Gabriela Minden
@marieminden.bsky.social
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Durham University | author of Modernism after the Ballets Russes (Oxford University Press) - https://shorturl.at/ReFmK | working on a new book about modern poetic drama and dance
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Gabriela Minden
@marieminden.bsky.social
· Feb 18
My book officially has a cover – and a page! Or, as my brother pointed out, 224 of them. Modernism After the Ballets Russes, forthcoming with @oxunipress.bsky.social
shorturl.at/ReFmK
shorturl.at/ReFmK
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The current REF system really encourages temporary staff to burn down their own careers - either you complete research because you need it for your CV, but an institution can claim any resulting outputs before making you redundant so you've nothing to take elsewhere, or...
November 7, 2025 at 10:03 AM
The current REF system really encourages temporary staff to burn down their own careers - either you complete research because you need it for your CV, but an institution can claim any resulting outputs before making you redundant so you've nothing to take elsewhere, or...
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ONLY migrants though, no one else is to study English because it's a rip off and a waste of time, am I getting this right.
October 14, 2025 at 2:16 PM
ONLY migrants though, no one else is to study English because it's a rip off and a waste of time, am I getting this right.
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*please share widely*
Dear Network,
I am looking for temp work: translation/copy-editing German to Dutch and English and English↔️Dutch, as well as fundraising.
All leads very welcome! DM or email at meindertpeters @ gmail
☺️🙏
Dear Network,
I am looking for temp work: translation/copy-editing German to Dutch and English and English↔️Dutch, as well as fundraising.
All leads very welcome! DM or email at meindertpeters @ gmail
☺️🙏
October 13, 2025 at 1:26 PM
*please share widely*
Dear Network,
I am looking for temp work: translation/copy-editing German to Dutch and English and English↔️Dutch, as well as fundraising.
All leads very welcome! DM or email at meindertpeters @ gmail
☺️🙏
Dear Network,
I am looking for temp work: translation/copy-editing German to Dutch and English and English↔️Dutch, as well as fundraising.
All leads very welcome! DM or email at meindertpeters @ gmail
☺️🙏
Excited to mark the launch of my book alongside Katharina Herold-Zanker’s Decadence and Orientalism in England and Germany. Two wonderful guests, Stefano Evangelista and Megan Girdwood, will be introducing the works.
If you're in the Durham area, please join!
www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...
If you're in the Durham area, please join!
www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...
Book Launch - Durham University
www.durham.ac.uk
October 2, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Excited to mark the launch of my book alongside Katharina Herold-Zanker’s Decadence and Orientalism in England and Germany. Two wonderful guests, Stefano Evangelista and Megan Girdwood, will be introducing the works.
If you're in the Durham area, please join!
www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...
If you're in the Durham area, please join!
www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...
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The people they are talking about deporting include, to pluck one example from the air, my 59-year-old sister who has lived here since the age of six and is on a low income due to being a nursery school teacher. These plans are utterly scandalous and anyone who supports them is a disgrace.
September 25, 2025 at 8:13 PM
The people they are talking about deporting include, to pluck one example from the air, my 59-year-old sister who has lived here since the age of six and is on a low income due to being a nursery school teacher. These plans are utterly scandalous and anyone who supports them is a disgrace.
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Required reading for anyone working with ECRs… not just in French History
“Cataclysmically bad”
This new series of ECR blog posts on the French History Network makes for grim reading, perhaps grimmer even than some in UK #FrenchHistory might have realised.
1st post, anon ECRs in French History on what it’s like right now out there:
frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/6691/
🗃️
This new series of ECR blog posts on the French History Network makes for grim reading, perhaps grimmer even than some in UK #FrenchHistory might have realised.
1st post, anon ECRs in French History on what it’s like right now out there:
frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/6691/
🗃️
ECR in 2025: Part One- What is it like? – SSFH
frenchhistorysociety.co.uk
September 18, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Required reading for anyone working with ECRs… not just in French History
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CfP Alert! 🔥🔥
@wesleygrafwald.bsky.social and I are putting together a special issue for Dance Research Journal on Early Twentieth-Century Dance Photography. Please share widely and don't hesitate to be in touch when you are interested or have questions!
Find the CfP below, or DM us for the PDF.
@wesleygrafwald.bsky.social and I are putting together a special issue for Dance Research Journal on Early Twentieth-Century Dance Photography. Please share widely and don't hesitate to be in touch when you are interested or have questions!
Find the CfP below, or DM us for the PDF.
September 16, 2025 at 10:47 AM
CfP Alert! 🔥🔥
@wesleygrafwald.bsky.social and I are putting together a special issue for Dance Research Journal on Early Twentieth-Century Dance Photography. Please share widely and don't hesitate to be in touch when you are interested or have questions!
Find the CfP below, or DM us for the PDF.
