Dr Julia Ribeiro Thomaz
@juliarsct.bsky.social
Researcher in Anthropology, French Studies, History & Digital Humanities, working on the poetry of the Great War 📚 Rugby player/coach 🏉 Cat person 😻
Final preparations for Tuesday's lecture! I am so lucky that I get to deliver this year's Dennis Showalter Memorial Lecture - and at Craiglockhart (and online) out of all places! If you are in Edinburgh, do come say hello - you can sign up via the link below
November 6, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Final preparations for Tuesday's lecture! I am so lucky that I get to deliver this year's Dennis Showalter Memorial Lecture - and at Craiglockhart (and online) out of all places! If you are in Edinburgh, do come say hello - you can sign up via the link below
Having a blast at Back to the Beginning, Black Sabbath's final gig! And since today is all about celebrating the birth of Heavy Metal, you can catch me talking about the genre and the First World War here ohwhatalovelypodcast.co.uk/podcast/heav...
July 5, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Having a blast at Back to the Beginning, Black Sabbath's final gig! And since today is all about celebrating the birth of Heavy Metal, you can catch me talking about the genre and the First World War here ohwhatalovelypodcast.co.uk/podcast/heav...
Book proofs and indexing finally done and this baby is now back with the editor for printing! Hoping for a publicatin in early 2026 🤞
June 27, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Book proofs and indexing finally done and this baby is now back with the editor for printing! Hoping for a publicatin in early 2026 🤞
Very excited for the @frenchstudies.bsky.social conference next week, where I'll be presenting my new project about poetry by tirailleurs sénégalais! Here is a teaser in case you're there and want to come to the Coloniality and Commemoration panel (4.6) on Tuesday!
June 24, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Very excited for the @frenchstudies.bsky.social conference next week, where I'll be presenting my new project about poetry by tirailleurs sénégalais! Here is a teaser in case you're there and want to come to the Coloniality and Commemoration panel (4.6) on Tuesday!
Out of everything that is wrong with the academic publishing industry, surely the fact that T&F's paper can't even handle highlighters is one to be complained about...
June 19, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Out of everything that is wrong with the academic publishing industry, surely the fact that T&F's paper can't even handle highlighters is one to be complained about...
Been dying to write about Nakamura's gig at the Paris Opening Ceremony and about rap galsen about the tirailleurs, and now it's finally happening! Not that my brain is in any capacity to do it, but having fun anyway!
June 17, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Been dying to write about Nakamura's gig at the Paris Opening Ceremony and about rap galsen about the tirailleurs, and now it's finally happening! Not that my brain is in any capacity to do it, but having fun anyway!
In spite of myself, I seem to be engaging quite a lot with the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning - currently writing my third piece in this area 😱 two of them were edited by Ann-Marie Einhaus and Catriona Pennel, and I can't thank them enough for their support!
May 23, 2025 at 12:03 PM
In spite of myself, I seem to be engaging quite a lot with the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning - currently writing my third piece in this area 😱 two of them were edited by Ann-Marie Einhaus and Catriona Pennel, and I can't thank them enough for their support!
Finally went to see I'm Still Here. It is a beautiful portrayal of how the military dictatorship in Brasil invaded households and impacted families. This is a film to bring ppl together: if you are pro-family/conservative, you are on our side: to protect families is to fight against dictatorships!
March 1, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Finally went to see I'm Still Here. It is a beautiful portrayal of how the military dictatorship in Brasil invaded households and impacted families. This is a film to bring ppl together: if you are pro-family/conservative, you are on our side: to protect families is to fight against dictatorships!
My role combines my expertise in Digital Humanities and in the early 20th century: I'll be doing computational analysis of W.E.B. DuBois's articles in The Crisis, especially 1910-1934. As you can see from the picture, project management geek me is loving the first day in the new job!
February 3, 2025 at 11:49 AM
My role combines my expertise in Digital Humanities and in the early 20th century: I'll be doing computational analysis of W.E.B. DuBois's articles in The Crisis, especially 1910-1934. As you can see from the picture, project management geek me is loving the first day in the new job!
Exactly one year ago today I passed my viva. Today, I'm back on campus and at La Contemporaine for the first day of a new research project, thanks to the @asmcf.bsky.social Early Career Award
November 18, 2024 at 4:09 PM
Exactly one year ago today I passed my viva. Today, I'm back on campus and at La Contemporaine for the first day of a new research project, thanks to the @asmcf.bsky.social Early Career Award
As I wait for the Eurostar, I'm reaping the first rewards of having taken the plunge and moved here from the other place... thank you @sjvigneault.bsky.social for the book recommendation!
November 17, 2024 at 1:33 PM
As I wait for the Eurostar, I'm reaping the first rewards of having taken the plunge and moved here from the other place... thank you @sjvigneault.bsky.social for the book recommendation!
Taking advantage of the full day on trains to finish this baby! And if you are wondering about all the tabs, don't forget that Ann-Marie Foster and myself will be in conversation with @chriskempshall.bsky.social about this book in London on 26/03/2025
www.history.ac.uk/events/writi...
www.history.ac.uk/events/writi...
November 17, 2024 at 10:24 AM
Taking advantage of the full day on trains to finish this baby! And if you are wondering about all the tabs, don't forget that Ann-Marie Foster and myself will be in conversation with @chriskempshall.bsky.social about this book in London on 26/03/2025
www.history.ac.uk/events/writi...
www.history.ac.uk/events/writi...
