Katherine Stratton
@katherines.bsky.social
PhD Researcher in French at St Andrews interested in horsemanship and education in early modern France.
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#CfP Call for Papers for the @semfsuk.bsky.social Annual Conference: ‘Freedom’ / ‘La Liberté’ (6-8 July 2026, University of Glasgow). Please submit proposals by 28 November 2025 to eh58@st-andrews.ac.uk, and remember to join SEMFS first!: semfs.org.uk/join/
October 21, 2025 at 10:36 AM
#CfP Call for Papers for the @semfsuk.bsky.social Annual Conference: ‘Freedom’ / ‘La Liberté’ (6-8 July 2026, University of Glasgow). Please submit proposals by 28 November 2025 to eh58@st-andrews.ac.uk, and remember to join SEMFS first!: semfs.org.uk/join/
My PhD thesis is all ready for me to press submit tomorrow morning. The only thing left to decide is what song do I want to have playing when I press the button?
September 25, 2025 at 7:54 PM
My PhD thesis is all ready for me to press submit tomorrow morning. The only thing left to decide is what song do I want to have playing when I press the button?
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Start your day off with the unfettered pleasures of Pieter Bruegel's marvelous Children's Games of 1560: an entire town taken over by children at play. Today is Bruegel's day.
September 9, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Start your day off with the unfettered pleasures of Pieter Bruegel's marvelous Children's Games of 1560: an entire town taken over by children at play. Today is Bruegel's day.
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One like, one Presses universitaires de France book cover from the 1990s
August 4, 2025 at 6:40 AM
One like, one Presses universitaires de France book cover from the 1990s
For those who took French in school: did your teachers have you choose a French name for yourself on the first day, which you then used for the duration of your time taking French?
I'm beginning to believe that this was just a weird thing my school did...(my name was Elodie).
I'm beginning to believe that this was just a weird thing my school did...(my name was Elodie).
July 31, 2025 at 5:16 PM
For those who took French in school: did your teachers have you choose a French name for yourself on the first day, which you then used for the duration of your time taking French?
I'm beginning to believe that this was just a weird thing my school did...(my name was Elodie).
I'm beginning to believe that this was just a weird thing my school did...(my name was Elodie).
As motivation to finish my thesis I just booked an apartment in Paris for the whole month of October and it can't come soon enough.
July 4, 2025 at 5:51 PM
As motivation to finish my thesis I just booked an apartment in Paris for the whole month of October and it can't come soon enough.
I shared a lift once with Catherine Deneuve.
We each said "Bonsoir".
We each said "Bonsoir".
Right folks. Feeling rather down at the moment so bringing back an oldie
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
June 13, 2025 at 11:31 AM
I shared a lift once with Catherine Deneuve.
We each said "Bonsoir".
We each said "Bonsoir".
Very excited to see that my article on horsemanship in the poetry of Ronsard has come out in a special edition of e-Phaïstos dedicated to Arts équestres et chevaux en société 🥳
My many thanks to the editors of this special edition and to my reviewers for their very helpful comments and suggestions.
My many thanks to the editors of this special edition and to my reviewers for their very helpful comments and suggestions.
Du mythique au manège : le cheval comme intermédiaire entre poésies...
« Si les hommes tant des siecles passés que du nostre, ont merité quelque louange pour avoir piqué diligentement aprés les traces de ceus qui courant par la carriere de leurs inventions, ont de bie...
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May 23, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Very excited to see that my article on horsemanship in the poetry of Ronsard has come out in a special edition of e-Phaïstos dedicated to Arts équestres et chevaux en société 🥳
My many thanks to the editors of this special edition and to my reviewers for their very helpful comments and suggestions.
My many thanks to the editors of this special edition and to my reviewers for their very helpful comments and suggestions.
This reminds me of a time when a fellow academic was desperately trying to find any recent scholarly article that summarised this very dense Latin text that he needed. When he finally found one...it was also in Latin.
