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Dr Alexandra Paddock

@aa_paddock

Medievalist with extras. Med Eng Lecturer @ Keble, Oxford. Research on animals, environment, attention and reading. Editor+PI of Ten-Minute Book Club. she/her

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So exciting! The new season of the Ten-Minute Book Club launches TODAY! Read an extract from 'Beautiful Joe: The Autobiography of a Dog' by Margaret Marshall Saunders, the Canadian bestseller written in first-person – or ‘first-dog’ – narrative. #TMBC

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We’re at the end of season 4 week 2 of Faculty of English TMBC, and Dr Oindrila Ghosh’s delicate animal-orientated reading of Hardy’s poem, ‘Afterwards’ english.ox.ac.uk/article/afterw… Coming to week 3 this weekend, the literature of Ndabaningi Sithole. TORCH Oxford and Minderoo Foundation project funding

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Ten-Minute Book Club week 3 is up! Tinashe Mushakavanhu of St Anne's College and Faculty of English brilliantly introduces the literary work of writer and leader Ndabaningi Sithole, who wrote the first Zimbabwean English novel. english.ox.ac.uk/article/ndaban… #tmbc TORCH Oxford

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Ten-Minute Book Club S4 episode 4 has arrived english.web.ox.ac.uk/article/bavari…! Santanu Das Faculty of English and All Souls College takes a deep (dark) dive into one of D.H. Lawrence's very last poems #tmbc TORCH Oxford

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My entry for Oxford’s Faculty of English Ten-Minute Book Club is live! Follow the link to read more about Aphra Behn’s critique of colonialism in ‘The Widow Ranter’ english.web.ox.ac.uk/article/the-wi…

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TMBC S4 Episode 6 is funny, dreamy, witty medieval lyric 'Mon in the mone stond ant strit', beautifully introduced by Ayoush Lazikani, (Emotion in Christian and Islamic Contemplative Texts, 1100-1250) english.web.ox.ac.uk/article/the-mo… Faculty of English TORCH Oxford Humanities Division

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And it's open! Prof Marion Turner's #Chaucer exhibition Bodleian Libraries Weston Library is now open until April 2024. 'Chaucer Here & Now' explores the many creative responses to Chaucer & asks why this medieval author still fascinates so many people today. english.web.ox.ac.uk/article/chauce…

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DTA the 8th and final episode of TMBC s4! Faculty of English english.ox.ac.uk/article/the-wo… this ground breaking 1808 novel The Woman of Colour follows mixed race heroine Olivia Fairfield & her navigation of British upper class at the end of the 18thC, intro by DPhil Aditi Upmanyu! TORCH Oxford

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At Bodleian Libraries Oxford Literary Festival Hub earlier today with the first of "Ten Minutes with LitHits" English Faculty Outreach Faculty of English in the Space for Reading. 1.40-1.50pm all this week: different texts each day! So much insight from attendees on our selection from The Awakening!

At <a href="/bodleianlibs/">Bodleian Libraries</a> Oxford Literary Festival Hub earlier today with the first of "Ten Minutes with LitHits" <a href="/EngFac_Outreach/">English Faculty Outreach</a> <a href="/engfac/">Faculty of English</a> in the Space for Reading. 1.40-1.50pm all this week: different texts each day! So much insight from attendees on our selection from The Awakening!
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Amazing news and very well deserved! 👏👏👏🥳 If you haven't come across the Ten-Minute Book Club yet, you can explore all 4 seasons on our website: english.ox.ac.uk/ten-minute-boo…

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Ten-minute book club has grown from just a playful spontaneous idea to a multifunctional platform full of the incredible work of Faculty, teachers of English, schools, students and readers. I’m grateful to everyone involved— with each new season I learn so much!

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Dr Alexandra Paddock, Keble Lecturer in Old and Middle English Faculty of English has been shortlisted for the 2024 Vice-Chancellor's Award for her initiative - the 'Ten Minute Book Club' 📚 english.ox.ac.uk/ten-minute-boo…