Spotted in the Vatican Museum: From 480BCE, an Attic vase in which same-sex desire is symbolised through the gift of a hare.

Also on the menu today: Tutorials on Victorian social criticism, with Ruskin, Morris, Carlyle, Wilde. Lots of love for ‘The Nature of Gothic’. Strong opinions about San Giorgio Maggiore were shared.

Taught ‘The Rite of Spring’ alongside Woolf’s ‘Between the Acts’ today. My students got involved in some very rhythmic clapping games. And I briefly danced like a cow for them.

William Morris, from ‘How I Became A Socialist’ (1894):

Fascinating detail from Andrew Marr’s profile of Alex Salmond.
www.newstatesman.com/comment/2024...

A hugely energising three days in Vadstena for the Medical Humanities PhD Summer School, with colleagues from Linköping University. We challenged participants to design an interdisciplinary collaboration and pitch it to ‘funders’. 30 minutes later (!) they presented these amazing projects:

Got two pieces of very exciting news today about research and publications. Was so overwhelmed I had to bake an emergency banana bread 🤯

A huge privilege to work with such a stellar group of contributors:

Publication day! 🎉 Charlotte Mew: Poetics, Bodies, Ecologies link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Just sent off the final proofs for ‘Charlotte Mew: Poetics, Bodies, Ecologies’. Out from Palgrave in October: link.springer.com/book/9783031...