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Jo Carruthers

@jocarruthers.bsky.social

Writing a long book on roughness & class in Victorian Britain & a short book on biblical allusion in Victorian Lit; otherwise: Bible & literature, aesthetics & politics; sand & coastlines; teaches Eng Lit at Lancaster Uni, UK. Cat convert. She/her

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Would be sooo lovely to meet up x

13.03.2025 13:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Def have to read it again but I’m all up for all the lists!

13.03.2025 13:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

But really, I’m now waiting for the Ika take whole of Austen… lists of characters in order of awesomeness a necessity…

13.03.2025 09:20 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Hello!!!! Loving your posts. If only you were in the same country! Let me know when you visit ❀️

13.03.2025 09:17 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Love this thread! Makes me want to read Persuasion again. Read the others and write more threads!

13.03.2025 07:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I’d love to be added please.

15.01.2025 15:04 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

We’re live everybodyβ€” join us in DC in November 2025??

27.11.2024 17:42 β€” πŸ‘ 40    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 1
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ESRC Funded Studentships in Politics at University of Liverpool via the North West Social Science Doctoral Training Partnership at University of Liverpool At jobs.ac.uk, you can apply for a ESRC Funded Studentships in Politics at University of Liverpool via the North West Social Science Doctoral Training Partnership. Explore our diverse range of PhD opp...

#ESRC Funded Studentships in #Politics at University of #Liverpool via the North West Social Science Doctoral Training Partnership - (How To Apply: nwssdtp.ac.uk/how-to-apply/) Ad www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKU079/e...

24.11.2024 18:37 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
VRW: Journal Guide

Here's a list of journals, scholarly societies, and book series devoted to 19th-c. Britain. If you're aware of others that should be added, please let me know.
www.victorianresearch.org/journals.htm...

23.11.2024 23:18 β€” πŸ‘ 85    πŸ” 40    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you

15.11.2024 15:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yes please!

15.11.2024 15:04 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Sense and Sensiblity illustration captioned 'Amiably bashful.' Elinor Dashwood and Lucy Steele having a conversation.

Sense and Sensiblity illustration captioned 'Amiably bashful.' Elinor Dashwood and Lucy Steele having a conversation.

screenshot of front page of Greaney's essay in SEL 62.4

screenshot of front page of Greaney's essay in SEL 62.4

In "'So Many Friends!': Gregariousness and Its Discontents in Jane Austen," Michael Greaney provides a new reading of friendship across Austen's fiction. Out now in SEL 62.4, read on ProjectMUSE https://bit.ly/3YORRlx (Sense and Sensibility illustration c/o British Library 012624.g.5)

13.11.2024 19:15 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 3
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I’m pleased to say that English Literature at the University of Glasgow are advertising two new permanent posts. Applications for the James Murray Beattie Lectureships in Victorian Literature, and in Fantasy Literature, close on 6th May 24. More info here: gla.ac.uk/explore/jobs/

08.04.2024 13:31 β€” πŸ‘ 24    πŸ” 30    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
A text graphic reading: β€œPoetry: Closely, Together. Thursday, February 29. 4pm EST, 9pm GMT, 7am AEDT (3/1). Material Cultures: Hands-on Learning in Victorian Studies Classrooms and Research. Friday, March 1. 1:30pm EST, 6:30pm GMT, 5:30am AEDT (3/2).”

A text graphic reading: β€œPoetry: Closely, Together. Thursday, February 29. 4pm EST, 9pm GMT, 7am AEDT (3/1). Material Cultures: Hands-on Learning in Victorian Studies Classrooms and Research. Friday, March 1. 1:30pm EST, 6:30pm GMT, 5:30am AEDT (3/2).”

Join us next week for a pair of virtual events. Register for EVENT 2024 to gain access to the Zoom sessions as well as COVE Conferences, where social annotation is now live for both panels. www.event2024.org/registration

22.02.2024 18:32 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2

Social annotation is now live on COVE Conferences for next week’s EVENT 2024 virtual panels.

22.02.2024 18:45 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
White text on a dark grey background reads: β€œEVENT 2024 Fellowship: The EVENT 2024 Fellowship awards free conference registration to those selected on the basis of need. To be considered for the first round of fellowships, apply by February 26.”

White text on a dark grey background reads: β€œEVENT 2024 Fellowship: The EVENT 2024 Fellowship awards free conference registration to those selected on the basis of need. To be considered for the first round of fellowships, apply by February 26.”

