Prof. Liz Oakley-Brown
@earlymodlancs.bsky.social
Educator
Passionate about Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI)
Anywhere near Books, Music and Films
#SurfaceStudies
#Soil_Imaginaries
Green Party Member
Adores Snails 🐌
My personal views - not my employer's
Reposts &c not endorsements
Passionate about Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI)
Anywhere near Books, Music and Films
#SurfaceStudies
#Soil_Imaginaries
Green Party Member
Adores Snails 🐌
My personal views - not my employer's
Reposts &c not endorsements
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Ladybird Nature Corner.
Blackbird.
(Who doesn’t love a blackbird?)
Artist: John Leigh-Pemberton
Blackbird.
(Who doesn’t love a blackbird?)
Artist: John Leigh-Pemberton
January 30, 2026 at 8:23 PM
Ladybird Nature Corner.
Blackbird.
(Who doesn’t love a blackbird?)
Artist: John Leigh-Pemberton
Blackbird.
(Who doesn’t love a blackbird?)
Artist: John Leigh-Pemberton
The only gif
a woman in a long black dress is walking down a foggy street .
Alt: The actor Catherine OHara in character as Moira Rose in the tv series Schitt's Crrek. In this gif, OHara is wearing long black dress. She is walking down a foggy street .- in slow motion - with pigeons flying up from the path in front of her
media.tenor.com
January 30, 2026 at 8:29 PM
The only gif
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Pedro Pascal pays tribute to Catherine O'Hara:
“Oh, genius to be near you. Eternally grateful. There is less light in my world, this lucky world that had you, will keep you, always. Always ❤️
The one and ONLY #CatherineOHara”
“Oh, genius to be near you. Eternally grateful. There is less light in my world, this lucky world that had you, will keep you, always. Always ❤️
The one and ONLY #CatherineOHara”
January 30, 2026 at 7:04 PM
Pedro Pascal pays tribute to Catherine O'Hara:
“Oh, genius to be near you. Eternally grateful. There is less light in my world, this lucky world that had you, will keep you, always. Always ❤️
The one and ONLY #CatherineOHara”
“Oh, genius to be near you. Eternally grateful. There is less light in my world, this lucky world that had you, will keep you, always. Always ❤️
The one and ONLY #CatherineOHara”
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Moira Rose, Patty Leigh, and Delia Deetz forevir
January 30, 2026 at 7:20 PM
Moira Rose, Patty Leigh, and Delia Deetz forevir
Nooooo
Catherine O'Hara
Catherine O'Hara
January 30, 2026 at 7:19 PM
Nooooo
Catherine O'Hara
Catherine O'Hara
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"The UK creative industries — which contributed £125 billion to the economy in 2024 and supported 2.4 million jobs — are being destroyed by an AI sector that, whatever its long-term potential, contributed just £11 billion in the same year and supported only 85,000 jobs."
archive.is/hvRv2
archive.is/hvRv2
January 30, 2026 at 9:02 AM
"The UK creative industries — which contributed £125 billion to the economy in 2024 and supported 2.4 million jobs — are being destroyed by an AI sector that, whatever its long-term potential, contributed just £11 billion in the same year and supported only 85,000 jobs."
archive.is/hvRv2
archive.is/hvRv2
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I'm planning the annual charity teach-athon for Romancing the Gothic.
GOTHS FOR BREAKFAST is a full day of classes and workshops (more or less related to the Gothic) raising money for @magicbreakfastuk.bsky.social to feed hungry kids!
Looking for volunteer speakers! Get in touch!
GOTHS FOR BREAKFAST is a full day of classes and workshops (more or less related to the Gothic) raising money for @magicbreakfastuk.bsky.social to feed hungry kids!
Looking for volunteer speakers! Get in touch!
January 30, 2026 at 10:56 AM
I'm planning the annual charity teach-athon for Romancing the Gothic.
