Dr Corrina Readioff
@fierengraw.bsky.social
Literary detective & long 18th-centuryist. Honorary Research Associate at the University of Liverpool.
Currently working on early modern whales
She/her
https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/people/corrina-readioff#tabbed-content
https://18thcparatext.wordpress
Currently working on early modern whales
She/her
https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/people/corrina-readioff#tabbed-content
https://18thcparatext.wordpress
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Pixar designed Toy Story to be printed on physical film. The Disney renaissance movies were the same.
Today, it's hard to see them as they were meant to be seen. The versions on streaming and home media aren't quite the same films that ruled the '90s:
animationobsessive.substack.com/p/the-toy-st...
Today, it's hard to see them as they were meant to be seen. The versions on streaming and home media aren't quite the same films that ruled the '90s:
animationobsessive.substack.com/p/the-toy-st...
November 11, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Pixar designed Toy Story to be printed on physical film. The Disney renaissance movies were the same.
Today, it's hard to see them as they were meant to be seen. The versions on streaming and home media aren't quite the same films that ruled the '90s:
animationobsessive.substack.com/p/the-toy-st...
Today, it's hard to see them as they were meant to be seen. The versions on streaming and home media aren't quite the same films that ruled the '90s:
animationobsessive.substack.com/p/the-toy-st...
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So, uh, I'm quoted in the @nytimes.com today in an article about C. S. Lewis and the Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. Cool! 🦁 🧙 🚪
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. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/b...
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. #lionwitchwardrobe #CSLewis #NYTimes #fantasy
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. #lionwitchwardrobe #CSLewis #NYTimes #fantasy
The First Time I Read ‘The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe’
www.nytimes.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:12 PM
So, uh, I'm quoted in the @nytimes.com today in an article about C. S. Lewis and the Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. Cool! 🦁 🧙 🚪
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. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/b...
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. #lionwitchwardrobe #CSLewis #NYTimes #fantasy
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. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/b...
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. #lionwitchwardrobe #CSLewis #NYTimes #fantasy
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Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).
Rosalind Franklin and the damage of gender harassment
Spurred by a recent report on sexual harassment in academia, our columnist revisits a historical case and reflects on what has changed—and what hasn’t
www.science.org
November 7, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).
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Will the RW media remember the driver and conductor of the Huntingdon attack, and how many lives they saved, the next time train companies try to eliminate staff and they strike, citing passenger safety?
November 3, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Will the RW media remember the driver and conductor of the Huntingdon attack, and how many lives they saved, the next time train companies try to eliminate staff and they strike, citing passenger safety?
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'His book tour brought him to Cambridgeshire, where he would marry and have two children with Susannah Cullen, an Englishwoman from Ely. They settled in Soham, supported by a local network including abolitionist friends, safe...when reactionary “church and king” mobs were targeting reformers.' 1/3
Lost grave of daughter of Black abolitionist Olaudah Equiano found by A-level student
Fitzwilliam Museum has uncovered student’s work from 1977 that revealed Cambridgeshire location of child’s burial place
www.theguardian.com
November 1, 2025 at 8:24 AM
'His book tour brought him to Cambridgeshire, where he would marry and have two children with Susannah Cullen, an Englishwoman from Ely. They settled in Soham, supported by a local network including abolitionist friends, safe...when reactionary “church and king” mobs were targeting reformers.' 1/3
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We need a critique of AI in academic publishing. Following my decision not to sign an AI addendum to my contract with Cambridge University Press, I wrote this short essay which is now out in the Dublin Review of Books.
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drb.ie/move-over-fo...
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drb.ie/move-over-fo...
Move over for AI - DRB
Katja Bruisch writes: I recently completed a scholarly monograph – an environmental, economic and energy history of peat in imperial and Soviet Russia. After years of thinking and writing, I approache...
drb.ie
October 30, 2025 at 11:01 AM
We need a critique of AI in academic publishing. Following my decision not to sign an AI addendum to my contract with Cambridge University Press, I wrote this short essay which is now out in the Dublin Review of Books.
👇
drb.ie/move-over-fo...
