Dr Rhonda Mayne
@drrmayne.bsky.social
Academic in modernist literature & culture: Virginia Woolf, feminism, social class, dance & performance.
Senior Executive Member, Steering Committee, British Association for Modernist Studies.
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/drrhondamayne/home
Senior Executive Member, Steering Committee, British Association for Modernist Studies.
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/drrhondamayne/home
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Dr Rhonda Mayne
@drrmayne.bsky.social
· Dec 16
I’ve put together a Virginia Woolf starter pack here, collecting scholars, readers, and institutions engaged with Woolf’s work.
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bsky.app/starter-pack...
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It's International Day of Women and Girls in Science.
Here are a few highlights from Kodak Research Laboratories in Harrow, documenting innovations led by women in as early as 1891.
#KodakHistory #Harrow #WomenInSTEM #Innovation #PhotographyHistory #HiddenHistories
Here are a few highlights from Kodak Research Laboratories in Harrow, documenting innovations led by women in as early as 1891.
#KodakHistory #Harrow #WomenInSTEM #Innovation #PhotographyHistory #HiddenHistories
February 11, 2026 at 3:25 PM
It's International Day of Women and Girls in Science.
Here are a few highlights from Kodak Research Laboratories in Harrow, documenting innovations led by women in as early as 1891.
#KodakHistory #Harrow #WomenInSTEM #Innovation #PhotographyHistory #HiddenHistories
Here are a few highlights from Kodak Research Laboratories in Harrow, documenting innovations led by women in as early as 1891.
#KodakHistory #Harrow #WomenInSTEM #Innovation #PhotographyHistory #HiddenHistories
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Friends, can I ask you to spread the word that we have a THREE-YEAR postdoc in American history at Cambridge up for grabs - ANY field, but applications are due March 1 so don't delay - apply, apply, apply! networks.h-net.org/jobs/69790/u...
February 10, 2026 at 5:24 PM
Friends, can I ask you to spread the word that we have a THREE-YEAR postdoc in American history at Cambridge up for grabs - ANY field, but applications are due March 1 so don't delay - apply, apply, apply! networks.h-net.org/jobs/69790/u...
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🚨We are looking for deputy editors to join the editorial board of Architectural History, the journal of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain. Apply by 16 March - please spread the word with anyone who may be interested!🚨
www.sahgb.org.uk/features/cal...
www.sahgb.org.uk/features/cal...
Call for Deputy Editors - SAHGB
Deputy editors are sought for Architectural History , the journal of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain. Successful applicants will be appointed to the editorial board from spri...
www.sahgb.org.uk
February 10, 2026 at 3:06 PM
🚨We are looking for deputy editors to join the editorial board of Architectural History, the journal of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain. Apply by 16 March - please spread the word with anyone who may be interested!🚨
www.sahgb.org.uk/features/cal...
www.sahgb.org.uk/features/cal...
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In this blog post, Richard Ansell (Birkbeck, University of London) discusses how the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH) is contributing to his research on non-elite travel writing as part of ‘Written Worlds: Non-Elite Writing in Seventeenth-Century England’
Non-Elite Travel Writing and the Bibliography of British and Irish History - On History
In this blog post, Richard Ansell (Birkbeck, University of London) discusses several ways that the Bibliography of British and Irish History is contributing to his research on non-elite travel…
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February 10, 2026 at 12:01 PM
In this blog post, Richard Ansell (Birkbeck, University of London) discusses how the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH) is contributing to his research on non-elite travel writing as part of ‘Written Worlds: Non-Elite Writing in Seventeenth-Century England’
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Two grant schemes from the School of Advanced Study are now open for applications: Being Human Festival 2026 and the Centre for Public Engagement Practice in Arts and Humanities’ new Collaboration and Innovation Grant.
Go to bit.ly/3ZoolUq for details on how to apply
Go to bit.ly/3ZoolUq for details on how to apply
February 10, 2026 at 11:10 AM
Two grant schemes from the School of Advanced Study are now open for applications: Being Human Festival 2026 and the Centre for Public Engagement Practice in Arts and Humanities’ new Collaboration and Innovation Grant.
Go to bit.ly/3ZoolUq for details on how to apply
Go to bit.ly/3ZoolUq for details on how to apply
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A Glasgow glazer's advert from 1912.
February 10, 2026 at 1:36 PM
A Glasgow glazer's advert from 1912.
