfunding #PhDstudentship #AHRC #DoctoralFunding #GameStudies
24.10.2025 10:29 — 👍 6 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 2
picture of a conference panel 30. Robbins Library, Rush Rhees Library Therapeutic Uses of the Book Amélie Doche, "Immediacy, Self-Help, and 'Feel-Good': Hegemonic Discourses of Value in Contemporary Book Culture' Danielle Fuller and Julie Rak, "Sidling up to memoir: Towards anew theory of affinity Krystyna Wieszczek "Exploring the Empowering Value of the Book"
very exciting for this #sharp2025 panel
Therapeutic Uses of the Book
Amélie Doche, "Immediacy, Self-Help, and 'Feel-Good': Hegemonic Discourses of Value in Contemporary Book Culture'
A slide featuring the book cover, showing that I had won
Wow! I won the SHARP Book History Prize for my last book with Stanford University Press, Theses on the Metaphors of Digital-Textual History!
10.07.2025 13:16 — 👍 181 🔁 20 💬 34 📌 8If you’re at #SHARP2025 this week and you’re interested in becoming the next SHARP bibliographer, come talk to me! We’re going to start looking for the next bibliographer(s) soon!
#BookHistory
@sharpnews.bsky.social
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Type on a Washington Press
Printing a broadside at #sharp2025
This is a reproduction of The North Star, 1848 from Frederick Douglas, originally printed about a mile away in Rochester, NY.
Hello everyone! I am attending #sharp2025 and I have permission to tweet the first panels today. Up first is Anastasia Armendariz who is presenting about Rare Care: Prioritizing the Personal in Rare Books & Special Collections. If I tweet, it will be in a thread here.
08.07.2025 12:32 — 👍 39 🔁 7 💬 2 📌 1🤓For those of you attending #SHARP2025 (or those experiencing FOMO at home), please join our Discord server: discord.gg/ne8TYwMtGQ.
You can also find a guide to joining and navigating the server here: drive.google.com/file/d/1-vVz...
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Bar with people chatting near a lectern
Fantastic reading at STORIE by @vocebooks.bsky.social in Birmingham. Featuring local writers. Live this thriving literary scene✨
Forgot to take pics during the readings because they were too good so here’s the, ah, afterdrinks 🍻
Congratulations! 🎉
12.06.2025 20:51 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I was on my boat late last night & thought I heard a scrabbling noise coming from outside. I saw movement out of the corner of my eye & looked up to see a fox had come through my open boat hatch & was climbing into my bed!
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Some audio recordings of translations of four of my short poems into French, with thanks to Claire Majola and Amélie Doche jonathandavidson.net/a-commonplac...
10.06.2025 16:29 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0I'm glad we got to have a proper chat! Lovely to see you & hear about your upcoming book. I'm sure our paths will cross again ☺️
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Today I (Roya) am at @writingwestmids.bsky.social National Writers Conference, where I've already been inspired and informed more than I could have imagined.
31.05.2025 12:34 — 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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18.03.2025 10:06 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0This morning's reading😍
"forcing replication based on a foreign (quantitative) notion of research quality into qualitative research communities can be seen as epistemic trespassing: infringing on local principles of proper (non-positivist and non-realist) qualitative research"
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I’m truly grateful I got to present my research on feel-good literature, ME/CFS recovery discourses, and neoliberalism for the Gloucestershire Philosophical Society yesterday. Great questions kept flowing at the pub and even into my inbox. A powerful (and needed) reminder that my research matters!
06.03.2025 09:43 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Yihooo!
25.02.2025 18:32 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Have you read Small Moon Curve by Roz Goddard yet? An intimate #poetry memoir exploring what it means to ease open to the restorative powers of love, faith and beauty following diagnosis and treatment for breast cancer.
Now with limited UK FREEPOST https://buff.ly/3RqRH0R
What a fantastic programme! 👏🏼. Looking forward to tuning in online!
13.02.2025 08:50 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0#Ecolinguistics and #cognitivelinguistics followers: does anyone know of any Greek-speaking researchers working on or interested in (non-literary) language, cognition and the environment? I’d be grateful if you could point them in my direction for a potential funding/project opportunity.
12.02.2025 12:26 — 👍 3 🔁 6 💬 3 📌 0Glad to hear you're feeling better! 😁
10.02.2025 20:35 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 02 of 3 reviewers on my interpretive qualitative paper want intercoder reliability tests, random sample to prevent selection bias, tables w/counts, comparison to those not interviewed, & generalizability. If you are NOT qualified to review qualitative research, please say no to the journal's request.
07.02.2025 18:12 — 👍 75 🔁 17 💬 4 📌 1Aww, that's super kind. Glad to know I'll see you there! :)
07.02.2025 21:32 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Curious about what a 'diffractive' approach to reader-response stylistics may look like? Or just need a break from doomscrolling? Either way, come to my talk next week! Register here: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/c695f6... #stylistics #diffraction
07.02.2025 18:03 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
This is a plum job for someone: Prof and Head of English @sheffielduni.bsky.social Particularly good for someone with knowledge across linguistics and literature, I reckon
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLO017/h...