GOTHS FOR BREAKFAST is a full day of classes and workshops (more or less related to the Gothic) raising money for @magicbreakfastuk.bsky.social to feed hungry kids!
Looking for volunteer speakers! Get in touch!
GOTHS FOR BREAKFAST is a full day of classes and workshops (more or less related to the Gothic) raising money for @magicbreakfastuk.bsky.social to feed hungry kids!
Looking for volunteer speakers! Get in touch!
To be frank, I'm an #ancientacademic and am extremely privileged
My material circumstances are inconsequential by comparison with my younger colleagues
My material circumstances are inconsequential by comparison with my younger colleagues
And the way things are going in my workplace, goodness only knows:
- how I'll complete any research from hereon
- if that research will be regarded as research by my workplace
- how I'll complete any research from hereon
- if that research will be regarded as research by my workplace
This book is 2 years old today
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Currently on discount at Routledge
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Reviewed by Karen Raber in the latest issue of "Shakespeare Studies Volume 53" (published this week)
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Shakespeare on the Ecological Surface - 1st Edition - Liz Oakley-Brown share.google/CRRV7QG2njsN...
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Currently on discount at Routledge
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Reviewed by Karen Raber in the latest issue of "Shakespeare Studies Volume 53" (published this week)
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Shakespeare on the Ecological Surface - 1st Edition - Liz Oakley-Brown share.google/CRRV7QG2njsN...
January 30, 2026 at 10:54 AM
To be frank, I'm an #ancientacademic and am extremely privileged
My material circumstances are inconsequential by comparison with my younger colleagues
My material circumstances are inconsequential by comparison with my younger colleagues
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‘No wonder I got drunk that night. I’d been Chaucer for a week!’
- my article on Kipling’s Dayspring Mishandled, his entertaining and peculiar account of a Chaucerian forgery, is out now with the Review of English Studies! I absolutely *loved* working on this.
academic.oup.com/res/advance-...
- my article on Kipling’s Dayspring Mishandled, his entertaining and peculiar account of a Chaucerian forgery, is out now with the Review of English Studies! I absolutely *loved* working on this.
academic.oup.com/res/advance-...
‘I’d been Chaucer for a week!’: Forging the Medieval in Kipling’s ‘Dayspring Mishandled’
ABSTRACT. Rudyard Kipling’s ‘Dayspring Mishandled’ describes the creation of a Chaucerian forgery in immense detail. The short story, first published in 19
academic.oup.com
January 30, 2026 at 10:36 AM
‘No wonder I got drunk that night. I’d been Chaucer for a week!’
- my article on Kipling’s Dayspring Mishandled, his entertaining and peculiar account of a Chaucerian forgery, is out now with the Review of English Studies! I absolutely *loved* working on this.
academic.oup.com/res/advance-...
- my article on Kipling’s Dayspring Mishandled, his entertaining and peculiar account of a Chaucerian forgery, is out now with the Review of English Studies! I absolutely *loved* working on this.
academic.oup.com/res/advance-...
And the way things are going in my workplace, goodness only knows:
- how I'll complete any research from hereon
- if that research will be regarded as research by my workplace
- how I'll complete any research from hereon
- if that research will be regarded as research by my workplace
This book is 2 years old today
👇
Currently on discount at Routledge
👇
Reviewed by Karen Raber in the latest issue of "Shakespeare Studies Volume 53" (published this week)
👇
Shakespeare on the Ecological Surface - 1st Edition - Liz Oakley-Brown share.google/CRRV7QG2njsN...
👇
Currently on discount at Routledge
👇
Reviewed by Karen Raber in the latest issue of "Shakespeare Studies Volume 53" (published this week)
👇
Shakespeare on the Ecological Surface - 1st Edition - Liz Oakley-Brown share.google/CRRV7QG2njsN...