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Did you know that a new education centre is being built by hand at Stonehenge? It is based on Durrington 68, a late Neolithic square-in-circle timber structure. Watch regular updates from Luke, the project leader, here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LATY...
Week 17 Durrington 68 Neolithic Hall
YouTube video by Historic Concepts
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February 10, 2026 at 3:03 PM
Did you know that a new education centre is being built by hand at Stonehenge? It is based on Durrington 68, a late Neolithic square-in-circle timber structure. Watch regular updates from Luke, the project leader, here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LATY...
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Very excited for this one.
Hello - just a quick message to US writers: early copies of my book, LIKE A CAT LOVES A BIRD: THE NINE LIVES OF MURIEL SPARK, will be available soon! Please message me if you’re interested in reading it, and I’ll let my publisher know 🐈⬛
February 10, 2026 at 3:08 PM
Very excited for this one.
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We are looking for review essays! You can see some of our selected titles at the post below. Get in contact with our review editors @heyitsdenisew.bsky.social and @olihaslam.bsky.social to request some or for further info
Call for book review essays - book list
C21 is inviting scholars and researchers to contribute book review essays for upcoming issues. We currently have a selection of titles published in 2025 available for review, spanning film and …
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February 9, 2026 at 11:31 AM
We are looking for review essays! You can see some of our selected titles at the post below. Get in contact with our review editors @heyitsdenisew.bsky.social and @olihaslam.bsky.social to request some or for further info
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Botany valentine. Another oldie.
February 9, 2026 at 3:03 PM
Botany valentine. Another oldie.
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It's here! I hosted a symposium on close reading at Emory in November. Matt Seybold recorded it for his podcast, American Vandal, and the first of three episodes is out today. Catch me, @johannawinant.bsky.social, @becimay.bsky.social, @bakaari.bsky.social + more podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...
Close Reading For The 21st Century Symposium (Vandal Live at Emory)
Podcast Episode · The American Vandal · S12 E4 · 1 sec
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February 10, 2026 at 12:42 PM
It's here! I hosted a symposium on close reading at Emory in November. Matt Seybold recorded it for his podcast, American Vandal, and the first of three episodes is out today. Catch me, @johannawinant.bsky.social, @becimay.bsky.social, @bakaari.bsky.social + more podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...
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MHRA Research Fellowships provide funding for postdoctoral researchers to assist with large research projects in the humanities.
📅 The deadline to apply for the current round of MHRA Research Fellowships is 28 February.
More details here: www.mhra.org.uk/funding/
📅 The deadline to apply for the current round of MHRA Research Fellowships is 28 February.
More details here: www.mhra.org.uk/funding/
Funding
www.mhra.org.uk
February 9, 2026 at 3:58 PM
MHRA Research Fellowships provide funding for postdoctoral researchers to assist with large research projects in the humanities.
📅 The deadline to apply for the current round of MHRA Research Fellowships is 28 February.
More details here: www.mhra.org.uk/funding/
📅 The deadline to apply for the current round of MHRA Research Fellowships is 28 February.
More details here: www.mhra.org.uk/funding/
Working on microscopes and modernism today — reviewing Patrick Armstrong on Woolf, Hardy, and Beckett, and the disruptive effects of shifting scale. #ModWriteMonday #VirginiaWoolf #ThomasHardy #SamuelBeckett
a woman in a lab coat looks through a microscope with the nbc logo in the corner
ALT: a woman in a lab coat looks through a microscope with the nbc logo in the corner
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February 9, 2026 at 4:02 PM
Working on microscopes and modernism today — reviewing Patrick Armstrong on Woolf, Hardy, and Beckett, and the disruptive effects of shifting scale. #ModWriteMonday #VirginiaWoolf #ThomasHardy #SamuelBeckett
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The first decadent: J.K. Huysmans, born #OTD 1848, French fin-de-siècle writer, whose yellow book À Rebours inspired Oscar Wilde.
Bibliothèque nationale de France
Bibliothèque nationale de France
February 5, 2026 at 5:52 AM
The first decadent: J.K. Huysmans, born #OTD 1848, French fin-de-siècle writer, whose yellow book À Rebours inspired Oscar Wilde.
Bibliothèque nationale de France
Bibliothèque nationale de France
Dance has long operated as a social language: who moves, how, and where matters. These questions shape reputation well beyond Regency Britain — and well beyond the ballroom.
