Dr Hope Doherty-Harrison
@hdohertyharrison.bsky.social
Leverhulme ECF, Edinburgh Uni, writing The Living Judas in Medieval Text and Image for Cornell UP.
Love and anti-Judaism in medieval English romance (Manchester UP, 2025); Co-ed, Towards An Accessible Academy (MIP, 2025).
Volunteer, MCR Pathways.
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Love and anti-Judaism in medieval English romance (Manchester UP, 2025); Co-ed, Towards An Accessible Academy (MIP, 2025).
Volunteer, MCR Pathways.
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Delighted to share that my second monograph, The Living Judas in Medieval Text and Image (working title), is now under contract with Cornell University Press @cornellupress.bsky.social! I am so grateful to @leverhulme.ac.uk & @paulmelloncentr.bsky.social for the time & support to work on this.
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ICYMI just 133 days until Borders, Boundaries, and Barriers: Real and Imagined in the Middle Ages. The committee are so excited for April and hearing all of the amazing papers.
What better gift to get the medievalist in your life this Holiday Season than registration for our *little* conference?!
What better gift to get the medievalist in your life this Holiday Season than registration for our *little* conference?!
We are thrilled to launch the provisional programme for "Borders, Boundaries, and Barriers: Real and Imagined in the Middle Ages". If the programme excites you as much as us, why not register and join us in Oxford on 20-21 April?! buytickets.at/bordersbound...
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Borders Provisional Programme - For Publication.docx
Borders, Boundaries, and Barriers: Real and Imagined in the Middle Ages (Provisional Programme) Rewley House, 20-21 April 2026 Day 0 (Optional) 16:00 onwards: Oxford Medieval Jewish Walking Tour (led ...
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December 8, 2025 at 8:30 AM
ICYMI just 133 days until Borders, Boundaries, and Barriers: Real and Imagined in the Middle Ages. The committee are so excited for April and hearing all of the amazing papers.
What better gift to get the medievalist in your life this Holiday Season than registration for our *little* conference?!
What better gift to get the medievalist in your life this Holiday Season than registration for our *little* conference?!
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Super excited to see that the sessions that Birgit Wiedl and I organised for @imc-leeds.bsky.social have been accepted! Four panels, and a round table, considering Jews and Christians in medieval Europe!
November 29, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Super excited to see that the sessions that Birgit Wiedl and I organised for @imc-leeds.bsky.social have been accepted! Four panels, and a round table, considering Jews and Christians in medieval Europe!
My article 'Self-Injury and Truth in Hebrew and Latin Versions of the Seven Sages of Rome' is now published in OLHJ & available open access. Very grateful to Bettina Bildhauer, @janebonsall.bsky.social & the @7sagesresearch.bsky.social community for making this work possible.
doi.org/10.16995/olh...
doi.org/10.16995/olh...
Self-Injury and Truth in Hebrew and Latin Versions of the <em>Seven Sages of Rome</em>
This article compares three medieval versions of the ‘Seven Sages of Rome’ narrative: the Latin Dolopathos (1184–1212) and Historia septem sapientum (1300–1342) and the Hebrew Mishle Sendebar (1100–12...
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December 28, 2025 at 4:52 PM
My article 'Self-Injury and Truth in Hebrew and Latin Versions of the Seven Sages of Rome' is now published in OLHJ & available open access. Very grateful to Bettina Bildhauer, @janebonsall.bsky.social & the @7sagesresearch.bsky.social community for making this work possible.
doi.org/10.16995/olh...
doi.org/10.16995/olh...
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Final proofs off for Anselm Adornes: Travel, Trade, Cultural Exchange, and Intellectual Networks in Scotland, Bruges, and Jerusalem. It is so beautiful!
Such a rewarding project. With enormous thanks to my co-editors @jillharrison1.bsky.social and Giovanna Guidicini
www.brepols.net/products/IS-...
Such a rewarding project. With enormous thanks to my co-editors @jillharrison1.bsky.social and Giovanna Guidicini
www.brepols.net/products/IS-...
December 18, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Final proofs off for Anselm Adornes: Travel, Trade, Cultural Exchange, and Intellectual Networks in Scotland, Bruges, and Jerusalem. It is so beautiful!
Such a rewarding project. With enormous thanks to my co-editors @jillharrison1.bsky.social and Giovanna Guidicini
www.brepols.net/products/IS-...
