Katharine Craik
@kcraik1.bsky.social
Prof of Shakespeare and early modern lit, Research Director at Oxford Brookes. ‘Lifelike Shakespeare’ coming soon from OUP. 🏴
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I took students of the Iris Murdoch Society for a walk in Oxford and we arrived at St Anne's College, where' a sudden fox peers with his brilliant face, and passes.'
A memorable moment and it made me think of giving attention to what is around us
A memorable moment and it made me think of giving attention to what is around us
February 12, 2026 at 10:43 AM
I took students of the Iris Murdoch Society for a walk in Oxford and we arrived at St Anne's College, where' a sudden fox peers with his brilliant face, and passes.'
A memorable moment and it made me think of giving attention to what is around us
A memorable moment and it made me think of giving attention to what is around us
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Last call today for the OFFICIAL PUBLICATION DAY of my book on the Blair era, 'New Labour, New Britain?' I think it's a judicious look at the whole topic, but you must be the judge: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526146328/
February 10, 2026 at 8:08 PM
Last call today for the OFFICIAL PUBLICATION DAY of my book on the Blair era, 'New Labour, New Britain?' I think it's a judicious look at the whole topic, but you must be the judge: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526146328/
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Oooh! So pleased to see Ellie Collins’ book out in our series!! Such wonderful repertory work!
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9780719090868/
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manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9780719090868/
CC @shakesinstitute.bsky.social
February 11, 2026 at 8:11 AM
Oooh! So pleased to see Ellie Collins’ book out in our series!! Such wonderful repertory work!
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9780719090868/
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manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9780719090868/
CC @shakesinstitute.bsky.social
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Friends! We are looking for a visiting assistant professor with expertise in 17th century literature. Help me spread the word? It’s limited term, but I can promise wonderful students and lovely colleagues for a very nice bit of teaching experience… wesleyan.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/...
Visiting Assistant Professor of English
Visiting Assistant Professor of English: Seventeenth-Century Literature The Department of English at Wesleyan University seeks applicants for a full-time Visiting Professor with expertise in seventeen...
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February 6, 2026 at 3:20 PM
Friends! We are looking for a visiting assistant professor with expertise in 17th century literature. Help me spread the word? It’s limited term, but I can promise wonderful students and lovely colleagues for a very nice bit of teaching experience… wesleyan.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/...
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A (not too grim) blog post about my book for @universitypress.cambridge.org, featuring biscuits and Frodo Baggins! #cambridgeuniversitypress #hobbits #shakespeare
A World of Wills in Shakespeare and Beyond
It’s another dull, grey Tuesday morning. A colleague asks you how you are. Reflecting on the seemingly endless flow of tedious meetings in the day ahead, you reply that you’re “losing the will the live”. Your co-worker chuckles and walks back to wherever they need to be.
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February 2, 2026 at 4:17 PM
A (not too grim) blog post about my book for @universitypress.cambridge.org, featuring biscuits and Frodo Baggins! #cambridgeuniversitypress #hobbits #shakespeare
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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...
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...
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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)
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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)
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Shakespeare on the Ecological Surface - 1st Edition - Liz Oakley-Brown share.google/CRRV7QG2njsN...
Edinburgh is a brilliant city, and here is the Scott Monument in January weather.
Heartening to see a novelist’s imagination so magnificently celebrated in a civic space. ✨
Heartening to see a novelist’s imagination so magnificently celebrated in a civic space. ✨
January 27, 2026 at 2:26 PM
Edinburgh is a brilliant city, and here is the Scott Monument in January weather.
Heartening to see a novelist’s imagination so magnificently celebrated in a civic space. ✨
Heartening to see a novelist’s imagination so magnificently celebrated in a civic space. ✨
Congratulations!! 👏👏👏
I’m very proud of my two PhD students - Liz Leemann and Vivienne Belton - for passing their vivas recently. Two fantastic theses on the body and soul in early modern literary depictions of motherhood, and on Roman Catholicism and the senses in early modern drama. Look out for their work.
January 26, 2026 at 8:48 PM
Congratulations!! 👏👏👏
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#Reading Free online event coming up 🙌 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/enhancing-...
Enhancing young people’s reading enjoyment and engagement with books
This webinar will provide research-informed practical insights to support more teenagers to enjoy and engage with books and reading
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January 26, 2026 at 1:16 PM
#Reading Free online event coming up 🙌 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/enhancing-...
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My book on New Labour and the Blair years is out in just over two weeks... And it's now **ON SALE** for just £12! Come on, you can't say fairer than that when it comes to the bargains. Roll up and/ or repost! It's just twelve quid!
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526146328/
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526146328/
Manchester University Press - New Labour, New Britain?