Could not knowing how to dance ruin your reputation in Regency Britain? 💃
British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow @hillaryburlock.bsky.social explores how dance shaped status and identity in the Regency era behind Bridgerton.
Read the full article in The Conversation → bit.ly/4ahgyNi
British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow @hillaryburlock.bsky.social explores how dance shaped status and identity in the Regency era behind Bridgerton.
Read the full article in The Conversation → bit.ly/4ahgyNi
Bridgerton: why not knowing how to dance could ruin your reputation in Regency Britain
Dancing masters were crucial to transforming girls and boys into ladies and gentlemen.
theconversation.com
February 5, 2026 at 4:14 PM
Dance has long operated as a social language: who moves, how, and where matters. These questions shape reputation well beyond Regency Britain — and well beyond the ballroom.
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Romanticists and Long Eighteenth Centuryists — there’s an Associate Professorship (or Professorship) being advertised, a joint appointment with St Peter’s College.
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQK016/a...
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQK016/a...
Associate Professorship (or Professorship) of English Literature at University of Oxford
An academic position as a Associate Professorship (or Professorship) of English Literature is being advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Click now to find more details and explore additional academic job opportu...
www.jobs.ac.uk
February 5, 2026 at 7:24 AM
Romanticists and Long Eighteenth Centuryists — there’s an Associate Professorship (or Professorship) being advertised, a joint appointment with St Peter’s College.
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQK016/a...
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQK016/a...
Delighted to share that my article, “‘I Had Hoped to Have Dancing’: The Dance Motif, Memory, and Social Aspiration in Mrs Dalloway, 100 Years On,” is out now in The Modernist Review — open access.
modernistreviewcouk.wordpress.com/2026/02/02/i...
#VirginiaWoolf #Modernism #BAMS
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#VirginiaWoolf #Modernism #BAMS
‘I Had Hoped to Have Dancing’: The Dance Motif, Memory, and Social Aspiration in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway, 100 Years On
2 February 2026 Dr Rhonda Mayne, Independent Scholar As the centenary of Mrs Dalloway (1925) prompts renewed attention to modernist innovations, dance threads through Virginia Woolf’s novel, linkin…
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February 5, 2026 at 3:58 PM
Delighted to share that my article, “‘I Had Hoped to Have Dancing’: The Dance Motif, Memory, and Social Aspiration in Mrs Dalloway, 100 Years On,” is out now in The Modernist Review — open access.
modernistreviewcouk.wordpress.com/2026/02/02/i...
#VirginiaWoolf #Modernism #BAMS
modernistreviewcouk.wordpress.com/2026/02/02/i...
#VirginiaWoolf #Modernism #BAMS
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Check out Anna Simone Reumert's article "Mama’s Maybe? Hierarchies of Migrant Kin-Making from Lebanon to Sudan" from “Lesbian Studies, Now." “[T]he migrant child is legally papa’s baby and mama’s maybe, but born undocumented in the eyes of the state.”
www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/signs/cu...
www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/signs/cu...
Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society | Vol 51, No 2
www.journals.uchicago.edu
February 3, 2026 at 4:41 PM
Check out Anna Simone Reumert's article "Mama’s Maybe? Hierarchies of Migrant Kin-Making from Lebanon to Sudan" from “Lesbian Studies, Now." “[T]he migrant child is legally papa’s baby and mama’s maybe, but born undocumented in the eyes of the state.”
www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/signs/cu...
www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/signs/cu...
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Today, St Brigid’s Day, marks three years since Ireland’s first public holiday named after a woman. It’s a chance to celebrate the vital role women play in Irish culture and history.
Discover St Brigid's story on the @dib.ie https://www.dib.ie/biography/brigit-brighid-brid-bride-bridget-a0961.
Discover St Brigid's story on the @dib.ie https://www.dib.ie/biography/brigit-brighid-brid-bride-bridget-a0961.
February 1, 2026 at 9:59 AM
Today, St Brigid’s Day, marks three years since Ireland’s first public holiday named after a woman. It’s a chance to celebrate the vital role women play in Irish culture and history.
Discover St Brigid's story on the @dib.ie https://www.dib.ie/biography/brigit-brighid-brid-bride-bridget-a0961.
Discover St Brigid's story on the @dib.ie https://www.dib.ie/biography/brigit-brighid-brid-bride-bridget-a0961.
