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read, weep and - especially if you're a parent of students - protest voice.cymru/two-weeks-in...

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Oh yes, Homer’s famous “Tes Thdpssssps.” 👍🏻

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Panopto's automatic captions are v insistent that The White Devil is about 'the Duke of Bracknell'

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Taylor and Francis ebooks treating page numbers as if they're some kind of state secret 😭

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we are having several of these fights at the moment under the administrative euphemism “curriculum transformation” and it’s exhausting

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just finished marking (again) and now battling an urge to reply to an email from my boss's boss with a stern explanation about sentence fragments

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Finished marking 🥳 Had some stunning MA essays this term—I’m so glad I decided to teach ‘Hero and Leander’

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the only way an AI personal tutor would be of any use is if the students themselves were all AI. which may, now that I think about it, be the endgame

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So this is very exciting! We have 16 places on our AHRC-funded Print Matters Summer School. There is no course fee, and applicants get 4 nights B&B accommodation and a travel bursary of up to £100. The Summer School is open to all disciplines and career stages. www.thinicepress.org/events/print...

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This collection is now available for pre-order at the relatively affordable price of £30! Featuring chapters by 22 brilliant scholars and curators (and one by me) global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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Don’t laugh: teaching Henry IV plays, do you give a content note about the fat-shaming? Earnest question and I can imagine some may appreciate being forewarned about it (though I appreciate this makes me sound like a parody liberal English lecturer)

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It's also destroying the creative industry, not because it will outdo creatives but because it will be used by aforementioned horrid people as leverage to undermine writers/artists at every level, and the more you use it the more leverage you're giving them!

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Without downloading any new pics, what’s your energy going into 2025?

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Time to get out the festive Thomas Middleton which is my favourite ever gift from a student

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I don't see many long threads on here, but I'll try one - it's about Holbein's Ambassadors, his 1533 masterpiece in the National Gallery. It's often presented as a great mystery, but I think once we understand the circumstances in which it was made, its meaning becomes clearer. 1/

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Another day, another dystopian punch in the face from the British government

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I have been thinking about this a lot lately: that the “phasing out” of humanities scholarship as part of popular education is an effort to prevent people from being able to interpret their political reality.

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Brush up your Shakespeare! Read along with our monthly webinar or just drop in to hear the conversation: english.web.ox.ac.uk/english-facu... Please repost!

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Well this is grim

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my MA students have been a delight this term—today we talked about “The Blazing World”, the North Pole, sexy souls and justice for the parrot/jackdaw/magpie men

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disappointing that when ‘Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812’ finally gets a UK premiere it’s in a theatre whose small size and elaborate system of priority tickets for wealthy donors make it almost completely inaccessible to the general public

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there are a lot of online texts of 'Utopia' claiming to be Robinson (1556) that are really Burnet (1684), and in the annoying process of trying to sort out extracts for teaching I note that Hythloday goes from having 'a black sun-burned face' (1556) to being 'tanned' (1684).

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had a great time talking about analogue photography with the visual culture first years—we discussed Bayard’s self-portrait as a drowned man and Man Ray’s variations on the Inconnue de la Seine. But I have promised them that next week’s class will be more Christmassy and involve fewer morgues

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Just received the proofs for this exciting collection - we worked with a wonderful group of contributors for this and I can't wait to see it out in the world

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Hard to know how to start again out of the ruins of Twitter, but it’s lovely to see so many familiar names here. Hello (again), and here is a picture of my cats

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