Researcher of Mental Health/Suicide/Performance. 'Madness in Contemporary British Theatre' (Palgrave, 2021).
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Contributions from a range of wonderful scholars and practitioners:
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Beyond excited to announce that The Methuen Drama Handbook of Women in Contemporary British Theatre co-edited by @marissiafr and myself is now available for pre-order ahead of publication in February! bloomsbury.com/uk/methuen-dr…
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Full of joy and disbelief, I'm excited to share that my book 'Feminism, Dramaturgy, and the Contemporary British History Play' has been published today with @BloomsburyAcad! bloomsbury.com/uk/feminism-d…
Spent the evening reading Alice Munro: 'Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage'. It was surprising, expansive, clever, and compassionate: as with nearly all her work. I'm very glad to live in a world in which she wrote.
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My baby recently managed , through force of gas and will from the changing table, manage to excrete over my copy of Philip Roth's The Counterlife. I guess this is his first piece of literary criticism.
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Tonight, couples are wondering how they can stay in the same continent, people who've made their lives here suddenly under threat. A sharp hard cruelty.
The level of net migration is too high.
Today we’re announcing a new plan to reduce immigration and curb the abuse of our visa system.
Here is what we're doing 🧵👇
ALT Immigration action. Banning overseas students from bringing their families to the UK, unless they are on postgraduate research degrees. Stopping immigration undercutting British workers Scrapping the 20% going rate salary discounts offered for shortage occupations
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I've also resigned from UKRI's Interdisciplinary Assessment College, following Laura's lead. I simply can't/won't give my review time an organisation operating in these conditions.
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Horrific. We're watching the slow dessication of a previous luscious literary and art culture, from the snide withdrawal of the barest drip of funding.
It is with great regret that we announce that The White Review is going on a hiatus and ceasing its day-to-day publishing for an indefinite period. Full statement here: shorturl.at/gkSW6
As ever, Amia Srinivasan provides a critical lucidity and nuance that cuts through the tediousness mud of much of 'free speech in universities' discourse.
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From earlier, in the quiet of the park, basking in how we've thought with and though suicide these past two days. My special thanks to the organisers, for curating such a warm and welcoming space. #suicidecultures23
Still in the glow at an extraordinary first day at the Suicide Cultures conference - with a plethora of different disciplinary approaches, exceptional critical thought, and a genuine warmth of atmosphere. A delight to be amongst it all. #suicidecultures23
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Finished Marilynne Robinson's Home yesterday.
The day after, I find it's still capturing me, in its way of writing grace, and finding grace in the quiet.
Everything else, to read, seems too loud. I love it when books leak into you like this.
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"HEALTH COMMUNISM is not “well-behaved”: It is not interested in sober consideration, dry pontifications. . ."
@jonvenn reviews the latest from @DeathPanel_ hosts Beatrice-Adler Bolton (@realLandsEnd) and Artie Vierkant (@avierkant), from @VersoBooks: full-stop.net/2023/01/06/rev….
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"HEALTH COMMUNISM thrives with the inbound hope of any manifesto—the naming of violence as a source of potential political revolution." @jonvenn reviews the new book from @DeathPanel_ hosts Beatrice-Adler Bolton and Artie Vierkant and @VersoBooks: full-stop.net/2023/01/06/rev….
My review for Health Communism came out today over at Full Stop. A manifesto that names the violences of the modern health industry, to imagine other possibilities. Thanks, as ever, to Darren Huang's editorial eye.
You can take a gander of it over here:
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If someone was paid £459,000 a year, for a job involving some level of public-facing responsibilities, the least I'd expect is not to come across as utterly petulant in the face of the mildest of questioning.
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I don't know who Minerva Smith is but it's clear she's been watching Birkbeck's owl closely for a long time and needs to be listened to before she takes flight at dusk.
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