A delight to chair this panel! Lots to consider re. connections between materiality and value: how might producing a written sermon or psalm enhance/diminish its spiritual value? How might valuations & perceptions of metals permeate literary discourse? #rethinkingobjects

I'm delighted that Christopher Warren joined my hunt for James Cottrell and his dodgy G's! I love the side-by-side images of letters in this thread- what a cool way of fragmenting texts in order to read them for new kinds of meaning & evidence. 📚

This morning I am enjoying not one, not two, but THREE vases bursting with sorbet-coloured tulips. These guys are great company.

A lot of my thesis has been written listening to this: an album that stimulates growth in plants and pages about seventeenth-century print. 🌱

Guys, I passed! I’m grateful to my examiners Ramona and Clare Egan for making today so enjoyable, and to my supervisors Hilary Hinds and Jo Carruthers for all their encouragement over the past 3.5 years. It’s not quite how we imagined viva day would look- but, it’s done! 🥳

Our new English Literature and Creative Writing OA blog is here 👇👇👇 with short essays by Jo Carruthers Brian Baker Claire McGann Clare Egan Lynne Pearce ...more to come lancasterwords.wordpress.com

Proofs returned for Transplantation Gothic, forthcoming from Manchester UP on Halloween! Incredible editorial support from Claire McGann, the best proofreader and indexer I’ve ever worked with.

Looking forward to talking type, italics and religious writing in my lunch break today, with Kathryn Poole There’s still time to register to join us 😊

✨🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈📣 Exciting new CFP for a special issue(Queer Studies in Media & Popular Culture) Dr Tom Brassington, @DebraFerreday and I are guest editing!! Queer Representation in Contemporary Popular Television will explore new directions in queer scripted TV! CFP below 👇🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️👇✨

If you missed our God and the Book: George Eliot's Adam Bede; and italics in early modern literature online seminar earlier in the year, here's a chance to catch up. Join Jo Carruthers Kathryn Poole and Claire McGann for some fascinating research. youtube.com/watch?v=2iXL37…

The overturning of Roe v Wade is an assault on women’s human rights, their lives, and their families. The UK government and Liz Truss CANNOT remain silent as women's human rights are breached. Take action: wetrustwomen.uk/take-action/

So anyway this is part of what I've been doing for the last 3 years #OABooks #OpenAccessBooks mediastudies.press/killer-fandom

My Copim community colleagues have just published this response to UKRI’s new open access book policy. In which we praise its “explicit recognition…of the importance of Diamond OA publishing”, but raise some questions…

Such a pleasure to spend 2 days with Team Copim! Many thanks to the Manchester Art Gallery team for their hospitality & great photo backdrop 😄

There's been a lot of talk abt #OpenAccess books in light of the REF, some of it showing that myths about OA books are still prevalent & understood as absolute fact. E.g. I saw a comment that #OA is impossible for art history books, because you can't get the image rights. 1/