A lot of people disappointed until next year 😢

Giving my cousins signed pdfs of my papers for Christmas because they didn't really seem to understand my research last year

Not nearly enough booksellers’ catalogues include the description “whack-a-doodle.” Apparently Mr. Crook thought the biggest challenge for people learning mathematics is having to remember all ten digits.

‘It turns out that computers can learn to code far quicker than humans can. They can easily be taught how to ace exams in maths and science. But even the most sophisticated generative AI struggles with English literature papers. There’s a clue here.’
www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...

Maybe one of the reasons there are so many unhinged academics is that in order to keep your job, you’re constantly required to tout yourself as a Scholar of World-Historical Significance, even as your office’s ceiling tiles slowly dislodge themselves to fall on your head.

La fameuse fenêtre d’Overton

I think I made a starter pack? go.bsky.app/fkgPH6

When you have conducted an extensive review of the existing criticism

Frankenstein is the story of a STEM dad whose son majors in the humanities

Ok, this is a start at least! Starter pack for the long eighteenth century and Romantic period - reply if you want to be added!

go.bsky.app/JMDQj4n

optimist: the cup is half full

pessimist: the cup is half empty

university management: we hear the concerns of our community and are taking bold and immediate action to appoint a new pro-vice dean of cup plenitude as part of our long term vision.

also we sacked all the cups.

I’ll be at Calgary University to present a talk on Romanticism and the astonishing survival of early-modern practices and theories of translation this Thu and Fri, as part of a workshop on translators from the high Middle Ages to the early 19Ce. If you happen to be close, hit me up!

For the #BARS2024 conference of @bars.bsky.social I've proposed a session call for an in-person session on speculative fiction (SF, fantasy, novels, plays, films, biofiction etc.) and its reimagination of Romanticism. Please send me your abstracts! More here: bars.ac.uk/conference20....

We've made the leap to Bluesky! Looking forward to engaging with fellow Romanticists and friends on this platform!

Just migrated here from old Twitter. Posting this conference information for people who haven't seen it. Abstract submission deadline is 1 November 🙂

Call for speakers! I’m organising an online series of talks, “Women, Property and Economics,” which will bring together early career and established academics, and heritage professionals, working on this topic across 18th and 19th century studies.