Shakespeare on the Ecological Surface
Shakespeare on the Ecological Surface uses the concept of the ‘surface’ to examine the relationship between contemporary performance and ecocriticism. Each section looks, in turn, at the 'surfaces' of...
share.google
January 30, 2026 at 10:34 AM
And the way things are going in my workplace, goodness only knows:
- how I'll complete any research from hereon
- if that research will be regarded as research by my workplace
- how I'll complete any research from hereon
- if that research will be regarded as research by my workplace
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Many days I get told awful news from universities that isn't even being reported now. That's... a bad sign. No-one has a plan, no-one's in charge, no-one knows what to do, no-one's even got reliable data. So little left to say or do if I'm honest.
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/cardiff...
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/cardiff...
Cardiff and Essex post deficits after big spend on severance pay
Financially troubled institutions pushed further into the red, with Aberdeen, Robert Gordon and Sheffield Hallam also losing money
www.timeshighereducation.com
January 30, 2026 at 10:14 AM
Many days I get told awful news from universities that isn't even being reported now. That's... a bad sign. No-one has a plan, no-one's in charge, no-one knows what to do, no-one's even got reliable data. So little left to say or do if I'm honest.
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/cardiff...
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/cardiff...
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'An Eternizement of the Savoursome'
Barbara Burns talks to Zenón Luis-Martínez (@zenon-l-m.bsky.social), whose edition of George Chapman’s The Shadow of Night & Ovid’s Banquet of Sense' has just been published in the MHRA Critical Texts series.
👉 www.mhra.org.uk/news/2026/01...
Barbara Burns talks to Zenón Luis-Martínez (@zenon-l-m.bsky.social), whose edition of George Chapman’s The Shadow of Night & Ovid’s Banquet of Sense' has just been published in the MHRA Critical Texts series.
👉 www.mhra.org.uk/news/2026/01...
January 30, 2026 at 10:27 AM
'An Eternizement of the Savoursome'
Barbara Burns talks to Zenón Luis-Martínez (@zenon-l-m.bsky.social), whose edition of George Chapman’s The Shadow of Night & Ovid’s Banquet of Sense' has just been published in the MHRA Critical Texts series.
👉 www.mhra.org.uk/news/2026/01...
Barbara Burns talks to Zenón Luis-Martínez (@zenon-l-m.bsky.social), whose edition of George Chapman’s The Shadow of Night & Ovid’s Banquet of Sense' has just been published in the MHRA Critical Texts series.
👉 www.mhra.org.uk/news/2026/01...
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⚔️Random scene today for your delectation and delight. It's from the very silly play Clyomon and Clymades, which is a play we love. Featuring pompous adventurers looking to save damsels in rhyming fourteeners. #drama #theatre #live #silly audioboom.com/posts/882200...
A Scene from Clyomon and Clymades (And... Scene!)
Random 14ers coming your way!
audioboom.com
January 30, 2026 at 9:09 AM
⚔️Random scene today for your delectation and delight. It's from the very silly play Clyomon and Clymades, which is a play we love. Featuring pompous adventurers looking to save damsels in rhyming fourteeners. #drama #theatre #live #silly audioboom.com/posts/882200...
This book is 2 years old today
👇
Currently on discount at Routledge
👇
Reviewed by Karen Raber in the latest issue of "Shakespeare Studies Volume 53" (published this week)
👇
Shakespeare on the Ecological Surface - 1st Edition - Liz Oakley-Brown share.google/CRRV7QG2njsN...
👇
Currently on discount at Routledge
👇
Reviewed by Karen Raber in the latest issue of "Shakespeare Studies Volume 53" (published this week)
👇
Shakespeare on the Ecological Surface - 1st Edition - Liz Oakley-Brown share.google/CRRV7QG2njsN...
Shakespeare on the Ecological Surface
Shakespeare on the Ecological Surface uses the concept of the ‘surface’ to examine the relationship between contemporary performance and ecocriticism. Each section looks, in turn, at the 'surfaces' of...
share.google
January 30, 2026 at 9:07 AM
This book is 2 years old today
👇
Currently on discount at Routledge
👇
Reviewed by Karen Raber in the latest issue of "Shakespeare Studies Volume 53" (published this week)
👇
Shakespeare on the Ecological Surface - 1st Edition - Liz Oakley-Brown share.google/CRRV7QG2njsN...
