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mariascott.bsky.social
Dubliner in SW England. Commuter. Often found at weekends on strangers' doorsteps, asking questions. Otherwise, head regularly found in nineteenth-century France.
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I regularly measure gender distribution of citations. Once you see the problem it's hard to stop.

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

If General Aupick was really the Head of the Ecole Polytechnique in the middle of a révolution democratique then how come his stepson never wrote a poem about this?

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

I am so delighted to announce that we are #hiring! A two year full-time teaching and research post in French 🇫🇷 Come and join our big and beautiful School of Languages, Cultures and Societies in leafy Leeds! Please post to your networks. jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx... @lcsleeds.bsky.social

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Amy Rigby nailed it in 2018. "They say the best is yet to come and there's no shame in being dumb." youtu.be/tIIffRN9APQ?...

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Thug.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

I will be speaking on Zoom this Friday, May 2nd with Colin Foss at 14:30 EST/19:30 UK about my book Hustlers in the Ivory Tower as part of the Nineteenth-Century French Studies Unbound series. All welcome! Register here: southalabama.zoom.us/meeting/regi... @ncfs.bsky.social @livunipress.bsky.social

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

Been thinking for a while that Baudelaire must have been reading the amazing Sophie de Grouchy for one of his poems (have already published an article about how Stendhal's De l'Amour rips her off) and learned just now that Baudelaire's dad probably had an affair with her, and he probably knew.

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

“The lack of viewpoint diversity can be a real issue. The solutions proffered, though, often threaten to make the problem worse.” My @observeruk.bsky.social column: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 21 days ago • 5 comments

Macron shook one hand.

submitted 15 days ago • 4860 comments

These ghouls decimated humanities research for propagandistic nonsense. What sculptor would choose to work for these ghoulish monsters? What descendants of real heroes would agree to have their parent or grandparent (or ancestor) displayed in this ghoulish exhibit? Scream.

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

The full text of our letter to Nick Thomas-Symonds is below. Grateful to Labour colleagues from communities across the country for their support. I am very optimistic that there is a stronger UK/EU deal to be done on defence, trade and a visa based youth mobility deal.

submitted 18 days ago • 15 comments

14 years today. My poem for St George's Day, taken from my first full collection, The Knives of Villalejo...

submitted 18 days ago • 2 comments

Just asked Google a basic question about the French alexandrine (I know, but I have not had my morning coffee yet) and the most charitable thing I can say about the AI answer I got is that Wikipedia is starting to look pretty authoritative by comparison.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Relieved to have had this response from @drjogrady.bsky.social. UCU GS distances herself from the malevolent messaging in a photo she shared from the protest this weekend against the Supreme Court ruling.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

🎉Paragraph journal 2025 Prize🎉 The Paragraph editors are pleased to announce that a prize will be awarded for an outstanding article submitted for publication before 30 Sept 2025. Submissions can be on any topic that explores critical theory & its application to literature, arts or culture. 1/3

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

Everyone should read this great piece from @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social about the crisis in universities and the danger of only chasing Reform UK sponsored policies www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 26 days ago • 4 comments

roughly once a day at the moment I think of the guy I spoke to in Maryland before the election who was still undecided because "one of them's a felon and the other one's a woman! whatever happens no one will take us seriously again!"

submitted 34 days ago • 2 comments

My NEH Public Scholar Award was just unlawfully terminated by DOGE. Unlike many NEH recipients, I received no termination notice. But, my NEH page now says "Warning: FULL: Administrative Termination.” I continue to honor my award terms; DOGE continues to violate lawful contracts. We will fight this.

submitted 34 days ago • 12 comments

If I forget my passwords, am I still me?

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

Ellamae Lepper now on comical marriage contracts: bringing Butler and Bergson to Balzac #SDNDurham2025

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

Kicking off a session on dominant gender norms is the always engaging David Evans on Jules Laforgue: refusing to be a man #SDNDurham2025

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

Great paper by Lisa Algazi Marcus, chaired by Aine Larkin, on translating Zola's novel La Fécondité #SDNDurham2025

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

Hope you are all looking forward to a great conference and wishing everyone safe travels to Durham #SDNDurham2025

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

Remember to book your free ticket for this French-language online talk on 4 April by philosopher Catherine Malabou on the anarchist thinking of Proudhon. www.eventbrite.com/e/1267592546...

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

Please join us this Friday!

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

Agree, very hard to choose... #WorldPoetryDay2025

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

What are your favourite lines of nineteenth-century poetry in French? #WorldPoetryDay2025

submitted 51 days ago • 2 comments