Michael Craske
@mjcraske.bsky.social
More moustache than man. #Autistic Victorianist English lecturer @qmul.ac.uk https://www.qmul.ac.uk/sed/english/research/staff/staff/craskem.html
Research on Swinburne and Wagner https://verseandmusic.com/2025/04/13/swinburne-and-wagner/
Research on Swinburne and Wagner https://verseandmusic.com/2025/04/13/swinburne-and-wagner/
Discussing Olaudah Equiano's 'Interesting Narrative' today in our 'London Global' module seminar and am reminded of this sculpture by Christy Symington at the Queen's House in Greenwich, where he's flanked by naval officers, the Greenwich meridian in the background
#OlaudahEquiano
#OlaudahEquiano
November 11, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Discussing Olaudah Equiano's 'Interesting Narrative' today in our 'London Global' module seminar and am reminded of this sculpture by Christy Symington at the Queen's House in Greenwich, where he's flanked by naval officers, the Greenwich meridian in the background
#OlaudahEquiano
#OlaudahEquiano
Now why has MS Word/Office started to want access to my location? **** off!
November 10, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Now why has MS Word/Office started to want access to my location? **** off!
Very happy to see this now in print, 'Salome's Bookshelf: Artists and Writers of the 1890s', ed. Simon Reynolds, with my own chapter 'The Music of the Venusberg: Richard Wagner and the poetry of Arthur Symons' #RichardWagner #Decadence #ArthurSymons
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October 29, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Very happy to see this now in print, 'Salome's Bookshelf: Artists and Writers of the 1890s', ed. Simon Reynolds, with my own chapter 'The Music of the Venusberg: Richard Wagner and the poetry of Arthur Symons' #RichardWagner #Decadence #ArthurSymons
greenex.co.uk/home/p/salom...
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As I tell all my English Literature students at the beginning of the new semester...
#DragRaceuk
#DragRaceuk
September 22, 2025 at 7:26 AM
As I tell all my English Literature students at the beginning of the new semester...
#DragRaceuk
#DragRaceuk
Our fabulous new arts students! @qmul.bsky.social @qmullinguistics.bsky.social @qmullibrary.bsky.social
September 16, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Our fabulous new arts students! @qmul.bsky.social @qmullinguistics.bsky.social @qmullibrary.bsky.social
The reality of teaching and employment for many of my colleagues across UK universities right here, in Yara Rodrigues Fowler's there are more things (2022) #ucu #casualisation @ucu.org.uk
September 15, 2025 at 8:34 AM
The reality of teaching and employment for many of my colleagues across UK universities right here, in Yara Rodrigues Fowler's there are more things (2022) #ucu #casualisation @ucu.org.uk
September 4, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Day three since this happened and I still feel, look, and sound like someone ran over my neck several times. Very grateful for the NHS but hey, next time, more morphine! I could have done with several days of being completely off my face! 🤪 If anyone has laudanum please send it my way
August 22, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Day three since this happened and I still feel, look, and sound like someone ran over my neck several times. Very grateful for the NHS but hey, next time, more morphine! I could have done with several days of being completely off my face! 🤪 If anyone has laudanum please send it my way
Paying a visit to John Addington Symonds and some other poets
June 26, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Paying a visit to John Addington Symonds and some other poets
Because why not have a winged lion boat to travel around in
June 25, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Because why not have a winged lion boat to travel around in
The only way this vase might represent Wuthering Heights would be to smash it and then roll up and down on the fragments, screaming 'Heathcliff!' and gurgling gibberish as you go.
June 20, 2025 at 12:36 PM
The only way this vase might represent Wuthering Heights would be to smash it and then roll up and down on the fragments, screaming 'Heathcliff!' and gurgling gibberish as you go.
Apparently Elizabeth R has booked my table from 6.30, so I'm wondering which ghost is going to turn up. Glenda Jackson or one of the monarchs?
May 29, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Apparently Elizabeth R has booked my table from 6.30, so I'm wondering which ghost is going to turn up. Glenda Jackson or one of the monarchs?
