Catherine Quirk, PhD
@catherinequirk.bsky.social
Dog mum. Senior Lecturer in Drama. Coffee lover, writer, actor, director, (digital) theatre historian, Victorianist. Language learner. Likes &c my own. she/her. 🌈
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Today an actor told me that they’d felt safe as a queer person in my rehearsal room when they hadn’t been used to feeling that way. And honestly that’s the biggest win I’ll ever have in my entire career.
Thank you to all who came to our Frankenstein: I hope you felt just as safe with us!
Thank you to all who came to our Frankenstein: I hope you felt just as safe with us!
Thread of all HE threads 👇
Super depressing, but sort of nice in the midst of it all to know that you’re not alone in this experience…
Super depressing, but sort of nice in the midst of it all to know that you’re not alone in this experience…
An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
November 30, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Thread of all HE threads 👇
Super depressing, but sort of nice in the midst of it all to know that you’re not alone in this experience…
Super depressing, but sort of nice in the midst of it all to know that you’re not alone in this experience…
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TOMORROW - join us!!!
Our second seminar is:
27/11/25: David Coates, ‘Amateur Theatricals: in Fiction and in Fact’, 6-7 pm
us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
#EHU19SeminarSeries
27/11/25: David Coates, ‘Amateur Theatricals: in Fiction and in Fact’, 6-7 pm
us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
#EHU19SeminarSeries
November 26, 2025 at 6:12 AM
TOMORROW - join us!!!
Never thought I’d be boycotting a work Christmas Carol concert, and yet here we are. UK HE really needs to sort out its priorities 🙄
November 25, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Never thought I’d be boycotting a work Christmas Carol concert, and yet here we are. UK HE really needs to sort out its priorities 🙄
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one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
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THIS WEEK - join us on Thursday for some amateur theatricals and at least semi-professional zooming 😉
Our second seminar is:
27/11/25: David Coates, ‘Amateur Theatricals: in Fiction and in Fact’, 6-7 pm
us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
#EHU19SeminarSeries
27/11/25: David Coates, ‘Amateur Theatricals: in Fiction and in Fact’, 6-7 pm
us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
#EHU19SeminarSeries
November 24, 2025 at 6:42 AM
THIS WEEK - join us on Thursday for some amateur theatricals and at least semi-professional zooming 😉
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NEXT WEEK - join us!
Our second seminar is:
27/11/25: David Coates, ‘Amateur Theatricals: in Fiction and in Fact’, 6-7 pm
us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
#EHU19SeminarSeries
27/11/25: David Coates, ‘Amateur Theatricals: in Fiction and in Fact’, 6-7 pm
us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
#EHU19SeminarSeries
November 17, 2025 at 7:11 AM
NEXT WEEK - join us!
And once you’re nicely beveraged, join the Theatre Caucus at 8 in the Hampton Ballroom for Lady Audley’s Secret!!! @navsa2025.bsky.social
If you’re at @navsa2025.bsky.social please join us for the 🍃VCOLOGIES HAPPY HOUR🍃from 7-8 this evening!!!
We’ll be in the Marquee Bar and Lounge: complimentary beer/wine for grad students, first come, first served!
We’ll be in the Marquee Bar and Lounge: complimentary beer/wine for grad students, first come, first served!
November 15, 2025 at 9:43 PM
And once you’re nicely beveraged, join the Theatre Caucus at 8 in the Hampton Ballroom for Lady Audley’s Secret!!! @navsa2025.bsky.social
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Call for paper for a special issue on the Brontës and poetry - on their work as poets - on poetry in the novels - on poetic influences and legacies - hoping for creative responses too!
Abstracts due April 26
Articles due December 26
#Romanticism #Victorian #Gothic
Please share!
Abstracts due April 26
Articles due December 26
#Romanticism #Victorian #Gothic
Please share!
To Be Forever Known: The Brontës and Poetry
Seeking original, high-quality analysis of Brontë poems, especially those with little to no critical attention
think.taylorandfrancis.com
November 15, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Call for paper for a special issue on the Brontës and poetry - on their work as poets - on poetry in the novels - on poetic influences and legacies - hoping for creative responses too!
Abstracts due April 26
Articles due December 26
#Romanticism #Victorian #Gothic
Please share!
Abstracts due April 26
Articles due December 26
#Romanticism #Victorian #Gothic
Please share!
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Preorder for The Theatre Artist's Guide to Consent-Based Pedagogy begins in ten days!
I am so grateful to my dear friend and collaborator Kim Shively for researching, writing, and revising with me along the way to this resource for theatre educators!
#theatre #education #theatresky
I am so grateful to my dear friend and collaborator Kim Shively for researching, writing, and revising with me along the way to this resource for theatre educators!
#theatre #education #theatresky
November 12, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Preorder for The Theatre Artist's Guide to Consent-Based Pedagogy begins in ten days!
