Michèle Mendelssohn
@mendelight.bsky.social
Literature professor @ox.ac.uk @engfac.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk • Armchair cosmopolitan researching #Women in #Polar #Exploration @ieadeparis.bsky.social • #OscarWilde biographer & curator http://makinghistory.magd.ox.ac.uk
I fell in love with Pudlo Pudlat's "Winds of Change/ Vents de changement" in the Baud/Jacot collection of Arctic print and sculptures.
Now the collection has a new home!
ARCTIC WORLDS: From Alaska to Nunavut
Musée de Boulogne-sur-Mer, until 3 July , 2026
musee.boulogne-sur-mer.fr
Now the collection has a new home!
ARCTIC WORLDS: From Alaska to Nunavut
Musée de Boulogne-sur-Mer, until 3 July , 2026
musee.boulogne-sur-mer.fr
October 29, 2025 at 11:27 AM
I fell in love with Pudlo Pudlat's "Winds of Change/ Vents de changement" in the Baud/Jacot collection of Arctic print and sculptures.
Now the collection has a new home!
ARCTIC WORLDS: From Alaska to Nunavut
Musée de Boulogne-sur-Mer, until 3 July , 2026
musee.boulogne-sur-mer.fr
Now the collection has a new home!
ARCTIC WORLDS: From Alaska to Nunavut
Musée de Boulogne-sur-Mer, until 3 July , 2026
musee.boulogne-sur-mer.fr
What does #OscarWilde have to do with #AI?
In a "Turning Point" piece for #TextualPractice, Charlie Tyson & I unpack that
Read "The intelligence of artifice: Oscar Wilde and AI"
Published online today!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
In a "Turning Point" piece for #TextualPractice, Charlie Tyson & I unpack that
Read "The intelligence of artifice: Oscar Wilde and AI"
Published online today!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
February 13, 2025 at 11:16 PM
What does #OscarWilde have to do with #AI?
In a "Turning Point" piece for #TextualPractice, Charlie Tyson & I unpack that
Read "The intelligence of artifice: Oscar Wilde and AI"
Published online today!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
In a "Turning Point" piece for #TextualPractice, Charlie Tyson & I unpack that
Read "The intelligence of artifice: Oscar Wilde and AI"
Published online today!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Alright, so today, in my book, it's 19 June 1914, and my polar team has landed at Igarka, in #Siberia. But for you and me, that means a virtual saunter down this icy tunnel in the Museum of #Permafrost
maps.app.goo.gl/5mKteRfsRsqU...
maps.app.goo.gl/5mKteRfsRsqU...
February 11, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Alright, so today, in my book, it's 19 June 1914, and my polar team has landed at Igarka, in #Siberia. But for you and me, that means a virtual saunter down this icy tunnel in the Museum of #Permafrost
maps.app.goo.gl/5mKteRfsRsqU...
maps.app.goo.gl/5mKteRfsRsqU...
Bowled over to find "Property of the civil society for The Future of the Proletariat" inscribed above the entrance to this grand building.
It turns out that it was part of a visionary turn of the century solidarity system to provide pensions to workers by investing their contributions in property
It turns out that it was part of a visionary turn of the century solidarity system to provide pensions to workers by investing their contributions in property
February 2, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Bowled over to find "Property of the civil society for The Future of the Proletariat" inscribed above the entrance to this grand building.
It turns out that it was part of a visionary turn of the century solidarity system to provide pensions to workers by investing their contributions in property
It turns out that it was part of a visionary turn of the century solidarity system to provide pensions to workers by investing their contributions in property
And that while the Humanities are under threat
Literature, history, culture, libraries
Cut here & there
(Not a care
For insights rare)
It's not off the wall, you see,
To read the writing on the wall
Literature, history, culture, libraries
Cut here & there
(Not a care
For insights rare)
It's not off the wall, you see,
To read the writing on the wall
January 31, 2025 at 1:29 PM
And that while the Humanities are under threat
Literature, history, culture, libraries
Cut here & there
(Not a care
For insights rare)
It's not off the wall, you see,
To read the writing on the wall
Literature, history, culture, libraries
Cut here & there
(Not a care
For insights rare)
It's not off the wall, you see,
To read the writing on the wall
In Paris, you read the writing on the wall
(Rimbaud's masterpiece about being lost and at sea)
And take this snap
So all can see
That what is required is more Humanity, more poetry, more memory
...
(Rimbaud's masterpiece about being lost and at sea)
And take this snap
So all can see
That what is required is more Humanity, more poetry, more memory
...
January 31, 2025 at 1:29 PM
In Paris, you read the writing on the wall
(Rimbaud's masterpiece about being lost and at sea)
And take this snap
So all can see
That what is required is more Humanity, more poetry, more memory
...
(Rimbaud's masterpiece about being lost and at sea)
And take this snap
So all can see
That what is required is more Humanity, more poetry, more memory
...
January 18, 2025 at 8:07 AM
I've been writing a book about the #Arctic, imagining walking in people's frozen shoes, but I missed a trick by not trying on the thigh-high reindeer skin boots @pittriversmuseum.bsky.social
January 7, 2025 at 11:14 AM
I've been writing a book about the #Arctic, imagining walking in people's frozen shoes, but I missed a trick by not trying on the thigh-high reindeer skin boots @pittriversmuseum.bsky.social
Because I wanted a break from writing about surviving Arctic polar bears, and because I'm loving Dava Sobel's new book, THE ELEMENTS OF MARIE CURIE: HOW THE GLOW OF RADIUM LIT A PATH FOR WOMEN IN SCIENCE, I wandered over to see Marie Curie's lab...
and look what I found there.
and look what I found there.