👇
Currently on discount at Routledge
👇
Reviewed by Karen Raber in the latest issue of "Shakespeare Studies Volume 53" (published this week)
👇
Shakespeare on the Ecological Surface - 1st Edition - Liz Oakley-Brown share.google/CRRV7QG2njsN...
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People seem to be alarmingly unaware of this. AI is an existential threat for multiple reasons, but one of the most obvious is that the graphs of climate catastrophe emissions is not going down but steeply up. And our government is going all out enthusiastic for it 😱
The AI race will come at a steep cost to both consumers and the planet.
As data centres drive up electricity bills for ordinary Americans, the US is set to add record levels of new gas capacity in 2026, eclipsing the previous record set in 2002.
www.theguardian.com/environment/... 🧪
As data centres drive up electricity bills for ordinary Americans, the US is set to add record levels of new gas capacity in 2026, eclipsing the previous record set in 2002.
www.theguardian.com/environment/... 🧪
US leads record global surge in gas-fired power driven by AI demands, with big costs for the climate
Projects in development expected to grow global capacity by nearly 50% amid growing concern over impact on planet
www.theguardian.com
January 30, 2026 at 8:59 AM
People seem to be alarmingly unaware of this. AI is an existential threat for multiple reasons, but one of the most obvious is that the graphs of climate catastrophe emissions is not going down but steeply up. And our government is going all out enthusiastic for it 😱
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If you're a victim of repeated flooding, you need to start looking at land use upstream.
One of these sponges up vast amounts of water, releasing it slowly, the other does not. One reduces flooding, the other *increases* it.
Without addressing this core driver, it'll just keep on getting worse.
One of these sponges up vast amounts of water, releasing it slowly, the other does not. One reduces flooding, the other *increases* it.
Without addressing this core driver, it'll just keep on getting worse.
January 30, 2026 at 5:31 AM
If you're a victim of repeated flooding, you need to start looking at land use upstream.
One of these sponges up vast amounts of water, releasing it slowly, the other does not. One reduces flooding, the other *increases* it.
Without addressing this core driver, it'll just keep on getting worse.
One of these sponges up vast amounts of water, releasing it slowly, the other does not. One reduces flooding, the other *increases* it.
Without addressing this core driver, it'll just keep on getting worse.
My favourite Jessie Buckley role so far 👇
Jessie Buckley as Oraetta Mayflower | Fargo on FX share.google/krgSjXekcbYZ...
Jessie Buckley as Oraetta Mayflower | Fargo on FX share.google/krgSjXekcbYZ...
Jessie Buckley as Oraetta Mayflower in Fargo
A self-described “Angel of Mercy,” Oraetta believes that her purpose on this “earthly realm” is to bring peace and comfort to the patients in her care.
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January 30, 2026 at 8:58 AM
My favourite Jessie Buckley role so far 👇
Jessie Buckley as Oraetta Mayflower | Fargo on FX share.google/krgSjXekcbYZ...
Jessie Buckley as Oraetta Mayflower | Fargo on FX share.google/krgSjXekcbYZ...
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We've got another great series of talks coming up this term at Swansea for New Welsh Voices in English Literature!
Join us next week (4th Feb) in KH152 for Bridget Bartlett's paper "gRace Making in Early Modern English Literature". Message or email me for a Zoom link.
Join us next week (4th Feb) in KH152 for Bridget Bartlett's paper "gRace Making in Early Modern English Literature". Message or email me for a Zoom link.
January 28, 2026 at 11:51 AM
We've got another great series of talks coming up this term at Swansea for New Welsh Voices in English Literature!
Join us next week (4th Feb) in KH152 for Bridget Bartlett's paper "gRace Making in Early Modern English Literature". Message or email me for a Zoom link.