@wesleygrafwald.bsky.social and I are putting together a special issue for Dance Research Journal on Early Twentieth-Century Dance Photography. Please share widely and don't hesitate to be in touch when you are interested or have questions!
Find the CfP below, or DM us for the PDF.
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Problematic (to put it kindly) on so many levels.
1) there isn't really 'unfunded' research. The REF is there to allocate resources so that research is possible without a grant.
1) there isn't really 'unfunded' research. The REF is there to allocate resources so that research is possible without a grant.
Ministers ‘want to shift funds away from low-quality research’ .
Universities UK president says institutions cannot afford “unfunded hobbyist research”.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...
Universities UK president says institutions cannot afford “unfunded hobbyist research”.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...
Ministers ‘want to shift funds away from low-quality research’ - Research Professional News
Universities UK president says institutions cannot afford “unfunded hobbyist research”
www.researchprofessionalnews.com
September 12, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Problematic (to put it kindly) on so many levels.
1) there isn't really 'unfunded' research. The REF is there to allocate resources so that research is possible without a grant.
1) there isn't really 'unfunded' research. The REF is there to allocate resources so that research is possible without a grant.
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For anyone in/ near Oxford, @marieminden.bsky.social and I are having a public conversation about our new books and ’new approaches to theatrical form’ with the fabulous Sos Eltis in November. There will be cake! www.torch.ox.ac.uk/event/new-ap...
New Approaches to Theatrical Form: Radical Realisms in Contemporary British Theatre and Modernism after the Ballets Russes book conversation
www.torch.ox.ac.uk
September 8, 2025 at 2:45 PM
For anyone in/ near Oxford, @marieminden.bsky.social and I are having a public conversation about our new books and ’new approaches to theatrical form’ with the fabulous Sos Eltis in November. There will be cake! www.torch.ox.ac.uk/event/new-ap...
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Join @marieminden.bsky.social @hgreenstreet1.bsky.social on 5 November for a book conversation: New Approaches to Theatrical Form! torch.ox.ac.uk/event/new-ap...
September 8, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Join @marieminden.bsky.social @hgreenstreet1.bsky.social on 5 November for a book conversation: New Approaches to Theatrical Form! torch.ox.ac.uk/event/new-ap...
Author copies of my book have arrived! If you’d like a copy for yourself or your library, it’s available here: shorturl.at/ReFmK
September 2, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Author copies of my book have arrived! If you’d like a copy for yourself or your library, it’s available here: shorturl.at/ReFmK
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Part time at 5.5 hours per week— for shame!
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOK805/l...
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOK805/l...
Lecturer in English Literature (LTS) at University of Glasgow
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August 26, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Part time at 5.5 hours per week— for shame!
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOK805/l...
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOK805/l...
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Today I got my author copies of the book based on my PhD. It's been many years in the making and I'm so proud finally to hold it in my hands www.bloomsbury.com/uk/radical-r...
July 31, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Today I got my author copies of the book based on my PhD. It's been many years in the making and I'm so proud finally to hold it in my hands www.bloomsbury.com/uk/radical-r...
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I really think universities underestimate how true this is for a lot of students and their parents. They don’t want us to try to pretend to be cool. They want us to be a bit dusty, and very serious. Enthusiastic, definitely! But also nerdy. We’re selling them ACADEMIA.
The kids aren't stupid. They either want to come to uni because they want to study. Or because they think it leads to a job. They also know it's going to cost them money AND time.
They want a uni brand/site to FEEL like a university. They expect it to be a bit old school. Not a game. Not a company.
They want a uni brand/site to FEEL like a university. They expect it to be a bit old school. Not a game. Not a company.
July 31, 2025 at 8:54 AM
I really think universities underestimate how true this is for a lot of students and their parents. They don’t want us to try to pretend to be cool. They want us to be a bit dusty, and very serious. Enthusiastic, definitely! But also nerdy. We’re selling them ACADEMIA.
Two exciting events coming up for anyone based in Oxford: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/shobana-je...
SHOBANA JEYASINGH DANCE: We Caliban
An inventive, sideways look at Shakespeare's The Tempest.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
July 23, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Two exciting events coming up for anyone based in Oxford: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/shobana-je...
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“The UK government’s continued complicity in Israel’s atrocities is unconscionable, and I do not want to spend another day operating on children who have been shot and starved by a military our government supports.” Devastating reporting.
I’m witnessing the deliberate starvation of Gaza’s children – why is the world letting it happen? | Nick Maynard
A permanent ceasefire, the free and safe flow of aid, and the lifting of the blockade are needed now – all could be achieved with political will, says UK surgeon Nick Maynard
www.theguardian.com
July 23, 2025 at 6:06 AM
“The UK government’s continued complicity in Israel’s atrocities is unconscionable, and I do not want to spend another day operating on children who have been shot and starved by a military our government supports.” Devastating reporting.
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In her first act as the new President of The British Academy, Professor Susan J Smith FBA has today written to the Prime Minister to warn that cuts and contractions are damaging the UK’s higher education system www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/new-aca...
