Julia Hartley
@ritorneropoeta.bsky.social
BBC New Generation Thinker. Lecturer in Comparative Literature. Occasional interpreter. Hopeful Achaemenid queen. 👑🗡️🔥
Website: www.juliacaterinahartley.com
Website: www.juliacaterinahartley.com
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Graduate of the American Studies programme that the University of Nottingham wishes to close wins 2025 Wolfson History Prize for Survivors: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the Atlantic Slave Trade.
History, it's a long game. Divest in haste, repent for the longue durée.
History, it's a long game. Divest in haste, repent for the longue durée.
The Wolfson History Prize - Celebrating Outstanding History
The Wolfson History Prize is awarded annually to promote and recognise outstanding history written for a general audience.
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December 3, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Graduate of the American Studies programme that the University of Nottingham wishes to close wins 2025 Wolfson History Prize for Survivors: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the Atlantic Slave Trade.
History, it's a long game. Divest in haste, repent for the longue durée.
History, it's a long game. Divest in haste, repent for the longue durée.
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December 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Excited to give the keynote for the Dante Futures conference tomorrow at Warwick, where I was a Leverhulme ECF. The interconnection between Medievalism and Orientalism is a new topic for me and I look forward to the conversations at the conference and beyond with Dantists & scholars of Orientalism.
November 20, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Excited to give the keynote for the Dante Futures conference tomorrow at Warwick, where I was a Leverhulme ECF. The interconnection between Medievalism and Orientalism is a new topic for me and I look forward to the conversations at the conference and beyond with Dantists & scholars of Orientalism.
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So a book I need to see — Albert Schouteet, De klerken van de Vierschaar te Brugge met inventaris van hun protocollen (Brugge, 1973) — seems only to exist in a couple of libraries in Belgium and the Netherlands. If it's near you and you could take some pictures, I'll happily pay for your time!
October 6, 2025 at 9:14 AM
So a book I need to see — Albert Schouteet, De klerken van de Vierschaar te Brugge met inventaris van hun protocollen (Brugge, 1973) — seems only to exist in a couple of libraries in Belgium and the Netherlands. If it's near you and you could take some pictures, I'll happily pay for your time!
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Popular article on MLO this week⬇️
'Investigating the Canon: The Reader as Detective in Reworkings of Madame Bovary and Jane Eyre' by Dr Katie Jones @standrewsenglish.bsky.social
Read it #OpenAccess: bit.ly/_Detective
@saraharens.bsky.social @ritorneropoeta.bsky.social @saramarzagora.bsky.social
'Investigating the Canon: The Reader as Detective in Reworkings of Madame Bovary and Jane Eyre' by Dr Katie Jones @standrewsenglish.bsky.social
Read it #OpenAccess: bit.ly/_Detective
@saraharens.bsky.social @ritorneropoeta.bsky.social @saramarzagora.bsky.social
September 2, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Popular article on MLO this week⬇️
'Investigating the Canon: The Reader as Detective in Reworkings of Madame Bovary and Jane Eyre' by Dr Katie Jones @standrewsenglish.bsky.social
Read it #OpenAccess: bit.ly/_Detective
@saraharens.bsky.social @ritorneropoeta.bsky.social @saramarzagora.bsky.social
'Investigating the Canon: The Reader as Detective in Reworkings of Madame Bovary and Jane Eyre' by Dr Katie Jones @standrewsenglish.bsky.social
Read it #OpenAccess: bit.ly/_Detective
@saraharens.bsky.social @ritorneropoeta.bsky.social @saramarzagora.bsky.social
We are on! Alexander’s Feast staets now live on @bbcradio3bot.bsky.social
I’ll be doing the interval commentary at 8.30pm, telling more about Achaemenid Persia, the burning of Persepolis and its Western retellings.
I’ll be doing the interval commentary at 8.30pm, telling more about Achaemenid Persia, the burning of Persepolis and its Western retellings.
August 30, 2025 at 6:32 PM
We are on! Alexander’s Feast staets now live on @bbcradio3bot.bsky.social
I’ll be doing the interval commentary at 8.30pm, telling more about Achaemenid Persia, the burning of Persepolis and its Western retellings.
