Harriet Soper
@hattiesoper.bsky.social
Lecturer in Medieval Literature @bristolunienglish.bsky.social. Interested in OE, ME & ON, currently working on play 🧸 The Life Course in Old English Poetry (CUP, 2024). She/ her. Views own.
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Not sure what to do on a particularly rainy Friday in Bristol? ☔️ We’ve got you covered! Old English Reading Group runs at 3pm in Hattie’s office, no experience or prep required! Email harriet.soper@bristol.ac.uk for more info! ☺️
*Old Norse isn't running today but will be back next week!*
*Old Norse isn't running today but will be back next week!*
November 14, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Not sure what to do on a particularly rainy Friday in Bristol? ☔️ We’ve got you covered! Old English Reading Group runs at 3pm in Hattie’s office, no experience or prep required! Email harriet.soper@bristol.ac.uk for more info! ☺️
*Old Norse isn't running today but will be back next week!*
*Old Norse isn't running today but will be back next week!*
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This came out earlier this week! Thank you so much to Yale University Press for all their efforts getting it to publication.
August 30, 2025 at 9:35 PM
This came out earlier this week! Thank you so much to Yale University Press for all their efforts getting it to publication.
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Pls sign and share this open letter to the Bristol VC, against the School of Humanities's decision to withdraw the BA in English Literature and Community Engagement (ELCE): the only part-time, flexible undergraduate degree programme available at the University forms.gle/SbyhXPSJgQTc...
Save our pioneering widening participation undergraduate degree in English Literature and Community Engagement at the University of Bristol
19 August 2025
Dear Evelyn Welch (Vice-Chancellor)
cc Judith Squires (Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Provost), Tansy Jessop (Pro Vice-Chancellor for Education and Students)
The School of Humanities has ...
forms.gle
August 19, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Pls sign and share this open letter to the Bristol VC, against the School of Humanities's decision to withdraw the BA in English Literature and Community Engagement (ELCE): the only part-time, flexible undergraduate degree programme available at the University forms.gle/SbyhXPSJgQTc...
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WE ARE HIRING!!
Creative Writing (fiction) Pathway 3 lecturer 0.5 in the Department of English at the University of Bristol's thriving School of Humanities.
It's a 3/2 teaching load with plenty of support and mentorship from meeeeeee (others are available)!
www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
Creative Writing (fiction) Pathway 3 lecturer 0.5 in the Department of English at the University of Bristol's thriving School of Humanities.
It's a 3/2 teaching load with plenty of support and mentorship from meeeeeee (others are available)!
www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
Details | Working at Bristol | University of Bristol
www.bristol.ac.uk
August 6, 2025 at 12:20 PM
WE ARE HIRING!!
Creative Writing (fiction) Pathway 3 lecturer 0.5 in the Department of English at the University of Bristol's thriving School of Humanities.
It's a 3/2 teaching load with plenty of support and mentorship from meeeeeee (others are available)!
www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
Creative Writing (fiction) Pathway 3 lecturer 0.5 in the Department of English at the University of Bristol's thriving School of Humanities.
It's a 3/2 teaching load with plenty of support and mentorship from meeeeeee (others are available)!
www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
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Rosemary Sweet and I have written a book about #18thc British travellers to Spain and Portugal, and I'm really happy it's now free to download here: uclpress.co.uk/book/no-coun... (hard copies also available!) #skystorians #c18th
No Country for Travellers?
No Country for Travellers? explores the rise and nature of British travel to Spain and Portugal between 1760 and 1820, across a region that is conventionally overlooked in studies of British travel to...
uclpress.co.uk
August 15, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Rosemary Sweet and I have written a book about #18thc British travellers to Spain and Portugal, and I'm really happy it's now free to download here: uclpress.co.uk/book/no-coun... (hard copies also available!) #skystorians #c18th
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I'm relaunching my website, Set Yet Speaking, which will host my translations of medieval literature.
In this first post, I discuss why I'm giving this another go, why translation matters, and how a short extract from Beowulf inspired the name of the site.
nikolasgunn.wordpress.com/2025/08/12/w...
In this first post, I discuss why I'm giving this another go, why translation matters, and how a short extract from Beowulf inspired the name of the site.
nikolasgunn.wordpress.com/2025/08/12/w...
Welcome to Set Yet Speaking (plus a translation of Beowulf lines 1687-98a)
Hello everyone. Welcome back to Set Yet Speaking. It’s been a while. The last time I properly updated this website, I was still lecturing. Things have changed a bit since then. I realised an …
nikolasgunn.wordpress.com
August 12, 2025 at 5:20 PM
I'm relaunching my website, Set Yet Speaking, which will host my translations of medieval literature.
In this first post, I discuss why I'm giving this another go, why translation matters, and how a short extract from Beowulf inspired the name of the site.
nikolasgunn.wordpress.com/2025/08/12/w...