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drb.ie/move-over-fo...
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Giveaway! 🎉
We're offering four copies of our new book, Women Who Dared, which spotlights powerful and defiant women who made their mark.
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We're offering four copies of our new book, Women Who Dared, which spotlights powerful and defiant women who made their mark.
Want to win a copy?
Here's how to enter:
1. Like this post ❤️
2. Repost 🔄
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Women Who Dared
Women Who Dared
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October 20, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Giveaway! 🎉
We're offering four copies of our new book, Women Who Dared, which spotlights powerful and defiant women who made their mark.
Want to win a copy?
Here's how to enter:
1. Like this post ❤️
2. Repost 🔄
🕔 Entries close 5pm GMT on 31 Oct
🔗 Browse Women Who Dared:
We're offering four copies of our new book, Women Who Dared, which spotlights powerful and defiant women who made their mark.
Want to win a copy?
Here's how to enter:
1. Like this post ❤️
2. Repost 🔄
🕔 Entries close 5pm GMT on 31 Oct
🔗 Browse Women Who Dared:
Makes you wish Alexander Pope was alive today to ridicule the whole tasteless monstrosity in scathing satirical couplets…
The pediment at the end of a range; the dwarfing of the host building; the ridiculous unsupported span, weird brackets and irregular ceiling; the cranky corners. The unwarranted demolition. What a car crash.
October 26, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Makes you wish Alexander Pope was alive today to ridicule the whole tasteless monstrosity in scathing satirical couplets…
Good news for Tolkien enthusiasts! (the obviously AI “photo” within the article is decidedly creepy, but still)
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Plans to reopen Tolkien and Lewis pub in Oxford approved
Planning permission and listed building consent is granted to restore The Eagle and Child in Oxford.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 22, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Good news for Tolkien enthusiasts! (the obviously AI “photo” within the article is decidedly creepy, but still)
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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We’re so impressed by this visitor’s quill-and-ink portrait of Dr Johnson!
Try your hand at writing (or drawing!) with a quill in our exhibition 'Desks, Drudgery, and the Dictionary'. Blots, smudges, and creativity all encouraged.
www.drjohnsonshouse.org/visit
Try your hand at writing (or drawing!) with a quill in our exhibition 'Desks, Drudgery, and the Dictionary'. Blots, smudges, and creativity all encouraged.
www.drjohnsonshouse.org/visit
October 21, 2025 at 4:49 PM
We’re so impressed by this visitor’s quill-and-ink portrait of Dr Johnson!
Try your hand at writing (or drawing!) with a quill in our exhibition 'Desks, Drudgery, and the Dictionary'. Blots, smudges, and creativity all encouraged.
www.drjohnsonshouse.org/visit
Try your hand at writing (or drawing!) with a quill in our exhibition 'Desks, Drudgery, and the Dictionary'. Blots, smudges, and creativity all encouraged.
www.drjohnsonshouse.org/visit
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Why would you admit this?
Also, British food has been spicy forever - The Forme of Cury was written in the 14th century!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_For...
Also, British food has been spicy forever - The Forme of Cury was written in the 14th century!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_For...
October 18, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Why would you admit this?
Also, British food has been spicy forever - The Forme of Cury was written in the 14th century!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_For...
Also, British food has been spicy forever - The Forme of Cury was written in the 14th century!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_For...
Potatoes (a main ingredient in both the “traditional” Sunday roast and fish & chips) only arrived in the British Isles from South America around the 1580s, & didn’t catch on as a popular food until the late 18th century; which is also about the same time curry arrived in the UK
The British Right are just in total freefall into savagery at this point
October 18, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Potatoes (a main ingredient in both the “traditional” Sunday roast and fish & chips) only arrived in the British Isles from South America around the 1580s, & didn’t catch on as a popular food until the late 18th century; which is also about the same time curry arrived in the UK
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Looking for inspiration this weekend?
Liverpool Literary Festival 2025 brings world-class authors & fresh new voices to the heart of the city. Enjoy books, authors, and the power of stories.
Explore the programme: https://lpoolcouncil.info/3W8CEuA
Don’t miss it!