Hot take: academic paywalls should be abolished, in order to encourage academics to return to more traditional forms of gatekeeping like writing in Latin or using ciphers
May 22, 2025 at 10:07 AM
This reminds me of a time when a fellow academic was desperately trying to find any recent scholarly article that summarised this very dense Latin text that he needed. When he finally found one...it was also in Latin.
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Hot take: academic paywalls should be abolished, in order to encourage academics to return to more traditional forms of gatekeeping like writing in Latin or using ciphers
May 22, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Hot take: academic paywalls should be abolished, in order to encourage academics to return to more traditional forms of gatekeeping like writing in Latin or using ciphers
Trying to write a paragraph about Montaigne's kidney stones but this is all I can think about.
Friends Joey Gets Kidney Stones
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May 21, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Trying to write a paragraph about Montaigne's kidney stones but this is all I can think about.
Writing the intro to my Montaigne chapter and all I've come up with for a first line is "One day during the third war of religion, or maybe the second, a little man and a little horse went for a ride in the country."
If anyone's looking for a Ladybird companion to the Essays, I'm your woman.
If anyone's looking for a Ladybird companion to the Essays, I'm your woman.
April 2, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Writing the intro to my Montaigne chapter and all I've come up with for a first line is "One day during the third war of religion, or maybe the second, a little man and a little horse went for a ride in the country."
If anyone's looking for a Ladybird companion to the Essays, I'm your woman.
If anyone's looking for a Ladybird companion to the Essays, I'm your woman.
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🚨Job klaxon!🚨 A chance to come to Exeter and be @lsangha.bsky.social for a year! Happy to field any questions. (NB: the 0.9 FTE is dictated by a partial externally-funded buyout.)
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DML369/l...
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DML369/l...
Lecturer in Early Modern History (Education and Scholarship) at University of Exeter
Discover an exciting academic career path as a Lecturer in Early Modern History (Education and Scholarship) at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity - apply today!
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March 26, 2025 at 5:40 PM
🚨Job klaxon!🚨 A chance to come to Exeter and be @lsangha.bsky.social for a year! Happy to field any questions. (NB: the 0.9 FTE is dictated by a partial externally-funded buyout.)
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DML369/l...
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DML369/l...
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this is a really great starter job in early modern French - in a wonderful place to work in that field. please circulate! www.sjc.ox.ac.uk/discover/vac...
Early Career Lecturer in Early Modern French
St. John’s College invites applications for a fixed-term 1.0 FTE Early Career Lectureship in Early Modern French. The aim of this post is to offer the individual postholder career development and inte...
www.sjc.ox.ac.uk
March 11, 2025 at 10:00 AM
this is a really great starter job in early modern French - in a wonderful place to work in that field. please circulate! www.sjc.ox.ac.uk/discover/vac...
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A reminder that there's a month left before applications for this year's Simon Gaunt Postgraduate Travel Grant close: 🔔👇
Applications for this year's Simon Gaunt Postgraduate Travel Grant are now open. The closing date is 4th April 2025.
For more information about eligibility criteria and how to apply, see the link below:
www.sfs.ac.uk/funding/the-...
For more information about eligibility criteria and how to apply, see the link below:
www.sfs.ac.uk/funding/the-...
The Simon Gaunt Postgraduate Travel Grant
The Society for French Studies is the UK's premier scholarly organisation for encouraging and supporting intellectual enquiry in French studies at all levels.
www.sfs.ac.uk
March 4, 2025 at 10:22 AM
A reminder that there's a month left before applications for this year's Simon Gaunt Postgraduate Travel Grant close: 🔔👇
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📣 Calling early modernists 📣 3 x 4-year jobs at Durham in French, History, & Italian!! Also 3 x PhDs. All working under the banner of 'Inventing Futures' in a wonderful department. Apply / spread the word....
www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...
www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...
