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Anna Devereux

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PhD on Doris Lessing's archive: communism, decolonialism & literary practice @ UEA | CHASE | Harry Ransom Center interested in postcolonialism and global anglophone literatures https://mountainsbound.substack.com/ she/her πŸ‡΅πŸ‡Έ

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SeΓ‘n Rocks was a lovely man and a great broadcaster. He brought arts programming to life. He'll be very missed.

31.07.2025 09:39 β€” πŸ‘ 84    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

Ah lads, SeΓ‘n Rocks πŸ’”

31.07.2025 10:02 β€” πŸ‘ 81    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 1
04.07.2025 07:00 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Justine McCarthy: What gives Ursula von der Leyen the right to egg Binyamin Netanyahu on with his killing crusades? Von der Leyen is living proof against the foolish notion that women don’t tolerate warfare

"If women ruled the world, there would be no wars. True or false? False, if all the women were Ursula von der Leyen. Because a hawk in sheep’s clothing is still a hawk."

www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

27.06.2025 07:29 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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Had a lovely time talking Doris Lessing and distrusting the university at @ucddublin.bsky.social Dis/Trusting the Institution(s) of Literature conference last week. Lovely people, panels, and setting: more conferences within walking distance of the sea please πŸ™

25.06.2025 11:22 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 0
Dis/Trusting the Institution(s) of Literature 2025 - TRUST Dis/Trusting the Institution(s) of Literature University College Dublin, Ireland 17-20 June, 2025 A Conference sponsored by Taighde Eireann / Research Ireland If […]

This is happening in two weeks πŸ‘€: trustlit.org/dis-trusting...

04.06.2025 09:42 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€œYippee ki-yay…”

We are excited to tell everyone that Westminster Council decided on May 1st that the Prince Charles Cinema would be included in the list of Assets of Community Value maintained by the Council under section 87 of the Localism Act 2011.

09.05.2025 14:06 β€” πŸ‘ 1414    πŸ” 387    πŸ’¬ 38    πŸ“Œ 107
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Beautiful sunshine and scenes of solidarity on the first day of UEA UCU's next phase of industrial action. 🌞 #SaveUEA

01.05.2025 09:32 β€” πŸ‘ 74    πŸ” 25    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

delighted by this news! came across this absolute gem by chance in The Last Bookshop, Rathmines a few years ago and was totally bowled over, really one of the best memoirs around

21.04.2025 20:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

huge love to my UEA colleagues out in the picket today! wish I could be with you, sending solidarity from Texas #SaveUEA

26.03.2025 14:57 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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Dr Lydia Foy: β€˜I never got an apology actually. It would be nice to get one’ The trans activist who fought the State for years for the right to change her gender on her birth cert would prefer to β€˜talk about me as a person rather than all the baloney with the courts’

"And Foy has written books, though none are published. She thinks she needs a mentor to help with that. She shows me a hardback self-made copy of a book she wrote all about rhubarb." 🩷 what a gorgeous saturday read www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

22.02.2025 16:52 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Dr Mary McAuliffe: The details of Ann Lovett's tragic death are still harrowing 40 years on The historian looks back at the loss of the teenager who died after giving birth in a grotto in Granard, 40 years ago today.

Thinking of Ann Lovett today, ##otd 1984, 15yrs old & pregnant, she went to the grotto in Granard where she gave birth to a still born baby boy, she was found sometime later but died shortly after of hypothermia & blood loss. Her story shocked the country #speirgorm www.thejournal.ie/readme/ann-l...

31.01.2025 12:41 β€” πŸ‘ 283    πŸ” 97    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 12
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Alien New Orleans, the big American conference, and a list of all I've been reading/watching/eating

I have started the inevitable substack to log my time living in the USA. Please read along, like, subscribe, etc. First up, feeling like an alien in New Orleans... open.substack.com/pub/mountain...

30.01.2025 21:35 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

an English colleague and I were ranting to each other yesterday in the corridor about devastating situation at Cardiff University, when an American colleague came up, asked us what was going on, and replied "Ha, our president is still worse!" πŸ€·β€β™€οΈ

29.01.2025 14:58 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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UEA is trying to fire hundreds of my colleagues and insist that they "don't think that students and staff will notice... these are modest changes to our overall budget."

I'm fighting with and for my colleagues at @uea-ucu.bsky.social to save those jobs and build a better future for HE

29.01.2025 09:26 β€” πŸ‘ 19    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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wearing cowboy boots to the archive today

24.01.2025 17:13 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0

There's a great series of Blowback podcast all about this blowback.show

15.01.2025 14:15 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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If you're hanging around #MLA25 I will be presenting Saturday 3.30pm on identity under colonial confinement in Doris Lessing’s archive - would love to see some friendly faces! In exchange I promise some saucy excerpts from Lessing's letters...

10.01.2025 22:10 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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First book / Last book of 2024

01.01.2025 22:43 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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I love how much Alec Guinness loved Wallace & Gromit

25.12.2024 13:48 β€” πŸ‘ 1565    πŸ” 129    πŸ’¬ 24    πŸ“Œ 1
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a lone pint in Slattery's pub, Rathmines

21.12.2024 12:24 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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lovely day at #NWiMS yesterday chatting Lessing, Woolf and archives, spent today rushing to finish my #MLA paper, and now am very very very happy to be scheduling my out of office

14.12.2024 20:57 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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THE CHRISTMAS HEART Credit: Hallmark Entertainment Anna Devereux A boy. A close knit community. A missing heart. And… an annual β€œLuminary Event.” Ever heard of a Luminary Event before? Neither had I, but this te…

I'm in great company writing about the Hallmark Christmas industrial complex for Cinema Year Zero's latest issue - out now and free to read! πŸŽ„ cinemayearzero.com/2024/12/12/t...

13.12.2024 20:42 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€˜Wintry Morning’, London Bridge North (2004) by Ed Gray
edgrayart.com

13.12.2024 07:36 β€” πŸ‘ 127    πŸ” 16    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2
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taught a nature writing seminar today and campus got the memo

25.11.2024 15:51 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Risk of compulsory redundancies as 170 staff face axe at UEA Announcement follows the departure of 400 staff members last year as efforts to close budget black hole continue

πŸ˜• Here we go again. timeshighereducation.com/news/deeply-...
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πŸ’ͺ UEA UCU Branch Meeting this morning at 10am. Check your inboxes for full details.

22.11.2024 09:04 β€” πŸ‘ 50    πŸ” 34    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 10

This is insane. I know every uni says this, and they’d likely be right, but (aside from stellar international rep) UEA really is so important for the region. Many really great people are going to get shafted here.

20.11.2024 18:41 β€” πŸ‘ 77    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

the brussels sprouts and cream penne kills me every time

19.11.2024 22:52 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Modernist and Avant-Garde Women starter pack

Modernist and Avant-Garde Women starter pack

I have made a starter pack for researchers working on modernist and avant-garde women. Absolutely not comprehensive, just put some names down to get the list started - please let me know if you want to be removed/added!

go.bsky.app/VSS1aBR

19.11.2024 10:15 β€” πŸ‘ 115    πŸ” 37    πŸ’¬ 24    πŸ“Œ 1

you've *got* to get every colour on the sock display wall

18.11.2024 18:22 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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