Dr Imogen Free

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As a deep time lover and a Lord Kelvin hater, I had so much fun writing this little history of Earth-dating 🌍⏳

@berylpong @modernistudies @msatweet @AustModernist Such a brilliant chapter, Beryl, thank you again for sharing it with me way back when!

I had the pleasure of contributing to this book on literature, disability & the hearing sciences, published late last year. An essay many years in the making which discusses Woolf & what I call the aural biopolitics of air raid sirens @modernistudies @msatweet @AustModernist

@_Alex_Goody @McCrackenScott @AnnaLSnaith @kingsartshums I’ve finally managed to catch my breath and am getting a book proposal together so if anyone has any advice on this and/or postdoctoral life/jobs/how to survive this strange world of academia I would be most grateful!

@_Alex_Goody @McCrackenScott @AnnaLSnaith @kingsartshums Thank you to my brilliant friends and family, and to my husband Bradley, for all of the support and love and life (and edits and proof reads!!!) Thank you for listening to me chatter about sound!

This is incredibly late but I finally graduated last week, having passed my PhD with no corrections last May, so it’s time for some thanks at long last:

@NickMakoha @PenguinUKBooks @DGALitAgents @AparnaKumar95 Congratulations Nick!

Really excited about this book. Can’t wait to share with you. Thank you @PenguinUKBooks and @DGALitAgents @AparnaKumar95 for believing in my writing. Thank you to my first readers for going with my ideas. The New Carthaginians is about to take flight. #poetlife #makethetea

Come and join us! woolf2025.uk

Huge early career researcher/adjunct lecturer treats for finishing the slides for the final day of summer school teaching vibes

@charliepullen_ What a loss for QM! You are a brilliant, inspiring lecturer and it was a joy to meet you there. Best of luck with everything!

@lawrenti4n My personal platonic ideal of a Lehmann reading journey would be Invitation to the Waltz, then The Weather in the Streets, then The Echoing Grove

‘the protests are robbing my Columbia students of listening to John Cage’s 4’33, the piece of music that is explicitly designed to force you to listen to…what’s around you.’ absolutely perfect

As of 31st December, Longplayer has been playing continuously for *24* years. Thank you all for your support and continued engagement - we are excited for what 2024 will bring and look forward to sharing more soon. Photo: @muirvidler

Delighted to announce that our edited collection "British Writing, Propaganda and Cultural Diplomacy in the Second World War" is now available for pre-order from @BloomsburyAcad: bloomsbury.com/uk/british-wri…

Thanks to everyone for your support up to now, but the fight is only beginning! Here is the link to our petition and open letter explaining the situation at Brookes up to today. Please sign and share very widely! @ucu @DrJoGrady @The_TUC @musicatbrookes speakout.web.ucu.org.uk/defend-jobs-an…

@charliepullen_ voice/listening/the auditory!!! the 'group'/collective sounds/voices of the girls, the radiogenic attention to listening, etc.! thinking about her radio/intelligence work and how this shapes form. such a fun text!

@JackMaginn11 Very, very helpful, thanks so much! I really appreciate it.

@ImogenFree Micir’s chapter ‘Queer Woolf’ in ‘A Companion to Virginia Woolf’ (2016) and chapter 3 of Freeman’s ‘Time Binds’ (2010) are useful for looking at Woolf and queer theory if that’s helpful

*sounds horn* Woolf people: best scholarship on woolf & queerness? asking to help guide my MA student. recommendations appreciated!