Inventing Futures Job Opportunities - Durham University
www.durham.ac.uk
February 26, 2025 at 3:18 PM
📣 Calling early modernists 📣 3 x 4-year jobs at Durham in French, History, & Italian!! Also 3 x PhDs. All working under the banner of 'Inventing Futures' in a wonderful department. Apply / spread the word....
www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...
www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...
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im deadly serious here this is a 14th century illustration of a horse dying and going to hell
February 25, 2025 at 8:19 AM
im deadly serious here this is a 14th century illustration of a horse dying and going to hell
I’ve just begun writing the final chapter of my thesis, which will focus mostly on Montaigne, and I must say that this chapter could not have come at a better time. Reading Montaigne during this, our own period of « troubles », feels like a lifeline of humanity more than ever.
February 19, 2025 at 6:51 PM
I’ve just begun writing the final chapter of my thesis, which will focus mostly on Montaigne, and I must say that this chapter could not have come at a better time. Reading Montaigne during this, our own period of « troubles », feels like a lifeline of humanity more than ever.
Happy Valentine's Day!
February 14, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Happy Valentine's Day!
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Un grand bonjour from the brand new Women in French UK-IRE Bluesky account! We warmly invite fellow scholars who have migrated from other platforms to follow us here and share this profile with others working on French & Francophone women's cultural production.
February 3, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Un grand bonjour from the brand new Women in French UK-IRE Bluesky account! We warmly invite fellow scholars who have migrated from other platforms to follow us here and share this profile with others working on French & Francophone women's cultural production.
Calling all postgraduate members of the Society for Early Modern French Studies!
This Friday we will be having the first of our monthly PG Coffee Breaks from 1-2 GMT. Come along and get to know your fellow PGs in a casual online setting ☕️
This Friday we will be having the first of our monthly PG Coffee Breaks from 1-2 GMT. Come along and get to know your fellow PGs in a casual online setting ☕️
January 20, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Calling all postgraduate members of the Society for Early Modern French Studies!
This Friday we will be having the first of our monthly PG Coffee Breaks from 1-2 GMT. Come along and get to know your fellow PGs in a casual online setting ☕️
This Friday we will be having the first of our monthly PG Coffee Breaks from 1-2 GMT. Come along and get to know your fellow PGs in a casual online setting ☕️
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Happy 2025 everyone!🧡🌿🏺 I’m excited to spend this new year illustrating the ancient Mediterranean world, and also learning more about my own local folklore🌿
Any shares so i can reach my audience on this new platform are greatly appreciated 🧡🧡🧡
#artvsartist #illustration #ancientbluesky
Any shares so i can reach my audience on this new platform are greatly appreciated 🧡🧡🧡
#artvsartist #illustration #ancientbluesky
January 7, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Happy 2025 everyone!🧡🌿🏺 I’m excited to spend this new year illustrating the ancient Mediterranean world, and also learning more about my own local folklore🌿
Any shares so i can reach my audience on this new platform are greatly appreciated 🧡🧡🧡
#artvsartist #illustration #ancientbluesky
Any shares so i can reach my audience on this new platform are greatly appreciated 🧡🧡🧡
#artvsartist #illustration #ancientbluesky
Happy Christmas from a very snowy Nova Scotia. I tried my hand at a Bûche de Noël for the very first time this year, and I must say I am quite pleased with the result!
December 26, 2024 at 4:25 PM
Happy Christmas from a very snowy Nova Scotia. I tried my hand at a Bûche de Noël for the very first time this year, and I must say I am quite pleased with the result!
Thinking about Julius Caesar's horse today, who was said to have had toes like those of a man. This description was clearly taken very literally by this engraver in 1687 (possibly Peter Tröschel).
November 27, 2024 at 1:58 PM
Thinking about Julius Caesar's horse today, who was said to have had toes like those of a man. This description was clearly taken very literally by this engraver in 1687 (possibly Peter Tröschel).