Join us next week (4th Feb) in KH152 for Bridget Bartlett's paper "gRace Making in Early Modern English Literature". Message or email me for a Zoom link.
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'The Crown’s Silence, a book published this week, details how monarchs from Queen Elizabeth I to George IV used the trade in enslaved people to boost crown revenues and defend the British empire.'
Calls for King Charles to formally apologise for slavery after research shows crown’s role
Book The Crown’s Silence details how crown profited from and protected trade in enslaved African people for centuries
www.theguardian.com
January 30, 2026 at 7:47 AM
'The Crown’s Silence, a book published this week, details how monarchs from Queen Elizabeth I to George IV used the trade in enslaved people to boost crown revenues and defend the British empire.'
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Happy 45th birthday to Once in a Lifetime by Talking Heads, released as a single on this day in 1981. Here's David introducing that video
January 30, 2026 at 8:22 AM
Happy 45th birthday to Once in a Lifetime by Talking Heads, released as a single on this day in 1981. Here's David introducing that video
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“These cuts are hitting the most vulnerable staff hardest.”
Sophia Woodman, @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social branch president explaining the reality of the crisis in HE to the Scottish Education Committee.
Sophia Woodman, @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social branch president explaining the reality of the crisis in HE to the Scottish Education Committee.
January 28, 2026 at 4:50 PM
“These cuts are hitting the most vulnerable staff hardest.”
Sophia Woodman, @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social branch president explaining the reality of the crisis in HE to the Scottish Education Committee.
Sophia Woodman, @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social branch president explaining the reality of the crisis in HE to the Scottish Education Committee.
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Cutting 400 jobs at the University of Essex would hit students, teaching, research and the wider community.
Closing the Southend campus would be devastating for the town.
Staff strike 12–19 Feb.
Join the rallies: 5 Feb Southend an 12 Feb Colchester (12–1pm). Info ⬇️
Closing the Southend campus would be devastating for the town.
Staff strike 12–19 Feb.
Join the rallies: 5 Feb Southend an 12 Feb Colchester (12–1pm). Info ⬇️
University of Essex staff to strike in February in fight against job cuts
7 days of strikes will hit the University of Essex in February over plans to cut 400 jobs, the University and College Union (UCU) has announced today.
www.ucu.org.uk
January 29, 2026 at 8:25 AM
Cutting 400 jobs at the University of Essex would hit students, teaching, research and the wider community.
Closing the Southend campus would be devastating for the town.
Staff strike 12–19 Feb.
Join the rallies: 5 Feb Southend an 12 Feb Colchester (12–1pm). Info ⬇️
Closing the Southend campus would be devastating for the town.
Staff strike 12–19 Feb.
Join the rallies: 5 Feb Southend an 12 Feb Colchester (12–1pm). Info ⬇️
Rank and file UKHEI employees are taking the brunt of this
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"The university bosses getting rich while they’re cutting jobs"
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"The university bosses getting rich while they’re cutting jobs"
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The university bosses getting rich while they’re cutting jobs
While academics are being let go and students are racking up debts, vice-chancellors are seeing their pay soar to astonishing levels
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January 29, 2026 at 8:29 AM
Rank and file UKHEI employees are taking the brunt of this
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"The university bosses getting rich while they’re cutting jobs"
share.google/CsP5bqkySc6T...
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"The university bosses getting rich while they’re cutting jobs"
share.google/CsP5bqkySc6T...
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'Compiled by the campaign group Lit in Colour, the report says progress is too slow and that at the current pace of change it will be 2046 before 10% of students answer a question about a text by an author of colour in their English literature GCSE.' 2/2
Lit in Colour's Five-Year Progress Report
www.penguin.co.uk
January 28, 2026 at 8:34 AM
'Compiled by the campaign group Lit in Colour, the report says progress is too slow and that at the current pace of change it will be 2046 before 10% of students answer a question about a text by an author of colour in their English literature GCSE.' 2/2