Such a rewarding project. With enormous thanks to my co-editors @jillharrison1.bsky.social and Giovanna Guidicini
www.brepols.net/products/IS-...
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I can't do a poll, but I can make an executive decision, so🥁🥁🥁
I'll be starting my EIGHTH #SlowShakespeare daily blog on 1 January: #MoonMad aka Midsummer Night's Dream. Because we could all do with some laughs & a bit more fairy-dust right now...
(Gwendoline Christie as Titania at the Bridge, 2019)
I'll be starting my EIGHTH #SlowShakespeare daily blog on 1 January: #MoonMad aka Midsummer Night's Dream. Because we could all do with some laughs & a bit more fairy-dust right now...
(Gwendoline Christie as Titania at the Bridge, 2019)
December 19, 2025 at 12:30 PM
I can't do a poll, but I can make an executive decision, so🥁🥁🥁
I'll be starting my EIGHTH #SlowShakespeare daily blog on 1 January: #MoonMad aka Midsummer Night's Dream. Because we could all do with some laughs & a bit more fairy-dust right now...
(Gwendoline Christie as Titania at the Bridge, 2019)
I'll be starting my EIGHTH #SlowShakespeare daily blog on 1 January: #MoonMad aka Midsummer Night's Dream. Because we could all do with some laughs & a bit more fairy-dust right now...
(Gwendoline Christie as Titania at the Bridge, 2019)
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Just discovered an insane new form of co-intelligence where you briefly share the mind of a great thinker in history and then a portion of their mind travels in yours for the rest of your life. Calling it a "book."
December 11, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Just discovered an insane new form of co-intelligence where you briefly share the mind of a great thinker in history and then a portion of their mind travels in yours for the rest of your life. Calling it a "book."
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The Middle English Reading Group I set up this semester has been reading Sir Gawain & the Green Knight. For our last session of the year, a student baked excellent biscuits. Of course, we started by eating the green knight’s head!
November 28, 2025 at 3:27 PM
The Middle English Reading Group I set up this semester has been reading Sir Gawain & the Green Knight. For our last session of the year, a student baked excellent biscuits. Of course, we started by eating the green knight’s head!
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Phew: another output for the PTAS project ✔️
A really stimulating afternoon discussing experiential learning, heritage in education, recipes, historical fashion, pedagogy & so many exciting projects currently underway. With massive thanks to @jillburke.bsky.social for a fabulous keynote✨
A really stimulating afternoon discussing experiential learning, heritage in education, recipes, historical fashion, pedagogy & so many exciting projects currently underway. With massive thanks to @jillburke.bsky.social for a fabulous keynote✨
December 9, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Phew: another output for the PTAS project ✔️
A really stimulating afternoon discussing experiential learning, heritage in education, recipes, historical fashion, pedagogy & so many exciting projects currently underway. With massive thanks to @jillburke.bsky.social for a fabulous keynote✨
A really stimulating afternoon discussing experiential learning, heritage in education, recipes, historical fashion, pedagogy & so many exciting projects currently underway. With massive thanks to @jillburke.bsky.social for a fabulous keynote✨
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it's gutting to see access and widening participation initiatives being binned across the university sector. ELCE here at Bristol, Essex Pathways here. nothing pushes my personal, visceral buttons like the idea of denying academic study to someone whose life it could change
In yet more devastating news, the VC has confirmed her plans to cut 80% of academic staff from Essex Pathways, our foundation year department. This would effectively close down all our existing foundation year programmes through the back door.
But it's not a done deal yet. Please share urgently.
But it's not a done deal yet. Please share urgently.
December 8, 2025 at 8:18 AM
it's gutting to see access and widening participation initiatives being binned across the university sector. ELCE here at Bristol, Essex Pathways here. nothing pushes my personal, visceral buttons like the idea of denying academic study to someone whose life it could change
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It somehow is always the widening participation programmes that are the ones that get cut first, that get deemed dispensable.
Shame on @universityofessex.bsky.social. Transforming society for the better is #UKHE 's role, Essex's in particular. Have you forgotten what you were established for?
Shame on @universityofessex.bsky.social. Transforming society for the better is #UKHE 's role, Essex's in particular. Have you forgotten what you were established for?