Today was outlining day for book 1.5 (still about my thesis, but a different discipline and language to book 1), and I had two ways of getting inspired: read historians I admire and looked at how they outline their work, but also wrote my book as a literary short story 1/
November 15, 2024 at 2:57 PM
Today was outlining day for book 1.5 (still about my thesis, but a different discipline and language to book 1), and I had two ways of getting inspired: read historians I admire and looked at how they outline their work, but also wrote my book as a literary short story 1/
Surgery recovery done right!
September 18, 2024 at 7:50 PM
Surgery recovery done right!
In bed for a while and SO glad that Tolkien's poems have gotten here to keep me distracted! Also delighted to see that my conceptualisation of "poets under fire" (the idea that war poetry is characterised not by being in harm's way but by feelings) is shared by other scholars!
September 14, 2024 at 8:38 AM
In bed for a while and SO glad that Tolkien's poems have gotten here to keep me distracted! Also delighted to see that my conceptualisation of "poets under fire" (the idea that war poetry is characterised not by being in harm's way but by feelings) is shared by other scholars!
It's this beauty's birthday today and when mummy is away the cat will play - by climbing the Sandman volumes that prop up daddy's computer... I'm sure @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com will appreciate this alternative use of his work 😻 happy birthday to the sweetest Violet
July 1, 2024 at 10:17 PM
It's this beauty's birthday today and when mummy is away the cat will play - by climbing the Sandman volumes that prop up daddy's computer... I'm sure @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com will appreciate this alternative use of his work 😻 happy birthday to the sweetest Violet
Inky fingers as I prep these babies for my "3d poster" at the @WarEphemera conference! If you're in Newcastle for the conference today and tomorrow, come and say hello and test some #FWW writing instruments! Also, what ink should I bring for the dip pen?
April 8, 2024 at 8:46 AM
Inky fingers as I prep these babies for my "3d poster" at the @WarEphemera conference! If you're in Newcastle for the conference today and tomorrow, come and say hello and test some #FWW writing instruments! Also, what ink should I bring for the dip pen?
Had a lovely time at the School of Advanced Studies' Digital Humanities Research Hub learning about #LancsBoxX from Vaclav Brezina! Can't wait to test it on a corpus of French poets of the #FWW!
March 22, 2024 at 8:54 PM
Had a lovely time at the School of Advanced Studies' Digital Humanities Research Hub learning about #LancsBoxX from Vaclav Brezina! Can't wait to test it on a corpus of French poets of the #FWW!
Happy World Poetry Day! Joyeuse Journée Internationale de la Poésie!
I am so lucky that my job is reading poetry!
Et si vous voulez fêter cette journée et le Printemps des Poètes avec moi, venez à l'Historial de la Grande Guerre ce dimanche!
I am so lucky that my job is reading poetry!
Et si vous voulez fêter cette journée et le Printemps des Poètes avec moi, venez à l'Historial de la Grande Guerre ce dimanche!
March 21, 2024 at 11:41 AM
Happy World Poetry Day! Joyeuse Journée Internationale de la Poésie!
I am so lucky that my job is reading poetry!
Et si vous voulez fêter cette journée et le Printemps des Poètes avec moi, venez à l'Historial de la Grande Guerre ce dimanche!
I am so lucky that my job is reading poetry!
Et si vous voulez fêter cette journée et le Printemps des Poètes avec moi, venez à l'Historial de la Grande Guerre ce dimanche!
Even more exciting, I found a couple of #FWW era Mabie Todds 😄 one has a beautiful metal pocket, and the other is a Blackbird, and it reads "Made in USA during war" and I am one happy gal! These are both usable and I may or may not bring them inked to the War Ephemera conference
March 3, 2024 at 3:24 PM
Even more exciting, I found a couple of #FWW era Mabie Todds 😄 one has a beautiful metal pocket, and the other is a Blackbird, and it reads "Made in USA during war" and I am one happy gal! These are both usable and I may or may not bring them inked to the War Ephemera conference
Finishing off at the London pen show! Managed to get my hands on a couple of Stephen Hull's books - the work I do with War Ephemera because Stephen wrote about British fountain pens!
March 3, 2024 at 3:23 PM
Finishing off at the London pen show! Managed to get my hands on a couple of Stephen Hull's books - the work I do with War Ephemera because Stephen wrote about British fountain pens!
also, will just leave this here as "tell me that the book you're reading was written by a man without telling me that the book you're reading was written by a man"
February 29, 2024 at 4:54 PM
also, will just leave this here as "tell me that the book you're reading was written by a man without telling me that the book you're reading was written by a man"
Am coming across this pen quite often in my research.. some books say it was made for use during ghe Ethiopian campaign, some say it was produced to commemorate the Italian victory... Definitely material for a colab with @vandawilcox.bsky.social 🤩
February 29, 2024 at 4:41 PM
Am coming across this pen quite often in my research.. some books say it was made for use during ghe Ethiopian campaign, some say it was produced to commemorate the Italian victory... Definitely material for a colab with @vandawilcox.bsky.social 🤩
Another day at the British Library working on pens during the First World War! Am very much looking forward to talking to collectors and maybe trying out a few pens at the Pen Show on Sunday!
February 29, 2024 at 4:38 PM
Another day at the British Library working on pens during the First World War! Am very much looking forward to talking to collectors and maybe trying out a few pens at the Pen Show on Sunday!
Reading books (especially ones with good jokes!) in the chaise longue with a cup of coffee and calling it work is precisely why I became an academic
February 12, 2024 at 9:24 PM
Reading books (especially ones with good jokes!) in the chaise longue with a cup of coffee and calling it work is precisely why I became an academic