In this first post, I discuss why I'm giving this another go, why translation matters, and how a short extract from Beowulf inspired the name of the site.
nikolasgunn.wordpress.com/2025/08/12/w...
how your email finds me
July 21, 2025 at 7:42 AM
how your email finds me
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When I pointed out King’s will lose 90% of its AHRC student-led places under the new scheme, I got piled on by the AHRC Chair claiming I was wrong and scaremongering.
It wasn’t quite 90%.
This year King’s students got 27 AHRC student-led scholarships.
Next year they’re giving us 3.
So 89% then.
It wasn’t quite 90%.
This year King’s students got 27 AHRC student-led scholarships.
Next year they’re giving us 3.
So 89% then.
'The number of student-initiated PhD scholarships funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) is set to fall by 60 per cent when new doctoral training arrangements come into effect next year, new figures show.' 1/3
‘Student-led’ AHRC PhD places ‘to fall by at least 60 per cent’
Internal modelling released under Freedom of Information enquiry reveals extent of PhD scholarship cuts, with academics fearing impact could be greater still
www.timeshighereducation.com
July 21, 2025 at 6:24 AM
When I pointed out King’s will lose 90% of its AHRC student-led places under the new scheme, I got piled on by the AHRC Chair claiming I was wrong and scaremongering.
It wasn’t quite 90%.
This year King’s students got 27 AHRC student-led scholarships.
Next year they’re giving us 3.
So 89% then.
It wasn’t quite 90%.
This year King’s students got 27 AHRC student-led scholarships.
Next year they’re giving us 3.
So 89% then.
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New week, Old English!
Today our featured new book is "The Life Course in Old English #Poetry" by @hattiesoper.bsky.social who examines the linear & unruly paths thru human, nonhuman & more-than-human lives in #OldEnglish poems
#LiteraryStudies #AgeingStudies #AgeStudies #EnglishPoetry #MiddleAges
Today our featured new book is "The Life Course in Old English #Poetry" by @hattiesoper.bsky.social who examines the linear & unruly paths thru human, nonhuman & more-than-human lives in #OldEnglish poems
#LiteraryStudies #AgeingStudies #AgeStudies #EnglishPoetry #MiddleAges
July 14, 2025 at 7:00 AM
New week, Old English!
Today our featured new book is "The Life Course in Old English #Poetry" by @hattiesoper.bsky.social who examines the linear & unruly paths thru human, nonhuman & more-than-human lives in #OldEnglish poems
#LiteraryStudies #AgeingStudies #AgeStudies #EnglishPoetry #MiddleAges
Today our featured new book is "The Life Course in Old English #Poetry" by @hattiesoper.bsky.social who examines the linear & unruly paths thru human, nonhuman & more-than-human lives in #OldEnglish poems
#LiteraryStudies #AgeingStudies #AgeStudies #EnglishPoetry #MiddleAges
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A HUGE well done to the CMS' own Dr Hattie Soper for being awarded the University English Book Prize 2024! 🎉🎉🎉 What an amazing and well-deserved award; we're so thrilled for you Hattie! 🥰
You can read the announcement here: universityenglish.ac.uk/announced-un...
#medievalsky #skystorians
You can read the announcement here: universityenglish.ac.uk/announced-un...
#medievalsky #skystorians
July 14, 2025 at 4:22 PM
A HUGE well done to the CMS' own Dr Hattie Soper for being awarded the University English Book Prize 2024! 🎉🎉🎉 What an amazing and well-deserved award; we're so thrilled for you Hattie! 🥰
You can read the announcement here: universityenglish.ac.uk/announced-un...
#medievalsky #skystorians
You can read the announcement here: universityenglish.ac.uk/announced-un...
#medievalsky #skystorians
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Do you like: magic? women? magic women? history? romance? biblical poems with dodgy rhymes? Then please come to @imc-leeds.bsky.social session 837, magical learning in history and literature, Tues at 4.30pm, with @magicnotwitches.bsky.social, Harry Lewis and me,
chaired by @hattiesoper.bsky.social
chaired by @hattiesoper.bsky.social
July 2, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Do you like: magic? women? magic women? history? romance? biblical poems with dodgy rhymes? Then please come to @imc-leeds.bsky.social session 837, magical learning in history and literature, Tues at 4.30pm, with @magicnotwitches.bsky.social, Harry Lewis and me,
chaired by @hattiesoper.bsky.social
chaired by @hattiesoper.bsky.social
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Look at this beautiful book cover. That shiny lady? That’s Saint Æthelthryth. Heck yes I named my cat after her.
May 29, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Look at this beautiful book cover. That shiny lady? That’s Saint Æthelthryth. Heck yes I named my cat after her.
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Devastated that the Centre for Lifelong Learning @york.ac.uk is being closed after 40 years. What a loss to education in the region. Feel for students and staff. Being a tutor has been joy, doing what universities should be doing by sharing knowledge widely with our communities.
June 25, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Devastated that the Centre for Lifelong Learning @york.ac.uk is being closed after 40 years. What a loss to education in the region. Feel for students and staff. Being a tutor has been joy, doing what universities should be doing by sharing knowledge widely with our communities.