#LivLitFest25
Liverpool Literary Festival 2025 brings world-class authors & fresh new voices to the heart of the city. Enjoy books, authors, and the power of stories.
Explore the programme: https://lpoolcouncil.info/3W8CEuA
Don’t miss it!
#LivLitFest25
October 16, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Looking for inspiration this weekend?
Liverpool Literary Festival 2025 brings world-class authors & fresh new voices to the heart of the city. Enjoy books, authors, and the power of stories.
Explore the programme: https://lpoolcouncil.info/3W8CEuA
Don’t miss it!
#LivLitFest25
Liverpool Literary Festival 2025 brings world-class authors & fresh new voices to the heart of the city. Enjoy books, authors, and the power of stories.
Explore the programme: https://lpoolcouncil.info/3W8CEuA
Don’t miss it!
#LivLitFest25
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PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD!!
The University of Texas-Austin is beginning a process to eliminate the Black Studies, Latino Studies, and Gender Studies departments in the College of Liberal Arts. This is a grave threat to the educational liberty of students, faculty, staff, and the people of Texas. 1/
The University of Texas-Austin is beginning a process to eliminate the Black Studies, Latino Studies, and Gender Studies departments in the College of Liberal Arts. This is a grave threat to the educational liberty of students, faculty, staff, and the people of Texas. 1/
October 13, 2025 at 4:37 PM
PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD!!
The University of Texas-Austin is beginning a process to eliminate the Black Studies, Latino Studies, and Gender Studies departments in the College of Liberal Arts. This is a grave threat to the educational liberty of students, faculty, staff, and the people of Texas. 1/
The University of Texas-Austin is beginning a process to eliminate the Black Studies, Latino Studies, and Gender Studies departments in the College of Liberal Arts. This is a grave threat to the educational liberty of students, faculty, staff, and the people of Texas. 1/
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It's not Masquerade Monday, BUT! 'The Masquerade: A History of Extravagance and Intrigue' is now available for pre-order & you can get 25% off through Friday!
www.waterstones.com/book/the-mas...
If you think Bridgerton will be juicy, just wait til you get your hands on this 😏🤫 #18thc
www.waterstones.com/book/the-mas...
If you think Bridgerton will be juicy, just wait til you get your hands on this 😏🤫 #18thc
October 14, 2025 at 10:49 AM
It's not Masquerade Monday, BUT! 'The Masquerade: A History of Extravagance and Intrigue' is now available for pre-order & you can get 25% off through Friday!
www.waterstones.com/book/the-mas...
If you think Bridgerton will be juicy, just wait til you get your hands on this 😏🤫 #18thc
www.waterstones.com/book/the-mas...
If you think Bridgerton will be juicy, just wait til you get your hands on this 😏🤫 #18thc
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The BARS President’s Fellowship is open to scholars from Black, Indigenous and other minority ethnic backgrounds working on any aspect of Romantic Studies to support research, teaching and/or public outreach expenses of up to £1500. Deadline 7th Nov 2025.
www.bars.ac.uk/main/index.p...
www.bars.ac.uk/main/index.p...
October 10, 2025 at 3:22 PM
The BARS President’s Fellowship is open to scholars from Black, Indigenous and other minority ethnic backgrounds working on any aspect of Romantic Studies to support research, teaching and/or public outreach expenses of up to £1500. Deadline 7th Nov 2025.
www.bars.ac.uk/main/index.p...
www.bars.ac.uk/main/index.p...
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Scholars of eighteenth-century topics: consider submitting your work to *Digital Defoe*. We publish essays on Defoe, but also on his "contemporaries," which we're inclined to interpret broadly. More info here:
call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/10/...
call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/10/...
cfp | call for papers
call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu
October 10, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Scholars of eighteenth-century topics: consider submitting your work to *Digital Defoe*. We publish essays on Defoe, but also on his "contemporaries," which we're inclined to interpret broadly. More info here:
call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/10/...
call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/10/...
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We are delighted to announce the first seminar in our 25/26 series: the wonderful @drreznicek.bsky.social will be presenting on ‘Too Bodily: Disability, Care, & Belonging in Romantic Novels’ on Wednesday 29th October at 6pm.