New Labour, New Britain? - Browse and buy the Hardcover edition of New Labour, New Britain? by Glen O'Hara
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk
January 25, 2026 at 3:58 PM
My book on New Labour and the Blair years is out in just over two weeks... And it's now **ON SALE** for just £12! Come on, you can't say fairer than that when it comes to the bargains. Roll up and/ or repost! It's just twelve quid!
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526146328/
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526146328/
Keep thinking today of Isabella’s lines in ‘Measure for Measure’:
O, it is excellent
To have a giant’s strength; but it is tyrannous
To use it like a giant.
O, it is excellent
To have a giant’s strength; but it is tyrannous
To use it like a giant.
January 21, 2026 at 11:53 AM
Keep thinking today of Isabella’s lines in ‘Measure for Measure’:
O, it is excellent
To have a giant’s strength; but it is tyrannous
To use it like a giant.
O, it is excellent
To have a giant’s strength; but it is tyrannous
To use it like a giant.
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Stained glass fragment, 15th century, Netherlands
(Victoria and Albert Museum, London)
(Victoria and Albert Museum, London)
January 17, 2026 at 8:51 PM
Stained glass fragment, 15th century, Netherlands
(Victoria and Albert Museum, London)
(Victoria and Albert Museum, London)
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I’m moved and enchanted by this poem by Meghan O’Rourke from the latest @newyorker.com which came through the letterbox earlier and which is trying to stop me getting on with my writing. I shouldn’t have opened it!
January 16, 2026 at 11:09 AM
I’m moved and enchanted by this poem by Meghan O’Rourke from the latest @newyorker.com which came through the letterbox earlier and which is trying to stop me getting on with my writing. I shouldn’t have opened it!
Bravo 👏👏👏
You can follow everything we've been writing in the 'All Our Footsteps' research project on rights of way in England and Wales below... Lots more to come, this year and next! Stay tuned.
www.allourfootsteps.uk/publications
www.allourfootsteps.uk/publications
Publications — In All Our Footsteps
www.allourfootsteps.uk
January 16, 2026 at 9:35 PM
Bravo 👏👏👏
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Nearly 44 years since English studies started its state of total & constant crisis. Tom Paulin calls it in @lrb.co.uk in 1982:
"Many academic teachers of English are at the moment united in the dismayed recognition that their subject is in a state of acute crisis."
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v0...
"Many academic teachers of English are at the moment united in the dismayed recognition that their subject is in a state of acute crisis."
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v0...
Tom Paulin · Faculty at War
www.lrb.co.uk
January 16, 2026 at 4:26 PM
Nearly 44 years since English studies started its state of total & constant crisis. Tom Paulin calls it in @lrb.co.uk in 1982:
"Many academic teachers of English are at the moment united in the dismayed recognition that their subject is in a state of acute crisis."
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v0...
"Many academic teachers of English are at the moment united in the dismayed recognition that their subject is in a state of acute crisis."
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v0...
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Events! Take a look through our upcoming events,book your places on them! Visit our archive of recordings for supply of inspiring expertise across sectors, Early Years through to Higher Education via Primary, Secondary & Further Education #Teaching #Curriculum etc. ⬇️
englishassociation.ac.uk/events/
englishassociation.ac.uk/events/
Events | The English Association
We support the teaching, learning, and enjoyment of English at all levels of education, from early years to further and higher education and beyond.
englishassociation.ac.uk
January 15, 2026 at 5:32 PM
Events! Take a look through our upcoming events,book your places on them! Visit our archive of recordings for supply of inspiring expertise across sectors, Early Years through to Higher Education via Primary, Secondary & Further Education #Teaching #Curriculum etc. ⬇️
englishassociation.ac.uk/events/
englishassociation.ac.uk/events/
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33 month postdoc (0.8 FTE) on a really interesting project at Essex on #EarlyModern German and English witchcraft...
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQC497/s...
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Senior Research Officer at University of Essex
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January 14, 2026 at 9:50 AM
33 month postdoc (0.8 FTE) on a really interesting project at Essex on #EarlyModern German and English witchcraft...
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQC497/s...
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQC497/s...
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After a little blip in the release of my book, I'm happy to say that accurate digital and physical versions are now available from @universitypress.cambridge.org! #earlymodern #renaissance #elizabethan #tudor #drama #jonson #marlowe #middleton #shakespeare #thewill
'Look not so fierce on me'
'Look not so fierce on me'
The Will in English Renaissance Drama
Cambridge Core - Renaissance and Early Modern Literature - The Will in English Renaissance Drama
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December 28, 2025 at 11:56 AM
After a little blip in the release of my book, I'm happy to say that accurate digital and physical versions are now available from @universitypress.cambridge.org! #earlymodern #renaissance #elizabethan #tudor #drama #jonson #marlowe #middleton #shakespeare #thewill
'Look not so fierce on me'
'Look not so fierce on me'
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Hi, have I mentioned that my book on New Labour and the Blair years is coming out in UNDER FOUR WEEKS? Any journalists who'd like a proof copy for review, do DM or email and I'll fix it right up... 👍
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526146328/
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526146328/
Manchester University Press - New Labour, New Britain?
