Jess Goodman
@goodmanjess.bsky.social
Associate Prof in French at St Catz, Oxford. Works on imagination, posterity, death, self-fashioning, theatre in C18. Mother of 3yo & 6yo. Views my own.
Really wonderful event this evening @stcatz.bsky.social with Corinne Jaber & Atri Banerjee in conversation with Pablo Mukherjee about their project to bring Karthika Nair's Until the Lions: Echoes from the Mahabharata to the stage.
November 11, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Really wonderful event this evening @stcatz.bsky.social with Corinne Jaber & Atri Banerjee in conversation with Pablo Mukherjee about their project to bring Karthika Nair's Until the Lions: Echoes from the Mahabharata to the stage.
Coloured pen and glued paper on translated extract from Voltaire's Micromégas. By Eva, aged 4.
Would definitely cut the mustard in some art exhibitions. Title suggestions sought.
Would definitely cut the mustard in some art exhibitions. Title suggestions sought.
October 15, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Coloured pen and glued paper on translated extract from Voltaire's Micromégas. By Eva, aged 4.
Would definitely cut the mustard in some art exhibitions. Title suggestions sought.
Would definitely cut the mustard in some art exhibitions. Title suggestions sought.
SOMEWHAT last minute writing of French Studies paper (I'm only joining you all at #SFS2025 on Weds), and as you'll see, this really is work in progress...
June 30, 2025 at 1:11 PM
SOMEWHAT last minute writing of French Studies paper (I'm only joining you all at #SFS2025 on Weds), and as you'll see, this really is work in progress...
I think this cheeky intruder digging up our roses is telling me to stop rewriting reading lists and go to bed.
June 2, 2025 at 8:45 PM
I think this cheeky intruder digging up our roses is telling me to stop rewriting reading lists and go to bed.
This day 40 years ago. Plus ça change...
May 22, 2025 at 8:19 AM
This day 40 years ago. Plus ça change...
I thought Christmas was peak unicorn. I was wrong.
May 21, 2025 at 8:20 AM
I thought Christmas was peak unicorn. I was wrong.
Trying to be cool but really quite excited to be giving a workshop here today!
May 2, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Trying to be cool but really quite excited to be giving a workshop here today!
Accidentally sat next to one of my primary texts! @frenchinstituteuk.bsky.social
March 28, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Accidentally sat next to one of my primary texts! @frenchinstituteuk.bsky.social
Happy Peak Magnolia Day (and less happy prepare-for-weeks-of-sludge day).
March 26, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Happy Peak Magnolia Day (and less happy prepare-for-weeks-of-sludge day).
Greeted by some fun post on my return to office!
January 6, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Greeted by some fun post on my return to office!
In our household, 2024 will go down as the Christmas of the giant trampoline (constructed in dark drizzle on Christmas Eve), the spacehopper (had to appear in all family photos) and the unicorn (present in more forms than you can imagine across 3 year old's presents). Santé, all!
December 25, 2024 at 7:03 PM
In our household, 2024 will go down as the Christmas of the giant trampoline (constructed in dark drizzle on Christmas Eve), the spacehopper (had to appear in all family photos) and the unicorn (present in more forms than you can imagine across 3 year old's presents). Santé, all!
The annual Julia Donaldson Christmas parental pause.... Happy Christmas all!
December 25, 2024 at 2:39 PM
The annual Julia Donaldson Christmas parental pause.... Happy Christmas all!
Tree done, a full 12 days before the final admissions meeting for which it now traditionally forms the backdrop (and which signals the start of the holidays).
December 8, 2024 at 6:32 PM
Tree done, a full 12 days before the final admissions meeting for which it now traditionally forms the backdrop (and which signals the start of the holidays).
6 y.o. dictating a play to me. With the following stage direction: '(whilst playing on the stage with non-dangerous things that we can play with on a stage)'. Taking risk assessments seriously at a young age.
November 30, 2024 at 6:02 PM
6 y.o. dictating a play to me. With the following stage direction: '(whilst playing on the stage with non-dangerous things that we can play with on a stage)'. Taking risk assessments seriously at a young age.
I knew keeping all those half finished sheets from sticker books was worth it (twenty minutes relative calm on a rainy day)
November 23, 2024 at 5:27 PM
I knew keeping all those half finished sheets from sticker books was worth it (twenty minutes relative calm on a rainy day)
Just did 4.5 hours of tutorial teaching non-stop, with another hour to come after brief break, and my brain feels even less organised than this table might suggest.
November 11, 2024 at 3:13 PM
Just did 4.5 hours of tutorial teaching non-stop, with another hour to come after brief break, and my brain feels even less organised than this table might suggest.
With thanks to Queens Translation exchange (among others) - I think I should keep this badge for all classes!
November 2, 2024 at 4:04 PM
With thanks to Queens Translation exchange (among others) - I think I should keep this badge for all classes!
@mroussill.bsky.social @olivier-ritz.bsky.social un peu exagéré, cette année....
October 28, 2024 at 6:41 PM
@mroussill.bsky.social @olivier-ritz.bsky.social un peu exagéré, cette année....
Somehow, impossibly, it's 20 years since we all met here. So we've had a lovely weekend of nostalgia, food, drink and chat.
October 13, 2024 at 3:04 PM
Somehow, impossibly, it's 20 years since we all met here. So we've had a lovely weekend of nostalgia, food, drink and chat.
My assistant is eating at her desk.... Bad habits!
September 19, 2024 at 10:03 AM
My assistant is eating at her desk.... Bad habits!
Aspirational, as opposed to accurate, at this point in the rush towards term.
September 5, 2024 at 1:36 PM
Aspirational, as opposed to accurate, at this point in the rush towards term.
Reading long French book on sofa in my parents' front room and feeling very summer of 2005 (pre-second year, massive reading list). Except for the Disney film playing next door.
August 28, 2024 at 2:06 PM
Reading long French book on sofa in my parents' front room and feeling very summer of 2005 (pre-second year, massive reading list). Except for the Disney film playing next door.
THANK YOU Outlook, some sense, for once!
July 10, 2024 at 10:47 AM
THANK YOU Outlook, some sense, for once!