Writer, academic, Oxford & LMH. Thinking abt reading/what libraries mean. My book, Loss, a Love Story out NOW with Northwestern UP. Views mine - she/her
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With @n_j_dames, @soratcli discusses trying to avoid the imperative that seems to govern the exercise of thinking, writing, and research: that input must mean output, that hours spent traveling or reading must yield results. buff.ly/3VBrvCJ
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“The ethical work of the book itself is in acknowledging that this fictionalizing—this rendering of others as ‘creatures’—is inevitable, tempting, and also a kind of ethical failure.” buff.ly/3DihtAg
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Please, please give!!
My amazing former student is halfway there in his attempt to get a wheelchair that will give him the freedom he needs - if you can chip in, it would be amazing gofundme.com/f/help-fund-my-…
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Happy Paperback publication day @CatJarman - Open up those bone chests, people. There's a treasure of medieval history inside @WmCollinsBooks
Unlock the history of the Anglo-Saxons with @CatJarman's gripping new history of the making of England as a nation.
THE BONE CHESTS is out in paperback today!
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As the mornings freshen, a classic @BacklistedPod - Autumn Journal by Louis MacNeice, with matchless readings by Samuel West (@exitthelemming) + lit context from Prof Sophie Ratcliffe (@soratcli). And a six year's younger me, @i_am_mill_i_am and @birchos. backlisted.fm/episodes/220-a…
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14 brilliant GPs, Carracci, Michelangelo, Dürer, John Wesley, Emperor Augustus and Sophia Schutz.
Tremendous afternoon thinking through questions of body, identity, personhood and perception.
Also laughing.
Many thanks to @AndrewSchuman for setting it all up.
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LMH here are advertising a 3-yr teaching-and-research post in Old and Middle English: lmh.pinpointhq.com/en/postin….
For doctorates from the last seven years (but with willingness to take career breaks into account). No specified subfield. £36–39K (& free meals). Deadline's 4 July.
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Great job for early career academic with expertise in Old and Middle English - here, at my College, Lady Margaret Hall - please share! lmh.pinpointhq.com/en/postin…
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My moment in the limelight with the late great swimming Olympian, David Wilkie. Have only just noticed how he’s leaning into the photo..
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Cracking book launch last week at Hatchard’s, Piccadilly for @paulajaynebyrne’s groundbreaking and utterly compelling work of scholarship, Hardy Women. Now straight back to re-reading the novels: Tess next. @ArabellaPike @HarperCollinsUK
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The Healthcare Workers of Palestine we stand with you today and always.
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I’ll be talking about The Green Lady on Tuesday 30th April with the brilliant Eleonora Maio. It’s a free event and you can register here: oclw.web.ox.ac.uk/event/sall… @OxLifeWriting
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Last week, several of us submitted a Letter to the Editors of @JEnvPsych regarding editorial policy on qualitative research. Our letter is available as a preprint here. On the importance of qualitative research in environmental psychology: osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/dz…. Please share!
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Happy to be one of the recipients of Pump Priming support from @BritishAcademy_ together with @MelissaMarselle and @simongrassini, strengthening our bid for @HorizonEurope funding on Nature-based Solutions and the New European Bauhaus. 🇪🇺🍃 thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news… @EPRG_Surrey
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"Ratcliffe's creative summaries of her readings are like the performance of a dancer following the lead of another dancer, drawing on another artist's imaginings for inspiration." Bob Blaisdell connects loss and reading in "Loss, A Love Story." lareviewofbooks.org/article/…
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Happy publication day @AdamSmy36314691!
Described by reviewers as “sparklingly learned”, and as “passionate paean to the book”, THE BOOK MAKERS (out today from @TheBodleyHead) charts the history of the printed book through the lives of 18 individuals who shaped it.
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Five of the best books about siblings theguardian.com/books/2024/a…
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‘Get the plot right first’: Iris Murdoch on writing fiction.
Iris Murdoch wrote 26 novels, seven of which were nominated for a #BookerPrize – including one winner, The Sea, the Sea in 1978.
Discover more about the author: thebookerprizes.com/the.../a…
