Jess Goodman
@goodmanjess.bsky.social
Associate Prof in French at St Catz, Oxford. Works on imagination, posterity, death, self-fashioning, theatre in C18. Mother of 3yo & 6yo. Views my own.
7 y.o. reading out random phrases from ancient French phrase book for me. "j'ai une cartouche de cigarettes à déclarer. C'est pour mon usage personnel." "Pouvez-vous changer mes chèques de voyage en francs suisses....?"
November 12, 2025 at 8:19 PM
7 y.o. reading out random phrases from ancient French phrase book for me. "j'ai une cartouche de cigarettes à déclarer. C'est pour mon usage personnel." "Pouvez-vous changer mes chèques de voyage en francs suisses....?"
Really wonderful event this evening @stcatz.bsky.social with Corinne Jaber & Atri Banerjee in conversation with Pablo Mukherjee about their project to bring Karthika Nair's Until the Lions: Echoes from the Mahabharata to the stage.
November 11, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Really wonderful event this evening @stcatz.bsky.social with Corinne Jaber & Atri Banerjee in conversation with Pablo Mukherjee about their project to bring Karthika Nair's Until the Lions: Echoes from the Mahabharata to the stage.
Nottingham too.... What a sad state of affairs. Thoughts with colleagues there.
November 7, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Nottingham too.... What a sad state of affairs. Thoughts with colleagues there.
Reposted by Jess Goodman
📣 New WPH Editor Wanted
We're looking for a second postgraduate editor for our online journal 'MHRA Working Papers in the Humanities', launched in 2006 and aimed at early-career researchers and postgraduates.
Post from Dec 2025–Nov 2027
Deadline👉10 Nov 2025, 5pm
👉 www.mhra.org.uk/news/2025/10...
We're looking for a second postgraduate editor for our online journal 'MHRA Working Papers in the Humanities', launched in 2006 and aimed at early-career researchers and postgraduates.
Post from Dec 2025–Nov 2027
Deadline👉10 Nov 2025, 5pm
👉 www.mhra.org.uk/news/2025/10...
New WPH Editor Wanted
There's an opening for one of the two postgraduate editor positions on the journal Working Papers in the Humanities: applications close 10 November.
www.mhra.org.uk
October 13, 2025 at 4:31 PM
📣 New WPH Editor Wanted
We're looking for a second postgraduate editor for our online journal 'MHRA Working Papers in the Humanities', launched in 2006 and aimed at early-career researchers and postgraduates.
Post from Dec 2025–Nov 2027
Deadline👉10 Nov 2025, 5pm
👉 www.mhra.org.uk/news/2025/10...
We're looking for a second postgraduate editor for our online journal 'MHRA Working Papers in the Humanities', launched in 2006 and aimed at early-career researchers and postgraduates.
Post from Dec 2025–Nov 2027
Deadline👉10 Nov 2025, 5pm
👉 www.mhra.org.uk/news/2025/10...
Coloured pen and glued paper on translated extract from Voltaire's Micromégas. By Eva, aged 4.
Would definitely cut the mustard in some art exhibitions. Title suggestions sought.
Would definitely cut the mustard in some art exhibitions. Title suggestions sought.
October 15, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Coloured pen and glued paper on translated extract from Voltaire's Micromégas. By Eva, aged 4.
Would definitely cut the mustard in some art exhibitions. Title suggestions sought.
Would definitely cut the mustard in some art exhibitions. Title suggestions sought.
Today I finished a (very bad) first draft of the final chapter of The Book. There is a LONG way to go (intro, conclusion, much redrafting, sorting out the horrendous mess that is my footnotes), but this still feels like a milestone.
September 17, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Today I finished a (very bad) first draft of the final chapter of The Book. There is a LONG way to go (intro, conclusion, much redrafting, sorting out the horrendous mess that is my footnotes), but this still feels like a milestone.
Cried when I dropped each of my children off for first day or nursery (2019, 2022). Cried today on dropping little one off for the last time, before school in Sept. Will doubtless cry then too. Luckily most of these occasions are in weather where sunglasses are (just about) acceptable!
July 31, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Cried when I dropped each of my children off for first day or nursery (2019, 2022). Cried today on dropping little one off for the last time, before school in Sept. Will doubtless cry then too. Luckily most of these occasions are in weather where sunglasses are (just about) acceptable!
Today was an INCREDIBLY early start for my first flight since pre-pandemic and first solo trip abroad since pre-children (2018!!!!). Off to Berlin to talk about the fragmented career trajectories of female artists and authors.
July 7, 2025 at 4:47 AM
Today was an INCREDIBLY early start for my first flight since pre-pandemic and first solo trip abroad since pre-children (2018!!!!). Off to Berlin to talk about the fragmented career trajectories of female artists and authors.
SOMEWHAT last minute writing of French Studies paper (I'm only joining you all at #SFS2025 on Weds), and as you'll see, this really is work in progress...
June 30, 2025 at 1:11 PM
SOMEWHAT last minute writing of French Studies paper (I'm only joining you all at #SFS2025 on Weds), and as you'll see, this really is work in progress...
The hill I will die on is the hyphenation of eighteenth century (or any other century) when used as an adjective. Brought to you from mid-Finals marking frustration as I systematically circle this error even though the students are never going to see the scripts.