I like how “nitpicking” must date from a time when picking nits out of someone’s hair was considered needlessly pedantic
June 18, 2025 at 7:10 AM
I like how “nitpicking” must date from a time when picking nits out of someone’s hair was considered needlessly pedantic
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♦️ Job opportunity at UCC! ♦️ 5-year Lecturer in Old English position, commencing in September. This will be a great opportunity for someone to join a thriving department, and to really put their own mark on the discipline. Please share widely!
www.ucc.ie/en/future-hu...
www.ucc.ie/en/future-hu...
Lecturer in Old English | University College Cork
UCC wishes to appoint a scholar with a proven commitment to excellence in teaching and research to the role of Lecturer in Old English.
www.ucc.ie
June 6, 2025 at 2:43 PM
♦️ Job opportunity at UCC! ♦️ 5-year Lecturer in Old English position, commencing in September. This will be a great opportunity for someone to join a thriving department, and to really put their own mark on the discipline. Please share widely!
www.ucc.ie/en/future-hu...
www.ucc.ie/en/future-hu...
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A new article by our own Dr Abs S. Ashley has been published in a special issue of Transgender Studies Quarterly ('Toward a Trans[]Crip Theory'): 'Neurotrans Affect: Choreography, Cocreation, and Coalitional Resistance'! @ainokash.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/tsq/article-...
June 2, 2025 at 6:37 AM
A new article by our own Dr Abs S. Ashley has been published in a special issue of Transgender Studies Quarterly ('Toward a Trans[]Crip Theory'): 'Neurotrans Affect: Choreography, Cocreation, and Coalitional Resistance'! @ainokash.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/tsq/article-...
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3D-print your own medieval toy! Thanks to my amazing collaborators Beth Kimber and @noreenmasud.bsky.social
www.instructables.com/Buzz-Bones-t...
www.instructables.com/Buzz-Bones-t...
Buzz Bones - the Original Fidget Spinner
Buzz Bones - the Original Fidget Spinner: For as long as there have been children, there have been toys which make irritating noises.
Originally made from the foot bones of a pig, Buzz Bones make a hu...
www.instructables.com
May 28, 2025 at 6:21 AM
3D-print your own medieval toy! Thanks to my amazing collaborators Beth Kimber and @noreenmasud.bsky.social
www.instructables.com/Buzz-Bones-t...
www.instructables.com/Buzz-Bones-t...
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June is the time for hay making in the golden sunlight. #Medievalcalendar
BnF MS Latin 1156B; Horae ad usum romanum; 15th century; f.6r @gallicabnf.bsky.social
BnF MS Latin 1156B; Horae ad usum romanum; 15th century; f.6r @gallicabnf.bsky.social
May 26, 2025 at 8:03 PM
June is the time for hay making in the golden sunlight. #Medievalcalendar
BnF MS Latin 1156B; Horae ad usum romanum; 15th century; f.6r @gallicabnf.bsky.social
BnF MS Latin 1156B; Horae ad usum romanum; 15th century; f.6r @gallicabnf.bsky.social
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this is very beautiful and the 3D print is a masterpiece and even the bone purist in me admits that being spattered with juice from a real pig bone is not necessarily for everyone
3D-print your own medieval toy! Thanks to my amazing collaborators Beth Kimber and @noreenmasud.bsky.social
www.instructables.com/Buzz-Bones-t...
www.instructables.com/Buzz-Bones-t...
Buzz Bones - the Original Fidget Spinner
Buzz Bones - the Original Fidget Spinner: For as long as there have been children, there have been toys which make irritating noises.
Originally made from the foot bones of a pig, Buzz Bones make a hu...
www.instructables.com
May 28, 2025 at 6:56 AM
this is very beautiful and the 3D print is a masterpiece and even the bone purist in me admits that being spattered with juice from a real pig bone is not necessarily for everyone
3D-print your own medieval toy! Thanks to my amazing collaborators Beth Kimber and @noreenmasud.bsky.social
www.instructables.com/Buzz-Bones-t...
www.instructables.com/Buzz-Bones-t...
Buzz Bones - the Original Fidget Spinner
Buzz Bones - the Original Fidget Spinner: For as long as there have been children, there have been toys which make irritating noises.
Originally made from the foot bones of a pig, Buzz Bones make a hu...
www.instructables.com
May 28, 2025 at 6:21 AM
3D-print your own medieval toy! Thanks to my amazing collaborators Beth Kimber and @noreenmasud.bsky.social
www.instructables.com/Buzz-Bones-t...
www.instructables.com/Buzz-Bones-t...
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No fewer than three members of Bristol’s English Department have found their monographs shortlisted for the University English Book Prize for Outstanding First Manuscript, across the 2023 and 2024 competitions! universityenglish.ac.uk/book-prize/
May 21, 2025 at 7:03 AM
No fewer than three members of Bristol’s English Department have found their monographs shortlisted for the University English Book Prize for Outstanding First Manuscript, across the 2023 and 2024 competitions! universityenglish.ac.uk/book-prize/
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We have landed on Bluesky!
May 12, 2025 at 6:25 AM
We have landed on Bluesky!