William Shakespeare has been dead for 408 slutty slutty years

Finished my marking for the week!! Essay consultations with eager bright creative students!!! Sun is shining!!! Sometimes things can be good

Me teaching: each paragraph should have a single main idea Me writing: my argument here is ninefold

If I was in the writer’s room for planet earth and someone pitched the met gala theme and protest plot line I would say “hmmm I dunno that’s so heavy handed”

We actually do need to start being meaner to people because why is a certain author making heaps of “authorship debate” social media content now

New outlook signature just dropped

Chapter editing (actual pic of process)

Academics 10 minutes in to their PhD

This is going to be v cool: Join Dr Kate Flaherty, Senior Lecturer in ANU English & actors from Bell Shakespeare at National Library of Australia on 20 Sep as they uncover one of the most amusing & successful literary hoaxes of all time - the Vortigern Hoax! FREE tix here: nla.gov.au/whats-on/event…

so important that Colby Gordon took time out in this book to remind us that there are other career paths available if academia doesn't work out

First day of semester fit

Spoke at 2 different interdisciplinary campus events today and rocked up at the bar to a chorus of “oh look it’s Two Talk Barbara, who gave Two Talks today” like yeah sorry for being prolific and in demand

Trying to find 900 words to cut from this article but everything I have to say is So Important

functionally useless but i am going to migrate over to the Other App: catch me there ohwowbee.bsky.social