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 π 84 π 5 π¬ 1 π 1@annadevs.bsky.social
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 π΅πΈ
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 π 84 π 5 π¬ 1 π 1Ah lads, SeΓ‘n Rocks π
31.07.2025 10:02 β π 81 π 2 π¬ 6 π 1"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 sheepβs clothing is still a hawk."
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
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 π
25.06.2025 11:22 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 5 π 0This is happening in two weeks π: trustlit.org/dis-trusting...
04.06.2025 09:42 β π 6 π 5 π¬ 0 π 0βYippee ki-yayβ¦β
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.
Beautiful sunshine and scenes of solidarity on the first day of UEA UCU's next phase of industrial action. π #SaveUEA
01.05.2025 09:32 β π 74 π 25 π¬ 0 π 1delighted 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 π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0huge 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 π 12 π 1 π¬ 3 π 0"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." π©· what a gorgeous saturday read www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...
22.02.2025 16:52 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Thinking 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 π 283 π 97 π¬ 12 π 12I 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 π 3 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0an 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!" π€·ββοΈ
29.01.2025 14:58 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0UEA 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
wearing cowboy boots to the archive today
24.01.2025 17:13 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 4 π 0There's a great series of Blowback podcast all about this blowback.show
15.01.2025 14:15 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0If you're hanging around #MLA25 I will be presenting Saturday 3.30pm on identity under colonial confinement in Doris Lessingβs 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 π 10 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0First book / Last book of 2024
01.01.2025 22:43 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0I love how much Alec Guinness loved Wallace & Gromit
25.12.2024 13:48 β π 1565 π 129 π¬ 24 π 1a lone pint in Slattery's pub, Rathmines
21.12.2024 12:24 β π 7 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0lovely 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 π 11 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0I'm in great company writing about the Hallmark Christmas industrial complex for Cinema Year Zero's latest issue - out now and free to read! π cinemayearzero.com/2024/12/12/t...
13.12.2024 20:42 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0βWintry Morningβ, London Bridge North (2004) by Ed Gray
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taught a nature writing seminar today and campus got the memo
25.11.2024 15:51 β π 6 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0π Here we go again. timeshighereducation.com/news/deeply-...
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This is insane. I know every uni says this, and theyβd 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 π 77 π 14 π¬ 1 π 0the brussels sprouts and cream penne kills me every time
19.11.2024 22:52 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Modernist 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
you've *got* to get every colour on the sock display wall
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