A beautiful love letter to Hardy and circus (!) - so pleased to have seen Ockham’s Razor for the first time this evening. Catch this tour if you can.

Very pleased to see that the dogs are finally out! 🐶 I’ve been thinking about what the canine body can offer the novelist for a little while now - here’s what I’ve learned. Jnl.VictorianCulture academic.oup.com/jvc/article/do…

A reminder that the CfP for this excellent next issue of RRR is closing at the end of the week!

I’m pleased to say that English Literature at the University of Glasgow are advertising two new permanent posts. Applications for the James Murray Beattie Lectureships in Victorian Literature, and in Fantasy Literature, close on 6th May 24. More info here: gla.ac.uk/explore/jobs/

A strangely-synced weekend of Henry James and Taylor Swift

Cambridge friends and colleagues - I’m giving a paper at the 19C seminar tomorrow @ 5pm. What is a violent emotion? Come and find out! Faculty of English

Tomorrow is my viva day! It’s all come around SO quickly. Here’s how I spent some of my week. See you on the other side!

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 @camdenfringe #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…

Don't miss your chance to see a free theatre performance on Harwich Beach! Presented by Good Chance & Gecko, From Here On is groundbreaking physical theatre performance about children’s right to safe passage. See it on Fri 30 Aug & Sun 1 Sep: buff.ly/3X8XmMh

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