I am so grateful to my dear friend and collaborator Kim Shively for researching, writing, and revising with me along the way to this resource for theatre educators!
#theatre #education #theatresky
I am so grateful to my dear friend and collaborator Kim Shively for researching, writing, and revising with me along the way to this resource for theatre educators!
#theatre #education #theatresky
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Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. "
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
Early Career Rescue Fellowship
www.uni-konstanz.de
November 11, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. "
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
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Join us at the end of the month for David Coates’ paper on Amateur Theatricals 🖤🖤🖤
Hosted by @catherinequirk.bsky.social
Free, online, all welcome!
Hosted by @catherinequirk.bsky.social
Free, online, all welcome!
Our second seminar is:
27/11/25: David Coates, ‘Amateur Theatricals: in Fiction and in Fact’, 6-7 pm
us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
#EHU19SeminarSeries
27/11/25: David Coates, ‘Amateur Theatricals: in Fiction and in Fact’, 6-7 pm
us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
#EHU19SeminarSeries
November 3, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Join us at the end of the month for David Coates’ paper on Amateur Theatricals 🖤🖤🖤
Hosted by @catherinequirk.bsky.social
Free, online, all welcome!
Hosted by @catherinequirk.bsky.social
Free, online, all welcome!
Happy Nope-vember to all who celebrate!
a donkey from shrek is standing in the dirt and says nope on the bottom
Alt: Donkey from Shrek is standing in the dirt violently shaking his head no. The caption at the bottom of the image says “nope”.
media.tenor.com
November 1, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Happy Nope-vember to all who celebrate!
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If you’re looking to support on the ground Jamaican orgs, We Change Jamaica focuses on gender equality and LBGTQ+ inclusion & they are putting together aid packages for queer & trans Jamaicans who don’t feel safe going to shelters.
gofund.me/09619a41e
gofund.me/09619a41e
Donate to Emergency Relief for LBTQ Jamaicans After Hurricane Melissa, organized by Sudean Peters
My name is Sudean Peters, and I am the Executive Director of … Sudean Peters needs your support for Emergency Relief for LBTQ Jamaicans After Hurricane Melissa
gofund.me
October 30, 2025 at 12:24 PM
If you’re looking to support on the ground Jamaican orgs, We Change Jamaica focuses on gender equality and LBGTQ+ inclusion & they are putting together aid packages for queer & trans Jamaicans who don’t feel safe going to shelters.
gofund.me/09619a41e
gofund.me/09619a41e
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“This revocation is part of Trump and his hogmen’s reworking of America’s immigration and visa system….This move also seems clearly to be part of a wider, authoritarian attack on things the government considers un-American: people of color, literary culture, and those it considers critics.”
The U.S. has revoked the visa of Nobel winner Wole Soyinka.
The American government has revoked the visa of Wole Soyinka, the Nigerian author who won the 1986 Nobel Prize in literature, according to Al Jazeera. The writer received what he called a “rather c…
lithub.com
October 30, 2025 at 12:58 PM
“This revocation is part of Trump and his hogmen’s reworking of America’s immigration and visa system….This move also seems clearly to be part of a wider, authoritarian attack on things the government considers un-American: people of color, literary culture, and those it considers critics.”
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Our first seminar was fabulous and has been recorded of you missed it - don’t miss our November event on Amateur Theatricals hosted by the very professional @catherinequirk.bsky.social!
Register in the link below - free, online, all welcome!
Register in the link below - free, online, all welcome!
Our second seminar is:
27/11/25: David Coates, ‘Amateur Theatricals: in Fiction and in Fact’, 6-7 pm
us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
#EHU19SeminarSeries
27/11/25: David Coates, ‘Amateur Theatricals: in Fiction and in Fact’, 6-7 pm
us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
#EHU19SeminarSeries
October 30, 2025 at 6:26 AM
Our first seminar was fabulous and has been recorded of you missed it - don’t miss our November event on Amateur Theatricals hosted by the very professional @catherinequirk.bsky.social!
Register in the link below - free, online, all welcome!
Register in the link below - free, online, all welcome!
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Interested in the history of Seven Dials or London or the 1920s and 1930s? I'm doing some walking tours of the Dials with @stanfordstravel.bsky.social on Sat 15 Nov.
There's loads to see, but Seven Dials is so small you don't need to walk far.
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/events/songs...
There's loads to see, but Seven Dials is so small you don't need to walk far.
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/events/songs...
October 29, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Interested in the history of Seven Dials or London or the 1920s and 1930s? I'm doing some walking tours of the Dials with @stanfordstravel.bsky.social on Sat 15 Nov.
There's loads to see, but Seven Dials is so small you don't need to walk far.
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/events/songs...
There's loads to see, but Seven Dials is so small you don't need to walk far.
