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I passed my viva! Thank you so much to my examiners Angelique Richardson & Prof Clare Pettitt for a really warm and wonderfully wide-ranging discussion. Seeing the northern lights for the first time that evening made it such a special day! 🔮

Taught Alice Oswald yesterday, met Alice Oswald today. What a wonderful week

Tokyo streets (Asakusa, Akihabara, Shinjuku + my daily walk in Sumida)

Day 23 Camden Fringe #Interview: Miles Hitchens on his adaptation of Heart of a Dog "We don’t want our audiences to regard the piece just as a fragment of early-Soviet literature." Camden People's Theatre 7 - 11 August #theatre buff.ly/4fbG4Fa

Contract signed, so I am very happy to share that I will be joining Lucy Cavendish College as Assistant Professor in English next year! Excited to get started and to contribute to such a wonderful college community.

Donning my theatre cap this week to say that I am very excited to open our production of ‘Heart of a Dog’ at Camden People's Theatre tomorrow! Come see Bulgakov re-animated almost exactly a century on 🐶 camdenfringe.com/events/heart-o… Who else is up at the #camdenfringe this week?

HBD to Thomas De Quincey, a fellow lover of… tea: ‘tea, though ridiculed by those who are naturally of coarse nerves, will always be the favourite beverage of the intellectual’

A trio of medieval hounds for #WorldDogDay. They live in this Cambridge University Library bestiary, a medieval book of beasts (real and imaginary!). You can see this extraordinary book close-up in the #CambridgeDigitalLibrary: cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-II-000…

Finally got through Septology and visited Norway this summer and oh, were both worth the wait

Dog detail from the current Grayson Perry exhibition at Pitzhanger Manor

What a lovely, sunny first day at work

Really thrilled to have won this year’s Hamilton Prize and to have some of my PhD research out in Victorian Review soon!

I've opened my Etsy shop for: 🌿botanical calendars to arrive in Jan 🐚a few of my limited edition art prints 🪶jewellery orders for🌲(UK only) 🌸vouchers for my jewellery designs(rest of world) My prints & calendars are designed to improve mental health: etsy.com/uk/shop/silver…

The language of flowers seems to be making a resurgence! Spotted in Heffers

Ideal Sunday read, on the journey to decode this portrait of Francis Williams & the ‘small, furry white blob’ in the sky behind him. Should be a film with interlocking storylines in 18th century & today! lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/…

Big thank you to ChawtonHouse for hosting our English first years today! What a treat to see the first ever Mary Robinson exhibition! Lucy Cavendish College

If you are a PGR or ECR, working with RRR is great experience - we are a friendly bunch (and we do our best to get you a physical review copy/comp tickets). I am still really keen to get a review of a theatre performance and/or conference. Please share widely!

Term’s over, sun’s out, back to research. Today’s tidbit: E. M. Forster’s New Year’s resolutions on the cusp of 1905, just before the publication of his first novel.