Dr Aidan Norrie 🦄
@aidannorrie.bsky.social
Doctor of Elizabeth I as/and Deborah the Judge • Early modern history & lit | children’s lit | women’s writing | monarchy • Lecturer & Programme Leader • Managing Editor, @thelondonjournal.bsky.social • The Real Empress Palpatine • they/them • 🏳️🌈🇳🇿🇦🇺
Just over 2 weeks until this book is finally out in the world! My chapter is on the Platonic resonances in the show's conception of reincarnation.
I watched Avatar when it was released, & I love that 20 years later, my thoughts on the show will appear in print.
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I watched Avatar when it was released, & I love that 20 years later, my thoughts on the show will appear in print.
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July 25, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Just over 2 weeks until this book is finally out in the world! My chapter is on the Platonic resonances in the show's conception of reincarnation.
I watched Avatar when it was released, & I love that 20 years later, my thoughts on the show will appear in print.
mcfarlandbooks.com/product/theo...
I watched Avatar when it was released, & I love that 20 years later, my thoughts on the show will appear in print.
mcfarlandbooks.com/product/theo...
I’m so smad. I opened this and thought for a moment it was a Funko of the Luggage, and I was ready to spend all of the money 🥲🥲🥲
July 11, 2025 at 3:21 PM
I’m so smad. I opened this and thought for a moment it was a Funko of the Luggage, and I was ready to spend all of the money 🥲🥲🥲
Our final paper is fellow Warwicker, Karin Sprang, on ‘Friendship on the Road: Transalpine Networks in the Travel Journal and Album Amicorum of Erckenbrecht Koler (1587-1593)’
July 5, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Our final paper is fellow Warwicker, Karin Sprang, on ‘Friendship on the Road: Transalpine Networks in the Travel Journal and Album Amicorum of Erckenbrecht Koler (1587-1593)’
Next up is Millie Randall on 'Flirting and Predicting the Future in Late Seventeenth-Century’
We love to see a nuanced discussion on the connections between print and manuscript: miscellany culture FTW!
We love to see a nuanced discussion on the connections between print and manuscript: miscellany culture FTW!
July 5, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Next up is Millie Randall on 'Flirting and Predicting the Future in Late Seventeenth-Century’
We love to see a nuanced discussion on the connections between print and manuscript: miscellany culture FTW!
We love to see a nuanced discussion on the connections between print and manuscript: miscellany culture FTW!
Can’t believe we’re at the final panel of #RenSoc25 😮
Very excited though for panel 9.1, on Friendship and Flirting in the Renaissance.
First up is Lanyu Chen on ‘Flatters or Friends: Uncovering the Hidden Friendship in Thomas May’s Cleopatra’
Love me some Plutarch in the afternoon 😉
Very excited though for panel 9.1, on Friendship and Flirting in the Renaissance.
First up is Lanyu Chen on ‘Flatters or Friends: Uncovering the Hidden Friendship in Thomas May’s Cleopatra’
Love me some Plutarch in the afternoon 😉
July 5, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Can’t believe we’re at the final panel of #RenSoc25 😮
Very excited though for panel 9.1, on Friendship and Flirting in the Renaissance.
First up is Lanyu Chen on ‘Flatters or Friends: Uncovering the Hidden Friendship in Thomas May’s Cleopatra’
Love me some Plutarch in the afternoon 😉
Very excited though for panel 9.1, on Friendship and Flirting in the Renaissance.
First up is Lanyu Chen on ‘Flatters or Friends: Uncovering the Hidden Friendship in Thomas May’s Cleopatra’
Love me some Plutarch in the afternoon 😉
Very relieved to have my paper over with!
The final speaker on our panel is Murray Gove on 'Songs and Prayers of Prophecy: Interconnections between Ann rapnel and her Audiences in Cromwellian England’.
I do have a soft spot for Trapnel 🥰🥰
The final speaker on our panel is Murray Gove on 'Songs and Prayers of Prophecy: Interconnections between Ann rapnel and her Audiences in Cromwellian England’.
I do have a soft spot for Trapnel 🥰🥰
July 5, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Very relieved to have my paper over with!
The final speaker on our panel is Murray Gove on 'Songs and Prayers of Prophecy: Interconnections between Ann rapnel and her Audiences in Cromwellian England’.
I do have a soft spot for Trapnel 🥰🥰
The final speaker on our panel is Murray Gove on 'Songs and Prayers of Prophecy: Interconnections between Ann rapnel and her Audiences in Cromwellian England’.
I do have a soft spot for Trapnel 🥰🥰
First up is Harriet Scanlon on ‘Exploring Katherine Philips's Lesbian Masochism'.
