Lecturer in English Literature @qmulsed. Now on bsky — https://xitter.cf/t.co/S1Ss7d9hzD

London, England
Joined June 2009
Outing myself as an unrepentant #Bridgerton fan here but new substack reflecting on some of the ~discourse~ about Sophie and Benedict, Regency-era inter-class romances, the literary 'lost heir' trope, and how it's all tied to how we relate money to virtue rowetation.substack.com/p/on…
I feel like Sophie and therefore the overall love story is undermined by the fact that deep down she is the daughter of a nobleman who was raised to be noble. Like that’s her ticket into the entry of society instead of forcing them to accept her even without the lineage which undermines the whole she’s a maid thing.
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On #Hamnet, “grief porn” and manipulation, and the art-nature debate open.substack.com/pub/roweta…
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Finishing the year on a high - I've signed a contract with Cambridge University Press for my book: Metal and Literary Production in Early Modern England: Labour, Value, Violence Transforming my PhD into a book while teaching wasn't easy, so I WILL be celebrating every milestone!
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the teaser trailer for Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights has garnered the predictable uproar, but here’s my take, full of gothic erotica and pulp film history, on why this adaptation could be spot on #wutheringheights #classicliterature #filmstudies rowetation.substack.com/p/on…
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Cat-sitting at my mum’s for the weekend means a healthy balance of fenland walks and jogs, book editing, and kitten time (the last two often combined)
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This collection is out today! Featuring 23 essays about weird and/or wonderful objects in (or formerly in!) the Royal Collection. Mine is on this bizarre Victorian photomontage
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📢 JOB OPENINGS! 📢Come work with me at Oxford! As part of my ERC project UNSEEN, I am recruiting a full-time 5-year project admin, two 3-year post-docs and one fully-funded PhD. The first position is already advertised, the others will follow shortly my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecruit…
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Hey friends -- anyone with T&F access able to share a pdf of this with me? please and thank you -- taylorfrancis.com/chapters/e…
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Very excited to be speaking at the IHR's British History in the C17 seminar this week on War Reporting and News Culture in England during the 1690s! Thursday 27 Feb, 5.30pm (UK time) Link 👇 if you want to join online history.ac.uk/events/war-rep…
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Thrilled to see this out in @IsisJournal! It tells the (timely) story of the #knowledge hierarchies embedded in #mineral exploration by examining the interplay between #books, #experts, and untrained #officials in #Renaissance #Tuscany. More here 👇 shorturl.at/8p7rG
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While we are still here: OUR PROGRAMME IS LIVE! Look at all these fascinating panels and presentations -- the #EarlyModern continues to fascinate. Have a peak rensoc.org.uk/srs-biennial-c… and get excited for 2-5 July in Bristol for #RenSoc25! #Twitterstorians
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Can anyone recommend a good book/glossary/dictionary/website for working definitions of rhetorical devices? (esp. if it pertains to Renaissance rhetoric!)
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Congratulations DR LYDIA VALENTINE! @LydiaJIV Viva passed with no corrections and a superstar of @kingsenglishdpt and @The_Globe
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🌟🌟🌟 See below: a fully-funded Phd scholarship researching Christopher Marlowe's lost copy-texts. If this sounds of interest, please get in touch asap over email or DM for further discussion.
Fully-funded PhD opportunity with @komldsp and @MarloweProject: 'Editing Lost Copy-Texts: Christopher Marlowe's Plays and Poems' komldsp.org.uk/projects/edit… Supervisors: @loughnrv and @letterlocking How to Apply: komldsp.org.uk/how-to-apply/
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