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sophiecoulombeau.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in English Literature & Creative Writing. Burneys, book history, 18thc reading habits & naming practices. Novelist: MONSTER: A TALE coming from @northodoxpress.bsky.social in 2026. Maker of radio. Mother & carer. Yotam Ottolenghi superfan.
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Just marked a second-year undergraduate essay so good that I want to send it to everyone I know immediately.

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V pleased & proud to be at the awards lunch for @uoyopenres.bsky.social York Open Research Awards, funded by Research England. I accepted an award on behalf of the dream team at Unlocking The Mary Hamilton Papers www.maryhamiltonpapers.alc.manchester.ac.uk The other awardees’ projects were amazing!

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Join us in York and online 27-28 June for our conference Anna Letitia Barbauld: Voicing Dissent. Fantastic speakers! Great value registrations, including free registration for York students! 🗣️🗣️🗣️ tinyurl.com/barbauld25

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This is by no means an original observation but: Christ, it’s hard balancing motherhood with a career, innit.

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Oooh, how exciting! In alignment with this exhibition, I’m looking forward very much to giving my talk, near the end of this month, on the unexpected Gothicism of Frances Burney.

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Want to write a book review? We want that too! SHARP News publishes book reviews every May, August, and November. Check out our recently updated list of books available to review. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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The twentieth issue of the Burney Journal - and my first as General Editor - is on its way to press! Swipe through the images for a cheeky little preview of the contents, and if you feel so inclined, do follow the Journal's new Bluesky account: @burneyjournal.bsky.social

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Hello Bluesky! This is the official account for the Burney Journal. We've been publishing peer-reviewed scholarship on the Burney family and their circles for twenty years now. The Journal is is available in print subscription and online open-access formats.

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Launching myself into Monday like:

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Thank you so much to everyone who supported our book sale in person and from afar! We more than met our target and raised £2,135. What a wonderful celebration of our brilliant postgraduate community at CECS!

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@ruthwarewriter.bsky.social Hi Ruth! We met in 2019 when I chaired this Proms Plus event with you & Shaun Usher - we had a great time discussing The Turn of the Key. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p... I was hoping to drop you an email - any chance you might be able to share an address with me via DM?

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Unless I’m very mistaken, which past form would suggest reasonably likely, it’s twenty years ago today that The Thick of It was first broadcast. This means that Ollie Reader is now 43 and, I would imagine, writing speeches about immigration for Keir Starmer.

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For everyone interested in creative writing approaches in the classroom, a special issue of Changing English on "A Close Writing Playbook: Coupling Creative Writing and Close Reading Practices," edited by Michael Lockett & Scott Jarvie www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Tfw you have @williamsden.bsky.social all to yourself ❤️

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So so lucky today to visit Harewood House to see the Austen and Turner exhibtion. It was so exciting, I came away stunned and thrilled and rethinking both figures in their worlds. And you should go! Book here: harewood.org/events/auste... First, some background-- 🧵

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"IT IS PERHAPS TIME TO RECONSIDER THE PROBLEM OF MACHINE-WRECKING in the early industrial history of Britain and other countries." -- Hobsbawm, 1961, and now www.jstor.org/stable/64998...

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I am exhausted, and suffering from a nasty case of what I call Deadline Eye, but it is done. The very final version of MONSTER : A TALE has winged (wanged? wung?) its way to @northodoxpress.bsky.social for line-by-line edits. Very proud, very emotional, very ready for a nap and a drink.

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Well, filling this survey out was cathartic if nothing else.

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Tomorrow @cecs-york.bsky.social is holding a Great Book Sale to raise funds to support our wonderful postgrad students. If you’re in York, come on down! If not, but you still have reason to feel warmly about CECS or want to support its students, you can donate online. Every little helps! TIA.

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So pleased and proud that our research has been recognised in the York Open Research Awards! Thanks to brilliant team inc. @historyhannahb.bsky.social @crulph.bsky.social & others not On Here. Find out more about the research & edition here: www.maryhamiltonpapers.alc.manchester.ac.uk

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Here are the recipients of this year's York Open Research Awards! 🎉 Our panel chose 8 awardees, highlighting fantastic work undertaken by students, PGRs and ECRs across @york.ac.uk They were especially interested to see such broad representation of projects from different departments and schools!

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Very excited for the Copley Lecture this evening. @titachico.bsky.social's scholarship is extraordinary, and we are so lucky to be hosting her here at @cecs-york.bsky.social / @uoyenglishrl.bsky.social

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So looking forward to this amazing lineup! I'm fortunate to be taking part in a roundtable on 'Teaching Writing: The Work Of English'. See you there?

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The draft programme for English: Shared Futures 2025 is out! There are a few more delights to add, but please enjoy this cornucopia of brilliant things. Registration is open now. Join us for three fantastic days! www.englishsharedfutures.org/programme

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In huge news, the UK government was just defeated in the House of Lords for a second time over AI & copyright. The government had removed amendments to the Data Bill that would require AI companies to disclose their training data. The Lords have now reinserted them. 🧵 1/2

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