We love to see queer recovery! 🥰💅👑
We love to see queer recovery! 🥰💅👑
July 5, 2025 at 10:12 AM
First up is Harriet Scanlon on ‘Exploring Katherine Philips's Lesbian Masochism'.
We love to see queer recovery! 🥰💅👑
We love to see queer recovery! 🥰💅👑
Next up is Kate Shaw on Unmasking the Queens in Jonson’s Masque of Queens 👑
July 4, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Next up is Kate Shaw on Unmasking the Queens in Jonson’s Masque of Queens 👑
Very excited to be attendng panel 7.10, Masque and Antimasque, at #RenSoc25. First up is Rebecca Bailey on Thomas Salusbury’s “An Antimasque of Gypsies”, which was performed at Chirk Castle on 30 December 1641
July 4, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Very excited to be attendng panel 7.10, Masque and Antimasque, at #RenSoc25. First up is Rebecca Bailey on Thomas Salusbury’s “An Antimasque of Gypsies”, which was performed at Chirk Castle on 30 December 1641
Next up is the wonderful @lisahopkins.bsky.social on giants in early modern drama.
July 4, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Next up is the wonderful @lisahopkins.bsky.social on giants in early modern drama.
First paper in panel 6.7: Foundation Myths across Borders in Early Modern Europe Collapse at #RenSoc25 is Jonathan Sawday’s on the Renaissance Search for Homeric Troy, with reference to Thomas Browne’s Of Troas.
Loving that I get to stretch my (very dormant) classicist muscles.
Loving that I get to stretch my (very dormant) classicist muscles.
July 4, 2025 at 10:23 AM
First paper in panel 6.7: Foundation Myths across Borders in Early Modern Europe Collapse at #RenSoc25 is Jonathan Sawday’s on the Renaissance Search for Homeric Troy, with reference to Thomas Browne’s Of Troas.
Loving that I get to stretch my (very dormant) classicist muscles.
Loving that I get to stretch my (very dormant) classicist muscles.
The final paper is from Johanna Sinclair on the marriage of Marie de’ Medici and Henri IV and the challenges of ‘foreignness’.
Also, Rubens 😍😍😍😍
Also, Rubens 😍😍😍😍
July 3, 2025 at 1:24 PM
The final paper is from Johanna Sinclair on the marriage of Marie de’ Medici and Henri IV and the challenges of ‘foreignness’.
Also, Rubens 😍😍😍😍
Also, Rubens 😍😍😍😍
Next up is Martina di Tizio on the terms of address used in letters between bae and James VI between 1582 and 1588. 😍😍😍
July 3, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Next up is Martina di Tizio on the terms of address used in letters between bae and James VI between 1582 and 1588. 😍😍😍
Chairing a panel on Monarchic Relations at #RenSoc25. The brand really is branding 🤣🤣
First up is David Zirak-Schmidt on two Latin poems written for the wedding of James VI and Anna of Denmark in 1589.
James’s hat game was always legendary. 💅
First up is David Zirak-Schmidt on two Latin poems written for the wedding of James VI and Anna of Denmark in 1589.
James’s hat game was always legendary. 💅
July 3, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Chairing a panel on Monarchic Relations at #RenSoc25. The brand really is branding 🤣🤣
First up is David Zirak-Schmidt on two Latin poems written for the wedding of James VI and Anna of Denmark in 1589.
James’s hat game was always legendary. 💅
First up is David Zirak-Schmidt on two Latin poems written for the wedding of James VI and Anna of Denmark in 1589.
James’s hat game was always legendary. 💅
En-route to the @srsrensoc.bsky.social conference in Bristol to be a real academic™ for once!
Very excited for 4 days of early modern goodness with a bunch of cool peeps 🥰🥰
Very excited for 4 days of early modern goodness with a bunch of cool peeps 🥰🥰
July 2, 2025 at 10:29 AM
En-route to the @srsrensoc.bsky.social conference in Bristol to be a real academic™ for once!
Very excited for 4 days of early modern goodness with a bunch of cool peeps 🥰🥰
Very excited for 4 days of early modern goodness with a bunch of cool peeps 🥰🥰
Made me think of this, tbh
June 29, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Made me think of this, tbh
This was such an unexpected and indeed heartbreaking email to suddenly receive Friday last week.
@amsterdamupress.bsky.social will now essentially cease to exist, and academic publishing is even more concentrated into the hands of greedy, commercial mega-publishers 😢💔
@amsterdamupress.bsky.social will now essentially cease to exist, and academic publishing is even more concentrated into the hands of greedy, commercial mega-publishers 😢💔
June 9, 2025 at 11:49 AM
This was such an unexpected and indeed heartbreaking email to suddenly receive Friday last week.