January 8, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Because I wanted a break from writing about surviving Arctic polar bears, and because I'm loving Dava Sobel's new book, THE ELEMENTS OF MARIE CURIE: HOW THE GLOW OF RADIUM LIT A PATH FOR WOMEN IN SCIENCE, I wandered over to see Marie Curie's lab...
and look what I found there.
and look what I found there.
"By 1970 the last resident had been moved on, relocated to the new housing estates being built around the city. The huts were demolished. Trees were planted. And the site was rewilded"
The Oxford Sausage is back with a gem about growing up in Oxford
theoxfordsausage.com/trevor-joseph-…
The Oxford Sausage is back with a gem about growing up in Oxford
theoxfordsausage.com/trevor-joseph-…
January 8, 2025 at 4:34 PM
"By 1970 the last resident had been moved on, relocated to the new housing estates being built around the city. The huts were demolished. Trees were planted. And the site was rewilded"
The Oxford Sausage is back with a gem about growing up in Oxford
theoxfordsausage.com/trevor-joseph-…
The Oxford Sausage is back with a gem about growing up in Oxford
theoxfordsausage.com/trevor-joseph-…
Oscar Wilde got carried away and back to the queer future when he visited Greece. Says who? Me. In VICTORIANS & MODERN GREECE, out now!
taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.…
taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.…
January 8, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Oscar Wilde got carried away and back to the queer future when he visited Greece. Says who? Me. In VICTORIANS & MODERN GREECE, out now!
taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.…
taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.…
Believe the poets (from Elke Heidenreich's new book, ALTER
January 8, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Believe the poets (from Elke Heidenreich's new book, ALTER
Good morning (from Ali Smith's WINTER
January 8, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Good morning (from Ali Smith's WINTER
The next time you go to a dinner party and you're not sure which fork to use, just relax and think of Israel Zangwill and his crab
(from @rachelcockerell's astonishing MELTING POINT
(from @rachelcockerell's astonishing MELTING POINT
January 8, 2025 at 4:33 PM
The next time you go to a dinner party and you're not sure which fork to use, just relax and think of Israel Zangwill and his crab
(from @rachelcockerell's astonishing MELTING POINT
(from @rachelcockerell's astonishing MELTING POINT
When Duolingo starts not-so-subliminally messaging you to crack on with your research
January 8, 2025 at 4:33 PM
When Duolingo starts not-so-subliminally messaging you to crack on with your research
How to know when you've found your calling, when you've lost it, and when things are about to get gloriously tricky (from the unputdownable ALL FOURS by @Miranda_July
January 8, 2025 at 4:33 PM
How to know when you've found your calling, when you've lost it, and when things are about to get gloriously tricky (from the unputdownable ALL FOURS by @Miranda_July
Tate's withholding, Barbara D. Savage writes, "comports with familiar self-narrating tendencies to expunge, abridge, elide and redact anything that reflected badly on what she later called 'her own' story
January 8, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Tate's withholding, Barbara D. Savage writes, "comports with familiar self-narrating tendencies to expunge, abridge, elide and redact anything that reflected badly on what she later called 'her own' story
Ulrich Matthes' measured reading of #Kafka's #Metamorphosis thoughtfully balances the story's dark comedy with its tragic absurdity
January 8, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Ulrich Matthes' measured reading of #Kafka's #Metamorphosis thoughtfully balances the story's dark comedy with its tragic absurdity
Happy 96th birthday Cynthia Ozick!
Enjoy our freshly published Ozick special issueincl. brand new essays by Joe Moshenska, Evan Goldstein, Na'amit Sturm Nagel, Susanne Klingenstein, @_emilycoit @CheyetteBryan @HingleyTheory @CharlieTyson1 & me
muse.jhu.edu/issue/52364
Enjoy our freshly published Ozick special issueincl. brand new essays by Joe Moshenska, Evan Goldstein, Na'amit Sturm Nagel, Susanne Klingenstein, @_emilycoit @CheyetteBryan @HingleyTheory @CharlieTyson1 & me
muse.jhu.edu/issue/52364
January 8, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Happy 96th birthday Cynthia Ozick!
Enjoy our freshly published Ozick special issueincl. brand new essays by Joe Moshenska, Evan Goldstein, Na'amit Sturm Nagel, Susanne Klingenstein, @_emilycoit @CheyetteBryan @HingleyTheory @CharlieTyson1 & me
muse.jhu.edu/issue/52364
Enjoy our freshly published Ozick special issueincl. brand new essays by Joe Moshenska, Evan Goldstein, Na'amit Sturm Nagel, Susanne Klingenstein, @_emilycoit @CheyetteBryan @HingleyTheory @CharlieTyson1 & me
muse.jhu.edu/issue/52364
If you have luxurious hair, watch out.
January 8, 2025 at 4:32 PM
If you have luxurious hair, watch out.
And on the last day of the @ucu strike for fair pay and better working conditions, even the dahlias came out and wore union pink in solidarity @OxfordUCU. See you on the picket this morning!
January 8, 2025 at 4:32 PM
And on the last day of the @ucu strike for fair pay and better working conditions, even the dahlias came out and wore union pink in solidarity @OxfordUCU. See you on the picket this morning!
I'm starting an occasional feature called "Oscar Wilde in the wild" that will capture random sightings of your favourite dead decadent. Send me your pics! (Thanks to @derekpmccormack for this one from the ferry
January 8, 2025 at 4:32 PM
I'm starting an occasional feature called "Oscar Wilde in the wild" that will capture random sightings of your favourite dead decadent. Send me your pics! (Thanks to @derekpmccormack for this one from the ferry