In yet more devastating news, the VC has confirmed her plans to cut 80% of academic staff from Essex Pathways, our foundation year department. This would effectively close down all our existing foundation year programmes through the back door.
But it's not a done deal yet. Please share urgently.
But it's not a done deal yet. Please share urgently.
December 7, 2025 at 2:07 PM
It somehow is always the widening participation programmes that are the ones that get cut first, that get deemed dispensable.
Shame on @universityofessex.bsky.social. Transforming society for the better is #UKHE 's role, Essex's in particular. Have you forgotten what you were established for?
Shame on @universityofessex.bsky.social. Transforming society for the better is #UKHE 's role, Essex's in particular. Have you forgotten what you were established for?
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one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
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Delighted to be heading to @imc-leeds.bsky.social with a very full dance card - don’t miss Dan Reeve and I’s four sessions on queer and trans temporalities ! 🏳️⚧️⏰ #imc2026
November 28, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Delighted to be heading to @imc-leeds.bsky.social with a very full dance card - don’t miss Dan Reeve and I’s four sessions on queer and trans temporalities ! 🏳️⚧️⏰ #imc2026
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Some photos from @bryonycoombs.bsky.social fantastic workshop, Embodied Knowledge: Experiential Learning and Manuscript Studies hosted at the Centre for Research Collections here in Edinburgh.
November 27, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Some photos from @bryonycoombs.bsky.social fantastic workshop, Embodied Knowledge: Experiential Learning and Manuscript Studies hosted at the Centre for Research Collections here in Edinburgh.
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Webinar: IASH Fellowship applicants for 2026-27, on Monday 15 December at 13:00 GMT. Find out about our programmes, and ask any questions you may have.
Register free: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/0fdfeb...
Please sign up even if you can't attend, as a recording will be circulated afterwards.
Register free: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/0fdfeb...
Please sign up even if you can't attend, as a recording will be circulated afterwards.
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November 6, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Webinar: IASH Fellowship applicants for 2026-27, on Monday 15 December at 13:00 GMT. Find out about our programmes, and ask any questions you may have.
Register free: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/0fdfeb...
Please sign up even if you can't attend, as a recording will be circulated afterwards.
Register free: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/0fdfeb...
Please sign up even if you can't attend, as a recording will be circulated afterwards.
So very grateful to @iashedinburgh.bsky.social, Prof Carol Richardson, @kateai.bsky.social & everyone who came to talk about my new book with me yesterday evening 💖 and a wonderful flowery surprise from @starcrossed2018.bsky.social and @liederfollower.bsky.social ! 💐
November 26, 2025 at 11:58 AM
So very grateful to @iashedinburgh.bsky.social, Prof Carol Richardson, @kateai.bsky.social & everyone who came to talk about my new book with me yesterday evening 💖 and a wonderful flowery surprise from @starcrossed2018.bsky.social and @liederfollower.bsky.social ! 💐
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It's Book Launch day for Dr Hope Doherty-Harrison!
Tonight she'll celebrate 'Love and anti-Judaism in medieval English romance' at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, Edinburgh.
@hdohertyharrison.bsky.social
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...
Tonight she'll celebrate 'Love and anti-Judaism in medieval English romance' at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, Edinburgh.
@hdohertyharrison.bsky.social
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...
Book Launch: "Love and Anti-Judaism in Medieval English Romance"
New book: "Love and anti-Judaism in medieval English romance: Typologies of violence and desire" by Hope Doherty-Harrison
www.eventbrite.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 9:50 AM
It's Book Launch day for Dr Hope Doherty-Harrison!
Tonight she'll celebrate 'Love and anti-Judaism in medieval English romance' at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, Edinburgh.
@hdohertyharrison.bsky.social
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...
Tonight she'll celebrate 'Love and anti-Judaism in medieval English romance' at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, Edinburgh.
@hdohertyharrison.bsky.social
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...
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It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
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November 21, 2025 at 12:49 PM
It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
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Can't find your ballot? Get another.
Replacements ballot requests end SUNDAY MIDNIGHT:
yoursay.ucu.org.uk/s3/wearetheu...
Replacements ballot requests end SUNDAY MIDNIGHT:
yoursay.ucu.org.uk/s3/wearetheu...
We are the University HE replacement ballot request / I've voted form
This form allows UCU higher education members to request a replacement ballot for the 2025 HE industrial action ballots, or to self-report that they have already voted.