@amsterdamupress.bsky.social will now essentially cease to exist, and academic publishing is even more concentrated into the hands of greedy, commercial mega-publishers 😢💔
@amsterdamupress.bsky.social will now essentially cease to exist, and academic publishing is even more concentrated into the hands of greedy, commercial mega-publishers 😢💔
Browns Books is one of the UK's main distributors for academic institutions, and it currently says it has 2 copies in stock! According to them, it was published on 1 April 2025.
@lendavis.bsky.social
@lendavis.bsky.social
May 13, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Browns Books is one of the UK's main distributors for academic institutions, and it currently says it has 2 copies in stock! According to them, it was published on 1 April 2025.
@lendavis.bsky.social
@lendavis.bsky.social
I can’t remember the last time I devoured a book like this. Started reading just after 11pm last night and only stopped when I finished just before 3am.
It feels all the more relevant given the basket case that is the world right now, and its hopeful message is very much needed.
It feels all the more relevant given the basket case that is the world right now, and its hopeful message is very much needed.
May 12, 2025 at 1:05 PM
I can’t remember the last time I devoured a book like this. Started reading just after 11pm last night and only stopped when I finished just before 3am.
It feels all the more relevant given the basket case that is the world right now, and its hopeful message is very much needed.
It feels all the more relevant given the basket case that is the world right now, and its hopeful message is very much needed.
A non-exhaustive list of people I’m realising were part of my gay awakening:
- Milo from Disney’s Atlantis (weedy, nerdy types are still my kryptonite)
- Gordo from Lizzie McGuire (that hair!)
- Ed Speelers as Eragon
- Queen Amidala in Phantom Menace—no heterosexual is that interested in her outfits
- Milo from Disney’s Atlantis (weedy, nerdy types are still my kryptonite)
- Gordo from Lizzie McGuire (that hair!)
- Ed Speelers as Eragon
- Queen Amidala in Phantom Menace—no heterosexual is that interested in her outfits
May 9, 2025 at 8:12 PM
A non-exhaustive list of people I’m realising were part of my gay awakening:
- Milo from Disney’s Atlantis (weedy, nerdy types are still my kryptonite)
- Gordo from Lizzie McGuire (that hair!)
- Ed Speelers as Eragon
- Queen Amidala in Phantom Menace—no heterosexual is that interested in her outfits
- Milo from Disney’s Atlantis (weedy, nerdy types are still my kryptonite)
- Gordo from Lizzie McGuire (that hair!)
- Ed Speelers as Eragon
- Queen Amidala in Phantom Menace—no heterosexual is that interested in her outfits
Finally got my hands on @drstephr.bsky.social’s latest book ❤️
Not that I’m at all biased or anything, but this has to be one of the greatest acknowledgements page ever!
Not that I’m at all biased or anything, but this has to be one of the greatest acknowledgements page ever!
May 2, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Finally got my hands on @drstephr.bsky.social’s latest book ❤️
Not that I’m at all biased or anything, but this has to be one of the greatest acknowledgements page ever!
Not that I’m at all biased or anything, but this has to be one of the greatest acknowledgements page ever!
Happy Easter! 😘
April 20, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Happy Easter! 😘
My favourite genre of social media posting is creating these collages of stuff we get up to on my degree. Have a guess which 5 of the 8 were my classes…
(Fairly tbh 🤣🙈)
(Fairly tbh 🤣🙈)
April 2, 2025 at 11:05 PM
My favourite genre of social media posting is creating these collages of stuff we get up to on my degree. Have a guess which 5 of the 8 were my classes…
(Fairly tbh 🤣🙈)
(Fairly tbh 🤣🙈)
In the evaluation for my Early Modern England module, one of my students wrote: "I found the seventeenth century plays more interesting than what I initially thought I would."
A) I immediately had to make this meme.
B) I love that they are pointedly NOT including Peele's David and Bathsheba
A) I immediately had to make this meme.
B) I love that they are pointedly NOT including Peele's David and Bathsheba
March 7, 2025 at 10:36 PM
In the evaluation for my Early Modern England module, one of my students wrote: "I found the seventeenth century plays more interesting than what I initially thought I would."
A) I immediately had to make this meme.
B) I love that they are pointedly NOT including Peele's David and Bathsheba
A) I immediately had to make this meme.
B) I love that they are pointedly NOT including Peele's David and Bathsheba
How I think I look when teaching / How I actually look
February 7, 2025 at 12:32 AM
How I think I look when teaching / How I actually look