I’ll be doing the interval commentary at 8.30pm, telling more about Achaemenid Persia, the burning of Persepolis and its Western retellings.
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🚨 Tim Unwin Early Career Researcher Grant 🚨
Early career researcher grants of up to £500 are available to SDN members to assist with a research project related to 19th-century French studies.
Send us your application by 1 September!
More info here: uksdn.co.uk/ecr-grant/
Early career researcher grants of up to £500 are available to SDN members to assist with a research project related to 19th-century French studies.
Send us your application by 1 September!
More info here: uksdn.co.uk/ecr-grant/
SDN
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August 17, 2025 at 6:16 PM
🚨 Tim Unwin Early Career Researcher Grant 🚨
Early career researcher grants of up to £500 are available to SDN members to assist with a research project related to 19th-century French studies.
Send us your application by 1 September!
More info here: uksdn.co.uk/ecr-grant/
Early career researcher grants of up to £500 are available to SDN members to assist with a research project related to 19th-century French studies.
Send us your application by 1 September!
More info here: uksdn.co.uk/ecr-grant/
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We are delighted to share this year's LUP Reviewer Rewards. Read the full list on the LUP blog: bit.ly/ReviewerRewards24 Winners include: @amyhubbell.bsky.social @sonjasg.bsky.social @ritorneropoeta.bsky.social @goringpd.bsky.social
Congratulations to all recipients!🏆
Congratulations to all recipients!🏆
June 17, 2025 at 11:11 AM
We are delighted to share this year's LUP Reviewer Rewards. Read the full list on the LUP blog: bit.ly/ReviewerRewards24 Winners include: @amyhubbell.bsky.social @sonjasg.bsky.social @ritorneropoeta.bsky.social @goringpd.bsky.social
Congratulations to all recipients!🏆
Congratulations to all recipients!🏆
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The University of Glasgow & the British Library have announced a fully funded PhD Studentship on "Fanfiction and Online Fan Communities: Collecting Practice and Inclusion in a National Collection"
www.gla.ac.uk/scholarships...
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May 16, 2025 at 1:47 PM
The University of Glasgow & the British Library have announced a fully funded PhD Studentship on "Fanfiction and Online Fan Communities: Collecting Practice and Inclusion in a National Collection"
www.gla.ac.uk/scholarships...
www.gla.ac.uk/scholarships...
A truly special occasion and a great reminder of why we chose a career in academia.
What a wonderful occasion yesterday @queenscollegeox.bsky.social thanks to Provost Claire Craig’s initiative to gather women academics connected to Queen’s. Fab to see @vandawilcox.bsky.social @profalisonsfell.bsky.social @tamarajatkin.bsky.social @acantrill.bsky.social @ritorneropoeta.bsky.social
April 27, 2025 at 5:18 PM
A truly special occasion and a great reminder of why we chose a career in academia.
Very excited to see the BBC Proms programme released today and to share that I'll be returning this year as an interval commentator for the performance of Handel's 'Alexander's Feast' on 30/8/25!
I'll be talking Persepolis🔥 🏛️🔥 and operatic treatments of Persia 🎼 👑🗡️📯
www.bbc.co.uk/events/e8qbc....
I'll be talking Persepolis🔥 🏛️🔥 and operatic treatments of Persia 🎼 👑🗡️📯
www.bbc.co.uk/events/e8qbc....
April 24, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Very excited to see the BBC Proms programme released today and to share that I'll be returning this year as an interval commentator for the performance of Handel's 'Alexander's Feast' on 30/8/25!
I'll be talking Persepolis🔥 🏛️🔥 and operatic treatments of Persia 🎼 👑🗡️📯
www.bbc.co.uk/events/e8qbc....
I'll be talking Persepolis🔥 🏛️🔥 and operatic treatments of Persia 🎼 👑🗡️📯
www.bbc.co.uk/events/e8qbc....
In today's episode of Julia's deep dive into Italian Orientalism, Italo Pizzi (who was to become Italy's first Professor of Persian) writes in 1878 of the dejection of being thirty and having to rely on precarious teaching positions due to not having found permanent academic employment in his field.
