Thrilled to share that Reading with the Burneys: Patronage, Paratext, Performance by Sophie Coulombeau has received this glowing endorsement! 🎉 Dive into this fascinating study of the Burney family's literary impact - #OpenAccess on Cambridge Core 📚 cup.org/4e3wfI9

These are such an exciting opportunity for any UK Research and Innovation funded PhD student to gain invaluable experience working with policy-makers in government and parliament. Apply! ukri.org/publications/u…

Fans of King John unite! If only because it has a character named simply The Bastard, and he slaps

Congratulations to Matt Townend, who has just published 'The Victorians and English Dialect: Philology, Fiction, and Folklore'. The book tells the story of the Victorians’ discovery of English #dialect, and of the revaluation of regional #language. tinyurl.com/msrf9bve

So, this arrived this week. It’s been a long process but so proud that it’s finally out. Huge thanks to all the contributors including Michael D. Dwyer, lily kelting, Kim Wiltshire, and especially to my coeditor Tobias Becker, whom it’s been a privilege to work with on this book.

can we please stop jumping to conclusions re: dave grohl. he didn't say he had sex with another woman. they might've done IVF.

Teacher when you didn’t do the reading but have a comment

Quick reminder that our submission window for Issue 20 (publishing in early summer 2025) is open until November 1st 2024. Send us your Burney-related scholarship! All instructions available through the link in our bio.

two things: (1) this book is literally very big (2) I’m really proud of my contribution in which I am, at times, a real brat about Emerson and Melville both. FTGs. Massive thanks and congratulations to Chris Hanlon for pulling it all together!

Shandy Hall ❤️ 👃 🪟

Still buzzing from my wonderful trip to Shandy Hall yesterday. Highly recommended for all fans of Laurence Sterne who find themselves in the York vicinity. Thanks to Patrick Wildgust and Chris Pearson Laurence SterneTrust for their hospitality!

Maybe we should look into the free Taylor Swift tickets and the box at Arsenal right after we look into all those little several hundred million pounds of dodgy PPE contracts.

damn, all that austerity we did didn't work. guess we'll just have to keep doing it

“I hate academic writers without whose original research my own pop scholarship would not be possible!!!”

WTF, GERALD???

Beautiful time at York Food Festival today with Bridget Lockyer. Especially pleased with my skosh-endorsed smoked gin!