For this #ModWrite I did a translation piece during the (post)Tartu conference workshop. A rough Chinese version of Gwendolyn B. Bennett’s “Streetlamps in Early Spring”. I found it’s hard to preserve the imagery when translating adjectives. Some lines are muddled; some meaning gets lost inevitably.

This #ModWrite I’m thinking back on the #MLA2025 last week. So much enjoyed the panel Woolf&Skepticism. Thanks Amy&Shilo for organising this!! Loved all questions and feedback I got. Thanks to those brilliant people who’d love to read my paper afterwards. See many of you later this year at Sussex!!

A glittering and sparkling start of 2025!! Happy New Year everybody!! 🎆🎆

What happened this week:
- a celebratory event for the Dean’s award on Monday
- #NWiMS14 at UEA. Met with BAMS exec committee, other reps, and peers. 🥰 Chaired a panel on geomodernisms. Attended fascinating sessions and had wonderful discussions. So many valuable takeaways from yesterday. 💓

Passed Waterstones window one night.

The British Museum puts Woolf with Marcus Garvey, Karl Marx, and Sun Yat-sen together in the reading room - somehow resonating with 2025 Woolf conference’s theme “dissidence”. #VWoolf2025

Typed in the url but got blocked (again). I must do something wrong with it?? 🥺😢

Another morning with Woolf. 💕💗#virginiawoolf #phdlife