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November 21, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Can't find your ballot? Get another.
Replacements ballot requests end SUNDAY MIDNIGHT:
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Replacements ballot requests end SUNDAY MIDNIGHT:
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Today is Trans+ Day of Remembrance.
In her book 'Before Gender', author & activist @elierlick.bsky.social shed light on the trailblazing lives of thirty trans people who will radically change everything you've been told about transgender history.
Available now from all good bookshops. #booksky
In her book 'Before Gender', author & activist @elierlick.bsky.social shed light on the trailblazing lives of thirty trans people who will radically change everything you've been told about transgender history.
Available now from all good bookshops. #booksky
November 20, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Today is Trans+ Day of Remembrance.
In her book 'Before Gender', author & activist @elierlick.bsky.social shed light on the trailblazing lives of thirty trans people who will radically change everything you've been told about transgender history.
Available now from all good bookshops. #booksky
In her book 'Before Gender', author & activist @elierlick.bsky.social shed light on the trailblazing lives of thirty trans people who will radically change everything you've been told about transgender history.
Available now from all good bookshops. #booksky
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Unsolicited writing advice, no. 1836:
Don't write the book you think 'people will buy'. No one knows for sure what people will buy, incuding the people who sell books. Instead, write the book you need to write. The book that makes a difference.
Don't write the book you think 'people will buy'. No one knows for sure what people will buy, incuding the people who sell books. Instead, write the book you need to write. The book that makes a difference.
November 20, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Unsolicited writing advice, no. 1836:
Don't write the book you think 'people will buy'. No one knows for sure what people will buy, incuding the people who sell books. Instead, write the book you need to write. The book that makes a difference.
Don't write the book you think 'people will buy'. No one knows for sure what people will buy, incuding the people who sell books. Instead, write the book you need to write. The book that makes a difference.
Book launch for Love & Anti-Judaism in Medieval English Romance on Tuesday 25 November, 5.30pm @iashedinburgh.bsky.social - please share & consider coming along! I'll be chatting to @kateai.bsky.social & Carol M Richardson.
Sign up for in-person & online: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...
Sign up for in-person & online: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...
Book Launch: "Love and Anti-Judaism in Medieval English Romance"
New book: "Love and anti-Judaism in medieval English romance: Typologies of violence and desire" by Hope Doherty-Harrison
www.eventbrite.co.uk
November 19, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Book launch for Love & Anti-Judaism in Medieval English Romance on Tuesday 25 November, 5.30pm @iashedinburgh.bsky.social - please share & consider coming along! I'll be chatting to @kateai.bsky.social & Carol M Richardson.
Sign up for in-person & online: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...
Sign up for in-person & online: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...
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This isn’t “efficiency” it’s an ideological shift towards a Little England university system.
Nottingham is set to become the only Russell Group university with no modern languages or music degrees.
48 courses on the line. We’re fighting it.
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Nottingham is set to become the only Russell Group university with no modern languages or music degrees.
48 courses on the line. We’re fighting it.
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
University of Nottingham considers axing language and music degrees
Total of 48 degrees could disappear from Russell Group institution, with falling revenues and rising costs blamed
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 11:26 AM
This isn’t “efficiency” it’s an ideological shift towards a Little England university system.
Nottingham is set to become the only Russell Group university with no modern languages or music degrees.
48 courses on the line. We’re fighting it.
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Nottingham is set to become the only Russell Group university with no modern languages or music degrees.
48 courses on the line. We’re fighting it.
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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November 19, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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What made Troilus and Cressida so relevant to audiences who had lived through two world wars?
Why did it speak to the 'angry young men' of the post-war era and to the countercultural movements of the 1960s?
Find out here 👇
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526103574/
@stevetpurcell.bsky.social
Why did it speak to the 'angry young men' of the post-war era and to the countercultural movements of the 1960s?
Find out here 👇
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526103574/
@stevetpurcell.bsky.social
November 17, 2025 at 10:16 AM
What made Troilus and Cressida so relevant to audiences who had lived through two world wars?
Why did it speak to the 'angry young men' of the post-war era and to the countercultural movements of the 1960s?
Find out here 👇
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526103574/
@stevetpurcell.bsky.social
Why did it speak to the 'angry young men' of the post-war era and to the countercultural movements of the 1960s?
Find out here 👇
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526103574/
@stevetpurcell.bsky.social