April 24, 2025 at 3:02 PM
In today's episode of Julia's deep dive into Italian Orientalism, Italo Pizzi (who was to become Italy's first Professor of Persian) writes in 1878 of the dejection of being thirty and having to rely on precarious teaching positions due to not having found permanent academic employment in his field.
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After almost a decade of working on French Orientalism, I'm turning to Italian Orientalism. Today's two highlights from De Gubernatis, founding father of Italian Oriental Studies:
1) he brags about Renan blowing him a kiss at a conference
2) proudly declares his right to research everything he loves
1) he brags about Renan blowing him a kiss at a conference
2) proudly declares his right to research everything he loves
April 2, 2025 at 12:09 PM
After almost a decade of working on French Orientalism, I'm turning to Italian Orientalism. Today's two highlights from De Gubernatis, founding father of Italian Oriental Studies:
1) he brags about Renan blowing him a kiss at a conference
2) proudly declares his right to research everything he loves
1) he brags about Renan blowing him a kiss at a conference
2) proudly declares his right to research everything he loves
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2000 Black prisoners of war were brought to Portchester Castle in 1796. Abigail Coppins has been meticulously researching them since 2008 but unscrupulous writers are taking her research without citing her properly. If you read someone else on Portchester, it’ll be her work they’re basing it on 🗃️
April 1, 2025 at 10:47 AM
2000 Black prisoners of war were brought to Portchester Castle in 1796. Abigail Coppins has been meticulously researching them since 2008 but unscrupulous writers are taking her research without citing her properly. If you read someone else on Portchester, it’ll be her work they’re basing it on 🗃️
Both my books and several articles. Enraging.
This is some bullshit
March 24, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Both my books and several articles. Enraging.
As it’s that time of year, here is a throwback to a Nowruz (Persian New Year) special of BBC Radio’s 3 Thinking that I recorded last year in excellent company: Michelle Assay, Susan Babaie and our own @UofGlasgow Ide Haghi.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
March 23, 2025 at 1:02 PM
As it’s that time of year, here is a throwback to a Nowruz (Persian New Year) special of BBC Radio’s 3 Thinking that I recorded last year in excellent company: Michelle Assay, Susan Babaie and our own @UofGlasgow Ide Haghi.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Belgian university VUB is offering funding and a dedicated point of contact to attract US researchers whose work is in jeopardy 🇧🇪 press.vub.ac.be/vub-zet-deur...
VUB zet deuren open voor gecensureerde Amerikaanse onderzoekers
Universiteit voorziet budgetten en contactpunt voor Amerikaanse onderzoekers die willen verhuizen naar Brussel
press.vub.ac.be
March 17, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Belgian university VUB is offering funding and a dedicated point of contact to attract US researchers whose work is in jeopardy 🇧🇪 press.vub.ac.be/vub-zet-deur...
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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...
The challenge of teaching Mary Renault's The Persian Boy is... fighting back the tears before class 😭❤️
March 11, 2025 at 9:46 AM
The challenge of teaching Mary Renault's The Persian Boy is... fighting back the tears before class 😭❤️
Off to Liverpool to give a talk on my current book project! If you are in town it's tomorrow (Wednesday) at 1pm at 7 Abercromby Square, Seminar Room 6, hosted by
@saraharens.bsky.social as part of the Languages, Cultures and Film Departmental Seminar Series.
@saraharens.bsky.social as part of the Languages, Cultures and Film Departmental Seminar Series.
February 4, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Off to Liverpool to give a talk on my current book project! If you are in town it's tomorrow (Wednesday) at 1pm at 7 Abercromby Square, Seminar Room 6, hosted by
@saraharens.bsky.social as part of the Languages, Cultures and Film Departmental Seminar Series.
@saraharens.bsky.social as part of the Languages, Cultures and Film Departmental Seminar Series.
Yesterday I had the trepidation and then the joy of reading the Journal of @frenchstudies.bsky.social review of my book Iran and French Orientalism by none other than Prof Michèle Hannoosh. 🤩
January 24, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Yesterday I had the trepidation and then the joy of reading the Journal of @frenchstudies.bsky.social review of my book Iran and French Orientalism by none other than Prof Michèle Hannoosh. 🤩