Dr Rita J. Dashwood

Illustration of a squirrel carrying a pile of books, walking towards a tree hollow full of books.

Me after saying I wasn't gonna buy any more books for a while

It was also amazing to see @19thcenturyem.bsky.social, whose BA dissertation I supervised, present her incredible PhD research on Jane Austen and the ridiculous invalid at the seaside in Sanditon!

It was great fun! 😃

a man is sitting at a table with a bowl of boiled potatoes in front of him . Alt: Tom Hollander’s Mr Collins is sitting at a table with a bowl of boiled potatoes in front of him .

Day 2 of #GlobalAusten250 and I mainly pretended to be @rjdashwood.bsky.social (in my drag persona of Regina Blitz), thinking about sexy memes and epistolary detective work

Day 2 of the #GlobalAusten250 Conference. The sea witch (aka hay fever) stole my voice, which means that @drbeard79.bsky.social delivered the drag show of a lifetime by reading my paper for me on my FWO-funded research. Had a great time listening to his own fabulous paper on Netflix’s Persuasion!

A fabulous first day at the #GlobalAusten250 Conference in Southampton with some really great papers on Austen adaptations and tourism! The highlight for me was @devoney.bsky.social’s paper about the Pride and Prejudice adaptations that never were - can’t wait for her upcoming book, Wild for Austen!

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Welcoming everyone to #GlobalAusten250, Gillian Dow coins a GREAT collective noun: an intelligence of Austenians

In Southampton and excited to see everyone at the #GlobalAusten250 Conference tomorrow!

So excited for this tomorrow!! 😊

Reading the Romantic Ridiculous Reading The Romantic Ridiculous aims to take Romantic Studies from the sublime to the ridiculous. Building on recent work that decentres the myth of the solitary genius, this duograph theorises the ri...

Got £50 from Routledge today which *might* be profit on Reading the Romantic Ridiculous?

Fancy finding out what £50-worth of fuss is about (including low Coleridge, silly Austen, and my own and Charlotte Smith’s vulnerabilities)?

You can buy / request it for your library here:

You co-write one article with @drbeard79.bsky.social about Autumn de Wilde’s EMMA. with the word ‘shark’ in the title and this is what happens 😂

2 years ago I was in Brussels for my FWO interview 😊 Cut to right now and I’m halfway through my project at Ghent University, The Heiress: Women, Property and Economics, 1780-1900
(Yes, they were advertising the new Queen Charlotte Bridgerton show and no, sadly she doesn’t feature in my project 😄)

Reading the diaries of a nineteenth-century female estate owner where she writes that she lectured a female servant for getting married and “not being proclaimed.” Why would her mistress lecture her for not proclaiming her banns? Because something could have been found out about the groom? Curious🧐

Tumblr post that reads: kill the imposter syndrome in your head because not only is there someone out there doing it worse than you, they're also using chat gpt to do it

Saw this and thought my oomfs' feeds could use this

Yes!! Think of all the history they’re missing out on if they don’t know Britney’s first albums!

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I had such a great time today watching @ihatejoelkim.bsky.social’s Fire Island with my MA students as part of my Jane Austen in Popular Culture module 😊🏳️‍🌈 (Though it was a little disconcerting to realise, during one of my favourite scenes, that they had never listened to Britney Spears’s Sometimes!)

I was wondering if there are any academics here who have experience in producing both outputs for the general public and academic outputs out of a single research project, such as an academic monograph and a trade book. If so, please DM me, I would love to hear about how it can be done 🙂

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Howdy, y'all! 🤠 I have a new article just out in @jofvictculture.bsky.social - If you want to read about Doc Holliday, L.T Meade, & Victorian discourses of Tuberculosis & Murder then check it out here: academic.oup.com/jvc/advance-...

You're a daisy of you do! (Sorry, I couldn't resist.)

Now that the birthday of the person this was a gift for has passed, I can share the gorgeous commission that my incredibly talented friend @fierengraw.bsky.social made for me 🤩

Yes please, it will be lovely to see you!

I missed @BSECS last year, so I'm even more excited to be making my way to Oxford today for this year's conference. I will be presenting on Wednesday on Mary Verney’s inheritance of Claydon House, as part of my research for my Heiress project at Ghent. Looking forward to seeing everyone! #BSECS2025

Finally, the only academic book of the list: ‘Reading the Romantic Ridiculous’ by @drbeard79.bsky.social and @rjdashwood.bsky.social! It was so lovely to read the culmination of a project that was quite instrumental in getting me really into Romanticism 🥰

A green background with covers of the following books on it: Something That May Shock and Discredit You by Daniel M Lavery Reading the Romantic Ridiculous by Andrew McInnes and Rita J Dashwood A Flat Place by Noreen Masud A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe Propa Propaganda by Benjamin Zephaniah Les Misérables adapted by Marcia Williams The Seasons by Jo Sinclair A Kind of Spark by Elle McNicoll A Wish in the Dark by Christina Soontornvat À cinq heures nous serons tous morts ! by Charles Jeanne.

My 2024 reading wrap-up/top 10! A thread!

Reading the Romantic Ridiculous Reading The Romantic Ridiculous aims to take Romantic Studies from the sublime to the ridiculous. Building on recent work that decentres the myth of the solitary genius, this duograph theorises the ri...

I wrote a book! With the wonderful @rjdashwood.bsky.social! Even after this came out, I found myself defaulting to ‘what have I achieved this year? Nothing and again nothing’. Ridiculous!

Fire Island titbit (only slightly making me want to rewrite our article on Noah and Howie as Lizzy and Jane to incorporate fresh info)!!!

I also loved loved loved your article, “Pride and Prejudice on Fire Island.” Come February I’m teaching a university module on Austen in popular culture and I’m going to open with it, and then we’re also studying Fire Island 🙂

This made me so happy, I’m so so glad that you liked the article!! And that’s super interesting about Charlotte, I’m going to watch the film again and look out for it! The rice queen did have massive Mr Collins vibes! Can’t wait to see what you do next 🙂

@ihatejoelkim.bsky.social’s Fire Island has been my favourite reimagining of a Jane Austen novel since @drbeard79.bsky.social first introduced me to it, and we were filled with love for this movie when we wrote this, now out on Austen’s own birthday! 🎁

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Thank you, Chloe 🥰🥰🥰

We wrote ‘Adapting Jane Austen’s “Hetero Nonsense”…’ with love in our hearts for @ihatejoelkim.bsky.social and his Fire Island and hope he loves the resulting article!