"I found in dreams a place of wind and flowers" #ACSwinburne Walking the Pembrokeshire coastal path #Pembrokshire #Wales #StDavids
May 4, 2025 at 3:43 PM
"I found in dreams a place of wind and flowers" #ACSwinburne Walking the Pembrokeshire coastal path #Pembrokshire #Wales #StDavids
#MarcelProust sees me yet again. 'and when people who...' The reason why, as an exhausted lecturer, I have yet more books delivered (much to my husband's annoyance). The modern world right there, amazon deliveries, doomscrolling, etc. From 'The Way by Swann's' #ALaRechercheDuTempsPerdu #Literature
April 25, 2025 at 7:43 AM
#MarcelProust sees me yet again. 'and when people who...' The reason why, as an exhausted lecturer, I have yet more books delivered (much to my husband's annoyance). The modern world right there, amazon deliveries, doomscrolling, etc. From 'The Way by Swann's' #ALaRechercheDuTempsPerdu #Literature
Finally my first edition of the #CharlesDickens weekly serial 'Great Expectations' is complete, having finally found volume IV to add to my volume V of 'All the Year Round'. 'O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
March 24, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Finally my first edition of the #CharlesDickens weekly serial 'Great Expectations' is complete, having finally found volume IV to add to my volume V of 'All the Year Round'. 'O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
Some of our students being a bit blunt...
March 17, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Some of our students being a bit blunt...
The Leigh Bowery exhibition @ The Tate is a blast 💥 #LeighBowery
March 6, 2025 at 7:13 PM
The Leigh Bowery exhibition @ The Tate is a blast 💥 #LeighBowery
It's very difficult indeed to read about the murder of my former colleague and friend, Jamal Khashoggi, as I start this just published book, Unholy Kingdom by Malise Ruthven. He is much missed. @versobooks.bsky.social #JamalKhashoggi
February 28, 2025 at 6:25 PM
It's very difficult indeed to read about the murder of my former colleague and friend, Jamal Khashoggi, as I start this just published book, Unholy Kingdom by Malise Ruthven. He is much missed. @versobooks.bsky.social #JamalKhashoggi
Academic pay rates should take this into consideration too. Silas Wegg says that to read poetry aloud to Mr Boffin of an evening will command higher rates. Maybe I should petition for a poetry increment #CharlesDickens from 'Our Mutual Friend'.
February 21, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Academic pay rates should take this into consideration too. Silas Wegg says that to read poetry aloud to Mr Boffin of an evening will command higher rates. Maybe I should petition for a poetry increment #CharlesDickens from 'Our Mutual Friend'.
Very happy about putting together a lecture on the #CharlesDickens short story 'The Signal-man' (1866). Have never lectured on Dickens before, so I'm dizzy with excitement.
@qmul.ac.uk
@qmul.ac.uk
February 12, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Very happy about putting together a lecture on the #CharlesDickens short story 'The Signal-man' (1866). Have never lectured on Dickens before, so I'm dizzy with excitement.
@qmul.ac.uk
@qmul.ac.uk
Sad to be leaving this world soon. Another astonishing read, beautifully, profoundly moving, at times very upsetting. A novel that takes no prisoners (in more ways than one) demands you wake up, but rewards richly, deeply, endlessly... #TheMirrorandtheLight #HilaryMantel
January 28, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Sad to be leaving this world soon. Another astonishing read, beautifully, profoundly moving, at times very upsetting. A novel that takes no prisoners (in more ways than one) demands you wake up, but rewards richly, deeply, endlessly... #TheMirrorandtheLight #HilaryMantel
A little exhibition I've installed in the Mile End Library @qmul.ac.uk called 'Global Victorians'. I'm not sure Dickens would be happy stuck at the back, peering over Dinah Craik's head, but tough luck Charley... @c19qmul.bsky.social #Victorian #nineteenthcentury #CharlesDickens #Emilybronte
January 22, 2025 at 9:08 AM
A little exhibition I've installed in the Mile End Library @qmul.ac.uk called 'Global Victorians'. I'm not sure Dickens would be happy stuck at the back, peering over Dinah Craik's head, but tough luck Charley... @c19qmul.bsky.social #Victorian #nineteenthcentury #CharlesDickens #Emilybronte
A frozen Sphinx rump and morning crystals in #CrystalPalace
January 12, 2025 at 12:02 PM
A frozen Sphinx rump and morning crystals in #CrystalPalace
