Reader in English at Keele University | seventeenth-century women/religion researcher | advocate for Humanities careers | co-tweets for @English_Keele
Loughborough, England
Joined July 2009
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Had a wonderful time last week talking to visitors at @tatton_park library about everyday reading in the 19th century with my colleague Jon Shears. #booksinboards #familyreading
Come and work with my excellent colleagues @drnickseager and @SiobhanTalbott on an AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP) PhD Studentship: Eighteenth-Century Knowledge Work in the Harleian Collection, 1704-1812
#phd #postgrad
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It was wonderful to receive an award at last night’s #CelebratingStaffSuccess event for our work on the Humanities placement modules. Thank you to the colleagues who nominated us! 💚
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Many congratulations to Professor Jon Shears @English_Keele whose Oxford Handbook of Lord Byron has just been published by OUP! 🎉🎉🎉
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Did anyone actually read the books in country house libraries? @English_Keele PGR Rachel Daley writes for @PGCountryHouse (Spoiler: they did!)
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Always a highlight of the year - today on our Humanities placements module we heard from some of our fabulous placement providers who are offering roles this year. Thanks so much to @NSCGNewcastle @KeeleCommsBrand @SherwoodTrust and @PlayfulAims @KeeleLibrary
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Come and do a PhD with me if you're into historical fiction set in civil war era England.
#histfic #phdresearch #HistoryMatters
NEW PHD OPPORTUNITY: Women in Historical Fiction of the English Civil War Era
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What a pleasure to co-examine a brilliant thesis today by Tracey Jones @English_Keele on The Emotional History of the Gothic Novel (with @drdanielcook and @GreenBowlerHat)! Congratulations to Dr Jones and her supervisory team @drnickseager @BeckyYearling and Jon Shears 🦇🏰📖
More “Joy at celebrations of Aphra Behn” in @guardian this week! theguardian.com/stage/articl…
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Congratulations to all our English and Creative Writing students who graduated yesterday! We're so proud of all they've achieved and we'll miss them... 🎓🥂🎉🍾🪩 #KeeleGraduation
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What an end to our wonderful conference. We had director @lovedayIngram along with actors @alexgRSC and Samuel Collings come to discuss @TheRSC 2016 The Rover by Aphra Behn with readings of some epic scenes.
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Beautiful wreath laying ceremony for Aphra Behn today at @wabbey. What a fantastic way to end #AphraConference! 💐🌸🌻
ALT Pink and purple flowers in a wreath shape laid on top of a black marble floor slab incised with “Mrs Aphra Behn” upon it, surrounded by conference delegates
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Another day of wonderful papers at the #AphraConference and I got talk about beauty, morality and disease on this incredible panel with Ceri Fowler and Hannah Straw!
The main business of the conference closes with a plenary by Loveday Ingram, Director of @TheRSC’s 2016 production of Behn’s The Rover, accompanied by compelling performances of Angellica Bianca and Willmore’s exchanges 🗡️🔫 #AphraConference (Westminster Abbey tomorrow!)
Charlotte Cornell’s plenary on Behn’s Kentish Beginnings begins! #fullhouse #AphraConference
Excellent panel yesterday on beauty and VD with @KatieAske, Hannah Straw, and @English_Keele’s Ceri Fowler 💄🍆 #AphraConference
Excellent conference dinner last night - only slight raucous 😂 #AphraConference
Full house for @_MelEvans plenary on Behn’s spying letters 👀 #AphraConference
Thought-provoking performance of Behn’s The Amorous Prince this evening - superbly acted with insights from the cast 👏👏👏 Go and see it!! #AphraConference
Gorgeous talk by sculptor Christine Charlesworth on Canterbury’s new Behn statue - looking forward to posing with her soon! #AphraConference
