@ProfJVJohn

Vice President, Education, City St. George’s, University of London; Dickensian, Victorianist, popular culture scholar, tennis fan

 London, England
Joined January 2022
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Such exciting work! Well worth a look 👇
Rosie White@DrRosalindWhite7 Nov 2024
Very proud to share the resources I've developed as a #SloaneLab🔬research fellow @ucl for my project "In the Margins of Early Modern Science: Pioneering Women in Sloane’s ‘Paper Museum’" 📜🌿 at ReconstructingSloane.org/wom…
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Introducing Graduate Attributes: a set of five skillsets to help you launch a fulfilling career 🚀 The attributes are made up of 20 skills and behaviours, developed with a range of employers, to support our students in their careers 👏 Get started ➡️ ow.ly/xP1150TZrFv
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On tonight's @Bbcfrontrow: The horror the horror. With Starve Acre's @DanPKoko & @Annabdemented. @profjvjohn on adapting Dickens, and @chillygonzales performs his Neoclassical Massacre.. 715pm R4 bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00237q…
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🌎 City is proud to take part in #WeAreInternational @UniversitiesUK - celebrating the fantastic contribution of international students and how lives are changed through international study❤️ City students join us from all around the world, did we miss out your country?🤔
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"It is really hard for first-year students to secure an internship without any prior experience so this programme is really valuable." 👏 City’s Micro-Placement Programme opens doors to networking, career discovery, awards, and even job offers 🚀➡️ ow.ly/ZCWY50QOS7w
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City, University of London and St George's, University of London @StGeorgesUni are delighted to announce that we have signed an agreement to merge, creating a powerful multi-faculty institution. Read the full announcement ➡️ ow.ly/nPco50QGEuW
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St George’s, University of London and @CityUniLondon have signed an agreement to merge, creating a powerful multi-faculty institution. Read our full statement for further information: sgul.ac.uk/news/city-univers…
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Excited to announce a funded PhD position - a partnership between @TheatreWarwick and @Woburn_Abbey. The project is titled 'Theatre and the Aristocracy: Passion, Patronage, Power and Politics, 1771-1893'. Please retweet to your networks. More info here: midlands4cities.ac.uk/find-a…
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Juliet John retweeted
Mel Bunce@meljbunce1 Mar 2023
Another incredible night @cityjournalism - hearing straight from top political leaders on the issues of the day - tonight our students are grilling @David_Cameron
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sandywarr@sandywarr1 Mar 2023
So proud of the fabulous and thoughtful questions from our @cityjournalism students to @David_Cameron tonight
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This Thursday @CityUniEnglish welcomes the amazing author Danielle Jawando who will be discussing and reading from her work - do join us, you can sign up here for free! city.ac.uk/news-and-events/e… @simonkids_UK @simonschuster
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Last day of #Dickens22 begins with panel 8A "Sex and Bodies" featuring the illustrious panel of Melisa Klimaszewski, Natalie McKnight, and Lillian Nayder.
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@annaroseprice: representations of rowing in Our Mutual Friend subverts C19 expectations of the working woman, ‘Lizzie Hexam is permitted in the traditionally masculine space of the river’ - her agency demonstrated by skill using the oars. #Dickens22
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We are happy to announce that next year's 28th DS symposium is... "#Dickens under Glass" Start brainstorming and we will see you in Rochester hosted by @GongDonkey.
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Mahlberg opens with the question "why are fictional people interesting?" Portability "persistence across different media, cultures, and time periods" (@ProfJVJohn 2010 "Dickens and Mass Culture") #Dickens22
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Philpotts: At its height there were 42,000 members and 5,000 clubs worldwide.
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Closing this panel by trying to determine where everyone in the room sits on the ‘Celebrity Attitude Scale’ in relation to Dickens. Needless to say there’s a few ‘borderline-pathological’ Dickens fans in the audience… #Dickens22
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And we’ve started our first panel! @AnyaFlorence_ talks to us about both conceptual and literal windows into Dickens’s posthumous reputation - and a perfect image for us to think about literary tourism, the author’s house, and place #Dickens2022
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First up on our Dickens, Decolonization and Global Political Emergencies roundtable: Dr Gillian Piggott on teaching Dickens in Afghanistan before and after the Fall of Kabul #Dickens22
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