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/events/songs...
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This #OAWeek, have a read of open access books in drama & performance studies, available via Bloomsbury Collections: https://bit.ly/4hmSM5A
October 21, 2025 at 10:37 AM
This #OAWeek, have a read of open access books in drama & performance studies, available via Bloomsbury Collections: https://bit.ly/4hmSM5A
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Our @ehunineteen.bsky.social seminar series starts next week with @drreznicek.bsky.social talking to me about care in Romantic novels - register in skeet below! Free, online, all welcome!
First up is:
29/10/25: Matthew Reznicek, 'Too Bodily: Disability, Care, and Belonging in Romantic Novels', 6-7 pm
us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
#EHU19SeminarSeries
29/10/25: Matthew Reznicek, 'Too Bodily: Disability, Care, and Belonging in Romantic Novels', 6-7 pm
us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
#EHU19SeminarSeries
October 21, 2025 at 5:46 AM
Our @ehunineteen.bsky.social seminar series starts next week with @drreznicek.bsky.social talking to me about care in Romantic novels - register in skeet below! Free, online, all welcome!
Calling all c19 theatre and performance folks - you don’t want to miss this!
Our second seminar is:
27/11/25: David Coates, ‘Amateur Theatricals: in Fiction and in Fact’, 6-7 pm
us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
#EHU19SeminarSeries
27/11/25: David Coates, ‘Amateur Theatricals: in Fiction and in Fact’, 6-7 pm
us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
#EHU19SeminarSeries
October 17, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Calling all c19 theatre and performance folks - you don’t want to miss this!
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The full line up for our 2025/2026 #EHU19SeminarSeries is available to book now in the thread below!
Join us for a free, online, and friendly discussion about cutting-edge research in nineteenth-century studies!
Join us for a free, online, and friendly discussion about cutting-edge research in nineteenth-century studies!
October 17, 2025 at 8:50 AM
The full line up for our 2025/2026 #EHU19SeminarSeries is available to book now in the thread below!
Join us for a free, online, and friendly discussion about cutting-edge research in nineteenth-century studies!
Join us for a free, online, and friendly discussion about cutting-edge research in nineteenth-century studies!
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We are delighted to announce the first seminar in our 25/26 series: the wonderful @drreznicek.bsky.social will be presenting on ‘Too Bodily: Disability, Care, & Belonging in Romantic Novels’ on Wednesday 29th October at 6pm.
Free! Online! All welcome!
Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Free! Online! All welcome!
Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
October 10, 2025 at 12:54 PM
We are delighted to announce the first seminar in our 25/26 series: the wonderful @drreznicek.bsky.social will be presenting on ‘Too Bodily: Disability, Care, & Belonging in Romantic Novels’ on Wednesday 29th October at 6pm.
Free! Online! All welcome!
Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Free! Online! All welcome!
Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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You can read 'Caryl Churchill's Eco-Socialist Feminism' by Elaine Aston (published by Cambridge University Press) for free online until 22 October:
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
October 8, 2025 at 12:49 PM
You can read 'Caryl Churchill's Eco-Socialist Feminism' by Elaine Aston (published by Cambridge University Press) for free online until 22 October:
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Fascinatingly, most of the things in the replies to this are…things I’ve not seen 😂
Inspired by a post I just saw in which someone admitted they hadn’t seen a single episode of Friends nor the film Love Actually… what cultural hole do you have that’s a bit weird for your generation?
I’ll go first: I haven’t seen Dirty Dancing.
I’ll go first: I haven’t seen Dirty Dancing.
October 5, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Fascinatingly, most of the things in the replies to this are…things I’ve not seen 😂
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When it comes to intimidating racist protests including outside our homes or place of worship, Black and Asian people are supposed to just accept it and the government saying “we hear you” and “it is right to protest this” and “I love flags me”. No thought of “cumulative impact” for us!
NEW: Home Office announces planned new anti-protest powers, mainly aimed at pro-Gaza protests like those for Palestine Action. Police will be able to consider the "cumulative impact" of repeated protests and potentially order that they be relocated.
October 5, 2025 at 9:40 AM
When it comes to intimidating racist protests including outside our homes or place of worship, Black and Asian people are supposed to just accept it and the government saying “we hear you” and “it is right to protest this” and “I love flags me”. No thought of “cumulative impact” for us!
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Job alert! University of Auckland, lectureship in English, in the long 19th century:
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Lecturer - English
Company Description: Waipapa Taumata Rau | The University of AucklandThe University of Auckland is New Zealand’s pre-eminent University, with a turnover of $1.1bn, including research revenue of over $...
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October 5, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Job alert! University of Auckland, lectureship in English, in the long 19th century:
jobs.smartrecruiters.com/TheUniversit...
jobs.smartrecruiters.com/TheUniversit...