New Academy President urges Prime Minister to strengthen and champion UK’s world-leading universities as higher education crisis deepens
In her first act as the new President of The British Academy, Professor Susan J Smith FBA has written to the Prime Minister to warn that cuts and contractions are damaging the UK’s higher education sy...
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk
July 22, 2025 at 9:57 AM
In her first act as the new President of The British Academy, Professor Susan J Smith FBA has today written to the Prime Minister to warn that cuts and contractions are damaging the UK’s higher education system www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/new-aca...
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Self-inflicted embarrassment for the University of Warwick — first it rebrands hyper-generically, then someone totally unhinged decides the *front page of the uni website* should say ‘Learn more about our Brand’.
July 22, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Self-inflicted embarrassment for the University of Warwick — first it rebrands hyper-generically, then someone totally unhinged decides the *front page of the uni website* should say ‘Learn more about our Brand’.
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We are calling on the UK Government to not introduce a levy on higher education provider income from international students, reduce visa costs to attract global talent, and to review higher education funding to create a sustainable model
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/documents/58...
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/documents/58...
July 10, 2025 at 8:54 AM
We are calling on the UK Government to not introduce a levy on higher education provider income from international students, reduce visa costs to attract global talent, and to review higher education funding to create a sustainable model
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/documents/58...
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/documents/58...
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I am appalled by the REF digging its heels in about portability, disadvantaging so many early career and precarious scholars and those who were shunted out of institutions and undertook research in spite of inordinate pressures and job cuts. 1/
2029.ref.ac.uk/news/cku-cop...
2029.ref.ac.uk/news/cku-cop...
New REF 2029 policy on Contributions to Knowledge and Understanding released with full Code of Practice guidance – REF 2029
2029.ref.ac.uk
June 12, 2025 at 6:16 PM
I am appalled by the REF digging its heels in about portability, disadvantaging so many early career and precarious scholars and those who were shunted out of institutions and undertook research in spite of inordinate pressures and job cuts. 1/
2029.ref.ac.uk/news/cku-cop...
2029.ref.ac.uk/news/cku-cop...
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Three final online showings of my play this week orangetreetheatre.co.uk/whats-on/ben...
Ben & Imo at Orange Tree Theatre | Watch at Home
Catch the RSC production of Ben and Imo by Mark Ravenhill from the comfort of your own home via OT On Screen. From 20 - 23 May.
orangetreetheatre.co.uk
May 21, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Three final online showings of my play this week orangetreetheatre.co.uk/whats-on/ben...
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Just came here to say that I’m truly sickened by the extreme anti-migration turn of Starmer & his government whose Immigration White Paper makes the frankly astonishing claim that net migration has caused “incalculable” damage to this country.
May 12, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Just came here to say that I’m truly sickened by the extreme anti-migration turn of Starmer & his government whose Immigration White Paper makes the frankly astonishing claim that net migration has caused “incalculable” damage to this country.
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UK performing arts associations have written a public letter to the REF2029 director that complements the recent joint English associations' letter: dramahe.ac.uk/activity/joi...
Joint letter from the UK performing arts subject associations to REF Director - DrameHE
Joint letter from the UK performing arts subject associations: British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies (BAFTSS), DanceHE, DramaHE, Royal Musical Association, Society for Dance Resea...
dramahe.ac.uk
March 25, 2025 at 8:46 AM
UK performing arts associations have written a public letter to the REF2029 director that complements the recent joint English associations' letter: dramahe.ac.uk/activity/joi...
Something to look forward to reading this summer!
Sent off the final round of proofs for my book- out in August so plenty of time to add to modules on playwriting/ feminist theatre/ contemporary drama for next academic year😉 Chapters on plays by Jasmine Lee-Jones, RashDash, Ella Hickson, Alice Birch, Lucy Kirkwood www.bloomsbury.com/uk/radical-r...
Radical Realisms in Contemporary British Theatre
This book offers radical new insights into the relation between realism, feminism and gender identities in contemporary theatre. It maps the theatrical forms em…
www.bloomsbury.com
March 17, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Something to look forward to reading this summer!
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REF2029: concerns about the implications of decoupling | The English Association : Please read this important joint letter we have written (on behalf of us, our chair @jennyrichards.bsky.social ) along with @ies-sas.bsky.social & @univeng.bsky.social
englishassociation.ac.uk/ref2029-conc...
englishassociation.ac.uk/ref2029-conc...
REF2029: concerns about the implications of decoupling | 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
March 7, 2025 at 4:15 PM
REF2029: concerns about the implications of decoupling | The English Association : Please read this important joint letter we have written (on behalf of us, our chair @jennyrichards.bsky.social ) along with @ies-sas.bsky.social & @univeng.bsky.social
englishassociation.ac.uk/ref2029-conc...
englishassociation.ac.uk/ref2029-conc...