The EVENT 2024 Fellowship offers free conference registration to scholars in financial need. Apply by Feb 26: bit.ly/3OQw88m

20.02.2024 18:04 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

For all your #18thC, #19thC, #Romantic, and #Victorian needs:

07.02.2024 07:09 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
A graphic with white text on a green background reading: β€œEVENT 2024 is an experiment in sustainable global conferencing, including monthly Zoom events, face-to-face hub events in September, and the asynchronous discussion of uploaded papers on COVE Conferences. All talks that explore the period 1832-1910 will be considered, though we encourage reflection on our theme, β€œevent,” which can be interpreted broadly: catastrophic events (like climate change); history and temporality; chronologies and periodization; narrative; theater and spectacle; liturgy and ritual; performativity and identity; personal events (marriage, birth, death); autobiography and biography; unnarratable events (the sublime, the visionary, the transcendent); the bildungsroman; the relationship of form to change; historical poetics and strategic formalism; longue durΓ©e; jetztzeit; Foucauldian archaeologies; alternative events (the optative, historiographic metafiction, steampunk); notions of singularity (systems theor

A graphic with white text on a green background reading: β€œEVENT 2024 is an experiment in sustainable global conferencing, including monthly Zoom events, face-to-face hub events in September, and the asynchronous discussion of uploaded papers on COVE Conferences. All talks that explore the period 1832-1910 will be considered, though we encourage reflection on our theme, β€œevent,” which can be interpreted broadly: catastrophic events (like climate change); history and temporality; chronologies and periodization; narrative; theater and spectacle; liturgy and ritual; performativity and identity; personal events (marriage, birth, death); autobiography and biography; unnarratable events (the sublime, the visionary, the transcendent); the bildungsroman; the relationship of form to change; historical poetics and strategic formalism; longue durΓ©e; jetztzeit; Foucauldian archaeologies; alternative events (the optative, historiographic metafiction, steampunk); notions of singularity (systems theor

The deadline for proposal submissions is quickly approaching! Submit a proposal for the September face-to-face hub events by February 1, 2024 at EVENT2024.org/call-for-papers.

23.01.2024 13:59 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

10 days until the deadline for submitting an abstract for Event2024. At the Lancaster hub we welcome papers or panels on any β€˜Event’ theme and especially: the working classes, religion, the environment, and adaptation. The theme can be interpreted broadly: catastrophe; …

22.01.2024 21:35 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Work β€˜wellness’ programmes don't make employees happier - but I know what does | AndrΓ© Spicer Sinking time and money into mindfulness apps and resilience training ignores the real problem: workplace stress, says author AndrΓ© Spicer

"It turns out the most effective way to improve employee mental health is by reducing stress, rather than adding new ways to cope with it." Quelle surprise.

18.01.2024 07:58 β€” πŸ‘ 150    πŸ” 42    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 5

#19thc to #20th English lit job alert for those doing environmental and medical humanities at UniversitΓ© Paris CitΓ©, MCF level post

18.01.2024 15:14 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Live annotation for the Vcologies panel has begun in COVE Conferences! If you’ve registered, check your email for login info and instructions. For help using COVE, go to EVENT2024.org/frequently-asked-questions.

18.01.2024 15:47 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

VCOLOGIES online event, January 26, 2024
Panelists:
Sukanya Banerjee (UC Berkeley), Nathan Hensley (Georgetown U), John Macneill Miller (Allegheney College), Liz Miller (UC Davis), Philip Steer (Massey U), Jesse Oak Taylor (U of Washington), Paul Young (U of Exeter)
See www.event2024.org/digital

18.01.2024 16:48 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

1st Feb is the deadline for Event2024 abstracts. Proposals can be for individual 20-min papers or for a panel (3 x 20-min or 5 x 10-min papers). Any β€˜Event’-related topics welcome but especially on the working classes, religion, the environment or adaptation.

17.01.2024 09:37 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

At the Lancaster hub we want to make the most of the face-to-face - so alongside the programme of talks there will be spaces and events to enable connection and collaboration among attendees. Visit www.event.org/call-for-pap... to submit a proposal.

17.01.2024 09:40 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Graphic showing main political concerns in each age group. Immigration only lands with 65+

Graphic showing main political concerns in each age group. Immigration only lands with 65+

Only one group in the UK sees immigration as a big issue. From Financial Times research.

15.12.2023 09:12 β€” πŸ‘ 101    πŸ” 59    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 4
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As our series on labour history and song nears an end, @vjctorianist.bsky.social invites us to take inspiration from Wham! in challenging peoples, work and belonging
sslh.org.uk/2023/12/22/i...

22.12.2023 07:42 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2
Vacancy - Simon and June Li Fellowship in English Literature (Fixed Term) | Lincoln College Oxford Vacancy for Simon and June Li Fellowship in English Literature (Fixed Term)

Terrific 5-yr career development post in OE-ME at Lincoln College, Oxford. Closing date 16 Feb.
lincoln.ox.ac.uk/discover/vac...

16.01.2024 10:24 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Lancaster’s hub for Event2024 is one of many in-person gatherings that complement the brilliant online events going on across 2024. The first online panel is VCOLOGIES, on 26 Jan, and is free! Register via event2024.org

16.01.2024 12:01 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Brilliant (and never dull) Lancaster hub keynotes : Professor Ruth Livesey - whose writing includes Stage Coaches, Middle England and the β€˜dull life’ - and Professor John Bowen whose research spans from Dickens’s umbrellas to Wilkie Collins’s style

16.01.2024 12:02 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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