Stephanie Palmer
@stephaniepalmer.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer of English, Nottingham Trent University, researching American literature, women's writing, regionalism, and ecocriticism.
"The university expects excellence from us, but they are not demonstrating it themselves." Feel the same for various reasons every day. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Data watchdog assessing University of Derby redundancy notice letters
The university apologises for sending letters that identified staff at risk of redundancy.
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October 23, 2025 at 10:22 PM
"The university expects excellence from us, but they are not demonstrating it themselves." Feel the same for various reasons every day. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Illustration for “The Shadows on the Wall.”
October 18, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Illustration for “The Shadows on the Wall.”
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For day 18 of #31days31books we have Mary E. Wilkins’s The Wind in the Rose-Bush (1903). The book is extra special because it includes illustrations for the supernatural stories.
October 18, 2025 at 5:37 PM
For day 18 of #31days31books we have Mary E. Wilkins’s The Wind in the Rose-Bush (1903). The book is extra special because it includes illustrations for the supernatural stories.
An excellent essay collection on transnational approaches to regionalism just published open access with Radboud University Press. Not one but two essays on Freeman! It was a pleasure to work with these editors. books.radbouduniversitypress.nl/index.php/ru...
Transnational Representations of the Region, 1840-1940
| Radboud University Press
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September 10, 2025 at 10:50 AM
An excellent essay collection on transnational approaches to regionalism just published open access with Radboud University Press. Not one but two essays on Freeman! It was a pleasure to work with these editors. books.radbouduniversitypress.nl/index.php/ru...
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Oh, 81%, eh? And I wonder what percentage it would be refusing care from medical workers who hadn't been born here.
What do Reform mean by migrants "undermining" British culture? What has been damaged? Do they mean British art, architecture, food, literature, music, sport, theatre, or TV have been diminished, rather than enriched? Or does "culture", to them, only mean "whiteness "? (H/T @sundersays.bsky.social)
September 5, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Oh, 81%, eh? And I wonder what percentage it would be refusing care from medical workers who hadn't been born here.
Great roundtable on ghost stories by Wharton, Freeman, and Stowe in the latest _Edith Wharton Review_.
September 5, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Great roundtable on ghost stories by Wharton, Freeman, and Stowe in the latest _Edith Wharton Review_.
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A-level English : Language, Language & Literature and Language : our results 2025 analysis.
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August 14, 2025 at 3:50 PM
A-level English : Language, Language & Literature and Language : our results 2025 analysis.
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Tens of thousands of Americans will have died (literally) from Medicaid cuts by the time Hersheys removes nontoxic synthetic dyes from their high-calorie, low-nutrition candies
July 2, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Tens of thousands of Americans will have died (literally) from Medicaid cuts by the time Hersheys removes nontoxic synthetic dyes from their high-calorie, low-nutrition candies
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Please don’t lump me in with the IDF, that seems kinda antisemitic
July 3, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Please don’t lump me in with the IDF, that seems kinda antisemitic
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These huge cars are vastly more dangerous, kill far more children, as they're higher at the front. They should have their own much lower speed limit in towns; and higher tax. Parking should be charged as for vans, they're larger than normal spaces. It's bizarre that they're treated as cars.
Can we have weight-based car taxes too please? These are loathsome vehicles and they’re mushrooming all over London
Two years ago I interviewed a 31-year-old NY state assemblymember about a 7-year-old girl killed by an SUV driver in his district. I hung up the phone, astonished that I'd talked to a legislator who so thoughtfully articulated what actually needs to change on our streets.
He'll make a great mayor
He'll make a great mayor
June 26, 2025 at 9:44 AM
These huge cars are vastly more dangerous, kill far more children, as they're higher at the front. They should have their own much lower speed limit in towns; and higher tax. Parking should be charged as for vans, they're larger than normal spaces. It's bizarre that they're treated as cars.
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Absolutely thrilled to see this excellent piece by our MA graduate and now PhD student, Nada Saadaoui, on walking as a form of resistance for Jane Austen and her heroines, published in ‘The Conversation’ today: theconversation.com/for-jane-aus...
June 26, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Absolutely thrilled to see this excellent piece by our MA graduate and now PhD student, Nada Saadaoui, on walking as a form of resistance for Jane Austen and her heroines, published in ‘The Conversation’ today: theconversation.com/for-jane-aus...
