Reader in Contemporary Stylistics • Cognitive stylistics of fictionality & contemporary narratives esp. autofiction, metamodernism, anthropocene.
Sheffield
Joined June 2010
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A pleasant surprise deliver on my mat leave! - Fictionality and Multimodal Narratives, co-edited with @TorsaG now published by @UnivNebPress ! – at Sheffield, England
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How do fictional worlds help us understand grief? At #PALA2025, I’m presenting on A Monster Calls, using Text World Theory & Responsive Bibliotherapy to show how style and structure depict grief and how readers respond emotionally @SHU_Stylistics @2025PALA @PoeticsLinguist
Found this abandoned playing card on my driveway & thought of Graham Rawle. After reading The Card, I’d email Graham when I found cards (apparently other people did too) & he’d respond with a witty reply about what it meant! Such a lovely man and talented creative. Still missed.
Attended this today and it was brilliant. A masterclass in how to tell personal narratives alongside academic research!
My inaugural lecture,
Origin Stories Reimagined: From Chaos to Craft,
is taking place on May 7 at 5:10 in Banham Theatre, Michael Sadler Building, University of Leeds.
(followed by a drinks reception @ School of English)
ticketsource.co.uk/universit….
I keep saying this but can we please have season 4?! I know Covid caused a lot of disruption, but things are different again and we need to know how it ends!
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Woah! Mysterious new @markdanielewski book on the horizon in 2025! 🖤
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Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
Poetry often deviates from schematic templates. In this paper, I will discuss...
P. s. You have until 14th Feb to submit an abstract for #PALA2025, hosted by @EnglishAston 💜
pala2025.com/cfp/
Looking forward to reading this.
Hi Barbies! ✨ @naomicatriona and yours truly wanted to let you know that our fantastic telecinematic stylistic paper on the overlapping ontologies in Gerwig's masterpiece is now live and open access for all of you to be Barbie-fied. Now... read:
jbe-platform.com/content/jou…
Really enjoyed hearing @RichardAyoade talking about The Unfinished Harauld Hughes at @otsfestival this evening. He described it as a mockumentary but I’m wondering if (& hoping) it can be classed as autofiction. Leaving with a signed copy so I’m looking forward to finding out!
Ok, I need this in my life.
The Unfinished Harauld Hughes by Richard Ayoade | Non-Fiction | Faber faber.co.uk/product/97805713…
Tell me you were a teenager in the 90s without telling me:
After hearing this on the radio this morning, I still know all the words and the video was seminal.
Backstreet Boys - Everybody (Backstreet's Back) (Official HD Video) youtu.be/6M6samPEMpM?si=JYHr… via @YouTube
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Academics don’t say “I love you”, they say “I read your article”, and I think that’s beautiful
Scans capture sweeping reorganisation of brain in pregnancy theguardian.com/science/2024…
Devastated to learn about the recent passing of Graham Rawle. As a person, he was as brilliant, witty and kind as his work. So sad.
Graham Rawle obituary theguardian.com/artanddesign…
My university is officially transitioning from Zoom to Teams and this makes me very sad. I like Zoom so much better!
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Workload intensification. Breaches of the National Framework Agreement. Degradation of key employment policies.
Read about our ongoing dispute with Sheffield Hallam University here:
ucuhallam.org/generalnews/ha…