Dr Alexandra Paddock

At the Oxford Weston Library today for the Vice-Chancellor’s showcase (Community Partnership shortlist)! Come talk to me! @engfac @EngFac_Outreach @TORCHOxford @LitHits1 @KebleOxford @KebleOutreach

Ten-minute book club has grown from just a playful spontaneous idea to a multifunctional platform full of the incredible work of Faculty, teachers of English, schools, students and readers. I’m grateful to everyone involved— with each new season I learn so much!

At @bodleianlibs Oxford Literary Festival Hub earlier today with the first of "Ten Minutes with LitHits" @EngFac_Outreach @engfac in the Space for Reading. 1.40-1.50pm all this week: different texts each day! So much insight from attendees on our selection from The Awakening!

DTA the 8th and final episode of TMBC s4! @engfac english.ox.ac.uk/article/the… this ground breaking 1808 novel The Woman of Colour follows mixed race heroine Olivia Fairfield & her navigation of British upper class at the end of the 18thC, intro by DPhil Aditi Upmanyu! @TORCHOxford

In this dying dark of Michaelmas season, I’m delighted to present TMBC s4 ep7, Prof Nick Perkins introducing Hoccleve’s Complaint (with audio!) english.ox.ac.uk/article/the… @TORCHOxford @MedEngOxon @ClerkofOxford @HoccleveSociety @Medievalists @BLMedieval @engfac @ClerkofOxford

TMBC S4 Episode 6 is funny, dreamy, witty medieval lyric 'Mon in the mone stond ant strit', beautifully introduced by Ayoush Lazikani, (Emotion in Christian and Islamic Contemplative Texts, 1100-1250) english.web.ox.ac.uk/article… @engfac @TORCHOxford @OxHumanities

Ten-Minute Book Club S4 episode 4 has arrived english.web.ox.ac.uk/article…! Santanu Das @engfac and All Souls College takes a deep (dark) dive into one of D.H. Lawrence's very last poems #tmbc @TORCHOxford

Thanks for the RT @ellekeboehmer! @writrsmakewrlds is such a crucial project for the Ten-Minute Book Club conception and curation (and has also informed sister-project @LitHits1 work too)!

Ten-Minute Book Club week 3 is up! @tinsmush of @StAnnesCollege and @engfac brilliantly introduces the literary work of writer and leader Ndabaningi Sithole, who wrote the first Zimbabwean English novel. english.ox.ac.uk/article/nda… #tmbc @TORCHOxford

We’re at the end of season 4 week 2 of @engfac TMBC, and Dr Oindrila Ghosh’s delicate animal-orientated reading of Hardy’s poem, ‘Afterwards’ english.ox.ac.uk/article/aft… Coming to week 3 this weekend, the literature of Ndabaningi Sithole. @TORCHOxford and @minderoo project funding

⁦We’ve had this in the works for some time so I’m thrilled to kick off season 4 of the ⁦@engfac⁩ Ten-Minute Book Club with Dr Lauren Cullen on the “first-dog” Canadian novel, Beautiful Joe ⁦@TORCHOxford⁩ english.ox.ac.uk/ten-minute-…

This week’s @LitHits1 newsletter was so much fun to write and record lithits.substack.com/p/the-a… today, in the sudden hirundine-spiked heat in oxford, I want to solve it as swallows or swifts.

open.substack.com/pub/lithit… Strike! @LitHits1 @danieliabdalla this week on Rage & rights in Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and South.

english.ox.ac.uk/ten-minute-… Disney The Little Mermaid might be a film for children, but this piece for the @engfac @TORCHOxford Ten-Minute Book Club by Prof Diane Purkiss introduces far more complex and intense stories of mermaids. These are tales of deep waters (with sharp teeth)!

The Magnetic North open.substack.com/pub/lithit… @LitHits1 (the 'mothership' project for the Ten-Minute Book Club) on polar exploration literature. Ice! Envy! Bears!

This is an important intro to a less known William Blake poem that we’re delighted to feature this week on @engfac @TORCHOxford Ten-Minute Book Club. Thank you @writerlennon, it’s a joy to have your work in this project.

english.ox.ac.uk/article/the… Animal fables are not just for kids! Henryson is our first Scots writer on ten-minute book club, and our 4th medieval text for the project, this time introduced by me @TORCHOxford @engfac

"When she came to herself she was in the Strand." Today's release on @LitHits1 @engfac & @TORCHOxford Ten-Minute Book Club is @_Adam_Guy's introduction to an immersive snippet of city life Dorothy Richardson's modernist novel series, The Pilgrimage.

"The stealing guest / Was none the wiser, for all the words he’d swallowed..." Week 3 of @engfac @TORCHOxford TMBC Season 3 is the enigmatic Exeter Riddles, brought to life in a bonus extra conversation between Nick Perkins and @hattie_soper english.ox.ac.uk/article/the…