New Labour, New Britain? - Browse and buy the Hardcover edition of New Labour, New Britain? by Glen O'Hara
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk
January 14, 2026 at 4:47 PM
Hi, have I mentioned that my book on New Labour and the Blair years is coming out in UNDER FOUR WEEKS? Any journalists who'd like a proof copy for review, do DM or email and I'll fix it right up... 👍
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526146328/
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526146328/
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Fellowship Opportunity!
Folger Institute Artistic Research Fellowships
Open to artists whose work would benefit from primary research related to the early modern world (ca. 1400-1800) and it's legacies.
Applicants NOT required to hold a formal degree.
www.folger.edu/research/the...
Folger Institute Artistic Research Fellowships
Open to artists whose work would benefit from primary research related to the early modern world (ca. 1400-1800) and it's legacies.
Applicants NOT required to hold a formal degree.
www.folger.edu/research/the...
Artistic Research Fellowships | Folger Shakespeare Library
Folger Shakespeare Library is the world's largest Shakespeare collection, the ultimate resource for exploring Shakespeare and his world. Shakespeare belongs to you. His world is vast. Come explore. Jo...
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January 13, 2026 at 7:46 AM
Fellowship Opportunity!
Folger Institute Artistic Research Fellowships
Open to artists whose work would benefit from primary research related to the early modern world (ca. 1400-1800) and it's legacies.
Applicants NOT required to hold a formal degree.
www.folger.edu/research/the...
Folger Institute Artistic Research Fellowships
Open to artists whose work would benefit from primary research related to the early modern world (ca. 1400-1800) and it's legacies.
Applicants NOT required to hold a formal degree.
www.folger.edu/research/the...
Late to the party, late to Bluesky… but sending huge congratulations!! 🧵👏 This is a wonderful and important book.
Today is the OFFICIAL publication day for TEXTILE SHAKESPEARE! Please indulge me: I want to say a little (perhaps rather a lot) about it and share my acknowledgements - and a discount code! Appropriately,🧵1/10
January 13, 2026 at 7:29 AM
Late to the party, late to Bluesky… but sending huge congratulations!! 🧵👏 This is a wonderful and important book.
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New Year's Eve, and 125 years old today is 'The Darkling Thrush' by Thomas Hardy.
(And when I myself read this poem, I often find myself becoming aware of that blessèd Hope from that frail and gaunt thrush ✨️)
(And when I myself read this poem, I often find myself becoming aware of that blessèd Hope from that frail and gaunt thrush ✨️)
December 31, 2025 at 10:43 AM
New Year's Eve, and 125 years old today is 'The Darkling Thrush' by Thomas Hardy.
(And when I myself read this poem, I often find myself becoming aware of that blessèd Hope from that frail and gaunt thrush ✨️)
(And when I myself read this poem, I often find myself becoming aware of that blessèd Hope from that frail and gaunt thrush ✨️)
TODAY! Join us at high noon in Headington 🩸
‘Who Did It?’
Join us on Saturday 10 May for a talk on @unofphoto.bsky.social’s research into two 1959 murders. Explore how a family were impacted by generational poverty and potential miscarriages of justice.
Sign up below 👇
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Join us on Saturday 10 May for a talk on @unofphoto.bsky.social’s research into two 1959 murders. Explore how a family were impacted by generational poverty and potential miscarriages of justice.
Sign up below 👇
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/who-did-it...
@kcraik1.bsky.social
May 10, 2025 at 8:38 AM
TODAY! Join us at high noon in Headington 🩸
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The Think Human Team is in The Forum with cakes, badges and programmes.
Come and say hello!
Come and say hello!
May 7, 2025 at 11:10 AM
The Think Human Team is in The Forum with cakes, badges and programmes.
Come and say hello!
Come and say hello!
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Think Human Festival week is here!
We are looking forward to welcoming you to this timely discussion tomorrow
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We invite you to take the long view on the governments led by Tony Blair in the late 1990s & early 2000s.
Join @gsoh31.bsky.social and John Denham, former Minister under Blair, on 7 May for a talk about what we can learn from New Labour’s time in power.
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Join @gsoh31.bsky.social and John Denham, former Minister under Blair, on 7 May for a talk about what we can learn from New Labour’s time in power.
Sign up 👇
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1246097273...
May 6, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Think Human Festival week is here!
We are looking forward to welcoming you to this timely discussion tomorrow
Sign up to save your place 👇
We are looking forward to welcoming you to this timely discussion tomorrow
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