Foxgloves are blooming in Nottingham
This year's foxglove season is promising, so I am sharing my linocut of a fox emerging from a foxglove grove that I carved a few years ago, during an especially abundant foxglove summer 🦊🐾🌺
June 5, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Foxgloves are blooming in Nottingham
"I do not need to be Bandanese to understand what Gunung Api means to the islanders, just as I do not need to be Greek to be moved by the Iliad." - Amitav Ghosh. I'm moved by his rejection of ecofascist arguments for protecting only one's own nation's nature.
June 4, 2025 at 7:13 PM
"I do not need to be Bandanese to understand what Gunung Api means to the islanders, just as I do not need to be Greek to be moved by the Iliad." - Amitav Ghosh. I'm moved by his rejection of ecofascist arguments for protecting only one's own nation's nature.
In case you're tired of being asked, when do you break up?
Universities in the UK are busy all year round.
Postgrad students have classes and work to do in the summer. Undergrad students often work on campus during the summer. Our campuses are full of visiting schools, colleges, and conferences.
Staff continue to work. Summer is often our busiest time.
Postgrad students have classes and work to do in the summer. Undergrad students often work on campus during the summer. Our campuses are full of visiting schools, colleges, and conferences.
Staff continue to work. Summer is often our busiest time.
May 30, 2025 at 5:56 PM
In case you're tired of being asked, when do you break up?
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Reminder that today is the last day to object to Facebook using your data to feed their AI. You need to go into the privacy center until you get to 'Right to Object' where they deliberately make it hard to enter your email address. However now had an email confirming they won't use any of my data.
May 26, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Reminder that today is the last day to object to Facebook using your data to feed their AI. You need to go into the privacy center until you get to 'Right to Object' where they deliberately make it hard to enter your email address. However now had an email confirming they won't use any of my data.
Our future may depend on the humanities wonkhe.com/blogs/our-fu...
Our future may depend on the humanities
For Peter Sutoris, the humanities hold the key to understanding and responding to the many civilisational crises we face
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May 24, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Our future may depend on the humanities wonkhe.com/blogs/our-fu...
Five or six wrens flitting in and out of my woodpile.
May 22, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Five or six wrens flitting in and out of my woodpile.
Thanks to Valerie Kinsey for noticing our book's ecocriticism: 'Freeman in these critics’ hands moves beyond denaturalizing social worlds toward rendering ways of being in and of nature.’ muse.jhu.edu/issue/53522?...
Project MUSE - Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers-Volume 41, Number 2, 2024
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May 15, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Thanks to Valerie Kinsey for noticing our book's ecocriticism: 'Freeman in these critics’ hands moves beyond denaturalizing social worlds toward rendering ways of being in and of nature.’ muse.jhu.edu/issue/53522?...
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I'm giving a talk in a few months to some children's publishing and bookselling bods. If you could say one thing to a capitive audience of publishers and booksellers, what would YOU say? #KidLitUK (Dm me if it's something you'd rather not say out loud...)
May 13, 2025 at 8:08 AM
I'm giving a talk in a few months to some children's publishing and bookselling bods. If you could say one thing to a capitive audience of publishers and booksellers, what would YOU say? #KidLitUK (Dm me if it's something you'd rather not say out loud...)
Can recommend Aimz Rushton's substack. She always has her finger on the heartbeat. aimzrushton.substack.com?r=185r72&utm...
Disco & Dissociation | Aimz Rushton | Substack
Words by Aimz. A space to get messy and creative. Click to read Disco & Dissociation, by Aimz Rushton, a Substack publication. Launched 3 days ago.
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May 1, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Can recommend Aimz Rushton's substack. She always has her finger on the heartbeat. aimzrushton.substack.com?r=185r72&utm...
Talking BAAS and SSAWW with Emma in Hertfordshire. She actually approves this Chardonnay.
April 24, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Talking BAAS and SSAWW with Emma in Hertfordshire. She actually approves this Chardonnay.
Easter walk at Gotham
April 20, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Easter walk at Gotham
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Women's appearance and behaviour is about to get even more highly policed in the UK, with a few people doubtless being emboldened to "take action". This whole billionaire-funded enterprise dials back gender equity by decades.
April 20, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Women's appearance and behaviour is about to get even more highly policed in the UK, with a few people doubtless being emboldened to "take action". This whole billionaire-funded enterprise dials back gender equity by decades.
'If we're not real women, why are you patronising and talking over us?' sign at Trans Rights rally Nottinham just now.
April 20, 2025 at 12:41 PM
'If we're not real women, why are you patronising and talking over us?' sign at Trans Rights rally Nottinham just now.