Free! Online! All welcome!
Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Free! Online! All welcome!
Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
October 10, 2025 at 12:54 PM
We are delighted to announce the first seminar in our 25/26 series: the wonderful @drreznicek.bsky.social will be presenting on ‘Too Bodily: Disability, Care, & Belonging in Romantic Novels’ on Wednesday 29th October at 6pm.
Free! Online! All welcome!
Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Free! Online! All welcome!
Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
If your business model relies upon using stolen property then it’s not a viable business
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
buff.ly
October 8, 2025 at 2:34 PM
If your business model relies upon using stolen property then it’s not a viable business
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The MHRA has transitioned from Twitter/X and will now use Bluesky to communicate our work. We are excited to contribute to establishing Bluesky as a dynamic, inclusive, and engaging platform for academic exchange and collaboration.
To celebrate this new chapter, we are hosting a book giveaway! 👇
To celebrate this new chapter, we are hosting a book giveaway! 👇
March 21, 2025 at 10:17 AM
The MHRA has transitioned from Twitter/X and will now use Bluesky to communicate our work. We are excited to contribute to establishing Bluesky as a dynamic, inclusive, and engaging platform for academic exchange and collaboration.
To celebrate this new chapter, we are hosting a book giveaway! 👇
To celebrate this new chapter, we are hosting a book giveaway! 👇
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Excited to see my article on Beatrix Potter, timber, and arboreal stewardship published in Plant Perspectives (OA) 🪵🧚🏻♀️
September 30, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Excited to see my article on Beatrix Potter, timber, and arboreal stewardship published in Plant Perspectives (OA) 🪵🧚🏻♀️
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Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month
www.jstor.org/action/showL...
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month
www.jstor.org/action/showL...
September 29, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month
www.jstor.org/action/showL...
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month
www.jstor.org/action/showL...
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📖 In “Paratextual Mediation and Narrative Reconstruction: An Analysis of Footnotes in Sydney Owenson’s The Wild Irish Girl,” Jingxuan Yi explores how Owenson redefined Anglo-centric colonial narratives in her epistolary novel, tracing paratextual elements as subversive tools. Check out the article👇:
Paratextual Mediation and Narrative Reconstruction: An Analysis of Footnotes in Sydney Owenson’s The Wild Irish Girl
The 1801 Act of Union united Ireland with Britain, significantly altering Ireland’s political and cultural identity. While some Irish supported the Union, Anglo-Irish writers such as Sydney Owenson...
www.tandfonline.com
September 29, 2025 at 8:13 AM
📖 In “Paratextual Mediation and Narrative Reconstruction: An Analysis of Footnotes in Sydney Owenson’s The Wild Irish Girl,” Jingxuan Yi explores how Owenson redefined Anglo-centric colonial narratives in her epistolary novel, tracing paratextual elements as subversive tools. Check out the article👇:
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Hello #academicsky! I'm sharing a cfp for an edited collection on "Naming & Classifying," pulled together by me, Kristin Girten, & @aaronrhanlon.com . We'd love to see your work! Please also circulate to anyone you think might be interested. Deadline 10/31. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Naming and Classifying cfp final
CFP: Naming and Classifying in the Long Eighteenth Century Whereas “the nineteenth century can be seen as the century of counting and measuring,” the eighteenth century can be seen as the century of ...
docs.google.com
September 16, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Hello #academicsky! I'm sharing a cfp for an edited collection on "Naming & Classifying," pulled together by me, Kristin Girten, & @aaronrhanlon.com . We'd love to see your work! Please also circulate to anyone you think might be interested. Deadline 10/31. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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⭐️Happy Launch Day: TEN CHILDREN WHO CHANGED THE WORLD!⭐️ #Waterstones #HachetteChildrensGroup #ChildrensLiterature #History
September 11, 2025 at 8:04 AM
⭐️Happy Launch Day: TEN CHILDREN WHO CHANGED THE WORLD!⭐️ #Waterstones #HachetteChildrensGroup #ChildrensLiterature #History