June 23, 2025 at 9:43 AM
The hill I will die on is the hyphenation of eighteenth century (or any other century) when used as an adjective. Brought to you from mid-Finals marking frustration as I systematically circle this error even though the students are never going to see the scripts.
Oh hang on, and two PhD milestone vivas.
Teaching DONE for the academic year. Only an outreach session, committee meeting, end of year report meetings, finals scripts, and two last-minute conference papers (Bristol and Berlin) to deal with until I can get back to The Book.
June 18, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Oh hang on, and two PhD milestone vivas.
Teaching DONE for the academic year. Only an outreach session, committee meeting, end of year report meetings, finals scripts, and two last-minute conference papers (Bristol and Berlin) to deal with until I can get back to The Book.
June 18, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Teaching DONE for the academic year. Only an outreach session, committee meeting, end of year report meetings, finals scripts, and two last-minute conference papers (Bristol and Berlin) to deal with until I can get back to The Book.
SUPER excited to have been awarded a grant from the Humanities Cultural Fund to work with Pegasus youth theatre to devise a piece based on my research into Imagined Futures! 🎉
June 16, 2025 at 6:55 PM
SUPER excited to have been awarded a grant from the Humanities Cultural Fund to work with Pegasus youth theatre to devise a piece based on my research into Imagined Futures! 🎉
I think this cheeky intruder digging up our roses is telling me to stop rewriting reading lists and go to bed.
June 2, 2025 at 8:45 PM
I think this cheeky intruder digging up our roses is telling me to stop rewriting reading lists and go to bed.
This day 40 years ago. Plus ça change...
May 22, 2025 at 8:19 AM
This day 40 years ago. Plus ça change...
I thought Christmas was peak unicorn. I was wrong.
May 21, 2025 at 8:20 AM
I thought Christmas was peak unicorn. I was wrong.
Reaching crunch time for deliveries where a package arriving at any one moment could be a) cheese/alcohol for 40th party, b) unicorns (etc) for 4 y.o. bday, c) tiles/fittings for bathroom refurb. Apologies if we serve you unicorns or grout on Saturday....
May 12, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Reaching crunch time for deliveries where a package arriving at any one moment could be a) cheese/alcohol for 40th party, b) unicorns (etc) for 4 y.o. bday, c) tiles/fittings for bathroom refurb. Apologies if we serve you unicorns or grout on Saturday....
Trying to be cool but really quite excited to be giving a workshop here today!
May 2, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Trying to be cool but really quite excited to be giving a workshop here today!
Next 2.5 wks: RADA workshop, 3-day collab visit, running a school fundraiser eve, running 10k race, my 40th bday & (large) party, 4y.o. bday & party inc. unicorn/rainbow cake construction. PLUS run up to Finals (revision, mocks, panic) & normal teaching/mtings/admin. And still having building done.
May 1, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Next 2.5 wks: RADA workshop, 3-day collab visit, running a school fundraiser eve, running 10k race, my 40th bday & (large) party, 4y.o. bday & party inc. unicorn/rainbow cake construction. PLUS run up to Finals (revision, mocks, panic) & normal teaching/mtings/admin. And still having building done.
Reposted by Jess Goodman
📣 Come join us! 📣 A two-year postdoc in Enlightenment Studies @voltaire.ox.ac.uk and Oxford's lively community of researchers working on the long 18thC @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social, Modern Languages, and beyond. my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru... Applications welcome by 30 May.
April 24, 2025 at 2:18 PM
📣 Come join us! 📣 A two-year postdoc in Enlightenment Studies @voltaire.ox.ac.uk and Oxford's lively community of researchers working on the long 18thC @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social, Modern Languages, and beyond. my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru... Applications welcome by 30 May.
6 y.o. just called my tablet 'the essay thingummy' and this is a sad reflection of its current heavy (exclusive) use for essay and exam marking.
April 26, 2025 at 5:37 PM
6 y.o. just called my tablet 'the essay thingummy' and this is a sad reflection of its current heavy (exclusive) use for essay and exam marking.
Setting challenges for 6 y.o.:
'Can you get to the top of the hill in 30 steps?'
'i bet I can do it in fewer.'
So proud!
'Can you get to the top of the hill in 30 steps?'
'i bet I can do it in fewer.'
So proud!
April 16, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Setting challenges for 6 y.o.:
'Can you get to the top of the hill in 30 steps?'
'i bet I can do it in fewer.'
So proud!
'Can you get to the top of the hill in 30 steps?'
'i bet I can do it in fewer.'
So proud!
Quite frankly, whoever decided I should be a) mid building work, b) planning another renovation project, c) planning a (big) 40th & (smaller) 4th bday party within 3 days of one another AND d) starting crazy exam term with an appointment committee & two big engagement projects should have rethought.
April 15, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Quite frankly, whoever decided I should be a) mid building work, b) planning another renovation project, c) planning a (big) 40th & (smaller) 4th bday party within 3 days of one another AND d) starting crazy exam term with an appointment committee & two big engagement projects should have rethought.
Currently intensely regretting putting Wicked soundtrack on for car journey with many-question-asking 6 year old who wants to know the whole plot and understand its moral implications.
April 13, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Currently intensely regretting putting Wicked soundtrack on for car journey with many-question-asking 6 year old who wants to know the whole plot and understand its moral implications.