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Our friends at @unirdg-artcol.bsky.social return with another online fine art talk this Thursday!
Join Professor Conor Carville (University of Reading) for a deep-dive into the University's artworks of James Joyce.
Free to join. RSVP:
merl.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/con...
Join Professor Conor Carville (University of Reading) for a deep-dive into the University's artworks of James Joyce.
Free to join. RSVP:
merl.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/con...
Conversations with a Curator: Professor Conor Carville
Join us for a free online talk with Professor Conor Carville on artworks depicting the famous Irish writer, James Joyce.
merl.reading.ac.uk
February 2, 2026 at 2:43 PM
Our friends at @unirdg-artcol.bsky.social return with another online fine art talk this Thursday!
Join Professor Conor Carville (University of Reading) for a deep-dive into the University's artworks of James Joyce.
Free to join. RSVP:
merl.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/con...
Join Professor Conor Carville (University of Reading) for a deep-dive into the University's artworks of James Joyce.
Free to join. RSVP:
merl.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/con...
Many thanks for sharing. I’m delighted to be part of this issue of The Modernist Review.
#VirginiaWoolf #BAMS
#VirginiaWoolf #BAMS
For the first #ModWrite Monday in February we are pleased to share #TheModernistReview58! Our first issue of 2026 celebrates the 34th Anuual International Conference on Virginia Woolf. Check it out here: modernistreviewcouk.wordpress.com/2026/02/02/t...
The Modernist Review Issue #58: 34th Annual International Virginia Woolf Conference
2 February 2026 For the first issue of 2026, we are delighted to share with you a special collection for the 34th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf. This issue contains a selection …
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February 2, 2026 at 2:39 PM
Many thanks for sharing. I’m delighted to be part of this issue of The Modernist Review.
#VirginiaWoolf #BAMS
#VirginiaWoolf #BAMS
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The CfP for CBCP's 4th PG Symposium is out now. It will take place at Reading U on 19th May & the theme is "how archives can be used to reconstruct agency & cultural transmission in book & print cultures." Deadline for abstracts is 23rd Feb. More info👇 research.reading.ac.uk/centre-for-b...
CfP for CBCP’s 4th Postgraduate Symposium, 19th May 2026 - Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing
The Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing (CBCP) is pleased to announce the 4th Postgraduate Symposium will take place on Tuesday, 19th May 2026. This is an opportunity for PhD...Read More >
research.reading.ac.uk
January 15, 2026 at 9:31 AM
The CfP for CBCP's 4th PG Symposium is out now. It will take place at Reading U on 19th May & the theme is "how archives can be used to reconstruct agency & cultural transmission in book & print cultures." Deadline for abstracts is 23rd Feb. More info👇 research.reading.ac.uk/centre-for-b...
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1 Feb: St Brigid of #Kildare or 'Bride' Bodleian Tanner Ms 17, fol. 13v, South English Legendary, 1100-1500. (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
February 1, 2026 at 9:53 AM
1 Feb: St Brigid of #Kildare or 'Bride' Bodleian Tanner Ms 17, fol. 13v, South English Legendary, 1100-1500. (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
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I am accepting applications for a postdoc to work with me at the University of Toronto Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy.
Area of Research: Democratic Institutions, Public Engagement, American History
Due by February 23rd
munkschool.utoronto.ca/current-oppo...
Area of Research: Democratic Institutions, Public Engagement, American History
Due by February 23rd
munkschool.utoronto.ca/current-oppo...
Current opportunities
munkschool.utoronto.ca
January 31, 2026 at 5:20 PM
I am accepting applications for a postdoc to work with me at the University of Toronto Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy.
Area of Research: Democratic Institutions, Public Engagement, American History
Due by February 23rd
munkschool.utoronto.ca/current-oppo...
Area of Research: Democratic Institutions, Public Engagement, American History
Due by February 23rd
munkschool.utoronto.ca/current-oppo...
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I always find myself choosing books I wouldn’t usually buy, lovely and cheap - and discovering all sorts of unexpected treats. Today I treated myself to a couple of murder mysteries. Fun times ahead! #doodleaday
February 1, 2026 at 1:34 AM
I always find myself choosing books I wouldn’t usually buy, lovely and cheap - and discovering all sorts of unexpected treats. Today I treated myself to a couple of murder mysteries. Fun times ahead! #doodleaday